BRAVE JOURNEYS with TAMMI FARADAY
Australian Broadcaster (Radio & Television); Investigative Journalist; TV, Radio, Feature film and Documentary Producer; Storyteller; Mental Health Advocate; Board Member; (Recovering) Lawyer & Mama of Four - Tammi Faraday, learns from others how to navigate life’s invariable challenges where there's no clear answer, but bravery has propelled them forward. With compassionate curiosity, reciprocal candour & vulnerability in spades, Tam uncovers her guests' brave life journeys, with the hope of empowering you to realise life’s difficulties don’t have to define you ... they're often the making of you.
Episodes
59 episodes
Sarah Sentilles - Stranger Care: Loving What isn’t Ours
In the depths of Sarah Sentilles' heart, was a primal longing to become a mother. This yearning was buried beneath the desires & pressures of others. Sarah’s husband, Eric, believed the world was already brimming with children in need of lo...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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1:07:30
Akhim Dev - The Children in the Pictures: Hunting Paedophiles
Dear friends, brace yourselves for an episode unlike any other. In truth, it’s a conversation that’s been incredibly difficult to prepare for, but one that must be shared. Tonight, as your children lie safely in their beds, enveloped in love &a...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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1:25:14
Ginger Gentile - Erasing Family: Loving Your Children More Than You Hate Your Ex
Filmmaker & Changemaker - Ginger Gentile is on a mission to save children from the trauma of high-conflict divorce. Drawing on her own journey as a child torn between two parents, Ginger’s first documentary, ERASING DAD (Borrando a Papa), w...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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53:01
Colin Campbell - Finding the Words
When Colin Campbell’s two teenage children - Ruby & Hart - were tragically killed by a drunk driver, he and his wife Gail, were plunged headlong into a grief so devastating they felt they might lose their minds. One second, they’re go...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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1:20:11
Jane Epstein - Complicated Courage: Sibling Sexual Abuse, The Silent Epidemic
Imagine the unimaginable: a young girl, only six years old, enduring years of sexual molestation at the hands of her own brother. It's a chilling reality that many find difficult to comprehend. Yet, this form of abuse, known as child-on-child o...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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1:11:28
Scott Newgent - The Truth About Transitioning Children from a Transman
My next guest, formerly Kellie King, was a formidable woman who seemed to have it all. A trailblazing sales executive, devoted mother of three, & a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. But at the age of 42, Kellie's world was ...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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1:10:53
Dr Ingrid Clayton - Believing Me
As a clinical psychologist & trauma therapist, my next guest, Dr Ingrid Clayton always strived to help others overcome their pain. But, little did Ingrid know that she, too, carried hidden wounds that she’d yet to fully comprehend.A ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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1:16:29
Dr Dinesh Palipana - How Losing Everything Set Me Free
Sometimes, you’re lucky enough to meet someone who’ll change your life in inconceivable ways. My next guest (and now forever friend – whether he likes it or not) is one such human.Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM is a Doctor, Lawyer, Disabil...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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1:09:24
Delia Ephron - A Second Chance at Life & Love
For Hollywood royalty, New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright - Delia Ephron - life has always offered a rich supply of copy. Bad hair, heartache, chocolate pudding – almost anything could be mined for a b...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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54:16
Jeff Schoep - From Radical to Redemption
This is a very unique episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS.We’ve all heard stories of people who lived broken, crime filled lives, who have an epiphany & completely turn their lives around, harnessing the wisdoms & insights they ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:16:48
Professor Jessica Stern - Denial
Have we got an extraordinary guest for you today and to be honest, unless this intro runs for the next hour all by itself, I am going to have to truncate the bio of this remarkable human being. I hope she will forgive me…Professor Jessic...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:11:38
Rebecca Woolf - All of This
After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage – successful writer & blogger Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband, Hal. Two weeks after telling Hal she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:01:11
Adam Frankel - Family Secrets
My next guest Adam Frankel grew up idolising his wonderful father and his father’s father, following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter. After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of Economics and...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:05:25
Hillary Whittington - Raising Ryland
When Hillary Whittington discovers she’s expecting a baby girl, she and her husband, Jeff, are deliriously overjoyed. Pink & white nursery – check; endless supplies of dresses and bows – check.Then, only months after Ryland is ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:19:10
Annie Whitlocke - The Death Doula
My beautiful guest today is Annie Whitlocke. Annie is a death doula. A What you ask? 40 + years on the planet and this entire profession was completely unknown to me… that is until now. Like many of you I suspect, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:13:23
Gretchen Carlson - Being Fierce
In 2016, highly respected & award-winning US journalist and former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson, moved from covering the headlines to becoming one herself. The violin prodigy, former Miss America, Stanford Graduate and accl...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:00:19
Mel Dzelde - Terminally Happy
There are many episodes on BRAVE JOURNEYS where I have cried, but not today. Today is about celebrating life, love & finding unbridled gratitude & joy in the ordinary.If I told you that my next guest is terminally il...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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1:05:31
Kate Nason - Everything’s NOT Perfect
What would you do if your worst private heartache was on the front page of every newspaper around the world? Kate Nason knows…Seven years into her marriage, Kate discovers her husband was cheating on her with multiple women. Then, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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1:02:02
Kenneth Feinberg - What's a Life Worth?
My next guest, Kenneth Feinberg, literally stopped me in my tracks. Ken is a prominent attorney, a world-renowned MEDIATOR and the one time chief of staff of the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy. But when we all stood still o...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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46:48
Rebecca Faye Smith Galli - Rethinking Possible
Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms. One of them, without any shadow of a doubt, is my next guest, the truly inspirational Rebecca Faye Smith Galli. Just nine days after her divorce was finalised, Becky, a then 38-year...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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57:57
Carolyn Moor - The Modern Widows Club
By her own account, Carolyn Moor had it all. She & her architect husband Chad, had two gorgeous little girls, their own business & a house they designed & built in Orlando. On Valentine’s Day 2000, they talked over a romantic dinner...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:04:53
Leslie Morgan Steiner - The Naked Truth
TRIGGER WARNING!!!Leslie Morgan Steiner is a New York Times best-selling author, columnist for The Washington Post, consultant and thought leader on women’s leadership, work-life balance, inspirational parenting, overcoming adversity an...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:16:01
Dr. Lucy Hone - Resilient Grieving: What Abi Taught Us
My next guest, Dr Lucy Hone is a global authority and celebrated Ted Speaker in the area of resilience.Lucy is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Res...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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56:22
Veronica Gorrie - Black & Blue
TRIGGER WARNING!!!Proud Gunaikurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie, had spent a lifetime in fear of the police… and with good reason. Ronnie's grandmother, Linda, was stolen from her family as an eight-year-old in 1941, alo...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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49:25
Stephanie Giese - All I Ever Knowed: A Mother’s Fight for her Adopted Son’s Mental Health
TRIGGER WARNING!!!My next guest, Stephanie Giese is a mother of five, a celebrated writer, a prolific blogger - recognised as one of HuffPost’s most viral bloggers of the decade & was named a BlogHer Voice of The Year - a for...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:13:38