How to Change a Life by CQUniversity Podcasts

For Aidan Baron, realising his passion for paramedicine was a game-changer.

But building a career in the life-changing field meant fighting frustration, and a whole lot of social media.

And focusing on the people he could help, and the people making great health care happen, has driven a big career in research and practice for the paramedic innovator.

Aidan is CQUniversity’s Alumnus of the Year for Industry Excellence, and you can learn more about his work here.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQU alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app for new episodes every Thursday, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.

We all know our world needs some pretty big changes.

But how do you decide to start making those changes yourself?

How to Change a Life hears from people who have made life-changing decisions, and asks them - how do you start? And what comes next?

Presented by CQUniversity Podcasts and with weekly episodes from March 2022, you’ll hear from global change leaders, and passionate locals transforming lives around them.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

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Ever seen a problem, and not known how to help?

Selina Tomasich’s approach is simple: get skills, know them, use them, grow them. And always have a chat.

That’s how the inspiring founder and CEO of anti-poverty initiative Hair Aid built her confidence and her big-impact career, despite not finishing high school, and as she faced many more challenges along the way.

Selina is CQUniversity’s 2022 Alumnus of the Year for Social Impact. Learn more about her work here.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUniversity Communications. Music by alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app for new episodes every Thursday, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.

Sabi Kaphle didn’t want to be a midwife.

Forced into nursing school by her family as a teenager, the young Nepali woman felt powerless.

But when she saw how the health system was failing pregnant women, and the risk to lives of mums and babies, Sabi found her passion in giving them a voice.

First working for UNICEF and now as a Public Health lecturer at CQUniversity, Dr Kaphle shares her steps for tackling power imbalance, through purpose and persistence.

She also previews her debut book, Socio-cultural Insights of Childbirth in South Asia – Stories of Women in the Himalayas, available from July 2021.

This is the final episode for this launch season of How to Change a Life, hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app to listen back to all the season one episodes, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.

Former truckie Darren Delaney wants answers.

Too often, the Brisbane transport stalwart has seen his workmates die on the job – and too often, investigators can’t say what caused the death.

Darren’s channelling his trauma, frustration and passion for trucking into action, as he pursues a PhD on truck accidents and safety.

The CQUniversity Associate Lecturer and PhD student hopes to create a national framework to standardise truck accident investigation.

If you drive trucks in Australia, you can complete Darren’s driver survey here.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.