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You ride your bike to work, and so does your senior colleague. When you enter the shower, you always find that your senior colleague is leaving their hair around the drain. It might be time for a difficult conversation. 

Can you ask them to clean the shower before leaving, or would that make things unbearably awkward?

If you look up the word 'risk' in the dictionary you may well find that it refers to the possibility of something bad happening, but it can also be an opportunity to evolve. 

Clinical psychologist Dr Charlotte Keating joins Beverley Wang to talk risk and personal growth. Charlotte discusses how our upbringing can determine our appetite for risk taking and also provides some strategies for how we might manage risk taking in our own lives. 

Have you ever gone to the perfect holiday spot and thought: I wish I could just live here forever? What is it like for the people who actually do?

From the busy days of peak season to the slow days when the crowds go home, how does that change life for the people who live there all year round?

And can that understanding help us to become better tourists ourselves?

Dr Yves Rees is a historian, author and podcaster and prominent voice on issues and experiences of gender diversity. 

They share how taking up ocean swimming with the Salty Slags club boosted their wellbeing, and why they make an effort to sit with the hard feelings.

When teacher Molly Roden Winter’s husband is home late, leaving her to put the kids to bed (again), she storms out of the house, finding herself at a bar exchanging numbers with a cute guy. 

Molly never expects to pursue it, until she gets back home to learn her husband knows about the encounter. 

What follows is a complete transformation of Molly’s relationship with her husband and herself. 

When you walk through the city or just pop down to the shops, it can feel like everyone has a set of headphones glued to their ears

While work-related hearing loss has gone down in Australia over the last few decades, the World Health Organisation suggested that more than 1 Billion young people are at risk of hearing problems - in part because of the way we're listening to music.

Professor Robert Cowan share how to keep our ears healthy into our older age.