Brave Journeys with Tammi Faraday: Recent Episodes
Tammi Michelle Faraday
Australian broadcaster, journalist, lawyer, documentary filmmaker and mama of four, Tammi Faraday, learns from others how to navigate life’s invariable challenges where there's no clear answer, but bravery has propelled them forward. With compassionate curiosity, reciprocal candour & vulnerability in spades, Tam uncovers her guests' brave life journeys, with the hope of empowering you to realise life’s difficulties don’t have to define you – they are often the making of you.
In the depths of Sarah Sentilles' heart, was a primal longing to become a mother. This yearning was buried beneath the desires & pressures of others. Sarah’s husband, Eric, believed the world was already brimming with children in need of loving homes. Everyone else, it seemed, whispered doubts into Sarah's ears. Parenthood, they said, would be the end of her cherished life.
But the yearning within her refused to be silenced. It threatened to fracture her marriage, until Sarah & Eric made a monumental decision that would forever alter the course of their lives: to foster a child with the hope of adoption.
False starts and dashed dreams tested their resilience. But a phone call finally arrived, carrying with it the news of a fragile three-day-old baby girl, desperately needing a foster family. Sarah and Eric rushed to the hospital as a couple and returned home as parents to a beautiful stranger.
But the foster system, with its singular objective of reuniting children with their biological parents, served as a constant reminder of the bittersweet reality that awaited them. Shaken but undeterred by the looming heartbreak, Sarah and Eric, poured love, stability, and safety into the child they ached to call their own.
Sarah's extraordinary book, "Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What isn't Ours," will shatter your heart, challenge your moral compass, and rekindle your faith in the inherent goodness that resides within each of us, even in the face of shattered dreams.
But this isn’t merely a tale of fiercely loving someone else's child.
When a writer lays bare their vulnerabilities and exposes their own frailties, eschewing self-serving narratives - as Sarah has done - you know you’ve uncovered a rare gem.
Prepare yourself for an unforgettable episode of "BRAVE JOURNEYS."; one that deconstructs the very essence of motherhood, & explores the profound truth that every child who enters our lives is, at first, a stranger waiting to be discovered.
This is a story of belonging & loss as well as audacious, selfless love.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Sarah Sentilles
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Dear friends, brace yourselves for an episode unlike any other. In truth, it’s a conversation that’s been incredibly difficult to prepare for, but one that must be shared. Tonight, as your children lie safely in their beds, enveloped in love & protected from harm, it’s crucial to remember that this isn’t the reality for countless children across the globe.
Joining me this week is filmmaker Akhim Dev – or Dev as he’s affectionately known. Fuelled by a deep concern for the online safety of his youngest daughter, it quickly evolved into something much greater. So shaken by the vast and intricate web of online sexual exploitation of children, Dev set out to expose this horrific reality through the making of the internationally acclaimed documentary, "The Children in the Pictures."
This groundbreaking film takes us inside Taskforce Argos, an elite Australian police unit, as it infiltrates global criminal networks by going undercover to rescue children from the world's most depraved child abusers.
Child Online Sexual exploitation is the fastest growing major crime in the world, and perpetrators are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Until recently led by one of Australia’s most decorated police officers, Detective Inspector Jon Rouse, Taskforce Argos devotes every waking moment to sifting through vast quantities of child sexual abuse materials, searching for vital clues that could help them rescue young victims.
"The Children in the Pictures" has been screened in over 150 countries, leaving audiences both aghast & galvanised to play their part in the eradication of online child sexual exploitation. The film’s been screened at the United Nations, the US Congress, and the Australian Parliament.
The film’s companion podcast of the same name recently won GOLD at the esteemed 2023 New York Festival Radio Awards, as well as Best Documentary at the Australian Radio Awards. But for the members of Taskforce Argos as well as Dev & his team, this calling has nothing to do with prestigious prizes, it’s all & only about saving the Children in the Pictures.
Please note that this incredibly powerful and important episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS talks graphically about online childhood sexual exploitation and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If you know a child in immediate danger, please contact police in Australia – call 000.
And if you need immediate support, contact The Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Akhim Dev
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Filmmaker & Changemaker - Ginger Gentile is on a mission to save children from the trauma of high-conflict divorce. Drawing on her own journey as a child torn between two parents, Ginger’s first documentary, ERASING DAD (Borrando a Papa), was instrumental in getting the Argentinian government to pass mandatory co-parenting laws.
Her follow up feature documentary, ERASING FAMILY, exposes the heart-wrenching anguish experienced by children when a loving parent is erased from their lives. This issue affects 22 million families in the US alone. No birthdays, no holidays, no contact whatsoever. We’re taking about loving mothers & fathers who haven’t seen their children for years.
Parental alienation destroys lives, bankrupts’ people, tears children from their homes, separates biological siblings, causes lifelong psychological damage & it’s a $50 billion dollar industry.
Ginger works tirelessly to advocate for the rights of children and parents & is unyielding in her hopes to reform longstanding customs and laws for custody and child support that are supposed to protect children, but which she says often obliterates families.
As a now in-demand consultant, Ginger coaches parents who are suffering from parental alienation, helping them reunite with their erased children and heal the estrangement caused by divorce or separation. Ginger also works to educate Family Court professionals on how to combat this silent, but truly devastating, public health crisis.
Ginger’s dedication & leadership in this space have not gone unnoticed and in 2019 she was heralded as an Architect of Change by Maria Shriver.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
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Watch “Erasing Family”here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Ginger Gentile
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
When Colin Campbell’s two teenage children - Ruby & Hart - were tragically killed by a drunk driver, he and his wife Gail, were plunged headlong into a grief so devastating they felt they might lose their minds. One second, they’re going on a family drive to their new holiday home. The next, their entire world had been extinguished.
In his remarkable & courageous book Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope & Purpose, Colin shares their unique journey through agonizing grief and shines a desperately needed light on a new vision for mourning catastrophic loss. This includes demanding that others speak about their beloved children, from a society that’s all but programmed to send well intended but ultimately trite condolences – like - “there are no words”.
Because there are words. We just have to be courageous enough to access them and hold space for others’ agony, as uncomfortable and awkward as that might be.
Colin’s one person show titled, Grief: A One Man ShitShow, channels his shock, anguish and rage into a tragic-comic exploration of our culture’s inability to talk about grief. It premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival where it won a Best of Broadwater Award.
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Find out more about Coin here
Purchase Colin’s incredible book, “Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope & Purpose” here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Colin Campbell
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Imagine the unimaginable: a young girl, only six years old, enduring years of sexual molestation at the hands of her own brother. It's a chilling reality that many find difficult to comprehend. Yet, this form of abuse, known as child-on-child or sibling sexual abuse, accounts for an appalling 40% of all sexual abuse cases against children. Yes, you heard that right. FORTY PER CENT.
Complicating matters further, many victims of sibling sexual trauma feel complicit in the abuse, often struggling to recognise it as abuse at all.
My next guest, Jane Epstein, has not only survived this Sibling Sexual Abuse, but has become a global advocate in the field.
As a young woman, Jane turned to stripping, substances & poisonous relationships to numb the pain. But when Jane became a mother of two toddlers in her early 40s, the dam finally burst.
Parenthood has a way of transforming us, especially those who’ve endured abuse as children. Becoming a parent compels us to love, nurture, & protect our own kids. But it also has an incredible way of reopening old wounds & forces us to interrogate who was there to protect us when we needed it most.
Jane understands this struggle all too well. Today, she’s resolute about breaking the silence & shedding light on this dark corner of the human experience.
Brace yourself for a journey that will touch your heart, challenge your perceptions & leave you with a renewed sense of urgency to protect the most vulnerable among us.
Please note that this incredibly powerful & important episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS talks about sexual abuse & Suicide & isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Jane Epstein
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
My next guest, formerly Kellie King, was a formidable woman who seemed to have it all. A trailblazing sales executive, devoted mother of three, & a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
But at the age of 42, Kellie's world was turned upside down. Urged by her devout Catholic partner & seconded by a health professional, Kellie begins to question her own gender identity. Kellie comes to believe she’s in fact a man trapped in a woman’s body & decides to undergo a wholesale medical Transition. Kelly King is now no more & in her place is Transman Scott Newgent.
But sadly, this is not a fairytale. Scott endured medical complication after complication. He lost absolutely everything – his relationship, his career, but most importantly his wellbeing. In a battle to survive, he went from one Emergency room to another, desperately trying to solve the mystery of why his health was failing him.
As he begins to recover from several near-death experiences, Scott delves into the world of Gender Affirming Care & Medical Transitions. He discovers that many others, particularly children, are being pushed to rapid Medical Transition which includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, & experimental surgeries that are being administered with insufficient warnings or adequate research.
Despite receiving death threats for speaking out, Scott is one of the loudest voices in the world calling for an immediate moratorium on the medical Transitioning of children, until they reach adulthood.
Scott, was recently featured in conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s film “What is a Woman?” that’s been watched over 177 million times & counting; becoming one of the most successful documentaries of all time. Walsh, who works for the Daily Wire, has publicly credited Scott as being the undisputed hero of the film.
Please note that this incredibly powerful & important episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS talks graphically about Trans issues, gender ideology, suicide & medical Transitions & isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
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Find out more about TREvoices here
Watch “What is a Woman”here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Scott Newgent
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we
As a clinical psychologist & trauma therapist, my next guest, Dr Ingrid Clayton always strived to help others overcome their pain. But, little did Ingrid know that she, too, carried hidden wounds that she’d yet to fully comprehend.
A fractured self-esteem, substance abuse disorder, perfectionism, & a series of dysfunctional relationships might have indicated that something was amiss, but having been raised in a bewildering haze of gaslighting, Ingrid found herself constantly questioning her own reality.
It wasn't until Ingrid stumbled upon a case study by renowned psychiatrist & writer Dr. Bessel van der Kolk - which eerily mirrored her own experiences - that a profound realisation struck her: the word "trauma" held a deeply personal resonance.
In her gripping memoir, "Believing Me", Ingrid fearlessly delves into the legacy of childhood trauma inflicted by a narcissistic, abusive step-father & a broken, invalidating & enabling mother.
As I often say on BRAVE JOURNEYS, Just because you don’t name it or acknowledge it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And yet, for those who are raised by narcissistic, gaslighting parents, they often doubt their own history, their own truth, & for many, their own sanity.
But when Ingrid's step-father Randy dies, an incontrovertible calling roars from deep within her – urging her to reclaim her narrative & finally tell it in her own words.
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Ingrid Clayton
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Sometimes, you’re lucky enough to meet someone who’ll change your life in inconceivable ways. My next guest (and now forever friend – whether he likes it or not) is one such human.
Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM is a Doctor, Lawyer, Disability Advocate & Researcher. And that’s just the start. He’s also a philosopher & his astonishing memoir: Stronger: How Losing Everything Set Me Free is an opus of pure inspiration.
In a freak accident, three years into his Medical Degree, Dinesh sustained a spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia, affecting the use of his fingers, parts of the arms & everything below the chest. 8 months in hospital. More than 4 years trying to come back to life. Allow that to sink in.
And yet, Dinesh is a man of firsts…
- The first person to graduate medical school with quadriplegia in Queensland;
- The first graduate Doctor with quadriplegia to begin work in the State; and
- The first visiting student with quadriplegia to complete an Advanced Clerkship in Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
But it doesn’t stop there … so be prepared to be even more humbled & awestruck…
Because in 2019, Dinesh was awarded an Order of Australia Medal & the third Australian ever to receive a Henry Viscardi Achievement Award in New York; a prestigious global honour that recognizes exemplary leaders in the disability sector.
Dinesh is also the 2021 Queensland Australian of the Year.
As for the rest of his illustrious Bio, you’ll have to look him up yourselves, because his contribution to Medicine and Teaching the next generation of doctors is quite extraordinary and time doesn’t permit me to showcase all that this remarkable human being has achieved.
So who does this GIANT of a man look up to as his hero? His magnificent mum Chithrani.
This is one of the most superb conversations I’ve ever had the privilege to be part of & I can’t wait to share it with you. Get ready to mainline: Meaning, Purpose & Wisdom.
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Purchase Dinesh’s masterful memoir, “Stronger: How Losing Everything Set Me Free here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM
Audio Editor: Melissa May
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
For Hollywood royalty, New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright - Delia Ephron - life has always offered a rich supply of copy. Bad hair, heartache, chocolate pudding – almost anything could be mined for a book, a screenplay, or a newspaper column.
Then when Delia was 72, a time you might reasonably expect the flow of good material to quieten, life delivers her biggest story yet, one she very nearly didn’t survive.
Diagnosed with the same blood cancer that killed her beloved screenwriter sister Nora, Delia’s chance of survival, particularly because of her advanced age, was slim. But there was a double plot twist: she’d just fallen in love with a man she hadn’t seen for FIFTY FOUR YEARS – & with his love & devotion, she enters remission.
Delia’s is a miraculous story of late love played out in the shadow of a life-threatening illness, as captured in her superb memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life, part romantic comedy, part medical drama… & it’s absolutely divine.
So for anyone listening & despairing that love’s perhaps passed you by, you simply can’t afford to miss this gorgeous & inspirational chat with one half of the writers of the classic film - You’ve Got Mail. Because as enchanting as the Ephron sister’s ROM COMS are, life can be so much more magical than the movies.
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Delia Ephron
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
This is a very unique episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS.
We’ve all heard stories of people who lived broken, crime filled lives, who have an epiphany & completely turn their lives around, harnessing the wisdoms & insights they learnt along the way, to educate & rehabilitate others.
But what if the person in question is a one-time Nazi whose raison d’etre for more than three decades was to see an entire people - your people - wiped off the face of the earth? Let that sink in for just a moment…
For 27 years Jeff Schoep was a member of the the largest neo-Nazi militant, racist, antisemitic organisation in the United States, the National Socialist Movement, or NSM & for 25 of those years, he was its National leader. Its repugnant mission was to create an all-white, non-semitic America.
But after sitting down with victims of hate groups, Jeff walked away from extremism forever.
In March 2019, Jeff publicly denounced Nazism & became the highest profile former white supremacist in America to ever publicly reject far-right extremism & hate ideology.
This is one episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS, you simply can’t afford to miss!!!
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Find out more about Jeff here
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Find out more about Beyond Barriers here
Listen to the Beyond Barriers Podcast here
Find out more about The Simon Wiesenthal Centre here
Watch Jeff on Red Table Talk here
Watch Jeff recently speak at the Nobel Peace Centre with Deeya Kahn here
Watch the Trailer of “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Jeff Schoep
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Have we got an extraordinary guest for you today and to be honest, unless this intro runs for the next hour all by itself, I am going to have to truncate the bio of this remarkable human being. I hope she will forgive me…
Professor Jessica Stern is one of the U.S’s foremost experts on terrorism. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff, as well as being an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Jessica has lectured at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, was the Super-terrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security & Law; a Fellow of the World Economic Forum; a Harvard MacArthur Fellow & a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs.
In 2001, Jessica was included among seven “thinkers” in Time Magazine’s series profiling 100 innovators.
Today, Jessica is the Research Professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies.
But while Jessica’s career has indubitably reached stratospheric heights, her success hinges on her atypical post traumatic symptoms. You see, in October 1973, Jessica, then 15 and her sister Sara, aged 14, return from their weekly ballet lessons, when a strange man, armed with a gun enters their step mother’s home, in a safe neighbourhood in Massachusetts.
Alone in the unlocked house, Jessica and Sara are brutally raped.
The rapist is never caught & for over thirty years, Jessica denies the pain & the trauma of the assault & focuses on her career, instead of the terror.
In her extraordinary memoir Denial: A Memoir of Terror - selected by the Washington Post as a best book of the year; Jessica courageously investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist, & in doing so, examines the cost of trauma & denial – her own & everyone else’s around her.
Please note that this incredibly powerful & important episode of Brave Journeys talks graphically about sexual abuse & isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Jessica here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Professor Jessica Stern
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowle
After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage – successful writer & blogger Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband, Hal. Two weeks after telling Hal she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died.
With inordinate courage & candour, Rebecca chronicles the months before Hal’s death — & her rebirth after he was gone.
In her book, All of This – A Memoir of Death & Desire- which is a stunning, provocative & masterfully nuanced read - Rebecca reflects on the end of her marriage & how her husband’s devastating illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity & her own.
Ultimately, Rebecca’s journey is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame — as a mother, a widow, & a sexual being—& emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude & relief.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Rebecca here
Purchase Rebecca’s masterfully nuanced memoir, “All of This – A Memoir of Death & Desire” here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Rebecca Woolf
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
My next guest Adam Frankel grew up idolising his wonderful father and his father’s father, following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter. After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, Adam joined Barack Obama’s fledgling presidential campaign in 2007, helping craft those unforgettable “Yes We Can” speeches.
But around the same time, when Adam’s career was reaching its zenith, his personal life & sense of identity, was in complete & utter disarray. At 25, Adam discovers a truth about his family that unravels his entire understanding of who he is.
Adam’s gripping debut book, “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance & Healing”; is a memoir of family, the Holocaust, intergenerational trauma and identity - where Adam comes to terms with the legacy of his family’s painful past and learns who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation.
But above all else, Adam’s just one beautiful human being. I might just have to adopt him as a baby brother.
Just a few things about this special chat… Unfortunately, the audio played up a little, so my conversation with Adam isn’t as clear in parts, as you’re used to. But please bear with us, because I promise you, it’s worth the listen.
Lastly, this episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS talks about mental illness and suicide and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Adam here
Purchase Adam’s remarkable book, “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing” here
Follow Adam on Insta here
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Adam Frankel
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
When Hillary Whittington discovers she’s expecting a baby girl, she and her husband, Jeff, are deliriously overjoyed. Pink & white nursery – check; endless supplies of dresses and bows – check.
Then, only months after Ryland is born, Hillary and Jeff realise something isn’t quite right. When they call out, Ryland doesn’t respond.
After consulting with specialists, it’s confirmed that their beautiful baby girl is deaf.
The miracle that is cochlear implants allows Ryland to hear and Hillary’s tireless efforts helps Ryland learn how to speak. This gorgeous couple believe they’ve overcome their toughest challenge as parents.
But as soon as Ryland learns to talk, Hillary & Jeff know they HAVE to listen… I mean really listen.
Because as soon as Ryland gains the power of speech, Ryland insists, “I am a boy!”
After finding a deeply disturbing statistic that 41% percent of people who identify as transgender attempt to take their own lives before the age of 20, Hillary and Jeff make it their mission to love & support their child — with no strings attached.
But please be under no illusion. Loving with no strings attached, isn’t always easy. Sometimes it’s downright agonizing and can be oh so isolating. And that’s what is so exquisite about the Whittingtons. They simply tell it like it is. I hope you come to love this family as much as I do.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Hillary Whittington
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
My beautiful guest today is Annie Whitlocke. Annie is a death doula. A What you ask? 40 + years on the planet and this entire profession was completely unknown to me… that is until now.
Like many of you I suspect, the only context in which I’d heard of any kind of Doula was a person who provides emotional, physical and instructive support to mothers before, during and after labour. Not someone, who assists at the other end of the life cycle.
But taking on this noble profession isn’t as unusual as you might think, particularly for a woman like Annie, who’s seen life endcountless times.
Her own experience with death is both personal & profound. Annie’s grandfather died in her arms, as did her baby nephew. She lost one husband to a fatal car accident and a fiancée to suicide. She’s tragically had six miscarriages, tried to take her own life twice and clinically died once.
As a Death Doula or Death Elder as Annie prefers to be known, she’s helped hundreds of people and their families at their most difficult and vulnerable times. Annie is driven to help those who are dying, ensure that their living until the end of their life, is as good and as safe and as meaningful and as authentic & as peaceful and joyous, as it can possibly be.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Annie Whitlocke
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg, & Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
In 2016, highly respected & award-winning US journalist and former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson, moved from covering the headlines to becoming one herself.
The violin prodigy, former Miss America, Stanford Graduate and acclaimed journalist successfully sued the late CEO & Fox News founder, Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, claiming that she’d been fired for turning down his sexual advances. This landmark case, which inspired the feature film Bombshell – starring Nicole Kidman – saw Gretchen receive an unprecedented public apology and settlement, reported to be worth $20 million.
But she can’t talk about it. Why? Because bound by a draconian Non-Disclosure Agreement, Gretchen’s been gagged to speak about her time at Fox, the circumstances surrounding her termination, as well as the settlement ultimately reached.
In 2017, Gretchen was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World & in the same year she released her magnificent New York Times Bestselling Manifesto, Be Fierce: Stop Harassment & Take Your Power Back.
And in 2019, Gretchen co-founded Lift Our Voices; an organisation whose mission isto ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and forced arbitration clauses in employment contracts, so that victims of sexual harassment, pay inequity, and workplace toxicity will not be forcibly silenced by them.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Gretchen Carlson
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
There are many episodes on BRAVE JOURNEYS where I have cried, but not today. Today is about celebrating life, love & finding unbridled gratitude & joy in the ordinary.
If I told you that my next guest is terminally ill with Stage 4 cancer & has also been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, it would be reasonable to assume this is a deeply sad episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS. But its anything but!!!
In fact, I’ll be amazed if you walk away after listening to this beautiful conversation with former radio executive & all-round legend of a human being, the magnificent Mel Dzelde, & not choose life & also choose to make every second count with delight, festivity & wonder.
Mel certainly does!!! She’s inspiring & empowering & I’m so honoured & thrilled to share this platform with a woman who’s a beacon of goodness, happiness & appreciation, even when she knows there may not be much time… which if you think about it, is our actual truth every day.
We don’t know what’s around the corner, but at least we can be shown by the MASTER how to revel in what we have, while we have it.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Mel Dzelde
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
What would you do if your worst private heartache was on the front page of every newspaper around the world? Kate Nason knows…
Seven years into her marriage, Kate discovers her husband was cheating on her with multiple women. Then, the unimaginable happens.
It’s January of 1998 & Kate wakes to the news that one of her husband’s mistresses was having an affair with none other than US President, Bill Clinton. The press surround Kate’s home, clamouring for details about her husband’s affair with a White House Intern, transforming Kate’s private heartbreak into public mortification.
Kate’s new memoir, “Everything is Perfect”, uncovers the little-known side of one of the world’s biggest scandals, unveiling a cautionary tale about the ways we deceive ourselves, when we allow ourselves to be deceived by those we love. It’s also an intimate look at the impacts of infidelity, the fallout of gaslighting, and a deep insight into the silent, stoic wife at the press conference.
Confession time beloved BRAVE JOURNEYS family, I’ve always felt inordinate compassion for Monica Lewinsky and the way her life was all but decimated after her affair with President Clinton. He walked away relatively unscathed. She was brutalised, derided and the butt of late-night talk shows ever since. It was never OK. And her work in the anti-bullying space is to be commended. No-one is simply their worst mistake.
But as you’ll realise from this astonishing episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS, Kate was also collateral damage and her life was literally blown up through no fault of her own…
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Kate Nason
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
My next guest, Kenneth Feinberg, literally stopped me in my tracks.
Ken is a prominent attorney, a world-renowned MEDIATOR and the one time chief of staff of the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy. But when we all stood still on 9/11 after one of the most horrific terrorist attacks the world has ever seen, Ken stood up and wanted – indeed asked - to be counted.
Ken was appointed as the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund just a few weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
In this role, Ken met with nearly every family who was a victim of 9/11 at the absolute height of their grief. He listened. He empathised. He held space for their sorrow. He travelled the length and breadth of the country to make it easier for families to meet with him. He enlisted the support of others, including clergy, when victims’ families were simply too broken to apply for their share of the Fund. He even offered to fill in the forms on behalf of the victims.
Whilst Ken could never return a father to a grieving child, or a son to an inconsolable mother, or a husband to a pregnant wife, what he could do was ensure that some of victims’ dreams would continue in their absence and that financial hardship would not be another challenge for these all, but shattered, families.
Ken presided over this unprecedented Fund that ultimately awarded over $7.1 billion DOLLARS of public taxpayer money to the families of 2,983 killed and approximately 2,400 physically injured and maimed, in the most devastating of ways on 9/11.
The administration of this Fund took 33 months. Ken Feinberg was never paid a cent for his efforts, insisting he take on the role on a pro bono basis. His epic story, now memorialised in his memoir – WHAT IS LIFE WORTH – has inspired the extraordinary Netflix film WORTH starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci.
On a more personal note, from the first instance I had the pleasure of coming across Ken, I have been overwhelmed by his warmth, generosity and his impeccable character. His Solomonic efforts in fighting for fair for every single claimant is just incredible.
So it is with immense humility and gratitude that I welcome Kenneth R Feinberg to the BRAVE JOURNEYS family.
This is Ken’s story….
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- a person of integrity and honour.
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With thanks to my special guest: Kenneth R Feinberg
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With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and
Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms. One of them, without any shadow of a doubt, is my next guest, the truly inspirational Rebecca Faye Smith Galli.
Just nine days after her divorce was finalised, Becky, a then 38-year-old mother of four, two of whom with special needs, wakes up at 2am with strange, shooting sensations in her legs. By 9pm, she’s paralysed from the waist down from a condition called transverse myelitis, a rare spinal cord inflammation. But this isn’t the first time Becky needed to rethink what’s possible.
Becky’s life until that point includes a journey through losses that would have brought anyone else to their knees, including the tragic death of her seventeen-year-old brother; two miscarriages; her daughter Maddison’s autism diagnosis; her son Matthew’s ultimately fatal degenerative disease; the sad demise of her marriage and the devastating loss of both her parents in quick succession.
Despite such unspeakably cruel blows, Becky always maintained her belief in family, in faith, in unconditional love, and in learning to not only accept, but to also embrace a life that had veered down a path far different to the one she had planned – as captured in her astonishing memoir – Rethinking Possible.
Becky’s journey is ultimately about the power of love over loss and the choices we all make that shape our lives & our perspectives —especially when forced to confront the unimaginable.
Tissues are strongly advised.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Rebecca Faye Smith Galli
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
By her own account, Carolyn Moor had it all. She & her architect husband Chad, had two gorgeous little girls, their own business & a house they designed & built in Orlando. On Valentine’s Day 2000, they talked over a romantic dinner & fantasized about what dreams would come next.
While they were driving home, a car struck theirs. Chad tragically died from his injuries. And Carolyn was left a 37 year old widow, with two little girls to keep afloat.
Dazed, heartbroken, terrified of what the future would hold & grief-stricken, Carolyn struggled to find the mentors & resources she needed to model the healing & growth she desperately sought. This lack for her, ultimately led to the establishment of the Modern Widows Club in Carolyn’s very own living room in 2011.
Apart from being the President, Founder & Development Director of the Modern Widows Club, Carolyn is also an award-winning interior designer, interfaith minister, TEDx speaker & widows health consultant.
Carolyn’s participated in the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Global Leadership Network & has been featured as an exemplar of resilience in the Wall Street Journal & on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Carolyn’s also the host of the Healthy Widow Healthy Woman Podcast, & was a consultant on NBC’s breakout hit, New Amsterdam. Her tireless work & advocacy on behalf of widows has been recognised globally.
This is Carolyn’s story….
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Carolyn Moor
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula FergusonBRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Leslie Morgan Steiner is a New York Times best-selling author, columnist for The Washington Post, consultant and thought leader on women’s leadership, work-life balance, inspirational parenting, overcoming adversity and surviving violence against women. She is a graduate of Harvard and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Her corporate experience includes The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, Leo Burnett and Seventeen Magazine.
She’s also the survivor of intimate partner violence and terror that almost cost her, her life as captured in her 2009 New York Times bestselling book, Crazy Love and her extraordinary Ted Talk that has been seen by more than 6 and a half million people.
Leslie recently completed her fourth nonfiction work, The Naked Truth, a memoir which explores female aging and sexuality after motherhood and divorce.
From surviving domestic violence and devoting much of her life to helping others who face a similar hell to the emancipation and sexual awakening she experienced after the end of her second marriage – it’s unlikely that we’ll run out of things to chat about.
This is Leslie’s story…
Please note that this episode of Brave Journeys talks graphically about coercive control and domestic violence and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
And for sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling services please call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 for 24/7 phone services.
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With thanks to my special guest: Leslie Morgan Steiner
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that re
My next guest, Dr Lucy Hone is a global authority and celebrated Ted Speaker in the area of resilience.
Lucy is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today.
Having been trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Lucy went on to attain her PhD in public health at AUT University in Auckland and now assists organisations - from government departments, to leading law firms and schools - to design and implement wellbeing and resilience initiatives that create sustained and meaningful change.
But in 2014, Lucy's life was turned upside down, when her beautiful 12-year-old daughter, Abi, was killed in a freak car accident. In the blink of an eye, one of the world’s leading resilience experts found herself flung to the other side of the equation, waking up with a whole new identity. Instead of being the resilience expert, she was suddenly thrust into the heinous and unfamiliar world of being the grieving mother whose life had been smashed to smithereens.
Lucy’s best-selling book “Resilient Grieving” which was originally titled, “What Abi Taught Us” has helped countless people get through their darkest days and her TED talk, The Three Secrets of Resilient People, has had over 3 million views and been recognised globally as one of the top 20 TED Talks of 2020.
She is the living example that it’s possible to grieve and live at the same time.
This is Lucy’s story…
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Dr Lucy Hone
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Proud Gunaikurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie, had spent a lifetime in fear of the police… and with good reason.
Ronnie's grandmother, Linda, was stolen from her family as an eight-year-old in 1941, along with her three siblings. And Veronica’s beloved father John was forcibly taken at birth from his then 16-year-old mother Linda & placed in an orphanage.
After watching her friends and family suffer under an inherently racist law-enforcement system, Veronica bravely signed up for training to become one of a handful of Aboriginal police officers in Australia, with the hope of creating a sense of safety and trust for Aboriginal communities, and for her three children.
In this incredibly powerful episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS, Veronica speaks frankly about a childhood replete with brutality, alcoholism and sexual assault, the impact of intergenerational trauma, her lived experience of systemic racism & intimate partner violence & the torment of making her way in the white, male-dominated police force, as captured in her book, Black & Blue: A Memoir of Racism & Resilience.
In the era of Black Lives Matter, as policing & deaths in custody in Australia come again under the microscope, it’s time to dispense with platitudes and focus on an honest, transparent journey of enlightenment. No more tokenism, no more box ticking. We must all commit to learning and become educated about the shameful history and egregious injustices the Traditional Custodians of our nation have endured. We must listen and we absolutely must do better.
It is such an honour that Veronica agreed to join me on BRAVE JOURNEYS.
This is Ronnie’s story…
Please note that this vitally important episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS talks graphically about the stolen generation, sexual abuse and domestic violence and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples should please be aware that this episode may contain the names of people who have passed away.
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With thanks to my special guest: Veronica Gorrie
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg, Ursula Ferguson.
And a special shout out to the beautiful Zandy Alter.
BRAVE JOURNEYSacknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal an
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My next guest, Stephanie Giese is a mother of five, a celebrated writer, a prolific blogger - recognised as one of HuffPost’s most viral bloggers of the decade & was named a BlogHer Voice of The Year - a former teacher and a tireless advocate for children and families living with mental illness.
Stephanie and her husband Eddie are foster, adoptive and biological parents. They adopted their first child Nicholas at 13 months. When Nicholas turned three, he started blaming an imaginary friend he called The Other Nicholas for terrifying things he did that he couldn't remember or explain.
By the time Nicholas turned seven, professionals were starting to use words like "psychotic break" and "crisis unit."
And by the age of twelve, he’d been admitted to paediatric psychiatric hospitals on four occasions.
Stephanie’s just published memoir, All I Never Knowed, which has been launched to critical acclaim, is the true story of the Giese family and the fight for Nicholas as he struggles with severe mental illness. Written at Nicholas' behest and told from the perspective of his extraordinary mother, Stephanie intimately shares the years & the enormous toll of navigating her child’s mental health crisis. It’s also the story of the unbreakable love between a mother and her son, as well as a husband and his wife.
And it’s a love letter to each family struggling through mental illness; each child battling the scars of trauma; and each parent questioning their worth.
This is not an episode that any parent or prospective parent can afford to miss!!!
This is Stephanie and Nicholas’ story…
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Stephanie Giese
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Stephen Jon Thompson is a distinguished leader and Tech Executive whose job it is to find the most elite talent in artificial intelligence for the world’s most cutting-edge technology & consumer companies - Including; Nike, Amazon, LinkedIn, Apple & Google.
So, it might be reasonable to assume Stephen was born into a beautiful family, with a silver spoon in his mouth, had an IVY league education & that his stratospheric career trajectory was written in the stars.
But this is BRAVE JOURNEYS my friends & we all know by now that that’s not how this extraordinary man’s life began.
You see, at nine years of age, Stephen was abandoned with his four younger siblings in a Nevada motel by his drug-addicted mother. His childhood was filled with abuse, violence, a revolving door of men, neglect, foster homes, Juvenile Hall, & a poverty so extreme, its seriously remarkable he survived. And yet, he has done so much more than just that.
Today, apart from being a giant in the tech recruitment space, Stephen is a board member of Students Rising Above a not-for-profit organisation that is dedicated to the cultivation & development of extraordinary youth who are low-income, 1st generation college students who’ve demonstrated a deep commitment to education & strength of character in overcoming tremendous odds of poverty, homelessness & neglect.
This is Stephen’s story…
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Stephen Jon Thompson
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Laura Cathcart Robbins is an acclaimed culture writer, storyteller extraordinaire & now beloved host of The Only One in the Room Podcast.
Laura’s survived post-natal depression; struggled through debilitating addiction and divorced her high-profile, Hollywood juggernaut, ex-husband. And when life felt very much rock bottom, Laura met her long-time love and collaborator Scot, in rehab… as you do… & has been sober now for 13 years.
Laura’s also a 2018 LA Moth StorySlam winner and sits on the advisory board for the San Diego Writer’s Festival, the Outliers HQ podcast Festival, as well as being the founding member of Moving Forewords, the first American memoirist collective of its kind.
Laura’s articles in The Huffington Post and The Temper on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide praise.
Laura’s gorgeous in every way, she’s as honest as the day is long and I’m absolutely thrilled she’s here. Did I mention her voice is mellifluous? Ok, OK, a little bit of a girl crush is clearly going on…
This is Laura’s story…
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Laura Cathcart Robbins
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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From the age of eight, Dr Michelle Stevens was brutally tortured and enslaved, raped, and pimped out to countless men by a sadistic paedophile; a man who passed himself off as her father.
After suffering more than ten years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, Michelle escaped and with superhuman strength, Michelle chose not to give into despair and vowed - that no matter what - she was going to fight for a good, decent, normal life. But the journey to that “good life” was paved with agony and heartache including psychological breakdowns, suicide attempts and the disorienting onset of Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder).
Michelle went on to study writing at New York University and earned her doctorate in psychology from Saybrook University, where her thesis was honoured as the “Dissertation of Distinction.”
Michelle has presented her research to the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, where she also received an award for Outstanding Research and her writing about trauma has appeared in the New York Times, Time, People, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, and The Hollywood Reporter.
Michelle has penned a remarkable memoir - Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving and she’s also the Founder and Executive Director of Post-Traumatic Success, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and inspiration of those affected by psychological trauma.
It is with immense awe and gratitude that I have the honour of welcoming Dr Michelle Stevens to the BRAVE JOURNEYS family… and in case you had any doubts, she is a living miracle…
Please note that this incredibly powerful and important episode of Brave Journeys talks graphically about sexual abuse and suicide and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can keep you safe. And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
And for sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling services please call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 for 24/7 phone services.
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Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal&
Are you in for a treat BRAVE JOURNEYS family?
Today’s guest is a bona fide superstar. But that’s not why I love him. And I really do love him.
36 hours after Jono Lancaster was born with Treacher Collins syndrome - a rare genetic disorder that effects the development of the cheek bones, jaw, chin and ears - his parents abandoned him in the hospital, claiming they were “horrified by Jono’s physical appearance” …and they never looked back.
If you’ve read the book or seen the incredible film Wonder starring Julia Roberts & Mandy Patinkin, you will know that the principal character Auggie - played by the extraordinary actor - Jacob Tremblay - was born with the same condition.
But Jono’s tragic start to life doesn’t define him; it’s been the making of him.
Today at 36, Jono and I discuss, well, absolutely everything from parental rejection to being put in the foster system at two weeks old and formally adopted at age 5 by his magical mum, Jean.
We talk about bullying, finding self-love, falling in love and becoming a global ambassador for the LOVE ME, LOVE MY FACE FOUNDATION that supports children and their families with Treacher Collins.
Jono is adored the world over for his optimism, wicked sense of humour, humility, remarkable sense of gratitude, and what he teaches us about making the world a more compassionate place.
Put it like this - If you don’t feel like pumping your fists in the air, being extra kind today and thankful for all your blessings, then I’m sending Jono round to your place… NOW.
This is Jono’s story …
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Jono Lancaster
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Doctor Mark Cross has worked in psychiatry for three decades and specialises in treating young people, complex PTSD, women’s mental health & anxiety disorders.
Mark’s also a senior Lecturer at the University of NSW & a conjoint lecturer at Western Sydney University. He sits on the Board of SANE AUSTRALIA - whose mission is to improve the health of those living with complex mental health issues, as well as reducing stigma & in 2015, Mark received the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists NSW Branch Meritorious Service Award for his “significant contribution” to psychiatry.
And if that’s not enough of a professional pedigree, Mark was the lead psychiatrist on the ground-breaking series Changing Minds for the ABC - that followed patients in the locked ward of the Mental Health Unit of Liverpool Hospital.
Mark’s fundamental message is that mental illness is exactly that, an illness, not a character defect. He wants us all to be unafraid to speak about how we are REALLY doing.
Oh, and did I forget to mention – he’s also lived with anxiety all his life and refers to himself as the “anxious shrink”.
How could he NOT be a guest on Brave Journeys??? Free therapy for me!!! Woo Hoo!!!
This is Mark’s story…
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Find out more about Mark here:
https://www.drmarkx.com/
Find out where to buy Susan’s incredible memoir, Anxiety: Expert Advice from a Neurotic Shrink Who’s Lived with it All His Life here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Anxiety-Expert-Advice-Neurotic-Shrink/dp/0733339425
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Dr Mark Cross
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Susan Burton is the one-time producer & now editor of the Pulitzer Prize winning weekly public radio show and podcast - This American Life - heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations across America; with another 2.5 million people downloading the podcast each week.
Susan’s radio documentaries have won numerous awards, including an Overseas Press Club citation, & The film Unaccompanied Minors, which was directed by Freaks & Geeks creator Paul Feig, is based on one of her personal essays. And Susan’s writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Yorker, & she’s a former editor of Harper's.
Susan graduated from Yale in 1995. So as far as professional pedigree goes, she’s incredibly inspiring.
And yet, despite all the successes & achievements, Susan has silently lived with anorexia & binge eating disorder since she was 13 years old. Now in her 40s, Susan bravely shares with me - as she has in her incredible memoir EMPTY - that food’s been the source of her anxieties for as long as she can remember.
And whilst Susan’s working towards recovery, she’s the first to admit, she’s still a work in progress.
This is Susan’s story …
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Find out more about Susan here:
http://www.susanburton.net/
Find out where to buy Susan’s incredible memoir, Empty, here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/214241/empty-by-susan-burton/
Listen to This American Life here:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Susan Burton
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Eilene Zimmerman noticed that the man who’d loomed large in her life for nearly 30 years - her ex-husband and father of her two children – PETER – seemed increasingly out of sorts.
He’d been looking progressively thin, seemingly preoccupied, couldn’t shake flu like symptoms and was becoming a more and more unreliable parent to their kids.
Eilene assumed Peter’s appearance and erratic behaviour was due to stress and overwork. As a senior partner at a prominent law firm, he’d been working more than 60 hours a week for more than 20 years.
But putting that aside, Peter seemed to have it all: a high-flying legal career; an exquisite waterfront property; luxurious cars, and other largesse that came with his affluent uber-successful life.
But when their son Ethan returned from a few days at Peter’s beach home, he shared with his mum, Eilene, that his dad was very sick, but despite desperate pleas, Peter refused point blank to go to hospital.
After two days of trying to reach Peter, Eilene drove to his house and made a shocking discovery.
The man she knew and loved for almost three decades had been living a secret life; one that started with pills and ended with opioids, cocaine and methamphetamine. You see, Peter was prosperous and powerful in the eyes of everyone else – but at the end of the day he was a man with demons and a lethal addiction that ultimately cost him his life.
And Eilene, Peter’s ex-wife, was left to pick up the pieces; all the pieces.
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Eilene Zimmerman
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Never before in the history of humankind has it been possible for a woman to give birth to an infant who is genetically unrelated to her.
Never before has it been possible for a woman to be the genetic parent of children to whom she has not given birth.
Never before has it been possible to bring children into the world in more than 30 ways.
Never before has it been possible that a child born can have more than two genetically related parents.
Never before has the issue of choice had such kaleidoscopic implications – particularly for the children born of these advancements in medical science.
So with that in mind let me paint a picture for you – it’s the 1960s in South Africa, when my next guest, Fiona Darroch’s parents - sought the assistance of gynaecologist/obstetrician, Dr Norman Walker, to start a family.
Dr Walker assured Fiona’s parents that by mixing sperm samples, it would help Fiona’s dad’s sperm to fertilise her mum’s eggs. But before you vigorously shake your heads with disbelief - remember, we’re talking about the 60’s, when Drs - let alone specialists - were Godlike… and their advice was gospel.
Dr Walker then told Fiona’s parents to go home, make love and forget it ever happened. And that’s exactly what they did.
37 years later, Fiona uncovered the truth about her conception.
Not only was the man who raised her not her biological father, but she also discovered that she and potentially HUNDREDS, yes HUNDREDS, of her siblings, were the outcome of what is known as fertility fraud.
Today, Fiona is a clinical psychologist who works with many adults who, like her, were Donor Conceived & are struggling through the avalanche of heartache & unanswered questions when they discover that the families who raised them are not the people who gave them life.
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Find out more about Fiona here:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/pregnancy/woman-estimates-hundreds-of-siblings-from-doctor-sperm-donor-dad-after-dna-testing/news-story/451ed0c39aaf7dfe105b8cdd0668620d
Watch Fiona on SBS’s Insight Program here:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/fertility-fraud-how-fiona-discovered-her-biological-dad-and-hundreds-of-siblings
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Fiona Darroch
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
When Joe Hyman left his parents at the airport for a year away at a religious seminary, he was carrying so much more baggage than just his suitcase. His then hidden gay identity, dragged behind him wherever he went.
A few months before leaving for his gap year abroad, Joe found what’s known as a conversion therapist online, falsely peddling a so-called cure to same sex attraction. And as time went on, it became clear that this quackery that includes humiliation, degradation and the vilification of his parents, wasn’t going to change who Joe was.
In this episode Joe and I speak about growing up in an Orthodox world; the horrific abuse that is conversion therapy; and the irreparable damage it causes. We also chat about Joe’s quest to find a space where his sexual identity as well as his love for his faith, could both find their home.
It’s important that I preface this episode by saying that this incredibly vital conversation is not about besmirching any religious community – because Joe’s story, like so many others, can be found in virtually any and every faith community - but rather, to shed some genuine light and gain some profound understanding, of how people, irrespective of religious affiliation, find their place when they are LGBTQ+.
As always, I come to this conversation from a place of compassion, love, respect and authentic curiosity and it’s in that spirit that I am so thrilled to introduce Joe.
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Find out more about Joe here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9568335/Four-victims-gay-conversion-therapy-bravely-tell-experiences.html
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Joe Hyman
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
What happens when the love of your life — your husband, your best friend, the father of your 3 week old baby - who’s gorgeous, funny, tall, exotic, and wonderfully attentive; the person you’ve basically banked your whole life on, turns out to be a psychopath?
This was the agonising question facing my next guest - JEN WAITE – as captured flawlessly in her international best-selling memoir, A Beautiful Terrible Thing.
In today’s episode, Jen and I chat about her heartbreaking discoveries, every life-destroying lie, and what happens to a human being once they discover that the person they've built their entire life around, never really existed.
Jen’s is a shocking tale of betrayal, brokenness and rebuilding when the rug has been completely pulled out from under you.
This is Jen’s story …
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Find out more about Jen here:
https://jenwaite.com/
Find out where to buy Jen’s incredible memoir, A Beautiful Terrible Thing, here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553184/a-beautiful-terrible-thing-by-jen-waite/
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Jen Waite
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
If you’re a parent, pulling your proverbial hair out at the life force that is social media – you really don’t want to go anywhere for the next hour.
My next guest, Kirra Pendergast, will tell you exactly like it is; she won’t pull any punches; she won’t sugar coat a thing; but she also won’t make you feel like a lousy, negligent parent for not knowing more than your kids do. And believe me, when it comes to the world of social media, they know more than you ever will.
So now the “why”? Where does Kirra’s wisdom come from? Is it because she once was a high-flying cyber-security expert at the top of her game? Well sure. But that’s not the whole story.
Because being a cyber expert didn’t stop Kirra from being cyber bullied so malevolently by an ex-business associate that it very nearly cost her, her life.
After a two-and half-year smear campaign, Kirra reached breaking point. She found herself sitting in her car, having the “worst kind of thoughts you could possibly have.”
Kirra’s attempt to seek justice against her abuser all but wiped out her bank accounts and by the time she found herself alone in that car thinking the gravest thoughts, she had $68 to her name.
But it’s what she did with that $68 that might just spare our children from not only the horrors she’s endured, but will empower parents to protect their kids in a way that actually works.
Kirra’s the oh so cool, straight talking auntie your kids need to keep them safe on social.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Kirra here:
https://www.safeonsocial.com/about-us
Find out more about the Safe on Social Toolkit for schools & parents here:
https://www.safeonsocialtoolkit.com/pages/home
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Resource for parents from the eSafety Commissioner about having “hard to have conversations” with kids:
https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/skills-advice/hard-to-have-conversations
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Kirra Pendergast
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Believe me when I say this is one of the most egregious cases of a miscarriage of justice you’ll ever hear.
SABRINA BUTLER SMITH’s story can only be described as your very worst nightmare. At 17, Sabrina was a young, single mother to two children including her beautiful baby boy, Walter. When Walter was nine months old, Sabrina came home after a jog and found him in his crib not breathing. After a frantic half an hour desperately seeking help from neighbours and applying the CPR she was instructed to give, Walter arrived in the emergency room, but the doctors were unable to revive him.
Instead of consoling the heartbroken teen mother, the doctors wrongly accused Sabrina of child abuse. And after a 4 hour brutal police interrogation, Sabrina was charged with murdering her baby boy. In March 1990, Sabrina was wrongfully convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Six and a half excruciating years after her wrongful conviction, Sabrina was granted an appellate trial with the support of her new lawyer - my former guest, Clive Stafford Smith. During the appeal, it was found that Walter had tragically died from a genetic kidney disorder.
In 1995, Sabrina was the first woman ever in the history of the United States to be exonerated from Death Row.
The only thing that kept this remarkable young woman going was her faith and the knowledge of one thing: she was innocent.
They say the truth will set you free. But even for the exonerated, hell remains a place on earth.
This is Sabrina’s story …
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Sabrina here:
https://sabrinabutler.webs.com/
https://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/single-post/2017/07/01/sabrina-butler-smith
Find out more about Witness to Innocence here:
https://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/
Watch “Kids Meet a Death Row Exoneree” here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzvcPrbVBNc
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Sabrina Butler Smith
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
If you’ve ever second guessed yourself, hated yourself or harmed yourself because you weren’t a certain number on a scale. If you’ve ever been humiliated because of your size or praised when you shed kilograms in a hope to fit in and be good enough. If you’ve ever deluded yourself that living a life of deprivation makes you somehow more virtuous, more desirable, more worthy - then you’ve absolutely landed at the right episode.
Virgie Tovar started life as an effervescent, confident child who adored her body until the word, the insult, the denigration of being FAT was poured all over her like a torrent of shame. Well, she’s taken back the word.
Virgie is a fat activist; podcast host of Rebel Eaters Club; the author of 'You Have the Right to Remain Fat' & 'The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color’; and she’s one of America’s leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image.
Virgie received the Yale University’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; famously started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a ground-breaking TedX talk on the origins of the movement.
Virgie’s making a real difference in a world that tells our children every second of their lives that they’ll be more acceptable in society if only they tweak this, or shed this, or enhance this.
This is Virgie’s story
BUT BEFORE YOU GO
Find out more about Virgie here: https://www.virgietovar.com/
Listen to Virgie’s Podcast here: https://www.rebeleatersclub.com/
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Buy Virgie’s remarkable book “The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color” here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Self-Love-Revolution-Radical-Positivity-Solutions-ebook/dp/B07YW5MLB2
Buy Virgie’s remarkable memoir “You Have the Right to Remain Fat” here: https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Fat/dp/1911545167#:~:text=Growing%20up%20as%20a%20fat,others%20to%20do%20the%20same.
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Virgie Tovar
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
If you’ve ever wanted to know what deep, profound, abiding, altruistic, passionate, inspirational love looks like – this is the episode for you.
Jason Rosenthal enjoyed a wonderful but quiet life. He was happy to have his extraordinary wife – Amy Krouse Rosenthal - the celebrated children’s book author, memoirist, filmmaker and all-round glorious human being, settle in the spotlight.
Then, on Valentine’s Day 2017, Amy penned a love letter to him, like no other.
“I have been married to the most extraordinary man for 26 years,” she wrote. “I was planning on another 26 years.”
But that wasn’t in the stars. At 51 years young, Amy was in the final stage of ovarian cancer.
The love letter-cum-dating profile to which I refer, ran as a New York Times Modern Love column, under the heart-stopping headline, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” In it, Amy wanted to give Jason her public blessing to rebuild his life with their three children and find love again.
Ten days later, Amy died.
This is Jason's story...
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Find out more about the Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation here: https://www.amykrouserosenthalfoundation.org/
Buy Jason’s memoir here: https://www.jasonbrosenthal.com/books
Find Amy’s NY Times Modern Love Column here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-husband.html
Find Jason’s NYTimes Modern Love Column here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/style/modern-love-my-wife-said-you-may-want-to-marry-me.html
Watch Jason’s Ted Talk Here: https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_b_rosenthal_the_journey_through_loss_and_grief?language=en
Watch Amy’s Ted Talk Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWgIccldh4
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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Jason B Rosenthal
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Sometimes you come across a person whose story breaks your heart, but whose will and determination for good – despite, or perhaps in spite – of the horrors they’ve faced, will ensure that they’ll leave the world better than they found it.
Fred Guttenberg’s story will make you press pause on this episode and go and love the ones you love harder than you’ve ever loved them before – but it’s what Fred has done with his unbearable tragedy that will embolden, you, me and hopefully all of us who are privileged to hear him, to become better people and live more purposeful lives.
Fred was a successful businessman for whom family was his EVERYTHING – as a father, husband, son and brother. But extraordinary circumstances would change the shape of Fred’s world forever.
Fred’s brother, Dr Michael Guttenberg, one of the 1st responders on 9/11 at the World Trade Centre, was trapped with a team of doctors at the bottom of one of the towers as it collapsed. The room where they hid out did not collapse, and Michael and his team of physicians, spent 16 days at Ground Zero taking care of others. As a result of the exposure, Michael was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which he battled until October 2017, when he tragically passed away at 50 years of age.
Fred was still grieving the loss of his adored brother when the unthinkable happened – his beautiful, kind, magical daughter Jamie, was gunned down - as one of the 17 victims brutally murdered in the shooting that took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day 2018.
Since Jaime’s death, Fred has been fighting tirelessly to pass gun violence prevention legislation, and to honour Jaime's life with the non-profit organisation - Orange Ribbons for Jaime.
Whilst this isn’t my tragedy – believe me when I say, this is everyone’s tragedy.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Fred here: https://fredguttenberg.com/
Find out more about Orange Ribbons for Jaime here: https://orangeribbonsforjaime.org/
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Buy Fred’s incredible memoir, “Find the Helpers”, here: https://shop.booksandbooks.com/book/9781642505351
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Fred Guttenberg
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
When Professor Gemma Carey was 12 years old, a man twice her age would sneak into her bedroom on a weekly basis and sexually assault her. When Gemma was seventeen, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else knowing and had him placed on the child sex offender’s register.
Perhaps most startling is that for 20 years, Gemma’s mother had known about her daughter’s abuser.
But why hadn’t she acted to protect her daughter?
Could the genesis of this unspeakable betrayal be found in Gemma’s mother’s own family history?
This is Gemma’s story…
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Find out more about Gemma here: https://www.gemmacarey.net/
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Find Gemma's incredible memoir, here: "No Matter Our Wreckage"
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Professor Gemma Carey
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Dr Matt Morgan is an intensive care specialist, scientist, teacher, self-professed geek and now best-selling author.
But to me, Matt’s a profound philosopher, helping the world make sense of what it means to live, to survive, to give your all, & to show up when you don’t think you can.
He thought I wanted I to chat to him about his worldwide bestseller – CRITICAL: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINE OF INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE. Now that I’ve read it, I want to speak to him about, well… absolutely everything.
This is Matt’s story…
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Find out more about Matt here: https://drmattmorgan.com/
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Dr Matt Morgan
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Caro Llewellyn was living a dream life in her adopted home of New York, directing an international literary festival and even calling Salman Rushdie “boss”. Then one ordinary day, running in Central Park, she lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with MS.
But Caro wasn’t a stranger to life’s blows. Her father Richard contracted polio at the age of twenty and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Dignified, and ever resourceful, Caro’s dad was determined to make every day count, not least by seducing his nurse while still confined to an iron lung & then marrying her.
But when Caro was herself blindsided by illness, cast adrift from everything she depended on - she was furious, toxic and humiliated. Cos surprise surprise grace isn’t hereditary – it’s a choice.
Only by reflecting on her father’s extraordinary example, was Caro able to choose courage and find a way forward, rebuilding her life shard by shard.
And if you have any doubt as to the extraordinary calibre of this remarkable human being you’re about to hear, in 2020 Caro was appointed CEO of Wheeler Centre and her incredible memoir, Diving into Glass, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
This is her story…
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BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out about Caro, the CEO of the Wheeler Centre:
https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/caro-llewellyn
Follow Caro on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaroLlewellyn
Find out about Caro’s incredible, award winning memoir - “Diving Into Glass” here:
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/diving-into-glass-9780143793786
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Caro LLewellyn
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Greg Fleet - or Fleety to comedy lovers around the world - has been one of Australia’s most successful comedic exports for almost four decades. For much of that time, he also lived with a devastating heroin addiction.
The rap sheet of his many deceptions during the haze of his habit, included touring an incredibly successful show about his miraculous recovery. The only problem was, he was completely, desperately and hopelessly addicted at the time.
From Rock bottom to rehab, to recovery and back again. From broken relationships to global success, to collateral damage across the board. And did I forget to mention, a father - HIS father - who feigned his own death? Yes, all of the above form the tapestry of Greg’s extraordinary life.
Heads up, Greg’s been clean now for a number of years so if you call him a former junkie, he might bristle. But if you call him a reformed “heroin enthusiast” … he’s likely to give you a hug and a guttural giggle.
This is the story of Fleety…
Please note that this episode of Brave Journeys talks about illicit drugs and addiction and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
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BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Greg here: https://gregfleet.com/
Follow Greg on Twitter: @thegregfleet
Buy tickets for Greg’s extraordinary play Twins - that he wrote, directed and stars in as himself: https://thetwinsplay.com.au/the-play/
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Greg Fleet
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the
Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
When Joselin Linder was a teenager, her beloved dad, Dr William Linder, became mysteriously sick in his 40s. His doctors, as well as medical professionals across the US and around the world, watched his body slowly decline. But there were no answers. By age 49, he was dead.
One of the world’s leading genetics research teams - at the Seidman Lab at Harvard Medical School – discovered that Jos too had inherited the same genetic mutation that had not only killed her father, but five other members of her family.
For perhaps the first time in medical history, this population (known in scientific terms as a FOUNDER POPULATION) has been isolated and through the efforts (and immense sacrifices) of Jos and her family, the gene won’t be passed on to a 5th generation.
But those living with the gene - including Jos and her sister Hilary - are still fighting to find a cure.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Jos here: http://www.thefamilygenebook.com/
Find more about The Family Gene here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-family-gene-joselin-linder?variant=32207719137314
Follow Jos on Insta: @joselinder
Follow Jos on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joselinder?lang=en
Jos’ Article in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/well/live/mortality-genetic-disorder.html
Jos at TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guWkr2xE7a0&feature=emb_logo
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Joselin Linder
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Mark Lukach courageously shares the story of how his future changed unexpectedly at 27 years of age, when his wonderful wife Giulia - with no history of mental illness - was first hospitalised on a psych ward after a devastating mental health crisis.
Mark first wrote about Giulia in the New York Times "Modern Love" column (Tam’s all-time favourite column) & again in a piece for Pacific Standard Magazine that went viral. He’s also shared their remarkable journey at The Moth Main Stage AND at a TEDx conference. You’ll be able to find all these links below.
Mark’s international bestselling memoir - My Lovely Wife In The Psych Ward is about how mental illness re-shaped their young marriage & ultimately affirmed the power of their mesmeric love.
Mark & Giulia were simply meant to be. Their abiding love is something that will stay with me - and I dare say you too - long after the haunting depictions of the psych ward will.
This episode of Brave Journeys talks about mental illness and suicide. If anything you hear has a triggering effect, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe. Or please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.
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Find out more about Mark here: http://www.marklukach.com/
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Mark’s Article in Pacific Standard Magazine that went viral: https://psmag.com/social-justice/lovely-wife-psych-ward-95567
Mark at TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVNdPoF9W8
Mark at The Moth Main Stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHZQvIN-7pk
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Mark Lukach
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Dr Nicole Brooks is pure sunshine. A beaming smile and down to earth nature that belies the gravity of the work she does… day in, day out.
You see, at 15 years of age Nicole, lost her beautiful mum, Susie, to cancer. And she’s taken that tragedy and profound loss and converted it into devoting her life to cancer research and improving the lives and health outcomes of patients.
Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a PHD in foetal physiology in obstetrics and gynaecology from the University of Melbourne. And now, as the program manager of The Molecular Oncology and Cancer Immunology (MOCI) group at Epworth Healthcare, she, and her brilliant colleagues, aim to provide patients with access to cutting-edge genomic testing.
Today’s episode of Brave Journeys is brought to you by TIDEE – Professional Organisers – helping bring calm to your everyday.
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BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Nic here:
https://blog.epworth.org.au/stories/blood-cancer-research
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Dr Nicole Brooks
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Brave Journeys acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Where should I start with today’s guest – apart from confessing that he’s a lifelong hero of mine? Clive Stafford Smith is one of the world’s most distinguished Human Rights lawyers and the Founder of ‘Reprieve’ - a UK based legal NGO that defends marginalised people who are facing human rights abuses, often at the hands of powerful governments.
Clive’s dedicated over 25 years working on behalf of defendants facing the death penalty in the US. He only takes on cases of those who can’t afford a lawyer & he’s assisted in the representation of over 400 prisoners and prevented their execution in 98% of cases.
In 2000, Clive was awarded an OBE for ‘humanitarian services’ and has won a raft of awards in the field of human rights that would take an hour alone to read out.
But it’s his own journey to becoming one of the world’s most feted civil libertarians which really has me spellbound.
And please don’t be fooled by his very regal British accent. Whilst, Clive most certainly is an intellectual giant; he’s an intellectual giant with a heart of gold & a wicked sense of humour who believes that human beings – all human beings - deserve humanity and compassion.
Yep … he’s extraordinary. Buckle up dear friends, cos this episode is epic.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Clive here: https://reprieve.org/uk/person/clive-stafford-smith/
Clive at TedX Exeter: https://www.tedxexeter.com/speakers/clive-stafford-smith/
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Clive Stafford Smith
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg.
For Isabelle Oderberg, professional success was a given. A trailblazing journalist who’d spent 15 years pioneering digital journalism and going toe to toe with Rupert Murdoch at expansive boardroom tables. But on the personal front, success, was not, well… so assured.
When Isy decided at 34 that she wanted to become a mother, she had no partner to embark on that journey with.
Having courage in spades, she decided to go it alone. Then, as luck would have it, she met her Mr Right. But on their path to parenthood, Isy endured seven, yes seven, devastating pregnancy losses. That’s seven babies she and her husband never got to meet.
Isy’s now courageously writing a book about conception and pregnancy loss aptly called, “Hard to Bear” to help others experiencing the crushing grief that takes hold, when there’s no baby at the end of a pregnancy.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Isy here: https://www.isabelleoderberg.me
Follow Isy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yodaberg
Find more about Hard to Bear here: http://www.hardtobear.com
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Isabelle Oderberg
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg
Christie Tate, is a Chicago-based lawyer, mother & now an author of an oh so personal memoir - GROUP: How One Therapist & a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life - that’s literally taken the world by storm.
GROUP tells the story of Christie: A brilliant over-achieving, self-lacerating young law student, graduating top of her class, who wants to die & enters GROUP therapy to save her life. “GROUP” is Christie's first book & has just been selected for Reese Witherspoon's 'Hello Sunshine' book club.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Christie here:
https://christietate.com/
Learn more about Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life: https://christietate.com/https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Group/Christie-Tate/9781471198960
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CREDITS:
Creator & Host: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to special guest: Christie Tate
Executive Producer: Amanda Rosenberg
Audio Director (& principal cheerleader): George Weinberg
Editor: Matt Solon
For Jan Marshall, life was good. She’d worked hard, set herself up financially and was hoping to share her future with a special someone. Having never partnered, she did what millions around the world do… she turned to online dating. After just a few short days of being approached on a dating site, Jan was certain she’d met “the one”. She accepted a proposal of marriage to a man she’d never seen and within 72 days of connecting online, she sent money, ALL her money – and then some – to a professional scammer.
How did it happen? How does an intelligent, rational person, who’d lived an immaculate life, fall prey to such a wholesale deception? She’s certainly not alone.
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Jan here:
https://janmarshall.com.au
https://romancescamsurvivor.org
Learn more about Romance Scam Survivor: The Whole Sordid Story here: https://janmarshall.com.au/romance-scam-survivor-book
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CREDITS:
Creator & Host: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to special guest: Jan Marshall
Executive Producer: Amanda Rosenberg
Audio Director (& principal cheerleader): George Weinberg
Editor: Matt Solon
As psychologist and filmmaker Eve Ash investigates her parents’ story and in doing so, she uncovers shocking family secrets that literally upend her life.You see, Eve’s beloved parents, Martha and Feliks, both lost their entire families in the Holocaust, including their spouses. Broken, Feliks and Martha met after the war and emigrated together to Melbourne in 1949. Feliks then became a gentle and loving father, dedicated to the family business.
Eve grew up with her older sister, Helen, in a prototypical post-war suburb, with all the comforts any child could want, and yet, somehow, she always felt “different”. After their parents died, Eve and Helen, travelled to the Ukraine to uncover details of the horrific pogroms that wiped out their family. On their tour of discovery, Eve talked to friends and family in Europe, the USA, and in Australia to find out more about her parents. Her mother, Martha emerges, as a talented artist and devoted wife and mother, but also a flamboyant and flirtatious woman who was bored by suburban life and often said ‘some secrets you must never tell anyone’. Having narrowly escaped execution by the Nazis and losing her mother and husband in horrific circumstances, Martha made a new life in Melbourne that featured a whirlwind of parties and gaiety, but always hid a deep dark secret: her love affair over fifteen years with a man she met on a bus.
For Eve, the truth came out in a stunning way. In January 2008, she received an email from a stranger who claimed to be her sister. When they met, Eve was startled by how much the stranger looked like her. A DNA test confirmed that they were, indeed, half-sisters. This woman’s father was a man named ‘Dixie’ who Eve had known as a child. And, in fact, he was the mysterious man on the bus that Eve had spotted in Martha’s home movies. Following this bombshell, Eve set out to find Dixie, who was working full-time in Melbourne as a land surveyor at the age of 83. He is a defiant non-conformist who had ten children with six different women, and Eve strives to make sense of this piece of her story. In doing so, Eve finally manages to connect the dots of her life, from the Holocaust atrocities to her mixed emotions about her fathers. She gets to the truth of her own identity, resolving the feelings of “differentness” that have always stalked her.
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Watch the Trailer to Man on the Bus here:
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CREDITS:
Creator & Host: Tammi Faraday With thanks to special guest: Eve Ash
Executive Producer: Amanda Rosenberg
Audio Director (& principal cheerleader): George Weinberg
Editor: Matt Solon
Hollywood actor, Katherine Kendall, is most known for her roles of Dorothy in Jon Favreau’s “Swingers” and The Counselor, in the cult classic “Firefly”. But as one of the first women to bravely come forward about being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein - silence breaker, change agent and seasoned warrior, Katherine - is now one of the leading advocacy voices for victims of sexual assault and abuse. She’s currently hosting her own podcast called “Roar with Katherine Kendall” which focuses on stories of courage and resilience. Well, on BRAVE JOURNEYS, we certainly know all about that…
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Creator & Host: Tammi Faraday With thanks to special guest: Katherine Kendall
Executive Producer: Amanda Rosenberg
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Editor: Matt Solon
Leanne Czerniecki is one of those people whose capacity to give, and to love, is limitless. Apart from surviving two bouts of cancer, retraining from corporate law to the highest level of paediatric nursing, being a devoted mother to three children, becoming an egg donor to give the gift of parenthood to infertile couples – she and her husband then courageously opened their hearts and their home to a child whose formative years were filled with unspeakable horrors and tragedy.
With love and time, patience and untold investment, they have created a beautiful family of 6. Some people amaze, some inspire, and some are just bloody exceptional…and yet when she was asked to come on the show her first response was, “…but I’m just so ordinary”. If she’s ordinary, I’m an amoeba…
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With thanks to special guest: Leanne Czerniecki
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Audio Director (& principal cheerleader): George Weinberg
Editor: Matt Solon
Rachel Berger is one of Australia’s favourite stand-up comedians and raconteurs. A woman of remarkable insight and depth. Scotland’s List Magazine has referred to her as the “sharpest comedian” - irrespective of “gender or hemisphere”.She’s loud. She’s brash and she takes no prisoners.Child of Holocaust Survivors. Single for most of her life. No children. And she now calls the Bushlands of Tasmania home (or Berger’s Bush as it is now affectionately known) … but only after fast and reliable internet connection was assured. There are no cows to sacred for this Berger.
Her road to the stage has been anything but linear… just the way we like it. And she’s using her gift for comedy to heal trauma survivors.
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Award winning author and teacher, Gabbie Stroud, speaks frankly with Tammi Faraday about why she left teaching… or perhaps more accurately why teaching left her. You see, Gabbie was the teacher everyone wished they had and more importantly, the one we wish our children had.
In her smash hit memoir Teacher, Gabbie shares with incredible vulnerability and candour about why she became a teacher, the personal price she paid to be the above-and-beyond-teacher she was and what finally took her to the brink and made her leave the career that had once been her calling. Gabbie’s profound impacts on those lives she touched in the classroom still endure today.
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https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/other-books/Teacher-Gabbie-Stroud-9781760295905
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CREDITS:
Creator & Host: Tammi Faraday With thanks to special guest: Gabbie Stroud
Executive Producer: Amanda Rosenberg
Audio Director (& principal cheerleader): George Weinberg
Editor: Matt Solon
Asher Packman was a global communications juggernaut when a series of significant events led Asher to totally redefine his purpose.
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https://www.warrior-within.com.au/asher
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**CREDITS:
Creator & Host: Tammi Faraday With thanks to special guest: Asher Packman**
Executive Producer: Amanda Rosenberg
Audio Director (& principal cheerleader): George Weinberg
Editor: Matt Solon
Australian broadcaster, journalist, lawyer, documentary filmmaker and mama of four, Tammi Faraday, learns from others how to navigate life’s invariable challenges where there's no clear answer, but bravery has propelled them forward. With compassionate curiosity, reciprocal candour & vulnerability in spades, Tam uncovers her guests' brave life journeys, with the hope of empowering you to realise life’s difficulties don’t have to define you – they are often the making of you.
Let's find our inner brave together!!
Tam xxx
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