Everyone Has A Story (Inspiring Life Lessons from Entrepreneurs, Athletes, and Adventurers)

She grew up in Allora on the Darling Downs, worked at a telephone exchange in Ipswich, and together with her late husband had the foresight to open one of Queensland's first 24-hour self-serve service stations on the Bruce Highway at a time when most Australians had never pumped their own fuel. Jocelyn Walker's story is one of hard work, sharp instincts, and very good timing - and that was just the first chapter.In this episode of Everyone Has a Story, Jocelyn talks about what it takes to build a business, her decades of philanthropic work with the University of the Sunshine Coast and LifeFlight, and why - long after she had every reason to slow down - she still has a diary that most people half her age couldn't keep up with. If you've ever wondered what purpose, legacy, and a life well-lived look like, this is the episode for you.

Laura Sinay has lived several lives inside one. Born in New York to Argentine parents, raised in Rio, she spent fifteen years as an academic studying how human culture shapes ecosystems across the Amazon basin, before a chance encounter with an algorithm convinced her the game was rigged against women who didn't write in English. She walked away from academia with her curiosity intact and her questions multiplying.Then her brother was murdered. And fourteen months later, a lump she'd been monitoring quietly for years became a four-centimetre emergency. What followed was cancer, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and a body that kept breaking long after the treatment was supposed to have ended.The book that came out of all of it, The Body Remembers, is unlike anything you've seen in a doctor's waiting room.Short sentences. White space. Childlike drawings that are, it turns out, a deliberate act of neuroscience. And at the centre of it, a concept so simple it's almost embarrassing that nobody thought of it sooner: what if, instead of thinking of the body as a machine, you understood it as a village? Today on Everyone Has A Story, Laura explains what happened when her own village went to war with itself, why five immunologists got it wrong, and what the medical system still doesn't tell you when cancer treatment ends, and they wish you good luck.