Breadwinning Mums

David Joyce

David Joyce is the Founder and Lead Advisor of Synapsing, Performance and Strategic Advisor of Beautiful Game Group, a long distance runner and a well-rounded family man. We spoke about the importance of sleep in high performance, choosing the buckets we prioritise in certain life phases and the awareness of the trade-off that comes with each choice, and finding a higher purpose beyond the mechanics of what we do.
 
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Shelly Horton

Shelly Horton is a journalist, TV presenter, keynote speaker, founder of the ShellShocked media, and author of “I’m Your Peri Godmother.” Shelly spoke about growing up in Kingaroy as a curious girl, finding herself in a Veronica Corningstone moment that would launch her career as a TV presenter, and using her perimenopause journey to empower other women and create systemic change in Australia’s female health.
 
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Dr Tamsin Astor

Dr Tamsin Astor is a neuroscientist for founders and teams, a habit and leadership strategist, and an overall good human being.
 
Tamsin shared her life story of navigating two cancer episodes in her young son’s life, finding inner alignment and asserting her sovereignty in her first marriage, and entering fifties with so much richness and joy, and the safety to flourish as her full self.
 
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Michael Scott on the 2025 Bondi Massacre

Last Sunday, on the 14th December 2025, in the late afternoon during a Hanukkah celebration attended by approximately one thousand people, two gunmen shot at the crowd, killing 15 people, including a holocaust survivor, two rabbis, and a ten year old Matilda.
 
We are joined today by Michael Scott, an Australian Army veteran, previously Head of Military to the UN, Founder & CEO of The 2023 Foundation Ltd, a nascent global charity combating antisemitism, and author of A Light Still Burns: Israel and the Values Worth Defending.
 
Michael shares the importance of understanding the context and unbiased history of what happened in the past, and what we can all do to stand alongside our Jewish and Moslem communities, to push forward a unified and resilient Australia. I wish you all a safe holiday season.
 
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Ben Pronk

It is my pleasure to end this season’s episodes with a conversation with my good friend, Ben Pronk. Ben is the Managing Partner of Mettle Global, one of the co-founders of The Resilience Shield, the co-host of the Unforgiving60 podcast, and an adjunct faculty at the University of New South Wales. We discussed all things about life, how to build resilience, and the topic of his upcoming book: how to find happiness, not despite, but with the full knowledge, that we’re all going to die in the end.
 
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Rickson Dsouza

In this episode we are chatting with Rickson Dsouza - the founder of Successio Global, a husband and a father of two children, and an endurance athlete. Rickson shared his life story about growing up in Dubai as a third generation Indian, starting a career in the insurance business, before finding a clear sense of mission in life to leave a set of legacy.
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Jim Penman

In this episode we are chatting with Dr David James Penman, or Jim Penman, the founder and owner of Jim’s Group, the largest franchise chain in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 5,500 franchisees. Jim shared his life story about building his business empire, finding worthwhile purpose in his life, and how meaningful struggle remain as an essential part of his life.
I’m sure you’ll find lots of wisdom in this conversation with Jim Penman.
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Victoria O'Reilly

I had a lot of fun getting to know and chatting with Victoria O’Reilly, a Registered Nurse of oncology and palliative care unit, educator, agricultural health and wellness ambassador, and a mum of three. Vicki shared with us her journey of growing up in a military family, traveling the world as a cook before finding love and settling down in Zimbabwe, before civil unrest sent her back to the UK, to then finding a new home in Australia.
 
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Justine Campbell

It was an absolute pleasure and privilege to be chatting with Justine Campbell, a Clinical Therapist & Positive Psychology Business Coach for Female Entrepreneurs and the founder of The Lotus Collective™. Justine shared her life story about growing up as a young girl in Australia before exploring and living in eight countries around the world, marrying a hotelier and starting a 7-figure business in Hong Kong, and then moving back to Australia to found The Lotus Collective™.
 
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Alka Joshi

I had an absolute blast chatting with Alka Joshi on the Breadwinning Mums podcast this week. Alka is an internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Six Days in Bombay is her fourth novel. We spoke about the lead female characters in Alka’s novels - their journey of self-exploration, self-realisation and self-acceptance, something that all Breadwinning Mums can relate to.
 
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