Health Equals Freedom (HEF) invites you:
Hosted by Dr. Rachel - CEO & Founder
Guests:
Geoff Augustine
Lung Cancer thriver & cartoonist
Author “Why is he laughing?”
Ros Ben-Moshe
Bowel Cancerthriver & positivity coach
Author “Laughing at Cancer”
Naveena Nekkalapudi
Breast Cancer thriver & dog lover
Lee Renfree
Breast Cancer thriver & exercise expert
Technical Tips
The whole event is running on Zoom
- If you haven't used Zoom before, from the device you'll be using, visit https://zoom.us/download, and install "Zoom client for meetings" (for laptop/desktop computers) or "Zoom mobile app" (for phones/tablets).
- Once installed, you can check it's working by visiting https://zoom.us/test, which will take you to an empty Zoom room where you can get familiar with the layout of the app.
- A standard PC or MAC computer or portable device with an internet connection and speakers or a headset are required to join and hear the audio broadcast.
Online events can be just as powerful as those in real life, and much more convenient! There are a couple of things to know so that you can contribute to making the event a success for yourself and everyone else.
- Use the chatbox to contribute to the discussion. If you're having tech issues, please see below.
- In general, keep your video on; we all have a much more fulfilling experience when we have other real humans around us.
- In general, keep your microphone off; the combined background noise of hundreds of offices can be deafening. Only unmute yourself if you're contributing to the discussion.
- If your wifi is playing up and you get disconnected, or if you arrive late help us by entering with audio and camera off to minimise disruption. Once in, feel free to turn on your camera if you wish. Hold off announcing your arrival verbally, feel free to wave, listen and catch up with the conversation /content for context.
- During the session it's important to keep your audio on mute to minimise background noise. This can be turned on when you are speaking.
- What questions would you like to ask the panel?
- These will be directed via the chatbox
- It can be helpful to prepare some in advance.
Recording and slides available below
Agenda
| Time AEDT | Activity Description | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 2.00 pm | Open and Welcome | Dr Rachel |
| Introduction | Dr Rachel / Julie McCrossin | |
| Cancer Journey / Story | Geoff Augustine Ros Ben-Moshe Naveena Nekkalapudi Lee Renfree | |
| Positivity and cancer / COVID | Ros Ben Moshe | |
| Questions from participants | Dr Rachel to facilitate with Julie | |
| Thank you and closing | Dr Rachel |
TIME AEDT 2.00 pm
Open and Welcome - Dr Rachel
Introduction - Dr Rachel / Julie McCrossin
Cancer Journey / Story - Geoff Augustine / Ros Ben-Moshe / Naveena Nekkalapudi / Lee Renfree
Positivity and cancer / COVID - Ros Ben Moshe
Questions from participants - Dr Rachel to facilitate with Julie
Thank you and closing - Dr Rachel
Session Moderator
Dr Rachel spent a long time studying what causes disease (i.e. pathology) at university. This took nearly 10 years at the University of Sydney and Stanford University in the USA. Since then, she has spent the last 20 years working in a number of varied roles in the health sector:
- Developing new treatments (including drugs) for a range of diseases such as cancer, how to best deliver them, and how they can be improved.
- Working in the Medical Communication and Information team, for a large international drug company that specialised in making cutting edge cancer treatments, including targeted therapies. She developed information on how a range of drugs worked as well as their expected side effects, and delivered this information to doctors, pharmacists, nurses, patients and their families via the telephone, in writing and through seminars and training programs for five years.
- Setting up a new wing of a mental health recovery hospital within an existing rehabilitation facility.
- Teaching at Sydney, Melbourne, and Monash universities and at the Southern School of Natural Therapies on a range of topics. This teaching has spanned over 20 years. Dr Rachel has taught doctors, nurses, scientists, her staff and the public on a range of health-related topics. Topics including many of the most complex new cancer treatments to health professionals and delivery of over 500 seminars to the public on 'Healthy Sleep'.
- Working as a Life, Leadership, Career and Executive Coach, which all have a different focus depending on client's individual needs.
- Working with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), as a planner for participants and their families.
- Assisting the Department of Health comb at COVID in Australian patients.
During her cousin’s battle with brain cancer, she arranged access to an experimental medicine for his tumour, through her knowledge, networks and understanding of the process known as 'Compassionate Access'. This knowledge helped to get the medicine from the drug company for free, saving his family over A$30,000. Dr Rachel also understands the clinical trial process for new medicines and can facilitate entry, if appropriate.
Today, she is more interested in reversing cancer progression (rather than what caused it) and implementing more pro-active approaches. She is a strong and passionate advocate for preventative medical approaches, which she will discuss with you if you decide to work together on an ongoing basis. She has walked in your shoes, alongside friends, family and others. Cancer is not something anyone should experience, but if you are, Dr Rachel can help you.
When you are ready, willing and able to make a change in your circumstances, the team at Health Equals Freedom are here to help you focus on the positives and make big changes to your health.
In summary, Dr Rachel finds simplifying health topics and helping people like you very rewarding, especially when you are very vulnerable and in need of support. Dr Rachel’s vision is being fulfilled by her work as a Health Care Navigator with Health Equals Freedom.
Guest Bios
Julie McCrossin
Julie McCrossin gets people talking. After over 20 years as a broadcaster with ABC Radio National, ABC TV and Network Ten, she is now a freelance journalist and broadcaster. Julie also facilitates conferences and seminars. Julie has qualifications in the arts, education and law. After treatment for stage four throat cancer in 2013, Julie is now an Ambassador for Beyond Five, Targeting Cancer and TROG Cancer Research. Julie hosts the podcast series, The Thing About Cancer and The Thing About Advanced Cancer for Cancer Council NSW. Julie also hosts the new podcast series produced for patients and family members by the head and neck cancer charity, Beyond Five. In 2019, Julie was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the community, particularly through LGBTIQ advocacy roles and to the broadcast media. www.juliemccrossin.com
Geoff Augustine
Successful cartoonists are a revered lot with an unfettered power to satirise and Melbourne cartoonist Geoff Augustine has earned his license in a career spanning over forty-five years of dynamic professional cartooning.
For eight years daily, his OSSIE appeared as a comic strip in Australia’s major dailies, Sydney’s SUN-HERALD and Melbourne’s SUN NEWS PICTORIAL News Pictorial. While CHEER CHAMPS quickly became a weekly comic strip in the Melbourne HERALD as well as a national, sports licensing icon appearing on everything from first aid plasters, towels, underwear and onto over 2 million breakfast cereal boxes. Geoff’s zany and colourful jigsaws, calendars, cards, and books are keenly sought collectors’ items, while his lightning - quick caricaturing and cartooning brilliance has featured under the brightest of television and major event lights.
When Geoff was diagnosed in 2018 with advanced lung cancer, he responded the only way he knew how - with cartoon humour! “Finding humour in this new and frightening situation became my way of coping with the intense emotions and side effects of cancer during eighteen months of treatment.”
While cancer is absolutely ‘no laughing matter’ Geoff’s cartoons are one man sharing his experience on paper with humour while, hopefully, lightening the burden for others.
Ros Ben-Moshe
Ros Ben-Moshe is founder of LaughLife Wellbeing Programs, http://laughlife.com.au, a leading provider of positivity, resilience and wellbeing programs. She holds a Master of Public Health and Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion and is Adjunct lecturer at the School of Public Health at La Trobe University. She is author of the critically acclaimed “Laughing at cancer – How to Heal with Love, Laughter and Mindfulness”(http://laughingatcancer.com) based on a series of journals she wrote following a shock diagnosis of bowel cancer at age 42.
Ros is Ambassador for the digital CancerAid app, mentor for Bowel Cancer Australia’s peer/buddy program and Global Laughter Yoga Ambassador.
Lee Renfree
Lee Renfree is an ocean-going sailor, a Personal Trainer and a breast cancer thriver.
She has fought many battles with clients and creative people in Adland and helmed her vessel through wild weather and seas. Surviving breast cancer has been her toughest battle yet. Lee attributes her tenacity to having a long relationship with exercise and working with a dedicated Personal Trainer to keep moving and building muscle. Believing Personal Training and exercise to be a vital tool in living a long and productive life, Lee left advertising 3 years ago and transitioned to her new career in Personal Training. Specialising in working with people over 50, for Lee exercise is medicine.
Naveena Nekkalapudi
Naveena Nekkalapudi is a breast cancer thriver since (2015) and a carer of elderly parents. Following her diagnosis, she decided to re-evaluate her life and focus on matters that are important to her. She describes it as changing from being career ambitious to being life ambitious. Wanting to utilise her varied skills and knowledge in assisting others to achieve better health outcomes.
In her previous (corporate) life, she was a senior professional with extensive strategy, research, M&A and management skills across a range of industries - dairy, trustee, funds management and private health insurance. After completing treatment for cancer, Naveena drove the creation of a breast 'cancer concierge' service with her health insurance employer and now their members who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer (between 4,000 - 5,000 Australians per year) receive support as they navigate the private health system.
Naveena has an M. B. A. from Melbourne Business School and is a member of the Community Advisory Committee with Eastern Health, and a member of the Emergency Care Clinical Network Insight Committee at Safer Care Victoria. She also is a telephone peer support volunteer at Cancer Council Victoria, a buddy volunteer with the Breast Cancer research lab at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and (a consumer representative with the Breast Cancer Network Australia).
Recording and slides available below
Frequently Asked Questions
We’ve got you covered, the workshop will be recorded so you can listen and catch up on the session. Participants share that having the recordings to go back to, is incredibly valuable to recap, connect with the content in a different way and to revisit. This provides exceptional ongoing value.
- To attend the session, simply click on the link in the calendar invite sent to you.
- We start at 2:00 pm Australian Eastern Standard time (AEST), but recommend joining a few minutes early to ensure your technology is working correctly.
- Ayesha will be in-charge of admitting everyone in.
- You can interact with me using the chatbox. Type your message/question into the text box and press 'Enter'.
- Can't attend the workshop last minute? The workshop will be recorded and will be available on the website. However, for best results attend the live workshop.
- It's always handy to have a dedicated notebook to take notes throughout.
- Different coloured pens and highlighters can be useful.
- A drink bottle to keep hydrated.
Online events can be just as powerful as those in real life, and much more convenient! There are a couple of things to know so that you can contribute to making the event a success for yourself and everyone else.
- Use the chatbox to contribute to the discussion. The raise your hand icon by clicking 'Participants' button from the meeting controls at the bottom of your screen, wave wildly or unmute and jump in! Use reactions to give your fellow participants a thumbs up, applause to acknowledge what they are contributing when you don't want to interrupt the flow. If you're having tech issues, please see below.
- In general, keep your video on; we all have a much more fulfilling experience when we have other real humans around us.
- In general, keep your microphone off; the combined background noise of hundreds of offices can be deafening. Only unmute yourself if you're contributing to the discussion.
- If your WiFi is playing up and you get disconnected, or if you arrive late help us by entering with audio and camera off to minimise disruption. Once in, feel free to turn on your camera if you wish. Hold off announcing your arrival verbally, feel free to wave, listen and catch up with the conversation /content for context.
The whole event is running on Zoom
- If you haven't used Zoom before, from the device you'll be using, visit https://zoom.us/download, and install "Zoom client for meetings" (for laptop/desktop computers) or "Zoom mobile app" (for phones/tablets).
- Once installed, you can check it's working by visiting https://zoom.us/test, which will take you to an empty Zoom room where you can get familiar with the layout of the app.
- A standard PC or MAC computer or portable device with an internet connection and speakers or a headset are required to join and hear the audio broadcast.
- Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center. Otherwise, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link found in the calendar invite sent to you.
- If your camera is not showing up in the Zoom Settings or it is selected and not showing any video, these tips can help you troubleshoot why it is not working. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/202952568-My-Video-Camera-Isn-t-Working
- Try these troubleshooting steps if you have microphone or speaker issues after joining a meeting on the Zoom mobile app for iOS or Android. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204484835-My-Audio-is-Not-Working-on-iOS-or-Android
- If you are experiencing technical issues, please contact Zoom Support at US: ( +1.888.799.9666 ext. 2 or +1.650.397.6096 ext. 2.) or, make an online submission
- If you have tried the above and can't resolve it, email us at admin@healthequalsfreedom.com and we will do her best to help you.
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