Jules discovered strength training and the benefits to mind and body through training with me at Bodyschool and she is an inspiration to others in my classes. She's buff, positive and super fit. Jules shared her struggles with post-natal anxiety , giving up running and her efforts in coming to terms with ageing. We also talk about the body ideals of the 1980's and we discuss Jules's decision to buy herself some boobs after years of feeling unhappy with her flat chest. This is a warm, generous conversation.

Ginger 22 is my daughter.

She courageously shared her Bodystory with me covering topics like being the tallest girl at highschool, life and sex as a lesbian and how she has coped with an ADHD diagnosis.

She shared how sport ( she is an awesome soccer player) and her sporting community have been hugely important in her life.

She is funny, honest and candid.

My favourite part of the podcast is her description of anxiety and the resources she uses to cope with anxiety in her life. I really hope young people listen to this podcast.

Gabriela Ureta moved to Australia from Chile in 2012 .

She studied Sociology in Chile and completed a post grad in Sexology at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia.

Gabriela created her business Empowered Intimacy to offer support and guidance for people to explore their sexual and personal authenticity.

Gabriela is also a stripper and mum to Leon.

This is such a wonderful generous conversation.

Gabriela shares the journey of pushing her body from an early age with diets and punishing exercise to try and meet ridiculous beauty standards.

We talk about love, romance and how Gabriela came to own her sexual pleasure.

Gabriela generously shares the moments when she was forced to listen to her body and develop the intimate conversation she enjoys today.

We talk about her work as a stripper, and she shares her advice on intimacy in a long-term relationship and with the self.

Jazzey was always a "girly girl". She loved dolls, playing mum and imagined herself as Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. With long blonde hair , blue eyes and a suntan she considered herself the aussie beach girl and was obsessed with Jennifer Hawkins.

Jazzey embraced the changes of puberty, anything to become more of a womanly woman.

During high school, she moved out of home. and became completely independent. She worked hard outside school to support herself, pushed her young body with intense exercise and explored her huge freedom.

Jazzey spoke about hitting rock bottom at 18 after a brush with law and feeling like she was going nowhere. She made some decisions for herself and kept pushing and working hard for herself.

At 20 Jazzey got into the finals on a cooking reality TV show called My Kitchen Rules, her plan was to win the money and set herself up for life! Jazzey and her partner Stella didn't win the money but had big interesting life experience.

Heading into her mid twenties Jazzey spoke candidly about living in "survival" mode and described how that felt in her body. She generously shared the point in her life when she " relaxed " into herself and at the tender age of 27 as a new approach to how she thinks about her body.

This is a body story of resilience by a young warrior princess.

63 year old jo Handley grew up in the seaside heaven of Avalon on the northern beaches in NSW. She spent her childhood riding her drag star bicycle, playing sport and running through sand dunes. Tall confident and sexy Jo took off for the big smoke of Sydney where she danced all night and was free and wild. Jo describes the grief of missing out on having children , the challenges of menopause and how she returned to movement and exercise just before she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Movement helped her treatment and recovery and now she lives in Perth with her partner and is happy and well and wants to stay that way!

Business owner, mum of two and recent grandmother Laurie Curtain remembers the love of swimming and dancing when she was a young child. Nobody spoke to her about puberty and menstruation and she learnt about sex from her girlfriends. She describes the challenges of pregnancy and parenting for the first time and being thrust into early menopause at 39. She describes rediscovering running after her marriage fell apart and how this became an important tool for her mental health. Laurie looks forward to ageing with strength and vitality but also now understands the importance of rest as well.

44 year old Bo Wong tells her story of being a sporty turBO kid and wild teen. Tall, powerful and Chinese, she didn't feel like she fit the mould. Bo reveals a period of drug use and being involved with environmental activism. Step parenting , career and babies in her thirties, kept Bo pushing hard. A sea change to Denmark in the great southern 10 years ago and discovering a group of ocean swimming women became a saviour. Her latest challenge is being in the midst of chronic fatigue and long covid and the lessons of slowing her life down.