Before there was Social Gain, there was Sydney Mum. From 2010 to 2018, I ran an independent digital media platform celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday lives of Sydney mothers.
We moved to Dubbo for one year, at the end of the drought and the start of COVID. Then country living quietly redefined everything — including what I make.
An ongoing joke, a Texan researcher, and why Brené Brown's twenty years on courage, vulnerability, shame and belonging is stitched into everything Social Gain makes.
Before there was a festival, two local businesswomen put their money behind an idea that didn't exist yet. Charnie Tuckey, Rose Prout, and the room their yes built.