PASSION: Building a society that is inclusive, kind and where we can all lead social change PURPOSE: Inspiring people to unlock their leadership potential through her social business Alyceum.  Alicia Curtis has led award-winning board diversity programs, experiential millennial leadership programs and social change campaigns.She’s co-written a book and been named as one of Australia’s top 100 women of influence. Alicia is the Patron of Girl Guides WA and the co-founder of 100 Women – a philanthropic giving circle which has granted more than a million dollars and impacted women and girls around the world. She’s a mum of two energetic kids, loves dancing, theatre, travel and reading books  - and changing the world one person at a time.  Warm thanks to: Sponsor: Females Over Forty-five Fitness in Victoria Park Sound Engineering: Damon Sutton Music: William A Spence ... and all our generous and inspiring guests around the warm table this season!  Support the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

PASSION: Harnessing our brain chemicals (think oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine and cortisol) to be our very best selves and thrive!PURPOSE: Teaching everyone how to tap into these happy chemicals - including people in prison - for our wellbeing, emotional intelligence and to live our best lives.  Charlotte Ingham Ellery runs her own business called Well Built Mind and she is a woman of many talents. She’s a mother, a yoga instructor, a wellbeing and psychological safety expert, and she teaches corporate wellbeing, emotional intelligence and psycho-social hazard management.  She’s amazing!This conversation is one of the best professional development sessions you could have! Charlotte also works extensively doing PD teachers for their own wellbeing and also with students helping everyone understand their brain chemicals and thrive!Warm thanks to:Sponsor: Females Over Forty-five Fitness in Victoria ParkSound Engineering: Damon SuttonMusic: William A Spence... and all our generous and inspiring guests around the warm table this season!Support the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

I am very excited to welcome you to My Warm Table Season 2. Over the last few months, we’ve done a lot of thinking, listened to your survey feedback and tried to sharpen the focus of the podcast a little more. My Warm Table Podcast is an independent podcast which is unashamedly focussed on Western Australians. It’s my way of adding some positivity to our state’s media landscape and amplifying the smart, kind, values-driven people in our communities who are out there doing good.So this season around the warm table we will be talking about Passion and Purpose. It’s a theme that really resonates with me as I again throw myself into this podcast passion project!Warmest thanks to:Females Over 45 Fitness - Season 2 SponsorDamon Sutton - Sound Engineer ExtraordinaireWilliam A Spence - My Warm Table music composition and performancePlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

I’m sneaking in this live and raw episode of My Warm Table recorded on 28 March 2023 with Season 1 guest Sister of Mercy Anne Tormey. I had the privilege of hosting a conversation with Sr Anne during the 25 year reunion of the Catherine McAuley Developing Women in Leadership and Service Award.  We celebrated this milestone in the olive grove at MercyCare Wembley - a foundation sponsor of the Award Program.  Speakers on the night included Award co-founder Elena Douglas, convenor Rosa Speranza and our evening’s MC Jenni Del Marco. I’m sharing this conversation with Sr Anne for all the Catherine McAuley Award women who couldn’t be there at the event and for the My Warm Table podcast listeners who enjoyed the deep wisdom and encouragement from Sr Anne last season. Enjoy this live recording and raw episode! Support the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Thank you for your support of Season 1 of My Warm Table Podcast.  Sonia Nolan wraps up the Season with an overview of some of the smart conversations with heart we have enjoyed around the warm table.  She shares  how your feedback affirmed her goal to build empathy and perspective by adding more positivity and warmth to the WA media landscape. This episode is also an opportunity to say thank you for all of the wonderful people who contributed to the feast of insights and expertise around My Warm Table. As we look forward to Season 2, we are reflecting on Season 1 - what you liked or what we can improve. Please fill out the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GTLKMHZThank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table and the loyal listeners who make this worthwhile!·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

WA’s own Glambassador Famous Sharron Famous Sharron is the alter ego of creative director, award winning producer and comedian, Bonnie Davies.  Bonnie’s mission in life is to make things ‘unboring’! She gives us a backstage pass into her career in the highs and lows of WA’s comedy and festival scene during COVID, how Famous Sharron was born, and why Bonnie and her alter ego are parochially Perth and ambassadors for regional WA. Duration: 43 minutes. Links:The Gelo CompanyFamous SharronBeach Ball City Beach 28 December Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Annabel Tellis Tunley lives life large! She shares inside knowledge of the British Royals and her adventures of travel and trying her hand at many different jobs gathering memories, stories, friends and fascinating insights along the way! Duration:  50 minutesWant to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Perth based, and internationally renowned business futurist Gihan Perera takes us on a trip to the future.Global business magazine Forbes, rates Gihan as the number 5 social media influencer in the world in his area of expertise – and he is Australia’s number one business futures influencer. Gihan urges us to listen to and amplify the voices and experiences of young people and shares many of the futuristic insights he talks to when he’s on the global conference stage.  We’ll take a trip back to his own childhood warm table and the ideas which formed him and he’ll also challenge us with the many lessons of our past which we need to unlearn in order to be flexible, and fit for the future in a fast changing world. Duration: 51 minutes. Links:Website: https://gihanperera.com/Gihan’s books: Disrupted, Disruption by Design, The Future of LeadershipBook referred to: Future Shock by Alvin TofflerGihan’s podcast: Fit for the FutureFollow Gihan on social media: LinkedIn , YouTube , Twitter: @gihanperera  Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Migraine attacks are not just bad headaches. They can be debilitating and as My Warm Table guest Brenda Moore explains, migraine is a complex genetic neurological disorder.Brenda shares her lived experience of migraine and how after much angst she accepted the disability as a constant in her life, finding effective treatments and life work balance. Brenda has established her own productivity consultancy, working on her own terms and also helping others understand the superpowers of migraine. *NB audio correction:  Brenda refers to some medication as “off-brand” in our interview, but instead this should have been “off-lable”.  Duration: 40 minutes. Links:Happen ConsultingMigraine Australia  Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Support the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Kariyarra Noongar woman Sharon Todd has become the first Aboriginal female in WA to direct a funeral company. Sharon shares her road to reaching this business and cultural milestone and how her work deeply resonates with her identity and determination to give Aboriginal people a loving and culturally appropriate farewell. Duration: 49 minutesLinks:Towards the Dreaming Funeral Services: https://www.towardsthedreaming.com.au/Waalitj Foundation: https://www.wf.org.au/Articles about Sharon Todd:Connect with Sharon Todd on LinkedIn Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Street Level Founder and Perth Chapter Lead Milly Main is on a quest to restore the wisdom of the past through a revolutionary movement to bring beauty, connection and sustainable solutions to our streets in Australia. Street Level Australia is an association of local groups working to make Australian places more beautiful and conducive to human flourishing by advancing good urbanism, traditional architecture and quality building.In this Warm Table conversation, Milly shares her perspectives on  urban sprawl and how cars and transport dictate the way we live; we challenge the thinking of developers and demand more beauty and sustainability in our buildings and neighbourhoods.Duration: 34 minutes. Links:Street Level: https://www.streetlevelaustralia.org/ Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Valerio Fantinelli is a personal chef who's created a slice of Italy by hand in his backyard. He offers Perth's most authentic Italian secret dining location.  Together with his wife Anna, Valerio brings the tastes of his Nonna's kitchen, warm welcoming traditions and historic recipes to life at Flour and Fire.Valerio shares his journey from a young, restless pizza boy in Italy to finding his innate talent, place and style as a personal chef in Australia and the enormous acts of love which helped guide his way. Duration: 53 minutesLinks:Flour and FireGino's Slow Food Swan ValleyTerra Madre international slow cooking festival in ItalyWant to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Mike House is one of Australia’s leading survival instructors and leadership coaches.  He has survived several life-threatening situations in the ocean, raging white water and tropical jungle.  Mike shares the leadership lessons learnt when in extreme situations; why we should step out of our comfort zones; learn rhythmic breathing to find calm; and why we should never leave our vehicles if stranded. Duration: 54 minutes.Links:Mike HouseBook: UnshakeableEbook: Why did they leave the vehicle?Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Support the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Sr Anne Tormey is a Catholic Nun. She has been a Sister of Mercy for 60 years, devoting her life to the complexities of social justice issues such as modern day slavery and human trafficking while becoming a great reader, thinker, empathiser and encourager of the human spirit.Sr Anne shares her faith, calm and wisdom and leads us in a moment of meditation.  She shares her many reflections on the great Mystics of centuries past, who offer us windows of truth where we can find meaning and stillness in today’s busy and often troubled world. Duration: 25 minutes.Links:Sisters of Mercy    Vatican Council 2     Church in the Modern WorldPierre Teilhard De Chardin   Rumi     Eckhart Tolle   CS Lewis    Thomas MertonMeister Eckhart  Catherine of Siena   Julian of Norwich   Hildegard von BingenEtty HillesumWant to join the conversation on this week’s episode?   Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform. Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/ Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review. Thank you!Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripePlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Professor Camilla Basch Andersen is a professor of law at the University of Western Australia and the founder of Comic Book Contracts which is revolutionising how we engage with big business and become more clear on the behaviours, expectations and services we are signing up to. Do you meticulously read and understand the fine print in every one of the contracts that you sign?  Have you maybe clicked the ‘Yes’ button and inadvertently agreed to give away your first born child?! They do say the devil is in the detail!    Contracts are a part of everyday life and possibly more common that you are aware of … from buying a bus ticket, subscribing to free wifi, shopping online and of course the obvious ones like buying a house or travel insurance.   Imagine if contracts were really easy to understand, more accessible to the average person, and maybe even fun! Duration: 45 minutes.Links:Website: Comic Book ContractsLinkedIn: Professor Camilla Baach Andersen  AureconProactive Think TankBankwestWA Individualised ServicesAlternative ContractingWant to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

As a young boy growing up in Manchester UK, Dr Kieran Hennelly watched the sunkissed, exotic, adventures of the Australian flying doctors on TV. He never imagined that would be his life and vocation, living and working in the WA Kimberley and saving many lives while leading the medical crews and operations of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)WA. Kieran shares his journey of finding his place in the world among rugged terrains, breathtaking landscapes and heart stopping emergencies.  Duration: 37 minutes.Links:Royal Flying Doctor Service Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Lucy Cooke, tech start up entrepreneur is the CEO of SpaceDraft – an innovative and groundbreaking Perth tech start up which will revolutionise how we communicate across time and space, bringing to life and underpinning ideas for Web 3.0, gamification, virtual reality and even providing a new avenue of communication for the neuro-divergent. SpaceDraft is a visual logistics plotting startup that provides a creative planning tool for any virtual or physical service.Hard work, resilience and passion go hand in glove in the start up community and Lucy has this in spades. She’s a pioneer in her field and an inspiration to many, including young women hoping to tread their own career paths in technology.  Lucy shares the story of SpaceDraft and how it is poised to make an impact on a global scale. Duration: 38 minutes.Links:Website: SpaceDraftSign up and create your own SpaceDraft: https://launch.spacedraft.com/registerSpaceDraft on social media:  Facebook  Instagram Twitter LinkedInIf Innovation Could Talk interview with Lucy Cooke Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Professor of Neurotrauma, (Melinda) Lindy Fitzgerald is on a mission to improve outcomes for people who have experienced traumatic injury to their central nervous system.Lindy and her team at Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia have developed a free online concussion short course to help you and I identify and manage concussion to prevent long term issues. It's a relevant and important chat – for the sporty, the aged, those suffering repeated injury from domestic violence or really anyone who sustains a knock to the head. Duration: 36 minutes. Links:Connectivity Traumatic Brain InjuryFree Concussion short courseWant to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Catherine Kolomyjec is studying at Stanford University’s Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research to become a Global Ambassador for Applied Compassion.  She talks to us about her journey in social work, helping to resettle Bosnian refugees in Norway, sending hundreds of postcards to stranded sailors off the coast of WA during COVID lockdown and many more inspiring acts of kindness.  Our table is set for a smart conversation with heart about kindness and compassion. These are core values of this podcast and so I’m delighted to be joined by Catherine - Perth’s own kindness guru -  who is spending every one of her micro moments connecting people and encouraging acts of kindness to create a more compassionate society.  She tells us it’s good for our heart and our brains … and our world.  “The definition of compassion is a deliberate decision to lean into another person’s suffering and a commitment to doing something about it.” – Catherine Kolomyjec   Duration: 34 minutes.  Links: Catherine Kolomyjec LinkedIn Kindness Project Stanford University Centre for Compassion and Altruistic Research Little Box of Happiness Soul Gestures Periscope Crew Amnesty International Santa Maria College Book: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R Doty  Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review: Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform. Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/ Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you! Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page. Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and expeSupport the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Nestled in Victoria Park, Perth WA is a one-of-a-kind, world leading brain rehabilitation centre.  Janet Wagland, CEO of Brightwater Oats Street, tells us about the innovative teamwork at the centre which means clients can learn to take back their lives. We learn what an Occupational Therapist does and how Janet’s talent for competitive rifle shooting has seen her travel the world and represent Australia.  “Because if we don't have a crack and take a bit of a risk and try something different and fail and learn from that in the way we operate ourselves, how can we possibly expect people who we're supporting to go through rehabilitation related to their brain injury to do exactly that? We asked them to trust us to have a go to try something different.” Janet Wagland  You’ll hear:Brightwater Care Group (2:00)What is acquired brain injury? (5:00)Young stroke (6:00)Oats Street Centre history (8:00)Graduation program and criteria (12:00)Working as a team (16:30)Wrap around service (18:30)Innovation and world interest (23:00)Student placements at Oats Street (24:00)What is an Occupational Therapist? (25:30)Janet’s warm table growing up (35:10)Competition rifle shooting (37:00) Duration: 40 minutes. Links:Brightwater Oats StreetSwansea Street Market Want to join the conversation on this week’s episode?  Facebook  LinkedIn  Instagram  Listen, subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcast  Spotify  Amazon Music or your preferred platform.Podcast website: https://mywarmtablewithsonia.buzzsprout.com/Please share this podcast with your friends and take a moment to rate and review.  Thank you!Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Support the showPlease rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:Facebook Instagram LinkedIn