Seize the Yay Sarah Davidson

Guys I know I get excited about every single guest we’re lucky to have on the show, but this week’s is particularly special for so many reasons

-      we’ve all had Matilda’s fever
-      before we even get to the Tilly’s, this guest's journey is absolutely incredible
-      she’s basically Ang’s ultimate idol so Ang actually joined in on this interview
-      and she has barely done any other interviews and we are SO grateful that she said yes to the yayborhood because this is genuinely one of my favourite episodes in a long time!

In fact, we enjoyed it so much and it was so jam packed with pearls of wisdom that we went longer than usual AND are coming back for part two because there’s so much more we wanted to cover. I can’t quite believe we’re saying this but we are thrilled to welcome to seize the yay, the Matilda’s team doctor, Dr Brandi Cole.

She tells the story best herself so I won’t go on too long in this intro but just quickly, there are few things Dr Brandi hasn’t excelled in! Early in life, she began as an athlete herself being the former captain of the Australian Women’s Oztag team, playing both touch and hockey for NSW in the past and being an Australian and World gold medalist in beach sprint relay in Surf Life Saving. She then dkid her undergrad in Physio at Sydney Uni in 2003, which is enough for many, but wen ont to then do Medicine in 2008 and become a Specialist Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician having gained fellowship of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in 2019. Dr Brandi completed a PhD on optimising the management of rotator cuff dysfunction through the University of New South Wales in 2018. And all this before she became the team doctor for the Matilda’s INCLUDING at this recent captivating World Cup tournament (as well as working with Sydney FC and numerous mens and womens rugby teams). AND she’s a Mum of two and has her own practice… like WHAT A WOMAN!!!
 
I could rave about this woman for hours, which I kind of did in this episode, so I’ll stop myself there and let you enjoy. I hope you guys are as inspired by this one as we were!!!

**** Re-releasing this one in honour of its FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK!!!! As you know, we had to say goodbye to our little Paul a few weeks ago which has pushed back our recording schedule, so I figured there may be some new ears who haven't heard this one yet. We'll be back next week with a very exciting guest, so stay tuned!!! ****

I mean, what words really are there to do this week’s guest justice and adequately explain the feelings you can only imagine I felt being lucky enough to sit down with him for a chat about seizing the yay. As I’ve been bombarding you about on socials, I’m sure most of you already know I met the inimitable Gary Vaynerchuck last week when he was briefly in Melbourne to launch the epic collaboration between his new company, Empathy Wines, and Aussie wine legends, Vinomofo, thanks to another amazing Seize the Yay guest and Vinomofo founder, Justin Dry.

Ahead of every curve with his astonishing intuition, Gary Vee has gone from former Soviet Union migrant to worldwide entrepreneurial sensation embracing e-commerce before the term was coined taking his family wine business from a $3million to $60million turnover when he took over the reins and producing content prolifically since YouTube was just four months old. The accolades and achievements since then are too many to list, but most importantly not as relevant to list as you might expect despite him having since founded VaynerMedia as well as investing early in many of the world’s biggest beasts a la Facebook, Snapchat, Venmo etc. Not having been quite sure what to expect, it was so delightful to be met with an incredibly humble, hardworking and honest person focused more on redefining success away from financial metrics and external approval and towards happiness and love – he is definitely seizing his yay and I’m SO grateful he shared some of it on the show. Full video will follow shortly too! Ladies and gentleman, Gary Vee…

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This week’s guest epitomises why I LOVE doing this podcast so much and, for all its downsides, embrace the potential for connection that social media allows us in this day and age. We actually met THROUGH the yayborhood after this guest became our number one purchaser of quote of the day Flip Books and the support has been unwavering ever since…
I don’t know how we actually got onto his incredible work, but it somehow emerged that Simon Morriss went from being an architect to becoming the CEO of an incredible biotech company and when I found out about his amazing work identifying diseases through a very simple, noninvasive saliva-based test, called geneType, I just HAD to share it with you all. After becoming friends over the interwebs for years we finally sat down and chatted about the incredibly work that he is doing. I hope you love it! 
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I am so excited about this week’s guest having followed her story (and had her on our ultimate wish list) for many years now. Some of you may already know her, but if not, Sam Bloom is a world champion surfer, adventure traveller, best-selling author, neurology nurse and mother of three boys whose story also became a global hit movie, Penguin Bloom. That heartbreaking story begins in 2013 when Sam was paralysed in a terrifying accident in Thailand when she fell through a rotting balcony and it was the unlikely arrival of a beautiful magpie chick, Penguin, that helped her gruelling recovery back in Australia. The photos captured by her photographer husband, Cameron, were later made into a book written alongside legendary author Bradley Trevor Grieve and then became the basis of Penguin Bloom starring Naomi Watts.
Having pored over Penguin Bloom many times, it was surreal to be able to hear Sam chat so candidly about grief and redefining joy in real time – she is so refreshingly honest about the defining trauma in her life and that the challenges endure everyday. But what I also loved was having the chance to also ask Sam about all the other parts of her life that perhaps don’t relate so much to the story many know her for. I could go on forever but I’ll let Sam tell you the rest herself – this is one of my favourite chats to date and I am so grateful for her time. I hope you enjoy as much as I did!
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