Shanna easily adapts her style, message, and tone to suit any audience she meets. Contrary to what many assume, she’s totally at ease presenting in front of audiences where alcohol is served. Shanna will instantly put her audience at ease with her raw honesty and infectious sense of humour.

Over the past decade, Shanna fearlessly and publicly began this (now national) conversation by sharing her own story of ‘almost dying from alcohol harm in plain sight of her rural community’. Over the years, she has transitioned into sharing the wider perspectives, learnings and insights she’s gained from her invaluable advocacy and work in this space. Shanna now speaks with authority on behalf of the countless rural Australians who’ve shared their own truths and challenges with Sober in the Country.

Shanna leads her keynotes and talks (and even runs Sober in the Country) with a supremely relatable, warm approach that’s all about mateship, mental health and inclusion. At every step, Shanna is working to create a better rural culture where we cater for and accept all our mates, no matter the drink in their hand. With Shanna, you won’t find a prohibitionist anti-alcohol stance: instead, she’ll share an honest insight into the truth of alcohol harm for some of our friends. She will share her charity’s #OK2SAYNO message, which is being adopted nationally to give rural Australians ‘permission’ to change the narrative around booze in the bush.  In her trademark inspirational, relatable style, Shanna will lay out the simple ways we can all be part of this much-needed collective change.