Having been the victim of a violent mother from the age of three, Janice developed an acute compassion for those rejected. Her first memory of seeing someone else rejected was in 1950 when Janice was seven years old and in 2nd Class. A young dark-skinned boy arrived at her school smelling of garlic. At that time garlic wasn’t used in Australian cookery. His name was Basil and he was quiet and shy. Janice accepted him as a friend.

Throughout her life Janice’s mission has always been to help others live their lives the way they want to live, irrespective of stereotypes, and the expectations of others. To this end Janice became a High School English Teacher who encouraged students to apply their learning to everyday situations. This resulted in her students attending Council meetings to speak about their need to have a bike track for their safety. This resulted in a council representative coming to the school to advise the students that money had been allocated for the bike track.

As the teacher of the bottom Year 10 English Class, she challenged the top English Class to a debate, with an independent adjudicator. While the “Top Class” scoffed at and scorned their less academically accomplished peers, Janice’s class prepared thoroughly for the debate, and won it!

In 1988 Janice moved to school counselling. Sadly, there were many whose life were in disarray and were reluctant to change. Most of these people were of the view that the way they were was biological and couldn’t and shouldn’t be changed. These people had no understanding of the powerful effect our childhood experience can have on our lives. Janice made hundreds of individually tailored, what she called “Positive Power Tapes” for students, teachers, and parents, to help them to live the life they wanted to live irrespective of stereotypes and the expectations of others. These tapes were individually tailored and were highly successful in bringing about positive change.

When she retired, she was still keen to motivate others to be, who they wanted to be, irrespective of stereotypes and the expectations of others and so she became an International Bodybuilder at the age of 56, still competing two weeks short of turning 78, still with the same message “Be what you want to be, irrespective of stereotypes and the expectations of others.”

From 1999 to present day 2021 Janice has appeared regularly in the Australian media and has been the Key Note speaker at many gatherings. She first appeared on television in 1993 in Mike Willesee’s “A Current Affair”, which featured her work as a school psychologist regarding a divorce and separation program she developed called “Seek out the Good Things”. Janice has made numerous television appearances in relation to her bodybuilding career and she qualified to progress the second round of Australia’s got talent in 2019 at age 76.

Janice has appeared on the media, in various forms, every single year from 2013 to 2022, both nationally and internationally. She was also inducted into the “Queanbeyan Sporting Hall of Fame”. Janice has been featured in “That’s Life” magazine and in London’s “Love Sunday” magazine, and on line in the “Daily Mail” and all over the world on “You Tube”. She has also appeared in many television shows including Chanel Nine’s “Morning Show” in Sydney, “This Day Tonight” in Adelaide, and on numerous occasions on the ABC in the “7.30 Report”. Janice has featured in Chanel Seven’s “House of Wellness” program and she was a keynote speaker for “McCann International”. She’s also appeared on Andrew Denton’s “Interview” show and “The Daily Addition”. In 2019 she was filmed by the ABC “Catalyst” Program and she’s performed in Chanel Seven’s “Australia’s Got Talent” TV Show, as well as on Channel Seven’s “Sunrise”, “Morning”, and “Afternoon” Shows.

More recently, on 20 January 2022, Janice appeared on the ABC Radio “Nightlife” program called “The world of body building”. On 15 February 2022, Janice appeared on the SBS TV “Insight” current affairs program in an episode called “Growing Older, Loving Life”.