Humans in Health

Dimity Dornan AO is a Speech Pathologist, Author, Businesswoman and the 2003 Australian of the Year for Queensland.

We loved hearing from Dimity about her experience as the first speech pathology graduate at the University of Queensland and the first speech pathologist to work at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

What an incredible journey Dimity has had through 30 years of service as the founder of the Hear and Say Centre for Deaf Children. Her legacy: enabling thousands of deaf children to hear and speak. We learnt about Dimity's next chapter, founding Bionics Queensland (BioniQ) which was established to promote the development of the human bionic industry in Queensland and the Human Bionics Interface.

Importantly, Dimity shares her love of polishing off the last drop of champagne along with so many pearls of wisdom as she has balanced her incredible career alongside being a partner, Mum and now Grandmother.

Links/Books etc
www. bionicsqueensland.com.au
Book: The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

Dimity Dornan AO is a Speech Pathologist, Author, Businesswoman and the 2003 Australian of the Year for Queensland.

We loved hearing from Dimity about her experience as the first speech pathology graduate at the University of Queensland and the first speech pathologist to work at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

What an incredible journey Dimity has had through 30 years of service as the founder of the Hear and Say Centre for Deaf Children. Her legacy: enabling thousands of deaf children to hear and speak. We learnt about Dimity's next chapter, founding Bionics Queensland (BioniQ) which was established to promote the development of the human bionic industry in Queensland and the Human Bionics Interface.

Importantly, Dimity shares her love of polishing off the last drop of champagne along with so many pearls of wisdom as she has balanced her incredible career alongside being a partner, Mum and now Grandmother.

Links/Books etc
www. bionicsqueensland.com.au
Book: The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

Dr  Brooke Bullock, our podcast co-host and everyday superwoman has been nominated for a business award so it felt like the perfect time for me to interview her about what exactly makes her tick so damn productively. 

Brooke is an advanced pharmacist, a dual business owner, has completed a PhD, is a wonderful mum to two little girls and even manages to exude some contradictory hippie vibes on her weekends with her family, traveling in their caravan. 

We talk about all these things and how she manages (mostly) to fit them in each day (and mostly with laser focus). She also tells us about the award she is up for - for her medical interview coaching business and shares her hottest interview prepping tip. Link to vote for her is in the podcast show notes below. Look, we are all friends here, so please vote. 

2022 AusMumpreneur People's Choice Awards: Vote for Brooke in Category 9:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AUSMUM22

Dr  Brooke Bullock, our podcast co-host and everyday superwoman has been nominated for a business award so it felt like the perfect time for me to interview her about what exactly makes her tick so damn productively. 

Brooke is an advanced pharmacist, a dual business owner, has completed a PhD, is a wonderful mum to two little girls and even manages to exude some contradictory hippie vibes on her weekends with her family, traveling in their caravan. 

We talk about all these things and how she manages (mostly) to fit them in each day (and mostly with laser focus). She also tells us about the award she is up for - for her medical interview coaching business and shares her hottest interview prepping tip. Link to vote for her is in the podcast show notes below. Look, we are all friends here, so please vote. 

2022 AusMumpreneur People's Choice Awards: Vote for Brooke in Category 9:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AUSMUM22

In this episode, we chat with Dr Rachel Martin who is a Senior Registrar working in the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

We loved hearing about Rachel’s impressive career and her love of working in Intensive Care. Rachel also shared with us her harrowing experience in 2012 when her now-husband Curtis McGrath lost both his legs whilst serving as an engineer with the Australian Army in Afghanistan in 2012.
 
In the moments after the accident, incredibly both Rachel and Curtis were independently thinking about the para-olympic games and at the 2020 Tokyo Para-olympic Games, Curtis made history by becoming the first para-canoe athlete to win two gold medals in his chosen sport of canoeing/kayaking.
 
Rachel shared with us her own learnings and reflections from being a med student caring for her injured partner, how they juggle their professional careers and how Curtis once reacted to a curious kid on a plane asking him if he was a transformer after seeing his prosthesis.
 
Such a down to earth account of a huge life event that has now shaped Curtis and Rachel's future.

In this episode, we chat with Dr Rachel Martin who is a Senior Registrar working in the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

We loved hearing about Rachel’s impressive career and her love of working in Intensive Care. Rachel also shared with us her harrowing experience in 2012 when her now-husband Curtis McGrath lost both his legs whilst serving as an engineer with the Australian Army in Afghanistan in 2012.
 
In the moments after the accident, incredibly both Rachel and Curtis were independently thinking about the para-olympic games and at the 2020 Tokyo Para-olympic Games, Curtis made history by becoming the first para-canoe athlete to win two gold medals in his chosen sport of canoeing/kayaking.
 
Rachel shared with us her own learnings and reflections from being a med student caring for her injured partner, how they juggle their professional careers and how Curtis once reacted to a curious kid on a plane asking him if he was a transformer after seeing his prosthesis.
 
Such a down to earth account of a huge life event that has now shaped Curtis and Rachel's future.

Lisa Hill is a Senior Pharmacist working at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

We loved chatting with Lisa as she shared her unique story about her experience navigating her older brother Tim's metastatic bowel cancer diagnosis and passing in 2015. Throughout this experience, both Lisa and her brother Tim had a profound reconnection with their Christian faith which is now an extremely important part of who Lisa is.

We talk about Lisa's passion for her work, winning overseas trips, assumptions about Christianity and "Why the whole Jesus thing is a thing" (in Lisa's words).

Book mentioned: The Reason for God, by Tim Keller

Lisa Hill is a Senior Pharmacist working at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

We loved chatting with Lisa as she shared her unique story about her experience navigating her older brother Tim's metastatic bowel cancer diagnosis and passing in 2015. Throughout this experience, both Lisa and her brother Tim had a profound reconnection with their Christian faith which is now an extremely important part of who Lisa is.

We talk about Lisa's passion for her work, winning overseas trips, assumptions about Christianity and "Why the whole Jesus thing is a thing" (in Lisa's words).

Book mentioned: The Reason for God, by Tim Keller

Season 2 is here and we are setting off with a bang with the formidable Dr Ben Bravery.

At the age of 28, Ben woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.  At that time Ben was living and working as a zoologist in China having met his now wife only 5 months prior. 

Ben's experience as a Cancer patient was confronting and he bravely shared with us some extremely vulnerable moments during his eighteen months of treatment, including aggressive chemotherapy. Importantly, this experience became the driver for Ben to study Medicine and become a Doctor.

Ben shared his unique experience on both sides of the healthcare system and his thoughts on what doctors, patients and their families need to do to ensure that the medical system puts the patient at the

very heart of healthcare every day. We loved hearing about Ben's love story: where his partner was thrust after 5 short months of dating into being ben's carer, financial support and counsellor. Now, Ben and Sana have started a family and a share unparalleled  perspective on life but also, our conversation was perfectly timed with the release of Ben’s memoir, The Patient Doctor.

This conversation is full of honesty, vulnerability, gratitude and fitting for his surname, BRAVERY. 

https://www.benbravery.com/

Season 2 is here and we are setting off with a bang with the formidable Dr Ben Bravery.

At the age of 28, Ben woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.  At that time Ben was living and working as a zoologist in China having met his now wife only 5 months prior. 

Ben's experience as a Cancer patient was confronting and he bravely shared with us some extremely vulnerable moments during his eighteen months of treatment, including aggressive chemotherapy. Importantly, this experience became the driver for Ben to study Medicine and become a Doctor.

Ben shared his unique experience on both sides of the healthcare system and his thoughts on what doctors, patients and their families need to do to ensure that the medical system puts the patient at the

very heart of healthcare every day. We loved hearing about Ben's love story: where his partner was thrust after 5 short months of dating into being ben's carer, financial support and counsellor. Now, Ben and Sana have started a family and a share unparalleled  perspective on life but also, our conversation was perfectly timed with the release of Ben’s memoir, The Patient Doctor.

This conversation is full of honesty, vulnerability, gratitude and fitting for his surname, BRAVERY. 

https://www.benbravery.com/