Really Interesting Women

Podcast Episode 97

Professor Sharon Lewin AO FRACP FAHMS

Sharon Lewin is a remarkable woman. 

For a start, she has been heading up two global pandemics. Simultaneously. 

 In 1989 Dr Lewin (as she then wa…

Podcast Episode 96

Jackie French AM

Jackie’s books have sold millions of copies and been published in 36 languages and have won more than 60 literary awards. She’s written well over 200 books and they …

Podcast Episode 95  Assoc. Prof. Meru Sheel

The seeds of an astonishing career were sown in India where, as a child, Meru Sheel witnessed first-hand the devastation of diseases such as polio and tuber…

Ep. 93    Michelle Deshong

This was a really interesting conversation with an ending that left me with goosebumps.

Michelle Deshong is a Fulbright Scholar, Churchill Fellowship recipient and former NAI…

Ep 92     Imam Sherin Khankan

Imam Sherin Khankan has described herself as being born between two worlds – Muslim and Christian. Her early influences have been profound. She studied sociology of relig…

Ep 91   Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO

Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO FASSA FAAL is an inspirational indigenous leader. 

She’s a lawyer, academic, writer, filmmaker, indigenou…

Ep 90    Dr Kirstin Ferguson

Kirstin Ferguson is an award-winning and globally recognised leader, executive coach, company director, writer and speaker. She is one of Australia’s most prominent leader…

Ep. 89    Maj. General Elizabeth Cosson AM, CSC

Liz Cosson was the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Major General in the Australian Army. 

She enlisted in the Army in 1979. She was selected wi…

Ep 88   The Rt Hon. Dame Cindy Kiro, Governor-General of New Zealand

Dame Cindy Kiro's story is an extraordinary one. 

Her mother was born in a hut with a mud floor. Her Father was from a poor family w…

Ep. 87 Professor Jenny Martin

Jenny Martin is a dual-trained clinical pharmacologist and practicing general physician, has studied politics and health economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Schola…

Ep. 86    Ilana Atlas AO

Ilana Atlas is an exceptionally successful business woman....who still suffers from imposter syndrome. But she knows how to deal with it and she shares that secret with us. 

In…

Ep. 85  Professor Lyria Bennett Moses

Lyria is my first guest that is the daughter of a previous guest, Annabelle Bennett (ep. 37). And they are both....well, quite brilliant.

Lyria is currently the Di…

Ep. 84      Senator Lidia Thorpe

Lidia Thorpe's sense of injustice is always close to the surface. Her first hand experiences inform her. Growing up, her dinner table conversations and education with …

Ep. 83    Traci Houpapa

Traci Houpapa is a company director and business advisor from New Zealand. But a simple scratching of the surface reveals a unique and inspiring story. 

Her early life influence…

Ep 82   Natalie Walker

Natalie Walker is, amongst many other achievements, the inaugural CEO of two start-up businesses with huge agendas - Supply Nation and Inside Policy. 

She was Australia's represe…

Ep. 81  Professor Michelle Haber AM FAA FAHMS

Michelle Haber has dedicated her entire professional life to improving clinical outcomes for children with cancer. She is one of this country’s leading re…

Ep. 80   Professor Bronwyn Fox

Professor Bronwyn Fox has come a long way since blowing things up in her back yard with her brother. Mind you that curiosity and practical application of their ideas was…

Gemma Sisia has earned a global reputation through building one of the top performing schools in Tanzania, East Africa. And she built it, literally, from scratch. Well, that’s not quite true - a frie…

Episode 78 Dr Anne Summers AO

Dr Anne Summers AO is a pioneering Australian feminist, a best-selling author and journalist with a long career in politics, the media, business and the non-government se…