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A Lifeline crisis counsellor describes the realities of working on Australia’s national suicide prevention hotline, sharing sobering observations about how common and close suicidal thoughts can be. The episode explores why suicidal ideation is often invisible and crosses all demographics. In this candid conversation our guest, a crisis counsellor with Lifeline, recounts time spent answering crisi...

Kate Littlejohn, a former NAB business banker turned director of a commercial and mortgage finance brokerage and Bravehearts ambassador, shares her personal journey from finance to frontline advocacy for child sexual abuse prevention and support. In this episode Kate explains how a chance encounter with the Bravehearts 777 event transformed her life: she publicly disclosed that she is a survivor o...

Julian, founder and CEO of Loan Options AI, walks through his 14-year journey from self-taught app developer to building a high-volume loan brokerage and launching technology that automates lender decisioning. He shares hard lessons about scaling, leadership, and where AI will take finance and mortgage broking. In this episode Julian explains how early tech experiments and an accidental start in a...