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I have a confession to make. I am a little bit obsessed with the stories of people's lives

and how they get from point A to point B. So today I've invited a dear soul sister friend, another Australian, well, actually

she's African Australian, lives in Australia, but African. Shane is with us today and we're

going to talk a little bit about creating and sharing your stories. So welcome, Shane.

Oh, thank you, Teresa. Beautiful, warm welcome. It's just so

lovely to be in the space today. So I want to start this conversation with a bit about what

inspired you to start helping others come together in storytelling. Oh, that's a good, it's a good question, and it's a long journey.

But what inspired me was realizing I had a story inside of me, a story that I kept, you know,

I think what happens is in our, in our life, we have events that happen in our life

that suppress our storytelling and our stories because we just feel nobody wants to hear it.

Nobody wants to know about it.

And for me, it took an event in my health.

And it was an event of having had breast cancer where I realized, there's a story.

You know, it's like life suddenly gives you nudges and you don't listen.

And then sometimes you have to have a slightly bigger event happen in your life.

And for me, it was through my health. And that was like the nudge, the nudge to say,

hey, it's time you start speaking up and you've got stories to share.

And in that, I believe that once we share our story, it not only heals us, it heals those that

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