Recently I spoke at a fundraising dinner in Melbourne for the Wish to Walk foundation.
The organization was formed by Catherine Martin and David Winter for their daughter Isabel. An excerpt from the website www.wishtowalk tells their story…..
“Eleven year old Isabel Martin has yet to experience the joy of taking her first step. An operation to remove [...]

The past few months have been hectic, which might explain my lack of blogging of late!
Not only have I traveled Australia speaking and running workshops, I have been fortunate that my work has also taken me to Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand, the USA and France…all in the space of a few short months.
In Singapore I [...]

Since hearing of the tragic passing of Michael Jackson over a week ago, I have been filled with overwhelming sadness and loss. Why did this affect me like this? I wondered. After much soul searching, and the shedding of many tears, I realized that his death represented more than just the loss of a iconic [...]

Six years after my accident, my right arm began to ache. In fact, it was so painful that I thought it could possibly be a stress fracture.
“Don’t worry”, the doctor told me, “probably just a strain, try to rest it.” she said.
Well, I had a baby to care for at the time, so resting an [...]

Whilst traveling in the back of a taxi cab on my way to Melbourne airport, I had an unusual encounter. Having just finished a speaking engagement, I was feeling pretty tired, and didn’t have much energy to engage in conversation.
Besides, the taxi driver that had picked me up for my hour long trip to the [...]

When I was writing my first book, ‘Never Tell Me Never’, the conversation would invariably go like this…
“What do you do for a job?”
“Well, I am writing a book.”
“Really, what sort of book?
“Well, actually, it’s an autobiography.”
“Oh really, who’s it about?”Â
I wish I had a dollar for every person who has asked this question, I [...]

It was such a beautiful day, I decided I would take my bike off the wind trainer and venture out to the bike path for a cycle. I don’t often take my bike off the back porch, which I suppose could be understood considering I was run over by a truck, died, came back, spent [...]

As an athlete I always trained on the hills. I loved them! That is how I earned the nickname, ‘Janine the Machine’. Life is full of hills and challenges. We need to do more then to take them on, we need to learn to love them, because when we can do that, there truly will [...]

Where will you be in one year from now?
I recently spoke to an IT company at Acer Arena ( the Olympic venue) at Homebush Bay, Sydney. The traffic was incredible, thousands of cars! Wow, all for me, I thought. Well, actually, I was later to find out that “Kings of Leon” were playing at the [...]