Human Cogs Podcast
What if the stories we hide are the ones that shape us most?
Human Cogs is the podcast that rips the veneer off everyday life to reveal the raw human truths that lie underneath our everyday lives.
Hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, startup investor and ABC journalist and presenter Madeleine Hanger (Grummet), alongside psychologist and media commentator Sabina Read, each episode unpacks big ideas, untold truths and the messy magic of being human.
From life’s darkest moments to its most profound joys, our extraordinary guests share secrets they’ve never told, surprising insights into love, loss, success and identity — and the hard-won wisdom that just might change the way you live, think and feel.
If you're curious about what really makes people tick this is the podcast for you.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 91
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Ep. 14 Nikole Ramsay on foster parenting - what it takes + what it keep on giving
Nikole Ramsay grew up in a tumbling, hectic, people-filled household as the youngest of four kids. A self-confessed tomboy and late bloomer, Nik remembers the fun and chaos of a big family quickly sh…
Ep. 11 Richard Stansbury on losing a parent to suicide and finding a way to forgiveness
This episode starts with Richard Stansbury reading his heart-wrenching eulogy to his father.
Richard says his father had been desperately searching for years, and had spent most of his life running …
Ep. 10 Jane Martino on raising boys, building businesses + bridges back to yourself.
Jane Martino is a polymathic, award-winning Australian entrepreneur who has built multiple companies and is the Cofounder of globally recognised not-for-profit organisation Smiling Mind - a free onli…
Ep. 9 Matt Martino on fatherhood, false starts + re-finding yourself when a marriage falls apart
Matt Martino is a 49-year-old designer, artist and father of 3 boys who has had his quarter-life crisis, survived the hurt, loss and hard work of a marriage separation, and come out of it softer, mor…
Ep. 8 Lord Mayor Sally Capp on puppy dogs, people and purpose - not politics.
Sally Capp is the first woman to be directly elected as Lord Mayor of Melbourne, and is a serial ‘have-a-goer’ by her own account.
(For the record, in her eagerness to get cracking in her newly elec…
Ep. 6 Darren Mort on surviving abuse, breaking cycles and separating well.
Darren Mort grew up in an abusive family and says he didn’t really have much of a childhood.
Every night he had a huge amount of regret waiting for his father’s car to pull up in the driveway. His fa…
Ep. 5 Sam Eade on transgender transition and learning to love who you were born to be
Imagine being born in a body that doesn’t feel right.
Sam Eade knew from a young age that the colours pink and purple repelled him, and would throw tantrums when dressed in feminine clothes. He atten…
Ep. 4 Nic Newling on beating demons, living with bi polar and taking his story to the stage
Nic Newling had what you’d call a pretty normal, even idyllic, childhood. But life took a dark and terrible turn for him when he started to avoid situations and the people around him at the age of 15…
Ep. 3 Joel Lazar on leaving the law to teach boys to be better men
In the age of Trump and Putin, you’d be forgiven for thinking modern-day masculinity is broken. Too often, on the path from boy to man, there is a painful shift that makes many young men hide their r…
Ep. 2 Jason Ball on coming out, male toxicity in mens sport and getting political
Jason Ball is best known as a pioneering LGBTIQ advocate who after coming out in 2012 used his voice to launch a campaign to challenge homophobia in sport and drive cultural change within the AFL.
Bu…
Ep. 1 Jill Stark on life-long anxiety and taming the inner critic
If you’ve ever thought of yourself as the good time party girl or boy, then had a hangover that changed everything; or if you’ve struggled with mental health issues regardless of having had a great c…