Stay In The Loop With Lucy

Can you imagine getting an opportunity to go to a youth science forum and finding yourself years later saying that was a decision that had the most enormous impact on where you are today? Well meet Rebecca Fry, a member of Rotaract and Rotary. Also Janelle Speight and Lucy Dahill share the fun of the Novus Foundation Gala Dinner - with a Great Gatsby theme. There is so much to discuss about who runs it, who benefits and who does all the hard work! Time for some self care I suspect!

This is an up close and personal interview with Gabrielle Caplice and Annette Baker which will be a wonderful support to anyone who is open to bringing more understanding to loving relationships. They share what it feels like to not fit 'the picture' of what we are brought up to believe a relationship is supposed to look like.

There are four parts to this interview with Rob Carlton and each gives an insight into the man we see on our screens and hear through our radios. A Logie Award winning actor, a writer, a story teller and a man who talks about the importance of sensitivity in men. We have such a long way to go in this respect in life, men still feel they will not get work if they share how they are feeling yet the pressure of not sharing how they are feeling can sometimes have irreversible results.

Join Lucy Dahill as she talks to Chris and Aileen Savill, the co-founders of United Tradies a fledgling local business formed from the desire to create a business that not only made people’s lives easier but also could help change lives for the better. It is a win win really - you get work done by tradies who believe in community and someone in the local community gets an opportunity to get a project done each month sponsored by United Tradies and the awesome team on their books.

Sex offences brings a reaction, but add the word child in that context and you have violent reactions and responses from most people. My guests today are Sharon van Doorene and Naomi Millar-Powell who work with the families, partners and ex-partners of child sex offenders and offer us some insight into the ripple effect of having a convicted child sex offender in your life.

It is a great privilege to get up close and personal on a subject like God and Religion. Wayne, Nasrin, Andrew and Liane shared very different perspectives and yet with a connection to one common denominator, and that is Love with a capitol L! I have no doubt this is a longer conversation and there are many more stories to share but for now, enjoy and contemplate if your way of living is reflecting the Love you know you want to see in the world. Let's Be the change we want to see.

6 Women from the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai area got together to bring a Festival celebrating women and the importance of building self care to the leafy suburbs of the North Shore. 7 days, 30 events, 21 organisations, 20 businesses and 33 stalls later the conversation has been well and truly started!

A diverse mix of how and why local people go into politics and how it impacts on their lives as well as a check in with Steve Plain after he takes 6 children in wheelchairs up Mt Kosciuszko with 100 volunteers to make it happen. Don't forget it is the International Women's Festival Week so an update and a summary are also included!

When close to 9 out of 10 people will die from a lifestyle related illness we talk to Wal Edwards who is turning 102 this year and Dr Ross Grant who researches how lifestyle, exercise, stress, diet and emotions produce changes in our biochemistry and lead to either health or disease.

Mary Jo McVeigh set up Cara House in Sydney a place where children, parents and families are offered space to heal from the impacts of trauma and abuse. This raw, honest and empowering interview is one for us all regardless of background or having children in your life. As Mary Jo says - you are never too old for love and to heal.

Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai are celebrating International Women's Day with a program of events across a Festival week. There are menopause talks, breakfasts, plays, opportunities to celebrate women and big up some local men too!

Big events cannot happen without support from local businesses and here we highlight the businesses that have supported our Hornsby Ku-ring-gai International Women's Day Festival Week

Big events cannot happen without support from local businesses and here we highlight the businesses that have supported our Hornsby Ku-ring-gai International Women's Day Festival Week

This week’s show on Stay in the Loop with Lucy is a story about the intergenerational consequences of war. Does war end when the soldiers come home? or when the last bullet is fired? or is there a deeper intergenerational effect, perhaps even, affecting epigenetics? an interview with Elkan Spiller, the producer of touching, witty and haunting documentary about his cousin Hime ( I am working on pronouncing that correctly!). Both men were born in

Today was my monthly Rotary show where I co-present with Ian Stuart from Turramurra Rotary. We were joined in the studio today by Tanya Plain, the older sister of the subject of our show today - Steve Plain a man who is in the middle of 4 month world record breaking challenge to climb the 7 highest summits on the 7 continents in 4 months after breaking his neck and no-one thinking he would walk again just 3 years ago. He is 1 for 7 and about to tackle number 2. Without the care of some amazing Life Guards, excellent care in emergency and support from Spinal Cure Australia, Steve’s outlook might have been very different.

Do you have a picture of what you think intimacy is and isn't? Do you feel your level of openness to intimacy depends on who you are with? If the answer to either of those is yes then suspend that stand for an hour and join us as we discuss intimacy on a whole new level.

Are you desperate to find out why your New Year pledges for behaviour change are not working? Or why your children have such extreme behaviours? Tanya Curtis a Behavioural Specialist talks to Lucy Dahill and shares some simple yet groundbreaking strategies that help bring understanding not judgement and therefore lasting behaviour change.

Michael Crawford and Evan Burrell joins Lucy Dahill in the 2HHH studios to talk about the magic of Christmas and the gift of giving. In a time-poor and distraction-rich world your presence, your love and your connection are the greatest gifts you can offer another.

Has the art of appreciation been reduced to a functional necessity as opposed to a foundational part of our day to day? Hear from a number of people who have considered how this simple choice to appreciate who they are and what they bring in life changes things on a profound level.

It only takes one person to connect with another person and to have an impulse to support a wider community for magic to happen. The Friends of Mount Colah community group have done just that! Listen to Jan Forbes and Mariko Smith share how they participate in a community group with no other purpose that to close a gap which left vulnerable people feeling alone. Find out how you can get involved in local events or set up a community group in your local area.