In this episode I share some of my own story as well intimate insights around what led me to hosting this series before diving into deep conversation with each of my guests in the following episodes. You will hear how I am very much mid process at the moment in terms of my recovery from the immense trauma I experienced surrounding the 2022 catastrophic floods in the Northern Rivers and I have a meandering slow, long form, way of sharing that I trust. ABOUT MEI am a proud single mother of a 24...

This is my first ever recorded conversation of this nature and it was such an honour and treat to share it with Annalee. She is a woman of great wisdom, heart and compassion. Join us as Annalee speaks on crisis, birth and about her experience of diving deeply into serving her community in the Bundjalung region of NSW, Australia during the catastrophic 2022 floods...ABOUT ANNALEEA founding member of the nonprofit community journalism organisation Pregnancy Birth and Beyond Media, Annalee is a ...

I so loved this conversation with Erica. She shared so generously and humanly with me about the extreme mental health crisis she experienced when she was a teenager, how she found her way through and how that time in her life has deeply informed her walk, work and heart beat as she journeys on. ABOUT ERICA Erica is a mother rich in experience and research with a fire in her knowing that we are all so much more than we are told through our conventional parenting and educational narrative. She ...

I am in awe of Maddy and the epic ongoing caring ways she shows up for life and her community. In this intimate conversation she yarns with me about her life and heritage, what is lighting her up at the moment around climate activism and about her experience of living on Widjabul Wia-bal Jagun in Lismore, NSW, Australia during the catastrophic disaster of the 2022 floods. Maddy shares her story in this session with deep sensitivity and care for all people navigating the traumas of clima...

This woman! Kali is a dear long time friend of mine and it's such an honour to be sharing this intimate conversation with you about how deeply and bravely she respects and shows up for the healing that her life has required. She is a wild hearted being filled with treasures hard won.ABOUT KALI Kali is a mother, a poet, a painter, and a gestalt Psychotherapist. She is deeply motivated by cycle breaking and narrative repair in all areas of her life. Kali has lived in the northern rive...

Swarna is a dear and cherished friend. She is one of those humans who is tiny in her physical form, yet huge in spirit and depth. In this episode we take a deep dive into her journey with cancer, in a way we haven't ever before as friends. I found it confronting to realise this and I was deeply moved and inspired by all that she shared of her experience in a real and humble way. I am so thrilled to be having this conversation with her in this context where it is being shared with the wo...

Oh the laughter I share with this woman! Mel is someone I have met through my work in the climate crisis and resilience space. In this conversation we drop in around the climate crisis event that was the 2022 floods in the Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia, where she lives with her family. Mel shares with us about her experience of this national disaster, what her focus is in the long tail of recovery and how crisis is something she has always sort the gold in as a way to traverse and transform...

I met Vashti in the dance studio at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium in Lismore in 1996. I remember being moved and really curious about her in a shy kind of way. This time feels like eons ago and it's wild for me that she said yes to being one of me guests in this series... to feel the breadth of time since then and all that has occurred, changed and transformed. We both have children now who are older than I we were when we met! I find Vashti super honest and I deeply respect and am grate...