Power Of Women Podcast

Most women don’t lose their voice, but learning how to use it with impact – this is the conversation you need to listen to.

Emmanuella Grace has stood on some of the most demanding stages in the world, from the Royal Albert Hall to the Sydney Opera House, and she has spent the years since teaching business leaders how to do under pressure what she once had to learn under lights: own the sound they make in the room.
This conversation traces the psychology of self-silencing back to where it starts. And it isn’t about lack of confidence or capability. It’s something far more physiological, and far more universal.

In this episode, Di and Emmanuella Grace discuss the amygdala hijack and why it hits professional women mid-sentence at the boardroom table, the socialisation that teaches women to qualify themselves before they’ve made their point, and why introverts may be outperforming extroverts on every stage that matters.

We explore::
The amygdala hijack: why fear behaves identically in every brain, regardless of gender
Why socialisation, not capability, is the real reason women learn to edit themselves before they speak
The generational shift in how women are taught to use, and lose, their voice
Why introverts are outperforming extroverts on stage, and what that means for how we coach leaders
What it takes to reclaim a voice that was trained into silence.

Chapters

00:00 The Power of Women: Introduction
06:10 Generational Perspectives on Voice Ownership
14:10 Navigating Fear and the Amygdala Hijack
17:48 Women Supporting Women: The Dynamics of Workplace Relationships
22:00 The Role of AI in Shaping Voices and Perceptions
25:31 The Virtuous Cycle of Audience Engagement
29:39 Understanding Voice Projection and Accents
30:25 The Connection Between Mind and Body in Voice
32:07 Understanding Introversion and Extroversion in Communication
36:59 Authenticity and Finding Your Voice
43:32 Mastering Authentic Communication

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Who is Emmanuella Grace?
Emmanuella Grace is a voice and communication expert, a former professional performer, and the founder of Find Your Voice. She has delivered communication training across a wide range of industries, including PwC, Future Fund, Amazon, TedX, and the umpires of the Australian Open, working predominantly with technical leaders stepping into influence. Her approach draws directly from music and performance. She holds a Grad Dip in Psychology, a Bachelor of Music with Honours, and a Master of Music in Performance Teaching, and has spent decades performing on international stages including the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, and the Sydney Opera House.

Find Emmanuella at:

Website https://findyourvoice.com.au
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuellagrace/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emmanuella_grace/

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Credits:
Audio Editing + Sound Design: Daryl Missen – https://vinilo.com.au/
Filming: Chocolate Studios: https://chocolatestudios.com.au
Executive Producer: George Donikian: https://www.donikianmedia.com.au/

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She was 40 years old, newly separated, and a senior marketing executive with 25 years when she stepped onto a dating app for the first time. And the man she met, Max Tavita, did not exist.

Behind the name was Hamish McLaren: one of Australia's most prolific conmen. A man who weaponised psychology, manufactured credibility, and ran the same intimate fraud playbook for 30 years across multiple continents. His estimated global losses: up to $100 million. Tracy Hall lost $317,000 - her superannuation, her financial foundation. And she was the only one of his 15 Australian victims in a romantic relationship with him.

Today, Tracy is an international keynote speaker, the author of The Last Victim, and one of Australia's most authoritative voices in scam prevention and fraud psychology. She has turned the hardest chapter of her life into a mission.

In this conversation, Di Gillett and Tracy Hall examine how sophisticated scammers operate: the psychological tactics, the manufactured trust, the exploitation of vulnerability windows. They also tackle the systemic failures: why dating platforms still operate without meaningful identity verification, why financial crime victims are treated differently to victims of physical crime, and what 'trust literacy' means as a practical, learnable skill in the age of AI and deepfakes.

We explore/Key takeaways:
Why everyone has a window of vulnerability
The psychological architecture of intimate fraud, step by step
Tracy's 'trust literacy' framework for holding trust and critical thinking in the same hand
Practical red flags to recognise manipulation before it takes hold - including in the age of AI and deepfakes
Why victims of financial crime deserve the same recognition as victims of physical crime
How to rebuild when it feels like your world has been dismantled.

Chapters

14:06 Understanding the Scammer's Mindset
17:48 Psychological Architecture of Fraud
23:01 Rebuilding Trust After Betrayal
24:46 Victims of Financial Crime: A Neglected Perspective
30:15 Trust Literacy: Navigating a Distrustful World
34:07 Identifying Red Flags in Various Contexts

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Who is Tracy Hall?
Tracy Hall is an international keynote speaker, author and fraud prevention advocate. In 2016, she became the last known victim of Hamish McLaren, one of Australia's most notorious conmen, losing $317,000 in superannuation savings after an 18-month relationship with a man who had fabricated an entire identity. She did not retreat. She wrote the memoir The Last Victim and today travels the globe educating organisations, governments and individuals on the psychology of scams, trust literacy, and financial crime prevention.

Find Tracy at:
Website https://tracyhall.com.au
Resources https://tracyhall.com.au/resources
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyhall1975
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tracyleehall/?hl=en

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Contact https://powerofwomen.com.au/contact/

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Executive Producer: George Donikian: https://www.donikianmedia.com.au/

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Kudos to Janine Allis for being outspoken on the impact the Federal Budget will have on business and aspiration.

Founders are calling it a tax on ambition. The rules changed after the risk was already taken. And the people this reform claims to help will be the ones paying for it.
Janine Allis built Boost Juice Bars from a single store into a global retail network, backed founders as an investor, and mentors the next generation through The Business Academy. Whilst she has no doubts as to whether having a go is worth it, she certainly has questions around the fairness of changing the rules, and the viability of pursuing business opportunities is Australia.

In this episode, Di and Janine Allis discuss the fallout from the Federal Budget - the CGT changes, negative gearing reforms, and whether the divide between a young founder and one with decades invested is about to get a lot wider.

The Budget didn’t kill ambition, but it made it a whole lot more expensive.

We explore:

• Why Janine calls these tax changes a tax on ambition, not a correction.
• What a Budget like this teaches an aspiring entrepreneur before they've even started.
• Why the 25-year-old founder and the 55-year-old founder are not taking the same hit.
• Why Australia's capital gains tax rate is now a signal to build elsewhere.
• Janine's advice for the next female founder considering the leap.

Key takeaways:

• The founders taking the biggest hit are the ones this reform claims to protect.
• Ambition survives bad policy. It just gets more expensive to hold onto.
• Having a go was always a risk. This Budget raised the price of taking it.

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Who is Janine Allis?

Janine Allis is one of Australia’s most distinguished entrepreneurs, and stands as a testament to what can be achieved with vision and determination. Her entrepreneurial journey began at the age of 32 from her kitchen bench, while juggling the responsibilities of three children, Janine has since cultivated a global empire rooted in her lived and learned experiences. With over 580 stores worldwide, her businesses serve as a model of global success and expansion and through The Business academy she mentors the next wave of entrepreneurs coming through.

Find Janine at:

Websites:
https://www.janineallis.com.au/business-academy/
https://thebusinessacademy.com.au/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/janineallis/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/janine_allis

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Executive Producer: George Donikian: https://www.donikianmedia.com.au/

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When does experience stop being valued? At what age? Experienced women are being systematically sidelined from the workforce from the age of 40. The average unemployment timeline for over-50s in Australia is 86 weeks. Cognitive peak occurs in the late 50s. And the retirement age in Australia is 67. It’s 65 in New Zealand. You do the math. Yet, organisations continue to treat experience as a liability while calling it something more palatable such as restructuring, over-qualified, budget constraints.

In this episode, Di Gillett and Jacqueline Freeman get straight to the point. This is not a feel-good episode. It is a thought leadership conversation with real intellectual teeth, and actionable insights for the woman who has ever felt the system beginning to look through her - rather than at her.
Your experience isn’t baggage. It’s leverage.

We explore:

💡 Age discrimination in the workplace
💡 Retirement age and employment challenges
💡 Unconscious bias in hiring practices
💡 The mental health impact of age discrimination
💡 The value of older workers
💡 Strategies to combat workplace discrimination
💡 The future of age inclusivity in employment

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Who is Jacqueline Freeman?
Jacqueline Freeman has spent three decades at the top of media and advertising. In 2025 she founded 58 & Unapologetic after a LinkedIn post about ageism went viral, making her one of the key authorities on age discrimination in the workforce, in the Southern Hemisphere. She writes and speaks on ageism, visibility and is a passionate advocate for the economic case for experience.

Find Jacqueline at:

Website https://58andunapologetic.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinefreeman-763ab891
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/58andunapologetic/

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Ultra-processed food now makes up 40% of the average Australian diet. In America, it's 70%. And we are following that curve. Kate Save has spent 20 years on the front line of what happens to bodies when people eat what the food industry tells them is food. As a clinical dietitian, exercise physiologist, diabetes educator, and founder of Be Fit Food, she has watched chronic disease accelerate, mental health deteriorate, and a healthcare system that responds to illness rather than preventing it.

This conversation does not gloss over the impact of; we are what we eat. We interrogate the weight loss drug industry, dismantle the myth of BMI, name the crisis in preventative health, and lay out exactly why ultra-processed food is not a grey area.

Kate also delivers three specific, actionable changes every Australian woman can make today. No 12-week program. No sign-up. Just the truth about food, and what to do with it.

Key topics:
Why ultra-processed food is not a grey area — and how to identify it
The weight loss drug industry: what no one is telling you about long-term reliance
Why BMI is an unreliable health metric and what to measure instead
The sick care system versus a genuine healthcare system — and the cost of that gap
The link between diet and mental health, including a 32% remission rate for depression with a Mediterranean diet versus 7% with counselling alone
How body composition, visceral fat and muscle mass are the real markers of health
Three practical changes every Australian woman can make today
How to navigate food choices during travel, busy schedules and social eating
The truth about carbohydrate intake as we age — and why muscle mass is non-negotiable

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Who is Kate Save?

Kate Save is a clinical dietitian, exercise physiologist, diabetes educator, and the CEO and Founder of Be Fit Food - Australia's leading doctor and dietitian-designed meal program. With over 20 years on the front line of nutrition and chronic disease, Kate has worked across private hospital bariatric clinics, university nutrition education, and clinical practice before building a product that put whole food where synthetic meal replacements had dominated for decades. Kate is a proud mother of two and has spent her career advocating for food as the first medicine.

Find Kate at:

Be Fit Food https://befitfood.com.au/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/katesavebefitfood/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/katesave/

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Audio Editing + Sound Design: Daryl Missen – https://vinilo.com.au/
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Executive Producer: George Donikian: https://www.donikianmedia.com.au/

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