The Exhausted Mumma

09/09/2026

Grateful to Curtin Business School for featuring my story.

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After more than 16 years working across risk management, governance, assurance and stakeholder engagement with Rio Tinto, I made the decision to pursue an MBA as the next step in my leadership development.

Investing in continuous growth isn't just a personal commitment; it's how we bring greater strategic value to the organisations we serve.

After more than 16 years working across risk management, governance, assurance and stakeholder engagement, Lauren Greay chose to pursue an MBA for a simple reason: she wanted to become a more intentional leader. Already making decisions in high-risk, high-accountability environments, Lauren recognis...

05/08/2026

Back in June, I did something that’s been on my “one day I’ll be brave enough” list for a long time: I delivered a career presentation to the Year 9 cohort at Mundaring Christian College.

I’ll be honest — public speaking has never come naturally to me. The idea of standing in front of a room full of teenagers, trying to make my career journey sound interesting (and useful!) to 14-year-olds, had me nervous for weeks beforehand.
But I did it anyway. And it turned out to be one of the most rewarding things I’ve done this year.

Watching a room of Year 9s go from polite silence to genuine questions was a great reminder that growth almost always lives on the other side of “this makes me nervous.” If I can leave them with even one idea that shapes how they think about their future, it was worth every bit of the nerves.

Grateful to Mundaring Christian College for the opportunity, and to the students for being far more engaged than I expected.

If you’ve ever put off something because it scared you — consider this your nudge to do it anyway.

01/08/2026

👀 Things I’ve noticed, watching organisations from the outside:

The ones that call it a “personality clash” are usually the ones avoiding a harder truth. What looks like two people who don’t get along is often a pattern — and patterns aren’t personality. They’re culture.

Silence never reads as neutral. When leadership doesn’t address exclusion or bullying, everyone watching understands exactly what that means. It’s not staying out of it. It’s a decision.

Organisations that protect “high performers” or long-standing members at the expense of everyone else aren’t being loyal. They’re sending a message to every good person still there about what’s actually tolerated.

Participation and commitment aren’t won with better recruiting. They’re built — or quietly eroded — by culture, one decision at a time.

The organisations that get this right aren’t the ones without problems. They’re the ones willing to name the real problem, even when it’s uncomfortable.

👇 What have you noticed in organisations you’ve been part of? I’d love to hear it.

31/07/2023

Love, love, love this quote from Brene Brown. Forget the naysayers and those watching from the sidewalk who love to criticise and dampen your journey - whether it’s a personal or professional one. Learn whose advice to take, and whose to brush off. If they’re not in the arena with you, they simply aren’t worth your time.

I cannot control what people think of me, but I can control how I respond to them.

11/07/2023

And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears

When your passion overcomes your fears, that’s where the magic starts to happen

Today, I know my desires and I intend to pursue them.

16/05/2023

Five Things About Me

So many new followers and I thought it high time to say SUPPPP! and reintroduce myself to you all with a few facts about me!

1. Born and bred Newcastle NSW kid who moved to Perth in mid 2018

2. As a kid, I spent half of 1994 living in Italy and came home fluent and couldn’t understand my family in English and relied on my mum to translate for me as I adjusted back to Australia

3. I met my hubby via RSVP online dating which 13 years ago still had a stigma attached to it so we didn’t actually tell people how we met for the first few months of dating - nowadays it’s the done thing!

4. I work full time for one of the big 4 mining companies here in Perth in Project Management and in my spare time I’m my kids basketball team manager, Parkerville Kangaroos Basketball Club Vice President and School Board member.

5. Lee and I had one rule for naming our kids...they couldn’t be the name of a previous fling/one nighter/relationship...this ruled QUITE a few names out for us 🤦‍♀️

I would love to hear from all my new followers and where you are from!

30/04/2023

Things come at us every single day that are beyond our control.

What we can control is how we respond. And in my experience it’s a hell of a lot easier to do a mindset flip and respond with dignity, grace and finding the positive.

The alternative is just draining and exhausting.
Be unafraid to speak your truth.
Feel the pain.
But then let it go.

You are not your story or what happens to you (btw what about this mindset flip - it’s happening “for” you - to learn from and grow stronger)

11/04/2023

Come and check out what the kids and I got up to over the Easter long weekend…

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09/04/2023

And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.

When your passion overcomes your fears, that’s when the magic starts to happen.

I know my desires and I intend to pursue them