After starting her career as a user experience researcher in “San Francisco’s vibrant tech start-up community alongside some of the industry’s brightest visionaries”, my friend, Liz Chase moved home to Melbourne to commence legal practice. This, she said, “was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream marred with frustration and dismay at the amount of busy work undertaken by junior lawyers and paralegals which could easily be automated with better outcomes in terms of accuracy, efficiency and resource allocation”.

After holding various roles as a legal professional (lawyer, partner and business owner, having started her own firm, Chase Legal), it dawned on her that the practice of law no longer got her out of bed in the morning. What did, however, was “the business of law and the opportunity to transform it”.

So Liz, being Liz got out of her bed and co-founded a design thinking consultancy Law DesignED and now couples this with being a lawyer and mentor at Leo Cussen Centre for Law – spending her days developing the next generation of legal professionals and imbibing design thinking into their modes of practice.

Design thinking (or human-centred design), she explained, is a “problem-solving methodology originally used by web designers and software developers to make digital environments more intuitive, useful and engaging”.

I had a quick chat with Craig Turton - co-founder of 100 WORDS Mate to Mate on the last day of Men's Health Week 2021.

He told a show stopping story about a roomful of blokes at a charity night raising money and awareness for men’s mental health.

About how one brave man stood up in front of this roomful of strangers and told them that he had tried to take his own life.

And about his mates, who were stunned into silence as they all sat next to him, listening to his story for the very first time.

Hear Craig talk about the vision for 100 WORDS mate to mate and purpose for blokes to start really talking to each other, in an effort to stop losing so many men in our communities to suicide.

Sam Canning is one of Australia’s leading ethical butchers and has spread this word from his start up store in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia to 8 more community supporting initiatives, since 2010. With kindness and care at the heart of everything Sam and his team represent, it’s no surprise that human beings and animals benefit from his approach. Inspired by ‘paddock-to-plate’ butcher shops in the UK, Sam has managed to build a space that supports the greater good of all beings. #mensmentalhealth #menshealth #malesuicide #Connecting #ActofRandomKindness #recovery #mentalhealth #butchers #ethics #animals @3WBC Presenters