POPPY KING

Poppy King was just 19 years old she started her own lipstick company in Melbourne Australia where she was born.

Frustrated with the lipsticks on the market none of which spoke to her modern vintage sensibility she was looking for something chic and more like the 1940s idea of lipstick, rich and matte. She was also looking for a different kind of marketing when it came to lip, lipsticks where each shade told a story. After finding a factory to produce her dream lipsticks, putting together a business plan and finding an investor, her first lipsticks that she released where a collection of seven shades named after each of the Seven Deadly Sins under the brand name Poppy.

Her story and her lipsticks garnered huge attention in Australia and even internationally before the days of the internet, she was able to go viral through her unique approach to everything she had done. Within a year she was selling in stores such as Barneys New York, Harvey Nichols, Space NK and more.

In 2002 exactly a decade after launching her brand name and company was sold to Estee Lauder Corporation and she was relocated to New York City to take up a Vice Presidential role within the organization to bring her unique ideas to their brands.

With the success of that she decided to leave her role at Lipstick Queen so she would be free to take on more projects and innovations in lip and other categories for both her own ventures and in collaboration with others. After a global pandemic when masks were mandatory she took time out to use her lipsticks to paint and sculpt with and her first show as a lipstick artist launched in 2023!

Now she’s back in business and not a moment too soon as the beauty world is on fire with new channels via social media for the type of magical innovation that has always been Poppy’s specialty. She will be launching her latestcreations under her own brand Poppy King as well as some exciting special projects taking lip color into the 21 stcentury with each lipstick telling a story and igniting the imagination

Poppy has been known to say that her business idol is none other than Willy Wonka himself and that she has modeled her career on being the Willy Wonka of lipsticks

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Alex Ryvchin is co-Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the author of two internationally acclaimed books of history and politics including

The 7 Deadly Sins

“Alex Ryvchin has made a significant contribution to the field of antisemitism studies. In a very readable narrative, he uses seven of the most powerful stereotypes about Jews to encompass the history of Jew hatred and in doing so lends perspective to what’s happening now. At this moment in history when antisemitism has found new life around the world, this is a timely and important work.”

— Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director

His advocacy and writing has seen him recognised as Australian of the Year for 2024 by The Australian newspaper, as one of 25 global Jewish visionaries by The Jerusalem Post and ranked 38th in the Daily Telegraph’s Power 100 for 2024. He is the recipient of the 2025 B’nai B’rith Human Rights Award."

This is just the tip of the iceberg as a wave of unprecedented antisemitism sweeps our globe Alex has become a voice of reason holding up a mirror to reflect the 600 p c rise in anti semetic incidents globally

As the world spins in a terrifying spiral of vitriol fear and rising Jew hatred Alex discusses faith hope the myths that drive the hate and preparing the next generation of Jews and non Jews to thrive and survive together.

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Madeleine West

Actor Mother of 7 Advocate Abuse survivor

Former Neighbours star Madeleine West is embracing her newborn seventh child, several years after splitting from her ex Shannon Bennett father to her beautiful brood of six .. well she thought it was menopause turned out to be a baby at 47 !

Mother of 7, advocate, survivor and ambassador for the newly created Cntrl Shift organisation she’s on a mission to protect children educate organisations parents and childcare authorities . As a victim of abuse herself she’s raw and determined.

Her tenacity is particularly remarkable in light of the trauma she has recently experienced again. She courageously sought to hold her abuser accountable after disclosing childhood abuse in 2023, which led to a landmark court decision. This particularly difficult period of her life has given her a new sense of direction.

With recent disturbing reports of child abuse in dozens of childcare centres across Melbourne it’s triggering and distressing but Mad is determined to fight and use her anger as fuel for change

So I’m are thrilled to welcome this passionate powerful woman to Wil podcast

Childcare centres that egregiously fail to meet minimum standards will still have a month’s grace period to resolve their problems before the government steps in to strip them of taxpayer funding, under new laws proposed by the Albanese government.

The rules were introduced to federal parliament on Wednesday following a spate of sexual abuse allegations levelled against Victorian childcare worker Joshua Brown, claims of children being mistreated in NSW, and earlier incidents in Queensland. Is this finally the beginning of action ?

Madeleine West is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Her abuser, Peter Vincent White, was her next-door neighbour in rural Victoria. West was just four years old and it continued until she was 11.

In 2022, decades on from the crime, West proved instrumental in the case against White. On the morning of June 13, the actor was fitted with a wire and confronted White.

In 2023, White pleaded guilty to 33 offences and was handed a 15-year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of seven children.

She now wants the parents of other children who have faced unimaginable trauma to feel educated about what trauma feels like. This is her story, in her own words.

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