Please meet Paulette Ragan. She is a beautiful, fun, stoic, creative, gritty, determined, unique woman who’s reflections on her life reveal a roadmap of learned wisdom that, step by step, enabled her to deal with some really big personal challenges, face on. Yes there is a pun there.

Through her many years of nursing out in the community, caring for refugees among other marginalised groups, her stories of people at the edge of life and at real points of need will move you.

You’re going to be taken on a journey, beginning with getting your hands in dirt to the power of community; how all our journeys to authenticity begins with acceptance and getting real; and her big personal challenge with beating the lifelong emotional and physical scourge of eczema with tropical steroid withdrawal, to finally the joyous and the unbridled freedom in creativity.

So, so much widsom contained in the precious minutes that unfold in this conversation.