Melbourne local Catherine Deveny has a career I have followed for decades. She is a writer, a comedian, an inspiration to many and she has provided many a belly cackle for me over the years. She is irreverent, intelligent and loads of fun and I loved unpacking the French angle of her story. 

Catherine describes herself as a professional MILF!!! Seriously though, she is the founder of the Gunnas writers retreats and since its inception she has had 10,000 writers or "gunna-be" writers through her workshops. Her retreats have created a community of writers that keep coming back for more!

Catherine has said, "We put obstacles in front of our happiness... they are distraction, procrastination and self-doubt. Satisfaction is what makes us happy, not distraction. There's no effort without error. 80% of success is just turning up." These words inspire me to get up and get going! It's fabulous life advice!  We should not postpone joy! We should live our lives with as much joy as possible and I love how Catherine makes this "real" in our chat during this episode.

I often wonder that many women have not been raised to consider their own dreams. Listening to Catherine as we chatted left me really considering how I might live my best life and actually live my dreams...

Tune into hear our chat and maybe consider how to shift from being a "Gunna" to an actual "Do-er".



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