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🎓 Navigating Year 1 | mature-aged study and why life experience is your greatest asset

Season 2, Ep. 6

We’re joined by host Rachel as she chats with Michelle all about being a mature-aged student and how her life experience has turned out to be her greatest asset. She is a huge advocate of mature-aged study and has inspired dozens of people across her uni years with her positive attitude and ambition to become a teacher 

If you’ve ever found yourself daydreaming about what study could look like for you, let this conversation with Michelle inspire you. She shares the lows, the highs and everything in between that’s got her to this point. 

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