Podcasts about australian vogue

There's an art to bringing history into modern creativity as more than a reference.  Sibella Court is adept at it. The creative director, author and interior and product designer has made a career out of creating with her love of history at the forefront. When you learn she grew up with two incredibly creative parents — a builder father skilled in transforming spaces and a mother who specialised in Central Asian textiles — her multifaceted creative career comes as no surprise.  After studying history at university in Sydney, and getting a start at Australian Vogue, she spent a decade shooting editorial in New York. Since returning to Australia in 2006, she's written and published six books, hosted a TV series, and designed the interiors for some of Sydney's best-known restaurants and bars, including Mr Wong's and Palmer & Co.  Listen in as Vince and Sibella Court discuss her lifelong love of history, working at Australian Vogue in the early 90s and the seismic impact the death of a parent can have.  https://thesocietyinc.com.au/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lucianne Tonti is my guest on Episode 173 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lucianne Tonti is a journalist, author and regenerative fashion consultant. She is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the weekly series Closet Clinic. Her writing also appears in Australian Vogue. Her first book Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothes, was released in Australia in July and will be published by Island Press in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in 2023. Lucianne has worked in sustainable and luxury fashion in Melbourne, Sydney, London and Paris. www.luciannetonti.com

Listen to a rerun episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring Mom, Model, Activist, and Entrepreneur Bridget Burrick Brown.   “My dream is to help women and young girls with confidence, and self-esteem.” - Bridget Burrick Brown   Bridget Burrick Brown, midwesterner turned New Yorker is a mom, model, activist, and entrepreneur.   She has been a professional model for 20+ years. During those years she has done runway, editorials such as Korean and Australian Vogue, advertising campaigns, and countless commercial work shooting with photographers such as Bruce Weber, Norman Jean Roy, and Ben Watts.   Bridget is also the founder of the Beyond Beauty Project — a movement to help improve self-esteem and confidence around body image and mental health. This multi-media platform includes both a podcast and workshops providing a safe space for conversations surrounding beauty and self-loving care.   As a qualified personal trainer and holistic health counselor, she knows how valuable it is for women to understand and nurture their bodies. Through her experiences as a model helped shape her personal understanding of beauty, her encounters with life's hardships taught her that being beautiful and feeling beautiful were two very different things. She is passionate about helping others with resilience and redefining the meaning of beauty, knowing all too well that beauty is an inside job.   Learn more about Bridget on BeyondBeautyProject.com. Give her a follow on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube.   Sponsor Picked Cherries' social podcasting app is the destination for the best podcast listening experience for all listeners. Download the app for FREE on Google Play and the App Store. Share podcasts like never before with Picked Cherries. Learn more at PickedCherries.com.  Find Us Online! Fireside: Juliet Hahn Instagram: @iamjuliethahn LinkedIn: Juliet Hahn FB: Juliet Hahn Clubhouse: @iamjuliethahn YouTube: Juliet Hahn Twitter: @iamjuliethahn

New York based Aussie Natasha Silva-Jelly has worked for renowned media brands like Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, GRAZIA, The Guardian Life & Style. A long time journalist and editor specializing in fashion, beauty, lifestyle, she started her career at Australian Vogue, run the fashion round at The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper and worked for Vogue in London. She moved with her family to NYC in 2014 and joined Harper's Bazaar as Features and Fashion News Director. Listen as she describes what drew her to New York from Australia, and how she's navigated the engine room during every phase of the changing media landscape.

Listen to a new episode of Your Next Stop recorded live on Fireside with host Juliet Hahn featuring Mom, Model, Activist, and Entrepreneur Bridget Burrick Brown.   “My dream is to help women and young girls with confidence, and self-esteem.” - Bridget Burrick Brown   Bridget Burrick Brown, midwesterner turned New Yorker is a mom, model, activist, and entrepreneur.   She has been a professional model for 20+ years. During those years she has done runway, editorials such as Korean and Australian Vogue, advertising campaigns, and countless commercial work shooting with photographers such as Bruce Weber, Norman Jean Roy, and Ben Watts.   Bridget is also the founder of the Beyond Beauty Project — a movement to help improve self-esteem and confidence around body image and mental health. This multi-media platform includes both a podcast and workshops providing a safe space for conversations surrounding beauty and self-loving care.   As a qualified personal trainer and holistic health counselor, she knows how valuable it is for women to understand and nurture their bodies. Though her experiences as a model helped shape her personal understanding of beauty, her encounters with life's hardships taught her that being beautiful and feeling beautiful were two very different things. She is passionate about helping others with resilience and redefining the meaning of beauty, knowing all too well that beauty is an inside job.   Learn more about Bridget on BeyondBeautyProject.com. Give her a follow on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube. Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by TookTake, the best way to know if you took, or still need to take your medication & supplements. Visit them at https://tooktake.com/. Get 10% off upon check out by using this code: NEXTSTOP   Follow TookTake on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram. Find Us Online! Fireside: Juliet Hahn Instagram: @iamjuliethahn LinkedIn: Juliet Hahn FB: Juliet Hahn Clubhouse: @iamjuliethahn YouTube: Juliet Hahn Twitter: @iamjuliethahn

In this episode Millie chats with Robyn Lawley an Australian top model based in New York who was the first ‘plus size' model to be shot for Australian Vogue and who has recently launched a new podcast ‘Every Body with Robyn Lawley: surviving and thriving in a body shaming world'.They discuss her experiences in the modelling industry, parenting in the age of diet culture and the importance of celebrating body diversity.There is hope at ended.org.au endED is a nonprofit organisation and needs your support to continue providing guidance and hope for those affected by eating disorders. DONATE HEREFollow endED on Facebook or Instagram Follow Millie on Instagram  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's Who? Weekly, we begin at the Emmys, but after Rita Wilson's opening number... Well, we turned off the Emmy's. Then what? Oh! Farrah's heading to Yale Law School? Kym Whitley's all over Page Six, X AE A-12 calls Grimes, “Claire”, Vanessa Lachey happy-sobs for NCIS, Asa Butterfield slaps away the cameraphones, Adele goes Instagram official with Rich Paul, Doutzen Kroes lets us know she's anti-vaxx (Did we ask?), Sam Asghari's ex-girlfriend, Mayra, goes on the record with TMZ, Ben Barnes drops a banger and Rita gets the cover of Australian Vogue. Would we have it any other way? Call 619.WHO.THEM to leave questions, comments & concerns, and we may play your call on a future episode. Support us and get a ton of bonus content over on Patreon.com/WhoWeekly and come see us on tour! Tickets at WhoWeekly.us/live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on The Quiet Life Michael speaks with Rachel Hunter - Mother, Yoga + Meditation Teacher, Supermodel, and Author. She talks about where she came from and who she was as a young woman, the challenges she's faced throughout her life as well as the joy's, and how she found her way to where she is today through quiet practices. She shares what it was like to face judgements throughout her life in the public eye, why she loves feeling resistance within, and the moment she realized she was running from being fully herself. Rachel was born in New Zealand and left home at 17 to become a supermodel on the other side of the world in New York City. Her career took off, landing her with FORD Models and on the pages of Italian Vogue, Australian Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Revlon Covergirl, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She found herself married by 21, further thrust into the public eye, and soon after her daughter and then son were born. After years on and off the road traveling, she started to ask herself existential questions - who am I? Where am I going? She left her high profile marriage and became immersed in motherhood, exploration, and work. She rode the waves of life until her mother's diagnosis and ultimate demise to cancer. In her mother's final days, Rachel asked her what she regret - her mother's reply changed everything. She said “I regret not being + doing me! Being fully who I wanted to be!” Rachel stepped off a plane in India in 2017 to process her grief, never intending to teach. She has since spent many hours studying yoga and meditation in the foothills of the Himalayas, and has found her place as both a student and a teacher of these ancient wisdoms and philosophies. You can find out more about Rachel on her website https://www.rachelhunter.com/ where you can join her online yoga membership, Rituals. You can also follow along with Rachel on Instagram @rachelhunterx. For more conversations like this and to join our community visit justbreatheproject.com and follow us on instagram @justbreathe. If you haven't already downloaded our recently re-launched app, you can click here for iPhone and here for Android. As listeners of The Quiet Life, use the code thequietlife to receive a 30 day all access trial. You can enter the code here and find directions on how to use the unique code you receive to start using the app. Happy meditating!

A master of his profession, no one understands the transformative power of hair better than Kevin Murphy. His work has graced the covers of all the major global print publications, and he has directed hair teams for countless high profile fashion houses. Having trained at Vidal Sassoon in London, Kevin returned to Australia to establish himself as one of the country's most sought-after stylists. As a regular contributor to Australian Vogue he carved his niche within the industry as the go-to guy for the iconic ‘Beach Hair' look, and in 2007, was awarded the Australian Masters Award at the AHFAS for his outstanding contributions to the profile of Australian Hairdressing worldwide.@kevinmurphyhairkevinmurphy.com.authezingproject.com 

As many of you know, The Grace Tales, the company I’ve spent the last seven years building was recently acquired by AllBright, the career network for women. After an incredibly challenging 2020, I couldn’t be more excited about my next chapter. I launched The Grace Tales when my firstborn was a newborn, and at the time, I was also the deputy editor at Australian Vogue. The Grace Tales was almost like therapy for me, it gave me so much insight into the world of motherhood. I spent many years attending fashion shows all over the world, but I’d swap those shows any day for a Grace Tales shoot where I’d meet and connect with so many women. Connection is at the heart of what AllBright stands for. And today, I am so excited for you to meet Debbie Wosskow OBE, who along with Anna Jones, founded AllBright and I have the extreme pleasure of now working for. Debbie is, by her own admission, a serial entrepreneur. And an incredibly successful one at that. She sold her last business - subscription-based home exchange business Love Home Swap to Wyndham for $53 million. Aside from being a fierce supporter of women, she is a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board and sits on the Board of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2016 Debbie was awarded an OBE for her services to business. She won the Evening Standard’s Business Award for ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ 2018 and was shortlisted for City AM’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2017. In this conversation we talk about the three ‘g’s’ which every entrepreneur needs, the ‘why’ of AllBright and how 80% of success is about turning up. AllBright Australia has now launched (make sure you check it out at allbrightcollective.com) and I can’t wait for you to get involved in this incredible platform – let’s meet Debbie Wosskow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eyeliner, blush, and lipstick! No one plans to eat their makeup, but are the ingredients in makeup safe enough to ingest? What if the medium we use to look and feel pretty is really creating ugly effects in our skin? Let’s explore good and bad ingredients found in our everyday ritual staple, makeup!   About Michael Moore   Michael Moore, owner of Moore For Life in Denver, Colorado, has been in the cosmetic and skin care industry for 32 years. His career has taken him down many different paths, but on all those paths, he has kept the same mission: to make people feel better about themselves. Moore’s career quickly escalated working with many industry leaders, such as Bobbi Brown, Borghese, Chanel, Lancôme, and Nars. In this time, Moore could be seen on the Today Show, Oprah, Entertainment Tonight, and InStyle magazine on a regular basis. His work has graced the covers of many different magazines worldwide, including Australian Vogue and Australian Glamour. Moore’s client roster includes many top actresses, vocal recording artists, and athletes, as well as royal and political figures. Moore can be seen weekly on the Emmy award-winning TV show the Everyday Show, and he is a regular contributor on the Day Break Show and the Good Day Show. In addition, Moore is a regular contributor to Colorado Expression magazine and Cherry Creek Now magazine.   Connect with Michael:   Website: www.mooreforlife.com   Email: michael@mooreforlife.com   Phone: 303-484-1857   Facebook: www.facebook.com/SimplyMichaelMoore (@michaelmoore)   Facebook: www.facebook.com/LifeMooreBeautiful (@lifemoorebeautiful)   Instagram: www.instagram.com/mooreforlife   YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmI5TnZqdHl8KyC3HuFPQw   LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michael-moore-411b9411   About Ella Cressman:   Ella Cressman is a licensed esthetician, certified organic formulator, business owner, and absolute ingredient junkie! As an educator, she enjoys empowering other estheticians and industry professionals to understand skin care from an ingredient standpoint rather than a product-specific view.   She has spent many hours researching ingredients, understanding how and where they are sourced, as well as phytochemistry, histological access, and complementary compounds for intentional skin benefits. In addition to running a skin care practice, Cressman founded a comprehensive consulting group, the HHP Collective, and has consulted for several skin care lines, including several successful CBD brands.   Connect with Ella Cressman:   Website: www.ellacress.com   Website: www.hhpcollective.com   Facebook: www.facebook.com/HHP-Collective-105204177682777/   Instagram: www.instagram.com/hhpcollective   LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ella-cressman-62aa46a   About Associated Skin Care Professionals (ASCP):   Associated Skin Care Professionals (ASCP) is the nation’s largest association for skin care professionals and your ONLY all-inclusive source for professional liability insurance, education, community, and career support. For estheticians at every stage of the journey, ASCP is your essential partner. Get in touch with us today if you have any questions or would like to join and become an ASCP member.   Connect with ASCP:   Website: www.ascpskincare.com   Email: getconnected@ascpskincare.com   Phone: 800-789-0411   Facebook: www.facebook.com/ASCPskincare   Instagram: www.instagram.com/ascpskincare     About our Sponsor: Face Reality Skincare   Face Reality Skincare has a clear-skin system that will have your clients’ acne under control in about three to four months, depending on their type of acne. Face Reality Skincare combines the power of clinical-grade products that are customized for a specific type of acne with a series of bimonthly treatments. Face Reality Skincare also teaches you about other aggravating factors that cause breakouts: foods, medications, cosmetics, stress, and common ingredients in skin care formulations that might be clogging the pores (even professional and prescription products).   Website: www.facerealityskincare.com   Email: info@facerealityskincare.com

Chris Pang is a diplomat: The Melbourne International Film Festival ambassador and Crazy Rich Asians star discusses his upcoming new Amazon series On the Spectrum and why so many talented Australian actors of colour still struggle for opportunities and recognition at home, even while breaking through with big successes overseas.Vogue: Challenged. Glossy magazines are contending with how to address calls for more and better representation of minorities -- institutionally, and within its content -- Australian Vogue's August issue features young Bla(c)k activists using social media and other platforms to raise their voices and amplify their causes. Grace Dlabik, founder and creative director of Be Collective and Be. ONE Creative provided guidance and casting direction for this special issue of Vogue. She talks fashion, activism, and whether the viral instagram #VogueChallenge was a tribute or a call out.

In this episode, my guest, Kristen Taekman, Former Real Housewives of NYC- BravoTV, is sharing her life story, behind the scenes of the show, affordable fashion, diet&exercise routine, and so much more! Tune in to find out! My Guest  Kristen Taekman @kristentaekman Former Real Housewife of NYC turned fashion blogger, making Last Nights Look all about affordable fashion! https://lastnightslook.com/ Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Kristen began her modeling career at age 14 after being discovered by John Casablanca’s agency. She went on to work in New York before moving to Paris for several years, followed by Italy and Australia. Gracing the covers of some of the world’s most renowned fashion publications, Kristen has appeared in Australian Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Glamour, as well as national campaigns for beauty brands such as L’Oréal and Clairol. The blonde beauty had been photographed by famed photographers including Antoine Verglas and Ben Watts. In addition to her work as a model and mom, Kristen possesses a keen business sense that led her to launch her own successful greeting card company called 2nd Street Press in 2009.  Your Host  Olyasha Novozhylova - NotBasicBlonde@notbasicblonde_ NotBasicBlonde Podcast @nbbpodcast  

On the show today… Meghan Markle's old co-star Simon Rex has done an interview about their relationship, so how much was he bribed by the press to lie about her? Dua Lipa covered Australian Vogue, so what's it like being a part of the new feminist-wave of popstars? Michelle Williams secretly married for the second time, so why are we all so invested in her love life? The Spill is Mamamia's daily entertainment podcast that catches you up on everything in entertainment and pop culture. It's snackable and perfect for your commute home. CREDITS Hosts: Kee Reece & Laura Brodnik Producer: Hannah Bowman WANT MORE? Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... https://mamamia.com.au/entertainment/ Follow us on Instagram @mamamiaentertainment https://www.instagram.com/mamamiaentertainment/  Subscribe to our Celebrity Newsletter...  https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe/ Join our Facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/mamamiaentertainment/ GET IN TOUCH Call us on the pod phone 02 8999 9386.  Email us at thespill@mamamia.com.au  Want to hear more Mamamia podcasts? You'll find them here... https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Download to listen anytime Jacqui and Ush talk about Anzac Day, and also about business groups for women. Then Jacqui interviews Rebecca Huntley, the author of the most recent Quarterly Essay: Australia Fair, about democracy and what Australians want from their country. Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australians foremost researchers on social trends.  She has a background in publishing, academia and politics.  She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in Gender Studies.   For nearly 9 years Rebecca was the Director of The Mind & Mood Report, Australia's longest running social trends report.  She currently heads Vox Populi research, as part of the CIRCA research group. She is the author of numerous books including Still Lucky: why you should feel optimistic about Australia and its people (Penguin 2017). Rebecca is a broadcaster with the ABC and presents The History Listen each week on RN. She was a presenter of RN Drive on a Friday. In addition to books, Rebecca has written extensively for essay collections, magazines, newspapers and online publications. She was a feature writer for Australian Vogue and a columnist for BRW and writes a column twice a month for ABC Life. Rebecca co-hosts with Sarah Macdonald a comedy storytelling night and podcast called The Full Catastrophe. The Full Catastrophe is also a book (Hardie Grant, May 2019). She is on the Board of The Bell Shakespeare Company and the Whitlam Institute.

In 2011, Arizona Muse landed a Prada contract and a 14-page story in American Vogue, with Anna Wintour comparing her to Linda Evangelista and Natalia Vodianova. She's since become a familiar face on Vogue covers everywhere (including Vogue Paris, British vogue plus she's graced 3 Australian Vogue covers). But these days Arizona has new priorities. Today she is using her platform to help the industry that she loves transition to a more sustainable future. She’s been working with The Sustainable Angle, curating showcases of young sustainable designers with her friend Rebecca Corbin-Murray, and she plans to set up a consultancy. This episode is about following your dreams, diving into new worlds, reinvention, and learning. It’s the story of a woman we knew for one reason, her beauty, changing the conversation around her, to focus outward.  Join the conversation - follow Clare in Instagram and Twitter Don't miss the show-notes each week on clarepress.com - they're packed with links and extra info.

Mark and Hannah welcomed actor/singer David Leach and pinup model Tamera Von Tart to the lighter side of the dark side this week. You would not believe what David had to do to get on Road Rules, and he pulls the curtain and lets you behind the scenes of MTV's last great reality show. He tells of freaking out David Draiman of Disturbed and Stone Cold Steve Austin in completely different ways. He was billed as the “big sweaty guy” on Westworld, and talks about filming that as well as his roles in Batman v Superman, This is Us and Get Shorty as well as talk about how Craigslist led him to be the lead singer of the nu metal band Dirty Machine. He also touches on his beefs with Fred Durst and P.O.D. and what it was like to tour with the Insane Clown Posse. Tamera just got back from the rockabilly festival Viva Las Vegas, and talks about what a crazy time it was as well as defines rockabilly for David. Her nail game is always on point, which is difficult as she just got them done from someone with severely shaky hands. Hannah had high praise for her vintage style and she gave tips on how to be and pose sexy. She is now in the Pink Mink Mafia and repped the giant hoop earrings and her status as an honorary chola as well as letting us know what her children think of having a model as a mom and how they are following in her footsteps and have already been featured in Australian Vogue magazine.

When you think of Victoria’s Secret what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Fake angel wings? Diamond encrusted bras? A whole lot of beautiful people dancing down a runway? For Aussie model Robyn Lawley, the first thing that comes to mind is that there's only one type of woman walking in the show.  And she wants to change it. As a size 14-16 Robyn is classified as a plus-sized model.  She was the first model over size 10 to be shot for Australian Vogue and US magazine Sports Illustrated. And that's why she's urging people to boycott the 2018 Victoria’s Secret show until they feature a range of body shapes that better reflect the real world. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Robyn Lawley. Sign her petition here.  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you think of Victoria’s Secret what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Fake angel wings? Diamond encrusted bras? A whole lot of beautiful people dancing down a runway? For Aussie model Robyn Lawley, the first thing that comes to mind is that there's only one type of woman walking in the show.  And she wants to change it. As a size 14-16 Robyn is classified as a plus-sized model.  She was the first model over size 10 to be shot for Australian Vogue and US magazine Sports Illustrated. And that's why she's urging people to boycott the 2018 Victoria’s Secret show until they feature a range of body shapes that better reflect the real world. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Robyn Lawley. Sign her petition here.  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you think of Victoria’s Secret what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Fake angel wings? Diamond encrusted bras? A whole lot of beautiful people dancing down a runway? For Aussie model Robyn Lawley, the first thing that comes to mind is that there's only one type of woman walking in the show.  And she wants to change it. As a size 14-16 Robyn is classified as a plus-sized model.  She was the first model over size 10 to be shot for Australian Vogue and US magazine Sports Illustrated. And that's why she's urging people to boycott the 2018 Victoria’s Secret show until they feature a range of body shapes that better reflect the real world. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Robyn Lawley. Sign her petition here.  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, all! Welcome to Episode 10 of Good Will Hunters! Can you believe we’re at 10 episodes?! I can’t think of a more perfect guest to mark this milestone with than the wonderful, bubbly, intelligent, hilarious Clare Press. Clare is the Sustainability Editor At Large of Australian Vogue and an absolute powerhouse in the world of ethical fashion. Our conversation is funny, timely and inspiring, for anyone who wears clothes (AKA most of us, right?!) and wants to be a more responsible consumer, and help change the world in the process. Check out the Oxfam ‘What She Makes’ Campaign here - https://whatshemakes.oxfam.org.au Asian Floor Wage Alliance - https://asia.floorwage.org Ethical Fashion Initiative - http://ethicalfashioninitiative.org To learn more about Mimco’s work with EFi, check this out - https://www.mimco.com.au/mimco-gives-back/ethical-fashion-initiative And lastly, to pre-order Clare’s fantastic new novel, go here - https://www.mup.com.au/books/rise-resist-paperback-softback Royalty free music by Bensound.

Death by alcohol is a real thing. And a brush with this fact of life completely turned things around for our featured guest in this episode. She asserts, “The worst thing that ever happened to me was drinking alcohol.” In this 7th installment of our podcast, One Year No Beer Co-Founder Ruari Fairbairns talks to Lucy Rocca. Lucy is the founder of the phenomenon that is the Soberistas, a movement which has built an incredibly supportive, non-judgemental community helping many people conquer long-term alcohol dependencies. She has written five best-selling books and regularly inspires people to take up alcohol free living. The ‘magic potion’ Listen as Lucy recounts how she started drinking at the young age of 13. She had thought, accordingly, that alcohol was like a magic potion that made her feel attractive, made her ‘fit in’, and made things seem so much more fun. She was so seduced she embraced a hedonistic lifestyle basking in alcohol throughout her twenties. She confesses, “I wasn’t ever drinking for the taste, or to get a little bit tipsy. I was drinking to get drunk.” Lucy was divorced and a single parent in her late twenties. Alcohol became a ‘self-medication’ for her. And she relates, in this episode, how she carried on with the routine of frequenting bars, muddling through the week and living for the weekend, until she was 35. Wake up call It was that fateful night in April 2011 when Lucy’s life was changed forever. She remembers how she was drinking alone, being very depressed, and downing 3 bottles of wine and a litter of strong cider. She eventually collapsed on a pavement outside of her house, and woke up in a hospital. She thought she could’ve died, and she never drank alcohol again after that. Soberistas Drawing from her own experiences as a heavy drinker (for twenty years) who did not find any support in quitting drinking, Lucy created Soberistas. She discusses in this podcast how she saw the need for an ‘online space where people could be completely anonymous and honest about their drinking.’ The movement started with a blog. And it was such a sensation it initially attracted at least 20,000 people to sign up. It has been featured in Australian Vogue, Canadian Elle, Red Magazine, and several popular TV programs. Beautiful redemption Lucy muses, in retrospect, how she became fitter, healthier, more productive and creative, a better mom, a nicer friend, and how she now has more money, being alcohol free: “I feel the best I ever felt (and I’m nearly 41) and I look the best I ever looked . . . The single act of stopping drinking has completely changed my life.” LINKS & RESOURCES OYNB Website: https://www.oneyearnobeer.com/ OYNB Faceboook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Oneyearnobeer/ OYNB Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/199505820380513/ OYNB Twitter: https://twitter.com/oynbuk/ OYNB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneyearnobeer/   LUCY ROCCA’S LINKS Lucy Rocca’s Books Soberistas Website: http://soberistas.com/ Soberistas Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Soberistas/ SoberistasTwitter: https://twitter.com/soberistas/ Soberistas Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/soberistas/ Soberistas Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/soberistas/ Soberistas Futures Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoberFuturesCIO/

Today's guest is a lady that I heard on a show, and loved the passion for life, and the leap of faith that she took so dramatically. Several years ago, she was diagnosed with clinical depression and suffering from drug addictions, eating disorders and corporate burnout, she hit rock bottom. And in that position of rock bottom, in that darkness she found the light. She realized she had the power to bring herself to happiness…and that is exactly what she did. Yep leap of faith time came beckoning, and she left her high-powered job in advertising to follow her heart and engage in the work she does today. Now this isn't a story, when as soon as she landed from the leap she hit the ground running and had it all planned out. She started her journey, and began documenting her odyssey on the website she had built "playwiththeworld.com." And now her dream to be a writer, happy, inspired and and of course an inspiration to many across the world has come true, and she is the bestselling author of Find Your Happy, an Inspirational Guide to Loving Life to Its Fullest, and a six-time contributing author to Chicken Soup for The Soul. Her work has been recognized in media outlets across the world such as Good Morning America, Good Day New York, Inside Edition, HuffPost Live, Health Magazine and Australian Vogue and she is an online columnist for Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, Healing Lifestyles & Spas and The Daily Love. Wow, everything she does is to help us connect with our true self and without apology to live your authentic purpose. She teaches people how to courageously follow their heart. So can she remember the night before she went into her advertising job and told them all.."I'm off to follow my heart"? And does she see now the world with different, knowing eyes, and cant quite understand why the rest are struggling to see things the same way? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Shannon Kaiser

Monty Coles is a leading fashion photographer who was regularly travelling the globe in the 1980s with magazines such as British & Australian Vogue. Initially working on Wall Street, in the finance industry, Coles made the transition to photography after being asked to assist a New York photographer with his business. Travelling to Tokyo with model Twiggy in the mid-60s certainly helped his career. Among his current gigs are teaching photographic students at RMIT University. Read Monty's blog at: www.theloupe.org