Heart & Soul with David Leser

Heart & Soul begins with the simple belief that beneath our opinions, accomplishments and public identities, there is an inner life asking to be heard. At a time of profound uncertainty and rapid change, Heart ...more

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About the Show

Heart & Soul begins with the simple belief that beneath our opinions, accomplishments and public identities, there is an inner life asking to be heard.

At a time of profound uncertainty and rapid change, Heart & Soul offers a place for spacious, thoughtful conversation with people who have deeply impacted our lives, as well as an opportunity to reflect more deeply on what it means to be human.

A series of conversations with journalist and author David Leser, that delve deeply into some of the themes crying out for our attention, not the least being how to find empathy in an age of outrage.

These will be unhurried conversations. No real agenda. No fixed destination. Simply a shared willingness to get curious, to speak honestly and to listen deeply.

These intimate conversations are filmed and recorded in front of a small, invited audience at The Old Store in Kangaroo Valley, NSW AUSTRALIA.

Meet our Hosts

David Leser

David Leser

David Leser is an author, journalist and keynote speaker who has worked in Australia, North America, the Middle East, Europe and Asia for the past 47 years. In 1999, he won the Walkely award for feature writing for his expose of Alan Jones in Good Weekend; and 25 years later, his second Walkley for a series of opinion pieces on the Israel-Gaza war, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age. David has worked as a feature writer for the Australian, the SMH, the Age, HQ magazine, the Bulletin, Good Weekend, the Australian Women’s Weekly, Italian and German Vanity Fair, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. David is the author of 7 books, including a memoir: To Begin to Know: Walking in the Shadows of My Father, shortlisted for the 2015 National Biography Award; and the 2019 critically-acclaimed Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing – about gender relations in the age of #MeToo. His next book Light Sleeper: Memoir of a Troubled Jew will be published by Penguin Random House on November 24, 2026