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Guest Speaker: Nicole Hague
Episode Title: Child Protection, Conscious Leadership & Systemic Change With Nicole Hague
Episode Duration: 01:09:27
Episode Release Date: 21 July 2026
About This Episode
What does it look like to lead from the heart inside a system that rewards compliance over compassion? Cathy Dimarchos sits down with Nicole Hague, Director of Progressive Youth Care, for a conversation that is raw, urgent, and deeply human. Nicole works at the intersection of law, policy, community, and lived experience to protect the rights and dignity of children and young people. In this episode she speaks honestly about generational trauma, the courage it takes to stay in a broken system, what youth workers face on the ground every single day, and why fear is not a stop sign, it is a signal to keep going.
Episode Highlights
[00:05:00] Consciousness as presence: you cannot afford to operate on autopilot in child protection
[00:08:00] Fear at every level of the system: why people stay silent rather than risk their role
[00:09:00] Reactive systems and generational trauma: responding to outcry instead of asking what outcome we actually want
[00:13:00] One size never fits all: forcing people into a single process leaves them more broken than before
[00:19:00] Intuition is not unprofessional: it is the subconscious synthesizing decades of lived experience
[00:23:00] Logic assesses risk. Intuition detects what is driving the situation. Both are needed.
[00:29:00] Let intuition pick the destination and logic map the route
[00:35:00] Choose Your Own Adventure: why systems need to offer choices, not just gates that open or close
[00:51:00] Standing alone: the cost of being the one who keeps raising hard questions
[00:57:00] The 98 percent: what youth workers face on every shift, and why they keep showing up
[01:07:00] Closing: walk through the door of fear, because someone is always watching and will follow
What You'll Take Away
Why reactive systems keep producing the same outcomes no matter how much funding goes in
How to bring both intuition and logic to decisions in environments where only one is officially allowed
Why prevention in child protection cannot be measured in a two-year political term
Why being emotive in a professional environment is not a weakness, it is the most necessary thing
What it costs youth workers and foster carers to keep showing up, and why that cost is invisible to the system
Quotes
"Walk through the door of fear. If fear is present, that is not something to be fearful of. That is something to be excited about." — Nicole Hague
"We are not showing possibility. We are showing what we cannot do. Let us change that." — Nicole Hague
"If you do not question yourself, no matter what job you are doing, you are in the wrong job." — Cathy Dimarchos
About Nicole Hague
Nicole Hague is a deeply conscious advocate for children and young people and Director of Progressive Youth Care. She works at the intersection of law, policy, community, and lived experience to promote the rights, wellbeing, and protection of every child. Known for her passion, integrity, and ability to bring diverse stakeholders together, Nicole leads with humanity, courage, and care. She is a former foster carer whose own lived experience shapes every decision she makes.
🔗 Progressive Youth Care: https://www.progressiveyouthcare.com
🔗 Cathy Dimarchos: www.cathydimarchos.com
🔗 Solutions2You: www.solutions2you.com.au
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