Rhiannon Mitchell is a proud first nation woman. Through her personal story, Rhiannon decided to offer a space where the local Indigenous women could come for support and encouragement, share stories, and live an empowered life.
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i Rhiannon. Please introduce yourself and share your connection with the Gumbaynggirr country. Hi, my name is Rhiannon, and I am the founder of Sistas & Salt. I am a first nation woman from the Mununjali people of Beaudesert and grew up on Gumbaynggirr country. I have grown up listening to my Gumbaynggirr elders and am guided by elders in all aspects of the work I do. Your business, Sistas & Salt, offers local Indigenous women and youth the opportunity to come together to connect, share, support and empower each other. Tell us about the workshops and mentoring you offer. Sistas & Salt runs workshops and mentoring for Indigenous females in wellbeing culture and ocean conservation. Workshops include: a wellbeing workshop, which is learning
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about self-care; a culture workshop, which studied in business, leadership, community is about participants getting the chance to services and Aboriginal health, and recently hear from a local elder, who will share local undertaking a degree in marine science. I knowledge, stories and am currently in my first dreamtime; a natural year. I believe my history, skincare workshop, from having a really hard As well as the learning how to make time as a teenager as workshops and DIY, eco-friendly, natural a young black woman, mentoring, I also run skincare; and an ocean not knowing where I an ocean conservation conservation workshop, belonged or how I fitted group called Saltwater which is for participants in the world, to growing to learn about the up, getting educated and Sistas. ecosystem, ocean feeling confident with dreamtime and fun ocean who I am as a strong facts. Aboriginal woman has led Your background is quite vast in me to create this business, and I want all of knowledge. Not only have you studied our Aboriginal women to feel empowered. and worked in Aboriginal health, As well as the workshops and mentoring, I employment and youth services, but you also run an ocean conservation group called are also studying a Bachelor of Marine Saltwater Sistas. Saltwater Sistas is a group of Science and Management. How have you local Indigenous women and young women integrated this in your business? on the Coffs Coast learning and raising Yes, I have worked in all of those areas and awareness for ocean conservation.