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A wave of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses is slowly making its way through Australia with incredible growth across multiple industries. In this episode we are joined by Dunghutti woman and Murawin Managing Director, Carol Vale to discuss female entrepreneurs and how business is a game changer for social change in Aboriginal communities.Carol is the founder of Tidda’s in Business, a community for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women owning and operating or interested in starting businesses. Tidda’s in Business was birthed while Carol travelled through India and reading ‘Half a Sky’, a series of stories capturing what women in India were doing to change the economic and social status of their families and communities.Carol is a dynamic and determined woman whose sole intention for many years to come will be to support the growth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female owned and operated businesses. Carol shares her insight what is it like to run a business, what it takes, how to work smart in business and the role we all can play in supporting the Aboriginal business sector.

Ever wondered what strength and resilience looks and determination like? I found it, it comes in the form of Dunghutti woman Ashlee Donohue. Ashlee is an Educator, Anti-violence Advocate and Speaker. In 2018 Ashlee self-published her book called Because I love Him, One Woman’s Journey from Wounds to Wisdom – so now we add deadly Author to her already impressive resume and list of life experiences.In this episode you hear Ashlee yarn the domestic violence she experienced with her children’s father, how she never really knew what was happening to her, the cycle of love and violence she lived in, being a ‘jail-wife’ and the addiction she had to her former partner.When listening to Ashlee in this episode, the staunchness in her voice and certainly she has about domestic and family violence, it is hard to understand that Ashlee once believed and her attitude toward what she was experiencing was ‘oh well, he doesn’t bash me like other men bash their women’.Ashlee also yarns about how her book came to life and how serendipity played a role in bringing her journey to life on paper for us to hear and learn about. Ashlee’s book is a true page turner and one you most likely won’t put down until you finish (I’m guilty of it). You can purchase Because I love Him at www.vividpublishing.com.au/becauseilovehim