Elaina Domagala - Inspiring girls to follow their dream
Elaina Domagala is 15 years old and is already making her mark in Australian rules women’s football, and rocketing toward the the premier league. She is a fierce advocate for young girls wanting to play football and is devoted to mentoring them to follow their dream.
Elaina Domagala is a 15 year old who is super passionate about football. She started playing football after 8 years of training and competing in Kyokushin Karate.
Her karate journey led her to become 4 time Australian full contact champion, 5 time Victorian state champion, as well as other regional wins for her dojo.
In 2019, a school round robin competition was the turning point, and after one game of football she was hooked, and joined local club, West End - where she played for 3 years with a mixed sexes team.
Elaina was successful amongst 250 Victorian school girls to make the girls team through School Sports Victoria, and played in the 2021 Gippsland Youth girls premiership team and was awarded Most Determined.
In December 2021, Elaina tried out for the Gippsland Power Under 19’s Nab league team but was unsuccessful at this first attempt. However through hard work and determination during training and reserve games, she made her debut in Round 2, 2022 in the Gippsland Power Under 19’s senior Nab league team at the young age of 15.
Elaina has appeared in television and radio marketing campaigns for local youth girls football, as well as an appearance on Melbourne’s Smash FM podcast as an advocate for women’s football.
Addicted to the passion of the game, Elaina immerses in the challenge of constant improvement, and relishes in the sisterhood and support network, particularly the support she can offer others.
Socials:
Insta: Elaina Domagala @elaina_doma
Mentions:
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Riley Jarvis - Cracking the code to sleep nirvana
After Riley Jarvis’ health went downhill, and after being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, he went on a journey of exploration to find better health. What he discovered about sleep was mind blowing, and he now helps others to find the same level of sleep nirvana.
Riley is the Founder & CEO of The Sleep Consultant - an organization that helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and high performers transform their sleep to significantly boost their productivity and energy levels.
Riley started through his own health journey many years ago and discovered that sleep was the missing link that brought everything together.
Since then, he's been helping others unlock their "biology code" and achieve "Sleep Nirvana" by getting to the root cause of the issue rather than putting a Band-Aid on symptoms.
Riley is the author of ‘The Sleep Solution’, and the host of ‘The Sleep For Side Hustlers’ podcast.
Socials:
Website: www.thesleepconsultant.com
LinkedIn: Riley Jarvis
FB: Riley Jarvis
Insta: The Sleep Consultant @officialthesleepconsultant
Podcast: The Sleep for Side Hustlers Podcast
E-Book:The Sleep Solution
Mentions:
Psycho-Cybernetics (book) by Maxwell Maltz
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Susan Dean - Publishing stories of inspiration and triumph
Susan Dean loves bringing stories to life. So much so that she founded Dean Publishing, and has produced and published hundreds of stories of inspiration, ranging from business success, to personal triumph and charity development.
Susan Dean is the founder and owner of Dean Publishing. She was always destined to help others flourish. Beginning her career as a youth worker, Susan became a qualified business and life coach in 2003 – an early adopter of the industry.
Making a difference has always been her passion. Susan has always listened to peoples’ stories, using her tremendous empathy to empower others toward success. This has become her signature trait.
In 2014, Susan’s expertise in hearing and delivering heartfelt stories extended to publishing. Since then, Susan has produced and published hundreds of stories of inspiration, ranging from business success, to personal triumph and charity development.
Susan loves to wake up every morning and work in her purpose built publishing house, bringing stories to life alongside her two adult daughters who form an integral part of her business. A dedicated Australian publisher, Susan lives her dream every day and now teaches others how they can do the same.
Socials:
Website: https://www.deanpublishing.com/
LinkedIn: Susan Dean Book Publisher
Insta: @deanpublishing
High-end individual books https://www.deanpublishing.com/callsusan
Yshift compilation series https://www.deanpublishing.com/yshift/
B1G1 https://account.b1g1.com/connect/GIVING067
Mentions:
Hands Across the Water https://www.handsacrossthewater.org.au/
Matt Runnalls - Nobody Can Save Me
Trav Bell - My Bucketlist Blueprint
Angie Clucas - Standing Tall From The inside
Dr Natasha Davidson - Real Talk, Real Change
Erika Cramer - Confidence Feels Like Shit
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Dan Frkic - Gifting kids development through Prezent Box
Dan Frkic is a dad who knows how much clutter and disregard comes with a house full of unwanted toys and other gifts, and now he’s helping other families with the same concerns. Dan created Prezent Box which is an online gifting platform that helps families pay for developmental activities such as sport.
Dan Frkic is a regular Dad with 3 young kids who had an early mid life crisis. After working for major global corporates over the past 12 years, Dan decided to quit his job late last year, and has taken a punt to follow a new path and has launched an exciting initiative called PrezentBox.
PrezentBox is for parents who are sick & tired of receiving gifts their kids don't need. PrezentBox is an online gifting platform that enables family & friends to contribute funds that go toward a child's sport, creative or educational activity fees.
Dan and his team are hell bent on making a positive impact for parents, kids, gift givers and the business community (and really sticking it to big retail and consumerism while they’re at it).
Socials:
Website: https://prezentbox.com.au/
LinkedIn: Dan Frkic
FB: PrezentBox
Insta: PrezentBox @prezentboxau
Mentions:
Active Kids Program NSW https://www.nsw.gov.au/projects/active-kids-program
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Jocelyn Chong - Cracking magnetic abundance codes
Jocelyn Chong is a business and life coach, author, podcast host, and the founder of Seed to Sequoia. Moving from Malaysia to Australia at 17, Jocelyn quickly realised that the key to success was to empower her vision to be greater than her fear.
Jocelyn Chong is a Certified online Business and Life Coach, and CEO & Founder of Seed to Sequoia, who’s calling is to help people tap into their soul, and create a life that is uniquely tailored to you and your purpose. That is, a life built on deep alignment with who you are at your core, where your talents are not only recognized but optimized to attract abundance.
Breaking free from the shackles of the corporate world, being free to go wherever we want, whenever we want—these are things most of us crave, but so few know how to do in a financially secure way.
Through her own experience and 20 years in the banking and finance world, Jocelyn knows that having a financial game plan turns wishes into realities.
Jocelyn is also the host and founder of the Podcast: Magnetic Abundance.
She is also the author of 3 books:
Success Codes
Uncensored, Untamed, Unleashed
Prosperity Codes
Jocelyn works with individuals to transform and to grow, and also works with larger organizations developing strategies to increase revenue substantially, ad consistently receives feedback that her work was critical in identifying where change has been necessary and then empowering them to make that change happen.
Socials:
Website: https://www.jocelynchong.com.au/
LinededIn: Jocelyn Chong
Instagram: _jocelynchong_
Facebook: Jocelyn Chong
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Liz Fleming - Maximising business efficiency
Liz Fleming is The Efficiency Coach and business mentor, who has a passion for rural and regional businesses. Her promise is more profit, more time and more fulfilment.
Liz Fleming The Efficiency Coach is a business mentor and accountant, based in Gippsland, who knows a thing or two about creating efficiencies in your business, that is making it work better, do better and produce better. She has an eye for optimising businesses to operate and grow from her many years in the corporate space and she's not your typical accountant.
Harnessed with a Masters in Forensic Accounting and Chartered Accountant qualifications, her ability to review business operations and discover new ways to create efficiencies helps create more time for family and other pursuits.
You know how there are never enough hours in a day and you don't know where to start? Well, Liz will show you how to maximise your time, energy, skills and resources and discover who is best to do what and when in your business.
Her promise is more profit, more time and more fulfilment.
Socials:
Website: https://www.theefficiencycoach.com.au/
LinkedIn: Liz Fleming
FB: Liz Fleming - The Efficiency Coach @theefficiencycoach
Insta: lizfleming_theefficiencycoach
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Mark MacManus - Restoring hope after drug addiction
Mark Macmanus is the epitome of turning adversity into a journey that provides hope to others. After spiralling to the depths of despair through drug addiction, Mark finally found strength and strategies and with this founded The Restoration Project to help others.
The Restoration Project is a Mental Health awareness and Drug and Alcohol Education and Prevention Service specialising in lived experience, keynote speaking, family support, rehabilitation referral, and intervention guidance.
Mark Macmanus (founder) share’s his personal harrowing story and path to recovery. Some of the topics covered include anxiety, self-esteem, depression, alcohol, narcotics, gambling, resilience, determination, and rehabilitation. Mark launched The Restoration Project to help educate people about mental health and the challenges of substance abuse and finding hope through adversity.
“I suffered from poor mental health from an early age. I suffered anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. At the time I did not understand what I was even struggling with. In my early 20s, I was binge drinking every weekend and started to experiment with illicit drugs. I become addicted and suffered for eight years. My life spiralled out of control and reached depths where I thought I would never return. However, I sought rehabilitation and set about on my recovery. My story is raw and powerful and breaks all the stigmas associated with mental health and addiction.
I wish to deliver hope to families and people who are suffering. I wish to educate the youth of the dangers of alcohol and narcotics and the effect they can have on your life.”
Mark is an established presenter and is sought after in the addiction and mental health space and has played a role in many people turning their lives around and living proof that nothing is impossible if you don’t give up.
Mark works with multiple organisations including, ACSO, Latrobe Drug Action Team. (LDAT) Latrobe Youth Space, Coability, Maxima, Bakers Delight, and Wellington Local Drug Action Team.
Mark is now 7 years clean and is the Interim General Manager of Operations of a local disability employment provider in Gippsland and runs his own successful business. Mark is living proof that rock bottom can become the solid foundation on which you can rebuild your life.
Socials:
LinkedIn: Mark Macmanus
FB: The Restoration Project @restorationgippsland
Insta: TheRestorationProject @therestorationproject1
Mentions:
Latrobe Community Health Service
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Gina Balarin - Building pride through stories
Gina Balarin loves communicating, and in particular bringing stories and brands to life. She helps marketers do marketing they’re proud of and is the author of the book 'The Secret Army: Leadership, Marketing and the Power of People’.
Gina Balarin is a communicator at heart. While contemplating how to make a living from writing, marketing found her, and she never looked back.
It hasn’t always been an easy ride, though. Relatively early in her career she discovered that she doesn’t see things the way most people do. She gets frustrated when the rules are illogical and when things don't make sense. So she started her own company instead.
Now she’s an entrepreneur, helping marketers around the world do marketing they're proud of. Oh, and she sits on a couple of boards, has a Masters degree in Management Communication, is a Fellow of the CIM and the AMI, and a member of the PSA. She has written a couple of books including The Secret Army: Leadership, Marketing and the Power of People, 150 poems or so, and done a TEDx talk.
Mostly, though, she’s just interested in helping people find ways to be prouder of who they are, what they do, and how they make a difference in the world.
Socials:
Website: https://www.verballistics.com.au/
LinkedIn: Gina Balarin
FB: Gina Balarin
Mentions:
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube https://youtu.be/uLFf_Wh5er4
Raheen Fatima - Activating global peace
Raheen Fatima is a 14yr old peace activist who has been recognised by many organisations as an inspirational global change maker. After her young brother was diagnosed with cancer, Raheen decided you are never too young to make a difference.
Raheen Fatima is a 14 year old girl from Pakistan, who is also a Peace & Climate Change Activist, Standup comedian, Theatre Actor, Aspiring Entrepreneur, SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Ambassador and Interviewer. Over the course of the pandemic, she has conducted over 500 interviews and sessions to foster global peace and achievements of the SDGs.
When her younger brother was diagnosed with cancer, she realized one is never too young or old to die. She embarked on her journey with a passion to empower people around her and bring peace to this world.
With a passion to work for people and planet, Raheen is ambitious to take her work global by creating teams and collaborations for making global peace dreams a reality.
She is currently working on multiple projects, and her immediate aim is to synergise all peace efforts in one place, involving all stakeholders across the globe. She believes nothing else but interfaith, intercultural, international dialogue can pave the way for global peace.
Socials:
FB: Raheen Fatima
Insta: Raheen Fatima @fatima_raheen
YouTube: Raheen Fatima
LinkedIn: Raheen Fatima
Mentions:
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Matt Runnalls - Advocating mindful mental health
Matt Runnalls is a speaker, author and the founder of Mindfull Aus. After hitting rock bottom with his own mental health, Matt found strategies to help him make choices that gave hope to the new chance he got each and every day. He now helps others to believe in themselves.
Matt Runnalls works tirelessly as a mental health advocate to create awareness, acceptance, education and connection within communities to overcome the stigma and effects of suicide on a global scale. Utilizing his own lived-experience of mental illness, surviving suicide attempts, and losing far too many friends to suicide, Matt is continuously creating more platforms of communication to encourage everyone to feel comfortable to talk about and manage their well-being just as he continues to do.
Through his rediscovery of hope visible in the kindness of others, Matt found his passion and purpose when he wholeheartedly pursued the creation of Mindfull Aus a not-profit mental health foundation at the age of 24.
Since devoting himself to advocacy full-time, Matt has delivered over 600 speeches and keynotes, workshops, and events across Australia, Canada, and America. Matt has facilitated right across the world for some of the world’s largest Mind and Behavioral organizations, conferences and bodies.
Matt has been a student of programs and workshops from leading experts in the field of mind and behavioral health including: Wim Hof, Tony Robbins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Dr Brené Brown, Tom Bilyeau, Deepak Chopra, Heather Yelland and Kevin Hines. Matt is trained in NLP, a certified Breathwork & Meditation Practitioner, Sciences of Wellbeing, Intro to Psychology & Counselling, EQ and Quantum Learning as Alumni at California State University.
Matt now spends his life in dedication to the loss of his mates to suicide, combined with the thought that saved his life in 2012—that of having kids one day. This understanding and passion led Matt to become a trained facilitator at the world’s #1 camp for young kids (greensupercamp.com.au) where he works with young champions to improve self-esteem, equip them with accelerated development techniques and a greater understanding of emotional intelligence and relationships.
Matt’s story and message have been featured in books, documentaries, songs, podcasts and films throughout many major media outlets. His dedication to change has been recognized in: The Huffington Post, Global Award-winning Documentary of the Year, Suicide: the Ripple Effect, Guts, Grit & The Grind: a men’s health manual, and also in numerous Parliamentary sittings.
Matt has also been the recipient of an Australia Day Medallion in January 2018, a finalist in the 2019 Victorian Leadership & Innovation Award, 2020 ABC Heywire Trailblazer, 2020 AMHF Best Men’s Speaker Finalist, 2020 AMHF Men’s Health Award Top 3 placement, 2021 Australian of the Year Nominee and 2021 Westfield Community Hero.
Matt’s opportunity to ensure that the next generation doesn’t walk into the unknown like he did, drives him every day as he continues to make a positive impact on as many people as humanly possible.
Matt is committed to using his voice and experiences as a platform to encourage acceptance, purpose and hope.
Socials:
Website: Matt Runnalls https://mattrunnalls.com.au/
Website: Mindfull Aus https://www.mindfullaus.org/
LinkedIn: Matt Runnalls
Insta: Matt Runnals @matt.runnalls
Mentions:
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Michael Whitehouse - Networking with the Guy Who Knows A Guy
After moving across the country, Michael Whitehouse knew nobody but needed a network to help him find work. Before long he was very well connected and started connecting others. Michael is now known as the Guy Who Knows A Guy.
Michael Whitehouse is The Guy Who Knows a Guy. In 2014, he came to Groton, Connecticut knowing no one at all. A year later, after diving into networking with both feet, he was a major connector in the local community. In 2020, he went global and began connecting entrepreneurs, investors, speakers and others around the world to people they need to know.
He offers his services as a networking concierge, making connections and building strategic alliances around the world. He is the host of the daily Morning Motivation Podcast and the Guy Who Knows a Guy interview podcast.
Michael Whitehouse says he is not a networking wizard. He has simply employed certain techniques to connect with people and build win-win relationships, and he is working hard to share what he has learned with as many people as he can.
Socials:
Website: https://www.guywhoknowsaguy.com/
FB: The Guy Who Knows A Guy @guywhoknowsaguy
LinkedIn: Michael Whitehouse
Morning Motivation website: https://www.morningmotivation.fun
Morning Motivation FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/morningmotivationpodcast
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Dr John Demartini - Living an authentic, values driven life
Dr Demartini is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on human behavior and personal development. He travels 360 days a year, lives on a ship, and is the author of 40 books and has created 72 courses to help people thrive.
Dr Demartini is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on human behavior and personal development. He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organization with a curriculum of over 72 courses covering multiple aspects of human development.
His trademarked methodologies in human development, the Demartini Method and the Demartini Value Determination are culminations of over 47 years of cross-disciplinary research and study and utilized in all human development industries across the world.
Dr Demartini travels 360 days a year to countries all over the globe where he shares his research and findings in all markets and sectors. He is the author of 40 books published in 29 different languages. He has produced over 60 CDs and DVDs covering subjects such as development in relationships, wealth, education and business.
Socials:
Website: https://drdemartini.com/
LinkedIn: Dr John Demartini
Insta: Dr John Demartini @drjohndemartini
Youtube: The Demartini Institute
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Dr Sue Pillans - Drawing a brighter marine future
Dr Sue Pillans is a marine scientist and graphic artist who is wildly passionate about ensuring a brighter future for our sea creatures. She loves nothing more that sharing the stories from her 3 children’s books about the ocean as he alter ego Suzie Starfish.
Dr Sue Pillans is an Aussie marine scientist, artist, children’s author/illustrator and graphic recorder who specialises in creative and visual communications. Sue combines her training as a marine scientist and experience as a strategic planner with her imaginative skills as an artist to help people, teams and organisations to “Picture your ideas” through visual storytelling.
Sue has worked with over 40 organisations on a wide range of topics, ideas and issues across Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region, illustrating ideas and concepts through hand-drawn Infographics.
“I help to make the complex simple and the simple compelling“
Sue is the author / illustrator (authorstrator) of a series of ocean-science picture books:
These stories excite, engage, educate and empower children about our living oceans and their underwater wonders. Sue’s alter ego Dr Suzie Starfish (Author/Illustrator) uses the art of marine science and storytelling to bring our ‘Living Oceans’ into classrooms.
Sue also has over 15 years experience in research and development, marine conservation planning, natural resource management and strategic planning due to the varied roles she has held across Government and Research Organisations.
Sue has a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she is also an adjunct Research Fellow in the Centre of Biodiversity and Conservation Science.
Socials:
Website: drsuepillans.com
LinkedIn: Dr Sue Pillans
Insta: Dr Sue Pillans @suepillans
FB: Dr Suzie Starfish @drsuziestarfish
Youtube: Dr Sue Pillans
Mentions:
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Daniel Tolson - Exploring minds and accelerating results
Daniel Tolson works across the globe as a business coach, helping people to accelerate their results. Prior to founding his company, The Tolson Institute, Daniel was a leader of 17,000 cabin crew for Emirates Airlines.
Daniel's goal is to help you Accelerate and Multiply your Results!
Daniel Tolson has served as a consultant to more than 15,000 companies and individuals throughout Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, and both North and South America.
As a business influencer, he impacts millions of people each year. He has studied, researched, written, and spoken for 20 years on the topics of time management, goal setting, strategic planning, sales iQ, business model innovation and emotional intelligence.
Daniel is considered the world’s Number One business coach specializing in Emotional Intelligence, with over 6,500 case studies into emotional intelligence in the past three years alone. He has written and produced more than 250 audio and video learning programs, which have influenced business owners all around the world, including: Mental Detox, Total Emotional Mastery, and Win Sales Now!
Daniel speaks to corporate and public audiences on the subjects of Emotional and Social Intelligence, including the executives and staff of many of Australia’s largest corporations. His interactive talks and seminars on Selling with Emotional Intelligence, Business Model Innovation, Time Management and The Psychology of Success bring about immediate improvements in productivity, performance and output.
Prior to founding his company, The Tolson Institute, Daniel was a leader of 17,000 cabin crew for Emirates Airlines. He has had successful careers in real estate sales and marketing, Pawnbroking, Second Hand Dealing, a former Australian Champion Wakeboarder and eXtreme Games Competitor.
He has conducted high-level consulting assignments with many billion-dollar plus corporations in emotional intelligence and business model innovation. Daniel has traveled and worked in over 100 countries on six continents and lives in both Taiwan and Australia.
He is happily married with two children.
Socials:
Website: https://danieltolson.com/
LinkedIn: Daniel Tolson
FB: Daniel Tolson
Insta: Daniel Tolson @danieltolson
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Terry Paule - Making drinking water from fruit and vegetables
After 35 plus years as an entrepreneur, Terry Paule is focus on impact. After founding MyCo, a company focused on producing plant based foods, Terry stumbled upon the opportunity to create clean drinking water purely from fruit and vegetables.
Terry Paule is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Findex, Founder and Executive Director of My Co (makers of BioCheese), Co-Founder and CEO of Botanical Water Technologies Ltd (UK) #leaveitbetter, Founder and CEO of Botanical Water Foundation, Co-Founder and Director of TorchT Productions, Non-Executive Director of Agtuary, Non-Executive Director of SproutX and famously, Co-Founder and former Managing Director of Mediterranean lifestyle pioneers Lemnos Foods #justaddlemnos.
Terry has amassed 35 plus years of experience as a serial entrepreneur with a hands-on approach to building startups and their brands both in Australia and internationally. He has an impressive track record of having founded and funded several successful business ventures. Paule believes in establishing strong operational frameworks and a positive cultural environment to support and manage the implementation process essential for success.
As an impact investor, he has established My Co to focus on new idea and startup opportunities in the health and wellbeing, and global food and beverage sectors with a particular emphasis on plant-based food and beverage and renewable and sustainable ideas.
Driving some of Australia's most exciting and revolutionary startups, he mentors many aspiring entrepreneurs through strategic guidance and public speaking, and dedicates time and resources to philanthropy. He is an inspiring leader with a wealth of knowledge and experience, and a contagious passion for life.
Socials:
Website: https://www.terrypaule.com/
LinkedIn: Terry Paule
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Kevin Martin - Developing peak performance mindsets
Adopting three older children seemed like a dream come true to Kevin Martin and his wife. That was until the oldest became too aggressive to manage. Their son’s life completely changed after only three sessions of neuro-linguistic programming, and in that moment Kevin knew what his life work was.
Kevin is a Mindset Coach, Author, Professional Speaker, Seminar Leader, entrepreneur, and award-winning Hypnotherapist.
He has been training people for over 25 years, harnessing his understanding of how people think, how people learn, and most importantly, how people change. Kevin is compassionate and caring, enabling him to work with a variety of very difficult problems and very sensitive people.
With the adoption of 3 children and foster care of many more, Kevin came to find out just how severe problems in early development environments can be. With some significant issues impacting the whole household, Kevin set out on a journey to find answers that traditional therapy did not have. This led him to eventually find the tools and techniques that he uses today to help 100’s of people, as it helped his own son.
Kevin is passionate about Coaching as a means of helping people to excel, and his mission has always been to help as many people as he can and to touch everyone he meets in some positive manner.
Socials:
Website: https://peakperformancemindsetcoaching.com/
LinkedIn: Kevin A Martin
Book: Living Your Dream Life Simply by Changing Your Perceptions
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Dr Elena Kelareva - Calling on the world to reject helplessness
Born in Russia, and having family and friends on both sides of the border, Dr Elena Kelareva is calling on the world to reject the feeling of helplessness, and to take simple action to support Ukraine and ultimately maintain Western democracy.
Dr Elena Kelareva is the founder of GippsTech, an award-winning digital innovation consultancy with the mission of growing regional startup and tech ecosystems.
Elena has a PhD in Computer Science from ANU and 15 years' experience in innovation, startups and technology, including at Google where she was the Product Manager for the Google Maps Web APIs.
Elena worked with the 6 local councils in Gippsland to create Startup Gippsland, one of the largest regional startup programs ever to be run in Australia.
She has been recognised for her work on building regional startup and tech communities by being selected as one of 3 finalists for the Regional Development Victoria Leadership & Innovation Award 2018, and a winner of the PauseFest SuperConnector award 2020.
Elena is Russian born and has family and friends on both sides of the border. Her plea is to reject helplessness and help Ukraine fight for democracy.
Socials:
Website: https://gipps.tech/
LinkedIn: Elena Kelareva
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Tiffanee Cook - Rolling with the punches
At 29, Tiffanee Cook saw a poster on a wall inviting people to get in the boxing ring. Something within moved her to do just that and the ripple effect of that decision has flowed through every corner of her life. She says “Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face”, and she has been unpacking those plans ever since.
Tiffanee Cook is a boxer, trainer, epigenetics coach, and host of the podcast ‘Roll With The Punches’, who uncovered her childhood trauma when she stepped into the boxing ring at 29.
“Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face”
Tiffanee has learned this as a business woman, performance coach and boxer; from the comfort, predictability and safety provided by the corporate world, to the lessons and let-downs in and out of the boxing ring. Coming to the realisation that, in order to have one’s hand raised in triumph, adversity, discomfort and combat must be navigated. In the face of the messiness of life, do we fight or do we flee?
Fuelled by the unexpected. Tiff's exposure to the corporate boxing experience opened her eyes to the connection between our physical, mental and spiritual selves. It lifted the lid on a world full of opportunities far beyond the one in which she once lived and it paved a path to growth, success, health and above all happiness.
Socials:
Website: Roll With The Punches
Youtube: Tiffanee Cook | Roll With The Punches Podcast
Insta: Roll With The Punches Podcast @rollwiththepunches_podcast
FB: Roll With The Punches @rollwiththepunchespodcast
Twitter: Roll With The Punches | Tiffanee Cook
Mentions:
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
Kerryn Vaughan - Reflecting on life and 100 episodes
Kerryn Vaughan chats about the podcast, life, emotions, resilience, not being good enough, and answers several questions that have come up repeatedly over time. A reflection and celebration of 100 episodes.
Kerryn is an international speaker and author, facilitator, and podcast host.
For many years Kerryn lived the self-focused rockstar life, until the fateful day her younger sister was diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, Carolyn lost her battle, which made Kerryn believe she was a failure for not being able to save her sister. This catapulted Kerryn into a journey of searching for meaning, eventually leading her to discover the pearls of altruism.
After 11 years of frustration and pain, she finally realised that the answers lie within and that she had the power to slam her own stake in the ground and build her life on her terms with the clear focus of impact.
Since that realisation, Kerryn’s award winning book ‘Magnificent Kids!’ was the catalyst to her founding the global organisation One Planet Classrooms, which facilitates projects such as clean water solutions and student sponsorship program, to schools and communities in Africa.
Kerryn then launched Girls With Hammers which hosts conferences and workshops aimed at empowering and connecting women, has released her second book ‘Get Off The Bench!’ to help people bring their ideas to life, and brought the ‘Get Off The Bench!’ Podcast to life after a number of false starts and a stint of despair.
Socials:
Website: https://www.kerrynvaughan.com/
LinkedIn: Kerryn Vaughan
Lizbeth Meredith - Rescuing her kidnapped daughters
Despite Lizbeth Meredith’s promise to herself that she would not repeat the dysfunction of her childhood family, fate had other ideas, eventually leading Lizbeth to travel to Greece to rescue her two young daughters that had been kidnapped by their father.
Lizbeth Meredith is an award winning author, speaker online teacher who enjoys coaching and consulting part-time - a fun addition after three-decades career serving crime victims and offenders.
As a young child from a chaotic home punctuated by ineducation, family violence, and parental kidnapping, Lizbeth couldn’t wait to become an adult to create a brighter future. Instead, in her mid-twenties, she found herself living in a domestic abuse shelter in 1990 with her two small daughters. It took everything and then some to get a degree in journalism, learn to parent instead of control, and get a job at the very battered women’s shelter that had previously helped her.
In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their non-custodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece.
Her memoir, Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, was published by She Writes Press, and has recently been adapted as Stolen By Their Father: The Lizbeth Meredith Story on Lifetime Television.
Socials:
Website: https://lameredith.com/
LinkedIn: Lizbeth Meredith
FB: Lizbeth Meredith
Insta: Lizbeth Meredith @liza8m
Mentions:
The Paper Bag Princess (Book)
Liane Moriarty (Author)
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
