Rudi Landmann Coaching and Consulting

12/07/2025

15/04/2025

📣📣 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📣

We are so pleased to introduce you to the third of our sensational speakers at our upcoming Long Lunch at South Bank.

Rudi Landmann is many things: a pilates, breathwork, and meditation teacher, life coach, cuddle therapist, consent educator, diversity educator, and runway model!

As a non-binary person, Rudi moves through the world as feminine and uses the pronouns they/them. They have had the privilege of working with major brands including Camilla, Lorna Jane Active, Dissh, and Proud Poppy Clothing, and with many emerging Australian designers.

They have walked on multiple runways in Brisbane and Sydney, including the spectacular Camilla Spring/Summer launch in 2022.

In their professional practice, Rudi coaches women on getting their sparkle back when it feels like life has dulled it down. They also work with large and small organisations on how to be more welcoming to their LGBTQIA+ clients.

Rudi is the proud recipient of many Leadership awards and has just returned from London where they received the 2025 LGBTQIA+ Leadership Award from The Women Changing the World in London, which coincided with writing their chapter contribution for the inspirational book "Authenticity & Action" which launched in London the same week.

We can't wait to introduce them to you at our long lunch on Friday 6th June 2025.This event will be held at Rydges South Bank Brisbane, on Glenelg St South Brisbane.

🥂 To Book your seat to hear from Rudi, and read more, visit this link: https://events.humanitix.com/ladies-who-long-lunch-south-brisbane-2025

06/04/2025

As usual when I respond to things like this, my purpose is not to shame the person who posted it, but to point out things from which we can learn.

The commenter apparently blocked me after leaving this message, so won’t see this anyway. That’s not the point.

1. A surprising number of people who post anti-LGBTQIA+ material, and specifically anti-transgender material have pages full of “love and light” and “spread joy and happiness” content. Their message of positivity doesn’t appear to extend to people like me.

This commenter is no different, and is also a therapist, a life coach, a meditation teacher, and author of a book on happiness!

I genuinely don’t know what to make of this, but I’m not the first person to notice a disturbing connection between far-right and New Age philosophies. If you want to delve deeper, I highly recommend a book and podcast titled Conspirituality.

2. The commenter believes that it’s possible to “convince” people to become gay or trans; that people’s gender and sexuality are choices we make.

Look, given the sheer diversity of humanity, I’m sure that this is sometimes true. But it’s not the general experience of humans. (And I know plenty of straight women who wish it were otherwise...! 😉)

What would that look like anyway? I cannot fathom what it would take to convince a person to make such a change. I am left wondering what the commenter thinks it would take to convince them to change their gender identity or sexuality?

3. The commenter also believes that I (and possibly other people who belong to a gender or sexual minority) are interested in “converting“ others to be like us.

This seems to be a fairly common belief in some far-right circles, and one that I put down to a fairly clear-cut case of projection. That is, people who hold far-right beliefs are typically very concerned about the sexuality and gender identity of others, and assume that everyone else is similarly concerned.

Conversely, though, I find the whole idea of wanting to police or change somebody else’s sexuality or gender identity weird and creepy. It’s nobody’s business but that person’s!

4. Finally, implicit in this comment is the idea that it’s somehow better to be heterosexual and cisgender* than not.

Otherwise, if it were even possible to change somebody’s gender identity or sexuality, and if I or anybody else were remotely interested in doing so, then why would this be a problem?

5. I am deeply honoured and grateful for the recognition awarded to me by The Women Changing the World in London last week, and this comment is an example of why this work is still unfortunately necessary.

Because although I have no interest in changing anybody’s gender identity or sexuality, I am very much committed to creating a world in which it is safer for people to express their gender expression and sexuality authentically, whatever it may be.

And I believe that this positive change comes from education and connection. Hence this post.

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* cisgender = the gender roles and norms by which you live your life line up with those you were assigned at birth. The opposite of transgender.

05/04/2025

31/03/2025

So, at long last, I’m very excited and proud to reveal two of the three reasons I’m in London right now. I am here to deliver a keynote at the Women Changing the World Summit at the Park Hyatt London on Thames on Thursday!

I am also a finalist in the LGBTQIA+ leadership awards at the summit!

Thank you Women Changing the World for making this possible — for welcoming me, embracing me, and creating space for me. I am deeply grateful for you choosing inclusion, intersectionality, and allyship.

27/03/2025

What does it really mean to live “authentically”?

Authenticity is definitely a hot topic these days, and the word gets used a *lot*. So maybe it’s worth thinking beyond dictionary definitions and coming at “authenticity” from the point of view of how to live it in practical ways.

I am delighted to have had my article on this topic featured in issue 5 of “The Lunch Mag” by Ladies Who Long Lunch — it’s free on their website. Please visit, take a read, and let me know in the comments whether you agree?

https://ladieswholonglunch.com/issue-5-the-lunch-mag/

09/03/2025

Yesterday, for International Women's Day, Dr Joyce Vromen published this insightful and powerful piece about how sometimes public celebrations can bring us sadness when they trigger past traumas.

I love this article not just because Dr Vromen does not shy away from a difficult topic, but also because of the practical solutions and help she offers in it. Moreover, these solutions are deeply rooted in practices of self-compassion, an approach I advocate for myself and for my clients.

I also respect Dr Vromen's vulnerability about her own personal struggles around this particular celebration. In the same spirit, I'll offer that I experience similar struggles around Christmas and especially around my birthday. The latter I have been able to phase out of my life; the former is more difficult to ignore!

So -- if there are certain dates of the year that trigger you; when you feel like you "should" be happy or celebrating, but have mixed feelings or worse, first know that you're not alone! And next, read and digest the beautiful words in this outstanding article.

International Women’s Day can elicit a mix of empowerment and emotional pain for many women. The day celebrates progress but can also trigger memories of past struggles and pain.

31/03/2024

By a quirk of the calendar, in 2024, Easter Sunday (which changes date every year) falls on the same day as Transgender Day of Visibility (31 March every year). There’s an interesting resonance in this accidental overlap of holidays.

From very ancient times, eggs have been a significant symbol in springtime festivals in Europe and the Middle East. Eggs were seen as representations of fertility, renewal, and the coming of spring. Ancient cultures such as the Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all had traditions involving eggs as symbols of rebirth and renewal during their celebrations of the Spring Equinox, which falls around this time of year in the northern hemisphere (20 March in 2024).

As Christianity spread and assimilated various pagan customs and traditions, the symbolism of eggs was absorbed into Easter celebrations. The early Christians adopted the egg as a symbol of the Resurrection, incorporating it into their own religious observances of renewal and new life.

The egg is used as a metaphor in the Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) community too. There, the term “egg” is often used metaphorically to describe a person who has not yet come to terms with or fully acknowledged their gender identity.

When TGD people say that a crack appeared in their egg, or maybe that they egg cracked altogether, they are referring to a moment of realisation or self-awareness about their gender identity.

Whether the crack is big or small, it can be a significant and often liberating moment in a person's journey of self-discovery and affirmation.
My journey of understanding my gender involved many, many small cracks in my egg over a long period of time. Some of these experiences only made sense in retrospect.

Whether today you’re celebrating Easter, Transgender Day of Visibility, or like me, both, I hope you’re having a wonderful and joyous day!

The next time these two observances will share a day is in 2086, then in 2097. 🐣

[In the image, the egg on the left is decorated with the colours of the transgender flag. The egg on the right is decorated with the colours of the non-binary flag.]

09/01/2024

So… I’ve been quiet here for a while. 2023 was a year of the most incredible highs for me, and I want to extend my mosy heartfelt gratitude to the very many kind and wonderful people who made that possible! 💖💖

By the very end of the year, there was very little left in the tank and unfortunately this meant exiting one of the most wonderful years of my life without any energy left to savour those successes!

Thank you so much to everyone who’s been checking in on me as my absence from the public sphere has become more obvious. I truly appreciate all the love and care! I haven’t been able to respond to you individually yet, but I will certainly be doing so. 💖💖

Out of this has come some valuable insights into how I manage my energy 😊

I hope that 2024 is off to a great start for you all! I’m already looking forward to a great one! 💐