Erin Holland

I think given the career that I have and the path that I've chosen and the fact that I've always put myself out of my comfort zone and done whatever needs to be done in order to get where it is I wanted to go, whether that's moving from Cairns at 17 to Sydney and not knowing anybody, to being a freelancer and struggling to make ends meet in a big city like Sydney when you've got no family support or financial backing to

and being able to have the tenacity to survive in a freelance media world which is ever-changing to always having an all-star where I'd like to be in a few years' time but also just being very aware that sometimes opportunities in life present themselves and you just have to grab it by both hands and go for it.

And so I think I've always had the ability to sort of have the tenacity to stick with something

And to be stubborn enough to go, you know what, I will make this work no matter what.

And I genuinely think that's the only thing that kept me going through this journey for the last five years.

I'm so privileged to have been in a financial position to have been able to keep pushing forth and trying to make this a reality.

But I think that part of my personality is probably innate.

And whatever needs to get done in order to get the thing that I want, like I will do that.

not at the expense of others and would never step over anyone else to get there.

But in terms of me personally, I'm a perfectionist and I'm never satisfied and I'm always striving for the next thing, which are not always the best parts of my personality, but it's served me in really good stead in other parts.

I mean, life's in ways that are

completely impossible to comprehend sometime it's not fair in so many ways why is it that someone has the journey they have and why is it that someone else struggles so much for something that so many of us take for granted no one knows the answer to that and all I would say to those who are really in the trenches still I'm still very much feeling like I'm in there with you and and I

There really isn't words, but I think sometimes just being there for people around you, not giving unsolicited advice, not trying to impress ideas upon them about something that you think they haven't thought of before.

Because I promise you, we have.

We've thought of everything.

We've tried everything.

There's...

It's such an impossible situation, but I think sometimes even just a message of just sending some love, always thinking of you, you know, if you ever want to chat, I'm here.

Just that reassurance and that love and that care and that realization that everyone has a journey.

this one might be particularly difficult for you and what you're going through and someone else is going to experience something else crazy in another aspect of their life.