www.whoisyourhero.com.au
Who Is Your Hero is an unapologetically real Australian podcast created and hosted by Matthew “Buzz” Fidler, built on one simple belief:
👉 Everyone has a story that can change someone’s life.
Born from a personal journey through kidney failure, footy fields, PNG jungles, construction sites, and some of life’s toughest setbacks, Who Is Your Hero has become a national movement of resilience, mateship, truth-telling, and everyday heroes.
Each episode dives deep into the lives of ordinary Australians doing extraordinary things — survivors, soldiers, footy legends, community leaders, domestic-violence warriors, tradies, battlers, advocates, and the quiet achievers who keep this country rolling.
Buzz brings the raw honesty, humour, and heart Australians crave:
- Real talk without the polish
- Big laughs mixed with big truths
- Life lessons from people who’ve actually lived
- A platform for voices that deserve to be heard
With conversations that hit like a beer-shed yarn, a hospital-bed reflection, and a campfire confession all in one, Who Is Your Hero isn’t just a podcast — it’s a movement.
A movement that says:
➡️ Your story matters.
➡️ Your struggles can lift someone else.
➡️ Your heroes might be right beside you — not on a screen.
From Townsville to Tassie, from veterans to young dads, from survivors to those still fighting — this is the podcast Australia needed.
Real people.
Real stories.
Real heroes.
Who Is Your Hero?
Only one way to find out.
🎙️ Available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms.
🔥 Follow the movement at WhoIsYourHero.com.au
#WhoIsYourHero #HeroUp #MensMentalHealth #RealTalk #AussiePride #BuzzTalk #TribeVsSystem #Resilience #Community #HealthWorthWhyWealth
Episodes
79 episodes
Episode 52 – Ren Pedersen (Part 2): Pain into Purpose
Episode 52 – Ren Pedersen (Part 2): Pain into PurposeIn Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Buzz sits back down with Ren Pedersen to go deeper into the mission, the mindset, and the fight that grew from unimaginable loss....
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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43:35
Episode 54 – Clint Mackay (Part 1): From Pain to Presence – Breath, Tribe & Awakening
Episode 54 – Clint Mackay (Part 1): From Pain to Presence – Breath, Tribe & AwakeningIn Part 1 of this powerful chat, Buzz sits down with Clint Mackay — son of Greg Mackay, a man known for grit, storytelling and never giving u...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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48:05
Episode 53: Kara Robinson — Laughter, Service & Shellshocked Comedy
pisode NameEpisode 53: Kara Robinson — Laughter, Service & Shellshocked ComedyBuzzsprout DescriptionWhat happens when comedy becomes more than just a laugh?In Episode 53 of Who Is Your Hero, Buzz si...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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40:36
Episode 52 – Ren Pedersen (Part 1): Pain Into Purpose
Episode 52 – Ren Pedersen (Part 1): Pain Into PurposeIn this deeply moving episode of Who Is Your Hero, Buzz sits down with Ren Pedersen at the C-Bar in Townsville for one of the most powerful conversations yet.<...
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46:16
Episode 51: Maurie Soars, The Push up king
🎙️ EPISODE BLOG — WHO IS YOUR HERO“The One We Couldn’t Cut”Some episodes you plan… Some you structure… Some you split into clean little parts so they fit nice and tidy…👉 This wasn’t one of them...
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1:10:47
Episode 50 Awakenings In Real Life – Dan Cohen (Part 2)
Episode 50Awakenings In Real Life – Dan Cohen (Part 2)What if the person you thought you lost… was still there?In Part 2 of our powerful conversation with Dan Cohen, author of Awakenings In Real Life, we d...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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44:49
Front Porch America – Rick White (Part 3) Episode 49 – Who Is Your Hero
Front Porch America – Rick White (Part 3)Episode 49 – Who Is Your HeroSometimes the best conversations in life don’t happen in boardrooms, studios, or big stages.They happen on a front porch.A place where pe...
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44:00
Episode 50: Dan Cohen, Part 1, The Day My Father Came Back – Dan Cohen (Awakenings In Real Life)
What happens when someone you love slowly disappears… and then suddenly comes back?In this powerful episode of Who Is Your Hero, Buzz sits down with Dan Cohen, author of the memoir Awakenings In Real Life and host ...
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Episode 49 – Rick White (Part 2) Front Porch America | Different Countries. Same Mission.
Episode 49 – Rick White (Part 2)Front Porch America | Different Countries. Same Mission.What happens when two podcasters from opposite sides of the world realise they’re chasing the exact same thing?In Part 2 of this p...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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38:53
Episode 48 – Tim McKee (Part 2) | Standards, Service & Second Chances
Episode 48 – Tim McKee (Part 2) | Standards, Service & Second ChancesIn Part 2 of the Tim McKee story, the conversation moves beyond career and into the deeper question of why some people choose a life of service.Tim McKee isn’t a ma...
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Episode 80
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53:17
Episode 49 – Rick White (Part 1) Front Porch America | Different Countries. Same Mission.
Episode 49 – Rick White (Part 1)Front Porch America | Different Countries. Same Mission.It’s 1:00am in Australia.Morning in Kentucky.Different hemispheres — same belief.In Part 1 of this powerful international crossover, Buzz sits...
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Episode 79
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41:33
Episode 48 – Tim McKee (Part 1) Standards, Service & Second Chances
Episode 48 – Tim McKee (Part 1)Standards, Service & Second ChancesSome men are forged quietly.Not by spotlight.Not by applause.But by responsibility.In this powerful Part 1 conversation, Buzz sits down with Townsville’s own Ti...
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Episode 78
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53:02
Episode 47: Roland Allbrook — (Part 2) Ink Across Empires.
Episode 47: Roland Allbrook — Ink Across Empires (Part 2)Who Is Your Hero with Buzz (Matthew Fidler)Welcome back legends — this is Part 2 of my sit-down with Roland Allbrook, and I’m telling you now… this one goes deeper.Roland’s ...
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Episode 77
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47:47
Episode 47: Rolland Allbrook , Ink Across Empires Part 1
🎙️ Episode 47 – Roland Allbrook (Part 1)Empire, Boarding School & The Blindfolded BoyThis episode is different.No hype.No outrage clips.No culture-war bait.Just a manuscript.In Episode 47 (Part 1), I sit down with Rolan...
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Episode 76
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45:43
Episode 46: Brady Gunn — Standing Alone, A Stand in the park.
Episode 46: Brady Gunn — Standing AloneWhat does real courage look like?Not the loud kind.Not the social media kind.Not the “I told you so” kind.The quiet kind.The kind where a man stands in a park… alone… for nearly three ...
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Episode 75
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52:52
Episode 45: Part 2, Rock Bottom to Real Talk: Dane Miller — Pottsville
Rock Bottom to Real Talk: Dane Miller (Part 2) — PottsvillePart 2 hits different, legends… this is where the story gets raw and a bit teary.Dane takes us back to the years after moving to Melbourne — the loneliness, the chronic de...
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Episode 74
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41:17
Episode 45: Rock Bottom to Real Talk: Dane Miller (Part 1)
Rock Bottom to Real Talk: Dane Miller (Part 1)When Drift Turns Into DecisionThere’s a moment in every man’s life where he either keeps drifting… or draws a line in the sand.Episode 45 of Who Is Your Hero isn’t about success.It’s about su...
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Episode 73
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37:04
🐎 Episode 44 – kim daley - Horses Don’t Lie (Part 2)
🐎 Episode 44 – Horses Don’t Lie (Part 2)Pause. Breath. Freedom.Part 2 of this conversation goes somewhere different.If Part 1 was about survival — anxiety, addiction, and the weight people carry quietly — Part 2 is about what comes after...
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Episode 72
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47:13
🐎 Episode 44 – Kim Daley - Horses Don’t Lie (Part 1)
🐎 Episode 44 – Horses Don’t Lie (Part 1)Some lessons don’t come from words.They come from presence.In this episode of Who Is Your Hero, Buzz sits down with Kim Daley for a raw, unscripted conversation about horses, humans, and the things...
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Episode 71
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32:39
Episode 43 (Part 4) – Paul Fidler: Radio Pranks, Record Labels & The Songs That Never Made It
EPISODE 43 – PART 4 is LIVE 🔥Paul Fidler (aka Freddy Fiddler / “Jim Morrison”) takes us behind the curtain of commercial radio and the music industry…🎧 Record label parcels every day🎶 The songs that should’ve been hits🐒 The infamous “mon...
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Episode 70
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40:48
Paul Fidler: From Record Shop to Radio Royalty — Episode 43, Part 3
In Episode 43, Part 3, Paul Fidler takes us from teenage DJing and record-shop life to a 30-year career behind the mic, where he created the on-air alter ego Jim Morrison and helped shape playlists across regional Australia.The episode e...
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Episode 68
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26:31
Episode 43: Part 2 , Paul Fidler , Family First Edition
A candid family conversation between cousins exploring their grandfather's wartime return, how toughness, humour and silence were passed down, and the everyday stories that bind a family.They mix laughter and honesty while discussing agi...
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Episode 67
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37:15
Episode 43, Part 1: Behind the Mic: Cousins, Country and Radio Secrets
Two cousins sit down to talk family, upbringing and the hidden costs of a life behind the radio mic. They trace how mothers, fathers and childhood shaped a man who spent decades shaping the sound of regional Australia.This episode explor...
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Episode 66
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33:40
Episode 42:Never Stop: Sam Childers, Machine Gun Preacher
Host Buzz sits down with Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, to hear his raw testimony: a violent past, a radical conversion, and nearly three decades rescuing and protecting children in Uganda through schools, trade training, wells and dai...
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Episode 64
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48:14
Episode 41 :Before the Headlines: How Sam Childers Changed a Mate's Life
Episode 41, is a prelude with Greg Mackay about Sam Childers — the man known as the "machine gun preacher." Greg shares lived experiences, showing how Sam's faith, sacrifice and action changed his life and inspired real, ongoing work to protect...
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Episode 62
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57:25