For this first episode of the Seven Women Podcast, we have Rhys Williams. Rhys has designed and implemented offshore tertiary education and training programs for over 20 years, for RMIT and Victoria universities & vocational providers. This has included in partnerships with the social enterprises KOTO in Vietnam and Seven Women in Nepal for disadvantaged persons. Rhys has also been involved with the Spina Bifida Foundation of Victoria, the support organisation for persons with spina bifida, for many years.

For this episode, we have Nicholas Barlett from New Zealand. Nicholas Bartlett is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, dad, and CEO of Resolvd AI. At only 36, Nick has founded 6 companies in 5 countries and successfully exited 4 of them. He has also been highly successful as an angel investor with first-round investments in one unicorn and two other businesses valued in the hundreds of millions. 

Nick most recently resided in his wife's birth country of Slovenia but is now living in his home country of New Zealand with their two children. His hobbies include motorsport, tennis, and new technology.

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Join us for an inspiring chat about the passion this young Puerto Rican native has in supporting and serving her community and her deep understanding of local issues. Tanya is currently living and studying in Tennesse, gathering experience, knowledge and broadening her horizons.  

With her beautiful, bubbly and curious nature, Tanya is our Guest Host for the Spanish Edition of our Inspiring Humans Podcast series. 

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For this episode, we have Tanya Gonzalez. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She graduated from Margarita Janer Palacios High School in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, to pursue a Business Administration career. However, due to political and socio-economic issues in Puerto Rico, she had to move to Tennessee. While completing her Associate's degree online in Business Administration from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, she became an Assistant Store Manager for a Dollar General retail store. As she became more curious about the world, she decided to continue her studies at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) by successfully gaining a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice Administration with a concentration in Homeland Security, and double minors in Asian Studies and Information Systems while graduating during the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020. During those undergraduate years, she participated in multiple extracurricular activities, becoming Former Vice-President of La Comunidad, mentor for the Asian Student Association, Caribbean Student Association, Hispanic and Asian Heritage Month Committee while volunteering for LGBT+ events, Habitat for Humanity, Feed the Children, Tennessee Democratic Party, National Honor Society, Secular Student Alliance, Puerto Rico Rises, among many other entities. She is currently working as a Research Assistant for Dr. Donna Dopwell under the Social Work Department at MTSU while attending Graduate School, pursuing her Master's of International Affairs with the People's Republic of China as her region focused. Her short goal is to take all opportunities given, learn from others, develop multiple ideas for new projects, and graduate. At the same time, her long-term goal is to create connections between Asia and Puerto Rico in exchanging resources, leadership, business opportunities, and knowledge in rebuilding Puerto Rico from its natural disasters. Recently, she joined the Diaspora Committee for the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño to enhance the possibilities and creation of a new nation with the independence for Puerto Rico under the PIP's Patria Nueva campaign. In addition, she joined the Seven Women NGO as an intern this summer, and she expects to learn a lot from it to continue helping others and empowering women worldwide. 

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Vanessa's dedication has been recognised with an Order of Australia Certificate of Commendation for Service to the Community (2009), Australian Defence Force Leadership and Teamwork Award (2009), and Rotary Pride of Workmanship Award Excellence in Leadership and Passion for Learning (2013). She has ten years of experience in both government and NGO sectors (2008-present). Qualified with a Certificate of Engagement from the International Association of Public Participation (2015), she also has a Bachelor of Political, Economic, and Social Sciences from the University of Sydney (BPESS 2020).  

Locally in government, for five years, Vanessa served as an elected Councillor (policymaker) with Warringah Council (2012-2017). This role involved chairing the Environmental ECOS Strategic Reference Group (SRG). The SRG covered environmental issues for four lagoons, nine beaches, and 1700ha of bushland. In this role, Vanessa gained experience in policy for sea-level rise in the Collaroy Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) and capital works for Narrabeen Lagoon Trail. From this, she developed a passion for the environment. The role also involved extensive experience in public speaking, such as being a speaker and MC at Australia Day and community events.  

Abroad, Vanessa represented Australia at the precursor to the environmental G8 Summit on Climate Change in Hokkaido, Japan (2008), participated in the UNICEF Roundtable on Human Rights in the Asia Pacific (2007), worked in Poland teaching English (2010-2011), and saw Seven Women's work for women with disabilities in Nepal (June 2014). She has a passion for community service.  

In addition, she also has ten years of experience volunteering with the environmental charity - OzGreen Australia (2009-present) and is now an elected Board Member (2018-present). She gained experience in the event management and facilitation of an annual Environmental Education program for Sydney - Youth Leading the World (2009-present). The organisation has been recognised with a Eureka Prize, Banksia Award, and UN Media Peace Awards.   

Vanessa currently works in compliance for reducing the carbon emissions of companies and homes across NSW with the National Carbon Bank of Australia (2020-present). She works under the NSW Energy Saving Scheme (ESS) and specialises in Home Energy Efficiency Retrofits (HEERs).

Join us for an empowering conversation on making our world a better place through taking local action.

For this episode, we have Barbara Belger. 2020 was a big year for Barbara: She turned 60, published her (first) book co-authored with 16 other "little old ladies", and became a grandmother.

She started a new program called Living from the Heart and is currently re-working due to need for adapting the original plan with the current times. 

Barbara grew up in Germany. She spent a year in France at the age of 16 as an au-pair, finished High school, went on to study languages, and then worked as a translator/commercial foreign correspondent in large multi-national companies in Germany until age 30. She got married, moved to Japan, had two sons, and spent 17 years in Japan, Thailand, Mainland China, and Hong Kong. 

Then Barbara moved to New Zealand with her sons and the family dog after she got divorced. She had begun training for her new career in 2003, opened her first coaching business in Hong Kong in 2005, and set up her company "Walk Your Talk" in New Zealand after moving there in 2007.

2010 / 2011 were Christchurch earthquake years, and Barbara provided trauma recovery support under a government contract. 2012 and 2013 was her caravan journey through New Zealand, and she ended up at the other end of the country. By then, she had become more active in volunteering, leading social change groups such as guerrilla gardeners, anti-plastic campaigns (sewing bags), various activities with the local Transition Town team: a visionary and idea seeder. 

Her passions are trauma and everything related to the "big T's" and "small T's", the evolution of our individual and collective consciousness, and new leadership models.

Barbara's training background is life coaching, hypnotherapy, NLP, mental health & addiction, energy psychology, and organisational psychology. She got trained and became a trainer in a modality - Meta Medicine and is currently working part-time as a Health Consultant alongside naturopaths in a Health Store where she also sees her coaching clients.

For this episode, we have Neville John, a dedicated and passionate accounting professional who has been in the charted accounting profession for 35 years.

Neville started his professional path in accounting and business after graduating from RMIT University in 1976. 

Neville is a talented being, having more than three decades of professional experience and carrying a wide range of specialities such as superannuation fund management, strategic planning, business process improvement, financial management and corporate negotiations. His clients always trust him for his professionals and passions.

On top of that, Neville also has displayed inspiring leadership on his career path. He has been taking on leadership roles within various businesses for decades. 

He is now the Managing Director at LHA Nominees Pty Limited and a Strategic Advisor at The Victorian Independent Schools Superannuation Fund. Before that, he had been a Managing Partner & Partner of HLB Mann Judd, a Board adviser of Camp Australia and a Company Secretary of DESA Australia Pty Ltd, providing advisory services on business, management, strategy and financial procedures. 

Neville also has been a Rotarian of Rotary International for more than 20 years, where he has served in multiple roles to bring together business leaders all over the world to produce humanitarian service and promote goodwill.

In this episode, Neville shares his life experience and the unwavering passions that motivate him to persist in his dream for decades.

Beverley Sheppard grew up in PNG to parents who were literacy workers in the Highlands.  At the age of 5, her parents returned to to live in Australia and settled in Moama/Echuca.  She has just retired from 20 years in the Victoria police and is now running my B&B in Heidelberg. She created Austin Rise B&B 10 years ago and has achieved awards for her service excellence with guests.    

A year ago Bev started my Instagram page of www.instagram.com/Sparklingms.b.  She has a goal to be a lingerie model and has found that there is a severe lack of 50 plus ladies who are curvy and confident in front of the camera to show off the beautiful lingerie that is available.  Bev has also started being a Life Drawing model and writing poetry which she post onto her Instagram and FB pages.  She loves her created life and look forward to many more years of fun and making a difference in Melbourne and beyond.  Bev loves inspiring ladies to be confident with themselves.

On December 21st 2012, Peter walked away from “normal” life, leaving behind his partner, daughter, family, career and friends.  He sold or gave away all his possessions and began a personal walking pilgrimage.

Between December 21st 2012 and today he has walked 13,000 kilometres in nine countries.

His motivation?  A personal investigation into Balance, Peace and Freedom underpinned by love first into his own life and into the lives of others.

Peter is a writer, orator, master of ceremonies, teacher and student of the possibilities and opportunities of life.

After pursuing a career in commercial radio and television, he extracted himself from the mainstream industry to create and operate the world’s first environmental and conscious radio network, Planet Radio, beginning in 1993 until 2008.

In 2005 he began teaching personal development and sacred sexuality including the powerful and life changing Quantum Leap experiences and Dragon’s Breath journey.

Since 2010 he has been dreaming in The Village, a complete redesign of our failed social system and in  2014 he created “The Village” a series of gatherings that introduce that new social system for the 3rd millennium.

He is also currently authoring an epic novel series entitled “The Village”.  The first book of the series, “The Call” is to be published in the winter of 2021.

Peter has a unique talent for distilling complex knowledge into simple wisdom.

He facilitates mens’ work, group work, individual mentoring, personal development, relationship and sexual expansion practices for men, women and partnerships.

Peter holds space for inner work with power & integrity as no other.

He is a passionate visionary for the creation of an integrous co-creative society.

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