Category: Life
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3 Simple Interview Prep Techniques (with a Checklist)
Out for Australia is recruiting for two board directors. We’re also in clerkship and graduate recruitment season. I’ve been chatting with a lot of young people that want to know how they can maximise their chances of landing a gig, whether for a grad position or a non-profit directorship. So today, I want to cover…
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About me / my work
I’m Luke. I’m a dispute resolution lawyer (Senior Associate) at Clayton Utz and former CEO and current board director of Out for Australia, an Australian LGBTIQ+ student mentoring non-profit. I graduated from the University of Queensland in 2013 with a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws and from the University of Sydney in 2016 with a Master of Laws. My…
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How to work out who you really are
My talk from TEDxUQ, March 2021: The script: “Who am I?” It’s one of the most important question of our lives. We all want to know who we are because it’s a key part of living with ourselves, accepting ourselves, loving ourselves. And when we see a part of us we don’t like, it’s also…
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5 tips for better public speaking
Recently, I’ve had a stream of people messaging about my TEDx talk. Half want to talk about the content and half want to talk about the process of speaking and speech writing. The question I most commonly get is “How do I get chosen for a TEDx talk?” which I might tackle in a future…
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The crossroads of work and passion
Nobody tells you to go do Hip-Hop Dance. It’s not that work doesn’t want you to or doesn’t find it interesting (in fact, changing into street wear can raise a few eyebrows in the lift wells). It’s just that, in the scheme of things that your work cares about, finding your new hobby isn’t one…
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Finding your passion outside work
Last week, I spoke at the University of Queensland Young Alumni Conference on finding your “Side Hustle.” I remember being asked if I would speak. Not for the first time, I said “yes” and then furiously googled “Side Hustle” to find out what I’d be talking about. Moments like these remind me of how out of…
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Better relationships start with four words
Self-help books are a lot like cults: tremendous followings largely attributable to master orations, exciting taxonomy, baiting titles and promises of getting a lot while doing not much at all. Most of their claims are questionable and only one or two books are every likely to work for you. But last year, I read a…
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Goal setting for people who suck at goal setting
Welcome to the new year. Around this time, billions of people take new oaths to make 2018 different, better and maybe even extraordinary. That alone is cause for celebration. Cynics and spoilers say new year’s resolutions are shallow, arbitrary and likely to come undone by February. I disagree. If the new year enlists even one…
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The one thing I do every New Year’s Eve (besides knock a few back)
One New Year’s Eve, I had an idea. I wanted to see the future. I still do. I’m sure that you want to do. Wouldn’t it be good to know where you’ll be one year from now? More importantly, what would you tell yourself? The choice of New Year’s Eve as a date wasn’t arbitrary…
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The Passion Diet
One Christmas party, years ago, I was chatting a partner whom I have come to respect tremendously. It was a conversation that only Christmas parties facilitate: candid, personal and adorned with outrageous costuming. We talked about family. He had two kids, young but not infants. We talked about hobbies. He had a few, but none…
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