Creator & Host - Cal MacPherson

Cal is the 2022 South Australian Young Achiever of the Year and creator of the national award-winning volunteer video podcast, Young Blood - Men's Mental Health.

A qualified journalist with years of experience reporting for 7NEWS in Queensland and South Australia, Callum has conducted countless interviews in both traditional media and as a podcaster.

After losing his friend James to suicide in 2019, Cal launched the podcast with the vision of creating a public platform for men under 40 to openly share their struggles, emotions and life lessons to show one another that no matter what we go through; we’re not alone. The podcast is a community mental health resource and preventative health strategy, that connects the that promotes community mental health awareness and seeks to increase mental health literacy through shared lived experience.

Cal manages the podcast around working full-time coordinating media publicity for the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in Adelaide. He has also hosted numerous other podcasts with a health and wellbeing focus including:

• Healthy Minds, Healthy Vines

• Fade Out: Conversations for Men

• A Window on SAHMRI

• SAPOL Fatal 5 - The Story of Kristalle Dumesny

• Bolton Brothers Podcast