BENEATH THE SURFACE
Congratulations on your memoir Beneath The Surface. A project like that must have kept you busy. What else is happening in your life these days?
Well, I have a third baby on the way! I had been doing radio for a year and a half before my second daughter. While I was on maternity leave I ended up resigning. Since then I've mostly been doing presentation work – keynote speeches, etc. These are mostly around mental health. I have a roll with the Queensland Government in a mental health ambassador capacity, so that's been really good. It keeps me really busy at times, particularly in October for Mental Health Week. So there's lots going on. But it's good for me to not have a structured role at this point; a full-time or even a part-time job. My girls are only four and 19 months old, so it's good to have a bit more flexibility.
“THE BOOK IS A VERY RAW LOOK AT MY LIFE AND WHERE I'VE COME FROM AND THE THAT I'VE BEEN ON OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.”
Did you find that the book’s release was a little bit liberating in a way?
Yes. And no. “Honest” and “authentic” are words that are thrown around a lot. But the book is a very raw look at my life and where I've come from and the journey that I've been on over the last few years. I want to make it clear that it's not a sporting memoir. Yes, I talk about swimming. I couldn't not – it's such a huge part of my life. It's how people know me, it's how I'm here in this position to start with, so I definitely talk about that, but I never wanted it to be solely about that. Because as interesting as that is, I don't know that people always resonate with the mindset of what is an elite athlete. I mean,
