Real Risk

By: Richard Harris
  • Summary

  • Richard Harris SC OAM, 2019 Joint Australian of the Year talks about risk with real, live, risk takers. How can one person BASE jump from a bridge when another gets dizzy at the top of the stairs? Why might you fear going into an elevator when I love to explore flooded caves? Real Risk gets into the weeds with the people we all think are crazy, to find that mostly, they aren’t at all. They just have a different view of the world around them, often driven by curiosity or a need to test themselves. I guarantee you’ll be inspired to push yourself a little harder. Contact me on admin@speleopix.com.au
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Episodes
  • S3 E12 Standing Tall - with Gill Hicks AM MBE
    May 24 2022

    In my view, the very embodiment of courage and resilience is my friend Gill Hicks.  As a young woman Gill travelled to London to find adventure and a new life. She found success and everything she had hoped for in that wonderful city. But that all changed in "a breath", when she was just meters away from a detonating suicide bomber on the London Underground in July 2005.  The ghastly physical impact was just the beginning of a journey that would lead her on a quest to literally promote world peace. Gill is articulate, kind and outspoken about her vision of what humanity could look like. I need to sit down with her for a few more hours to hear more of her philosophies!

    Gill's book "One Unknown"

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • S3 E11 Sideways Around the Globe with Rally Champion Molly Taylor
    Nov 30 2021

    To see lots of Molly's thrills and spills, be sure to watch the interview on YouTube under Real Risk Podcast.

    For the last episode of the series, I bring you a chat with an extraordinary Australian who is currently dominating in the highly competitive world of rally driving. After winning the Australian Rally Championship in 2016 (as both the youngest competitor and the first female), the hugely skilled and very personable Molly is now finding success in multiple disciplines within the sport.  And she's not to shabby in front of the camera either after starring in the Australian SAS series as well as working as a motor sport commentator. 

    Molly's career looks set to go from strength to strength, so I was lucky to catch her before her next big year! 

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    54 mins
  • S3 E10 February Dragon Came Early - Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins
    Nov 23 2021

    Check out the video version on YouTube under Real Risk Podcast.
     
    The 2019/20 bushfire season in Australia was the worst on record. The first ever recorded "giga-fire" that burnt across multiple states. And Greg Mullins was one of the experts who knew it was coming.

    Greg fought his first bush fire as a young lad alongside his father. It was the start of what would become a lifelong career not only fighting bush and structure fires on the front line, but studying the science behind what seemed to be making them worse with every passing decade. In his last position as the Commissioner of NSW Fire and Rescue, nobody could question Greg's expertise.

    In this conversation Greg Mullins AO AFSM relates harrowing stories from the fire fronts. But it is his predictions for our future that are really frightening if we fail to immediately act on the impending climate disaster.

    For more information Greg's book Firestorm is a well referenced, balanced account from a subject matter expert.

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    52 mins

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