My Body My Story

#83 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Trudy

In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Trudy, 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 Trudy

(at the time of the project)

1. 48 years old.
2. Trudy is a single mom of two beautiful daughters, Olivia 22 and Taylor 15.
3. Trudy is Born in Sydney, Australia, and then moved to the country. Now she lives on the North Coast with her girls.
4. Trudy is a business owner. She bought a business seven years ago. It is The Natural Waffle Cone Ice Cream Parlour. It comes from New Zealand.
5. Trudy has now amazing team of 24 staff and another business, the second shop on the Mid-North Coast.
6. Trudy also works with schools and her local community, helping to build young girls up with confidence and give them some faith and drive to achieve things in this big wild world.
7. Previously from that Trudy was in sales and marketing in Sydney, running corporate divisions and team building for 15 years. She worked for a few different companies such as Cadbury, Schweppes, Kraft Foods, Lindt chocolates.
8. Trudy gets up every morning about 4:30 am and takes herself for a run. She normally does about 5-7 km every day!
9. Also Trudy likes art. She’s quite a creative person as well. She likes to draw and paint and takes sip&paint art classes when she can. So that's one way to meet new people and just socialise.
10. Trudy loves beaches and would love to travel more. Greece and Europe are on her bucket list.

 

You can find Trudy here:

@thenaturalwaffleicecreampalour

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#82 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 – Anne-Lill | How to Live Life Fully after Retirement.

Living Life Fully. This episode is telling a story of how retirement can be a well-rounded and exciting adventure that is fun and keeps you busy at the same time.

10 Facts About Anne-Lill

(at the time of the project)

1. 60 years old.
2. Anne-Lill is from Norway where she lived right next to famous fjords.
3. She met her husband in 2006. But she didn't move to Sydney until 2018.
4. Anne-Lill is a relatively fresh Aussie. She’s got her citizenship last October
5. She lives with her husband and his daughter Bianca in Alexandria. She also has a son who lives in Norway.
6. Anne-Lill has a cat. She's almost 16 years old now. Beautiful ginger Siberian that came over from Norway with Anne-Lill. And a fun fact is that cat’s ticket was more than Anne-Lill’s.
7. Both Anne-Lill’s husband and her, have been in IT for many years. They're not anymore. They are both retired. They sold their companies.
8. Now they are keen renovators. When they stopped working, they bought an apartment and spent a year fixing that one up, then they bought another one and spent the last eight months fixing that one up.
9. Also Anne-Lill and her husband have a sailboat, a catamaran which they sail on occasionally and call it a floating holiday house.
10. They do some charity work. So Anne-Lill’s husband works for a charity that does mental health for men, and Anne-Lill helps charities for free with everything from project management to technological stuff.

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#81 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Ellie

In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Ellie, 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 Ellie

(at the time of the project)

1. 46 years old.
2. Ellie is originally from Caracas, Venezuela.
3. She migrated to Australia in 2001.
4. Ellie has an older brother, but he and Ellie’s parents live in the US. So, she is basically in Australia by herself with her three children.
5. Ellie is a dentist. She started dentistry in Venezuela. And then when she moved to Australia, she had to go back to university and do it all over again in English. She became a registered dentist in Australia in 2004. Ellie is a general family practitioner.
6. Ellie has her own practice which she created nearly nine years ago from scratch, which she is very proud of. The practice is called The Dental Spa. It's located in Bondi Junction. Ellie created her practice with the concept of a one-stop-shop by integrating Facial Aesthetics with Dentistry where women can get their and their kids’ teeth done and then do their facial injectables. And it is female practitioners mainly.
7. Ellie has three beautiful children - a 15 year old son Monty, a 14 year old daughter Mila, and her youngest Tilly is 11
8. Ellie also has a fur baby, a dog named Oscars. it is a Westie.
9. To keep herself in great shape, apart from her good genetics, Ellie looks after herself by exercising and watching what she eats.
10. Ellie spent the last 46 years of her life building on her career. And then also being a mum she dedicated her life to the kids. But as she gets older Ellie wants to focus on herself. So aging, means she becomes wiser with her choices and decisions in general.

 

You can find Ellie here:

https://www.thedentalspa.com.au/

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#80 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Ina and Roki’s Road | A story about courage, dedication, faith and LOVE.

This episode is telling a very special story of how Ina and her family were fighting (and still are) for the life of their son Roki, who was born with a severe brain injury. This very emotional story teaches us about courage, dedication, faith and LOVE.

 

10 Facts About Ina

(at the time of the project)

1. 48 years old.
2. Ina was born and raised on a farm in rural South Africa.
3. Ina is the youngest of seven children.
4. Ina ran away from the wedding a few weeks before the wedding in South Africa and went to the UK and India in 2000.
5. She spent nine years traveling, teaching, running marathons, and having party time.
6. In 2009 Ina met an Aussie boy who dragged her to Australia.
7. Now Ina is married to a New Zealander called Dave and they have three beautiful children. Ruby 11y.o, Roki 10 y.o, and Rosie 7 y.o
8. Ina and her family live in Newport and they grow most of their food themselves. They are literally farmers in the middle of Newport Beach.
9. She was trained as a primary school teacher, but Ina quit her job when she had her little boy Roki born with a severe brain injury. So now she’s his carer at home.
10. There are a lot of things that Ina has learned in Roki's 10-year journey that she wants to speak up about. And Ina thinks it's time now.

 

You can learn more about Roki’s story here - http://rokiroad.com/

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#79 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Samantha

In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Samantha, 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 Samantha

(at the time of the project)

1. 50 years old.
2. Sam’s family background is Mauritian.
3. She was born in Australia and grew up in the Outer West suburb of Sydney - Mount Druitt.
4. Sam moved to the Northern Beaches when she got married.
5. She takes advantage of living in such a beautiful area and loves going for walks, swimming gardening and just hanging out with her family.
6. Samantha is married and has two children 12 and 15 years old.
7. Sam loves food more than GYM. Her favourite is seafood, Vietnamese, Malaysian and lots of Oriental food.
8. In the past, Sam worked with the government in investigative type roles.
9. Sam is now studying to be a wedding celebrant. It’s been her long-time dream.
10. If she could go back in time to her any age, Sam would go back to her 25, when she looked her best, but was always stressing about her weight and the way she looked. She would say to that person - Just be happy. Just go. You’re perfect.

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#78 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Sarah

In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Sarah, 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 Sarah

(at the time of the project)

 

1. 46 years old.
2. Sarah was born in Australia, on Phillip Island where the penguins are. She leaves on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia now.
3. Single, no children.
4. Sarah loves hiking and getting in the outdoors.
5. For a while, just pre COVID she was selling hiking tours of Spain.
6. One of Sarah’s biggest achievements to date has been climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. That was amazing and took seven or eight days.
7. As a result of COVID Sarah couldn't sell hiking tours anymore, particularly in Europe. And so she found a job doing compliance on wind farms. So that was really interesting, she learned a lot about renewable energy and the industry.
8. Now she works as a recruiter for an engineering firm and feels like she has finally found her job.
9. Sarah also joined a body positive adventure group called escaping your comfort zone. And she went from doing not much at all to triathlons! and now she has done three!
10. Earlier on in her life, Sarah did a lot of semi-professional singing, with the choir and she was also involved in musical theatre.

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#77 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Anna Frazer | A professional vocalist who specialises in Baroque and Renaissance music.

In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Anna Frazer, 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 Anna Frazer

(at the time of the project)

1. 45 years old.
2. Anna was born in Sydney, Australia and loves living here.
3. She’s been married to Daniel for almost 25 years and they have a son Horatio, who is seven.
4. They also have 13 baby leaf insects as home pets.
5. Anna enjoys diving all around the world and going to remote places.
6. Anna is a professional vocalist, classical performer and she specialises in Baroque and Renaissance music as well as very contemporary opera. Anna has worked with a number of ensembles in Australia and across the world as well.
7. At the beginning of this year, she was invited to return to study at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney to discover and research vocal expressive techniques that were utilised 250-300 years ago. The project is called “Rediscovering the techniques of Bel canto”.
8. Anna is actually doing a Doctorate of Musical Arts and this research project comes prior to that.
9. Anna had quite a few challenging projects, One of the interesting and very challenging projects Anna did was work called Antarctica, by a female composer who's based in Melbourne, Mary Finster. It was the world premiere in Holland last May, and it was great to do it a second time in Sydney at Carriageworks.
10. And one of the very unusual place Anna has sung was while she was diving!

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#76 My Body My Story 45 Over 45 - Sharon

In this episode, you will learn 10 FACTS about Sharon, 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 Sharon

(at the time of the project)

 

1. 54 years old.
2. She was born in Newcastle in 1968. She grew up as an only child with European parents, who moved to Australia in the late 1940s.
3. She moved down to the south coast in 1997 when she met her husband.
4. Sharon has 2 children - a daughter 23, and a son 21.
5. Sharon moved around a little bit with her husband being in military. So, they lived in some different places within Australia and also in the UK for 12 months.
6. They came back to Kiama in 2003 and stayed there for a long time.
7. After her divorce, Sharon moved on and started her own business.
8. Sharon is a hairdresser. Her salon called Filthy Gorgeous Hair. And she has had that now for 11 years in Kiama Downs.
9. Sharon travelled a lot. She lived in the UK when she was 21. She did the typical Australian backpacker thing. Also, after her divorce she travelled to Europe and Asia
10. Her favourite place in the whole wide world is Greece.

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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)

1. 47 years old.
2. TJ was born and raised in Lithgow, New South Wales in the Blue Mountains.
3. She is the third daughter of her parents, and their names all start with T. She goes by TJ which stands for Tamara Joanne.
4. TJ is a C-Suite executive assistant, and she currently works for the CEO of Newcastle airport.
5. TJ is recently separated.
6. 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.
7. TJ’s nana’s name is Glamma, which stands for glamour grandma, and she totally identifies with this.
8. TJ has two cats that are 10 years older brother and sister named Mario and Peach and they are her full-time indoor companions.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Her favourite quote is - "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." ~ Dolly Parton.

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#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)

1. 52 years old.
2. She goes by Joe. But her full name is Joanna.
3. Joe was born in Goulburn country town near Canberra
4. 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.
5. Although Joe travelled the World, she has remained an hour from where she was born her whole life.
6. Joe has been married for 29 years, to Tim, who is absolutely the love of her life.
7. 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.
8. They have one amazing dog Piper, who's an 11-year-old Labradoodle - a cross between a Labrador and a poodle.
9. 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.
10. 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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