LYSIANE COSSETTE
There was a time when Lysiane Cossette-Montefiore saw her reflection as a résumé.
After 16 years in the modelling industry, perfection had become an instinct: editing photographs, holding her breath, wishing her body looked different and quietly believing that one day she would finally feel like enough.
ISABELLA BANKS
For Isabella Banks, the life she wanted was never going to arrive by waiting for the perfect moment.
A photographer for more than a decade, Isabella has built a career photographing celebrities, public figures, brands and events, with her work appearing across publications including Vogue, Glamour and Heat, while simultaneously raising her children. She became a mother at just 19, meaning motherhood and career have grown alongside one another, neither waiting patiently for the other to be finished.
CATHERINE TUTON
After a life-altering health crisis changed everything, Catherine Tuton chose not to return to the life she had built — but to create one that felt more meaningful, intentional and entirely her own.
There are moments when life divides itself into before and after.
For Catherine Tuton, that moment came at 45, when she survived a heart attack during the global pandemic, following a life-altering breakup. What could have been simply a devastating chapter became something else entirely: a profound shift in perspective.
Rather than returning to the life she had built, Catherine began asking a different question: What do I actually want my life to look like now?
That question became the beginning of everything that followed.
JENNIFER OLIVO
After more than a decade in institutional investing, Jennifer Olivo discovered that losing the career that had defined her could become the beginning of something far more personal: building success on her own terms.
GWLADYS DE MARSAC
Gwladys de Marsac is bringing ceremonial arts into contemporary life — creating spaces for the transitions that deserve to be witnessed, honoured and fully lived.
NICOLA HARRIS
For years, Nicola Harris looked successful from the outside.
She built businesses, led teams, achieved ambitious goals and created a life that appeared impressive on paper. Yet beneath the achievements was a different reality: pressure, hyper-independence and a deep belief that rest, abundance, love and belonging had to be earned.
Everything changed when she began to understand that manifestation is not simply about mindset. It is about capacity.
SHIRIN
For many years, Shirin searched for something deeper than success, achievement or external validation. She was searching for connection.
A medical doctor with a background in psychology, psychotherapy and functional medicine, her path led her into a profound exploration of healing, embodiment, spirituality and the nervous system. She became fascinated by what allows human beings not only to survive, but to truly flourish — to feel emotionally connected, grounded within themselves and deeply alive.
Along the way, she discovered something unexpected.
TRINITY HIGGS
For most of her life, Trinity Higgs was chasing a feeling she couldn't quite name.
From childhood, she instinctively imagined the life she wanted. Long before she understood manifestation, she was visualising possibilities beyond her circumstances, using imagination as both refuge and compass.
When her father passed away suddenly at just nine years old, it shaped how she viewed both love and security. Raised by a Korean immigrant mother navigating life as a single parent in America, Trinity grew up searching for answers about who she was and how to create a different future.
MALIN MANZ
Through her brand, Leonessa Empowerment, Malin Manz guides women back to feminine power, embodiment and self-leadership, drawing from years of study and initiation across shamanism, yoga, tantra, Taoism and natural medicine traditions. Her work has been shaped by teachers, healers and sacred lineages from places including Portugal, Costa Rica and Tanzania.
But Malin's journey was never about fixing herself.
It was about remembering who she came here to be.
KATE ARMSTRONG
For years, Dr Kate Armstrong appeared to have the kind of life many women aspire to.
A successful academic career spanning more than three decades. Senior leadership roles. Multiple businesses. Financial success. Marriage. Motherhood. Recognition.
On paper, everything looked extraordinary. Yet beneath the achievements, something felt increasingly disconnected.
Following a period marked by profound grief, burnout and spiritual awakening, Kate found herself questioning the architecture of the life she had built.
"Why can't we have an extraordinary life in every category?" she asked herself.
CASEY STEVENS
For Casey Stevens, healing is not about becoming someone else. It is about returning to who you have always been beneath the conditioning, fear and limitations.
Her mission is simple: to help more people access the tools, healing and support needed to transform their lives and create a ripple effect of growth throughout the collective.
Because no matter where you are today, you have the power to begin again.
To choose differently.
To rise again.
BIRD + WOLF, EM ROBERTS
Bird + Wolf was never conceived as a fashion label. It began with instinct. Founder Em Roberts, whose career spans hairdressing, marketing, PR, film, music and brand consultancy, was wearing an up-cycled army jacket she had customised for herself when a stranger in Harrods asked to buy it straight off her back. The jacket carried a story. That moment became the spark for Bird + Wolf—an indie label born not from strategy, but from resonance.
Within eighteen months, the jackets were quietly stocked in Selfridges and embraced by a global following that included writers, musicians and actors—from Piper Kerman to Kelis, Stormzy, Sharleen Spiteri and Helen Mirren.
There were no campaigns, no noise. Just a growing network of people drawn to something authentic, expressive, and deeply personal. Bird + Wolf became an insider favourite—recognised not by logos, but by feeling.
SONIA G. GODFREY
For Sonia G. Godfrey, manifestation is the precise orchestration of identity, biology, breath, and consciousness into coherence with one's original Divine Blueprint. When that architecture is restored, life reorganizes naturally. Wealth stabilizes. Vitality returns. Leadership becomes embodied rather than performed.
Sonia's work moves beyond healing and ascension into something far more exacting: embodiment. Not just accessing higher realms, but stabilising them in the physical body. Not spiritual awakening as a moment, but Divine Identity as a lived, biological reality.
Her path into this work began long before Starborn Human existed. At sixteen, Sonia moved alone from Italy to the United States, guided by an inner knowing she could not yet explain. Years later, while building a successful career in Corporate America, a profound spiritual awakening activated her higher senses and opened her into multidimensional perception. What followed was not retreat from the world, but deeper engagement with it.
MINA IRFAN
For Mina Irfan, spirituality has never been about surrendering authority. It has been about reclaiming it.
Known globally as The Universe Guru, Mina has built a body of work that sits at the intersection of faith, embodiment, wealth, and legacy. Her philosophy challenges one of the most persistent misunderstandings in modern spirituality—that guidance requires hierarchy, and wisdom requires self-erasure. Mina teaches capacity.
Her work is rooted in the belief that a woman's life is not just a personal journey, but a source of value. When lived consciously, embodied fully, and documented with intention, experience becomes wisdom. Wisdom becomes intellectual property. And intellectual property becomes legacy.
ELLEN SALTE
For Ellen Salte, alignment is not a mindset shift. It's a lived decision.
Her work was born from a quiet but unwavering inner knowing: to become the change she longed to see in the world, she had to walk it first. That meant choosing intuition over expectation, inner truth over external noise, and embodiment over performance.
Ellen's path has been one of deep inner work—stepping off the hamster wheel of conditioning, hustle, and inherited patterns, and returning to the body, the heart, and the wisdom that lives within.
ALLISON BINGHAM
There is a moment every visionary leader reaches where the next move is no longer about growth—it's about integration.
The idea is already alive. The vision has been whispering for years. What's required now isn't more strategy—it's becoming the woman who can hold what's coming next. This is the threshold Allison Hunter Bingham stands in.
For over a decade, she has been the unseen force behind some of the most ambitious creative, commercial, and cultural projects in the world—leading cross-departmental teams across 150+ initiatives and catalysing over $30M in revenue for Fortune 500 brands including Microsoft, Amazon, and Anheuser-Busch.
But the work she's known for today was never just about execution. Her background spans corporate finance, software implementation, experiential event production, and global brand architecture—paired with decades of energetic mastery as a Reiki Master and frequency strategist. She is where divine insight becomes operational reality.
GOLDEN BRANDS
Last month, creative female founders from across Australia and New Zealand gathered at the stunning Calile Hotel for Golden Success 2025, an empowering business conference hosted by Golden Brands. From the moment guests arrived, there was an unmistakable sense of connection in the air—the feeling of women coming together with ambition, heart, and purpose. The day opened poolside with morning coffee, warm introductions, and the buzz of possibility. Inside, the program delivered an inspiring blend of keynotes, panels, and workshops designed to support founders in building both a powerful brand and a fulfilling life.
The speaker lineup featured some of the region's most influential voices. Our Radiance cover star, Melissa Ambrosini opened the conference with Building Your Dream Business, guiding attendees to reconnect with their 'why' and cultivate abundance in every area of life. Jess Williamson followed with Mastering Buyer Psychology, offering grounded insight into modern consumer behaviour.
NIKKI ANANDA
Nikki Ananda has brought a cyberpunk–trip-hop edge into spaces that were once soft-focused and filtered. She isn't here to make feminine embodiment look palatable. She's here to make it powerful.
She is known for bringing a sharper, more empowered edge to feminine embodiment—a reclamation of sovereignty, sexuality, and self-expression that breaks women out of the "false matrix" of performance and perfection.
Her work blends body-based awakening with frequency-led leadership. To Nikki, liberation isn't a concept—it's a full-spectrum shift into clarity, truth, and the kind of inner authority that can't be outsourced.
At the core of her message is a simple premise: Liberation Beyond the False Matrix—mind, body, sex, and money. A woman who is fully expressed in these areas naturally rises into her power. Not through striving, but through remembering.
SERENA POON
Serena Poon's work begins with a belief that is both radical and ancient: the body already knows how to heal. What it needs is support—physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual—to return to its natural state of harmony.
Her philosophy was shaped long before she founded Serena Loves® or developed Culinary Alchemy® and Wholistic Lifestyle Medicine®. It began in college, when she lost her father to cancer and nearly lost her mother soon after. Those experiences cracked her open—and set her on a path she hadn't planned, but was destined to walk.
JENNIFER HARPER
A visionary artist, singer-songwriter and sound alchemist, Jennifer Harper doesn't just write songs. Her voice becomes a vessel for something older, wider and deeper than melody—a current of light that moves through the body, untangles what's stuck and gently brings people home to themselves.
Her newest album, Soul Alive, is an 11-track body of work that feels less like an album and more like ceremony. Listeners describe a sense of release, a softening, a homecoming to something ancient and familiar. These aren't just songs; they're transmissions.
Harper's work lives at the meeting point of the sacred and the human. Rooted in over 30 years of Buddhist practice, and woven with Human Design, Gene Keys and energy work, her creative process is both mystical and meticulous. As a 1/3 Emotional Projector, she experiments, feels, refines and then shares—each offering born from lived experience and deep embodiment.