Michelle Sheppard

Author: Mama Mish

  • Family Matters on Joy

    Following on from the success from Transpositions I was recently invited to join a new show at Joy to discuss more family issues that affect those of us in the LGBTI+ community. Starting and raising a family can be an exciting and highly emotional time for all involved. For the…

  • ANZ Excellence in business – LGBTI Jobs

    “If you said to me three years ago when I came out, when I was nearly homeless and I couldn’t find a job except manual labour that I’d be up here I wouldn’t believe it.“ Michelle Sheppard said as she accepted the award, “We’ve started a business that helps anybody who’s in…

  • GLBTI change makers recognised as winners of the GLOBE Community Awards 2016

    Winner of the ‘ANZ Excellence in Business Award’, ‘LGBTI Jobs’ a relatively new project, they pair LGBTI graduates and jobseekers to companies that embrace inclusion initiatives. “We’ve started a business that helps anybody who’s in the LGBTI Community. We go to companies and see what they are you doing. This…

  • Australian football’s Pride Match 

    Australian football’s Pride Match 

    Today is the AFL’s first ever pride match. I have shared a few posts regarding this but I want to share why this is so important.  Australian football is a strange paradox – for a game that is played almost exclusively in one part of the globe it is able…

  • Transpositions (joy.org.au)

    Transpositions (joy.org.au)

    Subscribe to the podcast / Add to iTunes Email Transpositions | Transpositions (joy.org.au)

  • Amazing Gays: Finding Her Anchor

    In the second part of our interview Michelle speaks about her journey towards transition and how finding someone that could anchor her became the cornerstone of her journey. She also introduces a new business that cab assist employers to promote a more integrated model of best practice for GLBTIQ employees.…

  • Amazing Gays: The Early Years – Part 1

    “Amazing Gays is proud to introduce our first transgender guest, Michelle Sheppard. Raised in the bible belt of middle America, Michelle’s journey to realise her gender identity was fraught with many challenges. She shares her story of coming to terms with her gender identity, becoming part of the gay community…

  • From the Outer

    In the early days my journey, after coming out and living full time as Michelle, I happened to make a new close friendship with Jason Tuazon-McCheyne. We briefly bumped into one another at Carnival in 2015 but it wasn’t until we came on ‘In the Spotlight’ at Joy 94.9, one week as a panel…

  • Being Trans and Facebook Memories.

    Being Trans and Facebook Memories.

    I was approached by samesame.com.au after I made a Facebook post about a photo from my Facebook memories. Here Is the link the the article, followed by my original Facebook post: http://m.samesame.com.au/features/13555/When-Facebook-says-you-have-memories-to-look-back-on-today “3 years. 3 years is a long time to deal with something like depression. For me I suffered for…

  • Empowering Women