Author: Sallyanne Ryan

Sallyanne began as an actor, most notably playing alongside Eric Bana in the Aussie comedy The Nugget. She has been a breakfast radio co-host, a solo radio announcer, and a traffic reporter for most leading media outlets in Australia. Her love of the visual medium of story-telling has always been prominent leading her to write and act in her own short film Chipman for Tropfest, which screened around the country as one of fourteen finalist films. Co-writing and acting in one other short fiction film, selected to screen at many International film festivals, it wasn’t long before she ended up behind and in front of the camera at the same time, reporting and filming traffic from a helicopter for Today Show on channel 9 Sydney. Sallyanne then made her first documentary, about an outback music festival in Nymagee (central NSW), A Day in the Dirt screened at LA Femme Film Festival in Los

This post is serious.  It is about your safety and just how aware of it you need to be.  Especially so, for women in the public eye, unless you are at the level of being able to afford your own personal security detail, you are easily accessible. Stalking – don’t try it at home. I have a stalker, yes a real one, who is about to become “bona fide” if he steps up to my front door again to leave gifts valued under $10.  How did I manage to get myself into this situation?  Well, I had recently relocated back…

Read More

Mia Dyson’s story is the stuff that dreams are made of.  If you haven’t heard her voice before, once you do, it will always be instantly recognizable.  Her stand out voice has lead her to being nominated four times for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA’s), and winning the fifth time for Best Blues/Roots album for her latest release “The Moment”.  Touring with Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Nicks would probably be considered a high point by Mia too I’d say.  Now, have you ever had that thing where everything turns into a complete cluster, right before it gets unbelievably…

Read More

“U r 40”.    I received that as a text message.  “You have no children and you drive a cheap car with crappy air-conditioning”.  That too, is true and also a text message I received.  These are only two examples of text messages I have received in the not too long ago from two different men I had decided not to continue dating.  Both of them had a little more to say than just that, but I think you get the picture.  I’m currently not dating anyone, by choice.  Yet ‘bitch’ is a term most commonly applied to females, go figure. …

Read More