Award-winning film & television director Minkie Spiro likes to tell big stories. Her critically acclaimed body of work only proves her innate versatility to create cinematic masterpieces.

Her hit series All Her Fault with Aussie Sarah Snook has become a global sensation, beating all records for the platform with over 2 billion hits in the first week. This mystery thriller is Sarah Snook’s first TV role since Succession and also stars Dakota Fanning, Michael Pena and Jake Lacey.

Directing Peacock’s latest hit series The Five Star Weekend streaming now follows Hollis Shaw, a widowed food author played by Jennifer Gardner who hosts a Nantucket getaway with four friends from different life stages after a devastating loss. 

The series explores grief, friendship, and personal growth against a coastal backdrop.

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Dr Amy Wilson is a senior OCRF ovarian cancer research foundation researcher and endometriosis patient with lived experience including an ovarian cancer scare. Amy brings personal and professional insight to the OCRF mission: to detect ovarian cancer earlier, improve treatment outcomes, and prevent the disease altogether . Having just had her first child she is hopeful and dedicated to closing the gender health gap and to improving healthcare for women in every stage of life.

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Over the past few years, Em has found herself navigating the end of an 18-year marriage, dating again in her 40s, single parenting, rebuilding her career independently and questioning many of the beliefs she’d carried since childhood about love, worthiness, approval and what it means to be a “good woman.”

Her new national tour “Addicted To Love” grew out of that experience, but the conversation itself is really about what happens when the life you built no longer fits and you’re forced to start listening to yourself again.

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“We’ve lost the village”: Housing expert Lucinda Hartley on the loneliness crisis hiding in plain sight.

Australia is facing a loneliness epidemic and according to housing expert and urbanist Lucinda Hartley, the problem isn’t just our busy lives or screen addiction. It’s the way our cities have been designed. From long commutes and car dependence to apartment buildings that prioritise privacy over connection, modern Australian life is making it easier than ever to move through entire days without meaningful human interaction. 

As rates of loneliness soar, particularly among young Australians, Lucinda says we need to stop treating loneliness as a personal failing and start recognising it as a housing and city design issue. 

Author of Finding Home, Lucinda can discuss why the “village” that once sustained communities has quietly disappeared and simple changes individuals, developers and governments can make to rebuild connection into everyday life.

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You’re going to love Shelly Horton as she explores all things Peri and Menopause! 

She’s transformed her own perimenopause experience into a mission to ensure other women aren’t sideswiped like she was. 💕

Through her book, I’m Your Peri Godmother: A happily-ever-after guide to kicking perimenopause in the ovaries, and her signature sassy delivery, Shelly blends lived experience with expert-backed advice to smash the stigma around perimenopause and menopause. 
With over 30 years in media, including a decade on TODAY EXTRA, she’s a trailblazer for menopause-friendly workplaces that boost productivity and support women with evidence, not eyerolls. 

Find out more about her Pri Godmother at Work training https://shellshockedmedia.com/peri-godmother-at-your-workplace/

Tickets to the Hot, Healthy and Unbreakable: Midlife Reimagined https://www.tegdainty.com/tour/hot-healthy-unbreakable/

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500+ scuba dives have taught this exec about business leadership Dane Hudson credits the late @visyforabetterworld former CEO Richard Pratt with guiding him on his life’s journey as a young @visyforabetterworld employee.

Through half a century in the water, Dane Hudson has mastered the core tenets he brings to business coaching: heightened awareness and disciplined, deliberate action.

Global CEO Dane Hudson on his new book, Discipline Beats Vision shares powerful leadership lessons learnt.

Dane has 25+ years as a CEO across five industries across Australia, the US, Asia and Africa, including roles as CEO of Regional CEO of ISS Asia Pacific (overseeing 200,000 employees) Experience, insight and wisdom.

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After leaving her 20 year marriage and finding her self single scared and confused in New York Amy @love.amy.nyc ❤️embarked on a brave exploration to find her truth. Now she can charge $40,000 to help others find love which she did !

“I track all of the beautiful love stories that I’ve had the privilege of watching bloom. And one thing they all have in common is this: unbridled and glowing gratitude for each other.
It’s the kind of energy that beams “We can’t believe we get to DO this together.”

In early dating, look for signs that this person sees life through the lens of gratitude. How do they speak about their loved ones? How do they show up for them? Do they take them for granted?
What role do they play in their family? In their friend group?
The way they speak about their ex is a clue. Even if they had a tough breakup or divorce, do they speak with integrity about them? Do they own their part?

The couples I’ve witnessed cannot believe how lucky they are to have found each other. It’s so heart opening to watch. You deserve that, too.”

Amy is a holistic dating coach and author of Dating for the One, which will launch in 2027.

Love, Amy is her coaching business that marries the technology of modern dating with a holistic view of human-to-human energy and connection. ❤️

Amy lives with her husband Brett (they met on Bumble!) in Los Angeles and New York City. 

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“I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful”

In family estrangement, the mud and dirt gets everywhere, Kathryn Heyman writes. “And it is very hard to undo what has been done”

She is the author of 9 novels, and the acclaimed memoir, Fury. She has won numerous awards infact almost too many to mention.

Her new book “Circle of Wonders”is a novel about facing death while rediscovering life, and about the messy grace that emerges when people who’ve hurt one another choose to love anyway.

Roni is running out of time.

As cancer claims her body, she begins a Book of Wonders, capturing the small, luminous moments she once overlooked. It’s a final gift to the people she loves, and completing it means reckoning with both the flawed life she has lived and the fractured family she’s about to leave behind.
 
Over one charged lunar month, the women closest to her gather: Belle, her daughter fresh from rehab and trying to stay upright; Anna, her brilliant sister returning from London with all her old certainties cracking; and Sylvie, her estranged mother, approaching her own death across the mountain ridge. Meanwhile, Roni’s ex, the Drone, as she’s dubbed him, haunts the house, casting shade on the light she’s fighting to keep burning.

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