Stories of Community Resilience 3ZZZ

This audio-story featuring Esther Simbi was produced by Carey Scheer, for the Purple Orange Podcast and is re-shared with permission. Purple Orange is an organisation whose mission is to create a fair world for people with disability.

Esther Simbi speaks to Carey Scheer. Esther contracted polio as a young child, and then went on to live 19 years in a Ugandan refugee camp before being resettled in Australia. She thought coming to Australia meant she was finally free, but then she discovered that her culture's negative you of disability followed her across the ocean. She had to stand up to stigma and shame to find her true freedom. Now she helps other migrants with disability do the same.

A content warning that this episode discusses discrimination and bullying of a person with a disability. 

Transcript available here.

Find The Purple Orange Podcast on Spotify, Apple podcasts or on their website. www.purpleorange.org.au

To learn more about Esther's organisation, head to https://www.ziondisabilityservices.org.au

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Multi hyphenate creative talent, Shy Ganglani speaks with Ruhee Meghani.

Shy is a professional copy-writer, a comedian and poet - just a few of her talents!

Together they discuss, trying to 'blend in' to culture, and then finding connection and friendships through authentic interests and community spaces.

Shy and Ruhee also critique the concept of "resilience" and how it is often applied to migrants and cultural groups as an expectation.

About Ruhee: Ruhee Meghani is an inclusive facilitator and public speaker with over 12 years of teaching and facilitating experience. To support others in their learning journey, Allied Collective was founded to solve the need for impactful, inclusive, and accessible training. Today, Ruhee combines these insights with years of experience in teaching to provide clients with engaging workshops, training, and facilitation.

Episode Transcript Available Here:

You can follow all of Ruhee's latest work here: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allied-collective/

About Shy:

Follow Shy on Instagram @shyreesays and her website https://www.shyaireganglani.com/

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mental health & wellness is often associated with having strong relationships. On this heart warming episode, Renu Tiwary from 3ZZZ interviews Marina Maese Provencio, Laura Valles-Salas and Martha Cota about their friendship spanning decades. Here is a story of three 'amigos' who have been friends since kindergarten and still going strong. They are aiming to enjoy the later years of their life travelling and being together. What is it that makes this friendship keep going like new? Marina, Laura and Martha reminisce about the good times and wish more of the same.

Transcript available here. 

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Award winning authors Daisy and Kabinga, discuss the book "C.O.N.F.R.O.N.T" Recently authored by Kabinga, the book is intended as a guide to help those to reclaim their life after experiencing trauma. Daisy and Kabinga share their experiences from the perspective of navigating this challenge as migrants, and share empowering methods to work through trauma. 

Content Warning: Discussion of family abuse, emotional abuse, assault. Help is available at 1800 RESPECT and for crisis support, Lifeline phone 13 11 14. 

Transcript available here. 

Follow Daisy Wu LinkedIn 

Follow Kabinga LinkedIn

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is presented in the Spanish language, by 3ZZZ Broadcasters Nancy, and Hernan. 

Nancy and Hernan discuss the importance of maintaining language through generations. A transcript in Spanish is available here, with English translation. 

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imi speaks with Rebecca about the intersections of culture, and perceptions of disability.

Imi shares the message of moving away from a "cure based" approach to disability and speaks about their experiences of navigating work and study.

Imi has proudly graduated with two university degrees, and has extensive experience in media, the arts and a keen interest in marketing. 

Listen with transcript available here. 

Follow Imi on LinkedIn.

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.