It’s hard to think of a more iconic Australian brand that inspires confidence, than the Royal Flying Doctor’s Service  They operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, delivering the finest care to more than 330,000 Australians each year: that's one person every two minutes! From babies born mid air, to dental services, to now rolling out the covid vaccine to the most rural locations in the country: you might have seen some of their heroic stories brought to life on the small screen on the new RFDS tv drama series that’s airing on Channel Seven in Australia right now. I’ve been lucky enoug ..read more

We’ve all had those days, right? Where we feel tired and crappy… where our health just hasn’t been right. Maybe you’ve even consulted Doctor Google and either panicked, laughed or both when it spat out a cancer diagnosis.  But what if that diagnosis was actually right. And your whole life was flipped upside down in an instant. Mamamia’s Briony Benjamin was 30 years-old. Riding high in her career interviewing celebrities, producing hilarious viral videos and thinking she had her whole life ahead of her, when after feeling pretty crap for a while and brushing it off she received some crushi ..read more

When you think of the words honest and inspiring… well Talitha Cummins fits the bill.  As a television journalist, she became a well known figure in loungerooms across Australia… reading the news on Sunrise and for the Seven network.  But behind the scenes… Talitha was fighting a secret battle with alcohol addiction… stemming from a lack of confidence and self worth that began when she was a child.  “There was a lot of time when i felt unsure of what I was doing and I didn’t disclose that I didn’t ask anyone for help because I felt that would show weakness.” In this intimate and ..read more

MARK WALES is a former special ops commander…whose dream career became a nightmare in a cornfield in Afghanistan where he saw his mentor gunned down and learned the true meaning of resilience.  But Australia knows him best from his time as a contestant on the show Survivor. Mark’s appearance on a reality show was all part of his mission to rebuild himself after the SAS.  Today he shares how to find the confidence to turn your life around, the power of reinvention… and how to go about gaining new meaning in life.  “They call it moral injury, I think that’s the more recent term fo ..read more

“Am I a perfect human? No, I’m absolutely not. But did I do those things, am I an absolute bully of a human? Absolutely, 100% I am not.” You might recognise Emma Husar’s story from the news headlines of a few years ago. The Former federal MP for Lindsay was portrayed as a bright young hope for Labor… until all that came crashing down when she resigned three years ago in a storm of controversy over allegations of lewd conduct, bullying and sexual harassment in her office.  In this vulnerable and honest chat Emma shares the secrets of digging deep to gain resilience through the darkest mome ..read more

Jan Fran is an award-winning Australian journalist, who you might know from The Project or The Feed or her online opinion segment The Frant, which she now makes for the Guardian. I’m fortunate enough to co host the Briefing Podcast with her and I just love our chats off air. I knew she’d make the perfect guest to talk about confidence. Yes, she’s wildly successful, she’s become a vintage fashion icon and she has a huge platform where she speaks her truth now. But it hasn’t always been an easy ride for her. Jan Fran shares the one thing from her childhood she finds really difficult to move past ..read more

Michael Clarke has been called abrasive and polarising… flashy and arrogant. But when I sat down with him to talk about confidence, I found someone refreshingly real and delightfully introspective who’s learned a lot of lessons in the fire of life.  As one of the best batsmen of all time who went on to become Australia’s 43rd cricket captain, it might surprise you to learn the swagger was all a bit of a show.  “All through my career, even from a young boy when I started, I always got nervous.” In this conversation we cover the glamorous girlfriends, the insane media attention and his ..read more

TRAILER FOR SEASON THREE Do you wish you could claim your confidence? Boldly put yourself forward, stop letting fear hold you back and fulfil your true potential? I’m Katrina Blowers and as a journalist I’ve interviewed many high achievers and gone through my own confidence struggles… and I’ve asked these same questions of celebrities, athletes, business leaders and other inspirational people In Season three of Claiming Your Confidence, we go even deeper with a new group of guests who, in honest and surprising conversations, share the biggest confidence challenges of their lives and how they o ..read more

So most of us have heard the story of Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin, but I doubt as many of you have heard of his beautiful wife Mary Li.   Mary grew up as Mary McKendry, one of eight kids, in Rocky in Central Qld. Her story of wanting to be a prima ballerina as a little girl, then dancing on stage in London and all over the world, even training with the legendary Rudolf Nureyev; is actually the stuff of fairytales. And so is the love story of how she met her future husband, both of them principal dancers.  But it's actually the story of their little girl Sophie, who was born profoun ..read more

I so enjoyed this chat with Billy BIllingham, who you might know from the TV show SAS Australia.  We spoke while he was in hotel quarantine in Sydney ahead of his Australian tour, where he told me all about his tough upbringing in a UK council estate, running with gangs and joining the British armed Forces at 16…  BIlly served for nearly 2 decades in the SAS. He was awarded the Queen’s commendation for bravery, jumped out of a lot of planes into war zones and then became a celebrity bodyguard to stars including Tom Cruise, Michael Caine and Brad and Angelina In this episode we ta ..read more