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Max's Island

Max's Island

By: Meet Max Power
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We’re told to always be in the present moment … we’re told to set goals and achieve them … we’re told that life’s short and to live every moment as if it where our last. Arrrgh, what does all this mean?? As one great lyricist wrote … “No-ones an island and sometimes it’s good to pretend” When was a time in your life you let yourself be ‘you’ and gave yourself the time to pretend? “Max’s Island” the podcast, exists so you can tell others WHY! Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences
Episodes
  • "I'd call it a life... Life is food."

    "I'd call it a life... Life is food."
    Oct 14 2026
    Belinda Gosden is a woman who proved that when you truly want something, no rejection or risk can stand in your way. For many years, Belinda harbored a dream of cooking on MasterChef Australia. She applied once. She applied twice…In fact, she was turned down four times But rather than giving up, Belinda doubled down. She took a massive leap of faith: quitting a job she hated, selling her apartment to fund her journey, and literally picturing herself in the MasterChef kitchen holding the trophy. She manifested her spot on national television … and proved to herself that her lifelong love for food was far more than a hobby — as she puts it, 'it's a life.'
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  • “Where’s the joy in your life?”

    “Where’s the joy in your life?”
    Sep 29 2026
    Can you imagine spending 12 to 18 months delivering devastating job news to dedicated employees during a major industry downturn. That was the reality for our guest on this episode … Leonie Murray … who after 25 years in senior HR roles across the globe, found herself burnt out, heartbroken, and completely lacking joy in her work. It wasn't until her own executive coach confronted her with one life-changing question—“Where’s the joy in your life?”—that Leonie realised she had to make a drastic change.
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  • "the estate developed a stigma and that stigma was then extended to the people who live there and it persists"

    "the estate developed a stigma and that stigma was then extended to the people who live there and it persists"
    Sep 9 2026
    Kate takes us through a deeply impactful childhood … painted in three distinct panels. The first is architectural—a childhood spent inside a literal panopticon, a hexagonal state-housing block in 1980s Perth, surrounded by the inward-pressing, incomplete loops of a Radburn-designed suburb. The second is socially influenced—navigating the heavy stigma of a shifting welfare state as the child of a fiercely protective single mother, finding solace not in school, but in brutalist university libraries and piles of classic books. And the third is a rare beacon of agency—the Karawara 'Fun Factory,' a Danish-inspired adventure play-space where kids were handed raw, recycled materials and told to shape their own worlds.
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