Brave New Women with Cecilia Poullain

Dr. Sonia Marshall's story is incredibly moving.  She shares the reality of having a child with cystic fibrosis, the heart-rending decision about having another child, her marriage break-up, bringing up her two girls as a single mother while working full time and part time and her long, hard fight to have a new drug for cystic fibrosis paid for by the State.  Her determination and resilience are a model for us all.

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I would love to know what you thought of the episode or respond to any questions you might have.  You can find me on www.ceciliapoullain.com, on Linkedin or on the Brave New Women Facebook page.

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - empowering women to find their voice

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Editing:  Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain

Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox is an academic and a visual artist with long-term interests in cosmology, landscape and existential risk posed by militarised technologies.  She is currently a PhD student at Curtin University, Western Australia, having completed her Master of Philosophy at the University of Queensland in 2017 with her thesis, "Drones and Night Vision: Militarised Technology in Paintings by George Gittoes and Jon Cattapan".

Kathryn is an extraordinary example of someone who combines influences from both her parents.  Her mother, Elsie Brimblecombe, is an academic, writer and painter (and has also been interviewed for Brave New Women) and her father was a reclusive grain grower in western Queensland. While a farmer, Kathryn’s father was also a keen amateur radio operator, a HAM. In the early 1960s he built their first television set on the dining room table and, in a small way, participated in the space race as one of the HAMs around the world who helped track Sputnik 1 for the Jet Propulsion Unit in the US.  

Our discussion ranged from the impact of growing up in the vast landscape of western Queensland, on her vision of the world, the influences of her parents and her grandmother, creativity, the role of art in triggering questions, and the current state of the debate on existentialism.  

We finish with a far more down-to-earth discussion about the reality of being a single mother bringing up three girls and just how tough it was.  

You can see this interview and Kathryn's work at:  https://youtu.be/BYosjkDthro 

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions.  You can find me on the Brave New Women Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website:  www.ceciliapoullain.com

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Editing: Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Brave New Women avec Cecilia Poullain

Agnès Giraud-Passot, biographe, raconte des histoires de vie. Elle écrit des livres qui serviront de repères pour les générations futures. Elle nous parle des atouts de l’écriture.  Elle explique le chemin qu’elle a parcouru pour parvenir au métier de biographe, une activité humaine passionnante qui mérite de sortir de l’ombre. Elle évoque la diversité des livres qu’elle a réalisés, de la biographie personnelle tirée à trois exemplaires, au roman familial ou professionnel imprimé en plusieurs centaines d’exemplaires. Elle expose les différentes étapes du déroulement d’une biographie.

Les objectifs de la biographie sont multiples mais ils s’articulent toujours autour de la transmission et du regard sur l’évolution de la société.

La biographie est un objet de patrimoine qui réveille la mémoire et suscite de grandes émotions. Son écriture a un pouvoir révélateur et libérateur et sa lecture procure un vrai bonheur.

Le site web de Agnès est : http://agp-biographe.com/

J'anime un master class pour les femmes (en anglais) à partir de vendredi 5 février à 8h30 et 14h30 : "Empowering Women to Find their Voice".

Je serai ravie de savoir ce que vous pensez de cet épisode et de répondre à vos questions éventuelles.  Vous pouvez me trouver sur Linkedin, la page Brave New Women de Facebook ou sur mon site web, www.ceciliapoullain.com.  N'hésitez pas à partager avec un(e) ami(e) !

Cecilia Poullain
Fondatrice de Brave New Women
Coach - pour que les femmes trouvent leurs voix

Musique:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Montage : Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain

Blanca talks about her role as a carbon scientist in measuring carbon cycles and their role in ecosystems. 

Blanca was selected in the 4th cohort of the Homeward Bound program along with 99 other STEMM women.  The program's slogan is "Mother Nature Needs her Daughters".  It is a 10 year program with the aim of preparing  1000 women to take on leadership roles in protecting the planet.  As part of the program, the women spent a month in Antartica.

She discusses the voyage to Antarctica and the outputs of the program, including a proposal to protect Antarctica and a book for children:  "The Secret Life of Viruses".  She also shares how the program made her force herself to overcome her shyness in order to speak up about the things that are important to her.   

She talks about the difficulties of her life as a woman in science, a male-dominated environment, and the brutality of academia as a profession for both women and men. 

"The Secret Life of Viruses" is available at:  https://www.ellaslideran.cc/la-vida-secreta-de-los-virus?lang=en   

More information about the Homeward Bound program is available at:  https://homewardboundprojects.com.au 

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions.  You can find me on the Brave New Women Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website:  www.ceciliapoullain.com

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Editing: Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Brave New Women hosted Camilla Borrevik

Camilla Borrevik, a Norwegian anthropologist working with the small Pacific Island states on climate change, talks about different styles of communication in climate change negotiations. 
She discusses the Pacific Island style of communication and ways of sharing knowledge, which involves respect, sharing and stories, and how the Fijian presidency of COP 23 allowed people to connect on a completely different level.  As one journalist put it:  "Finally, negotiators are talking like people".

She compares this to the typical, bureaucratic style of communication and interaction that is usually found in climate change conferences, to the difficulties she has had as a young woman  in expressing herself at international events and also to her experience of academia, where criticism and questioning of research can bring people down rather than building them up.   

If you would like to know more, Camilla's PhD has been published under the title:   " 'We started climate change': A Multi-level ethnography of Pacific Climate Leadership". 

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions.  You can find me on the Brave New Women Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website:  www.ceciliapoullain.com

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Editing: Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain

Kate Dennis, TV and film director was nominated in 2017 for an Emmy® for Outstanding Director for a Drama Series for her episode of the Handmaid’s Tale, ‘The Bridge’ .  She talks about why filming The Bridge was so hard to pull off and why it was so special.  She talks about how she became a director.  She talks about the nitty-gritty of being a director and her current film projects which are adaptations of "Almost French" by Sarah Turnbull and "All That I Am" by Anna Funder.  We talk about her interest in telling stories about human tolerance and the human condition through a more intimate lens.  We deep-dive into what it means to listen and how time stops us from understanding others as much as we would like. 

She talks about being a woman in the film industry when she first started and it was very male-dominated and now, when being a woman is an advantage.

Kate Dennis has set up seven television dramas in the US, UK and Australia including Offspring which ran for seven seasons, garnering over 40 awards and nominations.

Her episodic work in the US traverses comedy and drama and includes: The Handmaid’s Tale; GLOW; The Tick; Heathers; Strange Angel; Krypton; Damnation; I’m Dying Up Here; The Mindy Project; Preacher; Turn: Washington’s Spies; Fear The Walking Dead; Sleepy Hollow and Suits.

She began her career as a camera assistant and later script supervisor on Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Babe; At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Cliffhanger.

Her Australian directing work includes Rake; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; The Time of Our Lives; Rush; The Secret Life of Us; and Love My Way. 

From 1997 to 2002, Kate was based in London and developed two features, co-wrote Superstition  starring Charlotte Rampling, and directed 2nd unit on Gregor Jordan’s Buffalo Soldiers (starring Joaquin Phoenix). 

Kate has been nominated for an ADG Award three times for her work on Love My Way (2007), Rake (2012) and Secrets & Lies (2015). 

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions.  You can find me on the Brave New Women Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website:  www.ceciliapoullain.com

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Editing: Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain

Ella Etienne-Denoy, the CEO of Green Soluce, shows us the power of bringing together the public and private sectors in the fight against climate change. 

Ella's father is a French diplomat and her mother is Australian. She talks about her childhood, with postings to Belgium, Australia and Germany, and how she needed to adapt to different languages and different school systems.  After finishing school, she did a double degree at both a French management school, ESSEC, and in Germany, and was already interested in strategy, innovation management and sustainability.

When she finished her studies, she thought she was going to work for a large corporation in Germany, but decided to join an entrepreneurial venture: Green Soluce, a start-up in France.  She talks about how she developed a vision for Green Soluce and just kept on raising it until it was accepted by the investors and she was made CEO of the company.

She talks about the highs and lows of being the CEO of a growing company - the long hours and the worry about cash and paying the salaries of 20+ people, but also the freedom and the excitement of seeing her projects come to fruition.

She gives us an outline of Green Soluce's work in bringing sustainability into real estate and urban projects and talks through some of their most important projects.

Green Soluce can be found at:  https://www.greensoluce.com/  

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions.  You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website:  www.ceciliapoullain.com.  If you like this episode, please share it with a friend!

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 
Editing: Talal Bouroki
Photo:  Studio Falour

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice

Elsie Brimblecombe, as the wife of a reclusive grain farmer in mid-Western Queensland, made a life for herself in academia and as a poet and artist. She is a wonderful example of just how rich life becomes when we lead a life of giving.

I am running a free webinar - "Women Empower Women" - on Tuesday 27 April.  Check it out here:  https://mailchi.mp/ac893611d578/gu7xgku6p7

I'd love to know what you thought of this episode and respond to any questions.  

You can find me on the Brave New Women Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website.  

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice
www.ceciliapoullain.com

Music:  Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.au 

Editing : Talal Bouroki

Cecilia Poullain
Founder of Brave New Women
Coach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice