Healthy Tasmania

Healthy Tasmania We fill the gaps! We create whatever is needed to build connections between people who need help and people who provide help. We run programs. We manage events.

We started Healthy Tasmania to help people live the best life they can. We want to help Tasmanians improve their health, strengthen their life skills, to live in communities that are thriving economically and socially and be as passionate about Tasmania as we are. Healthy Tasmania works with community partners to build capacity, improve equity and inclusion, and promote pride of place; our motivat

ion is to make communities thrive. We design, build and deliver projects to improve the life skills of Tasmanians. We write policy. We organise people. We find money. We’ll do the work, we’ll manage the process, we’ll fix your headaches, we’ll make you look good and we’ll share positive stories broadly to get your brand the recognition it deserves. Get in touch to find out how we will make it happen.

Penny's work on being a better host was never really just about podcasting. It was always about how we create the condit...
09/06/2026

Penny's work on being a better host was never really just about podcasting. It was always about how we create the conditions for better conversations.

Most of us are hosting something every day: a meeting, a question, a new idea, a tricky disclosure or a room full of people who may or may not be pretending they do not have an opinion.

Sadly, leadership does not come with a seven-second delay button. However, there are things it shares with radio and podcast hosting: building rapport early, inviting participation, listening for what is not being said, reading the room and knowing when to turn something up, bring something down or gently move the conversation along.

In her new keynote, The Leadership Studio, Penny sets up her studio on stage and helps delegates play with the faders, so they can create better conditions for trust, contribution and conversations with a bit more life in them.

It's our 10th anniversary at Healthy Tasmania so we've been going through the archives. Today special treats are:- Our f...
18/05/2026

It's our 10th anniversary at Healthy Tasmania so we've been going through the archives. Today special treats are:
- Our first meeting
- Our first presentation (hmmm, yes, on fit balls...)
- Our first... I have no idea and I don't want to know.

Two sisters.One bottle of rosé.A very productive whinge.That is the moment Healthy Tasmania began.It was a normal post-w...
06/05/2026

Two sisters.
One bottle of rosé.
A very productive whinge.
That is the moment Healthy Tasmania began.

It was a normal post-work drink around Penny’s kitchen table, which is to say we were unpacking the week, solving the problems of the world, and 'keeping each other humble' in a way only siblings can.

We weren’t trying to start a business that night. We were just talking about work, life, and the brilliant ideas we’d seen get tangled in systems, leaving good people hitting the same walls.

Somewhere between the rosé, the frustration and the dawning realisation that Lucy’s brain was already figuring out how to help people navigate and then change the structures while Penny’s brain was chasing the stories and experiences that would help people understand the issues, the conversation changed.

It stopped being a whinge and started becoming a plan. The next day, it had become a business.

We have no idea what the actual date of that conversation was, which is deeply inconvenient for anniversary purposes, but we both remember the moment.

While our work has evolved significantly over the past ten years, our mission remains the same: to help good people, do work that matters, for meaningful change.

We have a significant anniversary coming up for Healthy Tasmania. As such, we've been looking through the archives and s...
29/04/2026

We have a significant anniversary coming up for Healthy Tasmania. As such, we've been looking through the archives and stumbled upon a folder of photos from our first photo shoot.

Wow. We have many questions.

Luckily, this is just the start of what we uncovered, standby for more....

Anyone else skipped this part… and then felt the overwhelm?!We see it a lot in our work.We’ll be working with a mentorin...
12/04/2026

Anyone else skipped this part… and then felt the overwhelm?!

We see it a lot in our work.

We’ll be working with a mentoring client who is stepping into something new, a bigger role, or an extra role, a different level of responsibility. They’re excited, curious, nervous… and then somewhere in the conversation, there’s a pause. You can almost feel the penny drop.

Suddenly the conversation shifts from the promise of the new shiny thing… to the trade-offs of the old, slightly outgrown things.

It looks like a decision about workload, but it often runs deeper than that.

We find that while most people prepare for what they’re stepping into.
Very few prepare for what they’re stepping away from, yet that can be the hardest part.

The new thing is usually about opportunity.
The old things tend to be about identity.

Letting go of something that's part of our identify often requires a renegotiation of what we're ready to stop carrying… and who we're allowed to stop being...

Well… ah that got deep, fast!

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Launceston, TAS

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+61409937421

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