All aboard

I’ve just finished a great week of radio at 98.5 Sonshine FM.

All my regular weekday guests are back on board from their summer breaks and a couple of new segments are up and running.

While 98.5 Sonshine FM runs music based programming most of the time, my morning programme (9:00 a.m. to midday, weekdays) is a little different. I conduct a number of on-air interviews as well as some talk-back radio with some of my regular guests.

My on-air week looks a little like this:

My regular Monday morning guest is Joan Grosser from Growing Families Australia. I chat to Joan just after 10:00 a.m. Perth time about parenting issues.

On Tuesdays it’s clinical psychologist Genevieve Milnes M.App.Psych, MA (Couns), B.Ed, B.Div from the Belmont Counselling Clinic. We chat about a range of issues from birth order issues to personalitiy types, depression, sexual abuse and a lot more. Our segment goes to air just after 10:00 a.m. Perth time.

My regular Wednesday morning guest is Ross Clifford, Principal of Morling College in New South Wales. Each week we discuss a range of issues relating to spirituality and belief just after 10:00 a.m. Perth time. Ross has a great ability to draw out the spiritual significance from a wide range of issues.

One of the new segments this year is Business Success with Glen Smyth. Glen sold out his share in a succesful business to follow his own business dream. After a lot of hard work his business came crashing down. Since then he has interviewed many of Australia’s most succesful business people. Just after 10:00 a.m. every Thursday morning we discuss the insights he has discovered on his journey. A lot of the subjects we touch on are practical skills for everyone, whether you’re in business or not.

On Friday mornings just after 10:00 a.m. Perth time we look at simplifying life with Life Skills Trainer, Jill Bonanno. We debunk the myth that we should always be trying to go bigger and better. Life really isn’t about accumulating ‘stuff’ or conforming to the dream lifestyle that TV and the glossy magazines try to sell us. We discuss how to go against the flow and simplify our schedules to achieve a better quality of life.

Just after 11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings I chat with Network 10 Sports Journalist, Mic Cullen. Mic wraps up the week in sport, looking at a range of events from around the world, and then previews the coming weekend of sport.

I’m still keeping an eye out for a few extra bits and pieces. I even have a dog behaviour expert dropping in for a bit of talk-back once a month on a Thursday.

If you’re in Perth you can listen by going to 98.5 on your FM radio. Outside our broadcast area you can listen on-line by going to the 98.5 Sonshine FM website and following the links to listen live.

If you want to make sure you’re listening at the right time you can do a quick time conversion by going to a site like timeanddate.com.

Posted by Rodney Olsen

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