Social inclusion specialist, sports broadcaster & mother Rana Hussain on teaching her daughter that she has a choice

Rana Hussain is a social inclusion specialist, broadcaster, presenter, writer and one of the Outer Sanctum podcast crew. She’s also a program director at Champions of Change and makes regular appearances on ABC radio and television.

She’s also a mother and a very good person. She does the sort of work that I can’t help but think it’d be hard to switch off from, because the scope is so big and the outcomes so important.

So, as a mother, how does she find balance? How did she break into the highly competitive sports media industry? And, as a Muslim woman, what has not being represented in media and society taught her about how she wants to foster her daughter’s identity, goals, and aspirations?

Whether you’re a parent or not, we can all learn something from Rana and we really could’ve chatted for hours. But she’s got work to do.

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In acknowledging the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia, each episode, I’ll be doing a shout out to an indigenous business or charity doing great things. This week, it’s Pay the Rent, a Collective based on the lands of the Kulin Nation in Victoria, Australia.

The Pay the Rent collective acts as a centralised distribution body which can make decisions about how best to support Aboriginal people, supporting grassroots First Nations people working to strengthen any one of the five interconnected pillars of Aboriginal sovereignty and belonging: Land, Law, Kinship, Ceremony, Language.

You can check them out online here.

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