Speaking & MC
Keynotes, panels and full-day hosting for conferences, community gatherings, award nights and brand events. I keep things warm, on time and easy for everyone else on stage.
Speaking & MC
- Speaker
- MC & Event Host
- Podcaster
- Founder, FreekÀ Runway
Mati.
I host events, give talks and produce shows. If you need someone who can hold a room and keep the day on track, that's me.
MC, Women of Colour Melbourne Annual Gathering 2026
Melbourne / NaarmAvailable Australia-wide and overseas
- MC, Women of Colour Melbourne 2026
- What Left The Group Chat podcast
- Founder, FreekÀ Runway
- FashionOne
- Melbourne Spring Fashion Week
- As covered in The Age
- Salt Magazine
- ZIWA Fashion Blogger of the Year nominee
- L'entendre
About me
Hi, I'm Mati.
I'm a speaker, MC and event producer based in Melbourne. I was born in Zimbabwe, I came up through fashion, and I've spent the last ten years putting other people on stage.
I started FreekÀ Runway because Melbourne had a lot of talented designers, dancers and artists with nowhere to show their work. Then I co-founded a podcast because the conversations in my group chat were too good to keep private. Hosting grew out of both. I like a room with energy in it, and I'm happy to be the person who brings it.
More about me
What I do
Three ways we can work together.
Every booking starts with a chat about your event, who's in the audience and what you want them to walk away feeling.
The podcast
What Left The Group Chat is the show I co-host with Tahj and Jill. Three Black women talking honestly about work, love, money, beauty and life in Australia.
Listen inFreekÀ Runway & events
I produce runway shows and cultural events, from the concept through to show calling on the night. FreekÀ Runway is where I learned how.
Work with me on an eventTalks
Things I love talking about.
These come from my own life and from the podcast. I can shape any of them into a keynote, a fireside chat or a workshop.
Your authentic self at the J.O.B.
Code-switching, fitting in and what it costs to make yourself smaller at work. What it actually takes to turn up as yourself, and what managers can do to help.
Becoming our own standard of beauty
I spent years writing about fashion before I built a runway. This one is about representation, self-image and dressing for yourself.
Should we stay or go?
Migrant life in Australia: home, ambition and the decisions nobody warns you about. Honest and, I promise, funny.
The mental load
The invisible work of running a life, a family and a career at the same time. Useful for the women carrying it and the people around them.
Build the stage you wish you'd had
How FreekÀ Runway went from an idea to a show at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, and what I learned about giving other people the spotlight.
Hosting your whole day
From the acknowledgement of country to the last drinks. I keep the energy up, the program on time and every speaker looking good.
A few numbers
10+
Years in fashion, media and events
3
Things I've founded: L'entendre, FreekÀ Runway and the podcast
14+
Podcast episodes across two seasons
2026
MC, Women of Colour Melbourne Annual Gathering
The podcast
Three women. One group chat. No filter.
I co-host What Left The Group Chat with Tahj and Jill. One of us is Zimbabwean, one is African American and one is Zambian, and we talk about the stuff we'd normally only say to each other: work, dating, money, beauty, motherhood and making a life in Australia.
- 14What is menopause and perimenopause? With Chiza WestcarrSeason 2
- 13The roommate phase. Is your relationship stuck?Season 2
- 11Wigs, weaves and waistlinesSeason 2
FreekÀ Runway
A runway for Melbourne's emerging creatives.
FreekÀ is the multicultural runway show I founded in 2015. Designers, dancers, artists and musicians share the same stage, and most of them are showing for the first time.
FreekÀ RunwayExpress
: Your :
Self
: Your :
Self
MelbourneFashion, dance, art and music
2016Melbourne Spring Fashion Week
ProductionCreative direction, casting, show calling
ForEmerging creatives
Featured and recognised
Featured and recognised
The AgeSalt MagazineZIWA 2016Melbourne Spring Fashion WeekGreat Australian PodsWomen of Colour Melbourne
Book Mati
Tell me about your event.
Conferences, gatherings, award nights, runways, brand launches, podcasts. Give me the basics and I'll get back to you within two business days.
- hello@matimc.com
- Based in
- Melbourne. Happy to travel anywhere in Australia or overseas.
- Formats
- In person, online or hybrid.