Zero to Hero

Today we speak to Giselle Morgan, who shares her story of working in the community youth work for many years until a traumatic workplace experience and workplace bullying also linger in the background.

During this period, Giselle found her partner and started a family. Everything was going ok until he started showing narcissistic and emotional abusive traits, leaving Giselle mentally and financially worse off.

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Today we speak to Mariana, who shares her story growing up in the war-torn country Nicaragua. With her mother having to flee the country to arrive in the United States as an illegal immigrant, it took her time to become a resident and set up home to bring Mariana and her sister to safety.

Meanwhile, back in Nicaragua, Mariana was exposed to her trauma of sexual abuse and torture; we unpack her story and how she turned her life around after heading the wrong path in her new country.

Trigger Warning sexual abuse

Why do i grind my teeth

Today we speak to Caesar who shares his journey of growing up at Stanton island to hitting the nightclub scene in New York with his mates. Using ketamine as their main drug of choice Caesar explains how his life takes a downward spiral discovering opiates and doing things that he needed to do to support his habit.  Its real and honest. 

Today we speak to the inspiring Hilary who had a tough upbringing with her mother passing away at a young, trouble fitting in at school and suicide attempt's from the age of 14.  Self medicating from glue sniffing, amphetamine use and finally landing on heroin we uncover how she found self hypnosis to become clean and now is helping others to the same thing.  

Trigger warning suicide, self harm, and drug use. 

Today we speak to the inspiring Brittany who grew up with an alcoholic farther and co-dependent mother. Growing up was hard for Brittany and her sister with mental abuse occurring, and the lack of support from her mother, leading to self harming and self medicating with alcohol and prescription drugs for anxiety and PTSD we travel along Brittany's timeline up to today, where she has now put in healthy boundaries with her mum.  We also talk about therapy and the danger of smacking your children.

Tigger warning PTSD, self harming prescription pills 

Today's guest is the lovely Tanya Collins, who from a young age experienced domestic violence from her step farther and witnessed her mum deal with abuse until she sadly passed away from cancer. Tanya shares with us her experience with depression, anxiety and PTSD.

We also jump into a topic we both love hypnotherapy and how Tanya fell in love with stage hypnosis

Having balance in your life is a great way to beat Addictions, Depression or just a sense of well being  

In today's podcast, we speak to Fola Veritas about her childhood. Living in the middle east with her family moving back to Canada to study, where she first experienced depression. Fola is an experienced psychiatric nurse and is passionate about all thing’s spirituality and healing.

Trigger warning for depression and suicide talk

In Today's episode of zero to hero, we chat with Paul O'Brien. He had an illustrious career with the Victorian police force and AFP before retiring and starting his own company. Things then took a nose dive quite quickly; with Paul being diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, a relationship breakdown with anxiety and depression grabbing a hold, he fell into a deep hole.

Paul drew a line in the stand and set out on some fantastic journeys and now is a respected author of Pedals, Paddles and potholes.

You can find Paul at Leadership Matters