Ruth Clare is an Australian author who wrote the award winning memoir 'Enemy — A Daughter's story of how her father brought the Vietnam War home'. She suffered the trauma of domestic violence as a child, and has been talking about trauma for a living since she became a parent herself. She has delivered three TEDx talks: 

If you don't own your stories they'll own you, TEDxYouth@LGS

The pain hiding your true self, TEDxYouth@LGS

The power of Plan B Thinking, TEDxUniMelb (online event)

Ruth talks to Tony about her traumatic childhood, her healing through therapy, the story of her most successful TEDx talk which has had over 100,000 views, and some tips on writing TED talks. She's brilliant! 

Ruth Clare's website. 

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Ruth Clare is an Australian author who wrote the award winning memoir '<a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/enemy-9780670079094">Enemy — A Daughter's story of how her father brought the Vietnam War home</a>'. She suffered the trauma of domestic violence as a child, and has been talking about trauma for a living since she became a parent herself. She has delivered three TEDx talks: 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-_OBHiRX3s">If you don't own your stories they'll own you</a>, <a href="mailto:TEDxYouth@LGS">TEDxYouth@LGS</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-_OBHiRX3s">The pain hiding your true self</a>, <a href="mailto:TEDxYouth@LGS">TEDxYouth@LGS</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFBHS2B4Xk">The power of Plan B Thinking</a>, TEDxUniMelb (online event)
Ruth talks to Tony about her traumatic childhood, her healing through therapy, the story of her most successful TEDx talk which has had over 100,000 views, and some tips on writing TED talks. She's brilliant! 
<a href="https://www.ruthclare.com/">Ruth Clare's website</a>. 
Sign up as a free or paid subscriber to Speakola <a href="https://news.speakola.com/">here</a>. If you love what I'm doing in this one-man speeches mission (43 episodes, 7 years of collecting) please become a $5 a month <a href="https://news.speakola.com/">paid subscriber</a>. It's really easy at <a href="https://news.speakola.com/">news.speakola.com</a>.
Thanks also to those who are <a href="https://speakola.com/donate">donors </a>or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/speakola">Patreons</a>. 
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Tony's personal writing blog is <a href="https://goodonewilson.substack.com/">Good one, Wilson!</a>

Speakola is the home for great speeches on the web. 

Tony Wilson is the founder and curator of Speakola, which now hosts more than 2000 speeches, some famous – think Churchill, Obama, Gandhi - some not so well known. 

In each episode, Tony interviews someone who has written, delivered or studied a great speech to reveal the stories behind the scenes, to provide context to the historical moment, or in the case of eulogies, birthdays and other common events, to inspire people to hit new creative highs.

Tony will also play a ‘speech of the week’ to honour great words by great orators. Released fortnightly.

Speakola, for all speeches great and small.

Speakola is the home for great speeches on the web. 
Tony Wilson is the founder and curator of Speakola, which now hosts more than 2000 speeches, some famous &ndash; think Churchill, Obama, Gandhi - some not so well known.&nbsp;
In each episode, Tony interviews someone who has written, delivered or studied a great speech to reveal the stories behind the scenes, to provide context to the historical moment, or in the case of eulogies, birthdays and other common events, to inspire people to hit new creative highs.
Tony will also play a &lsquo;speech of the week&rsquo; to honour great words by great orators. Released fortnightly.
<a href="http://www.speakola.com">Speakola</a>, for all speeches great and small.

Speakola, for all speeches great and small.

Speakola

<a href="http://www.speakola.com">Speakola</a> is the home for great speeches on the web. 
Tony Wilson is the founder and curator of Speakola, which now hosts more than 2000 speeches, some famous &ndash; think Churchill, Obama, Gandhi - some not so well known.&nbsp;
In each episode, Tony interviews someone who has written, delivered or studied a great speech to reveal the stories behind the scenes, to provide context to the historical moment, or in the case of eulogies, birthdays and other common events, to inspire people to hit new creative highs.
Tony will also play a &lsquo;speech of the week&rsquo; to honour great words by great orators. Released fortnightly.
<a href="http://www.speakola.com">Speakola</a>, for all speeches great and small.

Ruth Clare talks about her three TED talks and gives advice on how to write a TED talk. She also discusses her memoir 'Enemy'.

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