Humans of Purpose
Humans of Purpose is the modern salon - conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and builders shaping what comes next.
We're living through a period of genuine reckoning: with how business operates, what leadership demands, and what it actually costs to build something that matters. The people navigating that with honesty and intelligence are not always the loudest voices in the room. This podcast finds them.
Each episode is a real conversation - unhurried, substantive, and honest about difficulty. We talk with purpose-driven founders, impact leaders, and original thinkers about work, story, power, and what it means to lead with integrity in a world that is changing faster than the language we have to describe it.
Hosted by Mel Greblo, founder of Humans of Purpose, a proud BCorp.
For more information about Humans of Purpose, including a sneak peak into the impact we’re making in the world. Visit https://humansofpurpose.com/
Humans of Purpose is the modern salon - conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and builders shaping what comes next.
We're living through a period of genuine reckoning: with how business operates, what leadership demands, and what it actually costs to build something that matters. The people navigating that with honesty and intelligence are not always the loudest voices in the room. This podcast finds them.
Each episode is a real conversation - unhurried, substantive, and honest about difficulty. We talk with purpose-driven founders, impact leaders, and original thinkers about work, story, power, and what it means to lead with integrity in a world that is changing faster than the language we have to describe it.
Hosted by Mel Greblo, founder of Humans of Purpose, a proud BCorp.
For more information about Humans of Purpose, including a sneak peak into the impact we’re making in the world. Visit https://humansofpurpose.com/
Episodes

Oct 24, 2023
310 Joel Burnie: On Israel
Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
1hr 17 min
Joel Burnie
Joel is Executive Director at AIJAC, which stands for the Australia Israel & Jewish Affars Committee. AIJAC represents the interests of the Australian Jewish community to government, politicians, media and other community groups and organisations through research, commentary and analysis. We recorded this episode on Sunday the 15th of October just over a week ago.
Alternate View
We are working hard to arrange to air an episode next week to share the views of APAN, the equivalent peak body representing Palestinian interests in Australia.
Content Warning
This episode deals with some troubling themes around the current conflict in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as well as some fairly graphic descriptions of acts of violence perpetrated against civilians and their families. This one is not suitable for kids.
Gold Membership
We’ve got a free trial of our Humans of Purpose Gold Membership until the end of October, where you can join current members Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff and try out our range of member benefits:
Premium dedicated podcast feed
Removal of all three ads per episode
Early access to all episodes
Full transcripts of all episodes
Audio notes for all episodes
Brokered intros to all podcast guests
Ask me anything page access
To take up this great offer, just head to our Gold Member page today.
Brand Partners
Checkout our Partners Page to learn more about our growing suite of values-aligned partners that will soon offer you our valued listeners great discount opportunities-
Welly, healthy smoothies (20% off, direct link)
Nurecover, ice baths (20% off, direct link)
Bonny, elite doonas (10% off, direct link)
Chief Nutrition, beef bars (10% off, direct link)
Neon Treehouse, digital marketing

Oct 17, 2023
309 Kylie Wallace: Seedling Giving
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 17, 2023
50 min
Kylie Wallace
Kylie is the CEO and Chief Gardiner at Seedling Giving. Seedling Giving are your personalised charity matching service and have facilitated over half a million dollars through their smart, reliable and tailored approach since they kicked off quite recently.
Gold Membership
We’ve got a free trial of our Humans of Purpose Gold Membership until the end of October, where you can join current members Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff and try out our range of member benefits:
Premium dedicated podcast feed
Removal of all three ads per episode
Early access to all episodes
Full transcripts of all episodes
Audio notes for all episodes
Brokered intros to all podcast guests
Ask me anything page access
To take up this great offer, just head to our Gold Member page today.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations.
It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.

Oct 10, 2023
308 Tasnia Alam Hannan: Economic Empowerment
Oct 10, 2023
Oct 10, 2023
35 min
Content Warning
Today’s podcast discusses domestic and family violence. If this information is distressing for you or if you need support with regards to domestic and family violence you can call 1800 RESPECT for 24/7 phone and online services.
Tasnia Alam Hannan
My guest today is Tasnia Alam Hannan. Tasnia is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at the Arise Foundation.
The Arise Foundation focuses on the empowerment and financial freedom of survivors of financial abuse through no-interest loans, employment training and job placement, wrap-around support services and advocacy.
Gold Membership
We’ve got a free trial of our Humans of Purpose Gold Membership until the end of October, where you can join current members Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff and try out our range of member benefits:
Premium dedicated podcast feed
Removal of all three ads per episode
Early access to all episodes
Full transcripts of all episodes
Audio notes for all episodes
Brokered intros to all podcast guests
Ask me anything page access
To take up this great offer, just head to our Gold Member page today.

Oct 3, 2023
307 Jessica Mudditt: Travel Author
Oct 3, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
41 min
Jessica Mudditt
My guest today is Jessica Mudditt. Jess is a superb author and journalist. Jess writes about what she loves, her experiences traveling in South East Asia.
Her first book is Our Home in Myanmar, which documents her living in Yangon, Myanmar for four years and received rave reviews.
She's currently working on her new book, Once Around The Sun due for release in early March, which will document her year setting off from Melbourne for a year of solo backpacking through Asia.
Book Giveaway
Jess has kindly offered 10 free copies of her audiobook to Humans of Purpose liseteners. All you need to do is to be amongst the first 10 new subscribers to The Hedgehog's Nest.
This is my Substack, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations. It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.
Our first 10 new subscribers post episode release will receive a reply email from me with the free download code for Jess's Audiobook on Spotify!
Promotional Partnerships
Like what we are serving up on Humans of Purpose and believe youself to be in a values-aligned organisation? Our promotional campaigns have delivered great outcomes and ROI for our partners to date.
Don't waste your marketing dollars on Facebook or Google Ads, we guarantee a far better ROI and you'll also be enabling us to continue to amplify purpose-driven people and organisations that are driving social impact.
Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch.

Sep 26, 2023
306 Hayley Rose: Fruitful Experiments
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
44 min
Hayley Rose
My guest today is Hayley Rose. Hayley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Archer. Archer helps clients to de-risk their strategy so that they can confidently launch new ventures, products or growth tactics.
Think of Archer as both an experiment lab and pressure-tester for ideas.
300th Thankyou
The speech I ran out of time at the celebration on Friday night and didn't get chance to give, now available here for your reading!
Signal Awards 2023
We’ve been selected as a Finalist in the Signal Awards 2023 (a major global podcast competition) in the "Indie" or independent podcast category.
This is a big deal as we are in the top 5 out of over 2,000 entrants. To support our shot at winning the people's vote, Click Here.
Promotional Partnerships
Our partnerships enable promotional campaigns help to amplify purpose-driven and socially impactful organisations and enable you to reach our engaged local and global audience.
Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations.
It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.

Sep 19, 2023
305 Agnieszka Sekula: Psychedelic Therapy
Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023
40 min
Agnieszka Sekula
My guest today is Agnieszka Sekula. Agnieszka is Cofounder at Enosis Therapeutics. Enosis are a very exciting startup focused on catalysing mainstream adoption of psychedelic treatment with virtual reality.
300th Celebration
Come and celebrate our 300th episode milestone at The Commons Cremorne this Friday 5:30pm on 22nd September. Be amongst friends, past guests, listeners and more. Register Here!
Tanck Sponsorship
We are thrilled to be sponsored by Tanck for the coming months. They do incredible work in re-imagining government engagement that works superbly for for-purpose organisations.
Promotional Partnerships
Our partnerships enable promotional campaigns help to amplify purpose-driven and socially impactful organisations and enable you to reach our engaged local and global audience.
Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations. It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.
Learn more about the origin story here and hit the subscribe button if you like what you see.

Sep 12, 2023
304 Weh Yeoh: Redundant Charities
Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
42 min
Weh Yeoh
My guest today is a return favourite, Weh Yeoh. Weh originally came on the pod some time ago as the CEO and Co-Founder of social enterprise Umbo as well as the Founder of OIC Australia, a charity supporting the speech therapy industry and eco-system in Cambodia.
He now triumphantly returns as a first time author of a compelling and entirely relevant title for our time - Redundant Charities. Order your copy and Enter HUMANSOFPURPOSE20 on checkout for 20% off!
300th Celebration
Come and celebrate our 300th episode milestone at The Commons Cremorne in Melbourne on 22nd September. Be amongst friends, past guests, listeners and more. Register Here, limited tickets remaining.
Tanck Sponsorship
We are thrilled to be sponsored by Tanck for the coming months. They do incredible work in re-imagining government engagement that works superbly for for-purpose organisations.
Promotional Partnerships
Our partnerships enable promotional campaigns help to amplify purpose-driven and socially impactful organisations and enable you to reach our engaged local and global audience.
Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations. It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.
Learn more about the origin story here and hit the subscribe button if you like what you see.

Sep 5, 2023
303 Drew Corby: Operational Resilience
Sep 5, 2023
Sep 5, 2023
50 min
Drew Corby
My guest today is my old mate Drew Corby. Drew is one of the first people I met in the podcasting and startup world in about 2016.
He is now the Head of Risk Strategy and Enablement at Aware Super. Aware Super is one of Australia’s largest profit-for-members super funds.
Drew talks to me about the concept of operational resilience, how it enables better decision-making, and why it's important for organisations working in an increasingly complex environment.
Tanck Sponsorship
We are thrilled to be sponsored by Tanck for the coming months. They do incredible work in re-imagining government engagement that works superbly for for-purpose organisations.
Promotional Partnerships
Our partnerships enable promotional campaigns help to amplify purpose-driven and socially impactful organisations and enable you to reach our engaged local and global audience.
Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations. It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.
Learn more about the origin story here and hit the subscribe button if you like what you see.
Brand Partners
Checkout our Partners Page to learn more about our growing suite of values-aligned partners that will soon offer you our valued listeners great discount opportunities-
Welly, healthy smoothies (20% off, direct link)
Nurecover, ice baths (20% off, direct link)
Bonny, elite doonas (10% off, direct link)
Chief Nutrition, beef bars (10% off, direct link)
Neon Treehouse, digital marketing

Aug 29, 2023
302 Neil Pharaoh: Representing Community
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
44 min
Neil Pharaoh
Neil is the Co-Founder and Director at Tanck. He is also the Director of Corporate Affairs at Hire Up, and Chair at Climate Action Network Australia. Check out Neil's personal site here.
Tanck Sponsorship
We are thrilled to be sponsored by Tanck for the coming months. They do incredible work in re-imagining government engagement that works superbly for for-purpose organisations.
Promotional Partnerships
Our partnerships enable promotional campaigns help to amplify purpose-driven and socially impactful organisations and enable you to reach our engaged local and global audience.
Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations. It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.
Learn more about the origin story here and hit the subscribe button if you like what you see.
Gold Members
A big thanks to our rock star supporters- Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff. Our gold members get a premium dedicated podcast feed with great perks:
Removal of all three ads per episode
Early access to all episodes
Full transcripts of all episodes
Audio notes for all episodes
Brokered intros to all podcast guests
Sign Up today to get the optimal Humans of Purpose experience. No ads, just the good stuff!

Aug 22, 2023
301 Good Edi: Sustainable Coffee
Aug 22, 2023
Aug 22, 2023
41 min
Good Edi
My guests today are the Founders of Good Edi, Aniyo Rahebi & Catherine Hutchins. Good Edi make the Edi Cup- a delicious sustainable and eco-friendly edible cup that you consume after you’ve finished drinking your beverage.
300th Celebration
Come and celebrate our 300th episode milestone at The Commons Cremorne in Melbourne on 22nd September. Be amongst friends, past guests, listeners and more. Register Here, limited tickets remaining.
The Hedgehog's Nest
Join our new Substack, The Hedgehog's Nest, where I reflect on the biggest ideas that emerge from our amazing Humans of Purpose conversations. It comes out once a week on a Thursday morning, direct to your inbox.
Learn more about the origin story here and hit the subscribe button if you like what you see.
Tanck Sponsorship
We are thrilled to be sponsored by Tanck for the coming months. They do incredible work in re-imagining government engagement that works superbly for for-purpose organisations. We look forward to sharing more about their impactful work over coming episodes.
Gold Members
A big thanks to our rock star supporters- Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff. Our gold members get a premium dedicated podcast feed with great perks:
Removal of all three ads per episode
Early access to all episodes
Full transcripts of all episodes
Audio notes for all episodes
Brokered intros to all podcast guests
Sign Up today to get the optimal Humans of Purpose experience. No ads, just the good stuff!

The Experience
Humans of Purpose features weekly conversations with inspiring purpose-driven leaders from our local community.
You will be treated to a delectable feast of talented individuals whose work has a positive social impact.
As we have done in our past 300 episodes, we will continue to offer equal parts wisdom, experience and banter in every episode.








