Category: Social

I wish I knew then…

Just over a year ago I was asked to appear at an inspiring event for young women held in Melbourne. The presentation I was to give was an hour in duration and pitched to 100+ seventeen year old girls attending a summit style event for called “Girls And Their Inner Strength“.  The initiative was created by the…

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Girls in Gigs

I grew up in Canberra.  I didn’t not fit in. It wasn’t exactly that. It was more a feeling that nothing around me ever fit me. Sometime around maybe 1992?, I was introduced to the punk and hardcore scene by my sister and some new friends, friends I still have now over 20 years later.  The…

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Dear Jess, my coach is making me crazy.

Dear Jess, I’m keen for a bit of advice. My gym is great. My team are outta this world – but my coach is making me crazy. Recently he made changes to our schedule and removed some classes due to a lack of attendance. I look on facebook, and though the class was removed, he…

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This coach sucks

Clickbait title, check. Information, insight and advice that is beneficial for anyone that has had similar feelings toward their gym or coach, check. Experience in feeling this way at different phases of my sporting career (however challenging it is to publicly admit), check. Advice on how to understand the situation and steps to move forward…

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Australian Girls in Gi is sexist

“If anyone started an Australian Boys in Gi, you girls would lose your shit. It wouldn’t be allowed ” ~ Facebook genius, November 2016. Other popular variations also aimed at myself, Australian Girls and Gi and its members since 2010: Australian Girls in Gi/womens only events and organisations are reverse sexism (reverse of what, isn’t sexism just…

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It begins: a blog

“If you have a candle, the light won’t glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”
― Steven Tyler