Gold Coast Women of the Year: Madison Morgan of Labrador training to be paramedic after mum’s tragic death

A few years ago this young Gold Coast woman was heading for trouble after losing her mum. Now, she’s realising her dream.

A FEW years ago Madison Morgan was on a trajectory towards destruction after losing her mother at a young age.

Today she’s realising her dream of helping others by studying to become a paramedic.

The 18-year-old from Labrador has been nominated in our Young Women category for Harvey Norman Women of the Year, put forward by her sister for her kind, selfless nature and resilience.

She’s currently in her second year of a bachelor of nursing and paramedicine at Australian Catholic University.

“I was around 13 when it happened. My mum died due to an aneurysm,” Ms Morgan said.

“After that we (my family) moved from Miriam Vale back to Canungra and it was all up in arms.

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Madison Morgan lost her mum to a brain aneurysm when she was 13 and found herself caught in the wrong crowd, but she has turned her life around. Picture: Jerad Williams

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“We didn’t have a house, we were staying with my uncle, we were all living out in one room. I had to start a new school, where I got bullied.

“I just really didn’t care so I moved to a different school in Beaudesert. I was hanging out with the wrong crowd, I skipped school, I did everything bad a teenager could do.

“Eventually I decided that wasn’t the right thing to do. I just saw how that path took my older sisters, I didn’t want to go there. I knew my mum would want me to be different.

“I moved back to Tamborine High, stated talking to the counsellors there, I did heaps of different courses in school.

“I wanted to do something that I’m going to help others and give them a chance, and help them get to where they want to be.”

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Madison Morgan is now in her second year of her studies at Australian Catholic University. Picture: Jerad Williams

An initiative of the Gold Coast Bulletin, Harvey Norman Women of The Year invites people to nominate creative and innovative Gold Coast women making a difference in the community.

Ms Morgan said she was honoured to be nominated and encourages other women facing hardship to reach out to those around them.

“While it all does look scary and it seems like you wont be able to get there, or you don’t have the money or time or resources, at the end of the day if you reach out and talk to other people you will get there in the end,” she says.

Nominate now at womenoftheyear.com.au