Humans of Purpose
Each week, your host Mel Greblo brings you inspiring conversations with purpose-driven leaders from our local community and abroad. Guests join Mel for a relaxed conversation to discuss their life and career journey, purpose and how they create positive impact through their work. Tea, coffee or single malt whiskey are served as we traverse meaningful subjects and gain insights into business and community. Wisdom, experience and banter are combined to offer you a supreme 45-minute podcast immersion. 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

Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
313 Dr Glitter: Happy Gut
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Dr Glitter
This week on the podcast, I’m thrilled to bring you my conversation with the Founders of Dr Glitter, Jade Diep and Augusta Xu-Holland.
Dr Glitter is a colour coded tool to help young people engage with what they are eating and provide a targeted boost of micronutrients at the same time. Head to the website and get your pre-orders now!
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.
Gold Membership
We’ve got a free trial of our Humans of Purpose Gold Membership until the end of November, 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.

Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
312 Ash Knop: Biodiversity Credits
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Ash Knop
Ash is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wilderlands. Wilderlands have developed one of the world's first voluntary biodiversity credits and launched a platform to make it easy for anyone to start protecting nature today.
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.
Gold Membership
We’ve got a free trial of our Humans of Purpose Gold Membership until the end of November, 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.

Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
311 Nasser Mashni: On Palestine
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Nasser Mashni
Nasser Mashni is the President of APAN, which stands for the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network. APAN harnesses the passion of Australians to advocate for Australian policy to support Palestinian human rights, justice, and equality.
Content Warning
This episode deals with some troubling themes around the current conflict in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as well as discussions of current and historical violence. 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 November, 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.

Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
310 Joel Burnie: On Israel
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
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

Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
309 Kylie Wallace: Seedling Giving
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
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.

Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
308 Tasnia Alam Hannan: Economic Empowerment
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
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.

Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
307 Jessica Mudditt: Travel Author
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
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.

Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
306 Hayley Rose: Fruitful Experiments
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
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.

Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
305 Agnieszka Sekula: Psychedelic Therapy
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
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.

Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
304 Weh Yeoh: Redundant Charities
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
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.

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.