Nicole Gibson
From: Gold Coast
Lives: Los Angeles, USA

This is who I am in the world:

I am first and foremost a messenger. I always made my frame that love is the master and I’m it’s student. I try to carry myself each day in a way that that is a reminder that I’m not done and I do not have the answers. I am constantly learning and in a state of humility. I am an eternal student. Love continuously initiates me and it takes me outside my own ideas of who I should be. It allows me to be flexible and to breathe it and not be so attached to who I should be.

My vision has become other people’s vision, through Love Out Loud. It is insane. The community make it their own and I constantly learn through them. I’m not the only one who created it and so I also get to be a part of it.

It can be very easy to fall into significance and power. Power chooses us, it’s not something that we choose, yet we are responsible for it in our pursuit. We all seek to belong to something bigger and to be leader...

Name: Raluca (Ray of Sun)

Age: 35

Born in: Romania

Living in: Paradise

Who I am in the world…

In the world I’m known as a woman who loves what she does and does what she loves. 

Most people know me as Raluca the Graphic Designer, mostly because I’ve been doing it for more than 17 years and it’s also the only job I ever had. 

I started working at 18 in a factory with no heat in the middle of winter, with a lousy paycheck doing what I thought graphic design was. It was one side of graphic design but not the side that would truly fulfill my creativity. After 3 months at that company I got fired because of lack of communication on a project. But that didn’t stop me from becoming the designer I knew I could be. (An award winning graphic designer, might I add.) 

I applied for other jobs and after moving from one company to another, 6 years ago I took a leap of faith, quit my 9 to 5 and became a freelancer. And it was the best decision ever.

I love being a graphic designe...

Name: Jennifer Sharp

Age: 57

Where you are from: Newcastle Australia

Where do you live: Newcastle Australia

This is who I am in the world:

Because of words spoken to me by males in my life, except my grandfather, I truly believed from a very early age, until I was in my late forties, that I was a useless human being, not worthy of anything or anyone. I was too ugly to be loved and had a totally worthless brain. I learned not to speak, not to have a voice. I learned not to display any emotion; I had become void of all feelings losing the ability to shed a tear. I was a faceless, useless, emotionally void human being. For a long time I kept surrounding myself with these people, continuing the negative pattern over and over and I continued my course of emotional destruction.

To this day I struggle with accepting praise, not always knowing how to respond, or if I even should respond or if I should trust the person giving the praise. I work on this every day through meditation. ...

Name: Lisa Cybaniak Gustafsson

Age: 47

Where you are from: Canada

Where you live: England

This is who I am in the world: After surviving a decade of child abuse, from psychological and physical to sexual, my teen years found me safe from my abuser but in danger from myself. Because of the words and actions of another person, I truly believed I was stupid, ugly, worthless and useless, nobody would ever love me, and I would never be anything to this world. I honestly believed that someone else needed to come along and show me my value. Of course, that was never going to happen – not because I was not valuable, but because I did not believe I had any value. Therefore, any time someone was kind to me, I assumed it must be because they wanted something from me or were laughing at me behind my back. I simply could not accept love or kindness from another person. In fact, most times I could not even see that it was there. I spent a long time looking for someone else to save me from my tor...

Name: Allegra Franziska Lipanje

Age: 37

Where I am from: Trieste, Italy

Where I live: Bali, Indonesia

1. This is who I am in the world…

On paper I am a jewellery designer and a business owner. Who am I the way I see it? Simply a maker of tiny objects. You could say I am an animist in that way, because I believe in the energy of inanimate things. I play with symbolism a lot. 

I think jewellery in particular relies heavily on symbols, and this becomes powerful because its a type of object that is worn close to your body, that people assign personal meaning to. 

I narrate a story with gaps through the objects I make. I say 'with gaps', because we all have a different set of symbols and signs in our heads, which is tied to our personal history. 

Therefore the moment you wear one of my objects, your story becomes part of it too and the meaning may change. 

2. This is the story I want rewritten for women…

I don't believe that any woman's story can be rewritten, as...

Liv Power Ryan

Age: 30

Where you are from: Dublin, Éire (Ireland)

Where you live: Dublin, Éire (Ireland)

1. This is who I am in the world….

I find it difficult to define myself as I’m definitely someone who is constantly changing and evolving - this in itself is something I’ve realised is actually a gift and not something to be ashamed of. I’ve always struggled with the way things are set up within our systems as I see them as inherently anti-Nature and anti-People. I’ve realised the antidote for this uncomfortable understanding is to offer solutions.

And so, writer, change-believer, mentor may be words that can give an idea of who I am. My work focuses on reconnecting us to our innate and Natural connections through the lens of Climate, sustainable living and their relationship with Wellbeing and what it means to be Human..

2. This is the story that I want rewritten for women…..

I want to see women realise their inherent power and potential to share and change the wor...

Annie Wheeler

Gippsland, Australia

Who am I in the world? Well, my first thought is ‘I am me’, unapologetically me. I’m a woman, a mother, a wife, a sister, a granddaughter, a friend. I am a woman who was raised by her grandparents and who took a long time to find my own identity within this world. I love adventure also, whether it’s playing imaginary games with my boys, planning holidays, doing adrenaline pumping activities. 

I’m also someone who is extremely passionate about children’s rights and safety, someone who feels big emotions and has a strong sense of fighting injustice. I am a fighter and I am strong. 

This question really made me think and reflect. Having gone through a pregnancy in a pandemic and then a birth, being on maternity leave in lockdowns, there were times when I thought I was losing myself and the uncontrollable controlled me. But, these times have also allowed me to grow, it’s allowed me to refocus and to ‘stop’ in time and enjoy (as I was a very f...

Sally Anne

This is who I am in the world – a woman, a conscious thought leader and advocate for compassion,

creativity and self-expression. As an artist I explore my creation life force with wonder, openness

and gratitude. As I writer I challenge my perspective of the world through my words. As a wife I

always come back to gratitude for my partnership. Being independent and in flow with another is a

journey of humility, self-respect and unconditional love - a dance of movement and stillness. As a

mother I feel abundant in the overflowing love received from my children. Receiving is sometimes

difficult to acknowledge, I prefer to be a giver, but when they are equal and balanced my world is

simply beautiful and inspiring. As a conscious leader, not above any other woman, but conscious in

the sense of thinking and then take action, I lead from the heart. I continue to work on myself for my

most authentic alignment and re-alignment of my values in giving back to the world. I love...

Gypsy Ray Bast 

Ageless wonder 

International citizen, born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee dancing, singing, and acting. 

I moved to Hollywood's entertainment industry for Art school and to work in film and TV, stage shows, and teach children's theater. 

I follow my passion, talent, and purpose. I have lived, studied, performed, guided and taught to thousands of people. Globally I have worked extensively to inspire and uplift my audiences. I've had unique opportunities to train Cirque de Soleil shows, and perform for E entertainment while hanging upside down from a chandelier... which healed my neck compression! 

I am a survivor of multiple car accidents, a coma, head concussion syndromes, and trauma from rape and mind control. I've learned tools to heal myself in body, mind, and spirit with the highest level of integrity and skill. It not easy and many days require deep self-love and care! 

I teach Pilates & Dance, Yoga & Meditation. I've developed Yoga programs for...

Anne Carr 

47 years old 

From: Western Australia

Lives Melbourne, Australia

This is who I am in the World.

I am Spiritual Goddess, a mother and a mentor to my six-year-old son Harry, a wife, a friend, a sister, a healer, a lover of crystals, words of wisdom and quotes, I’m a seeker of knowledge, a big kid at heart and I’m passionate about people and life.  I’m a lover of plants and nature, a lover of exquisite cars, and a sponsor of children and animals. 

I’m kind, honest, faithful, sensitive, funny, intelligent and I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have a sense of humour, I love my own company, I take pride in my strength of independence, having left my old self back in Western Australia to start life anew in Melbourne. I have always followed my own path and am not easily influenced by others.

 This is the story that I want rewritten for women

My life, like many, has been influenced by childhood sexual abuse. I was hit by a short stick by no fault of my own and fell under the...