How Good Are Humans

Isaac McCarthy
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How Good Are Humans

The How Good Are Humans podcast is here to show you the good people in the world, those who go above and beyond the call of duty to better the community around them.

  1. Keeping kids out of jail, and giving them a shot at life | Rob Hodge and Fresh Start Academy

    22 JAN

    Keeping kids out of jail, and giving them a shot at life | Rob Hodge and Fresh Start Academy

    Rob Hodge possibly has the largest heart in Far North Queensland, and he is applying it and his street smarts to keeping troubled kids out of prison and giving them a shot a life, which many of them are born without. As the youngest of 21 children born into poverty in New Zealand, Rob quickly became familiar with the hard life. He was kicked out of every school in the country's North Island. His family were connected to gangs, and he routinely committed offences. But his world changed when he...

    1h 19m
  2. Getting to the South Pole with "your toes still on" | Barney Swan and Climate Force

    1 JAN

    Getting to the South Pole with "your toes still on" | Barney Swan and Climate Force

    Barney Swan is an adventurer and entrepreneur who has trekked to the South Pole three times before the age of 30 and is now regenerating a 527-acre patch of the Daintree Rainforest while building a replicable polyculture model that encapsulates and protects the strength of biodiversity, is economically viable and is pliable to cultural needs. The goal of his organisation, Climate Force, is to plant more than 450,000 trees from 190 native species before 2030.

    1h 39m
  3. Building kick-arse mountain biking trails | Glen Jacobs and World Trail

    17/12/2024

    Building kick-arse mountain biking trails | Glen Jacobs and World Trail

    Building mountain biking trails can completely transform a city. In one Tasmanian case, new trails turned a town that history almost forgot into an economic victory and happiness mecca. Glen Jacobs is the brains behind those trails as well as many others in the most picturesque parts of the world. On this episode of the podcast, Glen speaks about how he designs trails, where he’s currently building them and their town-improving potential. He also explains why mountain biking is a portal...

    1h 24m
  4. Can your city survive its future? One of Australia's top town planners explains how | Nikki Huddy

    11/12/2024

    Can your city survive its future? One of Australia's top town planners explains how | Nikki Huddy

    What do housing supply, commute times, obesity rates, water shortages, neighbourhood crime, tempers, leisure, culture, thermometer readings, employment opportunities and your nearest ice cream shop all have in common? Answer: they are all affected by how your city or town is designed. If the experts aren't consulted, then your social and economic outcomes are affected, perhaps irreversibly. On this episode of the podcast, Nikki Huddy, who was awarded Australia's Town Planner of the Year...

    1h 28m
  5. $32 million and counting | How FNQHF changes lives for the better

    27/11/2024

    $32 million and counting | How FNQHF changes lives for the better

    More than two decades ago a Cairns citizen would have needed to travel hundreds, maybe thousands, of kilometres to receive certain medical treatment residents of other cities could access locally. Much of that reality has now changed thanks in large part to the mammoth efforts of a plucky and enterprising Far North Queensland charity, and its army of donors and volunteers. Over two decades the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation has raised more than $32m to improve health and wellbeing o...

    43 min
  6. Running 500 kilometres in a week, hallucinating about carnivorous zebras in Canada | Julie Sager

    11/11/2024

    Running 500 kilometres in a week, hallucinating about carnivorous zebras in Canada | Julie Sager

    Ever thought about running a marathon? What about an ultramarathon (distances often above 300km)? Just running one of those events in a lifetime would be an epic achievement, right? Well, yes, of course. But what about running six of them inside 12 months, setting a world record in the process? What about hallucinating a bear eating you mid-stride while wheezing through early-stage pneumonia? What about running the equivalent altitude of two Mount Everests in 90 hours with little sleep ...

    1 hr
  7. Caring for 100 children, and other realities of foster care in Queensland | Sarah Grainer

    08/10/2024

    Caring for 100 children, and other realities of foster care in Queensland | Sarah Grainer

    Sarah Grainer and her family have cared for more than one hundred foster children over two decades. Some children have required just one weekend of respite, while others have stayed in the Grainers' home for years. Some children arrived with notice. At other times, Sarah has received a call a midnight from government departments seeking her help to take on a child immediately. She is among scores of kind and selfless humans in Australia caring for children who have nowhere else to turn. Each...

    1h 27m
  8. Hope and opportunity for Australian children in care | The Pyjama Foundation

    10/09/2024

    Hope and opportunity for Australian children in care | The Pyjama Foundation

    Seventy-five per cent of Australian children in foster care will not finish school. One in three will be homeless in the first year out of care and even more will not find employment. Children enter into care after experiencing neglect, abuse or both. This trauma often causes them to be disengaged from education and makes it difficult for them to build healthy relationships with other adults and children. The foster carers do an enormous task, but there are many challenges. They need to...

    1h 1m
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The How Good Are Humans podcast is here to show you the good people in the world, those who go above and beyond the call of duty to better the community around them.

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  • Creator
    Isaac McCarthy
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 How Good Are Humans
  • Show Website
    How Good Are Humans

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