Ollie's Echo: Pathways to Prevention Ltd

15/09/2025

For the first time, 7NEWS takes you inside the Queensland call centre where desperate parents turn when their child is being bullied.

Our founder – and Ollie’s mum – knows all too well the devastating impacts bullying and social media can have on young lives. Sharing stories like this is so important in driving awareness and change.

Watch the full story here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DjMN4iF8z/

13/09/2025

Lunch for a Cause

I’m so grateful to Oh Boy Bok Choy for hosting a special fundraising lunch in support of Ollie’s Echo: Pathways to Prevention.

📅 Friday, 24 October 2025
⏰ 12.00pm to 4.00pm
📍 Oh Boy, Bok Choy! 264 Stafford Road, Stafford

It means so much to see our community come together to honour Ollie’s legacy and help create real change in raising awareness, changing the narrative and preventing eating disorders in boys and young men.

Tickets are limited, so I’d love for you to join us:
👉 https://www.ohboybokchoy.com.au/event-details-registration/lunch-fundraiser-for-ollies-echo-1?_srooa=2

A heartfelt thank you to the Oh Boy Bok Choy team for standing with us.

10/09/2025

Lunch for a Cause

I’m so grateful to Oh Boy Bok Choy for hosting a special fundraising lunch in support of Ollie’s Echo: Pathways to Prevention.

📅 Friday, 24 October 2025
⏰ 12.00pm to 4.00pm
📍 Oh Boy, Bok Choy! 264 Stafford Road, Stafford

It means so much to see our community come together to honour Ollie’s legacy and help create real change in raising awareness, changing the narrative and preventing eating disorders in boys and young men.

Tickets are limited, so I’d love for you to join us:
👉 https://www.ohboybokchoy.com.au/event-details-registration/lunch-fundraiser-for-ollies-echo-1?_srooa=2

A heartfelt thank you to the Oh Boy Bok Choy team for standing with us.

Join us on Friday, 24 October from 12pm to 4pm, for a $79 seven-course banquet & 3 hours of prosecco and help us raise funds for Ollie's Echo, Pathways to Prevention. Please DO NOT RSVP! BOOK YOUR TICKETS via our website (link below).

09/09/2025

World Su***de Prevention Day – Changing the Narrative

Today is World Su***de Prevention Day. A day that is incredibly close to my heart.

On Tuesday, 9 January 2024, I lost my beautiful boy, Ollie, to su***de after his painful battle with anorexia and bullying. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t wish things had been different—that he had felt safe to reach out, that the stigma and silence around eating disorders and su***de hadn’t made his path even harder.

This year’s theme, Changing the Narrative, is exactly what drives Ollie’s Echo. We need to change how we talk about su***de and mental health. We need to stop the shame, stop the silence, and start listening with compassion and understanding.

Changing the narrative means:

💙 Telling our stories, even when it hurts, so others don’t feel alone.

💙 Speaking about su***de with openness, because silence only deepens the pain.

💙 Creating spaces where asking for help is met with love and safety, not judgment.

Ollie’s Echo exists because his story deserves to be heard, and because no other family should have to walk this road. By changing the narrative, we can build pathways to prevention—and keep more of our precious young people here with us.

If you’re struggling right now, please know you’re not alone. Please reach out:

📞 Lifeline 13 11 14

📞 Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800

📞 Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636

With love
Mia 💙

***dePreventionDay

07/09/2025

Everyone setting up for the Nurture Festival! An awesome day of kindness, community, connection and hope.

07/09/2025

What an honour for Ollie’s Echo to be part of this year’s Nurture Festival!

This festival was a beautiful celebration of kindness, community, and connection – all values at the heart of what we do. Being there reminded us how powerful it is when people come together with hope, compassion, and a shared vision for a better future for our young people.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who stopped by our marquee to share stories, decorated a hat, and learnt more about our mission. Your support helps us keep Ollie’s story alive and continue building pathways to prevention.

A massive thank you to Tim and Sandi for helping get our marquee up, and to Sandi and Astra for working so tirelessly with the kids to decorate their hats while I spoke with parents and carers. Your generosity and energy made such a difference to the day.

Huge congratulations to Mark Forbes for bringing this inspiring event to life, and for championing such a meaningful local celebration of wellbeing and connection.

We are so grateful to the Nurture Festival community for welcoming us so warmly. Here’s to spreading kindness, raising awareness, and making sure every young person knows they are enough. 🌱

07/09/2025

Unpacking the Why – Ollie’s Story 💙

As we come to the final day of this series, I want to bring it back to hope. Ollie’s story is filled with pain, but through sharing it, we can create change. Eating disorders are complex, and the “why” is never one simple answer — but awareness, compassion, and early conversations can make all the difference.

Ollie’s Echo exists so that no other family has to walk the road I have. By raising our voices together, we can challenge stereotypes, break the silence, and build real pathways to prevention. Thank you for being part of this week — the conversation doesn’t end here.

06/09/2025

Unpacking the Why – Ollie’s Story 💙 The Power of Kindness

We’re a little late with today’s post as we’ve been up on the Sunshine Coast at the Nurture Festival — a beautiful event all about kindness, community, connection, and hope. And in many ways, that speaks directly to today’s topic.

Today we’re unpacking the role of silence — the things left unsaid. For Ollie, carrying the weight of his pain alone often made him feel invisible. He didn’t always have the words to explain what he was going through, and too often the adults around him didn’t see or didn’t know how to ask. Silence can be just as damaging as cruel words. That’s why opening conversations, listening without judgment, and noticing the small signs matter so much. Every young person deserves to be heard and to know their voice matters.

04/09/2025

Unpacking the Why – Ollie’s Story 💙 When Life Feels too Heavy

As we close this week of unpacking the why, today I’m sharing one of the hardest parts of Ollie’s journey — how he felt about himself. It wasn’t about perfectionism or chasing impossible standards. Ollie often told me he wished he never existed. Some nights, after coming home from his father’s, he’d say he lay awake scared of dying, but equally scared of living. He just didn’t want to exist. Sharing this truth is painful, but it matters — because behind every eating disorder is a young person who needs hope, compassion, and to know their life has value.

04/09/2025

A wonderful night connecting ahead of this Saturday’s ! It was so good to put faces to names, share stories, and mingle before the big day.

One of the highlights was catching up with one of our favourite humans, .forbes.49 from

The work you and your team do supporting families through the eating disorder journey is nothing short of life-changing. 💙

We’re excited for Saturday—see you there!

04/09/2025

A wonderful night connecting ahead of this Saturday’s Nurture Festival! It was so good to put faces to names, share stories, and mingle before the big day.

One of the highlights was catching up with one of our favourite humans, Mark Forbes from End ED. The work you and your team do supporting families through the eating disorder journey is nothing short of life-changing. 💙

We’re excited for Saturday—see you there!

04/09/2025

Unpacking the Why – Ollie’s Story 💙 Trauma, Bullying + Words that Wound

Today we’re unpacking another part of Ollie’s story — the words and actions of others. An absent parent who told him he was fat and unworthy. Two so-called friends who told him to kill himself on Snapchat — and then stood at his funeral. These moments cut deeply and show how powerful, and how damaging, words can be. By sharing this, we hope to remind every young person, parent, and peer that kindness matters, always — and that silence or cruelty can have consequences we never imagine.