RAISE YOUR VOICE

Welcome back to 2025 my loves!

After what was the most chaotic year last year, Raise Your Voice is back and better than ever! This year we are more aligned, more empowering and more focused than ever and can't wait to take you along whilst we explore mindset, connection and inspired change along with our guests and new segments to keep you tuned in across the year.

Join us this episode for our first oracle reading and reflect on what this past year has taught us. I speak to my challenges and difficulties RAW & UNEDITED and shine a light on my goals for this year.

Are you ready? 2025 is waiting for us, for you, to RAISE YOUR VOICE!

Battling unrealistic expectations is hard, but not even recognising or knowing how to respond to expectations when they arise can be so much harder. In this episode, I speak about the significance of receiving feedback from my audiences and stepping into the things I value most in life by taking some steps back to figure it all out.

In this episode, join me whilst I explore some recent feedback, my unplugged thoughts, energetic alignment and recognising when support is required.

If you have time, I'd love to know what you think by sending me a private message on instagram @breetiana_ or in the comments.

Happy listening!

Mimoza Cena-Sokoli & her husband, Beqir Sokoli, had a vision that started from their own experience of trying to connect to their roots and plan a wedding from their home in Adelaide, a world away from their heritage and cultural home in Kosovo.

Finding that they were running around like headless chooks in the months leading up to their wedding, they thought about how wonderful it would be to be able to connect to local vendors, designers and events crew from abroad and plan the wedding of their dreams.

Shortly after their wedding, they began working on putting together a wonderful and reliable resource that would support brides & grooms from across the world to connect to their culture and homes to source the finest quality, locally produced goods and services right at their fingertips.

From their initial days, My DASMA Shop World, has grown into a formal wear and design revolution which aims to connect the bridal, pageant and formal wear designers of the Balkans to a world-wide consumer market.

The quality and passion that goes into every piece is unparalleled and offers Australian's (and a worldwide market) an opportunity to shop an incredible range of designer garments from the comfort of their living rooms.

In this episode we speak to the powerhouse woman that is Raegan Cavagnino. Raegan was born vision impaired but it wasn't until she crawled off a deck as a baby that she was finally diagnosed as legally blind and those around her were fully aware of her condition. Raegan speaks about the perceptions of others about her experience and how assumptions about her disability have caused bullying and other nasty and socially limiting behaviours. Reagan speaks openly about the difficulties that being legally blind has caused when raising her children and some of the heartache she felt when making comparisons of herself to others and their achievements. Despite her barriers and negative experiences, Reagan is empowered to inspire people just like her to go after the life that they want and not let others perceptions of your ability define your success.

This super speedy episode gets straight down to business with Teen Queen National Finalist Mia who speaks about her journey to the Australia Galaxy Pageant National Title.

Mia talks about who she is and why she has quickly leaned into and began embracing all that pageantry has to offer. Mia speaks about her experiences of having low confidence and struggling with her body image which has led her to create Beautifully Minded which gives women an opportunity to share their stories about how body image has affected their lives and inspire those around them not to feel isolated or alone in their experiences.

Mia speaks about her work and goals in the future as a titleholder to foster a safe space for women to come together to discuss their experiences in sister-circles and have the opportunity to feel warmly welcomed, loved and supported for who they are.

Candace is an incredibly inspiring mum of two, advocate for women and absolute powerhouse at empowering women and those around her.

In today's episode, Candace uncovers the determination and toughest parts of what she has been through to get to being the person she is today.

Candace takes us on her journey through family violence and speaks to the importance of having a support system that intervenes to support the safety of women and children in family violence situations. Candace speaks honestly about her thoughts as she went through her circumstances of family violence and how plausible it is to believe that so many people don't realise what is happening to them until someone else validates the things that can be easily overlooked about controlling behaviour, emotional manipulation and abusive behaviour.

Candace goes on to tell us more about her upcoming life plans and what she is doing now to pursue her dreams and create space for women to stand up and show up to be authentically who they are, and let me tell you, WE ARE HERE FOR IT!!

Listen today and find out about the wonderful causes she supports by following her journey on social media:

Worthy Australia (https://worthyaustralia.org/)

Feed it Forward (https://feeditforward.au)

Share the Dignity (https://www.sharethedignity.org.au)

In this episode we interview the Queen of Confidence, Brooke-Lin, who speaks to us all about seizing the opportunities that fall into your life and taking on those moments with thirty seconds of courage.

As a confidence and modelling coach, Brooke-lin strives to break down the stigma of both modelling and pageantry in this wonderful episode focused on her passions.

Brooke-Lin gives us insight into the community spirit required to be a pageant queen and how to choose the right platform for you; and it's all heart.

Welcoming back our wonderful guest from our last episode, we speak to Rashmi about her experiences of bullying in her formative years, how they shaped her and how they encourage her to look for the best parts of people.

Rashmi also dives in to talk about her experiences of migration to Australia as an international student and some of the unexpected things about moving to a new place.

Unpack with us mental health, bullying and opportunities in Part 2 of this area of Rashmi's story.

Learn more about mental health supports available to you via the recommended supports below:

Lifeline (24 hours): 13 11 14 or SMS 0477 13 11 14

Beyondblue: 1300 22 4636 or at beyondblue.org.au or plan your preventative journey through their wonderful and intricately thought out app, Beyond Now

Head to health (support service directory): 1800 595 212 nor via headtohealth.org.au

Ask Izzy (support service directory) available at https://askizzy.org.au

Also see the below services

Gippsland Multicultural Services: (03) 5133 7072

batyr (preventative youth mental-ill health service): www.batyr.com.au

If you or someone you love is struggling with mental-ill health please know there is support available. If you or someone you know is in crisis and requiring an emergency response, please call 000.

Rashmi came to Australia to pursue her bachelors and was confronted with opportunities to fulfil some of her childhood dreams. So what did she do you might ask? She pursued them with all of her might and went on to empower seven other women to chase their goals too.

In Part 1 of Rashmi's journey, she takes us on a journey of residence and overcoming barriers as she paves the way forward proving to herself and any others who ever doubted her that she had what it takes to HAVE IT ALL!

Learn more about Rashmi's opportunities so far with:

- Australasian Leisure Management (https://www.ausleisure.com.au), and

- SisterWorks (https://sisterworks.org.au)

Check out her Instagram and follow more of her journey

@_rxshmi_97_

In this episode, host Bree Tiana (@breetiana_) explores her experiences being silenced as a young person and victim-survivor of family violence. She discusses her experiences of being silenced by the unsaid words of the perpetrator in her life and trying to find safe and supported ways to explore this.

At an older age, Bree also reflects on her experiences with her medical and diagnostic journey and what happens when those who are meant to be most knowledgeable about your situation get it SO SO WRONG.

Join Bree as she delves into her experiences, DYING and then not dying and believing death would have been easier.

These are not easy topics to discuss, but they are worse left unsaid. Join us this week as we unmask more of Bree's experiences and discuss the importance of advocacy in all of it.

Learn more about how to enhance your advocacy skills at @sheadvocatessociety on Instagram