BRAVE JOURNEYS with TAMMI FARADAY

In the depths of Sarah Sentilles' heart, was a primal longing to become a mother. This yearning was buried beneath the desires & pressures of others. Sarah’s husband, Eric, believed the world was already brimming with children in need of loving homes.  Everyone else, it seemed, whispered doubts into Sarah's ears. Parenthood, they said, would be the end of her cherished life.   But th...

Dear friends, brace yourselves for an episode unlike any other. In truth, it’s a conversation that’s been incredibly difficult to prepare for, but one that must be shared. Tonight, as your children lie safely in their beds, enveloped in love & protected from harm, it’s crucial to remember that this isn’t the reality for countless children across the globe. Joining me this week is filmmaker Akh...

Filmmaker & Changemaker - Ginger Gentile is on a mission to save children from the trauma of high-conflict divorce. Drawing on her own journey as a child torn between two parents, Ginger’s first documentary, ERASING DAD (Borrando a Papa), was instrumental in getting the Argentinian government to pass mandatory co-parenting laws. Her follow up feature documentary, ERASING FAMILY, exposes the he...

When Colin Campbell’s two teenage children - Ruby & Hart - were tragically killed by a drunk driver, he and his wife Gail, were plunged headlong into a grief so devastating they felt they might lose their minds.  One second, they’re going on a family drive to their new holiday home.  The next, their entire world had been extinguished. In his remarkable & courageous book Finding the Words:...

Imagine the unimaginable: a young girl, only six years old, enduring years of sexual molestation at the hands of her own brother. It's a chilling reality that many find difficult to comprehend. Yet, this form of abuse, known as child-on-child or sibling sexual abuse, accounts for an appalling 40% of all sexual abuse cases against children. Yes, you heard that right. FORTY PER CENT. Complicati...

My next guest, formerly Kellie King, was a formidable woman who seemed to have it all. A trailblazing sales executive, devoted mother of three, & a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.   But at the age of 42, Kellie's world was turned upside down. Urged by her devout Catholic partner & seconded by a health professional, Kellie begins to question her own gender identity.  Kellie comes...

As a clinical psychologist & trauma therapist, my next guest, Dr Ingrid Clayton always strived to help others overcome their pain. But, little did Ingrid know that she, too, carried hidden wounds that she’d yet to fully comprehend. A fractured self-esteem, substance abuse disorder, perfectionism, & a series of dysfunctional relationships might have indicated that something was amiss, but h...

Sometimes, you’re lucky enough to meet someone who’ll change your life in inconceivable ways.  My next guest (and now forever friend – whether he likes it or not) is one such human. Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM is a Doctor, Lawyer, Disability Advocate & Researcher.  And that’s just the start.  He’s also a philosopher & his astonishing memoir: Stronger: How Losing Everything Set Me Free is an opu...

For Hollywood royalty, New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright - Delia Ephron - life has always offered a rich supply of copy . Bad hair, heartache, chocolate pudding – almost anything could be mined for a book, a screenplay, or a newspaper column. Then when Delia was 72, a time you might reasonably expect the flow of good material to quieten, life delivers her biggest stor...

This is a very unique episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS. We’ve all heard stories of people who lived broken, crime filled lives, who have an epiphany & completely turn their lives around, harnessing the wisdoms & insights they learnt along the way, to educate & rehabilitate others.   But what if the person in question is a one-time Nazi whose raison d’etre for more than three decades was to se...

Have we got an extraordinary guest for you today and to be honest, unless this intro runs for the next hour all by itself, I am going to have to truncate the bio of this remarkable human being. I hope she will forgive me… Professor Jessica Stern is one of the U.S’s foremost  experts on terrorism.  She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff, as well as being an analyst at Law...

After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage – successful writer & blogger Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband, Hal. Two weeks after telling Hal she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. With inordinate courage & candour, Rebecca chronicles the months before Hal’s death — & her...

My next guest Adam Frankel grew up idolising his wonderful father and his father’s father, following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter.  After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, Adam joined Barack Obama’s fledgling presidential campaign in 2007, helping craft those unforgettable “Yes...

When Hillary Whittington discovers she’s expecting a baby girl, she and her husband, Jeff, are deliriously overjoyed.  Pink & white nursery – check; endless supplies of dresses and bows – check. Then, only months after Ryland is born, Hillary and Jeff realise something isn’t quite right.  When they call out, Ryland doesn’t respond.  After consulting with specialists, it’s confirmed that their...

My beautiful guest today is Annie Whitlocke.  Annie is a death doula.  A What you ask?  40 + years on the planet and this entire profession was completely unknown to me… that is until now.  Like many of you I suspect, the only context in which I’d heard of any kind of Doula was a person who provides emotional, physical and instructive support to mothers before, during and after labour.  Not someon...

In 2016, highly respected & award-winning US journalist and former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson, moved from covering the headlines to becoming one herself.  The violin prodigy, former Miss America, Stanford Graduate and acclaimed journalist successfully sued the late CEO & Fox News founder, Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, claiming that she’d been fired for turning down his sexual a...

There are many episodes on BRAVE JOURNEYS where I have cried, but not today.  Today is about celebrating life, love & finding unbridled gratitude & joy in the ordinary. If I told you that my next guest is terminally ill with Stage 4 cancer & has also been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, it would be reasonable to assume this is a deeply sad episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS .  But its any...

What would you do if your worst private heartache was on the front page of every newspaper around the world?  Kate Nason knows… Seven years into her marriage, Kate discovers her husband was cheating on her with multiple women. Then, the unimaginable happens.  It’s January of 1998 & Kate wakes to the news that one of her husband’s mistresses was having an affair with none other than US Presiden...

My next guest, Kenneth Feinberg, literally stopped me in my tracks.   Ken is a prominent attorney, a world-renowned MEDIATOR and the one time chief of staff of the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy.  But when we all stood still on 9/11 after one of the most horrific terrorist attacks the world has ever seen, Ken stood up and wanted – indeed asked - to be counted. Ken was appointed as the Special Ma...

Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms.  One of them, without any shadow of a doubt, is my next guest, the truly inspirational Rebecca Faye Smith Galli.   Just nine days after her divorce was finalised, Becky, a then 38-year-old mother of four, two of whom with special needs, wakes up at 2am with strange, shooting sensations in her legs.  By 9pm, she’s paralysed from the waist down from a cond...

By her own account, Carolyn Moor had it all. She & her architect husband Chad, had two gorgeous little girls, their own business & a house they designed & built in Orlando. On Valentine’s Day 2000, they talked over a romantic dinner & fantasized about what dreams would come next.   While they were driving home, a car struck theirs. Chad tragically died from his injuries. And Caroly...

TRIGGER WARNING!!! Leslie Morgan Steiner is a New York Times best-selling author, columnist for The Washington Post, consultant and thought leader on women’s leadership, work-life balance, inspirational parenting, overcoming adversity and surviving violence against women.  She is a graduate of Harvard and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Her corporate experience includes The Wash...

My next guest, Dr Lucy Hone is a global authority and celebrated Ted Speaker in the area of resilience. Lucy is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today. Having been trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Lucy wen...

TRIGGER WARNING!!! Proud Gunaikurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie, had spent a lifetime in fear of the police… and with good reason.   Ronnie's grandmother, Linda, was stolen from her family as an eight-year-old in 1941, along with her three siblings.  And Veronica’s beloved father John was forcibly taken at birth from his then 16-year-old mother Linda & placed in an orphanage. After watching h...

TRIGGER WARNING!!! My next guest, Stephanie Giese is a mother of five, a celebrated writer, a prolific blogger - recognised as one of HuffPost’s most viral bloggers of the decade & was named a BlogHer Voice of The Year - a former teacher and a tireless advocate for children and families living with mental illness.  Stephanie and her husband Eddie are foster, adoptive and biological parents.  T...