Moments of Clarity Matthew Sortino & Toby Kent

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.

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.

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.