The Broad Radio Coastrek Collection

Coastrek is Australia’s premier charity hiking challenge for women and Broad Radio is Australia's only radio and podcast station for women, by women.

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Jo’s Ambassadorship to Coastrek

In March 2022, Coastrek were excited to announce radio and TV presenter, and founder and CEO of Broad Radio, Jo Stanley, became a Coastrek Ambassador for Melbourne Coastrek with her team – The 4 Broads – taking on the challenge in support of raising awareness for women’s health.
“I truly believe in the power of connecting women with women to achieve great things – and a shared experience like Coastrek not only encourages better health and wellbeing, it also shines a light on the ongoing need for mental health support throughout the community.”
EPISODE 1

The fearless trailblazer Di Westaway

Jo Stanley, proud Coastrek ambassador and founder of Broad Radio, is excited to bring you the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection. In this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome a very familiar special guest, adventurer Di Westaway – the founder of Wild Women On Top and Coastrek!

We’ve put together some of our favorite interviews to get you through your training sessions and treks, and Di is such an inspiration – she’s taken control and changed her life from overwhelmed and wrung out, to discovering that life truly is an adventure.

Jo Stanley and Serpil Senelmis talk to Di about some of her very impressive achievements on this episode of the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection.

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episode 2

Dr Rosie Worsley from Jean Hailes Centre for Women

Jo Stanley, proud Coastrek ambassador and founder of Broad Radio, is thrilled to bring you the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection.

Broad Radio is a project for women, by women, and we love being able to focus on women’s health.

Dr Rosie Worsely is an expert in the field of menopause, something that affects every women, including many of our Coastrekking friends. This interview is packed with insight, advice, and demystifies all of the symptoms that come with the Big M.

While you’re exploring the trails, Jo Stanley and Shelley Ware are all about making menopause a clearer, more manageable, part of your life on this episode of the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection.

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episode 3

Paralympian Ellie Cole

Jo Stanley, Proud Coastrek ambassador and founder of Broad Radio, is thrilled to bring you the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection.

In this episode, we welcome a special guest who has had us glued to the screens for an incredible 17 Paralympic medals (including six gold), 10 world championship medals and four Commonwealth Games medals.

Swimmer Ellie Cole shares her experience at the games and we find out why she thinks the paralympics open up the conversation about disability, as well as differences, backgrounds and drive for all athletes. We also find out about her involvement with the new campaign ‘We the 15’ which over the next 10 years, aims to shine a light on people living with disabilities in all areas of the community.

We hope you’re inspired on your training or trek, as Jo Stanley and Nelly Thomas talk to Ellie as she’s holed up in quarantine after arriving back in Australia, on this episode of the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection.

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episode 4

The iconic Kaz Cooke

Jo Stanley, Proud Coastrek ambassador and founder of Broad Radio, is thrilled to bring you the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection. In this episode, we’re talking to one of Australia’s most-loved writers, while we keep you company on your trek.

Over the years, so many Australian women have benefited from Kaz Cooke’s ability to demystify pregnancy, childbirth, toddlers and puberty with her books spanning all of these parts of life. Now she shares what she’s found when she went and did a deep dive into the history of what women have been told and why! (spoiler alert, most of it is utter bullsh%t!)

Kaz’s new book is called ‘You’re Doing It Wrong A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women’ and in this episode of the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection, when she chats with Jo Stanley and Bianca Chatfield, we find out just some of the absurd things she discovered and why we still have to battle to debunk so much of it.

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episode 5

Fun, feisty Kathy Lette

Jo Stanley, Proud Coastrek ambassador and founder of Broad Radio, is thrilled to bring you the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection. In this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome a special guest who we’ve been fans of ever since ‘Puberty Blues’ hit the bookshelves in 1981.

She’s the queen of the one liner, the mother of chick lit (or c*it lit), a world-wide best-selling writer – the fun and feisty, Kathy Lette.

Kathy is passionate about celebrating female friendships, and uncovering our unlimited female potential has been an ongoing theme throughout her books.

Jo Stanley and Winitha Bonney talk to Kathy about her latest release, ‘’Til death (or a little light maiming’ do us part’, on this episode of the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection.

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episode 6

The Powerful Kemi Nekvapil

Jo Stanley, Proud Coastrek ambassador and founder of Broad Radio, is thrilled to bring you the Broad Radio Coastrek Collection. In this episode, we’re putting a spring in your step as you get your training in.

We talk to one of Australia’s most powerful speakers, who is also an author and coach, Kemi Nekvapil. She is focused on helping women find our power. She’s giving us the pep talk we all need as we step into our own power.

Kemi’s book is called ‘Power’ and is a women’s guide to living and leading without apology, and she talks to Jo Stanley and Serpil Senelmis about stepping into our own power.

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Learn More about Coastrek

Coastrek is Australia’s premier charity hiking challenge for women. Each year, over 10,000 trekkers (mostly women) hike 60km, 45km or 30km along Australia’s most spectacular coastlines to get fit with friends and raise funds for mental health. Coastrek is an epic adventure of fun, fitness, friends and fundraising, proudly supporting Beyond Blue.

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