Village Connections are conversations highlighting and connecting women in their light and genius. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and we too can embrace a village to raise ourSELVES and each other.

In this episode, Tara Lee had the pleasure of connecting with Michelle Gardiner. Michelle created The Aspire Series in early 2019 after many years worth of facilitation, social work and coaching experience.

It is a channel for what she wanted to see created in the world. The things that excite her most are sharing about and creating social impact and change. The kind of ideas that shifts people beyond their own experiences and has them realise how impactful we can be in our communities and the world.

She firmly believes that we are here not only for ourselves, but to be both a beacon and soft landing place for others, and to leave the world better just by us being here.

The best bit about this is that there are things that we can do in each and...

Who am I in this world?

First up, I am many many things

I am from Melbourne and I live in Bali- I found myself making a super quick decision to abort all travel plans and jump on the next flight from Hoi An in March last year and to hightail it to Bali, and to move in with a local family only a few days before borders closed and about a week before flights off the island stopped. I’ve always been best at navigating crisis While I now live independently to the local family, it has been a year that has been unlike any other in my lifetime. I had packed up life in Melbourne to begin a new and very unknown chapter, after being a Social Worker and Coach for around 14 years.

I had a few dreams about what I wanted to create for myself, and my re-launch of Aspire is a big piece of it! I originally launched Aspire two years ago to explore lots of ideas that had been brewing for a long time, while I was working full time. At the time, it was largely experiential...