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Peers & Advocates Bundle

Two guides built for lived experience workers — on protecting your boundaries and getting paid what you're worth. Plus a free career roadmap.

A$32
A$38 both guides individually

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Guide 02A$19included

Boundaries in Lived Experience Work

Practical strategies for protecting your wellbeing when your work involves sharing personal experience — including how to recognise when a boundary has been crossed, and how to say no without guilt.

9 chapters
Guide 03A$19included

Getting Paid for Your Expertise

You should never be asked to share your lived experience for free. Rate benchmarks, negotiation scripts, Centrelink guidance, and how to set up as a sole trader.

10 chapters
Free bonus included

From Peer Worker to Systems Advocate

A free career roadmap for lived experience workers moving from direct peer support into policy, advocacy, and systems change roles.

Read it free

Everything in the bundle

  • Immediate access to both full guides
  • Boundaries guide — 9 chapters on protecting your wellbeing and capacity
  • Getting Paid guide — rate benchmarks, negotiation scripts, sole trader setup
  • Free bonus: From Peer Worker to Systems Advocate roadmap
  • Lifetime access — revisit any time
  • Save A$6 compared to buying separately
"You are not just a story. You are an expert. These guides help you work like one."

Hayley Brown — Founder, Lived Impact

Peer / Advocate Bundle — Two practical guides plus free roadmap

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Hayley Brown, Founder of Lived Impact
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Hayley Brown

Hayley Brown is a lived experience leader, strategic consultant, and the founder of Lived Impact. With over a decade working across domestic and family violence, child protection, mental health, disability, and community services — at the intersection of lived experience, systems change, and organisational practice — she writes these guides from the inside, as someone who has navigated every situation they describe.

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This bundle is available for individual purchase, client-use licensing and organisational use.

Please do not purchase one copy and distribute it. For client packs, team access or program use, contact Lived Impact for licensing options.

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This bundle is licensed for individual use by the purchaser only.

You are welcome to use the ideas, prompts and reflection points in your own practice. However, the guides must not be copied, forwarded, uploaded, printed for others, shared with clients, or distributed across a team without an appropriate multi-user, client-use or organisational licence.

If you would like to use these guides with clients, groups, teams or programs, please contact Lived Impact for a multi-use licence.

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Shifting lived experience from sentiment to system assets.

Lived Impact acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work, and pays respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. We recognise the strength, resilience, and wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

Lived Impact is committed to the principles of genuine inclusion, ethical practice, and the belief that those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. Lived experience is not a resource to be extracted - it is leadership to be recognised.

We honour the courage of those who speak, and the quiet strength of those not yet ready. Silence is also a power.