Live Free Launch

My mission is to clear the path ahead just a little, so that you won't have to endure it alone. I want you to be free to live the life you deserve.'

Former world No. 4 tennis player, bestselling author, two-time Logie Award winner, commentator, presenter and motivational speaker Jelena Dokic shares the insights and tools that helped her reclaim her voice and her life – and shows you how you might be able to do the same. Grounded in lived experience, she draws on her journey through hardship in her early life, adversity in her tennis career and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, which led to trauma and mental health challenges. She also reflects on dealing with doubters and shaming.

Through honest guidance, personal lessons, and practical tools and exercises, Live Free helps you to break old patterns and move forward with confidence. To lead with self-belief. To find strength in vulnerability. To let go of perfection and build a sense of self-worth so you can live free from shame.

Jelena Dokic was a prodigious tennis player who made the quarter-finals of Wimbledon at the age of just 16. She was heralded as Australia’s greatest tennis hope since Evonne Goolagong. By September 2000 she became an Olympian and finished fourth at the Sydney Games. By 18, she was in the world’s top 10. By 19, she was world No.4, holding her own against Monica Seles, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport. A shoulder and wrist injury prematurely finished her tennis career in 2013. One of the only female players to have won a WTA title on all four surfaces Jelena now spends her time mentoring young players. As well as mentoring she also enjoys doing media work and is the author of three books. She currently lives in Melbourne.

Megan Maurice is an award-winning journalist and the co-author of Shine: The Making of the Australian Netball Diamonds and of Fair Game by Alex Blackwell (Hachette, 2022). Her journalism has been published widely and she is a regular contributor to The Guardian, with a particular focus on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion. Her book Life Goes On is a moving and illuminating portrait of not only the hardship of survival but its beauty too. She lives in Sydney with her family.

Drinks and nibblies provided.