Nov. 24, 2024

Resilience & Advocacy Brigetet Panetta's Journey Through Social Injustice

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Welcome, um, to the Living the Dream podcast with Curveball. Um, if you believe you can achieve, cheat.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Welcome to the Living the Dream with Curveball podcast, a show where I and a few guests that teach, motivate and inspire. Today I am joined by the ambassador for media.com, bridget Panetta. Bridget has overcame a lot of challenges in her life and she's looking to start a foundation that deals with social injustice of, uh, Australians and probably people all across the world. So we're going to be talking to her about everything that she's doing about our foundation and about the uh, challenges and social injustice that's faced by Australians. So Bridget, thank you so much for joining me today.

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> Speaker B>Thank you so much for having me.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Curtis, why don't you start by telling everybody a little bit about yourself?

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> Speaker B>Sure. So my name's Bridget. As you mentioned, I'm 36 years old and I have a beautiful four year old daughter. Um, I've been through a bit of a journey over the past five years, as I'm sure a lot of people have due to Covid and things like that. But I was lucky enough to have our family business, um, targeted by the Australian government. Unfortunately they took issue with our marketing for uh, our investment company that we run and that all happened two days before I gave birth to my daughter. So I had a few challenges, all kind of compounding at one time and I definitely had to go through a journey of self discovery, transformation to be able to evolve, to handle those kinds of situations. We unfortunately lost our home and we had to move. We have been moving several times over the last five years. So a lot of, yeah, a lot of relearning on how to cope, coping mechanisms, reconnecting, um, with self, reconnecting with that, you know, that voice that really is the only thing that can get you through these challenging times. I feel when they're quite um, of an, of an outlier, they're not really your common, you know, a divorce or, you know, you can get a lot of advice and things like that from friends and family members who may have experienced a similar thing.

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> Speaker B>But this was quite um, an outlandish, I guess, event to happen to someone.

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> Speaker B>So yeah, it's just been a bit of a journey to be able to navigate that and I feel that um, off the back of it, it's definitely opened my eyes up to a whole new career path for me and it's made me really empathetic for people suffering from ah, any kind of adversity or any kind of social injustice.

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> Speaker B>And I really feel That I want to be there for people who are suffering from things like that and be that shoulder that I kind of wish I had throughout my journey.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So you are also the ambassador for media.com. so tell us what that's all about and how did you get that? And what is Media.com?

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> Speaker B>Sure. Media.com is a platform that my partner has, is building currently. Um, and it is a platform that was, I guess, birthed during our whole journey of our struggles and our adversity. So we basically didn't have a voice throughout this whole five years. We had media writing about our business, we had other people writing about what was happening that had never spoken to us or, you know, there was just a lot of narratives that were just wrong, basically.

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> Speaker B>So we thought, or we could see that there was a need for this because we would have really benefited from it. And it's basically a platform where you can create profile, you can have all of your backstory, all of your history on there. You can also.

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> Speaker B>The main thing for me, which I really love, is you can respond to adverse media. So if someone writes an article about you, you usually can't comment on it unless you email the journalist directly to let them know that it's wrong and they rarely change it.

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> Speaker B>Um, you can actually copy that article into the platform. You can highlight the sections and you can actually label them as defamatory, incorrect, inaccurate.

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> Speaker B>Um, and it gets quite granular on how you can, uh, classify that statement. You can then provide evidence and supporting documentation to, I guess, support your reasoning.

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> Speaker B>Um, yeah, so it's also going to be a completely verified platform. So no keyboard warriors, no comments, none of that. So quite uninterrupted and with zero interference.

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> Speaker B>Um, just truth. We're trying to create a, uh, source of truth and kind of maintain a bit of accountability in a space, because I feel like it's getting a little bit messy and we're just trying to clean out all of that inaccuracy and all of the noise and just get back to the solid truth from the source.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay, well, talk about the foundation that you are preparing to start for, uh, social injustice for Australians and, you know, kind of tell us about that and about some of the social injustice that, you know, that Australians face. Because you say in your bio that there's like 600 Australians facing social injustice.

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> Speaker B>Sure. So that would, um, be the people that were involved in our business. So off the back of our business being, I guess, you know, under threat in a way, Um, a lot of people who were involved with us, they've now suffered off the back of, um, an approach that could have been handled a lot better. Ah, could have been a lot more of a considered approach, um, and considered the people who were at risk, um, when, you know, I've noticed in this journey that there's been, you know, comments about, oh, we're protecting future people from being affected by this business, so we're going after that business to make sure it doesn't affect anyone in the future.

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> Speaker B>However, the people already involved and at risk aren't being considered. So they're the kind of people that I'm trying to help and trying to just give a voice to. So whether that's through the media.com profile, we can interview them, allow them to share their story and their voice, um, or just the community that I'm currently building at the moment, I'm just trying to reach out to anyone who's mentioned in the press, mentioned, um, in quite a similar situation. I've already spoken to a few people who've had the same kind of approach happen to their business. So just giving them that voice, giving them that, I guess, sounding board that they need to be able to navigate this situation. And then once it kind of builds, I'd look to build maybe a podcast or something to be able to share their story or their, their voice. And that can be through the media.com profile as well.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, talk about how, uh, crucial resilience and advocacy is when, you know, you're dealing with challenges and social justice, social injustice.

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> Speaker B>Yes. So resilience, I think, is the only thing that's allowed me to survive this, this experience. It's been quite an eye opener. Um, I definitely would say I was a little bit naive to everything before all of this. I, I just assumed, you know, you get legal advice, you go to a tax accountant, you go to, you know, you get corporate structuring done and you've got everything ticked off. So for me that, that should be compliant enough. However, I feel like in this day and age, everything's down to interpretation and if people don't like your business, they can shut it down. You know, especially people with high powers, they can, they can come in. If you're interrupting an industry they don't like, they don't want interference in, they can do that.

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> Speaker B>So I feel like you need to kind of have that resilience to be able to withstand something that you have different views to, um, a um, majority. You know, you've got a different view to the government, which is unfortunate. But I feel like if you are Suffering from any kind of injustice, I feel like, to protect your health and wellness so you can actually persevere and fight through that journey that you've been chosen to fight through. Uh, resilience and just having that inner trust and that inner wisdom to know what is next to do and not get too external and panic and go down that kind of route.

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> Speaker B>Because we could have easily done that and we could have not, uh, made the progress that we've made and you know, then gone on to look@media.com as kind of like, you know, a silver lining in all of this. You know, we were able to find the opportunities and find the reasoning why this was happening. And I think the only way we were able to do that was just by not worrying about what anyone else is thinking, saying or doing and just focusing on what we think is right. And um, because if you just stay in alignment with what you feel is the right thing to do, you can't lose.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>We'll talk about some of the statistics or the statistic, uh, how much has the economy or how much has the global economy lost when it comes to productivity in regards to depression and anxiety?

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> Speaker B>M. Yeah, that's. Yeah, I'm not sure of the exact statistics, but from what I'm seeing, you know, there's a lot of people, especially since I've started posting more about, you know, inner wisdom and self autonomy, I guess, you know, that self sovereignty and being able to heal yourself. There's so many people just crying out for help because I feel everything's just compounded and all of these emotions, people don't know how to handle them, people don't know how to process them. And they're having to go into workplaces that don't encourage people to be able to heal. And you know, it can be like considered a little bit woo woo. If you do talk about spirituality or, or your inner wisdom or healing yourself. Uh, you know, most people just go and get antidepressants or go get Valium or something, whereas that's keeping people really disconnected.

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> Speaker B>And therefore people are just not performing because no one's feeling any joy, happiness, focus because they're just constantly struggling with these inner thoughts, um, that can be really detrimental to your health. And we're seeing a spike in a lot of chronic illness, um, in Australia and overseas. And I feel like that's genuinely from suppressed emotions that aren't actually being, um, processed. They're not being looked at, they're not being cleared. Um, I did go down the breathwork, um, avenue which allowed me to release all of these, you know, I was carrying a lot of anger, I was carrying a lot of frustration because we have a lot of opportunity costs that we've lost because of what's happened and I didn't have anyone to blame. So I was carrying all of this heaviness and in turn that was going to make me quite ill. And it did for a while there. But I was able to find modalities, uh, and things that allowed me to clear them. So I think once people or the workplaces and things like that are a lot more open to looking after their staff like that whole depression element will start to lift and people will start to enjoy their work and their jobs a lot more in the future.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, for all that you do and all uh, that you're working on and up to who is your target audience and why?

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> Speaker B>So at the moment I've uh, just been looking, I've got a kind of two tier approach so I'm doing retreats with a girlfriend that we're doing in terms of the healing element. So looking at, you know, you've gone through something, you're suffering with adversity, how do we fix that, how do we heal that, how do we understand that? Why is it there? So that's something that I've been doing that's like looking at more of a, the retreat. You can have women and men but you know, it is kind of, I am attracting a lot more women than men at the moment. Hopefully men start to flow in, you know, when things get a bit more maybe mainstream at one point. Um, and so that's how I'm looking to try heal and help with whatever I've learned from my journey. And then the people that I'm approaching in terms of the adversity side, just anyone that I can see has been talked about in the media from a standpoint of, you know, this person's lost their license or their business has been deregistered or things like that, um, where I think maybe they could have had that same heavy handed approach that we did. And unfortunately, you know, a lot of people don't have that maybe stamina or that you know, the strength or energy to be able to fight a long fight the way we have. You know, it's been five years so, and we're still going. So it's, it's not for the light hearted and I just feel like as a therapeutic measure as well, it's good for them to be able to just say their peace. So whatever's sitting in the media uh, is not just, you know, it's not going to ruin their reputation forever because they're going to be able to have their say.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Well, besides being an ambassador and working on your foundation, um, tell us about any other upcoming projects that you're working on that listeners need to be aware of.

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> Speaker B>Sure. So the main thing I'm working towards is the retreat that I'm holding in Bali in August 2025. I can send you the information on that to pop in the show notes if you'd like. Um, that's my main thing. The other thing I predominantly focus my time into is my daughter. Just to make sure she hasn't been affected too heavily by what we've. We've gone through. She's. She's only four and she's quite, you know, she's got this guard up. You know, she can always sense a bit of the heavy energy in our household. So I really spent a lot of my life just dedicated to her to make sure that she isn't affected by what's happened. And, yeah, she's been my main priority other than, I guess, my own healing journey.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay, well, so everybody can keep up with everything that you're up to. Contact information.

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> Speaker B>Sure. I'm on Instagram, Bridget Panetta and my media.com profile. So it's just media.com Bridget Panetta on there.

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> Speaker B>And I'm on YouTube as well. I'm just starting to share a bit of our story, so they can actually keep updated with the.

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> Speaker B>The actual full story on what's happened. Um, I've been very hesitant to share that, but I've just started, you know, posting a lot of that now just because I feel like I'm ready to. For the world to know kind of what happened. So I will be posting kind of shorts about that on my YouTube as well. That's just Bridget Panetta on YouTube.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>All right, well, close the side with some final thoughts. Maybe if that was something I forgot to talk about that you would like to touch on and any final thoughts you have for the listeners.

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> Speaker B>Um, final thoughts would just be, like, from a motherhood perspective. You know, just do what feels right for you. Everyone's doing their best and don't put too much pressure on yourself.

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> Speaker B>And just in life, just try and find that presence and just try and be, you know, as true to yourself as you possibly can. That's all you can do.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Absolutely. Ladies and gentlemen, check out Bridget Panetta's media profile. Media.com Bridget Panetta. Check her out on all of the socials. Follow everything that she's up to Follow Rate Review Share this episode to as many people as possible.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>If you have any guests or suggestion topics, Curtis Jackson 1978@att.net is the place to send them. Jump on your favorite podcast app. Leave us a review, Follow or share the show. Thank you for listening and supporting the show. And Bridget, thank you for all that you do. And thank you for joining us.

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> Speaker B>Thank you so much. I've loved speaking with you, so thank you so much for having me.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Curtis for more information on the Living the Dream podcast, visit www.djcurveball.com.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>until next time, stay focused on Living the Dream.

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> Speaker B>Dream.