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Daring to Fly

The TV Star on Facing Fear and Finding Joy on a Deadline

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Daring to Fly

By: Lisa Millar
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There are significant moments in life that you only really appreciate long after they have passed.... And then there are moments that are so magnificent you understand in an instant that they need to be treasured because the universe is offering you something truly inspiring.

Lisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things done and making things happen. Despite the risks, despite the fear, despite life getting in the way. As a child growing up in country Queensland, she had dreamed of a big life. Working as a foreign correspondent gave her that. But it also meant confronting the worst of what humanity can bring - the dead children at Sandy Hook, the sorrow of grieving relatives after the Bataclan theatre terrorist attack and the aftermath of Manchester. Three decades as a journalist witnessing grief and unspeakable tragedy had a cost. And an ever-escalating fear of flying threatened to rob her of her ability to work at all.

Back home, in the year that everything stopped, Lisa had a chance to look back. And in the quiet of a world slowed down, she thought hard about the meaning of fear, acknowledged her grief at what she lost and found joy in all that she gained.

For that young girl from small-town Kilkivan, who had to push herself to keep going, push herself to conquer her fear, push herself to tell important stories, came the realisation that sometimes all we really need is what we already have. And she shows us that we are all stronger and more resilient than we give ourselves credit for if we just dare to let ourselves fly.

©2021 Lisa Millar (P)2021 Hachette Australia Pty Ltd
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I thoroughly enjoyed Daring to Fly. As a long-time ABC listener and viewer, I have admired Lisa Millar's work for a long time, and was very interested to find out how she came to journalism, and to hear of the ups and downs of her career, plus some incidents which might have cost Lisa her life. As a fellow Queenslander, I enjoyed hearing about Kilkivan (which I did not know) and Gympie (which I did, quite well). I thought at first that she was putting in too much detail about childhood incidents, but came to realize they were an important part of the story. I recall many of the major disasters on which she reported, from Europe and America, and it is no wonder Lisa experienced what we now call PTSD. I am sure her book will help others who might have to face the same kind of events, or already have.

Entertaining and moving memoir

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Loved this book . Lisa’s voice is fantastic to listen to like it always is and her story from childhood through to foreign correspondent days is charming warm and funny and then the horror of the terrorism she reported on. Great read !!

Wonderful

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I absolutely loved the down to earth and authenticity in this book. I’ve got friends who are journalists and sometimes people forget the journeys they go on top share what’s happening in the world.

Love this book.

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What an extraordinary life! It was a very enjoyable journey through lisa’s life and hardship

Love it

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A beautiful written powerful story of overcoming adversity and fear.
Lisa's story opened my eyes and heart to journalists and their stories of heart ache to bring us the news and the toll this takes on their lives and that of those close to them.

Inspirational

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