It’s Not What You Think

Nick Pearce, Co-Founder and former CEO of iconic streetwear brand and social enterprise, HoMie, and host of new podcast None of Your Business, joins Penny and Angie in this wonderful episode. Nick has experienced OCD for most of his life, with re-occuring themes of contamination and moral scrupulosity OCD. They talk about: 

An amazing Obsession Confession featuring a prop 

The feeling of always having to be and do 'good' 

Feeling like the OCD worsened once he left school

Contamination and counting OCD- Nick would have to obsessively clean his room, but if someone set foot in his room he felt like he had to start again

His first experience with a psychiatrist 

Developing a feeling of moral scrupulosity and how this has helped and hindered his life

Stepping back from full time work so that his wife, Dani, can propel her career forward

How moving house triggered his OCD

Getting back on medication and starting therapy again

Starting his podcast, None of Your Business and how that has helped his feeling of identity and purpose

The desire to be a better partner and father driving his return to therapy

Iconic Australian broadcaster and storyteller, Brad McEwan, joins Penny and Angie today and it's a ripper!

Brad talks with so much honesty, warmth and humour about: 

Experiencing OCD symptoms since he was a kid but not being diagnosed until only a few years ago

Being on live TV for years whilst managing debilitating OCD

The toll compulsions can take on your life and how exhausting and time-consuming they can be 

Experiencing tragedy as a teenager and dealing with trauma and OCD 

Feeling responsible for everyone he loves in his life 

The particular pain of seeing how compulsions can affect other people

The importance of kindness and being part of the 'OCD club'

Resources: 

Listen to Brad talk on this wonderful podcast about depression and asking for help

Check out Brad's latest project YOUniversal Stories

We know that OCD can affect every part of our lives, and unfortunately our careers can often be in the firing line of this difficult disorder.

In this episode, Penny and Angie talk to writer, consultant and mother of two, Cate Gilpin about how OCD has affected her career and how she has finally taken some control back. 

We talk with Cate about:

Being an anxious kid and having obsessions that she wouldn't understand until she was an adult 

Sexual orientation OCD 

Experiencing intense feelings of over-responsibility when working in retail 

Being diagnosed with OCD after having her two kids, and later on with ADHD

Chronic imposter syndrome and playing it safe in jobs she was over-qualified for 

Facing the terror of starting a new, challenging role

We’re back with Season 4 of It’s Not What You Think! In this episode, Penny and Angie talk to comedian and radio host, Henry Bretz about his experience with OCD. You might know Henry for going viral for his satirical videos pretending to be Karl Stefanovic (OCD makes him soooo angry).

We dive into:

An amazing 'Obsession Confession' featuring Scooby Doo

Being diagnosed as a young adult

Mental compulsions and how debilitating they can be

Worrying about worry: when Henry was on holidays and feared he might have depression

The fear of OCD ruining key moments in his life

What it’s like to have OCD as a comedian

Resources:

The Joy Thief by Penny Moodie

Henry Bretz’s show ‘Karl Stefanovic: Live and Angry’

For the last episode of season 3, Penny and Ange are joined by Alison Cosker. Together they discuss:

What’s next for the podcast

Why they decided to run an event in Melbourne and what happened when they did

Whether they think stigma around mental illness, and OCD in particular, has lessened now that more and more people are talking about it

Their favourite lesson or moment from this season 

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