WHAT I'VE LEARNT

Deborah Blashki- Marks
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Rock legend Keith Urban, the iconic KD Lang, and the unforgettable Lionel Richie are just some of the names Deborah interviewed in the Melbourne Age column called, 'What I've Learnt.'  Everyone has a story to tell, and a lesson to learn. What I’ve Learnt is a Podcast from journalist Deborah Blashki-Marks. "What I've Learnt' is a unique platform for International and national talent to delve deep into their own challenges, successes, failures, and life lessons. As a journalist of over 30 years, Deborah has been lucky enough to interview some of the most influential people from around the world - actors, musicians, designers, doctors, business professionals and writers.   Now, introducing ‘What I’ve Learnt’ the podcast. Deborah shares conversations with world-class celebrities such as Kate Ceberano, Eric Bana, Deborra-Lee Furness, Troye Sivan, Katie Noonan, Michael Klim, Nick Littlemore, Jane Harper, Marcia Hines, Anthony Koutoufides, and many more.  Find us on: Instagram: @what.ive.learntFacebook: What I've Learnt  CREDITS:Host and Executive Producer: Deborah Blashki Marks (mindfilmandpublishing.com)Audio and Video Production: Luke Evans (Luke.j.evans3@gmail.com)Artwork: Rebecca Bana PhotographyOriginal Music: Jonah OrbachVoice Production: Matia MarksDesign: Thien Bang (thienbang.studio)

  1. What I've Learnt - Kathryn Heyman

    4D AGO

    What I've Learnt - Kathryn Heyman

    “I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful” In family estrangement, the mud and dirt gets everywhere, Kathryn Heyman writes. “And it is very hard to undo what has been done” She is the author of 9 novels, and the acclaimed memoir, Fury. She has won numerous awards infact almost too many to mention. Her new book “Circle of Wonders”is a novel about facing death while rediscovering life, and about the messy grace that emerges when people who’ve hurt one another choose to love anyway. Roni is running out of time. As cancer claims her body, she begins a Book of Wonders, capturing the small, luminous moments she once overlooked. It’s a final gift to the people she loves, and completing it means reckoning with both the flawed life she has lived and the fractured family she’s about to leave behind.   Over one charged lunar month, the women closest to her gather: Belle, her daughter fresh from rehab and trying to stay upright; Anna, her brilliant sister returning from London with all her old certainties cracking; and Sylvie, her estranged mother, approaching her own death across the mountain ridge. Meanwhile, Roni’s ex, the Drone, as she’s dubbed him, haunts the house, casting shade on the light she’s fighting to keep burning. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    1h 8m
  2. What I've Learnt - Fleur Marks

    MAR 27

    What I've Learnt - Fleur Marks

    Fleur Marks was a high performer who built a successful career on drive and relentless high standards. Until the pace that fuelled this ambition triggered a life-threatening health crisis and landed her in what she describes as the ‘waiting room of death’. Fleur survived. But she also woke up.   Because beneath a polished surface, countless other high achievers are silently exhausted and questioning whether relentless striving is worth the cost. The truth? Many are trapped in the ‘overachiever’s cycle’, an unsustainable pattern where self-worth is tethered to achievement and external validation.   For Fleur, what followed was not a retreat from ambition, but a total life reset. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioural science and a decade of lived experience, she rebuilt how she lived, led and defined success. Now she shares this blueprint in her new book, The Overachiever’s Reset which combines Fleurs deeply personal story with practical tools for those who want impact without implosion. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    34 min
  3. What I've Learnt - Graeme Cowan

    MAR 20

    What I've Learnt - Graeme Cowan

    Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    34 min
  4. What I've Learnt - Dr Nellie Torkamani

    FEB 13

    What I've Learnt - Dr Nellie Torkamani

    As one of the top endocrinologists in Victoria Dr Nellie Torkamani is spearheading transformation for many women with mid life challenges ranging from menopause obesity to diabetes. Having worked with her on my own personal health journey she has paved the way during midlife for me with clear guidance patience and support.🙏 We explore how the new raft of medications and resources have been transformative and why women’s health is slowly but surely becoming front and centre. 💕🌺 @hairevive_au We also explore the complexity and terror of her home country Iran and why she is pleading for the West to take notice and take action which she is supporting today with one of the biggest rally’s here in Melbourne. Thousands gathering to shine the light on the estimated 50,000 Iranians murdered in the past month 300,000 injured or missing and she discusses the fear she has for family still trapped in Iran and why regime change is a must a moment in history and a warning to the west that the madness of extremism could soon be knocking on our door. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    35 min
  5. What I've Learnt - Melissa Browne

    FEB 4

    What I've Learnt - Melissa Browne

    Melissa Browne is an award-winning former accountant and financial advisor who’s spent 20 years building three successful businesses across different industries, and becoming an independent multi-millionaire along the way. She did it after a divorce in her early thirties left her with nothing.   Mel Browne is now a Financial Educator. She has asked thousands of women over the years at events, webinars and keynotes, ‘Who here would like to be wealthy?’  Of these women there’s usually only one brave enough to raise her hand. But when she asks, ‘Who here would like to be comfortable?’ or ‘Who here would like to have financial choice?’, most hands go up.   This is just one of the many reasons why Mel Browne started her business in educating women to dare to be wealthy. Because she doesn’t want wealthy to be a dirty word any longer. Or for women to believe it’s out of reach. 🙏☺️ Whether you’re starting over, rebuilding after setbacks, looking to create for your family or simply ready for more her new book 📘Dare to Be Wealthy📘 will help you understand that you’re not too old, too late, or too behind.  You’re one decision away from rewriting your financial future. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    32 min
  6. What I've Learnt - "Sarah"

    JAN 22

    What I've Learnt - "Sarah"

    Starting the new year with a riveting interview with a brave articulate Australian Iranian medical student who shines the light on the dark depths of a diabolical regime - being the voice for her friends and family struggling in a bloodied and blacked out Iran where up to 20,000 are believe to have been murdered.💔 In a deep dive interview “Sarah” fears for her family left in Iran and even her safety here in Australia as she talks to the gut wrenching silence in some sectors of the globe while Iranian women and men are raped tortured and executed in her homeland a place she and her parents fled only six years ago for the shores of Australia. Devastated and shocked by the Bondi massacre her community has great unity with the Jewish community with thousands of years of shared wounds repression and survival.🙏🏼 We explore the power of this women led revolution - a movement to extricate themselves from the tyrannical regime the desperation determination of her people who are lions in the face of tyranny even as they’re loved ones are piled up in unmarked body bags many young desperate and disappeared. Listen to this brave young woman we must be their voice at a time when silence reigns praying for a new dawn .. 🙏🏼Woman🙏🏼Life 🙏🏼Freedom 🙏🏼 Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    38 min
  7. What I've Learnt - Jonah Platt (December 2025)

    12/21/2025

    What I've Learnt - Jonah Platt (December 2025)

    Jonah Platt, one of the leading Jewish advocates and speakers globally, and host of the award-winning podcast, "Being Jewish with Jonah Platt," which has featured celebrities and high-profile individuals, such as Tiffany Haddish, Sheryl Sandberg, Van Jones, Ritchie Torres, and beyond. We had a deep dive interview last month never dreaming this carnage at Bondi beach would happen yet both knowing that lurking behind every antisemitic post protest and proliferation of hate on socials tragedy would unfold somewhere somehow and so here we are our world changed forever and those governments sleepwalking into another potential holocaust need to wake up step up and make change ! Jonah joins me from LA on the eve of a national Reflection day here in Aus to honour those victims and explores the global perspective what we can do and how the hell we got here! Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    31 min
  8. What I've Learnt - Jonah Platt

    11/23/2025

    What I've Learnt - Jonah Platt

    As a surreal time in history with confluent sources of rage towards Jews enveloping so many western countries a NYC mayoral race turning into a global media war with nyc home to one of the biggest Jewish populations in the world, yet the biggest hit series in streaming right now is “Nobody Wants This” about an orthodox Rabbi falling in love with a non Jewish woman .. it’s as if the world has gone mad literally - so Jonah Platt Broadway actor, singer, musician, writer, producer, director, lyricist, composer, podcaster “Being Jewish With Jonah Platt” is the perfect guest to explore this extraordinary time in Jewish and global history ..  From an early age, Judaism, entertainment, and the arts have been the corner  stones of Jonah Platt’s life. Raised in Los Angeles by award-winning producer Marc Platt and Jewish philanthropist Julie Platt, Jonah grew up with a deep sense of Jewish identity, creativity, and advocacy. Whether performing for his family or attending Jewish day schools and summer camps, he was immersed in his heritage, which set the stage for his future path. Jonah attended the University of Pennsylvania before kicking off a career as a television writer. This eventually led to a lengthy career as a Broadway actor. He soon became known for his performance as Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway, Horst in Neil Patrick Harris’ Coupled, Woof in Hair at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Kristen Bell, and acting in the Oscar-nominated Being the Ricardos, among many other roles. A pivotal career and life-changing moment came for Jonah in 2023 after the devastating Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians. Jonah saw how polarized the conversation around Jewish identity had become, particularly in Hollywood and the media. Determined to make a difference, he started speaking out publicly and using his platform to reshape perceptions, and began speaking publicly. This eventually led him to start his most meaningful project yet—his podcast, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. The podcast explores the rich spectrum of Jewish identity. It has featured prominent guests like Congressman Ritchie Torres, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, Emmy winner Patricia Heaton, Tony nominee Josh Gad, Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, and CNN’s Van Jones. Jonah is producing his first feature film, The Mensch, in which he will co-star alongside Ginnifer Goodwin. He is also a sought-after singer and musician, an award-winning vocal arranger, a director of improv and theater, and is currently co-writing the musical adaptation of Lois Lowry’s best-selling novel The Giver. Jonah is highly sought after by the media and professional speaking opportunities nationally and internationally. Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

    40 min
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Rock legend Keith Urban, the iconic KD Lang, and the unforgettable Lionel Richie are just some of the names Deborah interviewed in the Melbourne Age column called, 'What I've Learnt.'  Everyone has a story to tell, and a lesson to learn. What I’ve Learnt is a Podcast from journalist Deborah Blashki-Marks. "What I've Learnt' is a unique platform for International and national talent to delve deep into their own challenges, successes, failures, and life lessons. As a journalist of over 30 years, Deborah has been lucky enough to interview some of the most influential people from around the world - actors, musicians, designers, doctors, business professionals and writers.   Now, introducing ‘What I’ve Learnt’ the podcast. Deborah shares conversations with world-class celebrities such as Kate Ceberano, Eric Bana, Deborra-Lee Furness, Troye Sivan, Katie Noonan, Michael Klim, Nick Littlemore, Jane Harper, Marcia Hines, Anthony Koutoufides, and many more.  Find us on: Instagram: @what.ive.learntFacebook: What I've Learnt  CREDITS:Host and Executive Producer: Deborah Blashki Marks (mindfilmandpublishing.com)Audio and Video Production: Luke Evans (Luke.j.evans3@gmail.com)Artwork: Rebecca Bana PhotographyOriginal Music: Jonah OrbachVoice Production: Matia MarksDesign: Thien Bang (thienbang.studio)

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  • Creator
    Deborah Blashki- Marks
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    198
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 WHAT I'VE LEARNT
  • Show Website
    WHAT I'VE LEARNT

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