About Our Guest
This episode features ALDWYN ALTUNEY
One Voice. Infinite Impact.™
Aldwyn Altuney, known as the Media Queen, is an Australian photojournalist, media strategist, television host, speaker, author and founder of AA Xposé Media, with more than four decades of experience helping purpose-driven people gain meaningful media visibility. Inspired by her lived experience with depression, emotional suppression and suicide loss, she founded Global Good News Day, the Global Good News Challenge and Animal Action Events to spread hope, amplify positive stories and turn personal pain into purposeful social impact.
🔸 Country: Australia
🔸 Connect with our guest: https://aaxpose.com/
Aldwyn Altuney shares how depression, suppressed emotion and loss inspired a global mission for good news, hope and positive media change.
KEY POINTS
- Suppressed emotions can have lasting consequences: Aldwyn’s experience reveals how inherited beliefs about anger and emotional expression can contribute to depression, disconnection and personal crisis.
- Pain can be transformed into purposeful action: Listeners will discover how Aldwyn used her lived experience and professional media background to create initiatives centred on hope, gratitude and positive change.
- Good news does not mean ignoring reality: The episode explores how responsible storytelling can acknowledge hardship while also making space for progress, solutions, resilience and possibility.
About this Episode
Can a life shaped by depression, suppressed emotion and profound loss become a force for hope?
Aldwyn Altuney’s story begins long before she became known as the Media Queen. As a child and young person, she absorbed the belief that anger was dangerous and learned to contain difficult feelings rather than express them. That emotional silence contributed to years of depression, a nervous breakdown and periods when life felt unbearable. The loss of four friends to suicide deepened both her grief and her determination to do something meaningful with what she had survived.
In this episode of Not Just A Story™ with Rose Davidson, Aldwyn shares how her personal pain gradually became connected to a larger purpose. Drawing on more than four decades in journalism, television, radio, print and online media, she began challenging the constant dominance of fear-based headlines by creating space for truth, gratitude, progress and hope.
Aldwyn discusses the origins of Global Good News Day, the Global Good News Challenge and her advocacy for animal welfare. She also explores the difference between denying reality and deliberately widening the story so people can see that positive change is possible.
This honest conversation offers valuable insight into depression recovery, emotional suppression, purpose-driven storytelling, positive media and turning lived experience into social impact. It reminds listeners that transformation does not erase what happened. Instead, it can change what we choose to do with it.
Aldwyn’s journey shows how a painful chapter can become a public mission without losing its humanity. Her story invites us to examine the messages we inherited, the emotions we learned to hide and the possibility that our deepest wounds may eventually guide us toward meaningful action.
It is a reminder that hope is not passive; it is something we can practise, share and build together daily.
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More About Aldwyn
Aldwyn Altuney, widely known as the Media Queen, is an Australian photojournalist, media strategist, television host, speaker, author and founder of AA Xposé Media. With more than four decades of experience across television, radio, print and digital media, she has interviewed leading entertainers, public figures and changemakers while helping purpose-driven people gain meaningful media visibility. Aldwyn created the Mass Media Mastery program and has contributed to numerous international bestselling compilation books. Her lived experience with depression, emotional suppression and the loss of friends to suicide inspired a deeper mission: using media to spread hope, truth and positive stories. She founded Global Good News Day, the Global Good News Challenge and Animal Action Events, which has generated significant publicity for animal welfare organisations. Through her journalism, advocacy and training, Aldwyn encourages people to transform personal pain into purposeful action while using their voices responsibly, authentically and for lasting social impact. Worldwide.
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