Elise Hawthorne
I first met the delightful Bianca Dye many years ago when we worked together trying to save endangered species and help stop the very naughty Japanese (I’m being polite) whaling industry from continuing their annual slaughter of these majestic creatures of our oceans.
Bianca is everything you could want in a friend, we aren’t close but she is the sort of gal who when you meet you feel like you have known a lifetime.
Bianca’s very public job as a TV personality and award winning Australian radio DJ gives her the opportunity to help others, a gift she takes up with her usual full force of enthusiasm. Bianca feels, “lucky to be given the opportunity to help others, I love asking people to help people and organisations in needs – I feel like I am passing on good Karma”.
This multi-layered and multi-talented woman shines with intelligence and positivity, yet she has been upfront about her own struggle with anxiety and we love her more for her honesty.
Bianca’s own experience with generalized anxiety disorder led her to establish the instagram site @anxietyfree
Her long term plan is to create a website that deals with this issue, a site that in her own words will be, “fun, cool, where professionals can have an input and yet the information won’t be sterile. It would be great if anyone could go to the site and download meditation tapes and I’d also love to be able to interview celebrities about their own experiences with anxiety”.
I asked Bianca her top 5 tips for leading a positive, healing and healthy life – her wise words are as follows…
- Meditate, I’ve seen it change people’s lives
- Exercise, this is very important
- Follow your dreams, be mindful of what makes your life sing and go for it
- Eat vegan and organic
- Do good deeds, pay it forward – this is a beautiful way to lead your life
Bianca is a supporter of a wide array of charitable causes and is a well-known lover of animals and a staunch defender of animal rights. Growing up as an only child in challenging family circumstances, Bianca’s two pet dogs Patch and Friday were her best friends. In her own words, “I turn to animals in times of need; they give such unconditional love, which is something I’ve been searching for my whole life”.
Bianca is involved with the Redheads for Redheads project, which raises awareness and funds for Orangutan protection. She has seen firsthand the destruction of their habitats by the palm oil industry. Her ongoing support of the anti whaling cause and the recent win to stop Japanese whaling in Australian waters has cemented her theory that, “if we all join together for a cause then the tidal wave of support can make positive change possible”.
Towards the end of our interview I asked Bianca what she would tell her 25 year old self. Once again her honesty was very moving. Her heart was broken as a young woman, which brought to the surface low self esteem issues. So her advice to her younger self would be to seek out professional advice to help build her self esteem so that her struggles in this area of her life could have been resolved much earlier.
I also asked Bianca what she hoped her life would be like 10 years from now. Top on her list was she would love to have a 9 year old son or daughter and to be a great mum with a loving partner. But Bianca being Bianca, she would also hope to be helping others by producing a radio show that focuses on the topic of anxiety, in a cool, rock and roll/meditation mix style of way. She would love to be able to interview Richard Branson about how he keeps so calm and in the next breath run a competition to win a holiday at a fanatic health resort. Hosting anxiety seminars and having a radio show that beams across the world is all in her grand plan.
Of course living in the Gold Coast hinterland with a view of the ocean on one side and cows roaming on green paddocks on the other side is also on her wish list.
Bianca I hope that all of your dreams come true as it couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
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