Clare Bowditch is a musician, an actor, radio presenter, educator and now author (on her website she calls herself music maker/story baker/educator). She visited Maleny to talk about her memoir, Your Own Kind of Girl, a revealing story of a childhood punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion, a story that tells how these forces shaped her life for better and for worse. It is a heartbreaking, wise and at times playful. In this podcast she also sings a couple of her songs.

Clare won an Aria Award for Best Female Artist in 2006, was nominated for a Logie for her role in the TV series Offspring, was named Woman of the Year by Rolling Stone, as well as touring with Leonard Cohen, Paul Kelly and Gotye. She is also the founder Big Hearted Business, a love project designed to support creative people in their businesses, and businesses with their creative thinking.