Who are you‪?‬ Mel Loy

When I started this podcast earlier this year, it was really as a bit of a passion project. I love storytelling and love learning other people’s stories, and I wanted an avenue to share some of the amazing stories I’ve come across through my network of friends and family over the year. Every day we make judgements about people - how they behave and why they behave the way they do. But what I’ve come to learn is that every single person has a story. And those stories are the experie...

Imagine if one morning you woke up believing you were a dragon … and then two days later, you were you. And then perhaps a couple of weeks later, you were back to being a dragon, or perhaps you are now a big strong tradie.This is the reality of life for those who have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which used to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder. So what causes DID, and what is life like for people living with the disorder?In this episode, I interviewed psychologist Johanna Kny...

As a young boy growing up with his multi-cultural family in a small country town in Queensland, Rudi Landmann always felt a bit out of place. A self-described nerdy kid who loved reading, science and technology, but shied away from sport, Rudi found it difficult to relate to other country kids, so jumped at the opportunity to move back to the big city for his university studies in space engineering.When his engineering opportunities didn’t eventuate, he turned to the arts, which would take hi...

In the last two episodes of this podcast, we spoke to Jess and Lachlan, and explored how many of us struggle to form a sense of self in our adolescent and young adult years. We also looked into how their career choices both reflected and shaped their identities.In today’s episode, I sat down with psychologist Nicole Wright to unpack some of the key themes from these two stories.Nicole is the owner of Rise Therapies, a practice with two clinics in Brisbane. An educational and development...

This week’s episode is the second where we look at how our career choices help to reflect and also shape who we are as people.In today’s episode, I talk with Lachlan Palmer, a qualified mechanic and the founder of start-up online mechanic business Kashy’s.Lachy’s passion for pulling apart motor vehicles started as a very young child, but it’s also from that time that he began to suffer with a mental illness, which would later be diagnosed as depression. His struggle with his mental heal...

I was delighted to talk to my guest Jess Ndenda for this episode. Jess is the founder and owner of two businesses - Olive Louise Social, a digital marketing agency, and The Belle Evolution, a platform to bring together women entrepreneurs and provide networking opportunities, support and resources as they navigate growing their businesses.While Jess now revels in her life as a busy businesswoman, it hasn’t always been this way. Growing up her sense of self-worth was challenged by an uns...