Six Hats

Casey Beros had built the career, the family and the life she'd worked hard for. But after repeatedly having the same conversations with other successful women — women who were grateful for their lives yet still felt something was missing — she began questioning what it really means to want more. Casey Beros is an award-winning health journalist, bestselling author and keynote speaker who has spent more than 20 years interviewing experts about how we can live happier, healthier lives. More is her third book and is published globally by Wiley in November 2026. In this episode, Casey joins Dr Shami to explore the ideas behind her new book, More, including what she calls the “possibility gap”: the distance between the life we can imagine and the one we're actually living. They talk about why we spend so much of life waiting for the perfect time to make a change, why achievement doesn't necessarily deliver the happiness we expect, and whether the restlessness that often arrives in our 40s might be less of a midlife crisis and more of an opportunity to reassess what genuinely matters. Connect with Casey here: https://caseyberos.com/ Disclaimer: The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast. Useful links: www.mintclinic.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Modern medicine is extraordinarily good at diagnosing and treating disease. But is treating disease the same thing as healing? In this episode, Dr Shami speaks with Professor Paul Dieppe, physician, researcher and author of Healing and Medicine: A Doctor’s Journey Toward Their Integration. After a distinguished career in academic medicine and rheumatology, Paul's curiosity increasingly turned towards something conventional medicine often struggles to define: healing. Their conversation explores the idea that healing may involve much more than the treatment itself. The relationship between doctor and patient, feeling heard and understood, expectation, belief, meaning, intention and the context in which treatment is delivered may all influence the experience and potentially the outcome of healthcare. They explore the fascinating science of placebo and nocebo and ask whether we have underestimated the biological power of the therapeutic relationship. Disclaimer: The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast. Useful links: www.mintclinic.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if the secret to becoming healthier wasn’t exercising harder but learning how to play again? In this episode of the Six Hats Podcast, Dr Shami sits down with Darryl Edwards, movement coach, author, international speaker and founder of the Primal Play Method®. Darryl’s own story is remarkable. After spending almost two decades working in investment-banking technology and living an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, he began rethinking his relationship with exercise and movement. That journey eventually led him to create Primal Play, an approach that combines movement, play and functional fitness to make physical activity something we actually want to do. Today, his work brings together exercise physiology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience and the psychology of play. His work has also expanded into lifestyle medicine, healthy ageing and exercise oncology. In this conversation, we explore why so many of us struggle to exercise consistently, what modern life has taken away from the way humans naturally move, and why joy may be one Why adults stop playing and what we lose when we do Connect with Darryl here: https://www.primalplay.com/ Disclaimer: The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast. Useful links: www.mintclinic.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Menopause is often discussed through the language of symptoms: hot flushes, poor sleep, weight changes, brain fog and declining hormones. But what about sexuality, pelvic health, pleasure, confidence and our relationship with our changing bodies? In this episode, Dr Shami speaks with pelvic and sexual health physiotherapist and author Lisa Fitzpatrick about what she calls “The Feminine Shift”, the transition through menopause and midlife and the opportunity it can create for women to reconnect with themselves. Connect with Lisa here: https://www.sexymenopause.com/ Disclaimer: The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast. Useful links: www.mintclinic.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Obesity has long been explained as a simple equation of eating too much and exercising too little. But what if that story doesn't explain everyone's biology? In this episode, Dr Shami sits down with physician and author Dr Adaure Osuji to discuss her thought-provoking new book, Obesogenic: The Quiet Biology Driving Black Obesity in a World Engineered to Make Everyone Sick. Together, they explore emerging ideas about insulin, metabolism, genetics, the microbiome, and why conventional models of obesity and type 2 diabetes may not fully explain what we see in every patient. Dr Osuji shares why she believes hyperinsulinaemia deserves far greater attention, introduces the concept of the "Glucose Hyper-Responder," and discusses how these ideas could influence the way we think about prevention, diagnosis and treatment. This conversation is not simply about weight loss. It's about understanding the biology that may sit upstream of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and many other chronic conditions, while recognising where current evidence is strong and where further research is still needed. Whether you're a healthcare professional or someone interested in understanding metabolic health more deeply, this episode will challenge you to think differently.   Disclaimer: The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast. Useful links: www.mintclinic.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.