The Dom Harvey Podcast

Lewis Clareburt is the golden boy of NZ swimming. 

He won 2 golds and a bronze at the last Commonwealth games and recently became a world champion at Doha.

Lots of good stuff in this conversation- going viral on Tik Tok for his Olympics behind the scenes content, his insane training schedule and the sacrifices involved, the recent drama that saw him break up with his coach and move cities, coping with pressure and much, much more...

FREDDIE BENNETT:

Freddie, an Englishman who now calls New Zealand home, shares his remarkable pivot from life in one fast lane to life in another fast lane. 

In his old life he was chasing cheap dopamine with copious amounts of alcohol and cocaine.

Now he’s leaning into the search for a quality dopamine hit by pushing his body to the limit physically and doing epic s**t...

Simon is the former leader of the National party, and the first ever Māori to lead a major party in New Zealand. 

We cover a lot of ground here- the good, the bad and the ugly. And there is plenty of each!

We chat about his very recent serious fall off a Lime scooter, his early acting role on Hercules, his law career including his time as a crown prosecutor and the toll that takes on a person’s mental health...

JON NABBS

I caught up with Jon the day after he landed back in New Zealand after completing an absurd personal running challenge in Canada.

Dressed in a superman suit and pushing a stroller containing all his supplies- tent, sleeping bag, food, electronics, everything- he spent 305 days running from one side of Canada to the other- 7351km- solo and unsupported.

In the process he raised over $100,000 for child cancer research...

Jon Toogood is a New Zealand rock god.

As a teenager in Wellington, he swapped his cricket bat for a guitar, formed a band called Shihad and never looked back.

Since then, he has been named NZ vocalist of the year 3 times and has even been inducted into the NZ music hall of fame. 

It’s not very often you get this sort of unfiltered access and time with a rock star who has been to hell and back so this was a real treat...

Janet Redmond calls herself a possibility manager. That title is basically her reworking of the word therapist.

She was previously a trauma specialist, training psychotherapists and counsellors.

I reached out to Janet immediately after watching the Israel Adesanya documentary movie, “Stylebender.”  I thought this grandmother from Nelson in the campervan the surprise star of the film.

This is a podcast of two halves...

DAME SUSAN DEVOY:

As a teenager from Rotorua, Susan became the world’s greatest female squash player in the 1980s and 90s and is still considered to be one of the GOATS of the sport.

She won ALL the World Open Titles between 1985 and 1992. 

She won the British Open eight times...

Sam Wood became a household name in Australia back in 2015 as a reality TV star on The Bachelor where he met and fell in love with Snezana. They are now married and have 4 kids.

Since the Bachelor, Sam started up an online fitness business called “28 by Sam Wood” which he recently sold for 70 million dollars.

In this conversation we discuss the BTS of a reality TV show like the Bachelor...

Ric Salizzo is New Zealand sports broadcasting royalty. 

His CV is too long to list in full but a few highlights:

He became the All Blacks' first ever media liaison officer in the early 90s and was part of the ABs set up during the chaos of Jonah-mania in 1995.

He created, and hosted the cult TV show Sports Café which ran for 11 years. Then launched The Crowd Goes Wild...

Olivia McTaggart is 24 years old and is one of the greatest pole-vaulters NZ has ever produced.

Her highest jump, so far, is 4 meters 71cm (for comparison, the height of a double decker bus is 4 meters 40 centimeters).

At 18 she fulfilled her childhood dream of going to the Commonwealth Games and finished in the top 10. Then at her 2nd Commonwealth Games she finished 4th. This year, she is hoping to raise the bar- excuse the pun- and go to the Olympics in Paris...