Anna’s journey starts in New Zealand as the child of Russian Jewish refugee parents. The promise of freedom instead turned into displacement, emotional and sexual abuse. Her 20’s saw her falling into a toxic cocktail of drugs, alcohol, and bad relationships resulting in her own body attacking itself with a disfiguring skin condition. Devastation or a blessing in disguise? Follow Anna’s journey from a deep sense of inferiority to the right to be visible and beyond.
A story of fighting against invisible forces that control the space of the unconscious mind and taking back the ownership of mind power. When most of us live in COVID 19 Pandemic fear, I had prepared myself since birth. My mother intended to kill me at my birth. My birthday was my apology day. The awakening moment at age six led my hands truly on what humanity is looking for but afraid most of us to find. It saved me from driving myself to the end due to the fear of being poisoned or abandoned; daily slavery and torture; being disfigured and blackmailed by family; forced marriage; the threat of being removed from genealogy; a potential accidental murder in Fi Ji sea; mental crash knowing my immediate death was expected when I reached my dreamed success in the early thirties. Regaining the lost territory of the unconscious mind is the path to liberty living beyond the mind prison, where mental suffering, fear of death, the sense of uncertainty, and after death do not exist.
My childhood and teenage years were full of struggle. My parents were controlling and strict. I started running away and rebelling from them from the age of 15 and eventually became a single mum at the age of 20. I had an alcohol and drug problem and was consumed in the party life and constantly getting stuck in toxic relationships with bad guys.
My life was a mess until I surrendered and called out to God for help at the age of 27. Within 1 year my life changed, I found the man of my dreams, I went from broke to wealthy, I started a new life in a new city and built a new family.
Since then I’ve been able to build a 7 figure business helping to reduce poverty in the Philippines. My life changed because I found God and I want others to find him too. Life doesnt have to be your own struggle, you can rely on God’s help to guide you through.
Pitch your story…At the age of 6 I became a carer for my mother who has been constantly suicidal through my life. I too am a survivor of child abuse and have had first-hand experience with PTSD. Statistics show that due to my history I am at higher risk of suicide and ongoing mental health issues. I refuse to accept this. I am living proof that as individuals we can change this reality.
When I was growing up I had no idea that my personal story would end up impacting the lives of thousands of Australians. I have the bloodline of the traditional Inca people in me. I feel fortunate that those who have walked before me have smashed the poverty cycle, breaking the integrational trauma cycle that has allowed me to become the person I am today. #incawarrior
This is a story of contrast beginning with imperial to metric, work to self employed, impoverished to rich and back again and the knowledge learned to affect the lives of many others.
During the global pandemic and subsequent lockdown, seven Melbourne-based musicians collaborate through the internet to compose the soundtrack of our soul.
Rob Pyne was born in 1967. He worked in various jobs, until breaking his neck in 1991, becoming a quadriplegic. He then completed a BA in History and Politics and a Law Degree. Pyne worked at JCU from 2000 – 2007. He was elected to Cairns Regional Council in 2008, serving 2 terms before being the first quadriplegic elected to State Parliament in 2015. After electoral defeat he returned to Council,winning Division 2 in March 2020. Rob remains happily married to Jenny and has one child Kate
From the invention of the foldable umbrella to an award-winning Creative Innovation event and social enterprise, comes the inspiring story of creative catalyst, Tania de Jong AM. This tale of innovation explores her creative roots and inspiration from her Grandmother Slawa Duldig’s first inception and creation of the foldable umbrella and takes you through the journey of discovery of how Tania became one of Australia’s leading social entrepreneurs and changemakers.
After battling a broken childhood, drug addiction & jail & becoming a well respected Addiction Specialist a house fire resulting in 48% third degree burns & a few goes at death. Include a decent dose of ongoing Mental Health battles I am rising from the ashes to reclaim life. Poignant; sad yet uplifting & joyous. A never say die attitude with a ton of resilience.
My grandfather was the army secretary at the time through different events. He once tasked Mary, his daughter to deliver a package while in Laos, Vietnam, to my father Charle’s work. He and Mary wed. My father was in the US Air Force, I was born on a US Air Force base in England. Having a beard grayed from LSD and having faced death after a near fatal assault in Canberra, surgical metal plate in his head, Bruce has fought and overcome challenges most would not dream, living now in Brisbane.
In December 2015 I went to India and had the opportunity to survey over fifty slum communities. What I saw there broke my heart but also inspired me to use my engineering skills to develop a solution and empower them out of poverty. That is how the HOMECUBE was born. I am starting with a $25,000 tiny house you can park in your backyard ready to move into from day one. I’m hoping that this will help provide an affordable housing option here in Australia that sits between the dead money of rent and a lifelong mortgage. But my dream is to take HOMECUBE overseas and see slums empowered.
Maree plays an essential role in our modern way of life. If it wasn’t for her and other beekeepers like herself, our civilization would soon crumble. Plain and simple. Her care for her bees, garden and other animals shines through and urges us to also do something for our gem of a planet. How can you be more mindful of the environment?
