Stories of Community Resilience

Stories of Community Resilience

Celebrating stories of cultural and linguistic diversity, and highlighting topics & issues of importance to multicultural communities. Episodes are produced by volunteers from SYN Media - Australia's largest youth community broadcaster. Contact rebecca.maakasa@syn.org.au to get involved. Previously produced at 3ZZZ 2022 - 2024. A SYN Media production from 2025. Stories of Community Resilience is supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation of Australia

Episodes

October 20, 2024 19 mins

Louis Harrison chats with Maggie Zhou about her experience connecting with culture from the other side of the world, the way she communicates with others and her experience developing resilience despite microaggressions and prejudice in society.

Maggie Zhou wears many hats. She’s a writer, editor, podcaster, content creator, speaker, emcee... and more that we couldn’t possibly fit into a list here.

The topics Maggie Zho...

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Ruhee Meghani, founder of Allied Collective - Australia's first inclusive facilitation and wellbeing agency, interviews Jamal Hakim - City of Melbourne Councillor and Lord Mayor Candidate. Together they discuss Jamal's professional background, the importance of community values, and principle based politics.

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Advertising and marketing thought leader, Romayne Perera, speaks with Ruhee Meghani. Reflecting on Romayne's life experiences - of migration, self-care, and community healing Ruhee & Romayne discuss the impacts of community on collective healing and intergenerational trauma. 

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Romayne read somewhere that emotional generosity is the key ingredi...

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This Story of Community Resilience is produced by Ruhee Meghani. Ruhee speaks with Hala, CEO of the Institute of Non Violence. Ruhee and Hala reflect on ideas about resilience, through the lens of gender, their respective lived experiences of migration, and notions about spirituality and how we can build resilience in ourselves, and respective communities. 

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June 18, 2024 33 mins

This episode is hosted by Shy Ganglani - a poet and stand-up comedian working professionally as a copywriter, and Hawraa Kash - a spoken word poet, MC and HR professional.

Hawraa and Shy preview their upcoming event presented by Vibe UnionPoets for Palestine a fundraising event for PARA Foundation. They speak about poetry as a form of resistance, and resilience. 

Transcript Available Here: 

Intro and outro mu...

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This audio-story featuring Esther Simbi was produced by Carey Scheer, for the Purple Orange Podcast and is re-shared with permission. Purple Orange is an organisation whose mission is to create a fair world for people with disability.

Esther Simbi speaks to Carey Scheer. Esther contracted polio as a young child, and then went on to live 19 years in a Ugandan refugee camp before being resettled in Australia. She thought coming to Au...

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Multi hyphenate creative talent, Shy Ganglani speaks with Ruhee Meghani.

Shy is a professional copy-writer, a comedian and poet - just a few of her talents!

Together they discuss, trying to 'blend in' to culture, and then finding connection and friendships through authentic interests and community spaces.

Shy and Ruhee also critique the concept of "resilience" and how it is often applied to migrants and cultural groups as an expect...

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Mental health & wellness is often associated with having strong relationships. On this heart warming episode, Renu Tiwary from 3ZZZ interviews Marina Maese Provencio, Laura Valles-Salas and Martha Cota about their friendship spanning decades. Here is a story of three 'amigos' who have been friends since kindergarten and still going strong. They are aiming to enjoy the later years of their life travelling and being together. Wha...

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Award winning authors Daisy and Kabinga, discuss the book "C.O.N.F.R.O.N.T" Recently authored by Kabinga, the book is intended as a guide to help those to reclaim their life after experiencing trauma. Daisy and Kabinga share their experiences from the perspective of navigating this challenge as migrants, and share empowering methods to work through trauma. 

Content Warning: Discussion of family abuse, emotional abuse, ass...

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This episode is presented in the Spanish language, by 3ZZZ Broadcasters Nancy, and Hernan. 

Nancy and Hernan discuss the importance of maintaining language through generations. A transcript in Spanish is available here, with English translation. 

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

3ZZZ Stories of Community Resilience is p...

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February 11, 2024 20 mins

Imi speaks with Rebecca about the intersections of culture, and perceptions of disability.

Imi shares the message of moving away from a "cure based" approach to disability and speaks about their experiences of navigating work and study.

Imi has proudly graduated with two university degrees, and has extensive experience in media, the arts and a keen interest in marketing. 

Listen with transcript available here. 

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Multi-creative, Imi from SYN media interviews Daisy Wu about her award-winning book, and mentoring program to assist with mastering communication, beyond mastering learning a language. 

Transcript Available here:

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Intro and outro music by Gregor Quendel under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

To share your story, contact Rebecca at podcasts@3ZZZ.com.au 

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Relationships and Divorce Coach, Monica Kalra speaks with Ruhee about the 'D Word' no one wants to talk about and address some of the stigmas surrounding divorce in multicultural communities.

Content Advisory: Discussion of abuse in relationships. Contact 1800 RESPECT for help and support.

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Monica's Socials:

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Books by Monica:
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Global Health Advocate & Advocacy Consultant, Agnes Nsofwa speaks with Ruhee Meghani about a rare blood condition. Agnes was motivated to establish an organisation to advocate for Sickle Cell, after her youngest daughter was diagnosed. 

Transcript Available Here.

More information:

https://agesnsofwa.com.au/ 
https://aussicklecelladvocacy.org/

Support & Donate to Sickle Cell Advocacy organisation: h...

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Yusra Metwally, shares her experience of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

Content Advisory: Discussion of Eating Disorder / Disoredered Eating from 16 minutes. 

For help and support contact Butterfly Foundation Australia 1800 33 46 73 

Transcript Available Here. 

Produced by Aamon Sayed: Aamon has worked within the Social Work sector since 2012. His work experience adds sensitivity to interviews withi...

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Arian and Moh discuss communication styles, and recall anecodtes and accounts of miscommunication that due to various barriers in language. 

Arian Eskandarinejad

Arian works as a volunteer at 3ZZZ for the Iranian program, presenting a movie review show. He arrived in Australia in 2017 and after studying at high-school and then University, he earned his bachelor's degree in IT. Aside from studying, he's been working in various ...

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Content Advisory: This episode discusses mental health, suicidal ideation, & isolation. 

For help & support contact:

Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 
Kids Helpline (for under 25s) 1800 55 1800 
Headspace Australia (non-crisis support) 1800 650 890. 

Thomas discusses with Christopher several barriers he faced on his educational journey, from learning difficulties to unfortunately experiencing social isolation amongst frien...

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Ahmed Sabra, artist and art-teacher, talks about his experiences of capturing images in regions of conflict and crises. Ahmed also discuss the challenges of pursuing of art as a career and as a means to make a living. 

About Ahmed 

Ahmad Sabra is a Lebanese Australian Muslim artist and an art teacher based in Naarm. His current art practice challenges the complex terrain of nationality, loyalty and faith. Ahmad offers his...

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Fadilah reflects on her experiences navigating life, study, and the industry of design & art as a woman of colour, and establishing herself as a digital artist over the past decade.  

About Fadilah: 

Fadilah is a Digital Artist based in Sydney, Australia and has been practicing her craft for over 10 years. Her work is a window into her experience as a female, muslim first-generation migrant living in suburban Aus...

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Peter and Aamon discuss the challenging and rewarding process of establishing a start-up business. Peter talks about the value of having mentors along the business journey, and how his strategic design consulting firm used a reframing approach to overcome business challenges during the pandemic. 

Transcript available here.

Mentioned in the episode: 

reframing a problem into a design solution 
The Hard Thing About Hard Things 

Ho...

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