The Loop with Lucy

6 Women from the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai area got together to bring a Festival celebrating women and the importance of building self care to the leafy suburbs of the North Shore. 7 days, 30 events, 21 organisations, 20 businesses and 33 stalls later the conversation has been well and truly started!

A diverse mix of how and why local people go into politics and how it impacts on their lives as well as a check in with Steve Plain after he takes 6 children in wheelchairs up Mt Kosciuszko with 100 volunteers to make it happen. Don't forget it is the International Women's Festival Week so an update and a summary are also included!

When close to 9 out of 10 people will die from a lifestyle related illness we talk to Wal Edwards who is turning 102 this year and Dr Ross Grant who researches how lifestyle, exercise, stress, diet and emotions produce changes in our biochemistry and lead to either health or disease.

Mary Jo McVeigh set up Cara House in Sydney a place where children, parents and families are offered space to heal from the impacts of trauma and abuse. This raw, honest and empowering interview is one for us all regardless of background or having children in your life. As Mary Jo says - you are never too old for love and to heal.

Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai are celebrating International Women's Day with a program of events across a Festival week. There are menopause talks, breakfasts, plays, opportunities to celebrate women and big up some local men too!

Big events cannot happen without support from local businesses and here we highlight the businesses that have supported our Hornsby Ku-ring-gai International Women's Day Festival Week

Big events cannot happen without support from local businesses and here we highlight the businesses that have supported our Hornsby Ku-ring-gai International Women's Day Festival Week

This week’s show on Stay in the Loop with Lucy is a story about the intergenerational consequences of war. Does war end when the soldiers come home? or when the last bullet is fired? or is there a deeper intergenerational effect, perhaps even, affecting epigenetics? an interview with Elkan Spiller, the producer of touching, witty and haunting documentary about his cousin Hime ( I am working on pronouncing that correctly!). Both men were born in

Today was my monthly Rotary show where I co-present with Ian Stuart from Turramurra Rotary. We were joined in the studio today by Tanya Plain, the older sister of the subject of our show today - Steve Plain a man who is in the middle of 4 month world record breaking challenge to climb the 7 highest summits on the 7 continents in 4 months after breaking his neck and no-one thinking he would walk again just 3 years ago. He is 1 for 7 and about to tackle number 2. Without the care of some amazing Life Guards, excellent care in emergency and support from Spinal Cure Australia, Steve’s outlook might have been very different.

Do you have a picture of what you think intimacy is and isn't? Do you feel your level of openness to intimacy depends on who you are with? If the answer to either of those is yes then suspend that stand for an hour and join us as we discuss intimacy on a whole new level.