Five of My Life

In the Five Of My Life challenge, author Nigel Marsh chats to people from all walks of life, about the 5 choices - a Film, Book, Song, Place and Possession - that enable them to tell the stories of their lives. Contact Nigel and discover his books at nigelmarsh.com

Episodes

Dec 2, 2025

42 min

Host Nigel Marsh speaks to James Valentine, a journalist, musician, author , television presenter and family man. As if all that wasn’t enough, in an incredible feat of multi tasking, industriousness and longevity, he has also presented a hugely popular radio show on the ABC consistently for the last 30 years
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Dec 2, 2025

42 min

Nov 25, 2025

53 min

Sherilyn Shackell is the founder and global CEO of the much lauded Marketing Academy - a unique non-profit organisation dedicated to developing leadership talent for top corporate jobs around the world.
An unlikely role for her to have given the horrid arrogant nightmare (her description) she was early in her career. 
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Nov 25, 2025

53 min

#192 Shay Leighton

Nov 11, 2025

Nov 11, 2025

52 min

Shay Leighton founded the Tough Guy Book Club to promote connection, community and decent conversations. It’s grown into a powerful movement - combating loneliness and supporting mental health as every month thousands of men around the world get together with only one rule. No work talk is allowed. https://www.toughguybookclub.com/
  
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Contact Nigel at https://nigelmarsh.com/

Nov 11, 2025

52 min

#191 Adam Morgan

Oct 28, 2025

Oct 28, 2025

45 min

Adam Morgan is a leading world expert on the Challenger Mindset. Author of one of the most influential business books of the last 50 years - Eating The Big Fish - he is both a brilliant thinker and charming storyteller. This conversation is a fascinating insight into the man behind the ideas.
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Oct 28, 2025

45 min

#190 Ant Duckworth

Oct 14, 2025

Oct 14, 2025

44 min

Ant Duckworth is passionate about building Dear Coco into the world’s next great coffee company.
It’s well on its way — but the start hasn’t been easy. Discover the man behind the mission as Ant discusses his 5 choices.
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Oct 14, 2025

44 min

#189 Tim Husband

Sep 30, 2025

Sep 30, 2025

45 min

Tim Husband is a global leader in improving animal care — designing and directing some of the world’s best Zoos.
Not a future he could have imagined when at 14 he was kicked out of his home and community by his father and the Jehovah’s Witness elders.
A love of animals has enabled Tim to rise above the abuse and neglect of his early years to prevent the trauma being passed down a generation.
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Contact Nigel at https://nigelmarsh.com/

Sep 30, 2025

45 min

Sep 16, 2025

52 min

Dr Marianne Jauncey is the Director of the ground breaking Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Sydney. Her work providing people who inject drugs with non judgemental life saving support has its critics but the results are unarguably remarkable.
Marianne’s determination to treat everyone, irrespective of their circumstances, with the same level of dignity and respect is truly inspiring - affording lessons for us all far beyond the drug and alcohol fields.
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Sep 16, 2025

52 min

Sep 2, 2025

49 min

In 2018 Australian University lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert travelled to a routine conference in Iran. What followed is the stuff of nightmares.
Detained on entirely fabricated charges of espionage she was tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Her life was never to be the same again…
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Sep 2, 2025

49 min

#186 Gary Bell

Aug 19, 2025

Aug 19, 2025

46 min

Gary Bell grew up in a slum the son of a penniless miner and sweet factory worker. 
His early adulthood as an uneducated convicted fraudster, violent football hooligan and homeless drifter didn’t augur well for the highly successful and respected King's Counsel barrister he since became.
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Aug 19, 2025

46 min

Aug 5, 2025

47 min

Dianne McGrath trained, and was selected for, a one way trip to Mars.
She also has completed a 40,000 nautical mile round the world yacht race.
So it is fair to say she is both curious and adventurous - but how did she cope with the Five Of My Life challenge?
 
Hear each song chosen by every Five of My Life guest at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60PqJQ1rg6fverFMyKvdkG
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Contact Nigel at https://nigelmarsh.com/

Aug 5, 2025

47 min

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