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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025, a huge success
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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025, a huge success

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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025, a huge success

Great Oz2025-11-02T12:58:32+11:00November 2, 2025|Blog, Education, Events|

Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals aim to create spaces where everyone feels welcome — no matter age, background, or experience. Whether it’s through expert talks, hands-on workshops, cooking demos, fitness sessions, or creative activities, the events are designed to make health approachable and engaging – and the Geelong Health Festival did exactly that. Whether you wanted to learn about fertility, fitness, chronic pain, physiotherapy or find helpful products to help you manage your health [...]

Geelong Advertiser: Pain Turns into Runway Success Story
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Geelong Advertiser: Pain Turns into Runway Success Story

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Geelong Advertiser: Pain Turns into Runway Success Story

Great Oz2025-11-02T12:55:18+11:00November 2, 2025|Blog, Media|

Misdiagnosed for more than four years after a 2007 accident, Soula and Theo Mantalvanos have fought on to develop a patient-driven health record system that is now an award winner, Cam Ward writes. The ingenuity that saw Soula and Theo Mantalvanos begin a new career after a devastating accident may soon be helping others facing a similar burden. The couple have run the Queenscliff Gallery for a decade, having been forced to give up their Melbourne graphic design [...]

Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025
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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025

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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025

Great Oz2025-09-21T13:45:22+10:00September 21, 2025|Blog, Education, Events|

Join My Health Story at Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025 Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals idea began with a simple belief: when people come together to share knowledge and talk openly about wellbeing, communities grow stronger. What began as a small local event has blossomed into a vibrant celebration of health, bringing together families, health professionals, and community leaders from all walks of life. Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals exit to create [...]

Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht
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Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht

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Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht

Great Oz2025-07-10T11:43:21+10:00July 10, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story (MHS) friend, Evelyn Hecht (and a great comrade of the pelvic pain world), who created PelvicSense has an invitation for MHS followers. If you are experiencing persistent pelvic pain, urgency, or burning symptoms and need help learning more about these issues and how to manage them (yes, you can!), then here’s a must-attend event for you. MHS Founder, Soula Mantalvanos, understands that these events can be difficult. ‘I’ve often sat and stared at the thing [...]

My Health Story Wins Runway Incubator Cohort 16
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My Health Story Wins Runway Incubator Cohort 16

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My Health Story Wins Runway Incubator Cohort 16

Great Oz2025-07-04T15:02:37+10:00July 4, 2025|Achievements, Blog, Health tech, Media|

It’s been an extraordinary 16 weeks participating in Runway’s incubator program. For My Health Story (MHS) founder Soula Mantalvanos and her partner, Theo, it was totally worth every minute of committing to learning, listening, studying, re-evaluating, reassessing, re-questioning, and enduring the moments of pain to reassure their vision for a global patient-driven health record. And reassurance they got, coming out as winners as judged by LaunchVic and Global Power Generation Australia of Runway’s Cohort [...]

It’s Time For MHS to Pitch, And You’re Invited
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It’s Time For MHS to Pitch, And You’re Invited

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It’s Time For MHS to Pitch, And You’re Invited

Great Oz2025-06-14T13:31:26+10:00June 14, 2025|Achievements, Blog|

The RunwayHQ Incubator has been a brilliant experience for founder Soula Mantalvanos and partner Theo Mantalvanos. Cohort 16 of the Incubator program is quite health-focused, with three other startups developing ideas for healthcare. My Health Story (MHS) fits in spectacularly, and each of the founders has been able to bounce off ideas and potentially plan ways to work together. The RunwayHQ Incubator's final event is a showcase where all startups present to investors. RunwayHQ approaches this moment [...]

My Health Story Success: Runway Incubator Program
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My Health Story Success: Runway Incubator Program

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My Health Story Success: Runway Incubator Program

Great Oz2025-02-20T14:46:04+11:00February 20, 2025|Achievements, Blog, Media|

My Health Story couldn’t be more thrilled to be successful in their application to join Runway’s much-needed Incubator program Cohort #16, 2025. Soula Mantalvanos, founder of MHS, has been pursuing several funding and support opportunities since 2016 when her dream to change the fragmented care system began. It couldn’t have come in a better form than Runway – an Incubator program held within her Geelong, Victoria, Australia region. The best part is that her [...]

Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain
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Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain

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Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain

Great Oz2024-11-15T15:39:23+11:00November 15, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management|

Dr Gronski & Team have many patients asking questions about pudendal nerve blocks for pelvic pain. So they created this video with licensed Occupational Therapist and Certified Pelvic Health Specialist Lainie Givens, who explains pudendal nerve blocks for diagnosis and treatment of pudendal neuralgia while also offering additional tips to help patients find relief from pelvic pain – it is possible! Watch or jump specific video chapters: […]

MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery
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MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery

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MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery

Great Oz2024-11-15T15:27:08+11:00November 15, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story Friends, MoreGoodDays understand how tough living with back pain can be—whether it's from sciatica, a disc bulge, or something less clear. It's exhausting, frustrating, and can make everyday activities feel impossible. Bringing the best experts, scientists and clinicians from around the world, the team at MoreGoodDays has been busy working on a new program that is specifically for ongoing back pain. Bringing you insights from leading experts in pain: Your Content Goes Here [...]

The Health Festival of Geelong – a Huge Success
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The Health Festival of Geelong – a Huge Success

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The Health Festival of Geelong – a Huge Success

Great Oz2024-07-28T12:26:36+10:00July 27, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management, Media|

My Health Story (MHS) was thrilled to be invited as 'a fellow dedicated health care provider' to the inaugural Health Festival of Geelong last week. The event was a unique opportunity to focus on Health Promotion and increase health literacy. Organised by a team of clinicians, the Health Festival of Geelong was a chance for all stakeholders (patients, carers, professionals, allied healthcare workers, specialists, Government, and more) to discover resources in the region of Geelong Victoria, all in [...]

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