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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 1: 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. I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit of a big deal. Can I read you what

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Speaker 1: I had? And I just sort of put it in

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Speaker 1: point from It was the easiest thing I've ever written,

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Speaker 1: because I just thought, my twelve year old self, bang,

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Speaker 1: here it is. Here we go, dear twelve year old Amanda.

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Speaker 1: I'm writing this to you from your future kitchen. And

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Speaker 1: guess what you've learnt to cook? 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 1: That's right, when you let you have a dog. Now,

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

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

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Speaker 1: And Dad said, you know, when you get your own place,

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Speaker 1: when you get a cane fart. When you're one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty eight years old, it can happen for you.

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Speaker 1: And I've said there's a husband and children too. The

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Speaker 1: children came along when we I me, you, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to talk to my twelve old self. We're

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Speaker 1: 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

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

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Speaker 1: stuff 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 1: I've I've had to force myself to and that's where

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Speaker 1: the payoff lies is taking that leap of faith, doesn't

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Speaker 1: it And if it doesn't work out, you've still taken

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Speaker 1: that leap of faith. And I've said now I need

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Speaker 1: to tell you to be kind to Mum. You will

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Speaker 1: miss her every day, and when your own kids come along,

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Speaker 1: you will understand that smothering love. And please take better

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Speaker 1: care of treasures. Letters from Mum, birth certificates, Auntie Aras's candlesticks.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: the little hanging bits off and pretended they were earrings,

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

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Speaker 1: you wrote the letter, you've lost the stick 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. I've said,

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Speaker 1: you will be a collector of crap, but you're hairless

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Speaker 1: with the stuff that matters. There will be stings and hurts,

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Speaker 1: but believe it or not, you'll never get over not

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Speaker 1: making the school netball team that time. You know what,

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Speaker 1: this one's still really hurts. So when Jack doesn't make

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Speaker 1: it into something, I say it doesn't matter, I think, no,

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Speaker 1: it does matter. I still remember I was playing netball

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Speaker 1: with the Ladybirds but didn't get on a school team,

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Speaker 1: and the sting of it still stays with me. But

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Speaker 1: I've said, you know what, that's okay. These things will

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Speaker 1: serve to make you a better friend, a better parent,

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Speaker 1: a bet broadcaster when you're a million years old like

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Speaker 1: I am. Now you're in for a great ride, so relax,

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Speaker 1: and I've ended with the most emotional bit of all.

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Speaker 1: You will meet Barry Manilow, but you won't marry him.

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Speaker 1: Spoiler alert he's gay. What a bombshell. I mention, stings

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Speaker 1: never go away. You'll be working with an enigmatic, attractive

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Speaker 1: cohor when's that happening? Wow? Things are looking at the

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Speaker 1: emotional about you? Still the earrings? Good on you. It's

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

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Thanks sir, with join Z and Amanda