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Jade Robertson | TEDx Speaker | Child Safety Speaker | UN/SPOKEN

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Helping adults make it safer for children to tell the truth.
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In a room full of people working to make this world a safer place for children.

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At @byblosbrisbane

@jadeleerobertson @nolaughingmatterau @corrileefoundation

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Happy 40th, Jade! 🎉 @jadeleerobertson

Thank you for being the strong, resilient woman you are. The way you speak your truth gives other women who've been silenced for so long the courage to understand themselves, find their power, and begin to heal, grow and finally feel free.
Thank you for your friendship, your advice, and the way you help me see things clearly when I can't make sense of a situation. I'm so grateful to always have you at my table.

I hope today brings you a real sense of freedom as you step into your 40s. Not going to lie… it's pretty fucking amazing.

Love you always 🩷

Gray x
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Our recent Brisbane Screening & Panel event.

The words for this post were sent to me by an audience member whom I know well. She wants to remain anonymous. I looked up the opposite of anonymous; it's "onymous," which literally means "having a name". I have a name for her: "indomitable." Thank you, friend, for being at the event and for your reflections. tlx

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It’s been a hard week to be a woman.

There are many good men in my life. Men I love, respect and trust. But underneath all of that, there is a rage that simmers.

My own lived experience of sexual assault and domestic and family violence, alongside the stories I hear every day as a DV practitioner, means I see the pattern over and over again.

It’s not just the men who abuse and control.

It’s also the men who stand by.
The men who look away.
The men who hear the joke and say nothing.
The men who know what’s happening but decide it’s not their problem because it isn’t happening to them.

And then there are the men who make conversations about violence against women about themselves — who feel attacked on behalf of all men when women speak about what we experience.

News flash, fellas:

If you would shut down a disrespectful conversation about women.

If you would challenge your mate when he makes a degrading joke.

If you would step in when you see a woman being intimidated, threatened or humiliated.

If you would call out misogyny even when no women are in the room.

If you would believe women and listen without immediately making the conversation about how unfair it is to men.

Then this conversation is not an attack on you.

It is an invitation to be part of changing the culture that allows violence to continue.

Because the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

And silence is not neutral.

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@jadeleerobertson What stays with me now isn’t only that I was forced to hug the person who had abused me.

It’s that my body was communicating the whole time.

I pulled away. I froze. I tried to hide.

The adults around me didn’t see a child whose body was saying no.

They saw attitude.

That’s the part I can’t unsee now when we talk about body autonomy. We can tell children, “Your body belongs to you,” but that lesson means very little if we then ask them to override their discomfort because an adult wants affection.

“Go give them a hug.”

“Don’t be rude.”

Suddenly the child becomes responsible for protecting the adult’s feelings.

The lesson underneath all our body-safety language becomes pretty fucking clear:

Your body belongs to you, until your boundary inconveniences somebody else.

That is not body autonomy.

A child should not have to explain their discomfort well enough for an adult to believe it before their no is respected. Sometimes the nervous system speaks before the words arrive.

This is part of what I mean when I talk about The Safe Adult. We don’t need to know exactly why a child doesn’t want physical contact before we honour it.

One line worth borrowing:

“You never have to hug or kiss someone to be polite.”

Then help them find another way to connect. Because the way we respond to a child’s no teaches them something about whether that no matters.

#bodyautonomy #childsafety #childprotection #traumainformedparenting #survivor

Thanks for wearing our tee @jadeleerobertson while making this important speech 🙌

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Welp! Plot twist. MUSE is back 🖤🤷🏽‍♀️

We thought we were closing this chapter, but apparently the story wasn’t finished yet.

This time we’re coming back with fresh eyes, a clearer vision and a much bigger focus on community, collaboration and creating a space where creatives can actually grow.

MUSE 2.0 is for the big idea people looking for somewhere to build.
Over the next few weeks you’ll see the space evolving and plenty of exciting announcements!

For now, our doors are open and bookings are available from WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY.

DM us to learn more!

#muse2.0#creativestudio#brisbane#arts#windsor

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👉🏼 @jadeleerobertson “On National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day — This year’s theme is Living Our Truth.

But children can only live their truth when the adults and systems around them are safe enough to receive it.

People do not stay silent because they have nothing to say. They stay silent because they have learned what speaking can cost.

We tell people to speak up as though the invitation itself creates safety.

It does not.

People decide whether truth is safe by watching what happens when someone tells it.

Who gets believed.
Who gets doubted.
Who gets interrupted.
Who is expected to remain calm while describing what harmed them.
Who gets labelled difficult when their truth becomes inconvenient.
Who gets protected when disclosure threatens authority, comfort or reputation.

That is how silence is built.

Not only through fear of the original harm, but through fear of what will happen next.

And this is where so many organisations get it wrong.

They focus on encouraging disclosure without examining whether their people, culture and systems are actually capable of receiving it.

The cost is not abstract.

Harm continues longer.
Risk stays hidden.
Trust collapses.
And organisations arrive at the crisis point acting shocked by a pattern they helped create.

I work with organisations, leaders and communities to examine how silence is built, how responses shape disclosure, and what must change if they genuinely want truth to be spoken safely.

My speaking and workshops explore child safety, trauma-informed responses, organisational culture, institutional accountability and the conditions that make truth either safer or more dangerous.”

For keynote, workshop or organisational speaking enquiries, DM @jadeleerobertson

#childrensday2026 #livingourtruth #firstnations #childsafety #publicspeaker

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Self awareness without integration is just suffering with extra steps 💥

Knowing what needs to change and actually changing it are two completely different things.

And most women are living in that gap.

They know. They see it. They can articulate exactly what the pattern is and where it came from and why it keeps showing up.

And yet nothing shifts.
Because knowing is not enough.

Integration is where the work truly lives. The kind that does not happen in your head. The kind that happens in your body, in a room, with other women doing the exact same thing beside you 🔥

That is RISE.
Not more awareness.

Actual change. The embodied kind. The kind that your nervous system feels and your relationships notice and your children experience before you even have to explain it.

And this woman right here is living proof of exactly that.
@jadeleerobertson walked into RISE and went all in. The kind that changes everything. What a human & mama let alone TEDx speaker, founder, podcaster and leading an absolute revolution💥

The NMCM and Heartled Warriors community could not be more proud of you Jade. You are extraordinary and this is just the beginning 🔥

August! Last RISE of 2026. Doors closing soon.
➡️ DM ‘RISERETREAT’ to secure your spot 📩🔥

Nadine x
@nadinemuller | Life & Business Mentor
[Purpose | Power | Presence | Play | Profits™]

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What a night! What an incredible bunch of women. Feeling very grateful 🥹

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👉🏼 @jadeleerobertson “Your child is already deciding if you’re safe to tell the truth to.

Not because parents are failing.

Because a lot of us were taught child safety backwards. We were told the answer was teaching children to speak up.

Use the right names for body parts.
Say no.
Tell a trusted adult.

And yes, all of that matters.

But children are listening much earlier than that.

In the tiny moments.
The annoying ones.
The inconvenient ones.
The “I broke something.”
The “I don’t want to hug them.”
The “that made me uncomfortable.”
The “I need to tell you something but I’m scared you’ll get mad.”

Children don’t just need permission to speak. They need proof that our response won’t make speaking dangerous.”

#childsafety #traumainformedparenting #speakup #childprotection #shespeaks

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❤️ About last night! ❤️

Watched @jadeleerobertson grace the stage along with 6 other women at the final SHE SPEAKS event of the year! There’s something so incredibly inspiring about seeing other people create their life, careers and find their soul mission through the experiences they have lived! 🤌🏼

The power of sharing your journey is wild! I was so beautifully reminded of my motto “My story matters”!

Meaning - YOURS does too!

And further more why creating space and safety around it to share is just as important!

Such a fun night with my bestie @mills.092 and meeting others in my community I’ve only ever interacted with online! 🔥

Fuck! Women are amazing!

Peace and love x

#womenempowerment #shespeaks #mystorymatters #yourstorymatters #whoyoubecome

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I’m sorry but ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 how is everyone so hot?!

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