Moments of Clarity

Matthew Sortino & Toby Kent
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Moments of Clarity Podcast

Moments of Clarity is a podcast hosted by Matthew Sortino and Toby Kent. Through analytical, honest and uplifting conversations, Matt and Toby delve into the personal and professional lives of a diverse range of guests. They garner the vision, expertise, as well as the more everyday qualities of those who align their values and their actions. In cutting through the noise of a world overloaded with information and disinformation, they are also willing to engage with those whose values may not immediately align with their own. It makes for an insightful and entertaining mix.

  1. 10/10/2023

    S4 E2 - ’The Laughter Effect’ with Ros Ben-Moshe

    Our guest today on Moments of Clarity is Ros Ben-Moshe. Ros is a Laughter, Wellbeing and Positivity author, academic and practitioner. She is Adjunct lecturer at the School of Public Health and Psychology at La Trobe University where she coordinates the Laughter, Resilience and Wellbeing online short course for professionals. Ros is author of The Laughter Effect – How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life (2023) and “Laughing at cancer – How to Heal with Love, Laughter and Mindfulness”. Often called on for expert opinion in mainstream media, she has also written for publications including The Canberra Times, Huffington Post and Wellbeing magazine. In today's conversation we discuss Ros's new book "The Laughter Effect" and many of the lessons Ros has learnt about laughter over the years. We hear about Ros' early life, career and the various pathways she took to get to the point she is at today. Ros talks about her cancer diagnosis and first hearing about Laughter Yoga, how we can work to reframe our situations, being grateful and how you do not have to be funny to laugh. It was a fantastic chat and we know you will learn a lot from it. Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out  our website at www.moc-pod.com.     Links https://ros-benmoshe.com/ https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/rbenmoshe https://www.instagram.com/rosbenmoshe/?hl=en https://au.linkedin.com/in/rosbenmoshemph-454a122a https://twitter.com/RosBenMoshe https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/could-laughter-make-us-happier-and-less-stressed-/102258166 https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/laughter-effect https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/they-say-it-s-the-best-medicine-so-here-s-how-to-bring-more-laughter-into-your-life-20230720-p5dpyl.html   Time Stamps 0:00 - 7:51 Introduction with Matt and Toby 7:52 - 43:34 Part 1 with Ros Ben-Moshe 43:35 - 63:49 Part 2 with Ros Ben-Moshe 63:50 - 65:05 Outro     Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.

    1h 5m

  2. 26/09/2023

    S4 E1 - ’Leading with the Head, the Heart and the Hands’ with Arron Wood.

    Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Arron Wood.  Arron Wood AM is Chief Policy and Impact Officer at The Clean Energy Council - the peak body for the clean energy industry in Australia. He is a former Councillor and former Deputy Lord Mayor for City of Melbourne. He is currently on the South East Water Corporation Board and was Chair of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Arron is founder of award-winning education program Kids Teaching Kids where over 140,000 students have participated in the peer education model since 1999. He was 3AW environment reporter for many years. Arron received The Centenary Medal for outstanding contribution to conservation, awarded by the Governor-General and completed a Churchill Fellowship to New York with the United Nations. As a past winner of the United Nations Individual Award for Outstanding Service to the Environment, Arron was also the 2001 Young Australian of the Year (environment). His commitment to the environment was covered on ABC’s Australian Story in a 2004 episode titled "Rising Son". In 2011, Arron published an autobiography titled 'Billabong Boy' which follows his journey from a boy who loved to explore his local billabong in Mildura on the Murray River to an international award-winning speaker, as well as his struggles to keep balanced while being an inspiration to those around him. Today's episode also marks the beginning of Season 4. Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out  our website at www.moc-pod.com.     Links http://arronwood.com/ https://au.linkedin.com/in/arronwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arron_Wood https://www.instagram.com/arronwood/ https://www.facebook.com/ArronWoodMelbourne/ https://twitter.com/ArronWood https://www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/about/our-team   Time Stamps 0:00 - 14:39 Introduction with Matt and Toby 14:40 - 42:13 Part 1 with Arron Wood 42:14 - 77:33 Part 2 with Arron Wood 77:34 - 78:51 Outro     Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.

    1h 19m

  3. 01/03/2023

    S3 E16 - ’Bolsonaro, Brazil and the New Heirachies of Social Media’ with Alex Fleck

    Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Alexandre Fleck Soares Brandao (Alex Fleck).   Alex moved to Australia in 2018 to pursue a PhD at UNSW Sydney under the Scientia Scholarship Program. His research focuses on how social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have reshaped the way social movements pursue legal change. He has previously taught at UNSW Law, but is currently in the last stages of finishing his thesis.   Alex is originally from Brazil, but has lived in different places. As a child he briefly  lived in Southern California and as a young adult moved to the Basque Country, Spain, where he completed his Masters degree in Sociology of Law. Alex lives in Sydney, New South Wales with his partner Michele whom he met while protesting at the Federal Law School in his hometown of Porto Alegre, Brazil. They were both law students at the time and were occupying the building in a struggle against illegal changes to the faculty and fell in love.   Alex's strong interest and knowledge in law, social media, and politics shines through in this conversation. He is articulate and values-driven yet demonstrates how important it is to understand the nuances and perspectives on various issues.   Matt, Toby and Alex discuss: Social media and it's impact on activism, politics and society. Whether social media has democratised power or created a new paradigm of power. The difference between amateur and professional activists and how it leads to repression.  The history of Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian politics more broadly Links Twitter @A_FleckBrandao https://twitter.com/a_fleckbrandao?lang=en Interview on Ticker News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKLzMHaf60 https://www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/about-us/our-people/higher-degree-research-students/alexandre-fleck-soares-brandao https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/anticonstitutional-populism/when-bolsonaro-and-the-judges-go-shopping-how-brazils-legal-elites-opened-the-door-for-bolsonaros-bad-populism/D520A6C9D7582479FE94CDB41E2A003F Zeynep Tufekci - https://www.nytimes.com/column/zeynep-tufekci   Toby is currently reading "In the shadow of the Sword" By Tom Holland - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12376830   Time Stamps 0:00 - 15:37 Introduction with Matt and Toby 15:38 - 38:57 Part 1 with Alex Fleck 38:58 - 80:14 Part 2 with Alex Fleck 80:15 - 81:29 Outro     Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.   Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out  our website at www.moc-pod.com.

    1h 21m

  4. 06/02/2023

    S3 E15 - ’Moving Beyond the Prevailing Views’ with Sue Barrett

    Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Sue Barrett.   CEO, entrepreneur, and systems thinker, Sue is best known as a business growth strategist, sales systems specialist, educator, writer, consultant, and change agent championing Better Business Practices for a sustainable world.Founder and CEO of Barrett and the Selling Better Movement, Sue works with organisations across the world helping leaders and teams create and operate highly successful sustainable business growth systems, strategies, teams and cultures.A leading advocate for human-centred, ethical business, sales and leadership practices, Sue works with leaders, teams and communities to think deeply about the consequences of our decisions on others and on the planet. She has the ability to raise awareness of our interconnectedness as a foundation for empathy, compassion, decency and ethics, which in turn informs our moral cognition – our capacity to ‘do the right thing’.One of the founding organisers of March4Justice that rallied 110,000+ people in 200 locations around Australia in 14 days in 2021, a founder organiser of Voices of Goldstein, and Campaign Manager for Zoe Daniel’s winning campaign for the Federal Seat of Goldstein in 2022, Sue’s an advocate for Equality, STEMA education, Social Justice, Climate Action and Representative Democracy.In 2019, Sue published her first paperback book, ‘142 Days of Gratitude that changed my life forever‘, a treatise on the positive power of gratitude that delivers a masterclass in resilience.Sue lives in Melbourne with her family and is inspired by David Bowie, Rachel Carson, Kate Raworth and Maria Montessori.   Links https://www.barrett.com.au/ https://www.sellingbetter.com/ https://www.suebarrett.com/ https://www.suebarrett.com/media/ https://www.suebarrett.com/books/ https://twitter.com/SueBarrett https://www.linkedin.com/in/suebarrett1/   Time Stamps 0:00 - 13:42 Introduction with Matt and Toby 14:43 - 45:29 Part 1 with Sue Barrett 45:30 - 80:50 Part 2 with Sue Barrett 80:51 - 82:05 Outro     Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.   Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/momentsofclaritypodcast/?hl=en or our website at www.moc-pod.com.

    1h 22m

  5. 13/12/2022

    S3 E14 - ’Health, Harm Reduction and Human Rights’ with Damon Barrett

    Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Damon Barrett. Damon has been working on issues related to health and human rights for over 15 years, focusing mostly on drugs and harm reduction. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Global Studies, and a researcher at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also a co-Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, which he co-founded in 2009.  Prior to entering academia Damon was Deputy Director of Harm Reduction International, based in London. His most recent book, Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law was published by Brill/Martinus Nijhoff in 2020.    Since 2016 Damon has been part of the core drafting team for the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy. The project has aimed to apply decades of developments in human rights law to global drug control.     Links: 
https://brill.com/display/title/55876 www.humanrights-drugpolicy.org https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/damonbarrett Damon Barrett: Child rights in global drug policy: From justification to accountability - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibwDHhFcoxE LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-barrett/ Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy - https://twitter.com/hrdp2   Time Stamps 0:00 - 23:51 Introduction with Matt and Toby 23:52 - 48:30 Part 1 with Damon Barrett 48:31 - 82:35 Part 2 with Damon Barrett 82:36 - 83:49 Outro     Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.   Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/momentsofclaritypodcast/?hl=en or our website at www.moc-pod.com.

    1h 24m

  6. 30/11/2022

    S3 E13 - ’Helping Others Find Their Identity’ with Lizzie Kuoth

    Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Lizzie Kuoth. Whimsical, wise and courageous, Lizzy Kuoth is a woman to watch and at 30, has already lived a very full life. As a child Lizzy fled war-torn South Sudan with her grandmother and three younger brothers, spending four years in Egypt before arriving in Melbourne in 2005. Fast-forward 16 years and Lizzy is carving out her own niche at the intersection of economics, diversity and inclusion. Lizzie is a leader in the multicultural sector and adviser on refugee experience and community engagement. She passionately advocates for the advancement of these issues and works to build better, more inclusive communities. Currently, Lizzie works in health promotion and as Multicultural Officer at St Francis Xavier College, delivering and implementing programs and events to build awareness and drive change with students, families and the entire school community.  Lizzie also leads the Metropolitan Partnerships program, a Victorian State Government initiative helping to build community engagement on the economy, inclusion, and the environment to design and deliver better policy outcomes. As Member for the Inner South East Region Partnership (InnerSEMetroPartnership), she builds relationships with community and industry leaders to listen and help identify the issues that matter with a focus on youth and refugees. Lizzie is a self-described lifelong learner and is studying a business degree with a major in economics at Swinburne University and has an Advanced Diploma of Justice.  Lizzie has worked closely with many diverse groups including the City of Monash, United Nations Association of Australia, Victorian Police, White Ribbon and South Sudanese Community Association raising awareness, promoting social cohesion, gender equality and respectful relationships.   Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzy-kuoth-she-her-60a575b2/ https://twitter.com/kuothlizzy?lang=en https://www.multiculturalcommission.vic.gov.au/refugee-lizzy-kuoth-finds-home-common-ground https://www.refugeeweek.org.au/lizzy-kuoth/ https://www.monash.vic.gov.au/Community/Multiculturalism/Community-Ambassador-Project/Community-Ambassador-Lizzy-Kuoth https://www.empowergirl.com.au/portfolio-item/lizzy-kuoth/ https://www.suburbandevelopment.vic.gov.au/metropolitan-partnerships/inner-south-east-partnership   Time Stamps 0:00 - 9:05 Introduction with Matt and Toby 9:06 - 32:19 Part 1 with Lizzie Kuoth 32:20 - 64:35 Part 2 with Lizzie Kuoth 64:36 - 65:49 Outro   Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing. Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our Instagram page @momentsofclaritypodcast or our website at www.moc-pod.com.

    1h 6m

  7. 16/11/2022

    S3 E12 - ’Focusing On What You Love’ with Malcolm Preston

    Our guest today on Moments of Clarity is Malcolm Preston. Malcolm Preston is an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management, teaching sustainability on their MBA and Executive Education programmes and visiting Faculty at Harvard Business School. He is also the Sustainability Adviser to a number of large international businesses and one small sustainability start-up.   Malcolm recently retired as the Global Head of Sustainability Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), leading a team of some 700 sustainability and climate change experts. Malcolm lead PwC’s thought leadership on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and, in particular, the role of the private sector in their achievement.   An accomplished speaker, Malcolm has spoken at numerous events including as a keynote speaker at the Rio +20 Summit, the World Bank, the New York Stock Exchange, and the United Nations.   During the podcast we discuss Malcolm's career with PwC, the art of public speaking, his love of teaching, his love of travel, situational deprivation as a tool to living a good life, pivoting from a life of audits to climate change, reimagining our societal structures to adequately deal with the climate crisis, challenging the system within 'the brand boundary' and a moment of clarity.    Linkshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmpreston/ https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/preston_malcolm.aspx https://twitter.com/malcolmhpreston   Time Stamps 0:00 - 17:06 Introduction with Matt and Toby 17:07 - 44:10 Part 1 with Malcolm Preston 44:11 - 68:02 Part 2 with Malcolm Preston 68:03 - 69:17 Outro   Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing. Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our Instagram page @momentsofclaritypodcast or our website at www.moc-pod.com.

    1h 9m

  8. 26/10/2022

    S3 E11 - ’Nurturing Possibility’ with Josie Gibson

    Our guest in this episode of Moments of Clarity is Josie Gibson.    Josie is co-founder and director of The Catalyst Network, a membership community of accomplished changemakers and a mentorship program for graduates and creative entrepreneurs. She is also the founder and director of CatalystFX, which she created to address the urgent need for different thinking and responses to complex business, social, and environmental issues.   Josie is active in national and international initiatives exploring new work, community and economic models. She is an advisor with multiple leading organisations in different industries and is also a Senior Industry Fellow at FORWARD, RMIT's new Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation.   Josie's incredibly rich professional history is matched by her personal life and experiences which we discuss today.    In today's episode we talk about the expectations of a working-class Irish Catholic family, a trip to Japan, a man named Ed, individualism vs collectivism, the need for mutual contribution and respect, reciprocity, connection, urbanisation and Richard Florida, networks, self-organisation vs hierarchy and a moment of clarity.    Linkshttps://www.catalyst-fx.com/ https://www.catalyst-fx.com/the-catalyst-network/ https://about.me/josie.gibson https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/get-involved/join-our-corporate-membership-program/meet-our-corporate-members-josie-gibson-catalyst www.linkedin.com/in/josiegibson https://twitter.com/josiejosieg https://medium.com/rmit-forward https://soundcloud.com/rmit-forward/rmit-forward-skillscast-s1e03-josie-gibson-culture-conversations   Time Stamps 0:00 - 19:50 Introduction with Matt and Toby 19:51 - 44:07 Part 1 with Josie Gibson 44:08 - 69:00 Part 2 with Josie Gibson 69:01 - 70:13 Outro   Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.   Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family.   You can also check out our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/momentsofclaritypodcast/ or our website at www.moc-pod.com.

    1h 10m
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Moments of Clarity is a podcast hosted by Matthew Sortino and Toby Kent. Through analytical, honest and uplifting conversations, Matt and Toby delve into the personal and professional lives of a diverse range of guests. They garner the vision, expertise, as well as the more everyday qualities of those who align their values and their actions. In cutting through the noise of a world overloaded with information and disinformation, they are also willing to engage with those whose values may not immediately align with their own. It makes for an insightful and entertaining mix.

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  • Creator
    Matthew Sortino & Toby Kent
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Clean
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