Who am I?

I’m Brooke and I love words. I love reading them, writing them, listening to them, speaking them and playing around with them. So it’s a fortunate thing I became an author and podcaster, because there’s really no other job I feel qualified to do.

I’ve written three best-selling books: Destination Simple, Slow and Care, and alongside Ben, my husband and favourite collaborator, created the #1 Health show, The Slow Home Podcast. Our beloved poggie is more than six years and 300 episodes old, has been downloaded over 8 million times and features interviews with deep thinkers, world-shifting writers, contagiously enthusiastic problem-solvers and passionate lovers of life - all who have much to share when it comes to living slow in a fast-paced world.

I’m also a tree-hugger, a mum to two genuinely wonderful kiddos, a mountain-lover, an honorary Canadian (this is a made-up thing but I stand by it), a moderately successful gardener, a bushwalker, frustrated skier, beginner crocheter, murderer of the ukelele and maker of a pretty bloody good orange marmalade.

I live in an old fibro farmhouse in a small village in the Southern Highlands along with Ben, our two kids, two dogs, lots of fruit trees, many wild birds who eat the fruit off said trees and a window spider named Fred. Our home is situated on the beautiful and unceded land of the Gundungurra people and I would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of this awe-inspiring corner of the world - those past, present and emerging. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations are the oldest living civilisations in the world, and I believe we have an enormous amount to learn from them when it comes to stewardship of this country we share and connection to the land we live on.

Brooke xx

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