Sam Koslowski is co-founder of The Daily Aus, Australia’s leading social-first news service, delivering news geared towards a younger audience with an emphasis on positivity. Sam broke away from the the path he was on, feeling like he was playing a role that wasn’t right for him, working as a corporate lawyer and hating it. As someone with his own history of anxiety, the constant negativity and fear mongering of mainstream news was particularly noticeable to Sam and he realised those same feelings were making other young people switch off from the 24 hour news cycle. So Sam and Zara Seidler ma ..read more

For decades, Matt Sinkovitz had a porn addiction that hung over his life like a dark cloud, until he found the tools and the discipline to master his compulsion.  Now Matt’s on a mission to help men everywhere end their damaging relationship with porn and get their lives back.  He’s adopted Buddhism and uses meditation, mindfulness and purpose to help men break free of the habits that hold us back.  He’s the host of the making peace with porn podcast and run’s a men’s support group of the same name on Facebook.  Porn poses a serious problem for many young guys around the wo ..read more

Dr Zac Seidler is a psychologist, a leading mental health expert and the Director of Mental Health Training at Movember. Zac has dedicated his career to better understanding men’s mental health and building programs to reshape how clinicians approach working with men in distress. Zac and Movember’s goal is to reduce the male suicide rate by 25% by 2030. How we create a world with less suicide is highly complex - and it’s going to take research, preventative health strategies, crisis support and the every day person all working together to get us there. November is of course Movember, that spec ..read more

"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." - Epicurus ..read more

Dylan Conway is the creator of 'Brothers N Books', an Instagram community based on sharing lived experience stories that’s on a mission to make reading cool. Dylan got hooked on books while he was stuck in hospital for over a year recovering from an unlikely condition. Reading gave Dylan something constructive to when he desperately needed it. Unable to work on his body like he always had, he levelled up his mental fitness instead and it’s changed his life. Brothers N Books invites followers to share stories about tough times they’ve been through, linked to the books that’ve helped them overco ..read more

"We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as if there would be no end of them." - Seneca ..read more

Arman Vestad is Young Blood’s first international guest, hailing all the way from Norway. He’s been a drug addict, a dealer and all round criminal who was in the game for a decade till he did time in prison after being caught supplying guns used in a murder…   Arman was lost and hopeless till someone showed faith in him and gave him a chance to apply the skills he’d developed in the underworld to business. Since those dark days, Arman’s gone on to become a family man, a public speaker and a mental health advocate who’s currently running across his home country on tour.  Arman’s proof ..read more

"You become what you give your attention to" - Epictetus ..read more

Weekly Wisdom  "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Confucius ..read more

Happy World Mental Health Day! This is a story for anyone who’s ever felt like a fish out of water with nowhere to go and no one to talk to...   Jahin Tanvir is just starting his twenties and he’s already a multi award winning youth advocate, policy advisor and keynote speaker - a man living out his passion, giving a voice to those who deserve to be heard.   A first generation migrant who came to Australia from Bangladesh in the early 2000s, Jahin was in his younger days, one of the only children of colour in his school and his neighbourhood… facing racism and alienation that caused ..read more