The Good Girl Confessional

Caroline Candusso is the Creative Director of studio Papel (Paper), Along with her son and business Partner, Agustin, who is 10 years old, they create amazing objects of art made out of fine and handmade papers. Caroline recognised a special talent in her son when he was 2 and by 6, he asked to start a business, folding paper into amazing objects. With the profits from her children's book, Spring,...

Guest #12 - Gorgeous Lou Pollard chats about Clown Doctoring, single parenting, taking care of parents in a sandwich generation, and finding humour in life. Lou Pollard describes herself as a professional fool, actor, MC and speaker. As a Clown Doctor, Lou works with very sick children in Sydney Hospitals, something she is passionate about. Lou has performed with at corporate and community events...

Guest #11 Becky Paroz doesn't always fit in, and she's not sorry! As a disruptor and an engineer, she has built a 30 year career in the male dominated construction industry, taking names and making one for herself. Becky is an industry leader, an author, a coach, a mentor and a keynote speaker. Becky was recently a cover girl for Y-Mag and is the co-founder of PineappleLit, a bespoke publishing co...

Erin Guest is a survivor, and one of millions of victims impacted by the contraversial medical device Essure. Erin is a courageous Melbourne woman and we're honoured she's trusting us with her story. This is a story about a big Pharmaceutical, of FDA (USA) and TGA (Australia) approvals, and about a medical device which is currently at the heart of a hard hitting documentary screening on Netflix ca...

Kimberly Holiday-Coleman is a sister queen who hails from Houston, Texas but is living her amazing life in Lexington, Kentucky with her loving family. She was a model, a wife and a mum and in 2015 she was diagnosed with Stage 2 Rectal Cancer. She underwent treatment for a year, but in the course of the treatment she almost lost her life due to a bowel perforation. She had life saving surgery which...

Want to be a blogger? Karen Andrews is an expert and talks about life and all things blogging! Karen has been blogging since 2006 at KarenAndrews.com.au (originally Miscellaneous Mum) and is one of the most established parenting/personal bloggers in Australia. She is a two time finalist in the Best Australian Blog Awards. She has run successful blogging courses for many years. (Fun Fact - The Good...

Amalia is a Capability Expert, helping organisations, teams and individuals identify and build capability. She has been a leader in the HR and Organisational Development space for over 20 years, working with complex corporate organisations. She has internationally recognised qualifications in Positive Psychology and Positive Coaching. Her programs are delivered in a straight forward and honest man...

Let's talk about sex! Today in the confessional, Sandy chats with Isiah McKimmie, one of Australia's most qualified relationship and sex experts. Isiah is a couples therapist, sex therapist, sexologist and tantra expert. Isiah writes a weekly column for new.com.au and is a regular contributor to Huffpost and numerous print and digital publications. She is also the host of the podcast Wholehearted,...

Host Sandy Lowres chats about where The Good Girl Confessional began, how it was named and all the exciting things coming up! She answers lots of questions about how this became much more than a blog and about the upcoming relaunch of the digital online format that is coming! She also answers the questions of the gorgeous women following The Good Girl Confessional on Social Media, with gratitude a...

The lovely Carly Findlay discusses her memoir, Say Hello, and chats about sewing, colour, music and gives us a confession or two! Carly is an award winning writer, speaker and appearance activist. Her first book, Say Hello, was released in Australia in 2019. Carly is also a contributor to the book #MeToo Australia and the editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Carly writes on disability and a...

Kathy Blanter from the blog, Deep Kick Girl is a Sydney based creative who describes herself as a twice divorced working mother and a half-assed blogger. She has a love of music, NYC, cocktails and donuts. We chat about inter-country adoption, marriage, divorce, adulting, sex, our love of Frank Turner, on-line dating and why women are sexier as they get older! You can follow Deep Kick Girl: https:...

CEO of Jobs Australia, Debra Cerasa, is also a blogger, celebrant and mentor. She chats about challenges women face in their careers as they get older, as well as life and dating for women after 45. Debra is a mentor who seeks to help other women achieve, having overcome agism, sexism, bigotry and disrespect to make it to the top of her game in the fields Health Care, Midwifery, Education and Lead...

Overcoming adversity and poverty after her long term marriage ended in divorce, Sandra Reynold's resilience and her desire to feed her children nutritional meals on an impossibly tight budget saw her creating, cooking and publishing almost 1300 recipes. Sandra is an award winner blogger, and the author of the highly successful cookbook The $120 Food Challenge. We chat about life, love, adversity a...