VET NATIONAL TEACHING &
LEARNING CONFERENCE 2026

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3) Fiori Giovanni

Fiori Giovanni

Self Directed Healing Practitioner | Hypnotherapist |
#1 Best-Selling Author

How to reach for the stars, no matter what life throws at us’

Fiori’s extraordinary story is a route probably only a few other women in the world have travelled, but she tells it in a way that leaves her audience with the keys, tools, and attitudes that shape courage, resilience, real leadership and a shift in mindset.

Courage to tackle the changes they’ve dreamt about but for which they fear failure, Resilience to overcome challenges, Leadership to envision and define their goals and Mindset to shift from a victim to a victor.  In a nutshell, Fiori shares a potent formula that empowers others to overcome problems, both big and small.

All the above traits are something that Fiori has needed in massive amounts being born in a war-torn Africa and overcoming the challenge of a pubescent arranged marriage, and as a teenager being mandatorily subscripted into the army and clinging to life in a leaking boat loaded with refugees. She had the courage to survive and learn from these experiences to become a serial entrepreneur, a #1 best-selling author, media commentator, human rights activist, proud mother, and sought-after Keynote speaker.

While she’d experienced pain and loss on a devastating scale already, the worst was yet to come. In 2020, the unimaginable happened. She lost her beloved seven-month and half old daughter, Illen.  Fiori’s journey of grief led to her certification in Self-Directed Healing practitioner and Hypnotherapy Certificates.

Throughout her colourful career, she has built up a bank of knowledge, information, life experiences and strategies and this wasn’t any different for her. Fiori is the perfect example of how life is not about what happens in your life, rather, how you manage it. And, how a mastered mind can be harnessed, during the good times and bad.

From the moment Fiori hits the stage, you’ll be enraptured. At times laughing out loud, other times in tears and often deep in thoughtful silence as you travel Fiori’s exciting and emotional journey that will change your life.

Current Work:

Fiori Giovanni’s message of hope, resilience, courage, and leadership has inspired audiences around Australia, including tech companies such as Pyrios, Asta, Corporations such as, Honda Australia, PF Olsen Australia, John Holland, Vic-Road Australia, The Government of Australia, CPA Australia, Ramey Care Australia, FTA (Finical and Treasury of Australia, Chambers of ecommerce, Community Cubs Victoria, Business chicks, Plan International, Animal Justice just to mention a few.

She has been in featured in several mainstream Australian media outlets such as The age, The Herald Sun, Studio 10, F Magazine (a publication celebrating female success), She Defined, Women of Style & Substance, Sunraysia Daily, and countless other publications and news.  news outlets.

Fiori is also the owner and CEO of My Mind Valley, an online product hub for those seeking fulfilment, confidence and clarity through affirmations. Fiori believes affirmations are one of the most profound and effective ways to implement personal change. She owes her very survival to their potency. My Mind Valley houses over 30 affirmation topics, which are available in audio, video and eBook formats.

In addition to her best-selling memoir, Defy your Destiny, Fiori’s writing has been published in a book titled Letter to my 21-year-old self which will raise money for Sydney’s only daytime women’s refuge, Lou’s Place. Her letter will feature alongside letters by Oprah Winfrey, Collette Dinnigan, Lisa Forrest, Claudia Karvan, and more.

Fiori’s work has been published as an example of what is possible in a book called “It Is All Possible” by former world champion yachtsman Rob Hartnett.

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