Mon’s the founder and CEO of Women Want Adventure and honestly has the best job on the planet. She gets to spend her days exploring this amazing world of ours, alongside women who inspire her daily.

Before Monique founded WWA, she could be found hiking and kayaking in Australia’s National Parks and overseas destinations. Monique has dedicated her adventures to experience new places, try new things and push personal boundaries, something she believes and inspires other women to do through outdoor adventure. It’s not uncommon for Mon to go missing for multiple days on solo quests. She calls it (MIA – Missing In Adventure).

Today, everything Monique continues to create and empower is an extension of her love for the outdoors and the benefits this lifestyle brings – including inspiring women to create meaningful experiences through adventure and community.

Her general love for life and passion to build community of like-minded adventure women has her actively involved in guiding, planning new trips for the community, along with teaching outdoor recreation at University.

Every week, Monique share’s information via the Women Want Adventure newsletter that will leave you feeling inspired and motivated, so you’re ready for your next adventure. There will be tips for your next trip, random thoughts from her head (like why are wombats so cute?!) and she’ll even answer your biggest questions. We promise you’ll get a giggle out of it.

With close to two decades experience in guiding kayaking and outdoor adventures, you know you’re in safe hands with Tracey.

One of the funniest people you’ll meet, Tracy has the unique ability to make a beginner kayaker a pro in no time.

The former World Champion in Surf Kayaking, Tracy is one of those people you just fall in love with. She’s travelled the globe, visiting countries like Canada, Croatia and the Arctic – and she’s swum with whale sharks more times than you can even imagine!

To put it simply, Tracey is an all-round legend. When you join one of her trips, you’ll instantly realise why she’s won ‘Australian Kayaking Guide of the Year’ multiple times.

Some say Tracy’s Anzac biscuits are the best of the team (they’re more on the crunchy side than soft). But we’ll leave that up to you to decide.

Tracy’s favourite thing about being a guide is helping connect people to place in a uniquely empowering way. Watching a group come together and achieve things they perhaps thought they could not do or have never done before.

And here favourite adventure hack? Everything you take should have minimum two uses!

Soph is a fun and approachable nature lover, who enjoys a good boogie and belly laugh. Combining her passions of travel and sustainability, Soph completed her Bachelor Degree in Adventure Ecotourism in 2013 including a Cert IV in Outdoor Recreation specialising in Hiking and Sea Kayaking. She has been living a nomadic lifestyle ever since, working seasonally in tourism and hospitality between Australia’s snowy mountains and white sandy beaches. This lifestyle has allowed her to connect with new people and places and discover what brings her the most joy in life which includes hiking, kayaking, snorkelling, watching wildlife, enjoying views, dancing, vintage fashion/décor, watching live performances, games and delicious food. Soph’s adventurous spirit has her living in a home in which she can roam’, her glampervan is currently based in stunning Jervis Bay. Soph loves that her job allows her to give women a memorable adventure at the same time as fostering their appreciation for nature, connection with each other and confidence in the outdoors.

Sutherland Shire adventure Mum Sandra is one of those people who is constantly looking for their next adventure. Always found with a smile on her face, Sandra spent most of her earlier days in a Canadian canoe, she’s from Candra!

Sandra is a flatwater instructor & Master Canoeist. She has been head of canoeing in Canadra for Kilcoo Camp and Camp Allsaw CA, Assessing the highest level of ORCA and Canadian Flatwater Canoe levels. She can teach you a thing or two on our overnight canoe trips in NSW!

Happiest when she’s out in nature, this mum-of-two young adults has canoed some of the most remote locations in Candara and is one of our top canoe instructors. Sandra can often be found getting out in her own kayak, hiking local trails and she wants to encourage mums to get outdoors in nature, to support one another through motherhood.

Sandra has a really impressive list of trips she has completed including the Overland, K2K, Jagungle Wilderness, Hannels Spur and Six Foot Track just to name a few. You’ll learn a lot from Sandra on her trips.

Molly is one of those people who is always out there helping others. A lover of trail running, ultra-marathons and her beyond-cute dog Ziggy. Molly lives and breathes our community values. A natural guide, Molly is passionate about helping women spend more time in nature and exploring new places and landscapes.

She’s an avid hiker, having completed trails in the Blue Mountains, Northern Sydney, Tasmania and beyond, and she most recently completed a long-term goal of hers to hike across America with her partner Zacc. They took on the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada – it’s over 4000 kilometers long! Safe to say, she’s got tips and tricks galore for overnight hiking.

Rachael is often described as our “pocket rocket” or “hostess with the mostess” who is bubbly and loves a nature fix!

Rachael grew up in Sydney and moved to the Blue Mountains where she lives with her family. For the past 18 years, she’s been exploring her backyard on adventures. Rach loves to host and cook for others and believes food tastes better when you’re eating it next to an outdoor fire – food for the soul!

You’ll find Rachael with friends in the Wild Dog mountains. The moment

The moment she first stepped into the Wild Dog Mountains with friends and made it to the summit of Mt Cloudmaker and camped up top was life changing. Rach now wants to install the feeling of confidence building that results when you tackle a big challenge in the outdoors with other women.

She can also be found laughing in the canyons, abseiling and abseiling. Rach had a Cert III & Cert IV in Outdoor Leadership and Remote Area First Aid qualifications.

If she’s not out on a hike, she’s in her garden tending her mini natural world.

Harriet grew up in Melbourne, spent summers camping by the beach and got a taste for real outdoor adventuring when she went overnight hiking for the first time as a teenager in the Victorian High Country. Since then, she has hiked, rock climbed, skied and mountain biked throughout Australia and overseas. Most recently spending two months in Tasmania climbing and hiking the South Coast Track, Frenchman’s Cap, Wester Arthurs and Walls of Jerusalem.

Harriet is passionate about connecting people to nature and providing meaningful experiences through outdoor adventure no matter what their age, ability or experience is. I want to work with women to empower them to feel comfortable and confident in the outdoors. To help them challenge themselves, experience adventure and do it all whilst being supported by like-minded women.

Without a doubt, Harriet is one of the guides on the team that has the “caring” 5 star factor. She’s always there for ladies, is opened minded and loves a good giggle! When she’s not in the outdoors, she can be found making jewellery, sewing, knitting or taking photos.

Harriet has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), a Graduate Diploma of Outdoor and Environmental Education, Wilderness First Aid and CPR.

Lisa grew up surrounded by the beautiful bushland of the Yarra Valley, Victoria. An active upbringing sparked a passion for recreating in the great outdoors which she continued to pursue a career in.

For the past ten years Lisa has worked in school camps providing groups from diverse backgrounds with adventurous experiences that develop positive connections between self, others and the natural environment. To further develop her skills, she has completed a Certificate III in Outdoor Recreation and Travel Tourism alongside her First Aid training and Diploma of Business Management.

Lisa enjoys making the most of what is in her own backyard, completing Victorian hikes such as Wilson’s Promontory, The Great Ocean Walk and Cathedral Ranges. She also enjoys travelling and taking any opportunity to explore somewhere new. Further afield she has completed the Overland Track Tasmania and more recently completed the Inca Trail, Peru which was a lifelong dream.

Through her career Lisa has been able to see the positive impact outdoor adventures have on personal and social development. She strongly believes that outdoor recreation has a role to play in supporting women’s health by providing opportunities for women to push their boundaries, try new things and conquer challenges. In her spare time Lisa enjoys spending time outside with her dog, reading and catching up with friends.

Bindi is our walking/talking plants encyclopedia from the Blue Mountains. With over five years guiding experience – most of which have been spent rigging tarps, pitching tents and participating in overnight adventures – Bindi has worked with hundreds of people of all ages, capabilities and experience.

Humble beyond belief and a lover of bees, Bindi has hiked extensively throughout the touristy and remote regions of the Blue Mountains and Snowy Mountains areas.

If she’s not in her boots, Bindi is on a mountain bike, downhill racing. (Yep, that’s the crazy type of racing!) Fun fact: she’s been the Australian National Champion five times. We know, she’s pretty impressive.

Bindi loves a challenge, especially one that allows her to help women navigate through the bush. A former chef, she’ll whip you up on of the best meals you’ve ever tasted on a trip and you’ll be left talking about her desserts for days.

Lauren is our brilliant Victorian guide who is a River Specialist and Senior Outdoor Leader. She’s represented Austrlia for white water rafting and is one of Australia’s top White water Specialist and Flat Water Canoe Specialist. We know, she’s pretty great!

Lauren loves her puppy and getting on the water at lake Eildon and rafting down The Goulbrn River. She has been guiding trips for over 20 years.

Having grown up in Mparntwe, Alice Springs, Tayla has always had a passion for outdoor immersions. Whether it is rolling out her swag and falling asleep next to a fire under a blanket of stars, hiking for days on end through ever changing landscapes or showing others how to thrive in nature.

After working in holistic education for the best part of 10 years, Tayla decided to leave the classroom and chase her passion for outdoors and turn it into a career. Tay completed her training in New Zealand’s beautiful South Island, traversing snow-capped mountains, rock climbing and building upon my skills in glacial white water. Certainly, a change to the red dusty desert she calls home.

Tayla has since worked as an outdoor educator across NSW, leading multi-day hike, canoe and kayaking expeditions, guiding and assessing Duke of Edinburgh bronze, silver and gold awards, directed and overseen large school camps and worked with year 11 and 12’s specialising in life ready and leadership programs.

Tayla also worked in extreme remote locations in NT and SA. Connecting people to remote Indigenous Australia through cultural immersions, facilitating and holding space for deep connections, not only to nature but to one another.

In her spare time, you’ll Tay huddled up with a good book and a cup of tea or out connecting with nature on my own terms, whether that is through meditation, yoga, foraging, dancing, crafting or turning off my phone and setting off for multiple days hiking and swimming in remote locations. Tayla is passionate about helping women listen, learn and foster connections that allow all women to feel a sense of empowerment, not only within themselves but within a group of like minded women