Word for Word

Lisa Daniel hosts Word for Word on JOY94.9. Lisa’s guest is Mike Toole. After an incredible career spanning decades in infectious disease research and international health at Burnet Institute, Professor Toole retired at the end of September 2021. He remains an Associate Principal Research Fellow at Burnet.   Mike spent more than 40 years in a range of international health areas; communicable...

Lisa Daniel hosts Word for Word on JOY94.9. Lisa’s guest is Julie Peters.  Julie has had an incredible history of activism, both from a personal perspective living her life as an out trans woman, to being active in transgender social justice organization to politics with the Democrats in the 1990s. Julie claims she is still naïve enough to believe the world can be a better place and her activism h...

Lisa Daniel hosts Word for Word on JOY94.9. Lisa’s guest is Peter Quarry . Peter is a multi-award-winning psychologist whose videos and training programs are used by Fortune 500 companies, Universities and organisations in over 20 countries.    He was resident psychologist on Good Morning Australia for 7 years and a sought-after seminar leader and public speaker. His recent book If I Were Yo...

In this Word for Word live episode hosted by Lisa Daniel, Lisa’s guest is affectionately known as Mama Mish.  Michelle Sheppard will be well known to Joy 94.9 listeners. She’s a highly respected presenter, advocate, and trainer in the gender equity space. As a transgender woman, Michelle appreciates the difficulties within the grey created by the gender divide and traverses them herself and...

Lisa Daniel is joined by guest Ernest Price . Ernest is a writer and secondary school teacher who transitioned a few years ago. He is the survivor of a challenging upbringing in Perth and New South Wales, but has used his life experience to inform his education practice. He has been published in the journal Overland, and is working on his first novel which is loosely based on his life.   Word for...

Word for Word hosted by Lisa Daniel is Joy 94.9 regular interview show. Today Lisa’s guest is Bernadette Carroll. From her early days in the Catholic school system, to considering life in the convent, to the loss of both of her parents, to eventually becoming somewhat of a lesbian icon as a member of legendary music trio Bluehouse. Challenges and highlights aside, Bernadette’s story is one o...

Word for Word is JOY 94.9 interview show with host Lisa Dano Daniel. Today’s guest is Jonathan Butler . Jonathan was born in Sydney, spent his formative years in Launceston Tasmania and then moved to Melbourne to attend university when he was 18. After pondering careers in psychology, acting, writing or photography he settled on photography, but over the last few years he has also taken up writing...

Join Lisa Daniel on JOY 94.9 interview podcast- Word for Word – where our guest is Alex Stewart . Alex Stewart has had an incredibly diverse life since growing up on the Bellarine Peninsula in the 1950s. After completing university in Australia he decamped to the US where he eventually settled in San Francisco – where he would stay from the 1970s until the 1990s, during which he came out to...

On Word for Word this week, Lisa Daniel has a conversation with Ffyona Livingstone Clark. Ffyona hails from small town Scotland and made the move to Australia in her early twenties. As a youngster she aspired to be a dancer but those plans had to change after a couple of bad horse riding accidents.  Eventually Ffyona worked in the legal system as a barrister, and has expertise in death investigati...

Lisa’s guest on Word for Word is Sally Cant. Sally is a civil celebrant, published author, public MC, a self described humanist and has a strong interest and concern for human welfare, values and dignity. Her two books are titled- ‘The heart and soul of celebrancy’ and ‘Conversations about death’. Sally is also a founding member of FIMAC – Funeral Industry Minis...

Joining Lisa Daniel today on Word for Word on @JOY94.9 is guest Yvonne  Sillett . Yvonne grew up in Victoria and followed in her parents’ footsteps by enlisting in the Australian Army directly after high school. Her decade long career was cut short in 1989 when she  was discharged from the Army after a witch-hunt that was carried out for  Australian Defence Force  members  who  were  seen as g ay...

Word for Word is hosted by Lisa Daniel and her guest this week is Dan Lake. Dan is an entertainment executive and content producer whose work in development, financing and production extends across feature film, broadcast drama and comedy as well as factual and reality programming. Currently the head of content at Orange Entertainment Co, Dan’s work has encompassed award-winning feature and docume...

Join Lisa Daniel on Word for Word. Lisa’s guest this week is Grace Lee. Grace  was born in the UK and emigrated to Australia  in 1990.  With a career that has spanned academia and the IT industry as a project manager, Grace is now a psychotherapist and counsellor who has extensive experience working with trans, gender diverse and non-binary people. With her second wife Sheila, Grace co-found...

Today’s guest on Word for Word with host Lisa Daniel is  RWR McDonald. Rob is an award-winning author, a Kiwi and queer dad who lives in Melbourne with his two daughters and a cat called Harry. His debut novel,   The  Nancys ,  won Best First Novel in the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards, as well as being a finalist in the Best Novel category.  It was shortlisted for Best First Novel in the 2020 Ned Kelly...

Today’s guest on Word for Word with Lisa Daniel is Peter de Groot. Peter could be described as a survivor. Despite the challenges of growing up in a religious based homophobic environment, being bullied at school and being diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy in 2017, Peter de Groot remains upbeat and positive about his past, his present and his future. Word for Word is hosted by Lisa Daniel on JOY 94.9,...

Today’s guest with Lisa Daniel on Word for Word is Linzi Kurileff.  Linzi  Kurileff  has been somewhat of an unsung hero amongst Melbourne’s queer community for more decades than she would be happy to admit. Some highlights include managing the legendary Glasshouse hotel; being heavily involved in the ALSO Foundation over a number of years;  Co- presenter at JOY ;  Vice president/President BENT TV...

Ruth Katerelos Today’s guest with Lisa Daniel on Word for Word is Ruth Katerelos. Ruth is a registered psychologist with over 20  years experience  working in the area of mental health. Combining private practice with her role at  Queerspace , my guest also manages to find time to be a regular contributor to Melbourne’s arts scene as a performer and producer. On top of that she is also mum to two...

Jude Munro AO Todays guest on Word for Word with host Lisa Daniel is Jude Munro. Jude Munro grew up in Melbourne – the daughter of Salvation Army parents. Her leadership skills were honed early and then developed through her university years and into her career which has spanned unions, Public Service, Public Policy and as CEO of various local governments in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane. In 20...

Lisa Daniel’s guest on Word for Word  goes by the simple, yet perfectly suited name of  Sprinkle. Sprinkle has been active in the fashion, costumery performance, film and curatorial spaces since the mid 1990s. She’s won awards, appeared in kink performances and sex positive films, and her fashion has appeared in countless media from tv to film, to print magazines.    A tall and curvy woman h...

Lisa Daniel presents Word for Word  and her guest is Michael  Cutrupi. Michael  has achieved an awful lot in a short space of time having worked across the arts in a variety of roles from management, production and leadership roles to acting and performance  in film, television and theatre .  As a bigger guy he often challenges the stereotypes around dancing and performing.  As an actor he has wor...

Belinda Zipper Lisa Daniels speaks with Belle Zipper. For many of us being diagnosed with a significant degenerative and incurable   medical condition at age 44 would challenge us in ways we’ve never before been challenged. But  Belle ( Belinda )  Zipper had a different experience to most – it became a huge turning point in her life, which saw her finally live true to herself and let free the feel...

Dennis Altman  has quite the resume !  Professorial Fellow in Human Security at La Trobe University; Doctor of Letters Macquarie University; Ambassador Human Rights Law Centre; Patron Australian Lesbian and gay Archives; Patron Pride Foundation Australia – just for starters.   My guest has also published 14 books; worked as an academic both in Australia and internationally since the 1960s (includi...

Today’s guest is Michelle McNamara. Besides being involved in a wide variety of transgender and inclusion focused groups, Michelle is also  Enterprise Fellow in the School of Biosciences and teaches in a Master of Biotechnology course at the University of Melbourne. Michelle came out as a transgender woman later in life, is happily married with two adult children and is a practicing Buddhist. Mich...

Julie McNamara Julie McNamara was born in Merseyside in the UK – a child born to rebellious Catholic and Protestant parents, which put her in the role of clown and peacemaker. She hated school, but is a testament to the fact that early academic performance bears little consequence on adult life. As a young adult she was attracted to the theatre and performance and had a life changing experience wo...

Madeleine Swain Madeleine Swain was born in the UK and moved here to Australia for love around 28 years ago. She’s had a long career working and volunteering in various areas of the arts including acting and journalism. She was a Board member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in the early days, has been involved in Bent TV and the queer press, and has recently returned to Board life as an inter...