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This is the My Body, My Story Podcast, chapter 45 over 45. Here we celebrate rule breakers and role models - the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their SENSUALITY, BEAUTY, SOUL, and TRUE ESSENCE.
Here we talk about
- What it’s like to be 45+
- Adjusting to the changes that come with time.
- And we listen to the stories of our participants.
If you have an interesting story to share we’d love for you to participate. Contact us below!
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#75 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - TJ
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about TJ, what age she would like to go back to, and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up, and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About TJ
(at the time of the project)
* 47 years old.
* TJ was born and raised in Lithgow, New South Wales in the Blue Mountains.
* She is the third daughter of her parents, and their names all start with T. She goes by TJ which stands for Tamara Joanne.
* TJ is a C-Suite executive assistant, and she currently works for the CEO of Newcastle airport.
* TJ is recently separated.
* She has two biological sons 23 and 20. And two stepdaughters 26 and 23. A daughter-in-law-to-be and a wonderful little grandson named Bodhi, who was just born a couple of weeks ago.
* TJ’s nana’s name is Glamma, which stands for glamour grandma, and she totally identifies with this.
* TJ has two cats that are 10 years older brother and sister named Mario and Peach and they are her full-time indoor companions.
* TJ’s passion is encouraging others, lifting others up and reminding people of what they have to be grateful for and to find the gold in all situations.
* She is a people person. However, still an introverted extrovert. TJ is extroverted around people that she knows and she’s comfortable with and introverted the balance of the time. And she’s happily cheering people in the background.
* Her favourite quote is - "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." ~ Dolly Parton.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
And yeah, I think we're not taught to listen to our own voices enough when we're taught to listen to the voices of others, you know, whether it be social media, magazines, celebrities, or whether it's people in your real life.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the My Body My Story project. And today with us in the studio TJ and while she's sitting in the makeup chair and Nicole is doing magic on her makeup and here. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, TJ. Hi, welcome to the studio. Welcome to the project.
Thank you for having me.
And let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
I'm 47 in April this year, I was born and raised in Lithgow, New South Wales in the Blue Mountains. I am the third daughter of my parents are still together and our names all start with T I go by t j which stands for Tamara Joanne. I'm a C-Suite executive assistant, and I currently work for the CEO of Newcastle airport. I am recently separated I have two biological sons 23 and 20. And two stepdaughters 26 and 23. A daughter in law to be and a wonderful little grandson named Bodhi, who was just born a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, and I know that he was a reason why we have to change the date or your shoot
My nana name is glamma, which stands for glamour grandma and I totally identify with this. I have two cats that are 10 years older brother and sister named Mario and Peach and they are my full-time indoor companions. My passion is encouraging others, lifting others up and reminding people of what they have to be grateful for and to find the gold in all situations. I'm a people person. However, still an introverted extrovert. It seriously does make sense. I'm extroverted around people that I know and I'm comfortable with an introverted the balance of the time. I my background girl 100%. And I'm happily cheering people in the background.
I can't relate. Okay, sounds interesting. So I know that you're supposed to come like, I think it was a week ago. Or and suddenly, you texted us that your son and daughter in law are in the hospital and about to deliver your grandson unexpectedly. So how you are feeling as a grandma, in the new role?
I feel wonderful. I just can't believe that 20 years has passed me by and how I could possibly be a grandma yet. But here we are. 47 and 47. Almost. And he is lovely. He's absolutely delicious. And it's just been the best thing to ever happen.
I was I'm always wondering because I'm not a grandma year. So hopefully one day. Is it different feeling like when you have your first-born child compared to your firstborn grandson or granddaughter.
There it is. It's funny though the love that you have for your children. Just I can't believe how much it can extend out into the love for your grandchildren. So, so quickly and so suddenly, and all of those feelings come straight back. And it's amazing how it takes you straight back to when you had Jaws like even though it's 20 and 23 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. And all the smells and the sounds and everything just takes you straight back to being a mum and my daughter in law, Mackenzie. She just did such an amazing, she just did amazing and I'm just so grateful for her for what she's gone through to bring me grandson. I'm just yeah, I'll be forever grateful.
Oh, that's so nice. And so you mentioned that you're 47 years old. It's still young, but obviously we are entering stage of ageing and since we're born and so what does ageing means to you?
I didn't know I was thinking about that. Nor thinking older, wiser, I'm not sure. You know, how has 23 years passed me by because, like, I was just saying, I still remember when my oldest was born. And I can't believe I'm old enough to be a glimmer. I like to think that getting older means increasing, increasing in my knowledge, my trust, my faith, and my resilience. Even though going through what we do to be resilience, all my skills is in the process. Not to sound or metaphorical, but like a diamond in the fire, which actually means reflective light. And I, I really liked the sound of that the reflective light that I sparkle and shine.
Yeah, sounds good. So if you could go back to any age, what age it would be, and what advice would you give yourself at this age,
I would definitely be 15. Again, it was such a pivotal time for me, I went through quite a number of life events halfway through turning 15 and turning 16. And I would take it all back to before then I would be more innocent in so many ways, and my pop would still be around. Advice, I'm so great at giving advice to others, but not so great of taking any of it in myself. Self-love and respect are so important. And it doesn't mean you're being selfish, and it's not a negative. This can be done in the right way. But we just aren't taught how our default context is that it's selfish or self-love, or self-centered to love yourself. And it's totally not. Self-love is self-care. And care of self is one of the most important things, you know, how can you feel from an empty cup? We need new content, speak from a newly created content and change our mindset to support the new way of being?
Yeah, so it's good that if young people can hear us listen to this podcast, or so many women share similar points, you know, and saying like, I wish I was more confident or more loving myself, but why do you think it's important to give this advice at this age of 15. Like what happens?
I think there's just other influences that come in and around that time. It's no longer just your parents, you've got friendship groups, there's, you know, there's love interests, there's, you know, you've got, you're just doing other things, you're getting more freedom to do other things, you know,…
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Mar 16, 2023
#74 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Joe
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Joe, what age she would like to go back to, and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up, and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Joe
(at the time of the project)
* 52 years old.
* She goes by Joe. But her full name is Joanna.
* Joe was born in Goulburn country town near Canberra
* Joe moved up to Canberra to go to university. And that was only an hour away from home. Now she lives near Canberra, she works in Canberra.
* Although Joe travelled the World, she has remained an hour from where she was born her whole life.
* Joe has been married for 29 years, to Tim, who is absolutely the love of her life.
* Joe and Tim have two adult children. They're very, very proud of Lily and Angus, and they are 25 and 23. And both still living at home and working full time.
* They have one amazing dog Piper, who's an 11-year-old Labradoodle - a cross between a Labrador and a poodle.
* Joe works full-time and manages a team of social workers, who support vulnerable families in Canberra. And particularly do a lot of child protection in ACT.
* Joe’s passion is social justice, and particularly looking after the vulnerable kids in our community and keeping them safe and giving them every opportunity that they can have.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
I would go back to 30 because of the age of the children and readjust my perspective on life and my priorities and realise that life's short and my time with them as little people is even shorter, so work doesn't matter.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to The My Body My Story projects and today with us Joe in the studio. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair and Chitra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Joe.
Hello
Welcome to the studio and welcome to the project. Let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
Okay, thank you. So I go by Joe. My full name is Joanna. I live up near Canberra, I work in Canberra. I was born in Goulburn country town and moved up to Canberra to go to university. And that was only an hour away from home. And that's as far as I ever got. So although I've travelled the world have remained within an hour's have played out an hour from where I was born my whole life. I have been married for 29 years, to Tim, who was absolutely the love of my life. We have two adults children. We're very, very proud of Lily and Angus, and they are 25 and 23. And both still living at home and working full time. But they, they're both incredible people and one day, we're hoping that things will change out there and they'll be able to afford to move out of home and buy their own place. So at the moment, we are living in the same house. We have one amazing dog Piper, who's an 11 year old Labradoodle, who we all love very much
what is the word?
Labradoodle. So it's a cross between a Labrador and a poodle. So she's brown curly hair. She's beautiful. I'm still unfortunately working full time I manage a team of social workers. And we support the vulnerable families in Canberra. And particularly for children. We do a lot of work with child protection in ACT. And that was my previous job before I moved out to work in the community. I've always worked in the community sector. My passion is social justice, and particularly looking after the vulnerable kids in our community and keeping them safe and giving them every opportunity that they can have.
So when you say vulnerable kids, it's like a domestic violence or liquids.
Yes, domestic violence, drug and alcohol issues in the house mental health issues, poverty. And unfortunately, child abuse and neglect. Looking after all of those issues. Yes.
Excellent. So it didn't mention how old are you now?
I am 52.
And so what, at this age, what does ageing means to you?
Being invisible, being invisible, being invisible. I feel at this age I am overlooked at work. And I am looked through and looked passed out outside of work out in the community. And instead of being looked at or even looked up and down, that doesn't feel like it happens anymore as we get older.
So that's why we started this project. So, we've been heard and seen and so we can reach a
wider audience and talk about what ageing means for us. That we are still here. We like we're beautiful we do we still full of energy and we have plans… when you're saying that being invisible, so what do you think. it's not our usual question, but I'd like to ask this question. So, what do you think is the reason for this kind of attitude of people? Why suddenly they stop seeing us?
I believe that as we get older, and we start to feel like that, and I probably again, shouldn't be using the collective way, but I certainly feel this way, is that we start to hold ourselves up to unrealistic standards. And that is happening more in this modern age. Because of media, we see photos and movies, and people on TV and social media. And they all look so young, and flawless, and beautiful. And we forget that behind each of those photos, is an awful lot of filters, and makeup, and hairdressers, and stylists, but we forget that we see, I see we see them and hold ourselves up to an unrealistic standard. And stuff. We don't compare, we don't matter, we don't look like that.
Or I'm thinking that sometimes, they just don't publish the photos of all the women. They just started, this movement just started, like with the older models, you know, and looking more natural. But before like, if you remember, we will just see normally young women on the covers of the magazine and inside the magazine. And it's like forgetting that there's a very small demographics, you know, it's not a representative group of the whole world.
And then the middle-aged women that they were previously putting into the social media and into the movies are people that are absolutely jam packed full of cosmetic procedures.
Yeah. And again, it's not realistic, it's not real, we kind of moved to this question already. What do you think are the main causes of the body image issues? Like, I think that you already named the reasons is the media, but do you think any other reasons are? Do you think it can be also within the family? Or like, social circles?
You know, I think it's probably peer, I think that your family? For me, my family has always been it doesn't matter. Yeah, as long as you are happy, and you're a good person, it doesn't matter. And that's never been something you know, you've had I've ever held myself up to unrealistic, unrealistic expectations from my family about what I look like. But certainly, peas and women that you are surrounded with in your daily life. Yeah, you absolutely feel no. Keeping Up with the Joneses. I've got a look like that. I've got to wear that. I've got to do that. I've got to be that. Yeah.
And you know what, we discuss it earlier before the we start recording the podcast. And I think that maybe one of the reasons why people try to clue like not to not, as you said, I'm invisible. Yeah, they don't see me. It's their own fear of getting older. You know, the people try to escape something which they're afraid of. And so I think that the moment most of the people stop fearing getting older, and un…
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Mar 9, 2023
#73 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Narelle
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Narelle, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Narelle
(at the time of the project)
* 57 years old.
* Narelle I'm into mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling kickboxing. She goes to the gym, five mornings and five afternoons a week. It is a gym in Tempe which is called The Fight Lab. They do mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, Kickboxing and cardio as well.
* Narelle owns a rescue Greyhound, which she walks every morning.
* 10 years ago Narelle did weight loss surgery and lost 55 kilos. From 130 kilos to 75 kilos. She is so much fitter now and can do more. She can lift heavier weights, jump higher, kick higher, run faster.
* Narelle is also a breast cancer survivor.
* Narelle was born in Marrickville. And she is an adopted person as well. Her parents weren't married in the 60s, so they gave her up.
* She has been married for 34 years.
* She has 2 children - a daughter in Queensland who's 32 and her son here in Sydney who just turned 29. Narelle’s daughter has got a degree in psychology and she's working towards her masters.
* Narelle has ticked quite a few boxes on her Bucket list, but still has to see the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
* But whatever it is your passion, - she says -.Just do it. Whatever it is. Don't frighten yourself off from doing something.
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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
If you want to do something, doesn't matter what it is, whether it be mountain climbing or running or jumping out of an airplane or whatever, go ahead and do it, you've only got one life.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the my body My Story project and today with us in the studio Narelle. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair and Chitra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Welcome to the studio.
Thank you. Thank you for having me.
Let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
Okay, I'm 57 years old next month.
I'm a breast cancer survivor. I own a greyhound rescue Greyhound, which I walk every morning. I'm into mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling kickboxing. I compete doing kickboxing.
I go to the gym, five mornings and five afternoons a week.
Wow. Twice a day?
Yeah, twice a day.
Where were you were born.
I was born in Marrickville. And I'm an adopted person as well. My parents weren't married in the 60s it was frowned on to have children before you were married. So they gave me up. Oh, okay.
Have you found your parents after?
I have, but they're in WA and they're, they eventually got married and had two more children, two daughters. And they're not interested. They're just you know, they don't want to beat me because they're frightened that I'm going to disrupt the family and you know, their daughters will disown them and blah, blah, blah. But anyway, they lost not mine.
And I trained at a gym in Tempe. It's called the fight lab. And we do mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, Kickboxing. We do cardio as well. Personal Training.
Yeah. So you're the trainer?
No. just trained, just trying to Yeah.
So what do you do? When you don't train? Twice a day?
walk the dog. I, up until recently, I've been studying in doing a marketing course.
Oh, wow. Interesting.
That sort of got old really quickly after my cancer diagnosis. I thought I can't I've just got to get through this next little bit and get over this cancer. And so I just discontinued by my course last year, and who knows what, whether we'll go back to it or not. Interesting.
Is there anything else you want to share with us?
I've been married for 34 years. It's October.
Wow. Congratulations,
a daughter in Queensland who's 32 and my son here in Sydney who just turned 29 And he actually works for us harvest. And my daughter in Queensland, she's got a degree in psychology and she's working towards her masters.
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Excellent. So what's your favourite place in Australia?
Probably the Gold Coast.
I've just recently come back from Athens. So my coach was competing in a competition over there. So I went over to sort of help run things over there. I was in Greece for a week. Probably the Acropolis in Athens place beautiful.
How is the weather now?
Oh, it's beautiful. It's warm. So we went through everything, but it wasn't cold.
Excellent. So let's move to the subject of our podcast, which is ageing and body image. And my first question here is what does ageing means to you?
Well, I think we should, rather than bemoaning the fact that you're getting older, I think we should be thankful that we got this far. I think, you know, the, the older, the older I get, the less I care about what other people think. I just want people to, to look at me and say, oh, there's that lady with the purple hair. You know what I mean? You know, she's having a good time. You know, I wish I could be like her. Yeah. When I was a lot younger, I had a lot of self esteem issues, and you know, worrying about wondering what what other people think, you know, I was a little bit different from everyone else at school. So I got bullied, you know, that sort of thing. Now, I'm older, I just don't care anymore. You know,
so you mentioned that you have the low self esteem. And what do you think are the main causes of body image issues of this self self esteem issues, connected to body image?
Good question. I was a lot bigger than the other girls at school. So they used to tease me and, you know, call me names and that sort of thing. All I wanted to be all I wanted was to be the same is the same as everyone else. Not realising now that I'm older, you don't have to be the same as anybody else, you could be yourself. And, you know, other people don't have to like it, and that's okay.
But the causes of self-esteem, I don't know being adopted may have had a little bit of a, you know, feeling unwanted. So I knew it from we're wondering, wondering why they didn't want me wondering why. You know, they went away, and they left me like they did, so on and so forth. And then you know, other people, you know, having the attitude towards me, oh, well, she's, you know, looks different. So we're gonna bully her just for the, for the hell of it, you know?
You are saying that it's a combination of trauma and social influence?
kind of, kind of thing.
But did you know that you adopted from the beginning, your parents?
Well, I was very young, when my parents told me. No, might have been five or six? Oh, they told me.
So, you know, I feel like I've always known
If you could go back to any age, what age it would be? And why? And what advice would you give yourself at this age?Like, imagine that you have a time machine, you can go back to any age of yours
I would go back to my probably my 20s. I was 25 when I had my daughter, and 27 when I had my son. I would tell myself, not to worry about what other people think that other people's opinion of me has no relevance.
And if you want to do something, just go ahead and do it. You know, whether it be skydiving, rock climbing, running, you know, eat the ice cream, buy the cake, you know, wear the shoes, you know, you've only got one life. And I was so i…
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Mar 2, 2023
#72 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Julie
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Julie, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Julie
(at the time of the project)
* 60 years old.
* Julie is born in Australia, in a town called Cowra which is in the central west of New South Wales, better known as canola country.
* Julie was raised on a farm. So, she grew up barefoot, crazy and running through the bush.
* lived in many, many different places. when she was 16, she took up a job in a bank in Bathurst, then moved to Canberra for a while, then to a small coastal town just down from Wollongong called Kiama and then to Sydney.
* Julie is single with a friend with benefits. So, she has just discovered that that's a good idea rather than a relationship.
* Julie currently works four jobs! She is a workplace trainer and teaches interpersonal skills leadership, management, coaching. So, developing people is her main job.
* She is also an aqua aerobics instructor which is something she’s very passionate about, which helps keep her fit. She is also a fitness coordinator for her area in Hornsby Aquatic and Leisure Centre.
* Julie loves lots of colour. Her favourite colour is purple.
* Julie is bisexual and leans more to the lesbian side. She has had both relationships, and she’s probably happier with women. She knew this right from a young age but growing up in a small country town this was challenging.
* Julie has two children of her own, a son and a daughter. And three stepchildren, her oldest stepson is deceased, but she still has two stepchildren. So, there are two girls and two boys effectively. Now, she’s home alone, which she is quite enjoying.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
But it didn't, I didn't take it and make it define me or wasn't concerned about it. It's like, you know, I am who I am. And I've got what I've got that said.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the My Body My Story project and today with us Julie in the studio. And while she is sitting in the makeup chair, and Agata is doing makeup and hair for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Julie.
Hi, how are you Alex?
Good. Thank you and welcome to the project. Welcome to our studio. And let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
10 facts about myself well I'm turning 60 on the 28th of February, so in four days time, and I'm really excited about because getting older doesn't bother me in the least I'm here to experience it.
It's nice to hear.
I was born in Australia. I was born in a town called Cowra which is in the central west of New South Wales, better known as canola country. So when you see all those pictures of their beautiful yellow flowers across acres and acres, that's where I'm from. And I was raised on a farm. So I grew up barefoot, crazy and running through the bush. I've lived in many, many different places. So apart from Cowra, I then moved to the neighbouring town when I was 16 and took up a job there in a bank. And that's called Bathurst. And then I moved back to Canberra for a while I got married very young, very silly, but I did. And we moved to Canberra which is of course the nation's capital which to me was the big time and then from their own back to Kiama, which is a small coastal town just down from Wollongong. But I'm happily living in Sydney now I've been here since 1990 and lived through many transitions of life. I'm single, oh with a friend with benefits if I'm allowed to say that as you do at 60. So I've just discovered that that's a good idea rather than a relationship. I'm a workplace trainer. So I teach interpersonal skills leadership, management, coaching, developing people as my main job. I'm an aqua aerobics instructor which is something I'm very passionate about, which helps keep me fit. I'm also a fitness coordinator for our area. We're on a maternity relief. And I currently work for jobs. Wow, that keeps me fit and off the streets basically. So I can't give too many people too much cheek. My favourite colour is purple always and lots of colour. So finding some clothes for the photoshoot was a bit tricky. Dark I can do but light things not so much.
But you've got a nice purple top
yes, I do. I do. It was only a few years ago that one of my girls, my best girlfriends daughters came shopping with me. And she said, I've just got to do something with your wardrobe apart from purple. So she took me shopping and introduced me back to red. I hadn't worn red for 20 years because my uniform in the bank back then was red.
Bad memories.
Well, it was more that you just wore it every day. It's just quite interesting. Yeah, I got really tired of it. And it's quite hilarious sitting here looking out this window while my hair's been done. I'm looking straight ahead at the National Australia Bank star because that's where I worked. So it's quite a coincidence.
Nothing is Coincidence in this life…it's a sign (laughing)
could be …Hope it's not that I'm going back because I think I'm done with banking for sure. So something I really wanted to talk about today about myself was sexual orientation. I'm bisexual. I lean more to the lesbian side of the fence if there's a side of the fence should lean towards. I've had both relationships, and I'm probably happier with women do get a lot of conversation. You get a lot of shared tasks. It's amazing and things get done around the house. It's quite incredible. I think that's because that bit older and I knew this right from a young age but being in a small country town this wasn't something that you did challenging. challenging while you'd be bullied and ridiculous and the first girl that I was interested in, I was just laughed at. So I'd locked it away then for 30 odd years, so yeah, so that was something that was important to me to talk about about myself.
So are you participating in the meeting Mardi Gras?
No, I'm not because coming to the city at night to pest. Lazy, I think the prom man, I would like to and I think one year I will, but I'm just a bit lazy.
Yeah, but I wonder if this year they're doing it in the city? Because I think the previous couple of years they did it on the stadium.
Yes, I think so. I think that was sort of due to COVID range of different things that was happening at that time. Yeah, I think you're right. So I thought about my favourite place and effectively, it's not really a place my favourite place is the water. So if unless I'm dipped in water every day, I don't feel good. So and that's not just having a shower. That's a proper swim and, you know, proper exercise. So anywhere where there's water, really. So when I plan a holiday, I look for hotels with pools, and I plot a map of where I'm going to buy where we have swimming pools and or ocean beaches. So I love to ocean swim. I like doing beta bass swims out in the ocean. I swim in a pool every single day. So yeah, my favourite place is the water.
So you said your instructor for aqua aerobics?
Correct.
And so if someone wants to join your class, how they can find you?
Oh, that's easy. Hornsby Aquatic and Leisure Centre. Just look it up online. And look at our timetable. It sits online on the website. And we have…
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Feb 23, 2023
#71 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Shift Happens With Isy Gabriel
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Isy, what age she would like to go back to, and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up, and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Isy
(at the time of the project)
* 60 years old
* it has literally taken her whole life to find the joy and the freedom that she is in right now. She feels more vibrant now than she ever has in her life.
* Isy has two grown children.
* Isy lives on the far south coast of New South Wales. In paradise called Wallaga Lake.
* Isy has had a long journey with pain, which started at 17 after a domestic accident that broke her spine in multiple places, and she’s spent her life moving through that and into pleasure and joy and freedom.
* Isy has been a bodywork therapist for 30 years, but her primary modality now is something called Family Constellations, which is basically clearing ancestral trauma and family patterns, which everybody's carrying.
* Isy was born in the UK and came to Australia on a working holiday after her PhD in Africa and fell in love with it.
* Isy studied primatology and psychology as an undergraduate, and then went on to her follow up with her Honors and then a PhD, studying monkeys in the African savanna to show that learning had to be playful to be effective.
* Isy spent 25 years working with the Gyuto monks of Tibet and feels that self-love is the absolutely most beneficial thing we can do not just for ourselves, but for our family, our relationships and humanity as a whole.
* Isy’s soul's purpose is to hold workshops in the group field, because she really feels it is in that collective space, where we come together, not just to heal our own patterns, but to actually be there in witness and support of other people also healing their patterns.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
I really did go back and tell myself, it's going to be okay. You are going to get through, and you are going to be more glorious and more radiant than ever. It's true.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the My body My Story project and today with us in the studio Isy. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair, and Chitra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Isy, how are you?
Hi. I'm good. I'm excited.
So let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
I'm 60 I feel more vibrant now than I ever have in my life. I have two grown children. I live on the far south coast of New South Wales. In paradise. I've had a long journey with pain, which started at 17 After a domestic accident that broke my spine in multiple places, and I've spent my life moving through that and into pleasure and joy and freedom.
And I know that you are a coach, spiritual teacher, what is your main thing you do in life.
I've been a bodywork therapist for 30 years, but my primary modality now is something called Family Constellations, which is basically clearing ancestral trauma and family patterns, which everybody's carrying, basically. But really what that's doing is carrying what is in the way of your lifeforce and bringing you to so much more joy and fullness and reaching your own potential in life.
So or do you use some specific methods or
so the method is called Family Constellations. But I do it in my own way, having lived a long life of many influences. And but it is a process that is best done in a group. So yeah, I started like a group therapist. It's Yes, it's more I would call it more personal development than therapy. It's really a choice to move into more vibrancy in your life, more empowerment, rather than somebody having, you know, a lot of trauma that they might need to see a psychologist for. Yeah.
So you say you live in on the south coast, was it always like you were born there or where you were born?
I was born in the UK. I came here on a working holiday after my PhD in Africa. And, and I just fell in love with it when I first came here. And a few years later, I emigrated with my little boy and made a home here and found this incredible blue, beautiful place on the far south coast under the credibly sacred Gulaga mountain sacred to the UN people. And there's a little town there called Tilba, which a lot of people have heard about Tilba Tilba. Yeah. And that's where yeah, that's where I've made home for the last 25 years. And now I live just down the road in this little place called Wallaga Lake, which is five minutes walk from the city.
And you said you did PhD in Africa.
That's another interesting story. Yeah, again, that was it followed on from my degree in psychology, and I studied primatology and psychology as an undergraduate, and then went on to on my follow up with my honours and then a PhD, studying monkeys in the African savanna. Studying play behaviour to show that learning had to be playful to be effective. And it's still really how I feel about the education system and about learning thing really and about living our lives in joy. And, you know, my life has very much gone from moving from the painful parts of life into a lot more joy. And, yeah, I really believe that it's a possible thing, no matter where you are in your life, no matter what challenges you face, to be able to have the courage to just be with what is to be with that, and allow that and to not hide it, to move through those parts so that you can move into authenticity with your pleasure, and your joy. Love connection, sexuality. Yeah,
that's interesting. So let's move to this podcast subject - our body and ageing. And first, I want to ask you What does ageing means to you?
I feel more alive now than I ever have. And sure that's a life in personal development. But I feel that in ageing, I have more joy and more freedom less responsibility. Now my children are have grown and I don't feel constrained by my age. I feel that it has added to who I am. Yeah,
it's, it's we're talking about mental state. .. that's what you Feel like?
Yeah.
Emotional, emotional, mental, state and the ageing body?
Well, again, it's accepting what is I'm not interested in, I realise for some people, it's what they need, but I'm not interested in like the Botox path. And that I'm, I just want to be natural, who I am authentically who I am. And I feel the best anti ageing drug is Eros, your lifeforce, and I have plenty of that.
That's really, yeah, it's really important energy, I think, to keep us women vibrant and alive and keeping interest to live. And I think the age definitely, at some point, it changes direction or intensity. And so I think it's quite important to find a way to still have it in your life.
Yes, yeah. Well, I there's lots of techniques you can use to help run your energy in a way that really encourages you to feel your body. Yeah, I call it embodiment. It's, that's something that some people understand. But not everybody that's like living through the body. Rather than ignoring it, or hoping the ageing process won't, won't catch up with you know, it will, it will. Yeah,
but what do you think generally not even related with age, but generally, the body insecurities or body image issues? What's the main cause or causes of for that?
I believe that it's the very oppressive narrative of cultural norms fueled by you know, family ofte…
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Feb 16, 2023
#70 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Neta
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Neta, what age she would like to go back to, and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up, and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Neta
(at the time of the project)
* 45 years old.
* She is a mother of three. Her oldest daughter is 17 years old. Her son is 14 years old. And her youngest daughter is almost 10.
* Neta moved to Australia from Israel four and a half years ago and is lucky to call Australia home.
* In her spare time, she loves playing volleyball, listening to podcasts, listening to audiobooks, meditating, practicing yoga, walking and running. And just chilling out.
* Neta is a clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist.
* She has a PhD, so she is also a doctor, but she believes we're all students of life.
* Neta is leading a team of gorgeous females in a non-for-profit organisation.
* Also, Neta has her private practice. She sees clients for psychotherapy, counseling, couples, individuals and empowerment, mentoring programmes. Neta loves working with women and empowering women. You can find her here: https://www.netafleiderman.com/
* Neta is a big believer in transformation and healing that anyone can actually do with any diagnosis or any presentation at any stage of life.
* Neta’s favorite quote – “Just because a woman is silent, does not mean she agrees.” - Clarissa Pinkola
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
I do believe we all need mother's mentors. Even virtual mothers that I've adopted throughout my life are powerful women daring to be themselves in the world speak up.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my body, my story podcast, and today with us Neta in the studio. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair and Chitra is doing makeup for her, I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Neta.
Hi,
Welcome to the studio. Welcome to the project.
Thank you. Thank you for having me. Very exciting.
So let's start our conversation and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
All right. Let's start with the obvious I turned 45 this year. I am a clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist. I'm a mother of three. I came to Australia four and a half five years ago. I am leading a team of females gorgeous females in a non for profit organisation. On my spare time, I love playing volleyball, listening to podcasts, listening to audiobooks, meditating, practising yoga, walking and running. And just chilling out.
Sounds like everything to do with self-development.
Love it. Absolutely love it. I have a PhD. So I'm also a doctor but not wearing that. Very often. I believe we're all students of life. Yeah.
So what is this PhD in Psychology? Psychology?
Clinical Psychology? Yeah.
So that's nice. And you said you came here for almost five years ago. Where did you live? before?
I moved from Israel. Israel is my home. Yeah. So I'm lucky to call Australia home nowadays. But I was born and raised in Israel.
I always wanted to go there and visit the dead see.
Israel is a beautiful, beautiful place to visit and beautiful places, beautiful people. So family, friends or back in Israel. And coming to Australia. For me, it was really a beautiful adventure that I feel super grateful for.
So you mentioned that you have three kids. Are they adult So how old they are?
Yeah, so my oldest is? My oldest daughter is 17 years old. My son is 14 years old. And my daughter is almost 10. Wow. Yeah.
So you have a mixture like teenagers and almost a teenager?
Absolutely. It's quite a transition. Quite a transition in motherhood to become mother for teenagers.
That's for sure. Yes,yeah. Chitra probably can relate as well. Yeah,
no doubt. No doubt.
So well. You mentioned that you have you work for nonprofit organisation. Do you have your own practice like your private practice?
Yes. So aside from my management role and you know, contributing to non for profit, which I absolutely love, I have my private practice. I see clients for psychotherapy, counseling, couples, individuals and empowerment, mentoring programmes. I love working with women, and empowering women. So that's where you can find me so You're probably by my website https://www.netafleiderman.com/. That's my website you can read more about me my background, my approach who I am and feel a bit of my vibe. I'm actually here across the streets in the CBD. So for face-to-face sessions, I have a practice here in the CBD Sydney.
That's great.
And online, obviously, in today's world, I do yeah, I do zoom. So I see people from all around the world actually.
So what's your favorite? I know every psychotherapist has their favorite themes. So you said you like empowering women? And so is that like you work with? Because I know that some are specialising in teenagers, with women or couples counseling or like, what's your specific?
so my favourite area would be differently adults, couples and individuals. So my approach to mental health is a bit different than the conservative medical model. So I see symptoms of mental health, whichever symptoms were there that can be diagnosed in various names like depression, anxiety, and so forth. So these symptoms are just an expression of something deeper rooted in our upbringing in our life circumstances. So that's, you know, trauma is my language, trauma informed. Counselling is what I specialise in. And I think the word trauma has pretty bad public relations. So people assume that trauma is the big event that happened to you. And actually trauma is something a little different trauma, I can say more about that. But you know, that would take us somewhere else. But I do believe we all are experiencing trauma impacts, we're just not as educated around what our trauma impacts and how can we navigate and heal from that. So I'm a big believer in transformation and healing. So that's my favourite work and that type of work, you can actually do with any diagnosis or any presentation at any stage of life. So my favourite part is to see the transformation happening in the therapy room or outside of therapy room, because I work with groups as well. So that's with female coming, females coming together nowadays, such as your beautiful project and and other initiatives around the world, this is a very exciting time to be living.
Yeah, that's true. So it is you know that our project is about women, after 40, in their 40s 50s 60s, etc. And it's the age when we start feeling some changes in our body, mental changes. And we see, we notice that we are not, as we used to be, like, in a good way in the bad ways as well. And so, but what does ageing means to you?
My personal experience with ageing includes a lot of growth and journey of learning how to love myself, and how to look after myself, and how to put boundaries and how to actually go inside and seek my answers and paths inside myself. So for me, it's a journey that is very much connected mind and body. I know we are we live in culture that is obsessed about body, but the image focus on the external and how we look and how we show up externally. But this is not really a disconnected. As I see it, its body and mind are connected. So the journey for me is an internal journey. I find myself loving my body much more than I love my bo…
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Feb 9, 2023
#69 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Kelly M
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Kelly M , what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Kelly M
(at the time of the project)
* 48 years old.
* Kelly was born in Western Sydney and lived in Sydney all her life.
* Kelly has an amazing 21-year-old daughter.
* Kelly is an animal, communicator and healer. She talks to animals using energy, telepathically and helps them with different issues.
* Kelly works with glaucoma Australia, she is one of their ambassadors. She was born with congenital glaucoma which is an eye condition, and it is quite rare to be born with it. She had surgery on her eyes at six months of age.
* Kelly’s favourite colour is blue, but she also loves pink and purple.
* Kelly is a big feeler and just everything that she does, she really sits with and feels with her heart.
* Kelly very much loves consistency. She likes to have a place for everything. So she’s very organised.
* 10 years ago Kelly started learning belly dance to embrace her body and her sensuality.
* Kelly does not give up easily. She always has been determined, even as a small child and she would get things done.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
I work with my body the best way I can. And I have always been always taking care of my body physically. So I feel like working on it emotionally and working on the inside of yourself is also important.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelled with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my body, My Story project. And here with us today, Kelly in the studio. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair, and Nicole is doing makeup for her, I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Kelly. Hi, welcome. And let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
Well, I My name is Kelly and I am 48 years old. And I have lived in Sydney all my life. I was born in Western Sydney, and very proud to live in Sydney and I love it.
So it's your favourite city in Australia?
Yeah, I think we have the most beautiful Harbour. Yeah, I do. I love it.
So what do you do?
I'm I actually am an animal, communicator and healer.
Oh, wow. What is this?
I talk to animals using energy. So telepathically and I help them with different issues like any life stresses that we would like a human would go through the animal does as well. So for instance, if people are moving home or your animal, like the animal is sick, I like also passed over animals. So I talked to them and help them through that and give them healing as well.
So how did you come to that?
It's a really, it's quite, it's a long story, but I'll condense it more. I've always been quite a sensitive person and very much into animal and human behaviour. So just through my spiritual journey, and learning more about myself, I started with a lot of different mentors. And that led me to do animal communication. So I have done psychic development as well. Yeah, and animal communication is like, the icing on the cake. For me. It's like being able to help people. So I have a very, very empathetic and compassionate person. So I love that I'm able to use that with my work.
So what animal you work with?
I work with all animals. Predominantly, it would be cats and dogs. So domestic animals I work with, I can talk to any animal and I have through my journey, but obviously, for work and with my clients it is domestic animals. And it would be mainly dogs, cats, horses have talked to birds. rabbits, guinea pigs.
Wow. What was the most exotic animal you have communicated with?
Oh, yeah, out like through just in the environment and just out in nature. I talked to a lot of birds and even like sea creatures, they love dolphins. Crocodiles, or. Yeah, so
Do you hear them as well or you just communicate your energy and like how this this process looks like?
So I actually use all of my senses. So yeah, I it's not like hearing like, we hear a person's voice as such, but I do hear through like, like telepathically, so I wouldn't maybe hear a sound like you know their voice but it would be like you know, just I would hear it if that makes sense. And and I do get visuals so I can see as well. Yeah, that's how they Talk to me and I can also smell and taste not not as much those senses. I don't use as much, but I do use them. Yeah. And yeah, so seeing hearing and feeling as well. So it's an essay, so I often feel how they feel, because I am an empath myself. So it's something that as a child, I just did, automatically and learnt not to take it on. But obviously with work, I do that and then I able to clear it out. So,
so are you a dog person or cat person?
It's an interesting question. And I feel like I don't have a favourite out of both. I just love them all so much. Equally. They are different. And then each and like each dog and cat has their own personality as well. Because there are a lot of cats that are actually very dog like, I'd say my cat is very doglike as well. So I love them both equally. I really don't have a favourite Honestly, even through my work, but you own the cat. But yeah, I own a cat and a dog. And I've had goats and chickens and ducks. And yeah, I've had a lot of mice as a child. So I've had a lot of different animals. And I love them all equally. To be honest. I really can't say I have a favourite out of them. If we go to wild animals, I love birds. So I'm very drawn to birds. So I'd say that would be my favourite wild animal. Yeah.
So you could have been.. What is this? ornithologist? What's the name of the person who studies birds? ornithologist?
That's interesting. I don't know, actually. But I'll have to look into that. Yeah, I get a lot of messages from birds as well. And signs from spirit and things like that. So for me, it's very much like my spirit animal. Chatting is very interesting.
So do you work as .. is it own business?
Yes, I it is my own business.
So if someone wants to find you and work with you how they can find you. Do you have a website?
Yes, I have a website. And my it's my business name is Kelly's animal communication. And my web. So that's my website would be https://kellysanimalcommunication.com.au/. And all of my services are listed on there. And I'm able to work worldwide. Actually, I'm not limited to just in person because I can work through a photo as well. So I do have clients all around the world that I work with, which is amazing. Yeah, I'm very blessed.
What countries also you work in?
the Netherlands? The UK? America, New Zealand.
Wow. So it's worldwide?
Yes. Worldwide? Yeah. Um, yeah, I'm super blessed to be able to, and I love all my clients. They're all just amazing. I feel blessed to have them. Yeah, as well.
That's excellent. So, okay. I'm not sure that we still have 10 facts about you. Let's try and explore you a bit more. So I'll ask you, like, do you have anything on the top of your mind that you want to share with us?
Yeah, well, I was actually born with congenital glaucoma. So that's an eye condition. And it is quite rare to be born with it. And my mum was quite determined, because she felt something was wrong with me. So she did have to go to several doctors, she actually went to three and the third one believed that something was wrong with me.…
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Feb 4, 2023
#68 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - TUYANA
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Tuyana , what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Tuyana
(at the time of the project)
* 45 years old.
* Tuyana was born in Siberia on the Mongolian border so she has Mongolian roots and can speak the Mongolian dialect that her grandfather taught her.
* Tuyana grew up with her middle sister at her grandparents, while her parents were doing their PhDs. It was a happy childhood, in a remote Siberian village with nearly eight months of winter.
* Tuyana lives in Australia for about 16 years. She followed her boyfriend at the time and now her husband. They lived in Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Canberra, and now Sydney.
* Tuyana is a mother of two, a 25-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter.
* She works full-time as an accountant for a company that installs solar panels.
* Tuyana learn how to swim at 25 years old and now swims with her daughter on Sundays. They won the parent and child race for two years in a row.
* She also learned German at school and went to linguistic Uni to become a German English teacher but changed it to accounting after her son was born.
* Tuyana has a very busy social life. She is a member of the Australian Conservation Foundation where she contributes to environmental issues and brings awareness to related problems. She is also a member of a movie club, swim club, a few book clubs and is involved in the Human Library project. Tuyana reads a lot since her childhood, and she continues her learning. She does yoga and rides a bike.
* Tuyana thinks she managed to build the life she probably wanted to build but says that there is always room for improvement.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
I can sing a tune my uncle used to sing all the way down getting away from engaging me.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelt with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my body My Story project and today with us in the studio Tuyana. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair Chitra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi Tuyana.
Hi, everyone. Hello, hello.
Welcome to the studio. Welcome to the project and let's start. Tell us 10 facts about yourself
It was hard time to choose yesterday when I was thinking, What shall I give about myself in 10 facts? Maybe first, I'm 44 nearly 45 year old I was born in Russia in Siberia Mongolian border so I have Mongolian roots. But my great great granddad already was Russian by citizen 380 years ago. They say willingly signed a petition to join a Russian and by instead of going on the Chinese so that's how I My mother tongue is Russian. I can speak also Mongolian dialect my grandparents taught me. Yeah, I consider myself very lucky. I grew up with my grandparents. We in my middle sister. So when parents studied in St. Petersburg, they both know that my dad is in physics and mom is in math. So they did they PhDs and they left kids to their parents. But didn't same thing I did when I had my son. So I had this absolute feeling. You know I with this my best luck in my life. I grew up with grandparents who actually had their own, I guess ambitions done with their kids. They turn out good. Therefore kids. So with us, they just let us be. So just recently reading this. Agatha Christie's autobiography. I've heard this thought she says, the best luck in your life you can get if you have a happy childhood. That's what I actually had with grandparents. It was absolute freedom. Like we I learned to read and write. Yeah, I was seven year old. Now when my daughter, for example, was born. I made sure she's you know, all this education and all this. So she learned how to swim before she started walking. She learned how to read she was about three year old or something. But not that. I mean, I did it very much. Intentionally, I guess just we created this environmental thing, all these things, but in our case, we grandparents created playful environment for us. We were roaming streets from dusk till dawn. Yeah, it was very happy childhood in a remote Siberian village with nearly eight months of winter, but then in then three months of summer last summer, is like people rarely believe when I say it's plus 30 degrees, which is somewhere in our places. And then yes, fair enough. It's minus 30 When it's cold winter, but you will have all the reverse frozen, so you can skate. You can do all the skiing and yes, very happy time in my life. What
was your favourite activity during the winter?
Winter? Yeah, we we skied, we had a skating activities playing just snowballing I guess. Also, it gave me an opportunity to read a lot because when it's too cold when it's blizzard or something you just looked at I'm reading you have hearty fire, you know. So yeah, all these memories romantic. And so I think, what we look for when we grown up and try to recreate for my kids for example, that's well I had just given
and here you are with a nine month summer. So like, opposite direction. So how you When did you move to Australia?
I live in Australia for about 16 years, I followed my husband boyfriend at the time. He's from Russia as well, but caucus mountains, so sounds fresher. We met in Moscow studying. In a year of his PhD research, he said he's not doing what he wanted. So he needs to find a sort of nice alternative. Maybe getting Australian passport is a sort of thing of future as well because parents expected a lot. And he could only offer sort of an alternative. Equal. Yeah, so he went to lift for a year without me in Melbourne. And for the whole year he was trying to be get me interested thing. It's awesome place. If you've never come, you'd be regretting it. Live. So yeah, follow it. And here I am. 16 years.
Are you enjoying it here?
Absolutely. Well, we travelled we lived in Melbourne, Brisbane and Gold Coast, Canberra, our daughter, you'll learn how to walk shore of Lake Burley. But we move to Sydney and I think as my husband said we could have travelled anywhere else because Sydney has it all. I love it. And I live in one of the best parts Sydney Northern Beaches. So yeah, we've travelled northern beaches as well so lifting Collaroy now when the veil But for a person who learn how to swim at 25 year old me who we are members of call risk swim club with my daughter so we once a week we or twice a week actually she does Wednesday swims long distances. I'm not that proficient yet. Maybe I will never be but Sunday's we swim competitively. It's, you know, something, I guess we won parent and child race for two years in a row. We had the perpetual trophy. Got our names engraved in golden letters on the back of the trophy. So yeah, I was thinking it's probably the I could say these achievement for me personally, because it's like, yeah, Swimming was.
And you said also, you mentioned earlier that you have son as well.
Yes, my son's a nine day sister and 25 year old. That's another big I guess. Part of me who is a mother of 25 year old boy, it's like I can't believe it. When he was born. I was 19 and a half. He's same thing like at some point. I was studying in wishek Uni. So I've learned German at school and went to linguistic uni to become a German English teacher. And in s…
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Jan 26, 2023
#67 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Diana
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Diana, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes it. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Diana
(at the time of the project)
* 57 years old.
* Diana was born in Sydney, Australia.
* People will think that she comes from somewhere else, probably because of a little twang in her accent. But Diana is no fool Australian!
* Diana has three wonderful daughters that are just absolutely everything to her.
* In 2013 Diana and her daughters travelled to Hungary. Diana was the Australian genius coach, and they all became World Champions together.
* Diana loves Hungary. And, she loves the Hilton on the Hill which is the most magical fairy tale castle she’s stayed in.
* Diana has spent most of her life in the fitness industry and working towards wellness.
* In 2018 Diana travelled to the North Pole, on a boat. She spent seven months in sea and raised a flag for planet Earth, which was to unite all our nations together
* Diana is passionate about the age group of 15 to 25, where a lot of the grounding starts for developing your wellness for the rest of your life. So that's important age group to her.
* And now she works in the marine industry - skipper boats on the harbour, which is also fun.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
Now I would like to see people become more accountable for their health and wellness. So that's a bit of emotion. I'm a bit passionate about the age group of 15 to 25.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to my body My Story project today with us Diana in the studio. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair, and Citra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Diana.
Hi,
welcome to the studio. Welcome to the projects. And let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
Well, hi there. My name is Diana. And I'm 57. And I was born in Sydney, Australia. And interestingly, a lot of people will think that I do come from somewhere else. I'm not sure I must have a little twang in my accent or something. But I'm no fool Australian. And I have three wonderful daughters that are just absolutely everything to me, really. And we've shared a lot of experiences together.
how old they are?
the oldest is 29.
So they are adults
Yeah, yeah, they're all adult children.
And you share a lot.
Oh, yeah. Together, we have shared a lot of experiences, which has been fantastic. I tried to expose them to as much as I could to enhance their lives. And fortunately, it enhanced mine as well.
I am intrigued, what was these experiences?
in 2013, we we all travelled to Hungary, and I was the Australian genius coach and we all became World Champions together. So that was pretty exciting. But they've created their own accolades as well which, which is good.
So you went to Budapest?
Yes, yes, that would be probably my favourite city. I love Hungary. It's very beautiful. And, and I love the Hilton on the Hill is like the most magical fairytale castle I've stayed in really. We had some fun there as well in Slovenia, and Slovakia climbing the high tetras and really connecting with nature, which I found very beneficial. And I think they did now that they're a bit older as well, mind you that a lot of the time when we were walking, they wanted to be at the shops
Have you traveled by car between these countries?
Oh, yes, yes, we did. And so I've spent most of my life in the fitness industry and working towards wellness. And that that is really something I'm incredibly passionate about. I in 2018 travelled to the North Pole, on a boat, I spent seven months in sea and raised a flag for planet Earth, which was to unite all of our nations together. But for me, it was quite important to raise awareness with regard health and inspire the rest of the world towards greater health. So I'm had a fabulous time doing that. And I guess now I, I think soon after then we had COVID And I think actually, that has been a bit fortunate because a lot of people have become much more aware and they've spent more time in nature and getting connected with themselves which is a good thing. Now I would like to see people become more accountable for their health and wellness. So that's a bit of a mission. I'm bit passionate about the age group of 15 to 25. That's, that's broad, but that that would be where I think a lot of the grounding starts for, for developing your wellness for the rest of your life. So that's pretty important age group to me. Yeah, so I've worked for myself, I have a business body basics, personal training. And that's, that's how I brought up three children. And now I work in the marine industry. Yeah, that's interesting Skipper boats on the harbour, which is also fun. Yeah. So that's about me in a nutshell.
Wow, sounds very exciting. So what about this North Pole trip? Did you go with the group of people like, how did you get there?
Like, oh, yes, we, we left from Maduro, which is where I met the vessel. And there were 22 people from 10 different nationalities. And that included two children, the captain's children, five and seven at that time. So previously, well, I have a bachelor's degree in PHP, and I did do some teaching for the children, along with one of the other gentlemen on the vessel.
For how long it took the trip.
Well, I was at sea for seven months. I mean, we stopped in Port, as well, but the whole trip from Maduro, across the Northwest Passage. So across the top of Alaska, and Canada and into the US, and then across to Greenland, and then finished in Amsterdam, I saw some of the most beautiful scenery ever. It was, yeah, very spectacular in many areas. Crossing the ballot straight was the most treacherous part. And we had to wonder at some point whether we would actually make it out
was it dangerous?
very dangerous. Apparently, on the trip, somebody said that. More people have climbed Mount Everest then then completed the Northwest Passage. That was inspiring, because actually, we were the only vessel that made it in 2018. There were I think 49 vessels turned away from each direction. So we literally were very lucky to make it what
What is the main reason why they cannot go through?
Or the main reason is because the passage doesn't open up so it's heavily iced in and, and it just doesn't open a week before there was a vessel going from east to west. And they sank they had to be rescued. So we there was some dangerous scary times that that we experienced, and and so much ice that you just really have to be Be careful not to hit it, obviously, because that's going to damage your vessel. Yeah, yeah. Quite. Quite an experience. Fabulous captain, though. I felt very safe. With Captain Clemens from Germany.
Yeah, that's very interesting story. Wow. Oh, so one more interesting fact.
So now I just ride my motorbike everywhere. I don't have a car at the moment.
So is it like a first time you started riding motorbike or?
Ah, no, I did ride when I was in my 20s.
But you just now it's back to full-time.
Full time on the bike now. So that's a little bit different. And I find it hard to travel with my SurfSki
Yeah, that's true. Okay, that's an interesting Story. We didn't have anyone here who traveled th…
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Jan 22, 2023
#66 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Ruth
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Ruth, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes it. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Ruth
(at the time of the project)
* 45 years old.
* Ruth is a single mother of two wonderful boys.
* She was born and grew up in South Africa.
* Ruth left South Africa in her early 20s and moved to London.
* She lived in four countries – South Africa, England, Czech Republic and now in Australia for about 15 years.
* Ruth is very optimistic as a person and has a glass half full view of life.
* She loves water sports - ocean swimming, kayaking, rowing, and dragon boating.
* Ruth also did figure skating for 10 years when she was younger,
* She is very into personal growth. Learning and keeping an active mind and mindset is incredibly important to her.
* Ruth is introvert and small chats are not really her thing. But relating to people one on one is very easy for her. Being an expat she values friends, family, and community a lot.
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
Well, negative body image, even the word is means you don't feel good about yourself. So I think deep down, you know, there's an insecurity. So you're probably looking to validate yourself through others, whether that's friends definitely in an intimate relationship, and you're not feeling good enough in your skin. So I think it impacts a healthy relationship.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelt with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my body, my story, podcast. And today with us Ruth in the studio. And while she's sitting in the makeup chair, and Chitra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Ruth.
Hi, Alex.
Welcome to the studio. Welcome to the project. And let's start and tell us 10 facts about yourself.
Thank you. It's lovely to be here. Well, I'm a 45 year old woman. I'm a single mother, a single mother of two boys, two wonderful boys. I grew up in South Africa, and moved in my early 20s to London. So I've lived in and then I moved to Prague for bits in Australia. So I've lived in four countries.
Oh, wow. So it was…
South Africa, England, Czech Republic, Republic and Australian.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I've been lucky enough in the years, you know, to have a really good career solid foundation. And I really love what I do and work and work and people role. I work with amazing people. And I'm very fulfilled I guess a couple of facts about me. I don't even know if I have facts, but just who I am. I'm very optimistic as a person. That's a good one. Yeah, I think no matter what, challenges come my way in life, and we all have challenges and you know, there's been trauma and they've been things to get through. Yeah, always have sort of a glass half full view of life. Yeah, and I love watersports. I've always found I'm very much into ocean swimming at the moment in doing that for a good couple of years, but before that was kayaking, rowing, dragon boating.
So water sport?
Yeah, love water sports.
Did you do any competitions or just you do it for your own pleasure? And health?
Yeah, a little bit of competing with dragon boating. When I was younger, I did figure skating so I guess that's frozen water. Yeah, figure skating. Yeah, for 10 years. I love that competed.
Would you be able to do some pirouettes?
Yeah, I think so. If I had some good boots and good, good. blades that were
I have ice skating boots with me. Is there any ice ring in Sydney?
Yeah, I've been once or when I came here. Like, I don't know, 15 years ago, it felt a lot more flaky. When I was 17 Yeah, like everything was a totally, totally. Yeah. And and yeah, I'm very into personal growth. I think learning and keeping, you know, an active mind and mindsets incredibly important to me. And things that are important to me are friends and family and community. You know, being an expat not from this country. Friends, friends are my family.
So you said you moved in your 20s. So you've probably been here for quite a long time. How did you find the process of finding your community? So how did you do that? Was it hard for you? because what I learned that a lot of people on who come to our project, a lot of women they say like it's hard to make friends and connection. We're talking about Sydney in particular. So what's your..
what's my view on that? Well, I moved first to London and that was quite easy in my 20s so there for about six years and it's a very, you know, very vibrant city so I didn't find Not terribly hard, moved to Sydney with my husband at the time. I think I was 30. And I guess it wasn't hard, but it, it wasn't hard to integrate, because we went from sort of open arms into a South African community, which is quite typical. But it took a good few years to make friends outside of that. Yeah. I think work helped having kids helped. Largely to this day, my friends are still quite, you know, they're British and South African. They're a little handful of Australian friends butted around. And a couple of you know, yeah, just European friends as well. Just wonderful. So it's been hard in some ways, but I think I've always made friends in my work as well. Amazing colleagues, so
So you, you're easy. You know how to do small talks.
Yeah, I think so. I'm a bit of a bland I guess introvert and extrovert. I don't need a crowd. I don't desire it all the time. And um, you know, small chats. Not really my thing. But relating to people one on one is very easy for me. And I lack that. So. Yeah, learn to be extrovert comfortable in my skin. Yeah. And I guess having you know, those kinds of ability to relate to people creates friendships.
Yeah. Yeah. So we've got 10 facts about you. Do you have extra? Oh, you want to share?
Add unnecessary, very hard question to answer. Who am I? What am I? If anything you can ask me?
Yeah, just, I thought maybe we missed something. But I think it's quite interesting set of facts. Yeah. So let's move to the subject of our podcast, which is body image and ageing? And my first question, and that theme, is, what does ageing means to you?
Yeah, that's a really good question. And definitely not one I was thinking about in my 20s. But, you know, I've been 45 now, and it's something that creeps up on you. And I think I think what it means to me is being becoming and being really comfortable in your skin, which is both physical, you know, seeing the changes accepting them, but also mental. Really, just, and that's been my sort of area of growth, I think, in the last couple of years, just feeling more comfortable in who I am. And that comes with age, that, you know, that total acceptance of who you are, and, and yeah, not needing to prove yourself, the beautiful thing. So I think and I wish that it was more revered in older women. That's absolutely what drew me to this project. Just a celebration of women over 45.
Yeah, yeah. So you think ageing is from what I understood? From your words, it's getting more comfortable in your own skin and not paying that much attention to others opinion?
Yes, yep. I think not being concerned with others opinions is a huge thing, and allows you to feel confident and empowered and secure in your own wisdom.
We'll come to that a bit later. But also, I want to ask…
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Jan 12, 2023
#65 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Maryann
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Maryann, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Maryann
(at the time of the project)
* 52 years old.
* Maryann was born in the Philippines.
* She came to Australia 30 years ago in 1992.
* Maryann is a cancer patient in remission.
* Maryann has 4 children, the oldest son just celebrated his 30th birthday.
* In 2016 Maryann has been married for 24 years when her then-husband told her that he’s fallen out of love with her.
* Maryann found another man and remarried.
* She moved from Sydney to Callala Bay on the South Coast.
* Maryann loves crocheting and making dresses and other things.
* Maryann opened and runs a variety shop where she also sells her own crochet work in-store and online. Her website address is https://www.dollarzvalue.com.au
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Hi, you're listening to the My Body, My Story podcast.
I think it's acceptance of the changes that's happening in your body. You have to accept that no matter what you do like my, for my example, I do exercise in everything, nothing changes.
This is the 45 over 45 chapter where we celebrate Rule Breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show their sensuality beauty, soul, and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and we listened to the stories about participants. If you have an interesting story, we'd love for you to participate. You can email us at info@aleksandrawalker.com That's Aleksandra spelt with a K S. Or visit our website aleksandrawalker.com
Hi, everyone, and welcome to my body my story projects, and today with us in the studio Maryann and while she's sitting in the makeup chair and Chitra is doing makeup for her. I'll be asking her a few questions. Hi, Maryann.
Hello,
How are you?
Good. Thank you.
Welcome to the project. Thank you. Tell us 10 facts about yourself?
Well, I'm 52 years old. I just became a grandmother, which is exciting. I have four kids. I've been married for 24 years. In 2016. My husband of 24 years told me he's fallen out of love for me. So three attempted suicides after that. I get to think that life is worth living. I found another man. After that. It's just one story after another I was diagnosed with cancer. I'm now in remission. I love crocheting in my spare time. And I make dresses. I sell them in Facebook in my website sometimes
oh what is your website?
So if someone wants https://www.dollarzvalue.com.au And in the handmade section over there, you will see some like I crochet bin bra that girls wear to festivals, bags, in dresses, mostly I don't know how to make toys, crocheted toys. That's one thing I don't know. What else do you want, like area for your development? It seems like it because since my kids were little I've been working in an office environment. But when I met this new man in my life, I have to go down South Regional. And this no jobs available there for me. And what I did, I opened a variety shop. So I have at the moment for years been running this variety shop in Callala Bay in the South Coast. And in my spare time when it's not very busy. That's what I do I crochet.
Were you born in Australia?
I was born in the Philippines. I came here in 1992 have any pregnant with my first son
So you are local now?
Yes, I am now. Yeah, yeah, it's like I am almost 30 years. Yes, I actually 30 years because my son just celebrated his 30th birthday. Last month, October.
So let's move to questions related to ageing and to my body, My Story project. So what does ageing means to you?
I think ageing is ageing is something that we cannot avoid. Everyone has to go through it. I suppose it's it's how we perceive or accept the changes that's happening in our life. Sometimes it's hard. Like right now they're hormonal changes are happening, and it's affecting how we look. We get all we get sick. It's hard to get up. But then again, on the positive side of it. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm a grandmother now. And it's just so joyful to play with my grandson and looking for ways to have more grandkids
and that's completely different from having your children.
That's true there that will spoil more to every do everything for him.
So if you could go back in time, to any age, what would it be and why?
Oh, I probably would say in my 20s or sorry. I changed that in my mid 30s in my mid 30s I started drinking alcohol and smoking. And I would have said to myself, you know look after your health look after your butt Buddy, I could have like, started all over again and say, This is how we're going to do. Or healthy. Yeah. All over again. But yeah.
So you would go to your mid 30s For the reason that you would want to advise your then year old self and say, Please change that?
That's right. In that go through that. It was just so unfortunate that I started later in my life.
Yeah, but still 30 mid 30s is still not that late.
I think it's the effect of lifestyle. Yeah, stress work and everything.
Yeah. So that would be your advice, start looking after yourself. And if your body could talk, what do you think it would ask you? Or tell you?
Oh, that's funny. I think that if my body could talk, I think that my menopausal belly might tell me to do more exercises to flat in it. Because for whatever reason, all the fats just go into my stomach. Nowhere else in my body, but through my stomach. But yeah, I think it would tell me to, to do more exercise. And yeah, take care of Take care. Take care. Take care of you getting old now. Yeah.
So, um, what do you think are the main causes of body image issues?
main causes of body image issues, I would think not just for the over 45 Because I've experienced when I was younger, that it's peer pressure. When you see someone skinny and athletic, and you'd wish you'd be like them. And it does affect your self confidence. Growing although growing old, I've tried as much as I can to flatten my stomach, like I said, and so it's just this strange, perhaps just coming my legs, my thighs, my stomach, my arms? It does. It's kind of affecting. Yeah. That's why when I saw the project, I was like, I want to see myself at this age. Exactly how I look like now. Because you never know as I grow older later on, maybe in five years time, I might get back to being athletic again, or I don't know. I'm already. But yeah, I want it to be just me.
Yeah, we tend to criticize ourself in any age, I bet that even in five or 10 years, we will find something to criticize him. So But even we feel sometimes those insecurities. So how do you overcome this body related insecurities? So what's your go to? When you've looked in the mirror and say, Oh, I don't I don't see what I don't like what I see. So how you overcome that how you go back to positive?
I think it's acceptance of the changes that's happening in your body, you have to accept that no matter what you do, like in my for my example. I do exercise and everything, nothing changes. I look at my face in the mirror and I see some wrinkles. I tried to you know, use proper skincare to look young. I think just positive thinking. Because I mean, you can't sort of see yourself in the mirror and go like Oh my gosh, I look so ugly. I look so old. Which we do sometimes I do but then I grew up hey, you know what? Yes, another day. I'm going to go out there put my lipstick on.
And you know, it’s interesting that human body changes all the time. Either you are young or you are elderly, it has changes, and you can look one day perfectly well and next day, not that good. And then next day again Great. So I think you're right saying that accepting, learning to accept, of course ta…
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Jan 5, 2023
#64 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Rayghaan
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Rayghaan, what age she would like to go back to and what advice she would give herself at that age! We also talk about the main causes of body image issues, how they come up and how she overcomes them. And we discuss what aging means to her and to her body.
10 Facts About Rayhaan
(at the time of the project)
* 47 years old.
* Rayghaan is an immigrant from South Africa. She was born during the regime.
* She is an English teacher but has a specific empathy for people with disabilities. That’s why she works as a diverse learning coordinator.
* Rayghaan has a really funny little thing on her ring finger. She was born with it. It's not quite a birthmark, but it's a nice unusual little skin defect. It brings her comfort when she looks at it.
* Rayghaan has two sons and then a late daughter with a 10-year gap between her and the boys. She is recently divorced after a 20-year marriage and very, very happy about it.
* Rayghaan’s…
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Oct 12, 2022
#63 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Lucinda
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Lucinda and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Lucinda
(at the time of the project)
* 52 years old.
* Lucinda has been a single mom of two amazing teenage daughters
* She works in Corrective Services New South Wales, with offenders in the community. She manages teams that supervise offenders in the community.
* Lucinda is born in Waga Waga.
* She lived in Melbourne for around five or six years
* Lucinda met her ex-husband who was a Wagga man while she was living in Melbourne. And he convinced her to move back.
* Lucinda has a brother who lives in Ballarat now.
* Lucinda lives her personal life by – “We rise by lifting others”.
* The biggest challenge at this age – “Choices. The children are finding their own way in the world,…
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Oct 5, 2022
#62 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Yolanda | A story of a former police officer who works for community corrections.
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Yolanda, how she worked as a police officer first, dealing with a lot of domestic violence cases, and then moved to correction. You will also hear a fun story about how policemen play hide and seek on night shifts.
10 Facts About Yolanda
(at the time of the project)
* 57 years old.
* Yolanda is from Holland. So, she’s Dutch. She came to Australia when she was four.
* Yolanda is the first-time grandmama of an almost two-year-old grandson. She has three children and two stepchildren.
* Yolanda is in her third marriage. And this is her best marriage.
* She used to be a police officer for about 20 years. When she was 12, she knew she wanted to be a police officer. That was her dream. She was a street police officer. And she was also for about 10 years, a trainer in the police academy as a weapons instructor.
* Now Yolanda works for community corrections, which is like a parole officer. But as a manager of officers in regional…
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Sep 29, 2022
#61 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Kirsty
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Kirsty and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Kirsty
(at the time of the project)
* 45 years old.
* Kirsty is from the country in South Australia. She’s lived in Sydney for over 25 years now.
* Kirsty has two brothers and a sister, mum, and dad. All of them are in South Australia, except the sister, who is in Melbourne.
* Kirsty has two boys - 16 and 11 y.o. and they are her whole world
* Kirsty left her marriage three years ago now. That walking away was her biggest act of self-love. They were together for 22 years.
* Kirsty has two cats at home who rule her family life, but they certainly make life great.
* Kirsty is an accountant. Kirsty actually wanted to be an astronomer growing up. So hey, they both start with A's.
* Kirsty is a…
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Sep 21, 2022
#60 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Annie
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Annie and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Annie
(at the time of the project)
* 54 years old.
* Annie is UK born, just outside of Manchester.
* Annie came to Australia for only 6 months in 1989 but stayed here. She loves it here and calls Australia home.
* Annie has a 30-year-old son and has a great bond with him.
* She also takes care of her 90 years old mother.
* She lives on the Central Coast.
* Annie is the CEO of the recruitment business. She has a company called Sprout recruitment (https://www.sproutrecruitment.com.au/). It specialises in real estate recruitment.
* Annie has her best friend, whom she’s known for 30 years, and that longevity is something that Annie’s really proud of.
* The biggest challenge at this age –…
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Sep 14, 2022
#59 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Nadi
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Nadi and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes, and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Nadi
(at the time of the project)
* 45 years old.
* Nadi was born in Russia, Moscow
* Nadi and her family have been living in Australia, Sydney since 2017.
* Before she was living in the Netherlands, Amsterdam for six years.
* Nadi is a mother of two children. Her son is 11 and her daughter is 8.
* Nadi graduated from a Technical University of communication informatics and was doing management and technical support for mobile roaming customers in a company like Vodafone for a long time.
* Now Nadi is a photographer focusing on family documentary photography and taking pictures about the real life of a family.
* Nadi is in love with the surfing culture here in Australia and started surfing at t…
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Sep 7, 2022
#58 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Annika
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Annika and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Annika
(at the time of the project)
* 60 years old.
* Annika was born and raised in Stockholm in Sweden.
* When she was 21, she came out to Australia with a girlfriend to do some traveling.
* On the first day Annika arrived in Australia, she met her husband. And they've been together since then.
* After about 12 months together, Annika and her husband (then still a boyfriend) traveled together to Cape York, where he did his motorbike race. And then they ended up driving all the way around Australia. They spent nine months together on the bike.
* Annika has two sons and a daughter. The middle son ended up staying in Sweden with two daughters, the other son is in Australia and the daughter is still…
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Aug 31, 2022
#57 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Jen
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Jen and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Jen
(at the time of the project)
* 60 years old.
* Six months ago Jen separated from her husband of 40 years. The separation has been a long time coming, but it was a tough decision.
* Since the separation, Jen has done a lot in the last six months. She was able to do the things that she wants to do and putting herself first.
* Jen has 3 amazing adult children (a 38-year-old son, a 36-year-old daughter, and a 33-year-old daughter), six grandchildren, and another grandchild on the way.
* Jen and her ex-husband had a livestock and property business where she did office management and sold real estate for 20 years.
* After all these years, Jen and her ex-husband sold the business, and took a year off a…
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Aug 24, 2022
#56 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Kim
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Kim and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Kim
(at the time of the project)
* 53 years old. Kim was born in 1969, the same year that they walked on the moon.
* Kim looks and sounds Australian, but she was born in New Zealand. Her mum travelled there and met Kim’s dad and they got married. And they were only there for four years.
* Kim has an older sister and a younger brother. After moving back to Sydney they lived with Kim’s grandpa in Cronulla.
* Kim has always had chickens for pets. And every house she’s had, had chickens. Now, Kim has got Ameraucana chickens, which have blue shells eggs.
* Kim has been married two times and has 3 kids – 2 sons and a daughter.
* Kim is a primary school teacher.
* Kim played chess since she was f…
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Aug 17, 2022
#55 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Irene
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Irene and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes, and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Irene
(at the time of the project)
* 45 years old.
* Irene is born and raised in Hong Kong. Her parents are from China, and they moved to Hong Kong for better lives after getting married.
* She had the opportunity to study in Canada, in France for her MBA at HEC School of Business, and in the US at UC Berkeley with the help of scholarships
* Irene landed a career with global companies that took her to many parts of the world.
* Irene and her family became an immigrant family in Australia in 2017. So they moved to Sydney, also for better lives for freedom and for opportunities, like her parents.
* This year Irene and her family just became Australian citizens.
* Irene is a mother to 8 y.o twin d…
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Aug 10, 2022
#54 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Joanne
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Joanne and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
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10 Facts About Joanne
(at the time of the project)
* 62 years old.
* Joanne grew up together with four siblings in Goulburn, on a sheep farm in a rural area.
* She studied a Bachelor of Arts and professional writing in Canberra.
* After she has graduated, Joanne came to Sydney and worked as an entertainment reporter with On The Street magazine. She was interviewing both local bands and sometimes international acts.
* Joanne was also introduced to a film agent and had a lot of film extra work. She worked on Mad Max Three Beyond Thunderstorm set, and, she spent several weeks as a featured extra on Bangkok Hilton with beautiful Nicole Kidman. She also did quite a lot of television work and some adverti…
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Aug 3, 2022
#53 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Joo
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Joo and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Joo
(at the time of the project)
* Joo is turning 50 this Xmas.
* She’s a single mother and a full-time worker.
* Joo is from southern Thailand and studied master’s degree of technology management from UNSW in 1997. She used to work for a hotel and a Law Firm in Thailand before moving back to Sydney with her daughter.
* She is a cat lover.
* Joo loves music, always wanted to be a singer, but never took a singing class.
* Joo always enjoys Gin and Tonic, especially Hendricks, it never gets her a hang-over
* She’s currently dating a romantic kiwi gentleman, who is kind, humble and transparent. Joo is feeling good about his qualities and she knows he feels the same.
* Joo’s dream vacation i…
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Jul 27, 2022
#52 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Tina
In this episode, Tina raises awareness about the Cervical cancer, she is facing at the moment. You will also learn 10 FACTS about Tina and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Tina
(at the time of the project)
* 49 years old.
* Tina is born and raised in Sydney. She loves the city. She’s a city girl.
* Tina is a mother of five young adults - 3 sons and 2 daughters.. She had them pretty quickly from the age of 20 to 28.
* She is the oldest in her family and got four younger brothers. So Tina is used to being around a lot of boys and men.
* But at the same time, Tina was always the smallest one.
* Tina is a professional in a male-dominated electrical industry. She’s a purchasing officer in a wholesaler.
* When Tina and her family face hard times, they all come together, they fight toge…
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Jul 20, 2022
#51 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Bernadette | Consistency of communication helped Australian nurses during the pandemic
In this episode, you will learn how the consistency of communication helped Bernadette to effectively oversee 18,000 nurses in 73 hospitals across Australia during the pandemic. You will also learn 10 FACTS about Bernadette and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Bernadette
(at the time of the project)
* 53 years old.
* Bernadette married her childhood sweetheart when she was 20. So she’s been married for 34 years.
* And she has three beautiful children who are all grown up to be very successful, but really kind and fabulous people.
* Bernadette’s youngest daughter lives in the US at the moment, and one of her sons studied in New York, and she has a sister overseas. So she travelled a bit.
* When Bernadette and her husband were young, they were saving up money to put carpet in their hou…
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Jul 13, 2022
#50 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Chanelle - How a motorbike accident had totally changed her life
In this episode, you will learn how a motorbike accident has nearly killed Chanelle and totally changed her life. You will also learn 10 FACTS about Chanelle and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Chanelle
(at the time of the project)
* 47 years old.
* Chanelle is married and has two little kids who are six and nine, a daughter and a son. The kids have changed her significantly. Chanelle said, she would never have children. And then she had her daughter when she was 38. And was the greatest thing she ever did.
* Chanelle became disabled five years ago. She had a big motorbike accident in Darwin and lost the use of her dominant arm. Since then Chanelle has had nine surgeries to try and get it working a little bit. So her greatest accomplishment other than the children is embracing being disable…
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Jul 6, 2022
#49 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Michelle
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Michelle and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Michelle
(at the time of the project)
* 55 years old.
* Michelle came to Australia when she was 16 years old from New Zealand.
* Michelle has read a lot of books. She read the entire children's section of the library by the time she was 12.
* The biggest influence in Michelle’s life was her grandmother. She's a very strong person. And she was the matriarch and pulled the entire family together.
* Michelle has a 21-year-old daughter. And she's a beautiful person, very kind and very loving. She looks after the underdog in life.
* Michelle works in media and computers, which she loves. And she’s been doing that for a few years now.
* She has recently taken up painting. In the beginning, Mich…
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Jun 29, 2022
#48 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Samantha
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Samantha and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Samantha
(at the time of the project)
* 49 years old.
* Samantha’s heritage is Portuguese and Indian but born and raised in Australia.
* She is a mom of two girls in their 20s. Natasha is 24 and Jasmine is 21.
* Samantha is also a fiancé and soon to be married in Paradise Island in the Bahamas. It's her third marriage.
* Samantha living life by design now as a solopreneur, and a bit of a boss woman. She started her business last year in September, People Mojo, it's an HR consultancy business.
* She is a netballer have been a netballer all of her life. Samantha started when she was five and played professional netball for the state and for the region. Now Samantha plays together with her youn…
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Jun 22, 2022
#47 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Trin
In this episode, Trin talks about trauma and relationship therapy she specialises in as a psychological therapist. You will also learn 10 FACTS about Trin and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Trin
(at the time of the project)
* 49 years old.
* Trin was born and grew up in Australia, in Wagga Wagga country.
* Trin lives by herself by the beach, but 100 metres away from the beach
* Trin’s partner lives in Melbourne. They've been together for two years. They met at the very beginning of COVID in a Tantra workshop, and they have a successful long distance relationship.
* Trin has been married for 15 years before that. And she left her husband in 2018. So she dived into a new relationship really wishing to be different. Trin really wanted to understand love and relationships this time.
*…
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Jun 15, 2022
#46 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Angela - Bringing back her Independence
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Angela and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes, and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Angela
(at the time of the project)
* 50 years old.
* Angela is a single mum of two beautiful teenagers – her daughter Ellen is 18 and her son Vuk is 16 years old.
* She has just come out of marriage and back to where she was in her 20s. Now Angela has all the opportunities in the world opened up again for her. So, she is doing as many things as she possibly could after 20 years of having quite a limited outlook on life.
* Angela was born in Margate in the UK. But her family lives in Ramsgate. And she actually lives in Ramsgate here in Sydney. So her family is kind of like that.
* Angela left the UK in 1999 and she moved to the Czech Republic and was a teacher over there for two years. She came…
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Jun 7, 2022
#45 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Christine
This episode touches very deep, psychological aspects of life. Christine raises the subject of an epidemic of adult children divorcing their parents and how traumatic it is for parents can be.
Also, you will learn 10 FACTS about Christine and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
Christine is a strong advocate for legalising cannabis, and she talks about different uses and benefits of this natural medicine.
10 Facts About Christine
(at the time of the project)
* 50 years old.
* Christine is a registered nurse. She’s been a nurse for almost 20 years and works in the area of mental health and drug and alcohol in Sydney.
* Born in Brisbane, she moved to Sydney four months ago to make a fresh start.
* She sees herself going back to Western Australia (where her son was born) in 2 years after staying in Sydney…
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Jun 2, 2022
#44 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Vanessa
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Vanessa and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Vanessa
(at the time of the project)
* 49 years old.
* Vanessa has lived in three countries. She was born in Malaysia and moved to Australia as a child. So, she was raised in Australia.
* Then she moved to England, where she met her husband, got married, worked in England, and had her first child in England. She lived there for 6 years.
* Vanessa has three amazing children who are 16 and under.
* Vanessa loves good food. She loves cooking as well as going out to a nice meal or having someone else cooking for her. Her favourite cuisine is Asian fusion. Vanessa loves Vietnamese and Thai food but with an Australian fusion touch. But she does love all food in general and seafood.
* She also loves th…
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May 25, 2022
#43 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Belinda
In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Belinda and what she thinks about perfect body image, positive changes and challenges of 45+ women, what is it for her to feel good and look beautiful, and what advice she would give younger women and 30-year-old self!
10 Facts About Belinda
(at the time of the project)
* 48 years old.
* Belinda is the proud mother of two beautiful teenage boys, who are a big inspiration to her, they teach her every day.
* She is the youngest in her family, she’s got an older brother and sister.
* Belinda was born in South Africa. Belinda lived on four continents and had to start all over again three times! She thinks that when you are in the unknown, it's where life can be really exciting.
* She left South Africa in her early 20s and went to live in London for 12 years, where she gained a lot of independence.
* After living in London, Belinda came to Australia and thinks she is very blessed to be able to live and be a citizen of such a be…
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Feb 27, 2022
#42 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Sarah
In this episode, Sarah talks about her love for singing and how she found this great opportunity to utilise the open mics concept. Now she sings in clubs with professional bands around Sydney and it is her biggest relaxation!
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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT (auto-generated) :
Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
Enjoy each day, go and live your life. Have lots of fun, and realise you are beautiful inside and out. You are so beautiful even if you weren't told.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen to the stories of our participants. If you have an interesting story to share, we would love you to participate, you can email us on info@aleksandrawalker.com or visit our website, www. aleksandrawalker.com
Hi, Sarah,…
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Feb 20, 2022
#41 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Sherrie
🎧 In this episode, Sherrie talks a lot about the benefits of the Pilates method and how she helps people of all ages with different physical conditions to feel good physically and about themselves.
Being 63 years old, and having an amazing body shaped by years of practicing and teaching Pilates, Sherrie is passionate about the Pilates industry and the method itself.
Sherrie says that after 45, women have all that wonderful perimenopause and menopause period, and not only coping with weight fluctuation, but also having issues around osteopenia and osteoporosis, the thinning of the bones. They might find that their joints aren't coping as well with certain types of strength training like heavy lifting and squatting, etc. But Pilates and particularly the equipment that was invented for Pilates helps them to work their body through, and their joints are protected. They go out feeling great instead of feeling smashed.
You can contact Sherri here:
https://www.instagram.com/dog_lover19…
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Feb 6, 2022
#40 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Maria
🎧 Believe in yourself and Make self-care a top priority – is the main message of the episode.
In this episode we will hear how recently being diagnosed with ADHA, divorced after a long lasting marriage, being redundant, all that just prior the beginning of COVID, made Maria take that unexpected break to re-think, change her mindset and her career, betting on her strong qualities, and not limitations.
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Hi, Maria, welcome to our studio, and welcome to our project. And while you're sitting in the makeup chair, and Diana is doing makeup for you, I'll be asking you a few questions.
And tell us a bit about yourself.
Yeah, hi, thank you for having me. So I'm 47 I have a 19 year old son. I am an account administration manager, that just recently, I've decided on a career change and became certified as the results coach and just about to start up my own coaching business that I'm really excited about. And I love travelling, trying new…
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Jan 30, 2022
#39 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Diane
🎧 In this episode, Diane talks about how her passion for cleaning houses and her cleaning business of 20 years, which helps saving marriages and arguments between kids and families.
She also says that her biggest change coming with age is learning about self-development and growing as a woman. The peace of mind that comes with age, is also a huge one.
She believes that everyone comes into your life for a season and a reason, and that you’ve just got to enjoy every moment because you live once and it's only for a short time.
You can find Diane here:
https://www.cleanerthanyouthink.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/cleanerthanyouthink2019
https://www.instagram.com/cleanerthanyouthnk
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Hi, Diane, welcome to the studio, and welcome to the project. And while you are sitting in the makeup chair, and Nicole is doing makeup for you, I'll be asking you a few questions.
Sure. Thank you.
Tell us a bit about yourself.
I'm 49 years ol…
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Jan 23, 2022
#38 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Cathy
🎧 In this episode, Cathy talks about her two great passions – travel and having and being a travel agent, as well as acting.
Cathy knows everything about corporate and high-end leisure travel as she has been in the travel and tourism industry for over 30 years. She also taught travel and tourism in college and has been very lucky to have travelled extensively throughout the world and has visited six of the seven continents. She says she will get to Antarctica eventually!
Cathy is also very creative and always has been. She loves dancing, painting, and music. She is currently developing and broadening her acting skills and her acting career.
Her biggest challenge at this age is fitting in everything that she wants to do.
You can find Cathy here: https://www.instagram.com/cathypocaterra/
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
And care for yourself, which is something I fail to do. So 100% Look after yourself, a…
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Jan 16, 2022
#37 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Mirella
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If we tried to describe this episode, we would have to write a book. Mirella is a very knowledgeable, smart and philosophical person. She has a unique perspective on all the questions we asked her – on aging, relationships, body image, and many more.
Just listen to the episode and enjoy her storytelling style.
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Hi Mirella, welcome to our studio and welcome to the project. And while he's sitting in the makeup chair and Chitra is doing makeup for you. I'll be asking you a few questions. Does us a bit about yourself?
Where do I begin? I'm a Leo. I am I think I'm 46. And I live in Sydney. I was born and raised here. My parents are of Italian background. But I'm very, very much Australian. And I actually can't believe I'm doing this. I've never done anything like this before. It's actually a bit of fun.
So what are you most passionate about?
People say I have a fairly intense personality. That's quite true. I carry an insane…
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Jan 9, 2022
#36 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Dawn K
🎧 In this episode, Dawn tells her story of how after being born in England, she came to Sydney Australia when she was 14. At 16 she started off as a legal secretary. By 30 Dawn decided to do something different and moved to the marketing field. She worked in marketing for national international corporations, different hotels and resorts, a racing club, and just loved doing it as well as loved the Sydney lifestyle.
In 1996 Dawn moved up to the beautiful Central Coast to bring up her 2 children with her husband there and lived there for about 25 years now.
Dawn loves traveling. She bought a camper van just before COVID and travelled on her own, going up and down the coast, going up to Queensland and down to Melbourne, finding new places, and meeting new people.
Dawn tells her family story of how both of her parents were diagnosed with dementia and went into a nursing home. Dawn spent lots of time with them and did as much as she could with them. Their stories are lost, and it's jus…
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Jan 2, 2022
#35 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Margaret
🎧 In this episode, Margaret talks about how at her 54, she finally found something that she enjoys, and that's with teaching. She works as a teacher's assistant at school which can be challenging but very rewarding at the same time.
Margaret’s biggest challenge at the moment is being on her own, to grow, accept and embrace the single life, and to know that you don't need a partner, boyfriend, or a husband to make or complete you.
Margaret’s advice for younger women is - Don't get married young and if you want to get married, find an amazing partner. Also, make sure there's time for yourself.
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Hi, Margaret, welcome to our studio, and welcome to our project. And while you're sitting in the makeup chair, and Tanya is doing makeup for you, I'll be asking you a few questions. Tell us a bit about yourself.
Hi, Aleksandra, thank you for putting all this together. I think it's exciting for all women over 45 to be doing something f…
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Dec 26, 2021
#34 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Terri
🎧 In this episode, Terri tells that she was raised in a small country town called Crookwell, which is a couple of hours away from Sydney. Being the 10th child among 11 children, she has eight sisters and two brothers. She is also a mum of four children and has one grandson.
Terri talks about her passion for her family, motorbike riding, and boxing training. She is also very passionate about creating opportunities for happiness, not only for herself, but for others also.
She says that she has started a company called TNP events, which is going to be launched next year. it's actually a concept that Terri has developed herself which she is calling Destination Unknown. It’s basically providing social opportunities for mature aged people to get together. These will be events where people will arrive, and Terri will take them somewhere, they won't know where they're going, and host an evening for men and women over the age of 45+.
Terri also talks about the importance of keeping the…
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Dec 19, 2021
#33 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Isabelle
🎧 In this episode, Isabelle talks about her biggest passion - her family, keeping it together and making sure everybody feels loved. Isabelle’s husband, her three daughters, and four grandchildren are what really matters most to her.
Also, Isabelle says that the hardest four-letter word in the English language is H-E-L-P. There's almost a fear installed, where you think that you will be considered weak. So you don't ask because you're supposed to be strong. Ask for help, - says Isabelle - Always.
Isabelle shares her favorite quote:
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. ― Madeleine Albright
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
Be courageous, be brave. And I think the hardest four letter word in the English language is help. And that is something I would have told my 30 year old self.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who…
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Dec 12, 2021
#32 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Tanya
🎧 In this episode, Tanya talks about her greatest accomplishment - building up her own business servicing the dental equipment to the dental industry in all of the New South Wales area. Tanya says that her amazing team of 12 people help dentists become more profitable and more efficient by training them and making sure that they have the most up-to-date equipment.
As a mother of two beautiful boys, Tanya is very passionate about their careers and their happiness. She tries to encourage her boys to do what makes their hearts sing in the morning, and just encourages them to do whatever makes them happy in life.
She is also passionate about women in business. Tanya is Chair of the dental industry association, which encourages all women regardless of where they are in their careers, to lift them up, motivate them, train them, mentor them so that they can further their careers, and become leaders of the dental industry.
Tanya also says that she has realised as she has gotten older tha…
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Dec 5, 2021
#31 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Kelly Van Nelson
🎧 In this episode, Kelly talks about her passion for writing and poetry, which helps her to make a difference in the world around social issues. She has six published books, three of them have been number one bestsellers, and two of them got gifted in the swag box to the Oscars winners in Hollywood.
Pretty gritty and raw in style, Kelly writes about social issues and urban, contemporary topics. She is also an activist for social change in antibullying, domestic violence prevention and coaches youths and women in leadership on the power of resilience.
Kelly says that she really wants to help youth that are not necessarily from privileged backgrounds to know that they can achieve amazing things, whether it's being through their career, or their education or their passion, that there are different ways they can overcome obstacles and find resilience.
Kelly also talks about how she grew up in a working class, single parent house and on a council estate in the UK, travelled the world,…
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Nov 28, 2021
#30 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Nathalie
🎧 In this episode, Nathalie talks about a very important body image issue – anorexia, caused by insecurity and hating the way she looked. She talks about how she had struggled for 15 years, until she met that special person in her life who helped her to change this negative image of herself.
Insecurity, depression, desperation, self-hate, feeling unloved, being told she would never have kids, all that is in the past.
Happily married with 2 beautiful kids, finally happy with herself and above all alive, Nathalie wants to reach out to people who struggle with the same challenges. She hopes that they will see her as an example and that there’s hope.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
I never thought that I would see 50 I never thought that I would have kids. I never thought that I would find someone that loved me and never thought that I would be happy.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule b…
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Nov 21, 2021
#29 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Lisa M
🎧 In this episode, Lisa tells her story about being born and raised in the US by immigrant parents from Chile and starting her early years career in repairing busses. Only after her body could not cooperate with this hard work, she moved to the office to make a great career in technology.
She immigrated to Australia in 2013 under a working visa, lived first in Adelaide then moved to Sydney.
Lisa says that she feels like she was born with an old body, so her perfect body would be something that doesn’t make her joints hurt.
She wishes she knew how to manage stress in her 30s. Her advice to younger women is - Enjoy the ride and don’t take life so seriously!
Lisa’s favourite quote is “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and loved more than you know.”
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This is the 45 over 45 chapter of MY BODY MY STORY podcast, where we celebrate rule breakers and role models - the women who inspire us to live life o…
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Nov 14, 2021
#28 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Manjoo
In this episode, Manjoo tells her story of going through the loss of her husband of 24 years, and transforming her grief into her passion of empowering women, especially women who are immigrants or have lost their husbands (or separated/divorced) by inspiring them with her own story.
She talks about how she dealt with the grief and how being financially independent is very important, not only for having your own identity but for being able to support yourself during hard times like the loss of your loved ones.
Manjoo also says that only recently she has become more resilient and has learned to put herself first by setting boundaries. Nowadays she tries not to compare herself with others but rather be a better version of HERSELF.
Right now Manjoo is so busy loving herself and being in charge of her life, and that’s what makes her feel the most beautiful.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
My passion lies in em…
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Nov 7, 2021
#27 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Jade
In this episode, Jade talks about recently shifting her focus on her spiritual wellness, taking care of herself, and connecting with others.
Jade also talks about how after 20 years of working for the local government, she left her job 1 year ago to open her own business, an e-commerce gift therapy store (http://gifttherapy.com.au/), offering well-being organic sustainable products and helping others to self-care.
Her Life Motto – My journey. My dream
Her favourite quote about being a woman is by Tyler Kent White - She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
Oh, verse he has actually helped me be more focused on my spiritual wellness and not so much for my material wellness.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way…
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Nov 1, 2021
#26 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Lilly
In this episode, Lilly talks about the prominent issue of loneliness in today’s young generation which leads to depression, drug use, and other mental health issues. She also thinks that social media plays a big role in creating an unrealistic picture that is hard to keep up with, leading to dissatisfaction with what the young generation has.
Lilly also says that at her 45, she is young enough and old enough. She achieved a lot in her life - Mother of 4 adult kids, she traveled the world and had successful businesses, and now is looking for her new directions to do something she would really enjoy.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
Always put yourself as priority. No one really, really. You know, you have to put yourself first.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence.…
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Oct 18, 2021
#25 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Aleksandra Walker - Interview with the Creator of My Body My Story Project
In this episode, George interviewing Aleksandra Walker, the creator of the My Body My Story Project.
Aleksandra talks about the Project, her current challenges, and life accomplishments. Her advice to younger women - Don’t waste your time making your own mistakes. Use other women’s experiences for your benefit.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
I would say prepare yourself in advance. Don't get caught by surprise. Use other women experience for your benefit. Just don't waste your time making your mistakes. Which you can avoid by simply being informed and being proactive.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen to the stories of our participants. If you hav…
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Oct 10, 2021
#BONUS EPISODE | My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - What Women Over 45 Say | What Advice Would You Give Your 30 yo Self?
In this episode, we are recapping the answers 45Over45 chapter participants have given to “What Advice Would You Give Your 30 yo Self?”
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What advice would you give your 30 year old self?
Julie
Don't overthink things. And I guess don't be afraid of making mistakes.
Alicja
Every mistake, maybe I made every experience I had. I learned something from it. And that's what matters to me.
Eva
To leave envy behind.
Dawn
And I wish that I'd been sort of more focused at that age and I wished I wish I'd taken care of myself a little bit better.
Adriana
To be kind and patient with yourself. Try to understand how your body and how your mind works.
Karen
Don't panic. It'll all work out.
Michelina
Just do everything. Don't hold back. And don't talk yourself out of doing things. And don't let other people talk you out of doing things that you want to do.
Katrina
Probably not worry so much.
Lisa
For me personally, I would say,…
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Oct 3, 2021
#BONUS EPISODE | My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - What Women Over 45 Say | What Makes You Feel The Most Beautiful?
In this episode, we are recapping on the answers 45Over45 chapter participants have given to “What Makes You Feel The Most Beautiful?”
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What makes you feel most beautiful?
Adriana:
I love shoes. If I have any high heels, I feel amazing. I feel amazing. Yeah.
Julie:
Knowing that you're wearing something nice and having all your hair done and
Sarah
nice clothes, nice makeup, nice perfume. And that makes me feel really good in a nice environment.
Riska:
I never feel the most beautiful in a certain time, because I feel beautiful every day because beautiful is come from within. It's come in a package, our love, our compassion, our empathy, our kindness. That's what is called Beauty. I think
Alicja:
we're not happy. Because back to that question, when you feel that I think the most beautiful when I'm happy with myself when I feel at peace
Denise:
Being happy and content.
Kylie
Feeling good. For sure.
Danyelle:
Just se…
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Sep 27, 2021
#24 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Linda
In this episode, Linda talks about her biggest positive change in the last 8 years - her independence as a woman.
Since then Linda has grown into strong, independent, resilient person, becoming a great example for her two children of how to deal with ups and downs throughout life.
Linda is pretty happy where she is in her life now. She is a beauty therapist owning her business for the last 8 years, with this year growing even bigger than before.
Linda thinks that often when a woman becomes a wife, a partner, or a mom she loses her identity a bit without even realising it.
“We tend to try to be who we think we should be instead of being who we are, doing things that we enjoy. Its okay to be who you want to be.” – says Linda
Linda’s Contacts:
https://www.instagram.com/kaydahbeauty10/
https://www.facebook.com/kaydahbeauty
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I would say, to be kind to yourself. And never…
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Sep 19, 2021
#23 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Danyelle | Role of Tattoo Art in Body Image
In this episode, Danyelle talks about tattoo art and its role in body image, life-changing experiences, and different reasons why people do tattoos. She also talks about the psychology and symbolism behind tattooing.
As an old-school professional tattoo artist, Danyelle talks about the importance of ethics a tattooer should have.
A tattooist often becomes a trusted person with whom people share their stories and secrets. Often a tattoo artist helps people to transit through their most important life events.
Danyelle says that even if it’s a full-back or a tiny tattoo, it is a way of expressing something that is within a person. It is a reflection of who they are as a person and should be respected equally.
Danyelle also talks about her favorite cover-up tattoos.
Danyelle’s advice to younger women is:
Know your own value. Be true to yourself. Educate yourself, don’t take everyone else’s word as truth, know your own core beliefs. Protect and look after your health – mind,…
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Sep 12, 2021
#22 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Kylie
In this episode, Kylie talks about how being in service, has been a thread in her life - from being an older sister to a mother to a personal development professional. She says that she has been incredibly resilient through the ups and downs of her life in that role.
She also talks about recently going through a period of change that made her deep dive into a lot of self-reflection and re-inventing in herself. It’s been scary, challenging, and at the same time incredibly exciting for Kylie. She says that the biggest challenge was not forcing it and allowing time to reform and rebirth.
Living for 33 years at her happy place – sunny Gold Coast - Kylie gets her energy from nature and is passionate about human connection, health and well-being, arts and crafts, and socialising.
Her positive changes which she experienced with age are a better sense of self, self-awareness (how and why I engage with others the way I do), self-acceptance, and self-respect.
Her advice to younger women…
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Sep 5, 2021
#21 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Lucie
In this episode, Lucie talks about the roots of a perfect body image idea. She believes it’s in a woman's own mind, warmed up by society and cultural pressure, and the idea actually goes against nature. She says that we grow up to be a woman and our body is not supposed to be a teenage body for the rest of our life.
She also talks about how she was a TV model in her younger years and is planning to do it again.
Lucie talks about how she is dealing with people's drama every day at work, as she is a psychiatric nurse in the emergency department. She knows that to have good mental health you just need to do very simple things – eat well, sleep well, exercise and have good relationships.
She says that nothing beats a genuine smile on a woman’s face. You don’t even think about how you look when you are happy. Happiness is very attractive.
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The major challenge basically is th…
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Aug 29, 2021
#20 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Riska
In this episode, Riska describes her life as a rollercoaster ride – thrilling, exciting, a lot of ups and downs, but she really enjoyed the ride.
She’s been through a lot of good and bad times but overcame it all and is proud of herself. She sees herself as not a survivor, but rather a warrior because she fights until the end.
She talks about when you are young you expect to be perfect; you try to change yourself to fit into society. But once you get older you understand that it’s important to be who you really are.
She also says that you have to make peace with yourself to accept your body, your skin and start loving yourself. For Riska, self-love is not selfish it’s called self-respect.
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to be fit in one society. But once you get older you realise it's not important. It is important like to be who you are.
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Aug 22, 2021
#19 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Lisa T
In this episode, Lisa talks about how having the body of a 58-year-old, but mind, aspirations, and dreams of a 20-year-old, makes her want to be on the move and try new things.
Whether it’s moving countries, riding on the back of a friend's bike, climbing, drumming, singing, walking barefoot on the beach or diving into waves, it keeps her young.
If she could change anything in her life, she thinks she would not.
She is still working towards living her life loud and dreaming big!
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being and having the body of a 58-year-old, but the mind and aspirations and dreams and things I want to do have over 20 something or 30 something. So there's a, there's some physical challenges, if not limitations.
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Aug 15, 2021
#18 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Kyla
In this episode, Kyla talks about the idea young women are raised with - the idea that you will meet a man, you marry him, you buy a house, you have children. But no one talks about how it consumes 20 years of your life… and what is AFTER that. It's only when you hit that line you start thinking – sh&%t, what am I going to do now?
Also, as a Manager of a chain of adult stores, Kyla talks about the importance of breaking down stigma and barriers around sexuality, likes and dislikes, and what’s perceived as right and wrong in anything of a sexual nature. She says that a lot of women in their 50s and 60s who visit the stores she manages never had or used toys. Going through them and making women realise that it’s not that scary, and fun is an important part of Kyla’s mission. She thinks that it's incredibly important for self-care that every woman deserves self-pleasure every now and then.
With the biggest challenge of realising her mortality, Kyla wants to do more, to get out…
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Aug 8, 2021
#17 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Adriana
In this episode, Adriana talks about her 1-year personal development project of reading 1 book a week - to learn about how a woman’s body and brain work and how hormonal changes throughout the years change them.
She also talks about the importance of mother-daughter conversations from an early age and women’s network support at the perimenopause stage, because when you know what is going to happen to your body and you have the freedom to talk about it, it helps a lot.
Her advice to younger women:
Don’t give up your goals so easily! We can have it all, just not all at the same time.
So, be kind and patient to yourself, don’t give up on taking care of yourself. Have time to yourself and wear high heels to feel yourself the most beautiful!
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Everything was just going up, falling apart, even my marriage, my relationship with the kids work.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter wher…
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Aug 1, 2021
#16 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Bianca
In this episode, Bianca talks about her personal challenges that come with age, her health, her business, and her greatest accomplishments.
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I'm an enthusiastic Zumba instructor. Well, yeah, and I taught for eight years over the mountains. And yeah, really creative. really expressive time. That's fun to see how I could stretch the Latino music and danced it, ended up being nice. It was, you know, I brought in other elements like bamboo to dance with. And then and, and they gave you a really good workout.
So do you miss it?
I do. I do. But I'm, I've gotten on to tennis. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I took my time in isolation. Yeah, I took a while I picked up tennis, and was playing four days a week and just loving it.
That's awesome.
I think well, because from a child, we were always encouraged to do sports, you know? Yeah, I was one of those 1000s of seven year olds sending the tennis racquet adolescence.
So everyone knows that with age…
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Jul 25, 2021
#15 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Sarah
In this very entertaining episode, Sarah tells how she came to Australia in 2003, and one of the first thing she did was, she bought quite a few coats and pairs of boots because she never owned them before. It was always 40 degrees where she grew up.
She also talks about her passion for interacting with people, learning different cultures through authentic ethnic food, tarot card readings, and fashion.
She believes that If you don’t pick yourself up, no one else will, and you will not be able even to see a hand of help from others.
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You know, today I don't look back with regrets. I've had good relationships, bad relationships, jobs that were made me happy jobs that didn't make me happy. But I think it was all a journey that was good. And that's what brought me to where I am.
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Jul 18, 2021
#14 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Katrina
In this episode, Katrina tells her story of living in different communes since she was 8 years old, leaving home at 12 years old, and school at 13, as well as learning early how to take care of herself.
She talks about her biggest challenge of letting her kids grow into adults without her trying to help or control it. She also talks about her biggest accomplishment of being true to herself, searching and doing things that make her happy and content.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
Being happy is important, if you're not happy, and got a big house and a car and not very nice husband, partner, but what's the point?
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen to the…
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Jul 12, 2021
#BONUS EPISODE My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – GUEST SPEAKER | Tracy Minnoch-Nuku
In this Bonus Episode, our Guest Speaker Tracy Minnoch-Nuku, is talking about her amazing resource, Sexy Ageing Podcast @sexyageing, for everyone who wants to discover and learn more about the changes that are happening to women physically, mentally, and emotionally after 45.
Tracy is a Group Class Trainer, Personal Trainer, Training Manager, Mentor and Entrepreneur.
Tracy has grown up in the fitness industry, from a youthful 18-year old “aerobics” teacher through to managing personal training and group training teams in New Zealand.
As one of the original Master Trainers for Les Mills New Zealand, Tracy was headhunted to support the growth of Fitness First Asia and moved to Hong Kong and then Malaysia. Over 5 years, she trained 1000’s of instructors and built a support management team for the rapid rollout of group classes.
Setting up a support business for Les Mills in South East Asia required building teams across business and training. After 7 years and a new trainer team…
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Jul 11, 2021
#13 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Lisa
In this spiritual episode, Lisa is telling her story of being raised as an adopted child and learning through her 4 children about love and connection, how to Love yourself and don’t expect other people to love you.
She also talks about how you can see people wearing life on their face and that
you can see how bitter people have been for most of their lives.
Her advice to younger women is to Embrace changes, to feel empowered and strong, accept your body, and, “…. yeah, ….. look after your teeth from an early age” – it’s the biggest one!
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And now I'm sort of accepting my body thinking why didn't I do it 30 years ago.
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Jul 4, 2021
#12 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Alexis
In this episode Alexis shares that she loves getting older, having massive shifts in how she thinks and behaves every 10 years.
She talks about how she is calmer now and more comfortable with her body, how she stopped apologizing for who is she and for taking the space, especially from men
She also thinks that you Can become too old for some opportunities, and you just need to admit it and to prioritize what's most important to you.
She truly believes, that getting older you do grow into your strength and power, start valuing yourself more as a woman and thanking yourself for what you did.
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Oh, okay. So normally I get to talk about me, but I'd like me to talk about more of me. So I was born, Tiffany hated the name of most of my life and spent the better part of my 20s Killing Tiffany and being Alex. And well, I was I spent my 30s Being Alex and then when I went into my 40s, I sort of started growing into a Lexus.
How did you com…
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Jun 28, 2021
#11 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Denise
In this episode, Denise shares that feeling mortality in her face for the first time in her life, reminds her of how important it is to look after yourself and train your body at any age.
She also talks about how she travelled the World, got arts and law degrees, and learned from her mom how to make a sauce out of anything.
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Don't put up with crap from in relationships. That's a big one, like, just walk away. And just don't. Yeah, don't enable that behaviour in any shape way or form. This relax and enjoy.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen to the stories of our participants. If you have an interesting story to share, we wou…
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Jun 20, 2021
#10 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Katrina
In this episode Katrina talks about a lot of changes in nearly every part of her life in the last 2 years, She, changed careers, bought herself a house, lost 35 kilos, began running, and reunited with her sweetheart which she first met 30 years ago!
She also talks about the major shift from a reactive to a proactive approach at her new job and, as she was a nurse for the past 30 years she has to adjust from days being driven by others, to days where she is in charge and takes lead in her new role.
The last 2 years have shown her that It’s never too late for a second chance.
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But I think that's it. Yeah, if there was one thing I could change in myself at any age, it would be the What If..
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Jun 14, 2021
#9 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Michelina
In this very motivational and inspiring episode Michelina talks about her journey of discovering herself and finding her own identity, about how she got into powerlifting after being a 3rd generation hockey player, and all the hard work behind the gold medals and World records. She holds multiple World records, World and National titles in Australia and New Zealand in powerlifting
She also talks about her amazing trips all over the world, walking with lions in Zimbabwe, nearly dying on a Nile cruise during her trip to Egypt and getting married in Las Vegas!
The word ‘Can’t” is not in her vocabulary and her motto “Don’t talk yourself out of doing things” helped her to become who she is now.
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So my name is Michelina Weatherall and I'm 46 years old, and I'm still dealing with the fact that I'm heading towards 50. I'm from Wollongong. I was actually born in Marrickville.…
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Jun 7, 2021
#8 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Karen
In this episode, Karen talks about how after 44 years of being a nurse, and of which nearly 20 years as a midwife, she started her Pregnancy, Birth and Newborn photography – Beautiful Beginnings Photography.
Her message to younger women is - “Relax, don’t worry about the small stuff, about what other people say. Don’t panic. It will all work out. Enjoy life!”
Her tattoo says - Life fails to be perfect but never fails to be beautiful
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Whatever you do has to make you happy. It can't just be for somebody else. You've got to do things for yourself.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen to the stories of our participants…
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May 31, 2021
#7 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Alicja
In this episode, Alicja tells about her passion for fashion, working in the industry since she arrived in Australia in 1991 from Poland.
She also talks about her biggest accomplishment – coming to Australia in her early 20s, learning English, and making her way in the new country from the scratch.
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I guess just yeah, just keep doing the things that you want to do. set your own goals and go out and achieve them. Don't define yourself in terms of other people. But just keep your own identity, which was something that was interesting because you know, being married, you find that people tend to relate to you.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with ti…
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May 24, 2021
#6 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Julie
In this episode, Julie gives a sneak peek of her book she is writing, a romantic comedy about a girl in her late 40s, who is getting creative with her dates during the lockdown.
She also talks about her passion for Eurovision and uncovers the backstage of getting to the Eurovision show and creative ways to get tickets when you are not in Europe.
Julie also talks about her meaningful work for health services, helping people, her personal challenges that come with age, her health, her Bucket List, her greatest accomplishments, and what does it mean for her to look good and feel good.
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I guess just yeah, just keep doing the things that you want to do. set your own goals and go out and achieve them. Don't define yourself in terms of other people. But just keep your own identity, which was something that was interesting because you know, being married, you find that people tend to rel…
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May 17, 2021
#5 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Dawn
In this episode, Dawn shares that facing 50 is quite hard. First trying to ignore it, then trying to embrace it, she is now somewhere in the middle. She tells her story of how being a wife, a mom of 3, an emergency doctor in a very competitive male world, she almost forgot about HER life and her health. She also tells about how cycling every day helps her concentration, mood, and energy and gives her life back to her.
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Like nobody sort of went to university or, or anything. So I think B sort of going to university and becoming a doctor and then becoming a specialist was a massive achievement because it was something that I never thought that I would be able to do. But I always really wanted to do.
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May 10, 2021
#4 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Elena
In this episode, Elena tells her story of How she’s got 2 moms because getting pregnant when not married in the 70s was taboo. And how changed laws helped her to find her biological mother more than 20 years later.
She also tells how she packed her bag and just walked away from her one and only 34 years old relationship and started her new life at nearly 50 years old learning many things from the start.
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I find it this age, I am free, because I don't. Like I really don't care. If that person walking down the street looks at me and find the pole to a floor, or something they don't like.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen t…
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May 3, 2021
#3 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Eva
In this episode, Eva talks about the healing power of harp music, and how rewarding it is to be a teacher of World Class musicians as well as children and adults. Eva also shares her wisdom and advice on how to go through age changes by slowing down your pace to avoid disappointment in yourself and hanging around with people of your own age. She also talks about body image through art and how the entertainment industry can affect it.
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I'm gonna try not to get emotional. He was going through chemotherapy for advanced-stage cancer and he could not keep food down. But for some reason with the heart music playing, he did not get sick and he was able to digest his dinner.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's lik…
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Apr 26, 2021
#2 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Michelle
In this episode, Michelle talks about how fun it is to be an identical twin, about her passion for the environment and children's charity, how important to find the disease at an early stage, keeping fit and appreciate every single day, and about the importance of finding the right person.
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Hi, you are listening to My Body My Story podcast,
it's your choice, you wake up every morning, and he can decide if this is going to be a good day, or if it's going to be a bad day.
This is the 45 or 45 chapter where we celebrate rule breakers and role models, the women who inspire us to live life our way and to show that sensuality, beauty, soul and true essence. Here we talk about what it's like to be 45 Plus, adjusting to the changes that come with time, and will listen to the stories of our participants. If you have an interesting story to share, we would love you to participate, you can email us on info@aleksandrawalker.com or visit our w…
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Apr 18, 2021
#1 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Zinnia
🎧 In this episode, Zinnia talks about her passion for deconditioning. It's deconditioning herself of all the rules and obligations and beliefs and values that really don't belong to her. So basically, Zinnia is making sure that she lives her life, her own way.
She also teaches other people to really live their life. Her start-up name is The Evolving Being. Because we are all evolving and constantly changing. So Zinnia is teaching people how to firstly get to know who they are, and how they live their life, and how they do things, and to make sure that it is how they want to do their life.
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So I think the very most important things to find out again, find out who they are. You know, what I've taught my kids is to that they need to know who they are, first and foremost, so then they are not influenced by anyone else. And yeah, and so they live their life their own way.
This is t…
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