In this episode of Parents With Questions, Adam Gibson speaks with Dr Dionne Payn, founder of Women 4 Homes, about the hidden housing crisis facing older women in Australia.

Women over 55 are one of the fastest-growing groups facing homelessness and housing insecurity in Australia. Many are not living on the streets, but are sleeping in cars, couch surfing, house sitting, living in garages, or quietly moving between unsafe and unstable arrangements.

Dionne explains the systemic factors behind this crisis, including the gender pay gap, career breaks for raising children, divorce, illness, lower superannuation balances, and the relatively short history of women having full access to financial products and property ownership.

The conversation also explores why older women are the “wisdom keepers” of our communities, and why protecting their dignity, security and place in society benefits everyone.

Dionne shares the model behind Women 4 Homes: a for-purpose, for-profit, property-backed approach that allows everyday people to invest in affordable, sustainable and dignified housing solutions. The first flagship co-living home for older women is close to fully funded and will be based in regional Victoria.

This is not charity. It is a community-powered housing solution designed to create both social impact and financial sustainability.

In this episode, we discuss:

The hidden homelessness crisis affecting older Australian women.

Why many women facing housing insecurity remain invisible.

The systemic financial barriers women have faced across generations.

Why co-living can offer dignity, privacy, affordability and community.

How Women 4 Homes is creating beautiful, affordable homes for older women.

Why the first flagship project matters.

How everyday people can get involved through investment, skills, time, introductions, media support or sharing the campaign.

Here are some links to Women4Homes resources,

Website: www.women4homes.com

Book: E.T.H.I.C.A.L Property Investing: The Busy Profeesionals Guide to Double Digit Returns Through Affordable & Sustainable Homes

And here are four things that anybody can do to move this mission forwards.

1. Take the declaration at www.women4homes.com/wearedone

2. Share it with your networks

3. Let us know how you would like to contribute, whether that's through money (investing), time (volunteering), skills (property, legal, financial, community building etc), or connections (introducing us to others)

4. Become a member (pay what you can afford) and get access to the book, the Ethical Property Investing Course, monthly live masterclasses, and a community of women who are done waiting and are taking matters into their own hands.

For the past five years many Australians have focused on protecting themselves from a system they no longer trust.

But what if the next chapter isn’t about resistance?

What if it’s about creation?

In this episode, Trent Chapman explains why some of the world’s most influential organisations use public foundations, charities and purpose-driven structures to create lasting impact—and how ordinary Australians can do the same.

If you’ve ever wanted to build something bigger than yourself, this conversation may change the way you think about business, philanthropy and legacy.

PS. On Thursday 18th June, Trent is hosting a live deep-dive workshop on public foundations, charitable structures, grants, tax-effective giving and the practical steps involved in setting these up.

To register, simply email trent@iamawakening.com.au with: PWQ – Awakened Blueprint in the subject line.

Over the years through Parents With Questions, many of you have come to know me as the face of things.

But the truth is there has always been a co-founder quietly behind the scenes who rarely gets mentioned, and that’s my wife Fiona.

While I’ve been out the front speaking up for families and questioning broken systems, Fiona has been raising our three daughters, running her own architecture business and obsessing over one very practical question that most parents wrestle with every single day:

How do we raise healthy kids in a world where unhealthy has become completely normalised?

That’s what this new podcast conversation is about.

Because the reality is most parents already know many of the standard breakfast and lunchbox foods aren’t really working.

The sugary cereals.

The “healthy” breakfast drinks.

The processed snacks.

The endless convenience foods marketed directly at exhausted parents and hungry kids.

The problem isn’t that parents don’t care - in fact its quite the opposite.

The problem is that modern life is busy, rushed and overwhelming, and school mornings are often where good intentions fall apart.

And sadly, big food companies have leveraged that reality to their own advantage — marketing ultra-processed convenience foods directly into the chaos of modern family life, while an entire generation of kids is now experiencing historically high rates of obesity, metabolic dysfunction and chronic disease at increasingly younger ages.

In this conversation, Fiona shares:

* why so many kids today are overfed but undernourished,

* how food directly impacts focus, mood, behaviour and energy,

* why healthy fats and protein matter so much for growing brains,

* how schools and marketing have quietly normalised ultra-processed food,

* and most importantly, simple, proven hacks and tools that parents can adopt to begin changing their kids’ relationship with food without turning life upside down.

No perfection.

No guilt.

No extreme ideology.

Just practical shifts that actually work in real family life.

This is probably one of the most important parenting conversations we’ve had in a long time, and its one close to my heart as someone who has been championing kids health and connection to real food and farming for years now.

If you’ve ever looked at your child’s lunchbox, a supermarket aisle, or a chaotic school morning and quietly thought:

“There has to be a better way than this.”

Then this is worth a listen - and worth sharing with a friend or family member who you know could be feeling the same way.

Adam

PS: Fiona also shares the simple “30-second breakfast shift” that led her to create “Rock it Fuel” for our own girls after years of struggling with the school morning rush ourselves. Its literally a game changer for your kids’ focus, behaviour and energy every day, plus solves your school morning breakfast stress into the bargain :) You can try it for yourself here for under fifteen bucks for a week’s worth - make sure you let us know how it goes for you!

www.uncoercible.com/wild-ground

Most kids today aren’t lacking opportunity.

They’re lacking challenge, guidance, and a clear path into adulthood.

Instead of learning courage, critical thinking, and self-trust…

they’re being shaped by screens, peer pressure, and a culture that rewards compliance.

So what happens if we don’t step in?

In this episode, I sit down with Michael Hayes to explore why rites of passage are missing from modern life—and why that matters more than ever.

We talk about:

• what young people are really missing today
• why courage must be taught (not assumed)
• how nature and challenge build real resilience
• and how parents can step back into their role as guides

This isn’t theory.

It’s a practical, grounded conversation about raising kids who can think for themselves, stand their ground, and still lead with compassion.

To express your interest in joining this program, visit www.uncoercible.com/wild-ground for updates on our next course dates and venues around Australia.

What if trading gold wasn’t complicated… just misunderstood?

If the last few years have taught us anything…

it’s that financial insecurity leaves you exposed.

In this episode, former institutional trader Tony Barassi shares how the financial system really operates — and how institutions trade gold to generate income and protect wealth.

More importantly… how you can start thinking the same way.

This isn’t about chasing headlines or guessing the market.

It’s about building a strategy.

If you want to go deeper, Tony is running a live webinar you can join for free here: https://go.reliabletrading.com/the-gold-playbook-ag

For decades, parents have been told a simple story about health:

Follow the food pyramid.

Trust the experts.

Do what the doctor says.

But what if some of those assumptions are wrong?

In this powerful conversation, Adam Gibson sits down with Professor Ian Brighthope, one of Australia’s pioneers of nutritional and environmental medicine, to unpack a generational shift in how we think about food, immunity, and the role of doctors in our lives.

Professor Brighthope helped establish the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and has spent decades challenging conventional thinking about diet, chronic disease, and preventative health.

In this interview, he shares why the next generation of parents may need to rethink what we put in our kids’ lunchboxes — and why nutrition may be the most powerful medicine we have.

But the conversation goes deeper.

Professor Brighthope was also one of the early medical voices who publicly questioned the rollout of COVID vaccines for children, advocating instead for a more cautious and evidence-based approach.

That stance came at a personal and professional cost.

Now approaching 80, he reflects on what it means to stand up against your own profession, how parents can navigate a medical system many no longer fully trust, and how families can reclaim responsibility for their own health.

This is a thoughtful, practical and deeply honest conversation about raising healthy kids in a complicated world.

• Why many of our assumptions about “healthy food” are outdated

• Simple ways to improve kids’ nutrition and immunity through diet

• What actually belongs in a healthy school lunchbox

• Why nutrient density matters more than calories

• How modern food systems may be contributing to chronic illness

• Why some doctors are beginning to rethink mainstream nutrition advice

• Professor Brighthope’s controversial stance on COVID vaccines for children

• Whether we can still trust the medical profession

• A new way parents can interact with doctors and the health system

• What it takes to speak truth when the pressure to stay silent is immense

• Lessons from a lifetime spent challenging medical orthodoxy

Professor Ian Brighthope is one of Australia’s pioneers in nutritional and environmental medicine.

Originally trained in agricultural science before becoming a medical doctor, his work bridges human health, nutrition, and the environment.

He is a founding figure behind the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and has spent decades educating doctors about the role of nutrition in preventing disease.

His work has helped shape a growing movement of practitioners focused on addressing the root causes of illness rather than simply treating symptoms.

To learn more about Ian and his work, please visit

https://wowintl.org/

Trevor Hendy is a former world champion Ironman who was a courageous outspoken critic of the government overreach during the pandemic, and a proud ambassador for Parents With Questions.

Best known for his fierce and unrelenting approach to competition and life, Trevor reveals in this episode how he has matured and transformed into highly aware and super inspiring guardian and role model for the next generation, and the effect this has on his clients as a life coach, workshop facilitator and mentor.

He also shares the near death experience that profoundly shifted his attitude towards the challenges of the last four years, plus offers some of the most unique and challenging parenting advice we have ever heard!

This is the first in our "Raising Lions" series of episodes, where we explore how to raise happy, highly conscious, resilient, un-coercible free thinking kids in an increasingly uncertain world.

Find out more about Trevor and how to work with him at www.trevorhendy.com

Adam Gibson sits down with lawyer and freedom advocate Katie Ashby-Koppens, Head of Legal at the Aligned Council of Australia, to unpack the truth about Digital ID in Australia.

They explore what Digital ID actually is, how it links to social credit, censorship and control, why the “under-16 social media ban” is a Trojan horse, and—most importantly—what you can do right now to resist it and protect your kids’ future.

Free Resource offered by Katie to our listeners:

Aligned Council of Australia’s - Generic Template affidavit for proving your identity without using Digital ID

Digital ID is voluntary pursuant to s74 Digital ID Act 2024 (Cth) – a provider needs to provide an alternative to using Digital ID!

Instructions:

1. Download - File / Download / Word
2. fill out – following the instructions (pages i-iv) to complete the 4 pages of affidavit
3. get witnessed by a someone who is an authorised person to witness affidavits in your State (see page iv of these instructions that list)
4. delete or remove the instructions pages i-iv
5. scan the affidavit to your computer for safe keeping

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_9wqMdyhIEwDBQvK2YbfCaX019Zc0U88-5wbTXTx6-Q/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gu9casuvlui2