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Our guest speaker, Gail Kelly, delivered a wonderful speech last Friday. a very brief summary of her inspiring speech;

Love what you do
• Know your strengths
• Find your passion
• Follow your dreams
• Don’t hesitate to change (Mrs Kelly started as a teacher in South Africa)

Choose to be positive

• Stand tall, in both literal and figurative terms
• Don’t sugar-coat the difficult issues
• Ask “what can I learn?” from my challenges

Make a difference
• Be “generous of spirit”, which must not be considered synonymous with soft leadership; it takes great true courage to lead in this way
• Have a deep belief in the dignity of every person
• Choose a different/right path, not just the common or easy path
• Be fully present when you talking with someone

We would like to invite you to attend our first Books & Blokes Breakfast for 2018, to meet former Australian leg-spinner turned hilarious cricket commentator, Kerry O’Keeffe.

Kerry is one of Australian cricket’s most popular and colourful characters. His wicked sense of humour and knowledge in all things sport won him a gig as a regular guest on the popular TV show “The Fat”, as an ABC Radio Test cricket and One Day International Commentator and as a columnist with News Limited. Kerry will share stories about his life as both a cricketer and commentator and we will have copies of some of his books available for sale.

About the Books & Blokes Breakfast

We began the Books & Blokes series at Joeys in 2012 as part of an initiative to celebrate the National Year of Reading. This breakfast series aims to encourage men both at home and in the college community to share their love of reading with the boys, to talk about and recommend books they have enjoyed and to help spread the message that “It’s OK for Blokes to Read”. We aim to bring in a broad range of inspirational and interesting speakers to share their stories over a casual and laid back breakfast. (We do not charge students or guests to attend) To find out more, take a look at our Books & Blokes Breakfast webpages.