Hello Claire

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Claire is

A motivational speaker.

A Clarity coach.

A charming and cheerful lady.

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After school I became a science graduate, double majoring in Genetics and Immunology, then I spent some time in a hospital lab looking down a microscope; but that life agency did not ‘speak to me’. I shifted my energy and moved into a life of entrepreneurialism, creating multiple small businesses, in various areas. Catering, Animal Care – with a focus on Dog walking then a Hand-made greeting cards enterprise. I travelled the world multiple times, worked trouble shooting in the hospitality industry.

In 1994 I had studied a postgraduate in Community Health. I coupled this with a unit of study in Sexual Health Counselling at Sydney University. Whilst working for myself, I took the opportunity to expanded my self-awareness. I travelled to Melbourne and Sydney to attain a Diploma of Life Coaching. Through learning the Life Coaching lessons, the thing I became most aware of was that the first person I was coaching, was me! Getting to know me, who I am and what I could become, because as Brene Brown says “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

In 1996 I was diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis. When I was diagnosed I was told by the specialist that there was no cure, that the best they could offer me was a slow slide into a wheelchair. I decided that this was not the future I accepted. I ran! Overseas I travelled, I partied, I worked and eventually returned to Australia when I fell pregnant with my son.

 

Inspired by my imaginative son, I listened to my inner creative voice and moved into the arts sector. I registered Portfolio Productions in 2005 & as an Arts Worker I spent the next 14 years creating events and theatre shows whilst being a Mum, living in a small town called Port Douglas.

I do not think of myself as a person with a disability. In fact I use the terminology ably challenged because in my mind “a challenge is something I can rise up to!”. With respect to my un-wellness, I have spent the last 17 years researching and practicing forms of alternative healing (another term I don’t really like).

 

I have been told I have an exceptional capacity to see the big picture! Now as my physical capability is compromised, I have amalgamated all of my life skills and become a Wellness Motivational Speaker and a Clarity Coach.
 

In 2020 at the onset of COVID-19 and the shutdown of the world and the decimation of the arts sector in Australia I decided to re-invent one more time. I partnered with my old flatmate Anna and together we have created and produced a podcast called Our Human Experience. We interview Artists, Sports stars and regular people recording their remarkable stories of rising up!