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Mother to young daughter Willow, Sarah wanted to give her a sibling. Sarah shares her deeply personal story about the joy she and her husband Marvin experienced when they found out she was pregnant, which was followed by confusion and devastation when they found out their unborn daughter had structural problems and was unlikely to survive the pregnancy. Sarah discusses her decision to continue with the pregnancy and then meeting and then losing Emmy.
Universal themes covered include dealing with grief and feelings of isolation after losing a loved one, slowly figuring out how life can and must go on, and how as a society, we struggle to know how to discuss the most difficult topics, such as death and grief.  
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Sarah can be contacted @sarahsaolele on Instagram. 
Support services Sarah found helpful:
Red Nose grief support line Hospital to home | Red Nose Australia 
Red Nose Hospital to Home Program Guiding Light - Red Nose Grief and Loss | Supporting you on your journey after the death of a child
Bears of Hope Bears of Hope
 
Books: 
The Baby Loss Guide: Practical and compassionate support with a day-by-day resource to navigate the path of grief : Clark-Coates, Zoe: Amazon.com.au: Books
Miles Apart: A heartfelt guide to surviving miscarriage, stillbirth and baby loss : Bower, Annabel: Amazon.com.au: Books
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Ian McTavish grew up as a person of colour during South Africa’s Apartheid system, until his family moved to Australia when he was 13 years old. The violence he grew up around in South Africa became a way of dealing with difficulties and Ian ended up serving prison time for a violent crime. Ian outlines how instead of wallowing in his self-inflicted misery, he used prison as a training ground to learn how to better control his mind and his ego, becoming a role model for many and publishing a book about his transformation.
Since leaving prison, Ian has been a personal trainer for the past 18 years. Serving clients has inspired him to study a psychology degree and to commence writing his next book, giving advice about relationships.
 
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Founder of Untitled & Co, Rebecca Beardsley shares her experiences of working for decades in business development in law firms and the skills and strategies she employed in a male dominated environment to progress her career. At aged 38, Rebecca experienced burnout due to a combination of professional and personal factors. The inner work she undertook to recover led her to eventually build the courage to leave her long-term marriage, where she suffered domestic violence – physical, emotional and financial. Rebecca redesigned her life and took the brave steps to leave her corporate career to become a Founder and to relocate across Australia as a single Mum with two small children.

Steve Cox shares stories from his life, starting from growing up in a large family in a small town in regional Western Australia, with a white father and Noongar mother. Steve’s stories cover his search for belonging, impacts of the stolen generation of Aboriginal children, systemic and individual racism, facing personal battles and sliding door moments throughout his life experiences.

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