The Good Girl Confessional

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Jane Vandermeer, a delightful entrepreneur who has built a number of award winning businesses including Finesse Business & Style, and Intuitive Whispers. Jane has been working in the fashion industry for 30 years, wearing many hats including designer, tailor, pattern maker, buyer, Wholesale & Retail sales, Lecturer, Business Owner and creator. Ja...

Trigger Warning: This podcast contains information about Birth Trauma and may be distressing for some. Please use discretion. If you haven't heard Part 1 of this podcast, we encourage you to go back and listen. - - Sandy chats with Stephanie Thompson, author of The Day My Vagina Broke and the founder of Bravemumma. In 2015, Stephanie suffered a traumatic childbirth injury her life and her body for...

Trigger Warning: This podcast contains information about Birth Trauma and may be distressing for some. Please use discretion. - - Welcome to the first podcast episode of 2022. Sandy chats with Stephanie Thompson, author of The Day My Vagina Broke and the founder of Bravemumma. In 2015, Stephanie suffered a traumatic childbirth injury her life and her body forever. Stephanie talks openly and honest...

Today in The Confessional Sandy chats with Gillian Holden, Director and Founder of Clover Lane consulting. Gill is an industry professional, with a clear and exciting vision for disrupting traditional recruitment methods and paving the way for modern recruitment practices. Gill is a visionary when it comes to people, purpose, passion and how we should be engaging the employee within our organisati...

Host Sandy Lowres chats with very special guest Sally Hepworth in the Confessional about Sally's amazing career as a full time author and her incredible new book The Younger Wife. In this warm chat, they also discuss Sally having an epic billboard in Times Square and her exciting collaboration with Amy Poehler! She also shares some insights about her next novel. Australian author Sally Hepworth is...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with a genuinely lovely (and funny) human who is determined to help parents stop agonising over birthday celebrations. Scottish born, Queensland-based Entrepreneur Lou Duggan is the founder of Cake 2 The Rescue, an award-winning DIY cake kit company which has helped more than 40,000 Australian families pour their love into a homemade cake. With a background i...

Sandy was so excited to chat with award-winning CEO and Founder of Mentor Me Women, Colleen Callander, in the Confessional. Colleen, with 30 years of retail experience, was at the helm of Sportsgirl and the Sussan Group. She has wealth of knowledge and a proven track record in building brands, establishing winning cultures and creating environments that allow people to shine. Colleen wants to insp...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Jo Stanley about her incredible new project, Broad Radio. Jo is synonymous with radio and TV. She is also a columnist and a Key note Speaker. As a radio presenter, Jo built an amazing career spanning 20 years. Having appeared on all TV networks in Australia, Jo is currently co-host of The House Of Wellness on Channel 7, where she loves sharing her passio...

Jo Pybus is a late onset feminist who shares observations from her life in the middle-ages through another late onset pursuit; writing. Having been a late onset athlete, her love of an endurance event led her to write a novel and become an advocate for menopause awareness. Jo shared her views of menopause on SBS Insight. She s a regular columnist for Her Canberra and has written for Wb40 Magazine...

Like the Spice Girls, do you want to spice up your life?! Well, who wouldn't? If you're curious, this is definitely the podcast episode for you! Today in The Confessional, Sandy chats with Susan Jarvis, the visionary behind The Spicy Boudoir and the host of The Maven's Private Diaries Podcast! Susan is an incredible woman who discovered her extraordinary self by tapping into her sexual energy, bey...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Rachel Walker Mason, an extraordinary woman who has achieved so much in her stellar career, and isn't finished yet! Rachel is a multi-award winning musician and songwriter, winning Album of the Year for 2020. She is also the author of the Amazon best seller - Not The Only One, on her experiences of postnatal depression. Rachel is an ambassador for matern...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Michelle Bowditch. While many of us are struggling to keep up with technology, Michelle embraces it! Michelle is the founder of Door20a, a tech consulting agency supporting Women in Business and Executive Assistants to accelerate their careers to the next level. Through strategic coaching, she helps professionals amplify their workplace presence, master...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Jenn Donovan a marketing thought leader, change maker, Social entrepreneur and coach and mentor for small businesses. She is also a keynote speaker and podcaster (Small Business Made Simple). Founder of Social Media and Marketing Australia, founder of the extremely successful community Facebook group - Buy From a Bush Business (currently 333,000 members)...

Our special guest, Donna Cameron, joins us to chat about how injecting colour into your wardrobe is a great step towards creating a sustainable wardrobe. Donna is a Personal Style Specialist, climate champion and author of her new book COLOUR: the Secret to Creating a Sustainable Wardrobe. For over a decade, Donna Cameron has advised people on presentation and style, for both their personal and pr...

Our special guest is Shirley Billson Shirley, based in the UK, is the Menopause Anxiety Coach, helping women to change to rules of menopause, to overcome crippling anxiety and take back control of life with renewed purpose, passion and creative spark. Shirley is warm and engaging and she is building a space for women struggling with Menopause in her Menopause Anxiety Freedom Community. Shirley is...

Our special guest is Justine Martin, who speaks with Sandy about her successful corporate life being turned upside down in 2011 when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Since then, she has battled three cancers and overcome a long list of serious medical conditions. Rather than allowing her hardship to overcome her, she has used it as a platform to inspire and make a difference in the...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with very special guest, Libby Moore about her extraordinary career and her very personal life journey of discovering who she is. Libby worked as Oprah Winfrey's Chief of Staff for 11 years through to the end of the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also worked as a consulting producer with the original team that created the Emmy award winning Super Soul Sunday on the...

Our special guest this week is Kwavi, a powerful woman on a mission to change the world one woman at a time. Based in Atlanta USA, Kwavi is the author of 50 Questions to Answer When You Reach Fifty - A guide to help women thrive and shine in their fifties and beyond. Like the work of Wb40 Magazine, Kwavi is aware we are living in a youth obsessed society that is constantly telling women over the a...

Our special guest is Adalita Srsen. Adalita is an icon in the Australian music industry, having carved out a successful solo career as well as being the lead singer of Aussie rock band, Magic Dirt. We chat in the confessional about Adalita's extraordinary career, being a woman in rock and how the music industry has changed over the years. We also talk about conservation and why it's so important f...

TW: This podcast includes discussions of domestic violence, abuse, murder, grief and loss. Please listen at your own discretion. - Amani Haydar is an incredible human - a former lawyer turned renowned artist, advocate and author of her powerful memoir, The Mother Wound. While losing a parent is always difficult, Amani had her mother, Salwa, taken from her brutally, murdered by her father. At the t...

TW: This podcast mentions Suicide, grief and loss. Please listen at your own discretion. If this podcast raises issues for you, please contact Life Line on 13 11 14. Today in The Confessional, Sandy chats with Sandy Davies, entrepreneur and founder of Happy Pause Menopause Balm. Necessity is often the mother of invention and when Sandy Davies found herself going through peri-menopause, she found h...

Sue Brabender joins Sandy in The Confessional for her very first podcast (ever!) to talk about the misnomer that we can "have it all". Sue was successful and working almost 60 hours a week in the corporate world...which came at a huge cost to her mental and physical health. Suffering with exhaustion, for Sue the burnout was real - her work suffered, her family suffered, and she ultimately suffered...

Tana Douglas is iconic in the music industry, being recognised as the very first female Roadie. As a teenage run away from Brisbane, Tana didn't join the circus - instead she joined the music industry. An adventure that would take her on a 30 + year journey around the world. Over her incredible career, she has worked with some of the biggest artists in the world, including AC/DC, Elton John, Santa...

Sarah Rusbatch is a certified Health and Wellness Coach, accredited 'Grey Area Drinking' coach, host of two thriving communities for women in sobriety and a passionate ambassador for supporting women change their relationship with alcohol - for good! If like a lot of women through the pandemic you have started to question your own relationship with alcohol or are just interested in taking a break...

Sam White joins Sandy as our special guest in The Confessional. Sam started her own business after losing her mother, breaking her leg and breaking up with her boyfriend, all within a very short space of time. She’s now the founder and CEO of five very successful businesses, including launching Stella Insurance in Australia. An insurance company run by women, focusing on women. Sam is an absolute...