Today’s episode of WOW is the story of a woman who has created a full and colourful life by choice. The choice to seek truth, to choose dance, and to say yes when others might have said no.

Gabrielle Griffin aka GG was born in France, raised across Europe, and grew up in a family shaped by secrets, including one that didn’t surface until she was in the throes of teenage life as her mother revealed she had adopted out a baby before GG was born. That revelation cracked open GG’s world and set her on a path of rebellion, independence, and ultimately, truth‑seeking.

At twenty, she moved to Australia alone. She reinvented herself along the way from Sydney to Byron Bay, the wild tropics of FNQ to Adelaides art scene and many other places in between. She navigated culture shock, inherited anxiety, queerness, and the search for belonging in a country that felt both foreign and full of possibility all at the same time.

Her life has taken her through family lies and discoveries, activism and political queer culture, motherhood followed by dark postnatal depression, relocating to another state without her son, disability arts, adult puppetry, explorations into her own sexuality in her 40’s and GG put in the hard work of rebuilding a creative identity after everything felt like it had fallen apart. She has lived through rupture and reconnection, including eventually finding the brother she never knew she had.

And through it all, she has followed one constant: That of the performing arts. Movement, dance, performance, and embodiment, was the language she trusted even when nothing else made sense.

Today, she is one half of the post punk cabaret duo MUTTON, a performer whose life experience is woven into every beat, every gesture, every delightful moment on stage. GG is also an adult puppeteer, a Pilates instructor, an Activist, a blogger and a disability dance teacher and who knows what's next?

This is a story about the search for identity, family, queerness, reinvention, and the courage to keep going, even when the path ahead is unclear.

This project was made possible with the support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation CBF.org.

The WOW2 podcast version of the series will be available in late July and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network (CRN) later in the year.