Really Interesting Women

Ep. 74 Tzipi Livni

Ex Mossad, former Israeli Foreign Minister, Minister of Justice and chief negotiator of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. An incredible journey. 

Tzipi Livni has been widely considered the most powerful woman in Israel since Golda Meir. She served in the Israeli Defence Force and, in 1980, joined Mossad - the national intelligence agency of Israel. After she resigned from that she continued her law studies, and then practiced for 10 years before entering politics in 1996. She achieved a number of milestones in Israeli government. She was the second woman in Israel’s history to become Foreign Minister (after Golda Meir who went on to become PM), she was the first female vice prime minister, justice minister, agriculture minister and housing minister. 

In 2011 she was named one of ‘150 women who shake the world’ by Newsweek. Forbes magazine ranked her on its list of ‘100 Most Powerful Women’ three years in a row from 2006-2008 and Time Magazine included her in its 2007, ‘Time 100 Most Influential People in the World’.

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Episode 73  Belinda Hutchinson AC FRSN

Belinda Hutchinson has become one of the most sought-after directors among private companies, public sector and not for profit organisations, in Australia. 

She is Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Chairman of Thales Australia, a Director of Australian Philanthropic Services, Qantas Airways Limited, a member of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board and a Trustee of the St Vincent’s Curran Foundation. 

 Belinda was previously Chairman of QBE Insurance Group, Chairman of Future Generation Global Investment Company and a Director of Telstra Corporation, Coles Myer, Crane Group, Energy Australia, TAB, Snowy Hydro Trading and Sydney Water.  Her executive career included her role as an Executive Director of Macquarie Group, a Vice President of Citibank, and a senior manager at Andersen Consulting.  She has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 Belinda is a past President of the State Library of New South Wales and Chief Executive Women of which she is still a member.

In the 2020 Queen’s birthday honours she was elevated to the highest honour, a Companion of the Order of Australia for "eminent service to business, to tertiary education and scientific research, and through philanthropic endeavours to address social disadvantage”

She is one of this country’s most experienced directors, and has some brilliant advice and a truckload of wisdom for those at any stage of their journey. 

Something for everyone here.

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Ep. 72 Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE FRCP (Hon)

Baroness Susan Greenfield is, by any standards, quite an extraordinary woman.

 An English scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords, she has held research fellowships in the Department of Physiology Oxford, the College de France Paris, and NYU Medical Center New York. She has been awarded 32 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities.  From 1998- 2010 she served as Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 

 She is known for her role in popularising science through her many public lectures and appearances on radio and television as well as her many published papers and several books about the brain, including the British best seller – The Human Brain: A Guided Tour. She is now CEO of an incredible biotech company (www.neuro-bio.com) which she founded in 2013 to develop a disruptive approach to Alzheimer’s disease based on her research exploring novel brain mechanisms linked to neurodegeneration. 

She’s regularly listed as one of the most influential women in Britain.

 And she’s a lot of fun. 

 As she closes in on an early detection system and potential cure for Alzheimer’s disease, she’s promised, when it does happen, to join me in dancing in the streets to mark the occasion. I’ve alerted her already that I’m limbering up. We all hope it’s sooner rather than later. The little I know of Lady Greenfield makes me realise that she will be relentless in making it happen. 

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Ep. 71 Dame Elizabeth Anionwu DBE FRCN   - Really Interesting Women podcast

Dame Elizabeth Anionwu’s amazing career and life had as its foundation, very humble beginnings.  

 A tough childhood in the 1940’s and 1950’s was marked by the stigma of illegitimacy and racism. Despite all this, it was the kindness of one particular nun at a children’s home when she was a very young child that resonated so much with her that, even at that age, it would stay with her forever and eventually lead to her life’s work. 

Dame Elizabeth spent 40 years in the nursing profession in the UK and has been named one of the most influential nurses in the 70-year history of the National Health Scheme.

Back In 1979, she became the United Kingdom's first sickle cell and thalassaemia nurse specialist, helping establish the Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Counselling centre. There are now 30 such centres in the UK.

 In 1998, by then a professor of nursing, she created the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at the University of West London where she is Emeritus Professor of Nursing, she holds a PhD, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). 

 But despite all this....as someone who never had a black role model until she met her father late in life...I would venture to guess that Dame Elizabeth Anionwu is most proud of being an inspiration and role model to her granddaughter.

 Head to my dedicated Really Interesting Women Instagram account:@richardinstagraham, to see some fabulous photos capturing part of Dame Elizabeth’s journey. 

Dame Elizabeth’s  book Dreams From My Mother

https://www.booktopia.com.au/dreams-from-my-mother-dame-elizabeth-anionwu/book/9781841885223.html)

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Ep. 70 Gretchen Carlson - Really Interesting Women podcast

Gretchen Carlson has been on a journey. From child prodigy on the violin, to becoming Miss America to Stanford and Oxford, to also becoming one of America's most successful journalists.

An astonishing career fall of incredible highs, debilitating lows and through it all, the common factors? Her incredible strength, resilience and determination.

Such is her global impact, she has been portrayed in a hugely successful TV series and movie by Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman (respectively).

This is an important conversation and I'm honoured to have been involved.

www.gretchencarlson.com
www.liftourvoices.org

Books:
Be Fierce
Getting Real
Both of which have links on Gretchen's website above.

Instagram Images: 1. GS via Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/Stockland Martel
2. GS with Naomi Watts via Jamie McCarthy/Getty
3. Left GS via Bryan Ansolm/Redux. Right Roger Ailes via Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
4. GS via Rozette Rago/New York Times

 
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Ep. 69 Amy Richards - Really Interesting Women podcast

Amy Richards describes herself as an author, producer and organizer. But those generic terms hardly describe her enormous global influences on modern feminist thinking. 

In fact, she is the president of Soapbox, Inc., the world’s largest feminist speakers’ bureau, and the affiliated Soapbox Foundation, creators of Feminist Camp. She co-founded and spent several years leading the Third Wave Foundation now known as the Third Wave Fund, a national organization for young feminist activists which promotes gender justice and is a movement to end patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny.

She was a producer of the Emmy nominated TV series, Woman, an executive producer on the movie The Glorias starring Julianne Moore, a consulting producer on the HBO documentary Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words and an advisor to PBS documentary on the women’s movement in America, MAKERS: Women Making America. She is most popularly known as the co-author (with Jennifer Baumgardner) of her book Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism & the Future which just issued a 20th anniversary edition. 

Put simply, she’s a leading global voice for contemporary feminist issues.

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Ep. 68 Dr Patrice Newell AM
Patrice Newell has been a model, newsreader, host of morning TV and then, in the late 80’s left all that and became a renowned sustainable land manager and writer/researcher who dedicated herself to developing and communicating improved agricultural systems and innovations in an era of rapid climate change. And, as if that wasn’t enough, she’s now undertaking a new and very exciting venture developing an app for launch next year that we will discuss in more detail on this show.

She is an advocate for sustainable agriculture which she talks about in her books The Olive Grove, The River, Ten Thousand Acres – A Love Story, Tree to Table: Cooking with Australian Olive Oil and Who’s Minding the Farm? In this Climate Emergency, released via Penguin Random House in June 2019.

She is a founding member and president of the Hunter Olive Association.

She was the subject of the ABC-Television biography program, Australian Story.

In 2015, Patrice earned a doctorate at the University of Newcastle in Environmental Science: A strategic assessment of the potential for a new pyrolysis industry in the Hunter Valley, And is a regular speaker and advocate for climate change within the agriculture sector.

As of 2021, she is an Adjunct Associate Lecturer at University of Newcastle.

In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours Patrice was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the environment, and to sustainable farming practices”.

www.patricenewell.com.au

Her books can be found on that website. 


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Ep. 67 Stephanie Alexander AO

Stephanie Alexander is a food pioneer having been an enormous influence on our food culture since the 1960’s. 

She’s been a restaurant owner/chef for 30 years and has written 19 books (19 books!) and many, many articles. Her fifth book, The Cook’s Companion has been described by Nigella Lawson as one of her most prized and consulted cookbooks and she went on to say, ‘if I could have only one cookbook for the rest of my life, it would have to be this one.’ 

I don't think you can get higher praise. 

From my perspective, The Cook's Companion is like Neil Diamond’s album, Hot August Night – every home has a copy and that says it all. She has just released her 19th book, ‘Home’, and, I can speak from personal experience  in saying, it's a cracker. 

Stephanie's work in the design and establishment of schools based learning programs promoting improved food and eating choices for children, she thinks of as her most important work and it in fact earned her an appointment as on Officer of the Order of Australia. 

She tells me this may well be the last cookbook she writes. I don't believe it. Her energy and enthusiasm and love of life will not allow her to put her feet up - as I foolishly suggested. 

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The link to Stephanie's books, including the latest, 'Home':
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Ep. 66 Fleur McDonald

Another extraordinary woman.  Fleur is often referred to as ‘the voice of the outback’. She is this country’s leading rural literature author and has drawn inspiration from having lived and worked for much of her life on a farm. But, like nearly all the women I’ve spoken to for this show, you only need to lightly scratch the surface to see the almost unimaginable obstacles that she has had to overcome to achieve this success. 

She has written 19 novels and 2 children’s books and has sold over 650,000 copies. She is constantly championing the voice of Australia’s rural women and celebrating their contribution to agribusiness. Even then, in my opinion, those achievements only sit alongside and don’t overshadow her other achievements. 

Head to the link in my bio to hear her extraordinary story.

Her latest novel is Deception Creek and this and all her other novels can be found and purchased here:
https://www.fleurmcdonald.com/novels/


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Warning: this episode makes reference to domestic violence. 

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Ep. 65 Marilyn Darling AC

Marilyn Darling AC, is best known as an Australian philanthropist and patron of the arts. With her husband, Gordon Darling, she instigated and has provided ongoing funding to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, ACT. She instigated it! We didn’t have one before that! 

She was one of the very few women who studied science at the University of Queensland in the early 60’s before working in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne in the mid-1960s and undertaking postgraduate study in the Medical School of Monash University from 1973 to 1978. 

She worked successfully as a scientist, but it was her work for not for profit and charitable organisations over the ensuing 40+ years for which she became best known. So much so that she was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 "for service to Australian society through the arts". In the 2009 Australia Day Honours, she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for "service to the development, advancement and growth of visual arts in Australia and internationally.

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