About

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Annie is an awarded Pet Groomer (dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs.) She is a Certified Fear-Free Groomer also a Certified Creative Grooming Expert (2021) and Specialist (2020) with Internationally renowned organisation, Opawz. Annie has groomed animals for events like Melbourne Fashion Festival and had grooms featured in top publications like ifashion.pet and Frankie Mgazine. She is currently undertaking International Grooming Certification recognition in both cat and dog grooming through the International Pet Groomers Inc of which she is a member.  

Annie is the co-host of the podcast We Want To Be Better which debuted at #1 in the Australian iTunes charts for Comedy and the "All Podcasts" category, within the first week of going live! It quickly amassed a strong fan base and was picked up by Nova Entertainment and then More Talent. You can find We Want To Be Better in all the usual podcast ways.

Annie has also been a guest on other podcast shows including The Outer Sanctum Podcast”on the ABC Network, and guest spotted as co-host on This Glorious Mess on the MamaMia Network. 

Annie and  Bianka started touring their podcast within the first year of launching We Want To Be Better. They've sold out shows at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival and toured interstate. 

Annie is a confident public speaker and has hosted, and been a panellist at many events. She has worked corporately at business functions, all the way to talking empowerment at high schools. Some examples of which are hosting the Melbourne TimeOut Bar Awards and  "Haute Dog Masterclass" for Melbourne Fashion Week. 

Annie’s distinctive writing ability, combined with her unique opinion has been sought after by various news and entertainment outlets. Annie wrote exclusively for TIME and had her work republished on Kidspot, MamaMia, The Motherish, The Daily Mail and The Herald Sun just to name a few. Annie's writing has been published in several books, the most recent being The Full Catastrophe and Working Mums.

Identifying as abrosexual and growing up in a rural town, Annie knew more need to be done for the LGBTQI+ rural community and their mental health. Annie teamed up with the organisation Gay? That’s OK! to create a Football Pride game in her old home town of Hamilton, to address the issues facing the local LGBTQI+. Two of the strongest VFL Women’s teams (Melbourne University and Darebin Falcons) played on the day. The day was a huge success and only a few weeks later, Trans teen, Mei Flavel, credited the day as being one of the reasons she was able to “come out” and live her life authentically. Annie was also invited by Australian Marriage Equality to attend their Melbourne press conferences to encourage Australians to “vote yes.” 

Annie was also the 2017 Pram Jam Ambassador, an organisation created to raise awareness and funds for research into helping babies born premature, and preventing stillbirth. Annie and her prematurely born twins (aged 4 at the time), rode their bikes the distance between their home and the hospital (28km) for the organisation. The campaign was a huge success raising over $100,000, and Annie and her daughters raised nearly $10,000. 

She's passionate to use her platform to highlight the issues she is passionate about including (but not limited to) the experience of premature birth and twins, Aboriginal Rights, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+ Rights, Environmentalism, Animal Rights, and life following the passing of a loved one.