Alison Mau
Alison Mau
Alison (Ali) Mau is an award-winning journalist, a number #1 bestselling author - and the founder of one of New Zealand’s most exciting tech-for-good organisations.
From behind-the-scenes tales at the top levels of the television and radio world, to the whirlwind life of a start-up founder, Ali is a speaker with extraordinary breadth and depth.
Ali has unparalleled skills as an interviewer and panel moderator, and is equally at ease as a panel guest with expertise in workplace culture, women's leadership, media, ethical AI, LGBTQI+, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion issues.
Her groundbreaking investigative journalism project, MeTooNZ, fundamentally changed the way workplace culture stories are reported by the media and won her Reporter of the Year at the Voyager Awards - with the lessons learned along the way applicable to almost every workplace in Aotearoa
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Ali Mau OPENS UP on S*xual Abuse & Regrets from Working with Paul Henry
Episode 212
CONTENT WARNING: This episode deals with sexual abuse and may not be suitable for all listeners.
Ali Mau was one of NZ’s most high profile broadcasters and journalists for more than two decades and worked for One News, Breakfast, Fair Go, Seven Sharp, Radio Live, Close up and many more.
In this episode we talk about her rise to the top of NZ Media and all of the twists and turns along the way, getting made redundant five times and how she kept bouncing back, why her relationships became front page news of every media outlet, working with Paul Holmes, Mike Hosking, Paul Henry and Willie Jackson, leading the charge on NZ's MeToo movement - and what she’s doing now.
We also talk in detail about her new book No Words for This, where she talks for the first time about the monster that haunted her childhood. As young girls, Ali and her sister were sexually abused by their father on multiple occasions, and it’s revealed in the book that he also repeatedly raped his grandson. It’s a shocking, and confronting story that is told with the hope of helping others.
Ali's story is complex and powerful and she does such a great job of articulating it. And she is brilliant company, warm fun and engaging.
