Sally Browne AM

Sally Browne has had a diverse life…
As a teenager she played the washboard with the Red Onion Jazz band. In the late 60’s she became a Fashion Designer, started her own business and won a myriad of awards for excellence in fashion design and business leadership.  
Concurrent with raising four children and running her fashion business, she worked with scientists in Finland developing the first heart rate monitor to measure and identify stress. Eager for more challenges and adventures she moved from high fashion to high altitude adventures in the Everest region and went on to summit Mt Kilimanjaro. She is always planning a new adventure or business venture, more recently she has been studying 3D printing.
Sally is an Australia Day Ambassador and serves on a number of committees and boards. She is also involved with philanthropic activities through her Charitable Foundations. Sally’s mum died of Motor Neurone Disease when Sally was a young mother herself.
Over a decade ago she started a group for young women who had lost their mothers, sweetly known as ‘Girls without Mummies’. She has always had a real soft spot for young women who lose their mums and is honoured to be involved with Motherless Daughters Australia.

Kellie Curtain

Kellie has a passion for telling other people's stories. A former broadcast journalist, she has more than 15 years experience covering News and Current Affairs for Australia's major television networks. The mother of four recently returned from six years living in the Middle East with a futher developed skill set in online journalism and writing for corporate events. Her move to expat life came when she was 42, a year after losing her mother Pamela to breast cancer, who was 71.  For the self confessed 'home body', leaving Australia and her close network of family and friends was a big step, but no bigger then the prospect of life without her mum who had been her best friend and part of her day, everyday. She didn't know it at the time, but life in the sands provided an opportunity to heal and to write the book she didn't know she had in her. 'What will I wear to your funeral?' is a memoir about final conversations before dying. It's raw, funny, heart breaking and depicts the unique bond between mother and daughter.

Kellie is currently a consultant for Breast Cancer Network Australia and an ambassador for Advanced Care Planning Australia.

Echo Beltsos-Russo 

Echo loves nothing more than connecting with people and bringing people and businesses together through shared purpose to build truly meaningful relationships and brands. With extensive experience in advertising and marketing, Echo has lead entire marketing functions throughout her 20 year career to deliver outstanding results across brands such as Libra, Nestle, Pacific Brands and the University of Melbourne. With executive leadership experience and a Bachelor of Psychology, Management and Marketing from Monash University, Echo brings a deep understanding of human behaviour and psychology to Motherless Daughters Australia. Echo is empathic in her approach to everything she does, and has a refined and astute ability to see opportunities others can’t, leveraging them to optimise business outcomes. After losing her mum at 36 to cancer, Echo really wanted to contribute to an organisation that allowed her to share her story, whilst helping others through the unique and enduring labyrinth that is mother loss.