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Brooke Hanson OLY OAM

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Empower – Inspire - Transform

Swimming star Brooke Hanson OLY OAM, an Olympic gold and silver medallist, remains one of Australia's most recognised Olympians.

Brooke is a professional motivational keynote speaker, master of ceremonies, television and radio presenter and a healthy active mother. Her bubbly personality, authentic delivery and natural stage presence has been pleasantly received, Brooke has become a source of inspiration to many people through her story of resilience, determination and her positive outlook after much heartache is motivating.

Despite everything that Brooke has faced in her swimming career and beyond she has dedicated her speaking career to helping individuals and businesses achieve personal and team greatness. Her extraordinary personal journey makes audiences smile, laugh, cry and leaves individuals inspired to live a purpose driven life.

Brooke has continued to manage to find happiness and face every difficulty with a smile and loves nothing more than to share her inspirational story with everyone she meets. The life lessons, compassion and growth she has learnt through her experiences gives Brooke an opportunity to share her story and the tools she has gained that have resulted with successful outcomes.

Brooke’s focus is on resilience, adversity, success, balance, motivation, happiness and well-being. She shares how to embrace what’s important through passion, purpose, love, leadership and finding internal strength to persevere in the face of your biggest challenges.

Brooke dedicates her time to her passions and aligns with charities close to her heart such as Life’s Little Treasures Foundation which helps families of babies born premature or sick. Her autobiography was released in 2009 and the profits from her continued personal sales go to this wonderful charity making a huge difference to Australian families.

More about Brooke Hanson’s journey, a girl that was born to SWIM……….. 

Brooke made her debut for the Australian Swimming Team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games before going on to represent Australia over 25 times at major international championships. In 2004 Brooke fulfilled a childhood dream, when after missing two Olympic teams in 1996 and 2000, she won Olympic gold and silver medals in Athens. She created history at the 2004 World Short Course Championships where she won a record six gold medals – five individual and the 4x100m medley relay in world record time.

After studying journalism, the talented swimmer released her autobiography "When Silver Is Gold" The Brooke Hanson Story  and she loves nothing more than to share her inspirational story with everyone she meets. 

Brooke dedicates her time to her passions and aligns with charities close to her heart such as Life’s Little Treasures Foundation which helps families of babies born premature or sick. Her television presenting on the TV Week Logie winning show "What's Good for You" earned her a Logie nomination for Best New Female Talent. She loved her role on Nine Network’s Discover Downunder  exploring the best camping and caravanning holiday destinations around Australia throughout 5 seasons and continues to enjoy the outdoors and camping including filming adventures with her family which included Seven Network’s My Road To Adventure 2020.

The Olympic champion continues to enjoy a successful career for herself as a television personality, product ambassador and balances her blooming professional media career with; motherhood, appearances, hosting, motivational speaking, charity events, swim clinics and her commitment to promoting a healthy and active lifestyle for all Australians.