I was born in Maryborough in regional Victoria and was around the age of seven when we moved to Melbourne.

My father was a journalist and news reader in his early career and this drove my interest in media and communications. In my early 20's I had my children; we then packed up and went to Hong Kong and then Beijing for work. When I returned to Melbourne I set up my own marketing and communications business - Brook Associates.

I agreed to be part of this project because I was curious and it sounded fun.

I know about six other Janes. My mother's name is Janet and she always wished she had been called Jane instead - her grandmother's middle name was Jane.

When I was younger I liked the idea of more exotic names, but now with so many names spelt differently, I'm glad to be Jane - people sometimes even ask me how, "How do you spell that?"

I'm not plain Jane, I'm not perfect Jane either, but somewhere in between is a Jane that I’m happy to call ME!