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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda, so this was a

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Speaker 1: fun challenge. Mama Mia asked seven Australian women. Melissaly On

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Speaker 1: was one of them. Norelda Jacobs to Rea Pit a

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Speaker 1: variety of women to write a letter to their twelve

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Speaker 1: year old self and you and me. This was in

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Speaker 1: light of last Sunday being International Day of the Girl.

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Speaker 2: So these women are big deals. You're a big deal.

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Speaker 1: That's how I started. You're a big deal.

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Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Can I read you what I had? I just sort

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Speaker 1: of put it in point from It was the easiest

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Speaker 1: thing I've ever written, because I just thought, my twelve

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Speaker 1: year old self, bang, here it is. Here we go,

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Speaker 1: dear twelve year old Amanda. I'm writing this to you

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Speaker 1: from your future kitchen. And guess what you've learnt to cook?

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Speaker 2: And you have a dog. Exciting.

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Speaker 1: I spent years nagging my parents to get a dog.

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Speaker 2: That's right, when you let you have a dog.

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Speaker 1: Now, my dad grew up on a cane farm where

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Speaker 1: they were working animals. Dogs weren't pets, No dog dogs

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Speaker 1: weren't pets. And Dad said, you know, when you get

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Speaker 1: your own.

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Speaker 2: Place, when you get a cane fat.

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Speaker 1: When you're one hundred and fifty eight years old, it

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Speaker 1: can happen for you. And I've said there's a husband

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Speaker 1: and children too. The children came along when we I me, you,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to talk to my twelve old self.

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Speaker 1: We're in our late thirties. I know you think that's ancient,

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Speaker 1: but that's something I want to tell you. Don't fear

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Speaker 1: getting older. I'm going to get emotional. I don't know why,

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Speaker 1: because I'm thinking of my mum too. I said, it's great,

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Speaker 1: and don't worry that you don't shine early. Don't be

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Speaker 1: intimidated by people who seem so confident. Because it seems

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Speaker 1: that everyone else knows what they're doing, and everyone else

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Speaker 1: knows what they want and where they're going. It's okay

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Speaker 1: to muddle through, and as scary as it is, take

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Speaker 1: every opportunity that comes your way. Don't let fear or

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Speaker 1: lack of confidence stop you. Every new job I've been off,

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Speaker 1: it like beyond two thousand doing radio. All that stuff

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Speaker 1: was so fearful. My instinct was I wanted to say, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people who grasps at opportunities.

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Speaker 2: I've grasped I've had to force.

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Speaker 1: Myself to and that's where the payoff lies is taking

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Speaker 1: that leap of faith, doesn't it And if it doesn't

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Speaker 1: work out, You've still taken that leap of faith. And

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Speaker 1: I've said now I need to tell you to be

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Speaker 1: kind to Mum. Oh you will miss her every day,

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Speaker 1: and when your own kids come along, you will understand

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Speaker 1: that smothering love. And please take better care of treasures.

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Speaker 1: Letters from Mum, birth certificates, Auntie Aras's candlesticks. These were

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Speaker 1: these beautiful candlesticks. Well that's the thing. Mum's aunt, who

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Speaker 1: lives in America, gave Mum her old candlesticks. They had

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Speaker 1: dangly bits on them, and I remember distinctly the night

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Speaker 1: it happened. Mum and Dad were out. I took the

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Speaker 1: little hanging bits off and pretended they were ear rings,

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Speaker 1: and I lost them in our own home.

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Speaker 2: So before you wrote the letter, you've lost the stick

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Speaker 2: candlesticks or.

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Speaker 1: Read I'm hopeless, and Mum had to have try and

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Speaker 1: have some replacements made that never quite match. I now

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Speaker 1: have the candlesticks, but they're missing the dangly bits. And

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Speaker 1: I've said you will be a collector of crap but

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Speaker 1: you're el us with the stuff that matters. There will

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Speaker 1: be stings and hurts, but believe it or not, you'll

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Speaker 1: never get over not making the school netball team that time.

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Speaker 1: You know what, This one's still really hurts. So when

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Speaker 1: Jack doesn't make it into something, I say it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: I think, no, it does matter. I still remember I

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Speaker 1: was playing netball with the Ladybirds but didn't get on

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Speaker 1: a school team, and the sting of it still stays

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Speaker 1: with me. But I've said, you know what, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: These things will serve to make you a better friend,

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Speaker 1: a better parent, a bit broadcaster when you're a million

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Speaker 1: years old like I am. Now you're in for a

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Speaker 1: great ride, so relax, and I've ended with the most

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Speaker 1: emotional bit of all. You will meet Barry Manilow, but

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Speaker 1: you won't marry him.

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Speaker 2: Spoiler alert he's gay. What a bombshell I mentioned?

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Speaker 1: This stings never go away.

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Speaker 2: You'll be working with an enigmatic, attractive cohor.

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Speaker 1: When's that happening?

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Speaker 2: Wow? Things are looking at me emotional about that?

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Speaker 1: You still the earrings?

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Speaker 2: Good on you. It's seventeen past.

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Speaker 1: International Day of the Girl. Good on you, Good on you,

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Speaker 1: Thanks sir

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Speaker 2: With James and Amanda