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Tom Cronin spent 26 years in finance markets as one of Sydney’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing hit a crisis point. Meditation completely transformed his world, both personally and professionally.

Today Tom is passionate about reducing stress and chaos in people’s lives, and his mission is to inspire one billion people to meditate daily.

His work in transformational leadership and cultivating inner peace through meditation takes him around the world as a speaker, presenting keynote talks, hosting retreats and teaching.

Tom has appeared on national TV, and been featured in Vogue, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Review and Conde Nast Traveller. He is co-creator of The Portal film-book experience, author of six books.

My path hasn’t always been about being a Medium. I remember seeing a spirit as a young child and I was inconsolable. These incredible gifts were an inconvenience for me and they were not valued by society, my family or my social groups. These gifts made my life hard, so I denied my spirituality

So I denied these gifts, I hid them from myself and the world. I hid these gifts by denying and discrediting any spiritual experiences that I had. This was the only way I knew to be safe in the world.

Then I spent my whole adult life striving to become successful. I got near perfect high school grades, a Scholarship to University. I became a Chartered Accountant, then I went on to hold an MBA with Distinction. After leaving university, I climbed the corporate ladder to become a Chief Financial Officer of a global publishing house.

When I first started studying my MBA, I just wasn’t coping. My anxiety was off the scale. I knew the only way to heal myself was to explore what spirituality offered. I have been meditating for well over a decade and I have utilised so many different spiritual and mindful techniques in the corporate world. I would ground myself before a Board Meeting. I would remotely clear the energy in the room before important discussions and I learnt to cleanse my auric field after conflict. These practices were not only important but essential tools for a corporate executive who was developing as a psychic medium. Analytical and logical, I knew integration of my two separate lives was needed.

For 12 years I spiritualized my life. I cultivated my skills in Mediumship at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College in London. I studied mindfulness at Esalen with, Dr Shauna Shapiro and immersed myself in the Vedic teachings of Sri Kripalu Maharaj in Mangarh, India. I studied with world renowned Psychic Medium James Van Praagh at the Omega Institute. I started running intuitive workshops and did over a 1,000 client readings, whilst I was still working in the corporate world. During this time I broke through all of my limiting self beliefs and I found the courage to appear in regular Australian Television slots on Psychic TV and All About You, as a professional psychic medium.

On this long journey, I learnt many spiritual tools, but the greatest teaching I received was the innate wisdom that resided within myself. Today, I have left the corporate world behind and I am a Spiritual Teacher, committed to empowering women to honour the truth of who they truly are. I coach women to make the transition into an expanded, authentic and fully lived life. This is not easy and that is why support is so important.

Honouring my path and myself has been the hardest thing that I have done, but there really was no other path. It is the only path. It is your path too.

Identifying as an INFP on the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (i.e. a great big Introvert!), Naomi spent many years trying to find her place in the world of media, marketing and advertising agencies. Often feeling like an outsider in the more extroverted world of sales and marketing, it was only when she discovered her personality type and allowed herself to run her business her own way based on her strengths and core values that her career really started to thrive.

Now, described by some as ‘Eat Pray Love Meets Mad Men’, Naomi is the founder of Brand Whisperers; a company that gives business owners the permission and the insight to tap into their own inner genius and unique way of doing business.

Lucy Good is the founder of Beanstalk, an online platform that inspires and supports Australian single mothers with a range of resources and a large interactive, inclusive community

Her mission is to help single mums navigate the maze of separation and divorce and to confidently rebuild and embrace their new path in life. As well as having a blog and a podcast series, she is the creator of the “You’ve Got This” Single Mum eCourse which has already been downloaded and loved by 1.5K+ single mothers. She has appeared several times on national television, speaks regularly on national and local radio and writes articles for online and print parenting, news, lifestyle and business communities.

Maria Augustus-Dunn was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1961 and grew up in Reservoir, in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne. She married Brad, the love of her life, in 1990.

In 2011 both Maria and Brad retired at the age of 50 and opted for life as grey nomads, travelling the highways and byways of Australia, with no plans to stop. They have no children, but have plenty of nieces and nephews to dote on and even have great-nieces and great-nephews!

Maria enjoys doing tarot card readings, travelling, reading, writing, bushwalking and trying things that are well out of her comfort zone. She loves spending time with family and friends, and can talk the leg off a chair!

Before going to school I remember writing naive poetry for the spontaneous pleasure of forming words. Unfortunately for me this instinctive need to write was crushed by my teacher's seemingly obsessive need to humiliate children who struggled with 'correctly' written words.

At my tiny 1960’s English village school we adhered rigidly to a curriculum based on the three 'Rs' and my inability to distinguish characters required for 'reading', 'writing' and 'arithmetic' (a play-on-words that went completely over my head for most of my life) made my teacher's very angry.

Being a sensitive child I deflected their years of calling me lazy and stupid by creating a protective alter-ego who played me like a character on a stage until leaving my secondary school, with no qualifications, at the age of fifteen.

After working as a Chef, Airport loader, Builder's labourer, and any other job that allowed me to hide my 'shameful weakness', I decided to harness my alter-ego's deflecting humour and verbal skills to become a salesman.

Many unfulfilled years spent selling for companies like Xerox brought me to a financially successful career within the computer communications industry but the constant stress of pretending to be someone I was not, both professionally and socially, led to serious depression and my inevitable mental breakdown.

During years of recovery the origins of my alter-ego had to be faced, fully explored and truly understood. This confronting healing process coupled with a lifetime of tumultuous relationships and calamitous conflicts with extraordinary characters is what I now call upon when writing my stories.

From the age of five until my recovery I made it my mission to seek out artful ways of avoiding the written word, too afraid even to write a love or business letter, but after being diagnosed with Dyslexia I learned to use something as mundane as 'spell-check' to win a scholarship to The Film School in Seattle and a writing course at AFTRS Sydney.

Now unable to contain the urge to write I have written four books, fifteen screenplays and, just as I could before attending school, I sense that there are many, many more characters and stories to come.

Focused on early intervention in mental health, The Banksia Project works together with mental health professionals, industry leaders and professional bodies across Australia to create best practices and practical solutions to drive community support, increase self-awareness, encourage positive lifestyle choices, and facilitate ongoing support groups.

Our two key programs include our Growth Rooms – supportive mental health community networks and our Garden Rooms – quarterly events which invite the public to hear from respected profiles and leaders on a range of different mental health topics.

All of The Banksia Project’s programs are supported by mental health professionals to ensure they are safe and effective.

George & Brett end of season wrap. Merry Christmas one and all.

See you all in 2021 for season 7

Ivan is a published author and key spokesperson for the hospitality industry. He has over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry, is an industry thought leader and profitability expert, and spinal cord injury survivor. Ivans latest adventure is launching Peiso, the Worlds first hospitality profitability software, www.peiso.com.au.