September 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Speaking to what is true I was in many conversations yesterday, and they all held a similar theme. Our inability to speak to the truth, particularly in the presence of perceived power. First, to find the clarity below the jumble of emotions. We spurt out a chaos of...
August 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Words we use reinforce and animate the world I have been thinking about the words we use to describe parts of the world. The Global South and the Global North are examples. I live in the Global South literally, yet it is not the Australian people who are referred to...
August 16, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Really important conversations are not safe The Bendigo Writers Festival, to take place this weekend, has faced intense criticism for its late request for a code of conduct, which authors believe would restrict their ability to exercise free speech. 48 Participants...
August 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
No consequence Lie once. Get away with it. Lie twice. Get away with it. No consequence. Cheat, once and again. No consequence. Bully, once, bully again and again. No consequence. Kill a journalist. No consequence. Kill 228 journalists, no consequence. Cheat at...
July 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A seeding behaviour behind supremacy People telling you what you are feeling, as if they know what you are feeling, or imposing an interpretation of what you are saying and doing without actually asking, is a form of domination. This is a seeding act of superiority,...
July 22, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Moral choices Moral choices are hard. They test our character. Capitulation to immorality, sanctioning cruelty, violence and discrimination is not something you do once every while, when the horror becomes ‘too big to ignore.’ It is something we must commit to at the...
