Discover You Podcast

Welcome back to another powerful episode of the Discover You Podcast hosted by Joel Benesha! In this episode, we sit down with advocate and community leader Rita to explore her inspiring journey, core philosophies, and commitment to driving social change.

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The Discover You podcast is a #1 weekly empowerment video podcast of the best talks and guests in Brisbane, Australia, where the country's leading thinkers, doers and businesses share the story of their lives in 1 hour and 40 minutes (or less). Look for talks on fulfillment, mental health, purpose and the lessons that define who we become.

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In this deeply moving episode of the Discover You Podcast, host Joel Benesha sits down with Xavier, a bank branch manager for Commonwealth Bank in Australia, who shares his powerful story of resilience, faith, and overcoming immense hardship.

Growing up in Dumaguete City, Philippines, Xavier faced extreme poverty—selling plastic bags in the wet market just to help put food on the table. After tragically losing his mother at age 9, his father at 21, and navigating severe personal struggles that nearly led to suicide, Xavier clung to his mother’s advice: to never give up and keep believing in himself.

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In this episode of The Discover You Podcast, Joel sits down with Artist Leonard Kisimba (formerly known as Leo Chan) for a raw and thought-provoking conversation on faith, relationships, purity, and spiritual warfare.

Leonard shares his personal journey of staying abstinent until marriage at age 27, while unpacking challenging biblical perspectives on modern dating culture, lust, and relationship dynamics.

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The Discover You podcast is a #1 weekly empowerment video podcast of the best talks and guests in Brisbane, Australia, where the country's leading thinkers, doers and businesses share the story of their lives in 1 hour and 40 minutes (or less). Look for talks on fulfillment, mental health, purpose and the lessons that define who we become.

Dr. Ash breaks down the deep connection between the mind and body, sharing how suppressed emotions, identity struggles, and subconscious fears often manifest as physical symptoms and long-term injuries.

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The Discover You podcast is a #1 weekly empowerment video podcast of the best talks and guests in Brisbane, Australia, where the country's leading thinkers, doers and businesses share the story of their lives in 1 hour and 40 minutes (or less). Look for talks on fulfillment, mental health, purpose and the lessons that define who we become.

I just needed a window, and I kept saying that to myself." She prayed for a window of opportunity, and when it came she jumped in the car with a toddler and an 8-month-old baby and drove away.

In this episode, Joel sits down with a mother of two and survivor of domestic and family violence. She was married for nine years, and not long after the wedding the abuse started. More than a decade later, she spends her time helping other women through post-separation, co-facilitating legal programs from lived experience with the charity Broken to Brilliant. She opens up about being believed, the shame that keeps so many women quiet, how her faith grew stronger through it all, and why healing is lifelong and always on your own terms.

We cover:

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Linna Reakes is the founder of OMR Property, a former operating theatre nurse, a mother, and a first-generation migrant from China who arrived in Australia at 24 with no plan and built a business from scratch.
In this episode, she opens up about growing up as an only daughter under China's one-child policy, proving herself to her father, and learning to succeed in a new country, from passing her English exam in three months to working her way up from bullying in the operating theatre to person in charge.

We cover:
How Linna wants to be remembered
Growing up feeling "not good enough" and why she's always had to be strong
Losing her father and leaning on her faith
Switching from HR to nursing and convincing her dad to back her
Her advice for anyone ready to give up: go back to your "why"

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#Entrepreneurship #Migrant #WomenInBusiness #Brisbane #Podcast #Mindset

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The Discover You podcast is a #1 weekly empowerment video podcast of the best talks and guests in Brisbane, Australia, where the country's leading thinkers, doers and businesses share the story of their lives in 1 hour and 40 minutes (or less). Look for talks on fulfillment, mental health, purpose and the lessons that define who we become.

For 30 years, Nina chased approval.

Good grades. Achievement. Being the “good daughter.” Trying to finally feel like she was enough.

Then, sitting beside her father during his final months, she asked the question she had carried for most of her life:

“Why were you so hard on me?”

What followed changed the way she understood her father, grief, forgiveness—and herself.

In this episode of Discover You, Nina opens up about inner child healing, growing up as the daughter of migrant parents, her struggles with anxiety and depression, and how losing her father forced her to confront a lifetime of searching for love through achievement.

Her biggest realization?

You were always worthy of love. You never had to earn it.

🎙️ Nina | Real Wellness
Full episode coming soon on Discover You.

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In this inspiring episode of the Discover You Podcast, host Joel sits down with Kane, a remarkable 17-year-old Indigenous advocate who is making a powerful impact in his community. Having overcome a troubled past and navigating the foster care system, Kane shares his journey of transformation and the pivotal moment that changed his path.

Tune in to hear Kane’s wise words on reconciliation, unity, and how it only takes one person believing in a child to completely change their future.

Available now on YouTube and Spotify! Connect with the Discover You Podcast on Instagram.

The Discover You podcast is a #1 weekly empowerment video podcast of the best talks and guests in Brisbane, Australia, where the country's leading thinkers, doers and businesses share the story of their lives in 1 hour and 40 minutes (or less). Look for talks on fulfillment, mental health, purpose and the lessons that define who we become.

Want to appear as a guest or get involved behind the scenes with social media? Contact us:

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.realitycreation.co
Instagram: Follow Joel Benesha
Facebook:   / realitycreationau  
YouTube:    / @discoveryoupodcast  

Private coaching with Joel:
https://realitycreation.co/coaching

Support our work or sponsor an episode:
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Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Childhood sexual abuse survivor, Olivia Johnson, explains that continuous abuse and neglect in the household has real, tangible effects on the brain and how the body keeps the score. 

This unravels across someone's life, to the extent where people who've experienced high levels of trauma become very isolated, suffer poor mental health, and have pair bonding struggles.