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Brigid Delaney has worked as a lawyer, journalist, travel writer, and screenwriter.
Most recently Brigid has been a ministerial speechwriter in the Albanese government – in the offices of Finance Minister, Minister for Public Service and Minister for Women – Katy Gallagher, and for the Minister for Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek.
For the past three years she has helped both ministers put complex policy positions and ideas into clear and compelling keynote addresses.
Her work included writing speeches, opeds, forwards, essays, Question Time answers and helping with strategic communications.
Brigid was also the co-creator and associate producer of the Netflix smash hit – Wellmania, starring Celeste Barber, and was a popular columnist at Guardian Australia.
Brigid’s book on Stoicism, Reasons Not to Worry is an international bestseller. It has been translated into 19 languages and sold into 22 territories. It has been featured in the Times of London, the Daily Stoic podcast, The Guardian, Good Weekend, and in literary festivals all over the world.
In 2023 it was shortlisted for the ABIA non-fiction Book of the Year.
Her latest book The Seeker and the Sage (published by Allen and Unwin) explores Stoicism through the story of a young woman seeking the secret to happiness. It is available for pre-order and hits stores in October.
Brigid has taught Stoic workshops in Sydney and Singapore and loves seeing the ‘a-ha’ moment when participants really connect the philosophy with their own life.
Her own life has been transformed by the practice of Stoicism and she’s excited to share the philosophy with others.