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Ashley Dietz took a big life adventure — and risk — in her young 20s with a trip to Australia. There was a lot of motivation for the journey: graduate school, being with her Down Under native and eventual husband, Paul, and, notably, honoring her dad David Heath, who had recently died from cancer. “Australia was one country he had never been to,” Dietz says.
The Aussie adventure lasted some seven years. She went to graduate school, earning a master’s degree in policy studies, public policy and international relations from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She then worked for the city of Sydney, in grants and sponsorships, rising up the chain in the country’s largest city. “It was a really great experience,” she says.
It was also a bit cathartic, in the grieving process for her dad. “You grow up real fast when you lose a parent like that,” she says. “It helps you focus on the important things in life.”
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