Social entreprenur

Creating innovative whole-food supplements and innfor a healthy world. 

Primary healthcare practitioner

Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Herbalism, Nutrition and Naturopathy

Traveller to offbeat and dangerous places

Adventures into the unknown! Lover of high altitude and places ending in 'stan

Helping others lives healthier and happier has always been my priority

I burst into tears at the news report of the Somalian famine in 1989. I was little and it felt so unfair how people could be so hungry they were dying. I wanted to help these people, so mum helped me make stress balls, out of rice wrapped in balloons that I sold at school. They were fun for the kids to throw around too and a bargain at 50c! I raised a grand total of $35 which I sent, feeling hopeful it would help.  

The caring little girl is still my driver today.

Excited to be launching Revitamins- a wholefood supplement designed for the homeless

Formulated based on research into homeless nutrient deficiencies. Each serve will provide essential vitamins to revitalise people and enliven their natural human potential.

I grew up in a modest government house in Dandenong with my mum, who was my first patient.

My early interest in healing modalities came from a desire to help mum and I live a healthier life.

Those early days were hard for a number of reasons, but if I could go back I wouldn't change a thing, because the hard times have given gave me the empathy I have today. 

My mum wasn't very health conscious when I was little. I grew up on corned beef, cheese sandwiches and apple pie. As I got a bit older I started doing my own recipes and suggested that we change the food we eat to a predominately vegetarian diet. Mum welcomed the change on the proviso that I find the recipes and that it would be an improvement nutritionally on what we were doing. It was a good first project in healthy diet planning!

I dedicated my youth to karate which I did for 11 years. I was my clubs youngest sensei at 15, with the downside of the uncool factor of my mum having to tag along to the classes due to my age- regardless of my black belt!  I worked in youth centres and volunteered on homeless projects. Following high school I got a job as a needle and syringe worker at Turning Point clinic in Fitzroy. 

I somehow knew that herbs were powerful from a young age, I remember a friend having a headache, we must have been 5ish. I went and got mums spice rack and got some ingredients out to combine with water! My know- how has refined a bit since then.  2003-2005 I started my education in natural health with a diploma in Naturopathy. Following this at 21, I headed overseas to do a confronting and character building solo overland trip through India, Pakistan and China.

When I returned home in late 2005 I went back to study and in 2009 I completed a double health science degree in TCM and herbal medicine. I am currently finishing my Master of Human Nutrition at Deakin University.