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Jeweller Sarah Gardner On Building A Brand, Managing Motherhood + Battling Blood Cancer

How jewellery designer Sarah Gardner manages business and motherhood while living with a Myeloprofilrative Neoplasm.

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Journalist Nas Campanella On Parenting With Blindness + Building Disability Awareness

How ABC journalist Nas Campanella navigates motherhood as a person living with blindness and Charcot-Marie-Tooth.

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Kalkadoon Woman and Artist Glenda McCulloch On Her Family's Rodeo Lifestyle + Raising Her Kids On Country

The Cungelella Art founder shares a look at her family's country lifestyle in Mt Isa, Queensland, where her husband competes in rodeos!
Christina Karras

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New Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins On Her Multicultural Family + Life As A Teenager On Tour

Tsehay Hawkins shares her adoption story and what life's like as a 16-year-old Wiggle!

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An Open Conversation On Foster Caring, IVF + Being An LGBT Family With Millie & Jessi Poutama

LGBTQIA+ advocates and eco-conscious couple Millie and Jessi Poutama share their experience of foster caring, the IVF process, and their exp...

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Kurnai Woman and Educator Emmy Webbers On Bringing Culture To The Classroom + Connecting With Country

The founder of First Nations education business Wurruck Yambo talks about work and life with her young family of five.

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Artist Miranda Skoczek On Single Parenting, Smelling The Roses + Spontaneity

Artist Miranda Skoczek shares her multigenerational family life in the Dandenongs with son Harper and aunt Margaret.

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Finding Harmony In Life, Business And Family, With Meg Tanaka Of CIBI

CIBI's Meg Tanaka on growing up in Japan, running a family business with three young boys, and living life the CIBI way.

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Photographer, Storyteller + Solo Parent Bobbi Lockyer On The Importance Of Birthing On Country

The artist, photographer and designer lives on Kariyarra Country (Port Hedland, WA) with her four boys Sebastian (13), Zenith (9), Lawrence
Ashe Davenport

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The Show Must Go On, With Photographer Sarah Collins And Family

Our beloved former TDF photographer on the highs and lows of pandemic parenting, and the challenges facing the performing arts community.

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Rising And Shining Through Early Motherhood With Designer + Illustrator, Georgia Perry

Through the doldrums of pandemic parenting, Georgia Perry reminds us there is still magic in the world. Ashe Davenport goes inside the desig...
Ashe Davenport

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Art Runs Generations Deep In The Family Of Molly Wattle Boney

We visit TDF Kids Art Awards winner Molly Wattle Boney and her creative parents, Tessa Nuku and Brendon Boney, at Ettalong Beach.

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Stylist Shonel Bryant On Battling Breast Cancer, Supporting Your Girls, And Silver Linings

Event stylist, mother and founder of Support Your Girls Shonel Bryant shares her cancer journey, and the drive that keeps her going.

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Singer-Songwriter-Survivor Ngaiire On Motherhood, Music + Building From The Rubble

We visit the dazzling Ngaiire at home on Darkinjung Land on the NSW Central Coast, with her three-year-old son Nadav, or ‘Dovey’ for sho...
Ashe Davenport

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Caring for New Mothers Shouldn’t Stop at Six Weeks, According To Author + Co-Founder of Mama Goodness, Jessica Prescott

The vegan cookbook author and postpartum doula talks about ending snapback culture, and keeping the meal train going.
Ashe Davenport

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An Honest Conversation On Single Parenting By Choice + Donor Conception With Takeawei Ceramics Founder, Chela Edmunds

Chela Edmunds of Takeawei ceramics shares her story of becoming a mother to 18-month-old Ocean via sperm donor and IVF.

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Author and Cook Julia Busuttil Nishimura Talks Prawns, Postnatal Anxiety + Magic Family Holidays

Two of our FAVE columnists hash out the thoughts and feelings (a lot of feelings!) about new motherhood. This is a conversation you won't wa...
Ashe Davenport

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Two Inspiring Single Mums, Parenting Under The One Roof!

We chatted with these two super mums and founders of Goodspace vintage furniture about sharing the parenting load, going into business, and
Ashe Davenport

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