The Good Girl Confessional

Today in the Confessional, host Sandy Lowres welcomes back Tara Moss as we talk about her incredible new book and why the world needs more strong female role models.

Since 1999 Canadian-Australian author Tara Moss has written 14 books, published in 19 countries and 13 languages. Her latest is the internationally released historical crime novel, The Ghosts of Paris, the sequel to her celebrated novel, The War Widow focusing on a gutsy female protagonist, Private Investigator, Sydney-born Billie Walker. The Ghosts of Paris is already receiving brilliant reviews and we highly recommend it! A beautifully written novel filled with intrigue and heart-felt emotion, The Ghosts of Paris is set against a backdrop of post-WWII London and Paris.

Throughout her incredible career, Tara has been an outspoken advocate for human rights and the rights of women, children and people with disabilities. She has been a UNICEF Australia Goodwill Ambassador since 2007.

As an ambulatory wheelchair user with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), she brings advocacy and visibility to issues of disability and chronic pain, and the need to normalize mobility aids. In 2020 she accepted the honorary role of Pain Champion with Pain Australia. In 2021 she was chosen as a Global Change Maker by Conscious Being magazine for her disability and chronic pain activism and was a recipient of the Honorary Citizen Award for the City of Victoria, Canada, for her work on accessibility rights.

The Ghost of Paris is available here, or in all leading bookstores:
https://www.readings.com.au/products/34813021/the-ghosts-of-paris

You can follow Tara Moss here:
https://taramoss.com/

https://www.instagram.com/taramossauthor

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Today in the Confessional, host Sandy Lowres chats with a remarkable woman and her journey to sobriety after an addiction threatened her life.

Justine Whitchurch is a personal trainer, author, and recovered alcoholic (now thriving) 49year old Mum of two.

There has never been a more pertinent time to speak a message of hope to all of those caught in the clutches of poor mental and physical health, alcoholism, and addiction during this challenging time of COVID19 and its aftermath.

Every day, people are suffering and self-medicating with alcohol which Justine refers to as the ‘EPIDEMIC that will outlive the PANDEMIC’.

Her writing and blogging experience is centred around self-medicating, alcohol addiction, how exercise was the key to her turn around, mental health maintenance, living without alcohol although being ‘around’ it, and so much more.

Her journey of recovery is detailed in her book 'Sobriety delivered EVERYTHING alcohol promised'.

Justine continues to 'make her mess her message' to provide an example that life without the bottle is beautiful.

www.justinewhitchurch.com.au
Instagram - @jusswhitchurch
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jusswhitchurch

You can find Sobriety Delivered Everything Alcohol Promised here:https://www.amazon.com.au/SOBRIETY-DELIVERED-EVERYTHING-ALCOHOL-PROMISED-ebook/dp/B08Q4HD81M

Is your fear of public speaking holding you back? Are you struggling to get your message heard? Do you hate the sound of your own voice? Want to nail your next presentation? Command a room when you speak. Do you have to give a speech at a wedding or upcoming event? This might be the podcast episode for you!

Today in the confessional, Sandy has a fun chat with Sally Prosser about voice coaching, confidence building, manifesting a partner and ice baths!

Sally Prosser is an experienced journalist, TV news reporter and a company spokesperson who then went into Public Relations. Sally also has a following on TikTok page where she does hilarious comedic news reading skits, using her trusty hairbrush as a mircrophone!

Now a passionate voice coach, Sally loves helping others find their voice, and build their confidence, Sally uses holistic strategies to help people speak in any scenario they find themselves in so they can grow their business, advance their career, or just find their voice in life. If you think all voice coaching is scary or formal, that’s not her style. Sally is constantly pushing herself out of her comfort zone so she can support others as they move out of theirs. Just recently she hiked up a mountain and jumped into freezing cold water when she got to the top!

Down to earth, authentic, and funny, please welcome Sally to The Good Girl Confessional.

You can follow Sally and learn more about her coaching, courses, and advice here:
https://www.sallyprosser.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/sallyprosservoice

https://www.tiktok.com/@sallyprosservoice?lang=en

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I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, upon whose lands I live, work and play. I pay my respects to Aboriginal elders past, present and emerging.

Karen Ostenried has worn many hats over the years. From professional singer to
aerobics instructor, to the Chief Operations officer of an international biotech
company. Karen impressively has three world firsts in medical technology
accredited to her, and a number of Australian firsts in creating genetic models of
human diseases.

In 2009, Karen’s world would change forever. One week after she retired from the
field of science, she would be faced with the devastating Black Saturday bushfires
that tore through Victorian bushland causing widespread devastation and the
greatest loss of life from fire since colonisation. One hundred and seventy-three
people tragically lost their lives, 414 were injured, more than a million wild and
domesticated animals were lost, and 450,000 hectares of land were burned. Karen’s
Kinglake property destroyed, however one of her horses survived. Nursing the horse
back to health proved more difficult that she first imagined and in 2011 she took my
horse to Equine Assisted Therapy. Through this process, Karen quickly realised that
she needed to heal as much as her beloved horse.

By 2017, Karen qualified as an Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator. The primary
driver of this form of learning is to develop an expanded awareness of firstly self and
then of others. It develops essential life skills which can lead to success in all areas
of life and business, and the purest form of leadership.

Although Karen uses horses, it is very much Human Centred Design. It relies on
being present to fully comprehend everything around you, calm the mind and make
good decisions with empathy, accountability, and teamwork. It also relies on trust.
Today Karen’s business – The Matanya Effect, and Leadership Revolution, work
with Corporate Organisations to small businesses around team building and
leadership skills. She also works with people with low support Autism, some NDIS
clients for life skills, Teams, families, sports, business, community groups and all
levels of leadership up to C suite.

Join Karen as she chats with host Sandy Lowres and shares her amazing story.

You can follow Karen and her remarkable work here:
https://www.thematanyaeffect.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/thematanyaeffect
https://www.facebook.com/thematanyaeffect

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I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, upon whose lands I live, work and play. I pay my respects to Aboriginal elders past, present and emerging.

After a decade of teaching, Mish Wright started her second career as a Group Fit Instructor and Personal Trainer. Mish is the founder of the multi-award-winning fitness business franchise mishfit®, which specialised in training women.

Sadly, it’s a fact that all education that fitness professionals undertake is based on the
research of young fit men. Mish is passionate about educating everyone in the fitness
industry in what she calls the “missing education” of women’s health. Mish has created
EVEolution™ an online program to help women navigate exercise – no matter what age or
stage they are at. Mish doesn’t shy away from issues women may face while exercising,
including prolapse and pelvic floor weakness, periods, and perimenopause.

For over 12 years Mish has been writing, presenting, educating, and mentoring fitness
professionals in business, women’s health, and training older adults. Mish created the
Women’s Health and Fitness Summit (2014 – 2019) that brought together Fit Pro’s and Allied Health professionals to start relationships and conversations that are still resonating today.

Mish currently writes online education for Central Queensland University, Fitness Education
Online (Australia), EAT fitness (New Zealand), FITM (Malaysia) and Fit Asia (Singapore). She
has also re-written all the instructor education for the COTA (Council On The Ageing) for
their Living Longer Living Stronger program and the women’s health education for Curves
Australia and New Zealand.

In 2021, Mish was awarded the AUSactive (formerly Fitness Australia) Educator of the Year
award. Mish is a kiwi but lives with her husband and their two pussycats in Melbourne on the land of the Wurundgeri people, Australia.

Please welcome Mish to The Good Girl Confessional, and join us as she chats with host Sandy Lowres.

You can follow Mish Wright, and find more information on her courses and advice here:
https://www.mishwright.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mishfit

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Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Educator and Author, Debra Dank. Debra is a proud Gudanji/Wakaja woman who has worked in teaching and learning for over 40 years. Debra was the first Project Manager for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation when it was Constituted in 2011 and completed her PhD in Narrative Theory and Semiotics in 2021.

She has just released her book, We Come with This Place. The collection of recounts which form We Come with This Place, tells something of who the Gudanji are as a community and as a family. The experiences reflect the events and the living of Deb’s family from the very beginning through to colonial times of living in remote Queensland/ Northern Territory, events in the 60’s and 70’s to the present. Importantly, it gives Gudanji context to the horrors of living on cattle stations and remote places, along with the utter joy of family and the nature of trying to maintain those ties and links to, and living with, Country.

We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied, and surprising as the vast
landscape in which it is set. Debra has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes
that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of Country and people. She
writes beautifully about connection to Country and the ongoing relationships with all kin as
practised by Gudanji people.

Debra calibrates human emotions with honesty and insight, with plenty of dry, down-to-
earth humour. You can feel and smell and see the puffs of dust under moving feet, the ever-
present burning heat, the bright exuberance of a night-time campfire, the emerald flash of a
flock of budgerigars, the journeying wind, the harshness of station life, the welcome scent
of fresh water.

We Come with This Place is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji
Country to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it
has been for countless generations, land and people in long-practised balance, and Australia
as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be. The shared history of this
continent is much contested, and this book provides an alternative Australian story.
Please welcome Debra to The Good Girl Confessional.

You can follow Debra here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-dank-ph-d-2b3247176/?trk=public_profile_samename-profile&originalSubdomain=au

We Come with This Place is published by Allen and Unwin and is now available in all good
bookstores, or here:

https://www.readings.com.au/products/35076346/we-come-with-this-place#

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From Australian country girl to global citizen! If you are feeling fatigued, burnout and exhausted, chances are you are not alone!

Today in the confessional, host Sandy Lowres chats with Sally Clarke, the Co-Director of Human Leaders, author, and Burnout expert.

In 2012 Sally was working extremely long hours building a career in commercial law that she had long aspired for. That was until everything changed. While visiting her brother in France, she collapsed at the airport. She was suffering from severe and debilitating burnout. This experience forced Sally to re-evaluate what she really wanted in her life, and after a long period of healing - physically, mentally and spiritually - Sally set about making changes and immersed herself in researching the causes and effects of burnout.

Sally has now written two books -Protect Your Spark: How To Prevent Burnout and Live Authentically, and Relight Your Spark: How to Heal and Evolve after Burnout.

She is also the co-author of the annual Global Burnout Study, which shares extensive knowledge, experience and research with the latest data from a global study (3200+ participants from 30+ countries). The Global Burnout Study is a handbook for leaders and organizations on what burnout is, how it is caused, and what can be done to stop burnout happening. It incorporates practical tips, on-point reflection questions, and actionable steps.

Sally is now the Co-Director of Human Leaders, a peer-to-peer Learning community for human-centred Leadership at all levels.

Sally shares her hard-won wisdom and offers amazing advice based on lived experience and sound research.

You can follow Sally, purchase her books, and read the 2021 Global Burnout here:
https://www.salcla.com/publications

Follow Human Leaders here:
https://www.wearehumanleaders.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wearehumanleaders

Sally's podcast We Are Human Leaders can be found here:
Spotify: https://bit.ly/3OwAzmD
Direct (if you don’t use streaming): https://bit.ly/3A9BchR

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Ad2bcr
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Today in the Confessional, host Sandy Lowres chats with an incredible innovator! There’s a raft of unspoken health and wellbeing issues great and small that are faced by the general public and sometimes the distress these issues can cause, means patients can go years before mustering the courage to seek help. With new technology, and the digitisation of health, finding a solution might be as simple as picking up your phone or opening your laptop.

Dr.Lisa Beckett has built a successful career as a medical GP in Australia but after recognising a void with medical consultations, Lisa founded a Telehealth platform called Candor, which allows patients to book online consultations with fully qualified doctors to discuss and treat issues such as sexual health (contraception needs, erectile disfunction etc), medicinal marijuana treatments (chemo and cancer care, chronic pain, sleep disorders), skin care solutions and hair loss.

Candor is an online platform that allows patients to access comprehensive, evidence-based medical care through a simple online form. Candor’s services cover a wide range of medical conditions including hair loss, allergies, sleep issues, contraception, acne and more.

Patients consult online, and fill out an online assessment form which is then reviewed by an Australian GP who provides a tailored treatment plan and prescription. No need to visit a pharmacy: the prescription is delivered straight to your door.

You can follow Dr. Lisa Beckett and learn more about Candor here:
https://www.candormedical.com/

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Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Virginia Maywald who writes incredible and popular erotic fiction for women under her pen name Anna Buckley. She writes books that are about women taking control of their lives - financially, emotionally and sexually. Her books are set across the world featuring art, architecture, design, fashion, food and wine.

When Virginia first read erotic fiction like 50 Shades of Grey, she realised that there was a need for more erotic fiction, based around believable women who took ownership of their sexuality. Virginia wanted to create books that would allow the reader to experience an escape from life while enjoying eroticism.

The Anna Buckley books started with a trilogy centred around the character Christina Maxwell, an ordinary woman who had put her life on hold being the good wife.
She is forced to make drastic changes after the untimely death of her husband.
Her trilogy - Awakening the Lost Woman, Capturing the Lost Woman and Finding the Lost Woman follow the widow on her journey of sexual and emotional awakening.

Based in the tropical paradise of Cairns in far north Queensland, Virginia gives us a sneak look also at her soon to be released book, where she has created a whole new character for readers to follow.

You won't want to miss this conversation!

You can follow Virginia at Anna Buckley Books here:
https://annabuckley.com/books/
https://instagram.com/annabuckleybooks

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Today in the Confessional, host Sandy Lowres welcomes back delightful guest Kerri Sackville, an Australian author, columnist and mother of three. Kerri's new book - The Life Changing Magic of a Little Bit of Mess - is a humorous reminder to take ourselves, and our house work less seriously! If your housework is getting you down, this might be the book for you!

"In an era of decluttering gurus, cleaning bloggers and aspirational pantries, Kerri Sackville has studied the evidence and declared, 'Nah, way too much trouble.'
Instead, she has embraced domestic imperfection and discovered the life-changing magic of letting your standards slip."

Kerri has written extensively for mainstream media and online publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age, The Telegraph, Sunday Life magazine, the Child group of magazines, Notebook magazine, Practical Parenting magazine, Mamamia.com and Australian Women Online. She also has a long-standing, humorous column in the Australian Jewish News. Kerri’s stories are usually funny, occasionally deeply moving and always highly personal, and cover everything from weight loss to friendship, sex, parenthood and grief.

You can follow Kerri here:
https://www.kerrisackville.com.au/
https://twitter.com/kerrisackville
https://www.instagram.com/kerrisackville/

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