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Exploring the art of change.
Stories of reinvention, resilience and renewal.
The Art of Resilience
David Hallberg: Artistic Director - The Australian Ballet
When The Curtain Falls Inwards
About Loopels
Loopels is a home for stories of transformation, a place where honesty becomes connection, and personal truth becomes collective strength. We explore the pivots that shape us: how grief deepens us, how resilience rebuilds us, and how art and beauty remind us of what is still possible. These quiet steps shape who we become next.
Meet Helen Mantzis
Founder, host and the voice behind Loopels, Helen brings a lifelong commitment to culture, storytelling and community.
Her background in philanthropy, the arts, education, fashion and brand laid the foundations for Loopels, but it is Helen’s own experience of rupture, and the reinvention that followed, that deepened her belief in the things that carry us: community and connection, curiosity and culture, inner strength and beauty all of which can quietly guide us through change.
Loopels brings together the conversations, art and ideas that helped her heal, in the hope that they might help others too.
Beyond the Mic
The conversation is only the beginning.
The Loopels, podcast leans into the pivot and the climb, the moment lifeasks more of us than we feel ready to give.
But we are never defined only by what we have endured.
Beyond the Microphone is where our guests step forward into what they are building now.
It is a visual and emotional legacy that they are consciously shaping.
It reminds us that transformation is not a single moment, it is a living, evolving practice.
Here, our guests are not only reflecting on who they were.
They are showing us who they are becoming.
And in doing so, they invite us to consider our own next chapter.
Letters from Loopels
Essays, reflections and invitations: quiet moments delivered to your inbox.