As sure as the tides, Mundanara Bayles is forever moving, always inching forward.

Ms Bayles has more than 20 years' experience working for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations in New South Wales and Queensland, she's the co-founder and Managing Director of BlackCard, a cultural capability training organisation, and she was awarded Supply Nation's Indigenous Businesswoman of the Year in 2023.

As a proud advocate for her people, Ms Bayles on a mission to ensure her legacy follows in father's footsteps. She is connected to Wonnarua, Bunjalung, Birri-Gubba, and Gungalu peoples.

Her family has been active in the Aboriginal movement since the 60s and 70s, and storytellers on radio since the 1980s. Her father the late Tiga Bayles and grandmother Maureen Watson pioneered Blak media and started Radio Redfern some 40 years ago.

Inner-Sydney Redfern is in Ms Bayles blood, it's where she grew up with her eight sisters before moving to her father's Country in the early 90s, Birri-Gubba and Gungalu (Queensland).

"When I think about the lack of black representation in the media, for example, why don't people know the names of a lot of our trail blazers? That motivates me," Ms Bayles says.

"We recently launched our e-learn cultural confidence online training which is designed to make all Australians feel proud of this country's long history," she says.

Guided by Elders, BlackCard provides cultural training and consultancy grounded in Aboriginal knowledge systems aimed to empower organisations to build ethical, inclusive practices through a deep understanding of Aboriginal values, responsibilities and connection to Land.

"The training goes beyond 1788 and colonial narratives to share Aboriginal Terms of Reference and ways of knowing that have existed for tens of thousands of years," she says.

"This world-class learning experience will spark greater awareness and pride in the fact that we live in a country that's home to the world's oldest living continuous culture.

"We don't gloss over the hard truths, but if you look at our history clock that we developed where every minute on the clockface is one thousand years of history, the time since colonisation is eleven seconds."

The clock in BlackCard's module one shows the ice age of 50,000 years ago, the decline in megafauna 20,000 years ago, and how the Great Barrier Reef was formed between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago. David Attenborough makes an appearance to confirm the dreaming stories of the reef are matched with what science has shown.

"It's incredible, those dreaming stories have been passed down through 2,000 generations, and they were factually correct," she remarks.

"We need to remember Aboriginal peoples survived two ice ages; it's a history that not many people know about."

As the clock ticks, it shows the introduction of agriculture, the last volcanic eruption in Australia and the separation of Tasmania from the mainland some 10,000 years ago. There are references to other global historic moments including the pyramids, Jesus Christ, and first international trade one thousand years ago between Indigenous Australians and the Macassans from Indonesia.

Developed by respected Aboriginal Elders, educators and authors Dr Lilla Watson and Dr Mary Graham, the BlackCard program aims to strengthen participants' ability to work effectively and respectfully with all people but particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The high production values, gamification and multimedia mix of video, graphics, voiceovers, and imagery kept me engaged as I competed the first module. I was particularly moved by a powerful speech by Stan Grant which shows how history is viewed differently by Indigenous people.

With three modules available titled 'White Australia has a Black History', 'Our Shared History, and 'Understanding Ancient Protocols', Black Card's training modules have been intentionally created to be SCORM compliant to work within LMS and intranets of large organisations.

"Our first client was NRMA, and LinkedIn is currently looking to include our e-learn in their LinkedIn Learning - the only other Indigenous Rights course on LinkedIn was developed by an Indigenous academic in Canada, there's nothing about Indigenous Australians, yet."

Ms Bayles is also the voice behind the podcast Black Magic Woman, the first Indigenous podcast to be signed by iHeart Radio's podcast network in July 2023.

"I was excited when iHeart signed my podcast, but then I told them I want my own network, that I wanted to do this my own way," Ms Bayles says.

Soon after, in partnership with ARN's iHeart, BlakCast was launched, Australia's first podcast network dedicated to the stories of Indigenous Australians.

The BlakCast network launched with a number of podcasts including Black Magic Woman, Yarning Up, Curtain the Podcast, Unapologetically Blak, Meet the Mob, Coming Out Blak, and Find and Tell, the first co-production with iHeart which won Best New Australian Podcast. Season two of Find and Tell, hosted by Ms Bayles, is out in mid-August.