Sep 22, 2026 · 51 min · 11 segments
Welcome to Episode Two of Here the Podcast! We are sooo happy you are here. Today we get straight into the discussion around one of our most asked questions, easily between the three of us. And that…
But today we're going to talk about something that probably we get asked on the daily.
I got asked just before as I was driving here and I was like, hold that thought, I'll get back to you.
But we're going to do a little bit of origin story, how we ended up in the space of supporting families and domestic and family violence but also what can we do as you know good humans as friends as family when we may suspect or someone comes to us in those first founding days of you know not admitting but realizing or talking about the fact that domestic violence might be happening in a relationship how we can provide that initial support what that looks like sounds like I think is we've got a pretty qualified room here to talk about it.
And so I'm keen to get like, but very simply that simple like conversation around, okay, I think it's happening or someone's come to me and they need that support.
What do I do from here? So maybe we start with, How you both got into this space.
Yeah.
Do you want me to go first? You go first.
Okay.
I remember when we were talking last week, we were talking about how we, Kirsty and I, both started off in the prison system.
And I was saying how...
We never intended to get into the domestic violence space, but it found us, you know, that when you see it, you can't unsee it.
And in about 90% of cases that we came across in the criminal justice system, there was domestic violence that flowed through it.
So...
And that, yeah, for me, it was really devastating to learn that in Australia we had such a, well, it is a national crisis.
And I think I've always been someone that thinks you have to be part of the solution.
Like, what are you going to do with the power that you have to change the world? So that sounds really deep, but just genuinely, it's, you know, what can we all do? And it can be...
simple daily things that we could do that could make someone's life better.
And so for me, I then, when I took a secondment out of working in the prison system and I went to work at a domestic violence service on the Gold Coast.
And on my first day there, I was actually approached by a woman who said, I know who you are.
And she was a woman who was in the criminal justice system herself.
She was on a parole order.
And we thought that when I was working in corrective services, working like in a parole office, we thought that if we gave her directions not to have contact with either one of those men who were her abusers, that that would be keeping her safe, but also helping her to rehabilitate.
And, you know, I thought I was doing the right thing.
Yes, yeah.
But today we're going to talk about something that probably we get asked on the daily.
I got asked just before as I was driving here and I was like, hold that thought, I'll get back to you.
But we're going to do a little bit of origin story, how we ended up in the space of supporting families and domestic and family violence but also what can we do as you know good humans as friends as family when we may suspect or someone comes to us in those first founding days of you know not admitting but realizing or talking about the fact that domestic violence might be happening in a relationship how we can provide that initial support what that looks like sounds like I think is we've got a pretty qualified room here to talk about it.
And so I'm keen to get like, but very simply that simple like conversation around, okay, I think it's happening or someone's come to me and they need that support.
What do I do from here? So maybe we start with, How you both got into this space.
Yeah.
Do you want me to go first? You go first.
Okay.
I remember when we were talking last week, we were talking about how we, Kirsty and I, both started off in the prison system.
And I was saying how...
We never intended to get into the domestic violence space, but it found us, you know, that when you see it, you can't unsee it.
And in about 90% of cases that we came across in the criminal justice system, there was domestic violence that flowed through it.
So...
And that, yeah, for me, it was really devastating to learn that in Australia we had such a, well, it is a national crisis.
And I think I've always been someone that thinks you have to be part of the solution.
Like, what are you going to do with the power that you have to change the world? So that sounds really deep, but just genuinely, it's, you know, what can we all do? And it can be...
simple daily things that we could do that could make someone's life better.
And so for me, I then, when I took a secondment out of working in the prison system and I went to work at a domestic violence service on the Gold Coast.
And on my first day there, I was actually approached by a woman who said, I know who you are.
And she was a woman who was in the criminal justice system herself.
She was on a parole order.
And we thought that when I was working in corrective services, working like in a parole office, we thought that if we gave her directions not to have contact with either one of those men who were her abusers, that that would be keeping her safe, but also helping her to rehabilitate.
And, you know, I thought I was doing the right thing.
Yes, yeah.
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