Death and Donuts

<p>Rohan Viswalingham has appeared twice on the podcast, in Season 1, Episode 9 and 12. He is a close friend from ABC News and I had the good fortune of becoming his Godfather a few years ago. In a crazy turn of events...

<p>Michelle and Michael Punch are in their early 30s, are happily married and have three children. But not so long ago, while they were at university and dating, Michelle considered herself an atheist who found...

<p>James Tran hails from the south-west of Sydney. He lost his way in his teens with wild parties, philandering, and the like. One night, after another crazy time, James entered the darkness of his bedroom with a...

<p>Atheist turned Catholic priest, Fr Sam Fancourt, shares some observations he's made in his first five years as a Catholic cleric. He also touches on his dealings with Jessica Van Leeuwen, a young mother of six, who...

<p>Margaret has ten children. Tragically three have died, two from abortion and one from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Heartache led her to gambling on poker machines. Due to her addiction she and her family had...

<p>In Season 1 Episode 9, Choosing not to hit rock bottom, Rohan Viswalingham shared how, through Buddhist meditation retreats, reading books and some lifestyle changes, he was able to preserve his life. He was then...

<p>Our guest from Episode 5, The Banking Executive and The Demon, Eddy Borovnjak, passed away recently from cancer. He was young and leaves behind a young family. In the interview from episode 5 we only got halfway...

Leia Egan is 22-years-old and the eldest of four children. She was very close to her siblings, especially because her mother, Jenni, suffered for many years from alcoholism. Then within a few years Leia lost two of her...

<p>After coming to the conclusion that his life was hopeless in his early 20s, Rohan became a hedonist. He focused on flooding his body with sex, drugs and alcohol. But he realised he was on a bad trajectory when he...

<p>My mum, Julie James, was a very troubled teenager. One night some of her friends forced the drug LSD into her mouth and she began to have hallucinations of hell. The next morning she wanted to end her life but a...

<p>Daniel Skinner is a student studying philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, Australia. For a few of his teenage years he was a fired up new atheist and nihilist. But one day he was listening to the Joe...

<p>Eddy Borovnjak was living the dream. Married with kids and making the big bucks as a banking executive in Sydney. Sadly a few bad habits soon turned into vices. He felt he was a burden on his family and decided to...

<p>In his 20s Mike Greenwell was married, an alcoholic, a compulsive gambler and a drug user. Some nights he would come home so drunk he would wet the bed. He began blaming his wife for many of the problems he caused...

<p>James Parker was left orphaned at birth, was sexually abused in primary and secondary school, struggled with porn and alcohol addiction, had a happy long term same sex relationship at university, is now married to a...

When I first started working with Jarryd at ABC News, he wanted to live alone so he could maximise pleasure. He was playing 6-8 hours of video games a day, watching porn regularly, eating what he felt like and had a...