28/05/2026
17,271 women. 1,948 programs. Six states and territories. More than 40 years.
Those are the numbers behind the YWCA Encore program, Australia’s longest-running free exercise and wellness program for women who have experienced breast cancer.
I was part of it for nine years. This is work I am deeply proud of and informs much of the work I do now.
My role had two sides.
In the room: I facilitated land and aqua exercise sessions, coordinated guest speakers, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, lymphoedema specialists and held space for women who were reframing their lives after treatment. Women who were challenged by their physical health, their sense of identity, their career confidence, their certainty about who they are and who they were becoming.
Behind the scenes: I designed the course materials used to deliver the program across Australia. I trained facilitators in NSW and Qld and visited sites to support other facilitators.
The experience these women described, the depletion that rest doesn’t fix, the identity that no longer quite fits, the quiet sense that something fundamental needs to shift; I began hearing the same words from professional women too. Leaders navigating career transitions. Women carrying both ambition and caregiving. Executives performing calm while running on empty underneath.
This is the foundation of Resonant Edge.
I am launching The Resilient Edge this year: a 6-week program for professional women who are navigating high-pressure careers, caregiving, identity shifts and the quiet question of what sustainable success actually looks like.
Open to women from 30. Because burnout does not wait for midlife, and neither should the support.
If you lead an organisation where women are quietly running on empty or in a life transition, I would welcome a conversation about the workplace edition.