Waleed Aly is an Australian journalist, academic, lawyer, television and radio presenter. Basically he’s one hell of an overachiever.

He’s best known as the host of The Project, but he also writes for the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and lectures at Monash University.

Waleed started his career as a newspaper columnist after reaching out to journalist, Martin Flanagan and was one of the panel members on the Channel 31 show, Salam Cafe.

He’d been a regular in the fourth chair on The Project when he got the call up to replace Charlie Pickering and left his role as host of drive on Radio National to take the gig.

In this episode, Waleed Aly talks about what it was like being a Year 6 radio star, how saying "yes" to everything has been instrumental in his success and why the media’s tendency to 'perform' opinions is dumbing down the collective conversation.

Episode show notes: https://rachelcorbett.com.au/ygss/waleed-aly/

About the host...

My name is Rachel Corbett and I've spent almost two decades working in media professionally, creating and hosting radio shows and podcasts for Australia’s largest media organisations. I’m also a regular on Channel 10’s The Project and have worked as a TV host and panelist on shows including Q&A, The Roast, The Today Show, Studio 10, Hughesy We Have A Problem and Have You Been Paying Attention.

I'm currently Head of Podcasts at Mamamia and I host a number of other shows including Lady Startup, Before The Bump, Paul & Rach, PodSchool and Sealed Section.

I also founded the online podcasting course, Podschool.com.au, to help budding podcasters create a kick-arse show.

Contact...

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