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About The Bub Hub Crew
The Bub Hub Crew is the name we have given to our esteemed team of award-winning* staff writers. We’re a small team. Small, not short. In fact some of us are quite tall. Tall enough to be quite good at netball.
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About Addie Wootten
Dr Addie Wootten is the CEO of Smiling Mind and a Clinical Psychologist by background.
Addie brings her extensive background in clinical psychology, research and e-health to her position of CEO of Smiling Mind.
Addie ...
About Adrienne Buckingham
Adrienne is an optimistic traveller who, while seeking a life less ordinary, settled herself in the suburbs of New Zealand. She is a mother to three girls, a stepmother to one boy and a teacher to about 120 teenagers a ...
About Ailsa Robson
Ailsa Robson is the author of Perfectly Imperfect: Raw reflections on body image, mothering, love and loneliness (that you don’t usually share). She is a water baby, incessant muser and writer, and someone who ...
About Ali Mountifield
Ali Mountifield is a mother of triplets Hannah, Lucy and Oscar and volunteers her spare time to the Australian Multiple Birth Association as the Communications Director.
Ali also blogs about life with triplets via her ...
About Alice Deby
Alice Deby is an educator and a PANDA volunteer.
The PANDA (the Post & Ante Natal Depression Association) helpline is available in Australia from 9am to 7.30pm (AEST) Monday to Saturday. Speaking with PANDA’s ...
About Alice Hall
Alice Hall is UNICEF Australia’s Program Manager for Early Childhood Development.
Alice advises on community-based early childhood programs in places like the Solomon Islands or the highlands of Papua New Guinea, ...
About Alison Osborne
Alison Osborne is the author of The Post-Baby Conversation – What New Parents Need to Say to Each Other — a relationship book for new parents.
Alison is mother to two children and has a First Class Honours ...
About Allie Gaunt, Jessica Beaton & Sarah Buckle
Allie Gaunt, Jessica Beaton and Sarah Buckle are the authors of One Handed Cooks: Boosting Your Basics, which features 100+ simple, healthy, family-friendly recipes.
Formerly a professional nanny and advertising ...
About Amanda Lehman
Amanda Lehman is the director and principal psychologist at Lehman Career Psychology.
About Dr Amanda Mergler
Dr Amanda Mergler is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at QUT, and a registered psychologist. Amanda’s research focuses on delayed school entry, the values of pre-service ...
About Ami Summers
Ami Summers is a leadership consultant and author of the book Heart Space. In 2013, after what had been a healthy and uneventful pregnancy, Ami and her husband Dave lost their daughter Arla at 38 weeks and then went on ...
About Amy McAlister
Amy McAlister is the Chief Operating Officer at Youthrive, a unique service offering psychology, speech pathology and occupational therapy for kids and young people.
Amy has extensive experience as a speech pathologist, ...
About Amy Smith
Amy Smith is CEO of The Good Foundation and Jamie’s Ministry of Food Australia.
About Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins is the Executive Director, Ageing Services for the Benevolent Society, which operates a range of services for older people including; Home Care Packages, Respite Services and other home supports.
Andrew ...
About Angela Jacobsen
Angela Jacobsen (AKA OzSuperNanny) is the author of Baby Love and Baby Food. Angela has worked with children for more than 20 years internationally specialising in VIP families including Madonna and currently Kate ...
About Angharad Candlin
Angharad is a psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience working with parents and families. As the coordinator of Parent Education at CatholicCare, Angharad runs parenting courses across Sydney and has ...
About Annabel Karmel
Mother-of-three, Annabel Karmel MBE is a leading children’s cookery author, best-selling international author, and expert on devising delicious, nutritious meals for babies, children and families.
Annabel has ...
About Annie Wylie
Annie Wylie is the Content Manager at ReachOut Parents. She has 5+ years of experience across the media and not-for-profit sectors, using her passion and expertise for achieving better outcomes for vulnerable ...
About Ava Miles
International bestselling author Ava Miles calls herself a divine rockstar — something she believes everyone is deep down.
About Baby Brain Humour
Andrea describes herself as “just an ordinary mum” who thought she could escape the clutches of baby brain. When she started to experience the phenomenon, she could have fought on through frustration, but ...
About Baroness Mischa
Baroness Mischa is a circus and stage performer, writer, avid gardener and musician. She lives in Melbourne with a partner, their toddler, extended family, and menagerie. She has a great interest in how to assist ...
About Bart Paino
Bart’s life changed drastically when he and his wife found out baby number 3 was actually going to be baby number 3, 4 and 5.
He now spends his days enjoying his five beautiful children while managing a very ...
About Bec Cavalôt
Bec is a freelance writer and editor. She’s also a half-out-of-the-closet hippy, blogging about all things natural health and wellbeing related at Wellbeing bites.
Bec lives in Melbourne with her husband and 2 feisty ...
About Belinda Messer
Belinda Messer, children’s book author on Big Topics for Little Kids.
Her latest book On the Wings of a Butterfly is a special book on grief and loss for little ones aged 4 and up. Available at all good book ...
About Belinda Horton
Belinda Horton was CEO of PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia) from 2004-2014.
About Best Dads in the World Ever
The Dads behind hilarious website Best Dads in the World Ever! bring you the lighter side of being a Dad.
They’re passionate about building a community for Dads to share some laughs, a few tips and trade war ...
About Bobbie Richardson
Bobbie Richardson is a mum and the author and illustrator of two books, the new age children’s fiction Jonar & Kitty and the children’s picture book, Imagine Holding Hands.
About Brad Lauder
Brad co-founded the Bub Hub with his lovely wife Hilary (she made him write that) and is the proud father of three great kids (he wrote that).
His best parenting tip is to take us much advice as you can, use the stuff ...
About Cinemum
Cinemum is a professional critic/reviewer (films, books, theatre, restaurants, games) and a mum-of-three. If she had any spare time, she’d procrastinate.
About Bronwyn Darnoc
Bronwyn Darnoc is the creator of Simply For Flying – the Children’s Flight Logbook. She was born in Sydney and is married with two young children. She currently resides in Singapore.
After putting her ...
About Brooke Graham
Brooke Graham is a children’s author, primary school teacher and mother.
Her debut picture book, Go Away, Worry Monster! published by EK Books was released in 2020.
She is passionate about reducing the stigma ...
About Brooke Hanson
Brooke Hanson is a former Australian Olympic Swimming Champion, who, following her own electric shock, has an ongoing commitment to educating people and businesses about the importance of regular testing and tagging of ...
About Carol Ireland
Carol Ireland joined Epilepsy Action Australia as CEO in March 2006 and became a Director in 2009. She has worked in the not-for-profit human services sector for a period spanning more than 35 years and holding a ...
About Carolyn Batt
Carolyn Batt is a former business journalist with The Age, The Daily Telegraph (UK), and The West Australian. After having children she made five international moves in a decade, and her freelance writing covered a ...
About Casey Ellis
Melbourne-based mother and student, Casey Ellis is the author of Mum, Can I Eat This? a collection of her recipes for anyone who requires low fructose, low FODMAP, sucrose free, gluten free, and low or no lactose foods. ...
About Cassandra Budge
Cassandra Budge is a wife and mum to two gorgeous girls and Java the golden retriever. Cassandra has a background in marketing, public relations and travel and a keen interest in business, 90s pop culture, parenting ...
About Cath Hakanson
Cath Hakanson is a mother, nurse, sex educator and founder of Sex Ed Rescue.
Bringing her 20+ years clinical knowledge, a practical down-to-earth approach, and passion for helping families, Cath inspires parents to ...
About Cherie Pasion
Cherie Pasion lives up to her name and is passionate about the transformative journey women take when becoming mothers.
She is the author of It’s Your Birth… Right? A guide for professional women to calmly ...
About Cheryl Fingleson
Cheryl has completed The Gentle Sleep Coach Program, the first and most extensive professional sleep coaching certification program available.
Cheryl works with families across a range of areas, including settling and ...
About Chezzi Denyer
A producing powerhouse with experience across TV, radio and politics, Chezzi Denyer has just launched two exciting concepts The Chezzi Diaries and Mummy Time TV.
Self-deprecating and comical with moments of real heart- ...
About Colin Anson
Colin Anson is a digital entrepreneur, and the CEO and co-founder of child image protection and photo storage solution, pixevety.
In 2012, Colin saw an opportunity to create a unique business within his area of passion, ...
About Dr Claire Noone
Dr Claire Noone was Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria, the state’s consumer affairs regulator, from 2008 until 2014.
Consumer Affairs Victoria helps create a competitive and fair market place for businesses and ...
About Daniel Steele
Daniel Steele is a primary school educator and leader who has recently begun to navigate and survive the world of dadhood.
He is the founder of the educational blog Upgrade Think Learn and dadhood podcast School of ...
About Danielle Colley
Danielle is a wife, a mother, a photographic enthusiast and a person who finds it easy to laugh at herself – in no particular order.
She has released two ebooks, Toddler Friendly Baking and Toddler Friendly Cooking ...
About Davina Donovan
Davina Donovan is the owner and founder of Speak Teen and the author of What Your Teen is Telling Me and Why They’re Not Telling You: Practical Communication Tools Every Parent Should Know.
Speak Teen offers ...
About Deb De Wilde
Deb De Wilde is a social worker at Sydney’s Mater Hospital who has an expertise and long experience in caring for families at the time of a baby’s death.
She has been looking after bereaved parents for more ...
About Deb Ryan
Deb Ryan is the National Lead Facilitator for The Smith Family’s Let’s Count program. An educator, advocate, parent and grandparent, her passion is early childhood and the important role that parents play ...
About Debra Goldfinch
Deb is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Irabina Autism Services. Irabina Autism Services specialises in delivering programs for children and adolescents diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and their ...
About Delia Rickard
Delia Rickard is Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
About Denise Condon
Denise is a leading International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and midwife at The Mater Hospital in Sydney.
She is a member of the Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ), and the ...
About Dr Anthea Rhodes
Dr Anthea Rhodes is a paediatrician and medical educator. She has clinical interests in the health needs of the vulnerable child, with expertise in child development and behaviour.
Dr Rhodes undertook her paediatric ...
About Dr Dimity Williams
Dimity works as a GP in Melbourne and is the Biodiversity Convenor for Doctors for the Environment Australia and a Co-Founder of the Kids in Nature Network.
She also has three teenage boys and is passionate about ...
About Dr Elise Bialylew
Dr Elise Bialylew is the founder of Mindful in May, an online global mindfulness campaign that teaches thousands of people worldwide to meditate, whilst raising funds to build clean water projects in the developing ...
About Dr Elissa Pearson
Dr Elissa Pearson is a lecturer in developmental and conservation psychology at UniSA Online who specialises in how people – particularly children – connect with the natural world.
She is passionate about ...
About Dr Jane Williams
Dr Jane is one of Australia’s leading experts on child neuro-development.
She is the Research and Education General Manager for GymbaROO and KindyROO, a Neuro-Developmental Consultant, and Adjunct Lecturer at ...
About Dr Katrina Warren
Dr Katrina Warren is a mother, a media veterinarian, television presenter and passionate animal lover.
About Dr Kaylene Henderson
Dr Kaylene Henderson (MBBS FRANZCP Cert C&A Psych) is an Australian Child Psychiatrist and mother of three young children. She is currently presenting the acclaimed Circle of Security Parenting course around ...
About Dr Kelly Bowers
Dr Kelly Bowers is a Clinical Director and child psychologist at Youthrive Integrated Therapy Services.
Kelly has a passion for working with children and their families and has extensive experience providing support to ...
About Dr Matthew Roberts
Dr Matthew Roberts is a perinatal psychiatrist, a doctor specialising in mental health and wellbeing during pregnancy and early family life. He has a keen interest in fathers’ mental health, with a focus on ...
About Dr Sacha Stelzer-Braid
Dr Sacha Stelzer-Braid is a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Virology Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales Sydney. She specialises in respiratory virus infections in children with chronic respiratory diseases. ...
About Dr Shilpa Jesudason
Dr Shilpa Jesudason is Clinical Director at Kidney Health Australia.
About Dr Titia Benders
Titia Benders is a Lecturer in Linguistics and Deputy-Director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University.
She is also a member of the Macquarie University Phonetics Lab, the Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) ...
About Dr Vanessa Lapointe
Dr Vanessa Lapointe is a registered psychologist, parenting educator, best-selling author, international speaker, and a mum.
As the founder and director of The Wishing Star Lapointe Developmental Clinic, she has been ...
About Dr Wendy Roncolato and Prue Foster
Wendy Roncolato is Principal Clinical Psychologist at Cloudberry Clinic in Sydney’s East. She feels privileged to listen to and support women as they navigate motherhood and life beyond. A mother to three school- ...
About Due Jan 2017 Soul Sisters
The Soul Sisters are a group of mothers who were brought together because their babies were due at the same time but who stayed together because of the love, support and friendship that each gave and received.
There ...
About Elizabeth McLardy
Elizabeth is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) with a background in budgeting, finance and IT.
About Emily Nitsopoulos
Emily has written her story to help raise awareness for perinatal anxiety and depression and for PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia).
The PANDA helpline is available in Australia from 9am to 7.30pm (AEST) ...
About Emma McKay
Emma McKay is a certified occupational therapist at Youthrive Springfield, and a practicing member of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and Occupational Therapy Australia.
Since completing her ...
About Fiona
Fiona shared her story to raise awareness during Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week. Anyone concerned about perinatal anxiety and depression should call PANDA’s National Perinatal Depression Helpline 1300 ...
About Fiona Holmes
About Freeda Thong
Freeda is a certified Speech Pathologist at Youthrive. She has a fond interest in speech sound disorders, early language and literacy learning difficulties in children.
Freeda believes communication is a vital mode of ...
About Gabrielle Williams
Gabrielle is a writer, a qualified high school teacher and a modern day mum..
Typically you’ll find her upside-down on a yoga mat or frolicking in the beautiful west coast waters.
About Grace Lachica
Grace is mum to two wonderful kids who are more disciplined and well behaved than she can ever be. She admits having learned more from them than the other way around.
When she’s not busy plucking nuggets of ...
About Haylea Hodges
Haylea Hodges is a certified psychologist at Youthrive and a practicing member of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
Haylea is particularly interested in cognitive assessment, working with children ...
About Helen Baker
Helen Baker is an award-winning financial advisor who has been empowering Aussies to find financial freedom since 2009. She is also the spokesperson for online finance information platform money.com.au. Helen has ...
About Helen McAllister
As National Director Raphael Services, Helen McAllister leads a team of specialists to deliver free support to mums and dads affected by perinatal anxiety and depression. Raphael Services are available in Western ...
About Almost Jane
Jane is a stay at home mum to an adorable and high spirited little lady living on the spectrum.
About Hester Leung and Sema Musson
Sema Musson and Hester Leung are the co-authors of Being Brave – a positive, inspirational novel and guide for girls in their pre-teens on being brave.
Sema and Hester both lead successful careers in their field, ...
About Holly
Holly shared her story to raise awareness during Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week. Anyone concerned about perinatal anxiety and depression should call PANDA’s National Perinatal Depression Helpline 1 ...
About Housewife in Heels
Housewife in Heels is stay-at-home mother to two gorgeous boys.
About Ian Shann
Ian Shann is the principal mediator and director of Move On, divorce and family mediation in Perth.
Ian’s commitment is to help keep separated couples out of the Family Court and minimise their need for lawyers, ...
About The Stork
Read about unexpected homebirths, emergency c-sections, natural breech births and more! We created this space so women can speak honestly about their labour, tell a real story, honour their experience and pay tribute ...
About James Clode
James is a father of four, a secondary school teacher and founder of the family cooking YouTube channel “Dad’s Apron”.
In-between teaching, running around after the kids and the hustle and bustle of ...
About James Thomas
James is the founder of Feel The Magic, a non-profit organisation that provides grief education and support to bereaved children and their families to help alleviate the pain and isolation felt by the loss of a parent, ...
About Jane Cafarella
Jane Cafarella is a Melbourne journalist, playwright, editor and cartoonist with a career spanning 35 years in the print media.
She is perhaps best known for her work at The Age newspaper, where she was employed for ...
About Jane Martino
Jane Martino combined her entrepreneurial nature, personal love of young people and meditation to join forces with James Tutton to create not-for-profit organisation Smiling Mind–a modern approach to meditation ...
About Jen Bakker
Jen’s working background is in financial services. As the eldest of five children she’s used to sharing her knowledge! Having three kids of her own she likes to combine her money knowledge with her love of ...
About Jen McGinlay
Jen McGinlay is a former radio announcer from Scotland. After 10 years talking for a living Jen returned to her first love of writing. She now divides her time between the beaches and cafes of sunny Perth, writing for ...
About Professor Jennie Hudson
Professor Jennie Hudson is the director of the Centre for Emotional Health (CEH) at Macquarie University.
She is an internationally recognised, leading researcher in the field of youth anxiety.
The CEH conducts ...
About Jennifer Hacker Pearson
Jennifer Hacker Pearson PhD is a mother-of-three, researcher, neuroscientist, author, speaker and creator of Tough Mothers
Her book I Wish Someone Had Told Me… is full of unspoken truths about what really happens to ...
About Jess Miller
Jess is a mother and parenting professional with over 17 years experience as a nanny.
A US citizen currently living in Australia, Jess enjoys writing and runs her own parenting blog where she shares her knowledge, tips ...
About Jess Lowe
Jess is a fertility and pregnancy blogger and owner of Path To Birth where she works as a Fertility and Wellness Coach. After experiencing her own fertility challenges Jess has become very passionate about all things ...
About Jo Crawford
Jo Crawford is the mum of two teenage boys. Jo quit smoking to give herself the best chance of becoming a mum and she’s shared her story with the Bub Hub on World No Tobacco Day as part of a Your Fertility ...
About Jo Ryan
Jo Ryan is the founder and director of Babybliss–a home visiting and parenting consultation business. She is also the author of popular baby sleep book Babybliss.
Jo was a Registered Nurse for nearly 20 years, ...
About Jodie Benveniste
Jodie Benveniste is a psychologist, parenting author, TEDx speaker and parenting commentator.
Jodie has written four parenting books, created online courses for parents, and worked with many organisations and brands on ...
About Josh Langley
Josh Langley is an award-winning author and illustrator who inspires children with his books about resilience, building empathy and compassion, and getting to know their own emotions.
About Julia Christie
Julia is the designer of innovative Nail Snail – baby nail trimmer. She invented it after the terrible experience of injuring her newborn boy after using baby nail clippers.
About Julie Borninkhof
Julie has recently been appointed as CEO of PANDA, bringing significant experience as a recognised leader in the primary health sector. Julie is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked across primary and tertiary ...
About Julie Cini
CEO, Julie Cini founded Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia Inc. after losing both her children to Spinal Muscular Atrophy in 2005 and 2007.
Julie’s first daughter Montanna, died on June 25, 2005, aged only 10 ...
About Julie Fison
Julie Fison is a mother of two boys, travel writer and an author of books for children and young adults. Her first fiction series for young readers, Hazard River, is action-packed adventure with an environmental twist. ...
About Karen Phillip
Karen Phillip is the author of Who Runs Your House–The Kids or You? The book explores the relationship between parents and their children and the boundaries that need to be set in order to redirect their child̵ ...
About Karen Seinor
Karen Seinor is the author of Is My Child Ready For School and has been passionate educator for over 17 years.
She has worked as both a classroom teacher and an ESL teacher and while she has enjoyed her many roles as a ...
About Karin Holmes
Karin is a counsellor and author of How to Survive a Miscarriage.
About Karina Francois
Karina Francois is a leading Australian naturopath, health educator and public speaker with more than 14 years’ experience running her own clinic in Melbourne, Infinite Health Practice.
She is also an ...
About Kasey Lloyd
Kasey is a registered psychologist at Youthrive. She has particular interests in depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation, Autism, ADHD, issues relating to gender and sexual identity, low self-esteem, ...
About Kate Wengier
Family nutritionist and mum of four Kate Wengier is the founder of Foost. She promotes ‘colourful eating’ and encourages youngsters to become adventurous eaters through food education and involvement in the ...
About Kathleen Waddington
Kathleen Waddington is a single parent who lives with her teenage son in Melbourne. She is the author of Parent and Child – The Two Person Family and currently works as a nurse, midwife and hypnobirthing ...
About Katie Joseph
Katie Joseph is a certified infant and child sleep consultant and founder of The Hush Co. Katie uses a holistic approach and gentle solutions to help families get back the sleep they need.
She works with families to ...
About Katrina Clark
Katrina Clark has raised two children who have left school and another born with severe intellectual and physical disabilities.
She believes strongly in communities working together to help each other. That belief, and ...
About Kaz Cooke
Kaz Cooke is a bestselling author and cartoonist whose books have informed and tickled Australians and New Zealanders for more than twenty years. Her books include Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy, Babies & ...
About Kellie Edwards
Kellie Edwards is a facilitator of mindfulness in the family, the workplace and beyond. She has online mindfulness programs for parents, runs group workshops and individual coaching sessions integrating mindfulness ...
About Kelly McDonough
Kelly is a mother of five and is a little obsessed with to-do lists and chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
A Registered Nurse for more than 12 years, Kelly now runs her own business, The Styling Mama.
Sleep is ...
About Keri Hedrick
Keri is a former accountant turned freelance writer, currently residing with her husband and three young children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Bringing up her young family overseas, her blog OurGlobetrotters.Com ...
About Ki Wolf
Ki Wolf writes online content, website articles, blogs and has a library of published non-fiction and fiction titles.
She is a mother of three. She has worked and studied in mental health, counselling, community ...
About Krista Christensen
Krista was born prematurely and while receiving oxygen to assist her breathing, was given an overdose, which caused her retinas to detach.
She has shared her story to raise awareness of Seeing Eye Dogs Australia.
To ...
About Kristen Dias
Kristen Dias is the founder of Travel Karma – providing captivating, educational, hands-on activities to engage kids.
Ten years of teaching science in Australia and India as an expat she felt changed who she was ...
About Kristina Keneally
The Hon Kristina Keneally is an advocate for the stillbirth cause and a former patron of the Stillbirth Foundation Australia. She is a mother of three, including daughter Caroline who was stillborn.
Kristina was the 42 ...
About Krystal Barter
When Krystal Barter was 22 she undertook genetic testing and tested positive for the BRCA1 gene fault. For several years Krystal underwent surveillance and screening and then her mammogram discovered changes in her ...
About Kylie-Jo Elliott
Kylie-Jo is a New Parent Relationship Educator who is accredited to teach the world renowned ‘Bringing Baby Home’ program, designed to guide all couples to success during the transition to parenthood and ...
About Kym Turale
Kym is the founding member of Progress Ahead Life Coaching.
“Having worked in law enforcement for 30 years and specialising in areas relating to people management, I have learnt a lot about human behaviour, why ...
About Lara Silbert
Lara Silbert is a freelance writer, communications consultant and project manager.
She’s passionate about parenting, social impact, positive psychology and coffee.
About Leigh East
Leigh East has two girls, both born by caesarean and believes very firmly in a woman’s right to informed choice.
She is the author of Caesarean Birth: A positive approach to preparation and recovery. It is the ...
About Leith Sterling
Leith Sterling is the Executive Director, Child and Family Services, The Benevolent Society.
Leith manages the service delivery for child development, community development, early childhood education, child protection ...
About Dr Linda Friedland
Dr Linda Friedland is a medical doctor, mother of five and the author of Raising Competent Teenagers (Rockpool Publishing $27.99).
Her many years of parenting as well as those as a medical doctor treating and ...
About Lindsay Tighe
Passionate about inspiring people to improve their lives and the lives of others, Lindsay is committed to helping people tap into their potential through empowered thoughts and conscious conversations.
This passion ...
About Lisa Coker
Lisa is the owner of your yoga in Sydney. She is a passionate supporter of women’s choices and birth education and enjoys helping women to find and own their power in pregnancy, birth and in the new role of mother. ...
About Lisa Sarquis
Lisa Sarquis is a freelance writer, a wife, and a mother of two.
About Dr Liz Walker
Dr Liz Walker has been Chief Executive Officer of Lort Smith Animal Hospital since June 2010. Her career began as a vet in private small animal practice, in research (the field of parasitology of sheep) and teaching. ...
About Louise Dunham
Louise Dunham is the author of State of the Nanny: Telling It Like It Really Is.
She is the CEO of Placement Solutions, a Melbourne-based firm, specialising in nanny placement, Just Family Nanny Payroll and Nurture ...
About Louise Johnson
Louise Johnson is CEO of the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA) which provides information about assisted reproductive treatment, including IVF, donor conception and surrogacy.
Louise is also ...
About Louise Smithson
Louise Smithson is a foster carer for CatholicCare Sydney.
To find out more about becoming a CatholicCare Sydney foster carer click on the links below.
About Melissa Burrows
In April 2013 Melissa’s son Lucas contracted the deadly meningococcal disease. She has written her story to help raise awareness of meningococcal.
Lucas was one of the lucky ones and came out the other side with ...
About Lynda Harlos
Lynda Harlos lives in Canada happily married since 1986. Being a stay-at-home mom raising four children while selling Avon. Although she has one child still at home she is now a home-based travel agent and writer.
Her ...
About Lynne Trevail
Lynne Trevail is a professional organiser, a school teacher, a leadership and motivation coach and a mum of two. Her life has revolved around children at work and at home, and she’s taken the skills learnt ‘ ...
About Maggie Dent
Commonly known as the ‘queen of common sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors and educators, with a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and ...
About Mama Pyjama
Kellie is a dream chaser, music enthusiast, project manager, wife, and mother of two spirited boys.
Somewhere along the journey of becoming wife and mother, Kellie lost her sense of self and morphed into Mama Pyjama. A ...
About Mamma Raj
About Marika Hart
Marika Hart is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist from Perth who runs pilates-based exercise classes for women who are pregnant or have just had a baby. She is passionate about helping women stay strong and healthy ...
About Martha Goop
As a crafter, Martha loves to share her creativity with readers around the world.
Ten years of crafting experience has given her the knowledge to share all kinds of techniques, and projects she has worked on over the ...
About Matt Barwick
Matt Barwick is the author of Life in Limbo: My battle with depression, male infertility and mental illness. Matt was born and raised in Canberra and was inspired to tell his story to help and inform young, average ...
About Matt Coyne
Matt Coyne is the creator of Man Vs Baby and the author of Dummy–The comedy and chaos of real-life parenting.
Matt’s life was turned upside-down by the arrival of his first child, Charlie. After three ...
About Meg Tuohey
Meg is a relationships psychologist specialising in women and the relationships they hold.
Think the relationship you have with yourself (super important), the one you have with your partner (super important) and the ...
About Melinda Hildebrandt
Melinda Hildebrandt is the author of Amelia & Me on deafness, autism and parenting by the seat of my pants, an honest, inspiring and heart-wrenching memoir that explores what disability and mothering means when ...
About Melinda Peers
Melinda is the Director of Honey & Flint Communications and mum to two cheeky little monkeys.
As a PR and Marketing Consultant, Melinda started working with ChildSafe Limited, and has been deeply affected by the ...
About Melissa Yapp
Melissa Yapp is a speech pathologist and a former special education teacher. When not at work or spending time with her husband and two spirited children, she can be found creating resources for professionals and ...
About Melissa Barnard
Melissa Barnard is a cellist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. She is also proud mum of daughter Maia and lives in Sydney with her partner.
About Mem Fox
Mem Fox is one of Australia’s best known authors of children’s books, having produced popular modern classics such as Possum Magic and Where is the Green Sheep?.
Her book Reading Magic is a popular title ...
About Merissa Forsyth
Merissa Forsyth is the CEO and Founder of Pretty Foundation.
In 2013, putting a halt on a fast-moving corporate career, Merissa Forsyth established the Makeup Free Me movement which encouraged women and girls across ...
About Michael McQueen
Michael McQueen is a youth trends expert and four-time bestselling author. His book The ‘New’ Rules of Engagement is a parent’s guide to understanding and engaging Gen Y and Gen Z.
About Michelle Karavas
Michelle Karavas is a child psychologist, mum and author of The Day My Brain Went Crazy , a children’s book designed to help children who find it difficult to self-regulate and manage their anger.
Michelle was ...
About Michelle Mitchell
Parenting author and educator Michelle Mitchell is the founder of Youth Excel, a charity which helps young people make positive life choices during difficult times.
Michelle’s new book Parenting Teenage Girls in ...
About Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill is a coach who helps life-hungry souls get unstuck from the fear and chaos of life.
About Miranda Hodge
Miranda Hodge is a teacher, parenting coach and mum to 3 small children–and the creator of Smart Mama Smart Kids Parenting.
She hosts online courses, coaching sessions and helps mums feel more confident by ...
About Molly Lewis
Molly is an innovative marketing manager working with Expect a Star nanny services. She has foundations in product marketing and over a decade’s experience in marketing and communications both agency and client ...
About Monique Cain
Monique Cain is a mother of two children diagnosed with Autism. She is the author of the Everyday Autism Series — five children’s picture books, written to give her children and others a voice and Never ...
About monkeyboyzmum
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