Casuarina Smith, known as Trucking with CJ, shares how she uses her platform and road-train experience to advocate for the transport industry and educate everyday drivers about road safety, especially around heavy vehicles. She explains her unconventional journey from a corporate insurance career into trucking, helped by a few people who saw her potential and by her own decision to invest personally in gaining her truck license. Casuarina speaks candidly about being a woman in a male-dominated field, the tough realities, and how her values, authenticity, positive representation, and refusal to sexualize her image or promote harmful products guide what she will and won’t do for money. She describes receiving emotional messages from people who are inspired to change careers or start driving, and from families whose children feel seen through her content and her self-published children’s book, “My Auntie’s Truck.” A recurring theme is the idea of “being in the right room”: your value doesn’t disappear when people don’t respond, it often just means you’re showing your work to the wrong audience, and the key is to find communities and spaces that genuinely want you to succeed.