Special Features
Your Fitness Journey Starts Here!
If you're ready to start your fitness journey but unsure where to begin, Results Personal Training Mackay (RPTM) offers a dynamic, results-driven solution. Every session is different — no repetitive routines — ensuring clients stay challenged, engaged, and steadily progressing towards their goals.
Read the full storyEllie Palmero
If you’ve ever dreamed of having a personal trainer who can meet you wherever you are – whether it’s at home, the beach, or the park – with a baby in one arm and dumbbells in the other – then you need to meet Ellie Palmero of 4 Elements Fitness.
Read the full storyMeet Your Beauty Expert: Candace Reed
Candace Reed has a deep-rooted passion for helping others feel calm, confident, and radiant in their skin. As a qualified beauty therapist with a diploma in Beauty and a background in Ayurveda, she blends ancient wisdom with modern skin science. Her approach is all about real results and soulful rejuvenation.
Read the full storyJess Kent
Step into Mana Skin Body & Soul and leave the world behind.With a background in remedial massage, Jess worked across the globe in luxury resorts and sports settings—but her passion grew beyond massage. After experiencing adult acne, she saw a gap in the beauty industry and set out to fill it.
Read the full storyA Holistic Haven for Women’s Wellness
In February, the Whitsundays warmly welcomed the debut of a wonderful Women’s Boutique & Wellness Retreat titled Luxe Whitsundays at 39a Williams Street in Bowen.Under the direction of Trish and Kenley, Luxe Whitsundays exists as a haven for women to escape and rejuvenate through a collection of holistic treatments incorporating “Sense-ability” Holistic Healing to foster full relaxation.
Read the full storyNurse Melinda Mason
Melinda Mason from Blush Mackay is rewriting the script with her flower-child soul and fierce commitment to natural beauty. A Registered Nurse with more than 20 years of experience under her belt, Melinda swapped the operating theatre for the calming hum of aesthetics, and she hasn’t looked back.
Read the full storyArnika Smith
Arnika Smith is the powerhouse woman behind Beauty by Arnika, a boutique beauty studio founded on the belief that confidence is the most powerful kind of beauty.After launching her own business at just 19, Arnika’s career in beauty has been built on nothing but heart, hustle, and an unshakeable passion for helping others look, and feel, their absolute best.
Read the full storyChloe Boyle From About Hair Mackay
At just 20, Chloe Boyle is already making her mark in Mackay’s hair scene. Originally from Airlie Beach, she’s now a fully-qualified senior stylist at About Hair Mackay, where she works her magic with organic products and an easy-going charm.
Read the full storyCelebrating Three Years Of Healing
Phoenix Counselling Services, like the mythical phoenix reborn from the flame, stands as a symbol of renewal, resilience, and hope. With compassion at its core and clarity as its guide, this transformative practice offers a path through pain…a place where wounds are gently tended, burdens are lifted, and individuals emerge empowered, ready to embrace life’s next chapter with strength and purpose.
Read the full storyA Fresh Face With A Strong Foundation Ethan Laval, Mackay City Property
In Mackay’s competitive real estate market, one name is quickly becoming synonymous with growth, innovation, and success: Ethan Laval. At just 20 years old, Ethan has already made strides in the industry, blending traditional values with cutting-edge strategies. His ability to seamlessly navigate between these two worlds has earned him recognition as a finalist for the REIQ’s Rising Star Salesperson of the Year – a prestigious accolade that reflects his remarkable trajectory in a highly competi
Read the full story"Ovarian Cancer May Be a Silent Killer, But I Won’t Be Silent"
These powerful words by Trudy Crowley embody the spirit of a woman whose courage and resilience ignited a movement of hope, awareness, and support. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2016, Trudy was appalled by the lack of resources available to women facing the same battle. The single brochure handed to her offered information on breast cancer, not ovarian cancer—a glaring oversight that fuelled her determination to make a change.
For Trudy, silence was never an option. She became a fierce advoc
Read the full storyFrom Nursery Dreams to Life’s Fight Teharnee Peel
The quiet joy of preparing for her first baby, painting the nursery, assembling tiny clothes, and dreaming of the future, was abruptly eclipsed by an unimaginable diagnosis. In the days after her 20-week ultrasound, with life blossoming within her, the word "cancer" shattered the serenity, leaving Teharnee Peel staring down a daunting mass growing in her cervix. Her battle ahead would intertwine the fragility of new life with the ferocity of survival, as chemotherapy coursed through her body w
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