Get Off The Bench Podcast

Elaina Domagala is a 15 year old who is super passionate about football. She started playing football after 8 years of training and competing in Kyokushin Karate.

Her karate journey led her to become 4 time Australian full contact champion, 5 time Victorian state champion, as well as other regional wins for her dojo.

In 2019, a school round robin competition was the turning point, and after one game of football she was hooked, and joined local club, West End - where she played for 3 years with a mixed sexes team.

Elaina was successful amongst 250 Victorian school girls to make the girls team through School Sports Victoria, and played in the 2021 Gippsland Youth girls premiership team and was awarded Most Determined.

In December 2021, Elaina tried out for the Gippsland Power Under 19’s Nab league team but was unsuccessful at this first attempt. However through hard work and determination during training and reserve games, she made her debut in Round 2, 2022 in the Gippsland Power Under 19’s senior Nab league team at the young age of 15.

Elaina has appeared in television and radio marketing campaigns for local youth girls football, as well as an appearance on Melbourne’s Smash FM podcast as an advocate for women’s football.

Addicted to the passion of the game, Elaina immerses in the challenge of constant improvement, and relishes in the sisterhood and support network, particularly the support she can offer others.

Socials:

Insta: Elaina Domagala @elaina_doma

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Gippsland Power

Penny Cula-Reid

Play Like a Girl Australia

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Riley is the Founder & CEO of The Sleep Consultant - an organization that helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and high performers transform their sleep to significantly boost their productivity and energy levels. 

Riley started through his own health journey many years ago and discovered that sleep was the missing link that brought everything together. 

Since then, he's been helping others unlock their "biology code" and achieve "Sleep Nirvana" by getting to the root cause of the issue rather than putting a Band-Aid on symptoms.

Riley is the author of ‘The Sleep Solution’, and the host of ‘The Sleep For Side Hustlers’ podcast.

Socials:

Website: www.thesleepconsultant.com

LinkedIn: Riley Jarvis

FB: Riley Jarvis

Insta: The Sleep Consultant @officialthesleepconsultant

Podcast: The Sleep for Side Hustlers Podcast

E-Book:The Sleep Solution

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Psycho-Cybernetics (book) by Maxwell Maltz

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Susan Dean is the founder and owner of Dean Publishing. She was always destined to help others flourish. Beginning her career as a youth worker, Susan became a qualified business and life coach in 2003 – an early adopter of the industry. 

Making a difference has always been her passion. Susan has always listened to peoples’ stories, using her tremendous empathy to empower others toward success. This has become her signature trait. 

In 2014, Susan’s expertise in hearing and delivering heartfelt stories extended to publishing. Since then, Susan has produced and published hundreds of stories of inspiration, ranging from business success, to personal triumph and charity development.

Susan loves to wake up every morning and work in her purpose built publishing house, bringing stories to life alongside her two adult daughters who form an integral part of her business. A dedicated Australian publisher, Susan lives her dream every day and now teaches others how they can do the same.

Socials:

Website: https://www.deanpublishing.com/

LinkedIn: Susan Dean Book Publisher 

FB: Susan Dean Publisher

Insta: @deanpublishing

High-end individual books https://www.deanpublishing.com/callsusan

Yshift compilation series https://www.deanpublishing.com/yshift/

B1G1 https://account.b1g1.com/connect/GIVING067

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Hands Across the Water https://www.handsacrossthewater.org.au/

Matt Runnalls - Nobody Can Save Me

Trav Bell - My Bucketlist Blueprint

Angie Clucas - Standing Tall From The inside

Dr Natasha Davidson - Real Talk, Real Change

Erika Cramer - Confidence Feels Like Shit

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Dan Frkic is a regular Dad with 3 young kids who had an early mid life crisis. After working for major global corporates over the past 12 years, Dan decided to quit his job late last year, and has taken a punt to follow a new path and has launched an exciting initiative called PrezentBox.

PrezentBox is for parents who are sick & tired of receiving gifts their kids don't need. PrezentBox is an online gifting platform that enables family & friends to contribute funds that go toward a child's sport, creative or educational activity fees.

Dan and his team are hell bent on making a positive impact for parents, kids, gift givers and the business community (and really sticking it to big retail and consumerism while they’re at it).

Socials:

Website: https://prezentbox.com.au/

LinkedIn: Dan Frkic

FB: PrezentBox 

Insta: PrezentBox @prezentboxau

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Active Kids Program NSW https://www.nsw.gov.au/projects/active-kids-program

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Jocelyn Chong is a Certified online Business and Life Coach,  and CEO & Founder of Seed to Sequoia, who’s calling is to help people tap into their soul, and create a life that is uniquely tailored to you and your purpose. That is, a life built on deep alignment with who you are at your core, where your talents are not only recognized but optimized to attract abundance.

Breaking free from the shackles of the corporate world, being free to go wherever we want, whenever we want—these are things most of us crave, but so few know how to do in a financially secure way. 

Through her own experience and 20 years in the banking and finance world, Jocelyn knows that having a financial game plan turns wishes into realities.

Jocelyn is also the host and founder of the Podcast: Magnetic Abundance.

She is also the author of 3 books:

Success Codes

Uncensored, Untamed, Unleashed

Prosperity Codes

Jocelyn works with individuals to transform and to grow, and also works with larger organizations developing strategies to increase revenue substantially, ad consistently receives feedback that her work was critical in identifying where change has been necessary and then empowering them to make that change happen.

Socials:

Website: https://www.jocelynchong.com.au/

LinededIn: Jocelyn Chong

Instagram: _jocelynchong_

Facebook: Jocelyn Chong

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Liz Fleming The Efficiency Coach is a business mentor and accountant, based in Gippsland, who knows a thing or two about creating efficiencies in your business, that is making it work better, do better and produce better. She has an eye for optimising businesses to operate and grow from her many years in the corporate space and she's not your typical accountant.  

Harnessed with a Masters in Forensic Accounting and Chartered Accountant qualifications, her ability to review business operations and discover new ways to create efficiencies helps create more time for family and other pursuits.

You know how there are never enough hours in a day and you don't know where to start? Well, Liz will show you how to maximise your time, energy, skills and resources and discover who is best to do what and when in your business.

Her promise is more profit, more time and more fulfilment.

Socials:

Website: https://www.theefficiencycoach.com.au/

LinkedIn: Liz Fleming

FB: Liz Fleming - The Efficiency Coach @theefficiencycoach

Insta: lizfleming_theefficiencycoach

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The Restoration Project is a Mental Health awareness and Drug and Alcohol Education and Prevention Service specialising in lived experience, keynote speaking, family support, rehabilitation referral, and intervention guidance.

Mark Macmanus (founder) share’s his personal harrowing story and path to recovery. Some of the topics covered include anxiety, self-esteem, depression, alcohol, narcotics, gambling, resilience, determination, and rehabilitation. Mark launched The Restoration Project to help educate people about mental health and the challenges of substance abuse and finding hope through adversity.

“I suffered from poor mental health from an early age. I suffered anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. At the time I did not understand what I was even struggling with. In my early 20s, I was binge drinking every weekend and started to experiment with illicit drugs. I become addicted and suffered for eight years. My life spiralled out of control and reached depths where I thought I would never return. However, I sought rehabilitation and set about on my recovery. My story is raw and powerful and breaks all the stigmas associated with mental health and addiction.

I wish to deliver hope to families and people who are suffering. I wish to educate the youth of the dangers of alcohol and narcotics and the effect they can have on your life.”

Mark is an established presenter and is sought after in the addiction and mental health space and has played a role in many people turning their lives around and living proof that nothing is impossible if you don’t give up.

Mark works with multiple organisations including, ACSO, Latrobe Drug Action Team. (LDAT) Latrobe Youth Space, Coability, Maxima, Bakers Delight, and Wellington Local Drug Action Team. 

Mark is now 7 years clean and is the Interim General Manager of Operations of a local disability employment provider in Gippsland and runs his own successful business. Mark is living proof that rock bottom can become the solid foundation on which you can rebuild your life.

Socials:

LinkedIn: Mark Macmanus

FB: The Restoration Project @restorationgippsland

Insta: TheRestorationProject @therestorationproject1

Mentions:

Latrobe Community Health Service

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Gina Balarin is a communicator at heart. While contemplating how to make a living from writing, marketing found her, and she never looked back.

It hasn’t always been an easy ride, though. Relatively early in her career she discovered that she doesn’t see things the way most people do. She gets frustrated when the rules are illogical and when things don't make sense. So she started her own company instead.

Now she’s an entrepreneur, helping marketers around the world do marketing they're proud of. Oh, and she sits on a couple of boards, has a Masters degree in Management Communication, is a Fellow of the CIM and the AMI, and a member of the PSA. She has written a couple of books including The Secret Army: Leadership, Marketing and the Power of People, 150 poems or so, and done a TEDx talk.

Mostly, though, she’s just interested in helping people find ways to be prouder of who they are, what they do, and how they make a difference in the world.

Socials:

Website: https://www.verballistics.com.au/

LinkedIn: Gina Balarin

FB: Gina Balarin

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Project Displaced

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Raheen Fatima is a 14 year old girl from Pakistan, who is also a Peace & Climate Change Activist, Standup comedian, Theatre Actor, Aspiring Entrepreneur, SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Ambassador and Interviewer. Over the course of the pandemic, she has conducted over 500 interviews and sessions to foster global peace and achievements of the SDGs. 

When her younger brother was diagnosed with cancer, she realized one is never too young or old to die. She embarked on her journey with a passion to empower people around her and bring peace to this world. 

With a passion to work for people and planet, Raheen is ambitious to take her work global by creating teams and collaborations for making global peace dreams a reality. 

She is currently working on multiple projects, and her immediate aim is to synergise all peace efforts in one place, involving all stakeholders across the globe. She believes nothing else but interfaith, intercultural, international dialogue can pave the way for global peace.

Socials:

FB: Raheen Fatima 

Insta: Raheen Fatima @fatima_raheen

YouTube: Raheen Fatima  

LinkedIn: Raheen Fatima

Mentions:

POP Movement

One Better World Collective

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Matt Runnalls works tirelessly as a mental health advocate to create awareness, acceptance, education and connection within communities to overcome the stigma and effects of suicide on a global scale. Utilizing his own lived-experience of mental illness, surviving suicide attempts, and losing far too many friends to suicide, Matt is continuously creating more platforms of communication to encourage everyone to feel comfortable to talk about and manage their well-being just as he continues to do.

Through his rediscovery of hope visible in the kindness of others, Matt found his passion and purpose when he wholeheartedly pursued the creation of Mindfull Aus a not-profit mental health foundation at the age of 24.

Since devoting himself to advocacy full-time, Matt has delivered over 600 speeches and keynotes, workshops, and events across Australia, Canada, and America. Matt has facilitated right across the world for some of the world’s largest Mind and Behavioral organizations, conferences and bodies.

Matt has been a student of programs and workshops from leading experts in the field of mind and behavioral health including: Wim Hof, Tony Robbins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Dr Brené Brown, Tom Bilyeau, Deepak Chopra, Heather Yelland and Kevin Hines. Matt is trained in NLP, a certified Breathwork & Meditation Practitioner, Sciences of Wellbeing, Intro to Psychology & Counselling, EQ and Quantum Learning as Alumni at California State University.

Matt now spends his life in dedication to the loss of his mates to suicide, combined with the thought that saved his life in 2012—that of having kids one day. This understanding and passion led Matt to become a trained facilitator at the world’s #1 camp for young kids (greensupercamp.com.au) where he works with young champions to improve self-esteem, equip them with accelerated development techniques and a greater understanding of emotional intelligence and relationships.

Matt’s story and message have been featured in books, documentaries, songs, podcasts and films throughout many major media outlets. His dedication to change has been recognized in: The Huffington Post, Global Award-winning Documentary of the Year, Suicide: the Ripple Effect, Guts, Grit & The Grind: a men’s health manual, and also in numerous Parliamentary sittings.

Matt has also been the recipient of an Australia Day Medallion in January 2018, a finalist in the 2019 Victorian Leadership & Innovation Award, 2020 ABC Heywire Trailblazer, 2020 AMHF Best Men’s Speaker Finalist, 2020 AMHF Men’s Health Award Top 3 placement, 2021 Australian of the Year Nominee and 2021 Westfield Community Hero.

Matt’s opportunity to ensure that the next generation doesn’t walk into the unknown like he did, drives him every day as he continues to make a positive impact on as many people as humanly possible.

Matt is committed to using his voice and experiences as a platform to encourage acceptance, purpose and hope.

Socials:

Website: Matt Runnalls  https://mattrunnalls.com.au/

Website: Mindfull Aus https://www.mindfullaus.org/

LinkedIn: Matt Runnalls

FB: Mindfull Aus @mindfullaus

Insta: Matt Runnals @matt.runnalls

Mentions:

The Resilience Project

Green Supercamp

Kevin Hines

Paul Dalia

Johann Hari

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