www.whoisyourhero.com.au
Who Is Your Hero is an unapologetically real Australian podcast created and hosted by Matthew “Buzz” Fidler, built on one simple belief:
👉 Everyone has a story that can change someone’s life.
Born from a personal journey through kidney failure, footy fields, PNG jungles, construction sites, and some of life’s toughest setbacks, Who Is Your Hero has become a national movement of resilience, mateship, truth-telling, and everyday heroes.
Each episode dives deep into the lives of ordinary Australians doing extraordinary things — survivors, soldiers, footy legends, community leaders, domestic-violence warriors, tradies, battlers, advocates, and the quiet achievers who keep this country rolling.
Buzz brings the raw honesty, humour, and heart Australians crave:
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Real talk without the polish
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Big laughs mixed with big truths
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Life lessons from people who’ve actually lived
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A platform for voices that deserve to be heard
With conversations that hit like a beer-shed yarn, a hospital-bed reflection, and a campfire confession all in one, Who Is Your Hero isn’t just a podcast — it’s a movement.
A movement that says:
➡️ Your story matters.
➡️ Your struggles can lift someone else.
➡️ Your heroes might be right beside you — not on a screen.
From Townsville to Tassie, from veterans to young dads, from survivors to those still fighting — this is the podcast Australia needed.
Real people.
Real stories.
Real heroes.
Who Is Your Hero?
Only one way to find out.
🎙️ Available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms.
🔥 Follow the movement at WhoIsYourHero.com.au
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Episodes

Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
🚨 SUNDAY SESSIONS WENT LIVE – AND IT GOT WEIRD (IN THE BEST WAY) 🚨
Last night, strapped to a dialysis machine like a Christmas ham tied up in medical tubing, we hit a new milestone…
For the first time ever, “Who Is Your Hero” went LIVE for Sunday Sessions – Episode 35 with:🎙️ Buzz (from the dialysis chair in North QLD)🧠 Carly – the calm brain, translator & sanity checker🌀 Gypsie – the spiritual sniper, chaos wizard & camel wrangler
What did we get up to?💥 Talkback-style yarns like the old school radio days💥 Half a million-view satire memes & why humour is waking Aussies up💥 Epstein files, Bill Heffernan list, media distraction & “cookers”💥 Energy shifts, frequencies, colours & feeling like something BIG is coming💥 Mental health, kidney failure, Groundhog Day and learning not to feel guilty for resting💥 The new truth + constitution project & website we’re building behind the scenes💥 Gratitude, tribe, and why laughing at yourself is better than screaming at the TV
This isn’t just a podcast.It’s medicine, madness and a movement.It’s the Australia the media won’t show.It’s proof that even from a tiny room, hooked to a machine, you can still build a tribe that gives a sh*t.
🙋♂️ WANT IN NEXT TIME?We’re building Sunday Sessions into a proper live talkback tribe – callers, comments, stories of struggle & triumph, and plenty of nonsense to keep us sane.If you’d jump on a future live, drop a “🎧” or “I’m in” in the comments 👇
🎧 EPISODE 35 – SUNDAY SESSIONS (LIVE)👉 “The Medicine, The Madness & The Movement”Listen here: [link in comments / bio]
Big love from the dialysis chair,Buzz, Carly & Gypsie ❤️
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Saturday Nov 15, 2025
Saturday Nov 15, 2025
Episode 34 – Part 2: “How the Hell Did We Get Here?” (Buzz & Gypsie)
The boys are back — and somehow still not cancelled. 😂In Part 2, Buzz and Gypsie go from chaos to clarity: freedom, love, dogs, dialysis, and the moment you realise you’re still enough.It’s raw, it’s funny, it’s real Aussie talk about life, loss, and laughing through the madness.
Plus, a sneak peek at what’s coming next: Paul Seils on truth and purpose, and Clayton from Pottsville on community, mateship, and resilience.
Share it with a mate who needs a lift, and if you love what we’re building, help keep it rolling via our GoFundMe link in the notes.
No capes, no filters — just everyday heroes having a crack. 💪

Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Episode 34 – Part 1: “How the Hell Did We Get Here?” (Buzz & Gypsie)Two old mates, zero fluff. We crack open the big one: how did everyday Aussies end up overworked, over-stressed and under-free? From numbers-before-names school days to tap-and-go living, from health wake-ups to finding your feet again, Buzz and Gypsie trade real stories, real laughs, and practical moves for this week. It’s truth over tantrums, small habits over heroics, and a reminder that love still wins — and you are enough.

Sunday Nov 09, 2025
Sunday Nov 09, 2025
Legends—Part 2 is here.If Part 1 was pit to podium, Part 2 is what happens after the podium.
Amanda Allen came back from a total hip replacement… and still qualified for the CrossFit Games.Then life swung again—shoulder blow-out, domestic violence, homeless in a van, and a relapse that almost cost her everything.
And she’s never said this publicly—until now.
In this episode, Amanda opens the pages on the stuff most people hide:
the night with whiskey and sleeping tablets
the loneliness no crowd ever sees
how two giant wolfhounds became her guardians and her reason to breathe
and why she built a nutrition range and wrote a 100,000-word book parked up in a van… because purpose had to be forged out of pain.
We talk social anxiety, introversion, and the truth that saved her:
“This too shall pass.”“Discipline is freedom.”“The body remembers what the soul won’t say.”
You’ll hear how she survives the dark now: rhythms and routines—training, eating, work, wolves, nature—rinse and repeat until the cloud lifts.And we go deep on belonging—how some of us are called to live on the fringe, and still be a light in the darkness.
This isn’t a highlight reel.It’s a human being, brave enough to tell the part most people skip.
Episode 33: Part 2 — Amanda Allen.Hit play. Share it with someone who needs a reason to keep going.Hero Up.

Saturday Nov 08, 2025
Saturday Nov 08, 2025
“Alright legends — welcome back to Episode 32, Part 2: Les Walker — The Man that Keeps Turning Up.
In Part 1 we went back to the kid before the titles — the early jobs, the first hard hits, and that lesson to rise above when the rock-throwers come.
Now we step into the turning point.The moment you realise people are watching… and what you do starts to matter beyond you.
Les talks about coaching a mixed kids’ soccer team — boys and girls learning confidence together — six years undefeated. Then a window of opportunity: invited by his old school teacher Tony Mooney to step up in local government.No polish. Shy public speaker. Door-knocking. Seniors groups. Lions clubs. Schools. Getting into the fabric of the community and building belief by doing the work.
We get into purpose — your why — and what it actually costs to keep showing up: time, money, family, mental toll. We talk about owning mistakes, not playing it safe, and why the motto is ‘Jobs on. Life’s good.’And yes — the online noise, the headlines, the faceless profiles… and how to rise above it.
If Part 1 was the foundation, Part 2 is the step up: influence, responsibility, and the price you pay to lead.
Let’s get back into it.”

Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
Episode 33 of Who Is Your Hero has just dropped.
Amanda Allen — “From Darkness to Dominance… and a Few Wolfhounds Along the Way.”
This one isn’t told by me — it’s listened to by me.I’m there to ask the questions. Amanda is there to tell her story.
From a childhood of chaos… to alcoholism at fourteen… to the edge of giving up —and then the rebuild: sobriety, discipline, and becoming a 3× CrossFit Games Champion.
In this episode we go there:
“When life wasn’t a podium, but a pit.”
How she found safety and started again.
Why discipline is freedom when everything in you wants to quit.
The comeback in her forties and fifties — and the truth for anyone who thinks their best years are gone.
The wolfhounds, the wild, and how nature held her together when nothing else did.
Amanda’s words will smash you in the chest and stitch you back together.It’s guts to glory, and it might be the most important conversation we’ve had.
If you need a reason to keep going — this is it.Hit play. Share it with someone who needs hope today.
Who Is Your Hero — Episode 33Now on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts.Hero Up. 👊

Thursday Nov 06, 2025
Thursday Nov 06, 2025
Episode 32: Les Walker — The Man that Keeps Turning Up.
This one isn’t the polished version of life. No media-trained answers. No LinkedIn award speeches. We go straight to the bone — the truth, the setbacks, the scars, the reasons people keep getting up when life keeps belting them.
Les is on the line with me — and whatever you think of him, no one can say he doesn’t turn up. Rain. Floods. Online abuse. Community barbies. Footy. Fundraisers. He still turns up.
Today we don’t talk to the politician — we talk to the son, the mate, the man behind the headlines. We go back to the boy before the titles. He walks us through growing up here, early jobs at the meatworks and the railway, an apprenticeship that took him to the Burdekin Dam and Hayman Island, security at the casino, five years as a prison officer, youth work at Cleveland, small business… then council, deputy mayor, state member.
We talk about that feeling when school ends and there’s no structure anymore. We talk about parents, mentors, and the advice to rise above when the rock-throwers come. We talk about learning by making mistakes, fear of failure, and why anyone can lead if they’ve got people around them and the tools to learn.
I’m on home dialysis as we record — and we keep it real.
If you want the person, not the profile — Episode 32 is here.
Who Is Your Hero. Keep turning up.”

Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
You know what gets me, tribe?We keep saying we live in a free country.But most people aren’t living freedom — they’re living FREE-DUMB.
Yeah, FREE-DUMB. Looks shiny on Insta, but it’s slavery in disguise.
Let’s break it down.
D — Distraction.We’re drowning in it.Scrolling, swiping, gossiping — numbed out by noise.Entertainment’s become sedation.
U — Unconscious living.Wake, rush, grind, crash, repeat.We’re not living, we’re looping.Like hamsters with Wi-Fi.
M — Manipulation.They tell you what to buy, what to fear, who to love, who to cancel.You think you’re choosing — but the choices are pre-loaded.
B — Blind belief.We stopped questioning.We trust headlines, politicians, influencers more than our own gut.That’s not freedom — that’s obedience with branding.
So there it is:D.U.M.B. — Distraction. Unconscious. Manipulation. Blind belief.
That’s FREE-DUMB.
But freedom — real freedom —is unplugging from that noise.It’s saying “No thanks” to the programming.It’s taking your life back, breath by breath.
And you don’t need permission slips, policies or followers to do it.You just need courage — and a bit of wobbly truth.
🎙️ (Pause)
So tell me, tribe —are you living FREE… or just FREE-DUMB?

Friday Oct 17, 2025
Friday Oct 17, 2025
🎙️ Episode 3 — “The Comfort Trap”
Aussies love comfort — cold beers, backyard barbies, footy on the telly — but when comfort becomes a lifestyle, it quietly kills our hunger to grow.
In this brutally funny, dead-honest chat, Buzz calls out how the system feeds us just enough pleasure to keep us calm… and compliant.From “a beer fixes everything” culture to the way we dodge discomfort like it’s a disease — this episode will make you laugh, cringe, and question what you’ve been calling normal.
💥 It’s time to shake the couch dust off and start getting uncomfortable.
🎧 Listen now on Podbean | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🌐 whoisyourhero.com.au
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Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Episode 2 — “The Illusion of Freedom”
We say we’re free — but are we really?In this powerful second chapter, Buzz peels back the layers of the modern system — schooling, work, media, money — and asks the uncomfortable question: who’s actually running the show?
From the moment we’re born, we’re taught to follow the script: study hard, get a job, buy the house, pay the taxes, and call that freedom.But what if the script itself is the cage?
This episode isn’t about conspiracy — it’s about clarity.It’s about seeing the invisible walls we’ve all agreed to live behind and remembering that real freedom starts between your ears.
🔥 It’s deep, real, and unapologetically Buzz — a wake-up call for anyone brave enough to think for themselves.
🎧 Listen now on Podbean | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🌐 whoisyourhero.com.au
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