PHOEBE STRACHAN
Author | Keynote Speaker | Financial Wellbeing Educator | Women’s Health Advocate
You Were Never Meant to Carry This Alone.
PHOEBE STRACHAN
AUTHOR | KEYNOTE SPEAKER | FINANCIAL WELLBEING EDUCATOR | WOMEN’S HEALTH ADVOCATE
You Were Never Meant to Carry This Alone.
“Quiet Battles” By Phoebe Strachan
The Hidden Struggles Women Carry and the Courage to Rise Again
PHOEBE STRACHAN
She Knows What It Means to Keep Going
Phoebe Strachan is a South African author, speaker, and cancer survivor from Eldorado Park, Johannesburg. She spent over two decades navigating the corporate world and rising through the ranks at some of South Africa’s most respected organisations, including FNB, while privately carrying battles that almost no one around her could see.
Her life journey includes depression, grief, psychiatric admissions, pregnancy loss, and a cancer diagnosis at the age of 46. Through it all, she learned what it means to keep going even when strength feels out of reach.
Her debut memoir, Quiet Battles, is an honest reflection of a woman who found the courage to put down what she had been carrying alone and discovered that millions of women were carrying the same weight.
Phoebe speaks with the authority of lived experience, the warmth of a woman who has sat in the dark and found her way back, and the honesty of someone who understands that healing is not always neat or predictable.
Her work creates space for women to feel seen, understood, and strengthened.
THE BOOK
Quiet Battles
The Hidden Struggles Women Carry and the Courage to Rise Again
Some stories are lived in silence. Quiet Battles is an honest and deeply personal account of what it means to carry pain while still showing up for life. It speaks to the woman who looks strong on the outside but is quietly fighting battles within.
This is not a book that rushes you to fix yourself. It is a book that sits with you in the reality of what you have been carrying.
Through stories of grief, depression, loss, identity, faith, and healing, Phoebe gives language to experiences many women have never been able to explain.
If you have ever felt like you had to hold everything together while falling apart inside, this book will meet you there.
Keynote Speaking
Helping Women Rise from the Battles Nobody Sees
The Weight We Carry — and the Courage to Set It Down
Phoebe brings her lived experience to the stage with vulnerability, authority, and grace. This keynote opens conversations that most organisations have never known how to hold — about the silent battles women carry into boardrooms, homes, and hospital waiting rooms, and what it truly means to rise from within.
• Financial Wellbeing & Emotional Resilience
• Money, Relationships & Difficult Conversations
• Women’s Health Advocacy
• Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing
• Resilience Through Life’s Quiet Battles
• Leadership, Empathy & Human-Centred Conversations
Fees available upon request
“She speaks with the authority of lived experience and the warmth of someone who has sat in the dark and found her way back.”
Phoebe brings her lived experience to the stage with vulnerability, authority, and grace. This keynote opens conversations that most organisations have never known how to hold — about the silent battles women carry into boardrooms, homes, and hospital waiting rooms, and what it truly means to rise from within.
Format: Keynote · Panel · Workshop
Audience: Corporates, Women’s Events, Conferences
Location: South Africa · Available Internationally
Availability: Enquire for Dates
GALLERY
In the Room
Moments where stories are shared, conversations are opened, and women are reminded they are not alone.
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