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Sabina Read is a psychologist who consults with individuals, couples, children, families, groups, and organisations. She works with clients addressing marriage and relationship challenges, transitional issues across the lifespan, parenting and family concerns, workplace issues, and mental health.

Sabina is also a trained phone counsellor, an experienced facilitator of groups and workshops on topics including wellbeing, sleep, parenting, grief, anxiety and eating disorders; and she is a presenter with leading speaker’s bureau, Saxton’s.

Sabina is the resident psychologist and social commentator on radio station 3AW’s Afternoons program, a regular contributor on national television including The Morning Show and The Daily Edition, and is listed on the national Media Referral Database for the Australian Psychological Society.

Sabina is passionate about addressing the universality of the human experience with the hope of normalising the joy and struggles we all experience. Sabina is also a communications expert with significant local and international experience in PR and marketing roles.

Sue Yorston commenced with Relationships Australia Victoria as manager of the Ballarat Centre and was recently appointed to the role of Senior Manager, Social Inclusion and Diversity. In this role, Sue is responsible for helping RAV to tailor its services to better meet the needs of all people of Victoria as well as developing new opportunities. Sue is also a media spokesperson for the organisation.

Sue has a broad career as a consultant in community services, having worked across multiple sectors to develop and manage projects across all levels of government, with a focus on innovative service development.

Sue has also worked for 20 years in the mental health sector where she gained knowledge of mental illness and disorders and honed her client intervention skills, working therapeutically with people experiencing mental health issues as a result of trauma.

Before joining RAV in July 2010, Sue worked with the Department of Human Services overseeing all operational aspects of accreditation processes in the homelessness sector.

George McEncroe is the CEO and founder of Shebah, Australia's ridesharing service for women. While trying to safely get her four kids where they needed to go and support her family as a single mum, she came up with an idea for a business: ridesharing that allowed an all-women fleet of drivers to earn income whenever suited them, and that provided worry-free transport for women and children. Now that she's turned her idea into a reality, she's added CEO to the list of roles on her resumé, which include stand-up comedian, breakfast radio host, ABC producer and more.

George started her career in comedy after becoming a Victorian Finalist for Raw Comedy. Her debut one-woman show for Melbourne International Comedy Festival won her a Best New-Comer nomination. George has appeared on Spicks and Specks, Can of Worms and is a regular guest co-host on The Circle. She can be heard on 3AW, 774 and Radio Australia as well as occasionally popping up on Triple R.

Nelly Thomas has been described as one of Australia’s most natural comedians. An award-winning performer, she was listed as one of Australia’s 'most innovative thinkers' in the Age's The Zone and was featured on the ABC’s Big Ideas: The Smartest Stuff on TV, Radio and Online. 

Nelly is a regular guest on ABC Local Radio and Radio National and writes extensively in the print and online media, including as a columnist for New Matilda. 

She has published a memoir, What Women Want (Random House, 2012) and has just released her first children’s book Some Girls (Piccolo Nero, 2018). Some Girls is an early childhood book aimed at fulfilling one of Nelly’s life-long passions – instilling confidence in little girls through challenging gender and other stereotypes. An accompanying book for boys is due out in mid-2018.

Nelly has been a stand-up comedian for 16 years. She stumbled into comedy after winning the Triple J Raw Comedy competition in 2003. Since then she’s done all the things comedians normally do – toured Australia and overseas, established a Melbourne Comedy room and performed at hundreds of gigs and a couple of dozen festivals. She’s also directed shows by some incredible comedians including Maria Bamford, Candy Bowers and Stella Young.

But alongside her normal comedy work, Nelly has forged a specialist career in comedic health promotion and is highly sought after as a health promotion speaker and MC. It is here that she can combine her comedic and communication skills with her passion for health and well-being; as understood in a whole-of-society context. 

In 2016 Nelly was very proud to be named an Ambassador for Jean Hailes for Women’s Health – Australia’s leading women’s health organisation.

Nelly lives in Melbourne with her partner Lachlan, their two daughters, a grumpy poodle, a stupid labradoodle and one very resilient goldfish. She is a devotee of terrible reality television and was once an under-13s Girl’s BMX Champion.