Roula Selinas: 19 Years Post-Transplant, Two Cancers, and the One Thing She Could Control
⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses grief, which some listeners may find distressing.If you need support, you’re not alone — help is available:Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au In April 2007, Rula’s world fractured when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. What followed was eight months of intensive chemotherapy and a […]
Sarah de Jong: From a Childhood Without Mum to a Global Kindness Movement
Episode Summary Sarah de Jong grew up in rural Tasmania with a mother who left for Greece when Sarah was almost four — not out of abandonment, but out of her own battle with anorexia and mental illness. From that early experience of love stretched across distance and grief, Sarah built something quietly extraordinary: A […]
Financial Abuse: Identifying Red Flags and Taking Action with Michael De Haan
Michael de Haan is a seasoned financial professional with more than 25 years in the industry. After a successful career as a financial planner, he transitioned into coaching and advocacy, bringing a unique blend of financial expertise and human-centred support. Today, Michael is a Certified Money Behaviour Coach and a trained Financial Abuse Specialist, dedicated […]
Life-threatening Allergies vs Food Labels: Your Life At Risk! Watch the full #gritdiaries episode !
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories of resilience, disability, and transformation. Named after the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold — the philosophy that what’s been broken can become more beautiful for the mending — every episode honours the cracks, the rebuild, […]
From Tragedy to Transformation: The Story Behind ‘Dawn Dusk’ with Blue and Jason Gerber
In this episode of The Grit Diaries, we had the pleasure of sitting down in conversation with Jason and Blue Gerber, film directors and producers from the US, on the release of the coveted film Documentary Dawn, Dusk. A story told through the eyes of Chelli Look, a creative in the luxury leather handbag space. […]
The Moment I Stopped Asking Why and Started Building | Lindsay Ziehl
Lindsay Ziehl is a British-born humanitarian, author, and advocate for women, raised across Australia and Africa. She was crowned Miss Victoria in 1969, survived cancer twice, and has spent over 25 years on the frontlines of domestic violence work — training 3,000 women and personally securing the release of trafficked women. She founded the Andrew […]
Be inspired to embrace learning, self-determination, and a brighter tomorrow with Cecilia McKenzie
A proud Wiradjuri woman and First Nations advocate, Cecilia is a dedicated connector and educator who is passionate about self-determination and learning from the past to inform a better future. Driven by a desire to empower others, Cecilia leans into her lived experience to inspire and inform with stories of recovery and renewal. With a […]
Jayne Myer Tucker on What Is Post Traumatic Growth After Losing Her Husband at 23
The balance point ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses grief, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you’re not alone. Help is available: • Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au Jayne Myer Tucker grew up in rural South Australia with British parents, married her childhood sweetheart, and worked as […]
She Won an Award and Nearly Died on the Way Home | Siobhan Wilson | Grit Diaries
Episode Summary Siobhan Wilson was born at 27 weeks, weighing less than a kilogram. By 16, she had survived open heart surgery at one month old, roughly 130 resuscitations in the NICU, seven anaphylaxis episodes — including one where paramedics ran out of adrenaline — and founded her own social enterprise at age 6. In […]
You’re Not Alone: Menopause Uncovered with Sonya Lovell
Since 2021, Sonya Lovell has been raising awareness, challenging societal stigmas and taboos, and lobbying for better education and resources for everyone who is transitioning through menopause. Sonya is the host of the popular podcast Dear Menopause, having interviewed leading local and global experts and commentators in the fields of menopausal health, mental health and […]