Founders Story
The Beginning of Love Out Loud
My journey to founding Love Out Loud sprang from a deeply personal place, marked by my battle with anorexia and a profound realization about our healthcare systems. It wasn’t just about the crisis intervention focus of these systems; it was their lack of emotional capacity to truly connect with individuals in need.
“often what the human, the patient, needs is just to be met on a deeper human level to feel less alone in the journey that they’re going through of healing”
This led me to question how societal avoidance of vulnerability and pain stifles crucial conversations, fueling my drive for social change. Founding a nonprofit dedicated to mental health through community engagement, I discovered a universal longing for love, recognition, and true presence.
“I would go into communities help them build what I call emotional infrastructure, support them to resolve conflict, to build bridges to have difficult conversations around things like suicide, addiction, domestic violence, disengagement in education. The reason these conversations weren’t being heard was because people didn’t have the emotional capacity to have those difficult conversations, so they just wouldn’t.”
These experiences, from listening to thousands share their stories to advising the government on mental health strategy, culminated in the realization that deep, meaningful change starts with developing our emotional infrastructure.
“after hearing the stories of 1000s of people, there was this core need that every single person was communicating…the need to love and be loved, the need to be seen and heard. And when that was present…the healing quality was even more profound than I had anticipated. That made me realise that at the centre of so many of these core issues, is the absence of presence.”
I was appointed the youngest Mental Health Commissioner in Australian history, advising the government on how to shift some of the spend on crisis intervention to prevention and early intervention.
“my argument was the early intervention and prevention needed to be about supporting the development of emotional capacity for Australian people. And after my third term, I realised that really, if we want to create deep meaningful change in that space, we need a scalable, accessible solution.”
This realisation catalysed the founding of Love Out Loud, aiming not just to heal but to reimagine leadership itself. We envision a future where leaders mirror their inner integrity in every action, fostering a culture of deep humanity and compassion.
“Someone clear in mind, body, emotion and spirit is a powerful decision maker – Love Out Loud’s mission is to support and optimise the health of our leaders and build emotional capacity in our society at scale”
New from Love Out Loud
World’s First Emotion Monitor
Break the Loop. Create Change
Love Out Loud has stepped into technology and we’re here to disrupt the industry with our ground-breaking, scientifically founded app, InTruth.
