Conversations for a Complete Life

This is an important conversation ladies, and one we need to have regularly and in many formats.

The essence of this episode is this: until gender equality is a man's issue as well, it will never be.

We cannot correct an imbalance when only one side is trying to right it, especially when it's the side that is disadvantaged and holds less power in the first place.

If you're looking for inspirational women who have risen to the top of a competitive, male-dominated profession then it's hard to look past Australia's top female journalists.

In this episode I four key strategies for women who want to succeed, as suggested by several of the speakers at the 2018 Women in Media conference.

When, exactly, does a girl's potential disappear?

The statistics tell us girls outperform boys at school; that more young women enter university; and more of them graduate from university.

Yet, graduate starting salaries favour men in all fields of study but two, and in nine out of 13 industries.

I share some thoughts on why women still lag behind men in terms of pay and work choices, and what it will take to one day reach equality.

Very few, if any, women ever say they have a work-life balance. Not a good one, anyway.

Balance isn't impossible though. The problem is we haven't understood it well enough to make it work.

Despite the sense of difficulty that surrounds the concept, it is nevertheless something worth pursuing because we cannot live happily or be healthy without some semblance of it.

Balance as a concept is a misunderstood creature and it's the misunderstanding that makes us feel like it's impossible to achieve.

This episode is all about having the courage to choose yourself and your own life.

It starts out about business and Instagram but the story of Liss Amyah is ahhh-mazing and she is the definition of true courage, grace and strength.

She is the mother of six children, is now a single mum, and runs her business in which she shares beautiful lettering work. In this interview we touch on some of her story about living in and later leaving, what she describes as 'crazy church land', the conservative fundamentalist religious community she was a part of when married.

Karla Gilbert is one of Australia's most loved sporting icons, still considered the Queen of Surf Lifesaving even post-retirement. She has taken the lessons of perseverance and resilience learnt from being was the country's most successful female surf lifesaver and applied them to building her own online business as a health coach. In this interview, Karla shares how she has just tried to stay true to who she is and quietly go about helping other people.

Our society needs women to contribute their thoughts and ideas to balance views. We need that more than ever as we can now see in world events, and we can start doing that from our keyboard, on our laptop at our kitchen bench. Amplifying women's voices - encouraging women to contribute to the conversation - is vitally important in a world that's out of balance.