WHAT I'VE LEARNT

What I've Learnt - Melissa Browne

Melissa Browne is an award-winning former accountant and financial advisor who’s spent 20 years building three successful businesses across different industries, and becoming an independent multi-millionaire along the way. She did it after a divorce in her early thirties left her with nothing.   Mel Browne is now a Financial Educator. She has asked thousands of women over the years at events, webinars and keynotes, ‘Who here would like to be wealthy?’  Of these women there’s usually only one brave enough to raise her hand. But when she asks, ‘Who here would like to be comfortable?’ or ‘Who here would like to have financial choice?’, most hands go up.   This is just one of the many reasons why Mel Browne started her business in educating women to dare to be wealthy. Because she doesn’t want wealthy to be a dirty word any longer. Or for women to believe it’s out of reach. 🙏☺️ Whether you’re starting over, rebuilding after setbacks, looking to create for your family or simply ready for more her new book 📘Dare to Be Wealthy📘 will help you understand that you’re not too old, too late, or too behind.  You’re one decision away from rewriting your financial future. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ [https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/] Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ [https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/] Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id1535563304] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk [https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk] Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850]

What I've Learnt - "Sarah"

Starting the new year with a riveting interview with a brave articulate Australian Iranian medical student who shines the light on the dark depths of a diabolical regime - being the voice for her friends and family struggling in a bloodied and blacked out Iran where up to 20,000 are believe to have been murdered.💔 In a deep dive interview “Sarah” fears for her family left in Iran and even her safety here in Australia as she talks to the gut wrenching silence in some sectors of the globe while Iranian women and men are raped tortured and executed in her homeland a place she and her parents fled only six years ago for the shores of Australia. Devastated and shocked by the Bondi massacre her community has great unity with the Jewish community with thousands of years of shared wounds repression and survival.🙏🏼 We explore the power of this women led revolution - a movement to extricate themselves from the tyrannical regime the desperation determination of her people who are lions in the face of tyranny even as they’re loved ones are piled up in unmarked body bags many young desperate and disappeared. Listen to this brave young woman we must be their voice at a time when silence reigns praying for a new dawn .. 🙏🏼Woman🙏🏼Life 🙏🏼Freedom 🙏🏼 Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ [https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/] Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ [https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/] Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id1535563304] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk [https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk] Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850]

What I've Learnt - Jonah Platt (December 2025)

Jonah Platt, one of the leading Jewish advocates and speakers globally, and host of the award-winning podcast, "Being Jewish with Jonah Platt," which has featured celebrities and high-profile individuals, such as Tiffany Haddish, Sheryl Sandberg, Van Jones, Ritchie Torres, and beyond. We had a deep dive interview last month never dreaming this carnage at Bondi beach would happen yet both knowing that lurking behind every antisemitic post protest and proliferation of hate on socials tragedy would unfold somewhere somehow and so here we are our world changed forever and those governments sleepwalking into another potential holocaust need to wake up step up and make change ! Jonah joins me from LA on the eve of a national Reflection day here in Aus to honour those victims and explores the global perspective what we can do and how the hell we got here! Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ [https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/] Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ [https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/] Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id1535563304] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk [https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk] Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850]

What I've Learnt - Jonah Platt

As a surreal time in history with confluent sources of rage towards Jews enveloping so many western countries a NYC mayoral race turning into a global media war with nyc home to one of the biggest Jewish populations in the world, yet the biggest hit series in streaming right now is “Nobody Wants This” about an orthodox Rabbi falling in love with a non Jewish woman .. it’s as if the world has gone mad literally - so Jonah Platt Broadway actor, singer, musician, writer, producer, director, lyricist, composer, podcaster “Being Jewish With Jonah Platt” is the perfect guest to explore this extraordinary time in Jewish and global history ..  From an early age, Judaism, entertainment, and the arts have been the corner  stones of Jonah Platt’s life. Raised in Los Angeles by award-winning producer Marc Platt and Jewish philanthropist Julie Platt, Jonah grew up with a deep sense of Jewish identity, creativity, and advocacy. Whether performing for his family or attending Jewish day schools and summer camps, he was immersed in his heritage, which set the stage for his future path. Jonah attended the University of Pennsylvania before kicking off a career as a television writer. This eventually led to a lengthy career as a Broadway actor. He soon became known for his performance as Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway, Horst in Neil Patrick Harris’ Coupled, Woof in Hair at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Kristen Bell, and acting in the Oscar-nominated Being the Ricardos, among many other roles. A pivotal career and life-changing moment came for Jonah in 2023 after the devastating Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians. Jonah saw how polarized the conversation around Jewish identity had become, particularly in Hollywood and the media. Determined to make a difference, he started speaking out publicly and using his platform to reshape perceptions, and began speaking publicly. This eventually led him to start his most meaningful project yet—his podcast, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. The podcast explores the rich spectrum of Jewish identity. It has featured prominent guests like Congressman Ritchie Torres, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, Emmy winner Patricia Heaton, Tony nominee Josh Gad, Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, and CNN’s Van Jones. Jonah is producing his first feature film, The Mensch, in which he will co-star alongside Ginnifer Goodwin. He is also a sought-after singer and musician, an award-winning vocal arranger, a director of improv and theater, and is currently co-writing the musical adaptation of Lois Lowry’s best-selling novel The Giver. Jonah is highly sought after by the media and professional speaking opportunities nationally and internationally. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ [https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/] Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ [https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/] Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id1535563304] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk [https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk] Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850]

What I've Learnt - Robert Kenn

Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful.” Gerry Lopez   We’ve all been there: Exhausted by one of life’s waves, or maybe it’s turned into a rip. We struggle to keep afloat. Crippled by the fear of the unknown. Hesitant to dive in. Author of 🌊🌊Wisdom from the Ocean, Robert Kenn found many parallels between living his life and what he has learned from the most powerful place of all – the ocean.  Robert has interviewed surfers across Australia, from Curl Curl to Maroubra, to write this beautiful book that contains real and relatable strategies that helped these surfers shift from merely surviving to thriving in life.🌊🌊 Each chapter is based on a conversation Robert had with a different surfer. Whether it’s relationship dilemmas, mental health struggles or making major life decisions, the book imparts the wisdom these surfers have learnt from the sea that they can apply to life. Loved my interview with this wise authentic author capturing the essence of lessons learnt including 🌊Don’t drown battling: When faced with a challenge, don’t panic - consider a change in direction, go with the flow whilst waiting for help. 🌊Mastery and fear: Never create excuses saying you’re learning to master something first. Own your fears and mistakes and enjoy the art of trying, failing and trying again. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ [https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/] Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ [https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/] Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id1535563304] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk [https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk] Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850]