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Speaker 1: Job Mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Well, last year I was lucky enough to be a

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Speaker 2: judge for the Women of the Future Awards. This is

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary event. It recognizes and celebrates Australia's amazing young

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Speaker 2: female trail blazers. I've been so impressed by the change makers,

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Speaker 2: very impressive young women and the woman behind it all

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Speaker 2: is the editor in chief at the Australian Women's Weekly,

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Speaker 2: Nicole Byers, who joins us now. Hello Nicole, good morning.

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Speaker 2: So you're once again scouting for young impressive women. I

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Speaker 2: know the criteria is women aged eighteen to thirty four

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Speaker 2: with any charity, innovation, idea or business that aims to

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Speaker 2: bring positive change to the lives of others. What are

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Speaker 2: some of the examples that we've seen over recent years.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Amanda, as you know, having vidgit the event,

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Speaker 1: it's quite a diverse range of women that we kind

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Speaker 1: of uncover in this process and it really is the

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Speaker 1: most exciting time of the year for May I've got

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Speaker 1: to say, because it's so inspiring. We've had some amazing

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Speaker 1: women from tech tech entrepreneurs to women that are kind

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Speaker 1: of going around the country encouraging young girls to get

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Speaker 1: into STEM. We've had some amazing charities. I think you've

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Speaker 1: had Madeline Butner on the show. She's got some Streamers,

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Speaker 1: which is a company that looks after young cares around

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Speaker 1: the country. And she was a young care of herself

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Speaker 1: at the age of about eight or seven looking after

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Speaker 1: her brother, and that from that lived experience, she realized

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Speaker 1: there wasn't a support network, so she went on to

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Speaker 1: create this amazing foundation. So last year, I'm sure you'll

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Speaker 1: remember at the event, there wasn't a dry eye in

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Speaker 1: the house and we had the doctor Ashley On who

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Speaker 1: had suffered a tragic steelbirth and has gone on to

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Speaker 1: create an amazing community for women in that situation when

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Speaker 1: she realized there wasn't support. So it's a really diverse

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Speaker 1: group of women, but they are incredibly impressive.

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Speaker 3: And then there're no dopes, that's for sure. What about

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Speaker 3: Carolina last year with the sodium battery thing that she.

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Speaker 1: Invented amazing And we had a nineteen year old young

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Speaker 1: inventor who had already invented a couple of things, including

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Speaker 1: a breast radiation shield for women going through FEMA, And

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Speaker 1: you think what was I doing at nineteen years old?

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Speaker 1: I certainly wasn't inventing a life changing technology, So they

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Speaker 1: are really really impressive. Girl, one of the.

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Speaker 2: Previous contestants, apparently from years ago, is now one of

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Speaker 2: the world's most influential female engineers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Marita Chang I think you may be talking about.

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Speaker 1: She is a tech entrepreneur. She developed this Teller Presence robot,

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Speaker 1: those robots that can kind of let kids with cancer

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Speaker 1: attend school virtually, and she's doing amazing things with virtual

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Speaker 1: reality and developing robotic arms and all to kind of

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Speaker 1: enhance the lives of people living with disabilities or illness.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, again, incredible achievement.

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Speaker 2: I just always, as you say, feel quite inspired when

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Speaker 2: you come away from a day like that, because you know,

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Speaker 2: it's very easy to sneer at the word influencer because

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Speaker 2: we think of someone with enormous lips and a Brazilian

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Speaker 2: bum lift, and that's what influencer is. But these young

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Speaker 2: women are influencers in a very different way, aren't they.

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Speaker 1: They really are, And it really does it does your heartgood,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it coming away from that event to think that

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Speaker 1: there are so many young women out there that really

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Speaker 1: are aultruistically describing to change the world. Whether it's in

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Speaker 1: their community or the country or in some phases across

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Speaker 1: the world. So I really do think it's great for

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Speaker 1: our readers as well to have exposure to women and

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Speaker 1: young people doing these amazing things. And as you know,

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Speaker 1: the network that the Women's Weekly has through our million

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Speaker 1: plus readers, but also through the frends of the weekly

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Speaker 1: in politics and business and in media like yourself, who

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Speaker 1: really helped give these young women a platform. And that

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Speaker 1: is what kind of encourages them, helps them as much

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Speaker 1: as the prize money is just having that exposure and

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Speaker 1: being able to really shine a light on their achievements.

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Speaker 3: And I managed so great as well. I always thought

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Speaker 3: you were just there for the free lunch.

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Speaker 2: And do people nominate themselves? And O last year's when

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Speaker 2: it was nominated by her mum. How do people go

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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, now there's a lot of word of mouth

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Speaker 1: through the university systems and through the network of women

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Speaker 1: that have been through this in the last nine years

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Speaker 1: that have extended it out to other people they know,

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Speaker 1: but often it is family members as well, So we

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Speaker 1: really encourage anyone that knows a woman between eighteen and

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Speaker 1: thirty four is a woman between eighteen and thirty four,

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Speaker 1: who's striving I has a project that they think can

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Speaker 1: really help change the life of others. To just get

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Speaker 1: in there and get their nominations in because we really

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Speaker 1: love uncovering them and helping them along.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we'll head to you now to love dot com

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Speaker 3: dot au slash Women of the Future twenty twenty one

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Speaker 3: and maybe at next to his lunch more manageable sized

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Speaker 3: pieces of food, So Amanda.

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Speaker 2: I said Nicole. I was sitting next to Elizabeth Broderick,

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Speaker 2: the former sex discrimination commissionary, fabulous woman, and I was

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Speaker 2: trying to act grown up and opened my mouth to

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Speaker 2: speak and food fell out. So that's how classy I am.

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Speaker 1: I do recall or going down my white dress at

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Speaker 1: one of the events. Also, so you're not gonna lie

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Speaker 1: in there, Amanda.

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Speaker 3: We all struggle, think guys all eating from a trough?

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Speaker 2: Please, we should have a nosebag each age.

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Speaker 3: Nicole, thank you for a thank you for joy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thanks, Nicole

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