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Speaker 1: This episode of CAZA is brought to you by Mitsubishi.

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Speaker 1: These are the yays of our lives.

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Speaker 2: Busy and happy are not the same thing. We too

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Speaker 2: rarely question what makes the heart seeing. We work, then

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Speaker 2: we rest, but rarely we play and often don't realize

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Speaker 2: there's more than one way. So this is a platform

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Speaker 2: to hear and explore the stories.

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Speaker 1: Of those who found lives. They adore the good, bad

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Speaker 1: the facets of seizing your Yea. I'm Sarah Davidson or

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Speaker 1: Spoonful of Sarah, a lawyer turned fu entrepreneur who swapped

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Speaker 1: the suits and heels to co found matcha Maiden and

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Speaker 1: matcha Milk. Bark Czya is a series of conversations on

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Speaker 1: finding a life you love and exploring the self doubt, challenge,

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Speaker 1: joy and fulfillment along the way. Lovely Yahborhood. I'm so

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Speaker 1: excited about this week's installment of Yeas of our Lives

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Speaker 1: because I finally got on the road and headed to

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Speaker 1: West Gippsland to record Yahborhood watch in person. You might

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Speaker 1: have seen the little video of our trip go up

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. I'll share a link in the show notes

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Speaker 1: to see just what an incredible trip it was, so

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Speaker 1: many beautiful businesses and people. It's been quite a big

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Speaker 1: few weeks actually of returning to real life interactions, and

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Speaker 1: as much as my inn Introvert did fully embrace parts

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Speaker 1: could have imagined to be back feeling the buzz of

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Speaker 1: delightful annual International Women's Day event put on in Warrigal

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Speaker 1: by women in Gippsland and Borborshire, and I was so

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Speaker 1: thrilled to deliver the keynote speech on the night, my

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Speaker 1: such a magical energy created when people gathered together to

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Speaker 1: actually hadn't realized how much I was missing it. I

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Speaker 1: was blown away by how many podcast listeners or readers

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Speaker 1: of the book they were locally who had come to

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Speaker 1: really easy to forget that anyone even does. So. I

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Speaker 1: had the most amazing time after the event, meeting so

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Speaker 1: TA that's the part we all missed doing events online

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Speaker 1: loitering like I like to do. If any of you

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Speaker 1: waiting until the end, for the chats and the hugs.

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Speaker 1: That was my favorite part of the night. And to

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Speaker 1: those of you who brought your CZA books from home

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Speaker 1: to cry. It was so beautiful. It really made me

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Speaker 1: think about the many moments of connection and excitement that

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Speaker 1: to my quotity have for this week. Everyone you meet

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Speaker 1: could have had. It's totally understandable that we don't always

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Speaker 1: Women in Gippsland continued the festivities with a lunch hosted

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Speaker 1: It was absolutely beautiful. But for Yighborhood Watch this week,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to be able to do this. But

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Speaker 3: I really just needed to readdress, readdress, what was my yay?

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Speaker 3: It's the only therapy and movement that our pelvis mimics

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Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time in rehab going googling

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Speaker 4: It's just really good therapy. And it's freedom, like I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if Aaron's got the most gorgeous grass,

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, so much. Yea, absolutely lots of ya. Oh joy,

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Speaker 1: you are a joy.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: It's been lovely to me, sir, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: I see a superstar in the making. This person's energy

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Speaker 1: I'll let you work that one out in the chat. Brodie,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: I'm very excited to me.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you exciting. Tell us about

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Speaker 4: Okay, so my name is Brody Pyle.

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Speaker 5: I've created this page called Gippslam Promotions and it's a

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Speaker 5: I just want to do something, and I've always loved

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, well you absolutely do that. You are

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Speaker 4: Oh I'm so happy to hear that.

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Speaker 1: So you love to entertain. I love kind of working

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Speaker 1: What else are you really passionate about? What would you

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Speaker 5: Well, I'd say my yay would have to be making

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Speaker 5: Like you got to think about those businesses that have

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Speaker 5: thought you only sell one, but really you ended out

435
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Speaker 5: selling out and anyone could do that any my gosh.

436
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Speaker 1: And it was so lovely last night. I've just the

437
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Speaker 1: sense of community here, the warmest welcome that we've received.

438
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Speaker 1: One of the loveliest things was when I was chatting

439
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Speaker 1: to you, about one hundred separate people came over and

440
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 1: we're like, puty, this guy is amazing. Everyone knows everyone.

441
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 1: Everyone knows what you're doing for the community. Everyone's benefited

442
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: and it's so grateful for what you do. But you

443
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: you all know what each other's doing and just want

444
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Speaker 1: to support each other. And it's so so wonderful.

445
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,959
Speaker 5: And that's what I love about Gibson. Everyone bands together.

446
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 5: You're not alone when you come here. You come live here,

447
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Speaker 5: and everyone needs by your side.

448
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 4: No matter what. They will come, they will.

449
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Speaker 5: Help you, they will boost you, they will give you

450
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Speaker 5: anything you need and that's why I love it here

451
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Speaker 5: in Gippslands.

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Speaker 1: That's just so beautiful to hear. And you really represent

453
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Speaker 1: something for me which I think a lot of people

454
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Speaker 1: need to hear. And that's and you know, in you

455
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Speaker 1: know my talk, I talked about it last night, the

456
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Speaker 1: idea of embracing your uniqueness rather than trying to suppress

457
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Speaker 1: it and just be the same. That's it. And we

458
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: all go through phases where you try and be the

459
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Speaker 1: same as everyone else and fit the mold, and then

460
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Speaker 1: you just realize, like life is too short for that.

461
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Speaker 1: And as you are sitting in front of me in

462
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Speaker 1: this glorious vogue worthy gold dress and silver hills, tell

463
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Speaker 1: us about Barb.

464
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Speaker 5: So Barb was a character I created because I wanted

465
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Speaker 5: to bring some more interest to.

466
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Speaker 1: My page and well she certainly don't.

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Speaker 5: And Barbes I needed someone who was rich, elegant up herself,

468
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Speaker 5: you know, and she's just all about it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

470
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Speaker 5: She owns a business called Silly Conas, which is a

471
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Speaker 5: booby implant company.

472
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Speaker 1: I didn't didn't tell me that. Barb hasn't really informed

473
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Speaker 1: you about that.

474
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Speaker 5: So it's a massive company going worldwide global. She has

475
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 5: gone so far in her life that now she has

476
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Speaker 5: that much money and doesn't know where to spend it,

477
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Speaker 5: so she gets out into Gippsland and spends it in

478
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Speaker 5: the local air.

479
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Speaker 1: So she and ambassador for Gipslam Promotions. Would you say

480
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: she's like the face? Yeah, okay, amazing voice. If you want,

481
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 1: like you mean, you can go and get Barbes and yeah, yeah,

482
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: I go get it. Okay, go get it, go get it. Yeah.

483
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Speaker 5: But oh god, hello, my name is Barbara Billions.

484
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Speaker 1: How are you, barb Rebellions, Miss Billions. It is a

485
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the show.

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Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to be here.

487
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Speaker 1: Tell us about Gippslam Promotions. You were telling me last

488
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Speaker 1: night that this young lad, Brody, he started this amazing

489
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: business and he recently hosted an event I think it was,

490
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: and had everyone had to put in something, put in

491
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Speaker 1: a product and then he would showcase it to the

492
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Speaker 1: rest of the world. Tell us about that.

493
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Speaker 5: So Brodie is such a great little kid. He has

494
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Speaker 5: done this thing called Gipslam Promotions. As I mentioned anyway.

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Speaker 1: He's so divine, so divine.

496
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Speaker 5: But he's created this thing called the I Love Gippsland campaign.

497
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Speaker 1: Where he's created these T shirts.

498
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Speaker 5: Called I Love Gippsland and put them out there and

499
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Speaker 5: people have bought them.

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Speaker 1: He raised three.

501
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 5: Thousand dollars for Gippsland and he went out and bought

502
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Speaker 5: some products and gave them away to locals and Melbourne

503
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Speaker 5: people and help them out. Oh yes, I'm very deeply

504
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Speaker 5: proud of deeply He's done a great job, Bob.

505
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Speaker 1: Also, I'm curious, I know your skincare regime is so amazing.

506
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Speaker 1: Just why you look a lot younger than you are, Bob?

507
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Speaker 1: How old are you?

508
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Speaker 4: Perhaps it's forty five?

509
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know she's going, well, oh wow, well

510
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: that Gippsland skincare.

511
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Speaker 4: A lot of people inside.

512
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Speaker 1: But guys, the big surprise from this interview is I'm

513
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: just going to call Brodie back in.

514
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Speaker 5: Broy, I'm back, I'm.

515
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Speaker 1: Hey, going, so is forty five? I would like you

516
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: to dish the dirt on your tender age of thirteen.

517
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Speaker 1: Can anyone actually cope with that information? Because I can

518
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Speaker 1: not what even so he was telling me? You know,

519
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 1: I've just I really loved my school. They allow us

520
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: to express ourselves. You know, I was school captain and

521
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: I was dancing around in a frock and blah blah

522
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: blah and I'm thinking school captain year twelve, you know,

523
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 1: just graduated. He's like, no, school captain of my primary school?

524
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Speaker 1: What yep? How are you thirteen years old? I know

525
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people will say that you're like an

526
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 1: old soul, Like I literally feel like you have one

527
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: hundred years of wisdom behind you and two hundred years

528
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 1: of motivation to bring so much goodness and share the

529
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: goodness from your community to the world. You're just doing

530
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: such amazing things. What an inspiration.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, And I'd like to just quickly say, before

532
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Speaker 5: we finish up, please travel to Ghipsland, jump in your car,

533
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 5: bring your family, check it out. There's cafes, restaurants, barbs shops,

534
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 5: barbs barbes around.

535
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 4: Come round.

536
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: Just check it out.

537
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Speaker 5: Guys, come spend some money in the local area, stay

538
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Speaker 5: a few nights. We'd love to meet you all.

539
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And guys, if you need tip for your itinery,

540
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: head to Gippsland Promotions page. Barb has put together some

541
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: wonderful things as an ambassador, and Brody has helped us

542
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: a little bit help.

543
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Brodie, Thank you so much for having me.

544
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: Absolutely obsessed with that young man. I still don't even

545
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: understand he's such an old soul. How is that even

546
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: a thing? Before we continue with today's episode, beautiful people,

547
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Speaker 1: I've got an exciting little announcement for you. I'm so

548
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: thrilled to be welcoming Mitsubishi to the neighborhood as our

549
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: major partner for Yays of our Lives. I'll be zipping

550
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: around in the amazing new Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross over the

551
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: next few months, hitting the road to record both in

552
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: and out of town and keep spreading the ya in style.

553
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: I've had it for a few weeks already and I

554
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: can safely say it's a total eclipse of the heart.

555
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: The Eclipse Cross drives like a dream, with a spacious

556
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: and ergonomic interior, eight inch touchscreen and the pure luxury

557
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: of heated seats and get this heated steering wheel for

558
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: those frozen little fingers with plans to start a family

559
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: in the near future. Though, safety is everything, so I'm

560
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: also thrilled with its five star and cap rating. I'll

561
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: be sharing our adventures over the coming months, and you

562
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: might have already seen this week away in gipps Land

563
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: in the Yamo Bille, so stay tuned for more over

564
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: the coming months. If any of you are looking to

565
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: drive your ambition further this year. The Eclipse Cross is

566
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: the perfect yamobile. The next guest was a This is

567
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: actually a product that I tried at lunch without realizing

568
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: that the founder was also there, and I couldn't help

569
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: but grab her before she ran off to share the

570
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Speaker 1: journey behind Etch Sparkling.

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Speaker 2: Andy, Hello, Hello.

572
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

573
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.

574
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Speaker 1: I literally just stole Andy away. She just walked into

575
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Speaker 1: the kitchen and I'm like, I'm grabbing you because we

576
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: have to tell your story.

577
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 3: I was walking out the door and I know.

578
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: I heard you'd left, and I was like, oh, damn it,

579
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to give a shut out anyway, but now

580
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: I'm glad you can do it yourself. It was meant

581
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Speaker 1: to be tell us about Etch.

582
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 3: So Etch Sparkling. We make non alcoholic sparkling beverages using

583
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: Australian native fruits and herbs.

584
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Speaker 1: They're so good, by the way, we had them on

585
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,239
Speaker 1: pretty much John tab today. Three beautiful flavors. What are

586
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: the flavors?

587
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: So Zest which is finger lime, lemon, myrtle, and rosemary

588
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 3: plum which is Davidson plum, riberry, and strawberry gum and

589
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 3: local flora, honey and rosewater which is called honey.

590
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Speaker 1: That's your favorite, isn't it? That's my favorite?

591
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, if you like having a favorite child, I

592
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 3: don't like to tell everyone that different ones but different occasions.

593
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 3: So each stands for every time choose health. And my

594
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 3: husband and I have a little bit of a backstory

595
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 3: to get to where we are today. So our background

596
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 3: is in the wine industry. Jason in particular, spent twenty

597
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 3: three years working in the wine industry and over that

598
00:29:54,800 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 3: time developed a dependence on alcohol later and addictions. So

599
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: we both in twenty eighteen, we both stopped drinking alcohol.

600
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: And we're a little bit lost as to what to

601
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,959
Speaker 3: do with our lives because that was kind of all

602
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 3: we've ever known, particularly Jason. That was his livelihood, was

603
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 3: our income, it was his status, his ego, it was

604
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 3: everything and his contacts and so, yeah, ETCH was born.

605
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 3: Basically I came up with the idea myself, So I

606
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 3: give myself credit for that.

607
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Speaker 1: You should be fatting yourself on the back for.

608
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Speaker 4: It, thank you.

609
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's been amazing. We launched just before Lockdown

610
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Speaker 3: pretty much November twenty nineteen.

611
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Speaker 4: Yeah, ticking along.

612
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Speaker 1: It's just extraordinary. It tastes amazing, it's such a good

613
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Speaker 1: It fills such a gap when you want something sparkling

614
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: but not just plain water, but not too sweet like

615
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: many of the alternatives that there are out there. And

616
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Speaker 1: as someone I didn't drink for seven or eight years

617
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: at all and was constantly looking for it's so culturally

618
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: ingrained to just have a drink in your hand that

619
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: you know it's actually it does leave you sort of

620
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: looking for something to do and you don't have a drink. Yes,

621
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Speaker 1: So congratulation on such an amazing development in the story.

622
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Speaker 1: Thank you.

623
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Speaker 3: I think that was the thing that we were both

624
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 3: you know, wanted to continue that ritual of having a

625
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 3: special drink. Yeah, having something in your hand, as you say,

626
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 3: if you're at a social event, it doesn't have to

627
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: be alcohol, it can be anything, and it still gives

628
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 3: you that sense of inclusion.

629
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:32,239
Speaker 1: So totally, so much. Yeah, And I think something that

630
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: we talked about off air just before is that alcoholism

631
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: is so difficult because it doesn't always look the way

632
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: that you think it would. So because it can be

633
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: just a drink here and there, but it might be

634
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: a drink alone or it might be a drink every day,

635
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: or it might just be an inability to function without

636
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: that drink. You know, I think it can seep into

637
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: your life before long before you've even noticed that it's something. Yeah. Absolutely,

638
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: and so talking about it more is so important. Yeah.

639
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 3: I think from the outside perspective, nobody would have known

640
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 3: that Jason was going through this battle. It was just

641
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 3: it was definitely an inner voice to him, and he

642
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 3: ignored that inner voice for a very long time because

643
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 3: he didn't look like somebody who had a problem with alcohol.

644
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 3: He was fish, he's a runner, yeah, you know, he

645
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 3: had a successful career, He traveled for work, he was

646
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 3: you know, put together. He didn't look like the man

647
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 3: on the park bench that he thought someone with an

648
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 3: alcohol problem would look like. And so that's something we

649
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 3: really want to talk about, I think, and reduce that

650
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 3: stigma about because I think if we can catch people

651
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 3: upstream who haven't gone as far as Jason got to,

652
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 3: you know, that would be It's a wonderful thing. And

653
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Speaker 3: that's the conversations we're having with people. People are reaching

654
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Speaker 3: out to us saying that you know, they're able to

655
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Speaker 3: enjoy etch in place of an alcoholic beverage.

656
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Speaker 4: So that's so.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful, and he was so excited that from a really

658
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Speaker 1: tough position and a complete upheaval of your life and

659
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: reinvention of his identity particularly but of course yours as well,

660
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Speaker 1: you have built a wonderful business with an amazing product.

661
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Speaker 1: But that's also given you a platform to then talk

662
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Speaker 1: about the backstory so that others might be able to

663
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Speaker 1: find you and then actually reach out. And I think

664
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Speaker 1: one of the hardest things when you're in a situation

665
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Speaker 1: like that is sometimes you want support, but because other

666
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Speaker 1: people don't talk about their stories because it is a

667
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Speaker 1: bit stigmatized, or because it is hard to talk about,

668
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Speaker 1: you can't find each other to even seek support. So

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Speaker 1: it's really quite amazing that you guys have been so

670
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Speaker 1: open in the marketing and sharing how you got to

671
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Speaker 1: where you did, because I'm sure that's helping so many

672
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Speaker 1: people along the way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so thank you. It's not always easy sharing,

674
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Speaker 3: and you put yourself in quite a vulnerable position, and

675
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Speaker 3: particularly when you've got a brand, you don't want to

676
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Speaker 3: taint that with the backstory. But I think the importance

677
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Speaker 3: of sharing and helping others is really an important value

678
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Speaker 3: to us.

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Speaker 1: So, oh, you're doing amazingly. And I think as well,

680
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Speaker 1: any kind of big shift or chapter change in your

681
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,280
Speaker 1: life does involve rebuilding your identity and rebuilding the activities

682
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Speaker 1: that you like to do and the ways that you

683
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Speaker 1: enjoy life together. And removing alcohol is a big change

684
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people. What are some of the

685
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Speaker 1: other ways that you find ya?

686
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Speaker 3: I think having time now, you know, for me, I

687
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 3: was never a very big drinker, but my husband now

688
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 3: has so much time in his day because he's you know,

689
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Speaker 3: normally it would be cracking a glass of wine on

690
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Speaker 3: a Sunday afternoon and then you'd be chilling out at home.

691
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Speaker 3: But now we have time to actually to spend time

692
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Speaker 3: as a family. And yeah, there just seems to be

693
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Speaker 3: so much more time in the day to do things

694
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Speaker 3: and go hiking and walking down the beach and so

695
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 3: much more to do.

696
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Speaker 1: So much more. Yea, And where can we all find you?

697
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Speaker 1: I actually want to order a case because it's amazing.

698
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about finding you. Where can we get it?

699
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Speaker 3: So at the moment, we are available online, so the

700
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Speaker 3: w'st dot com dot au. We do have select stock

701
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Speaker 3: ust around Australia, but there's a few gaps here and there,

702
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Speaker 3: so you can check the stock us list on the website,

703
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Speaker 3: but yeah, available online. Amazing we deliver Australia wide.

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Speaker 1: Oh so good. I'll pop a link in the show notes,

705
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Speaker 1: mainly for myself but also for anyone listening. Thank you,

706
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Speaker 1: very thank you so much. Oh my gosh, so many

707
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: fascinating stories. And finally, Sally Jones, a serious hero of

708
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Speaker 1: the community and of her industry, who worked away tirelessly

709
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: all day in the kitchen and entertaining all the guests.

710
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Speaker 1: She's a woman I want to spend more and more

711
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: time with. I didn't have an inkling about her incredible backstory,

712
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: and you'll probably be able to hear that and hear

713
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Speaker 1: what an impact it had on me during our chat.

714
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: Sal was pretty much the person who actually organized the

715
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Speaker 1: whole thing of getting me down there was my main

716
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Speaker 1: point of call. So she's just an incredible human being.

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Speaker 1: Introducing Sal soal, thank you so much for putting on

718
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Speaker 1: the most incredible two days, but particularly this afternoon. This

719
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Speaker 1: was just extraordinary and you are extraordinary.

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Speaker 6: You're very generous with your words. I could not have

721
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Speaker 6: done any of this without the power of women and

722
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Speaker 6: producers that have been so kind and so generous in

723
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Speaker 6: donating their produce and their time and their energy, and

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Speaker 6: it just all came together.

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Speaker 4: And I it.

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Speaker 6: No, it wasn't probably the most traditional sort of come

727
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Speaker 6: to a lady's lunch.

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Speaker 1: Vibe, but it was the best. It was so glorious

729
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Speaker 1: to walk into someone's house and see all these women

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Speaker 1: with their own produce in the kitchen whipping up a

731
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Speaker 1: meal for forty people. To this glorious view like it

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Speaker 1: was just I said to you guys before, and I

733
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Speaker 1: will say it over and over again. It's been the

734
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Speaker 1: warmest welcome and just such a strong sense of community.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it is amazing community. And Gippsland is such a

736
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Speaker 6: large space. It encompasses a very large region, you know, kilometers.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how to articulate that quite right.

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Speaker 6: And from one end of Gippsland to the other end

739
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Speaker 6: of Gippsland you go through different regions which all have

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Speaker 6: a different vibe as well, and they all produce different things.

741
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Speaker 6: But the one thing that Gippsland is really heavy on

742
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Speaker 6: is the dairy. And I know this is such a

743
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Speaker 6: part of your story. Food and fiber. Gippsland is made

744
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Speaker 6: up of seven is worth seven billion dollars to our region. Wow,

745
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Speaker 6: and dairy is worth three point five billion, So it

746
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Speaker 6: is gosh a big player. But what we don't necessarily

747
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Speaker 6: do in the region is value add to what we

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Speaker 6: primary produce. So I think it is about trying to

749
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Speaker 6: think now as I guess, a new generation of entrepreneurs

750
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Speaker 6: and business people, like what can we do in our

751
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Speaker 6: region to make it pop and sing? Because it really

752
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Speaker 6: is undiscovered. A lot of people just don't even know

753
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Speaker 6: where Gipsland is and it's awesome to have you.

754
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Speaker 4: Down back.

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Speaker 6: To pop the lid on what is on offer here.

756
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Speaker 6: And you know, I think it's about welcoming people from

757
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Speaker 6: out of town to come here and set up vibrant

758
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Speaker 6: businesses and be vibrant people within our community, which is

759
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Speaker 6: the rich fabric that is created.

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Speaker 1: And it's so it's been just so lovely to meet

761
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Speaker 1: so many people because it is really vibrant. It is like,

762
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Speaker 1: you know, we're hearing from Jazz, who's a counselor on

763
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Speaker 1: the local council and she's twenty two. Like, I think

764
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Speaker 1: things are becoming really exciting and dynamic, and like even

765
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Speaker 1: the event last night, it was a partnership between Women

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Speaker 1: in Gippsland and Boboshire and it's done every year that

767
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Speaker 1: you host hundred of women and men male feminists to

768
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Speaker 1: celebrate International Women's Day and bring a speaker in and

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Speaker 1: it just was. There was such a buzz about the

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Speaker 1: whole night and everyone gets so excited for it all year,

771
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Speaker 1: and not many local councils do that, and not many

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Speaker 1: local regions have a Women in gipps Land equivalent either,

773
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Speaker 1: And it's just wonderful how connected you are all are

774
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Speaker 1: in with each other, with each other's businesses, how much

775
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Speaker 1: you collaborate to even to put on the meal today

776
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Speaker 1: that was like fifteen or sixteen different businesses came together

777
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Speaker 1: in a matter of days to pull that together. I

778
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Speaker 1: don't think that would happen anywhere else.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And as you just said, the sense of community

780
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Speaker 6: is strong and it is something to be envied, I

781
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 6: think by many people that live in suburban areas because

782
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 6: we are so incredibly blessed and everything does come from

783
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Speaker 6: good soil. And someone explained to me many years ago

784
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Speaker 6: that in order to have healthy people, we have to

785
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Speaker 6: have good soil. Good soil is good food, which equals

786
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Speaker 6: good healthy people.

787
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Speaker 4: And we do need to be super careful.

788
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Speaker 6: Of how we care for what we have so that

789
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Speaker 6: we don't get greedy and we don't just turn this

790
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Speaker 6: beautiful landscape into another housing estate. We need to be

791
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Speaker 6: really protective of what gips Land looks like moving forward.

792
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Speaker 4: Once people do find out about.

793
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Speaker 1: Us, which I'm really hoping they do, but also really

794
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Speaker 1: hoping they don't, I'm like, do I just pull this

795
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Speaker 1: whole episode so it stays my secret forever and we

796
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Speaker 1: can have lunches like this all the time. But I

797
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Speaker 1: think you mentioned in the soil just then also reminds

798
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Speaker 1: me of how much people probably misunderstand your typical producer

799
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Speaker 1: from this region, from every region, Like people don't really

800
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Speaker 1: understand what a dairy farmer looks like in this day

801
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Speaker 1: and age, or what the modern version of that is.

802
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Speaker 1: And seeing the glorious and glamorous women last night and

803
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Speaker 1: here today, it's not I think what people would expect.

804
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Speaker 1: There's not the dagg if farmer. I mean, I'm sure

805
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Speaker 1: there are, but that's not necessarily the picture of the

806
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Speaker 1: local producer. So tell us about your business and your

807
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: story and how you've come to where you are and

808
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Speaker 1: why you're so excited to be among the producers here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a really proud woman that is involved in

810
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Speaker 6: the dairy industry that is predominantly very male dominated. I

811
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Speaker 6: grew up on a dairy farm in Lake Centrance where

812
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 6: we value added to all of the milk that my

813
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 6: parents produced. So they had a factory next to our dairy.

814
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Speaker 6: So the milk shop through the wall into the factory

815
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Speaker 6: and we churned ice cream and we had ice cream

816
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 6: shops throughout Kipsland. So that was my childhood and teenageers

817
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Speaker 6: and adulthood until probably about fifteen YEARSIO my parents sold

818
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Speaker 6: that business. So yeah, I guess I've grown up really

819
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Speaker 6: ingrained in that space. And my dad was such a

820
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Speaker 6: pioneer as well. He was well ahead of his time.

821
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Speaker 6: He took massive risks in creating a brand so far

822
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Speaker 6: east of Melbourne with no social media, no mobile phones.

823
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Speaker 6: My parents, my mum, you know, we were home school

824
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Speaker 6: There's three other siblings.

825
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Speaker 4: Really.

826
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Speaker 6: Yeah, my brother has autism, which was super challenging. Yeah,

827
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Speaker 6: I say homeschooling, but really it was no schooling until

828
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Speaker 6: I went to school in grade.

829
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Speaker 4: Six and yeah, so you know, I really.

830
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Speaker 6: Did miss out on a lot of those I guess fundamental, Yeah,

831
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Speaker 6: formative years, but you know, and saying that, I think

832
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Speaker 6: it doesn't really matter. You adapt and you make the

833
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Speaker 6: best of it. So, you know, people were freaking out

834
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Speaker 6: during COVID and saying, oh my goodness, my child's not

835
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Speaker 6: doing it at school.

836
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Speaker 1: Whatever.

837
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Speaker 4: I'm like, don't worry. I didn't even go to school.

838
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Speaker 1: That turned out great, you know, I.

839
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Speaker 6: Think it teaches you other things. And I certainly learned

840
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 6: lots of life skills and learning how to be creative

841
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Speaker 6: and use what you have. And it was a childhood

842
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 6: that was very free range but creative, and you know,

843
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 6: you learn how to work hard and make things happen

844
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Speaker 6: as well. I think, so fast forward with my business

845
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Speaker 6: and where I am now is because of a family situation.

846
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Speaker 6: I finished year twelve, moved to Melbourne, went to university.

847
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Speaker 6: I was taken under the wing of a very amazing

848
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 6: boutique PR agency called Spark Impact, and I was studying

849
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 6: arts PR and they took me in because I was

850
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 6: from a dairy farm in Gibbsland and one of the directors,

851
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 6: Trevor Young, was like, yeah, we'll give you a job.

852
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 6: And then there was four four or five amazing women

853
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 6: in that organization that took me under their wing, and

854
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 6: to this day they're still friends. I was there for

855
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 6: about two years before returning back to Lake Centrance to

856
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 6: start a milk brand with my dad. Because when I

857
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 6: was at UNI, people were asking I was part of

858
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Speaker 6: the farmer's market movement that had just opened and started,

859
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 6: and people were asking me questions about the dairy farm

860
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Speaker 6: and how milk was produced and the cows. And I'm like,

861
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Speaker 6: why are you asking me this? This is so who

862
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Speaker 6: cares about this?

863
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Speaker 5: You know?

864
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Speaker 1: And you only takend nature to you as wells people

865
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Speaker 1: haven't been on a dairy farm.

866
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Speaker 6: Well I got that, Yeah, I got I started learning that.

867
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Speaker 6: And I remember having these conversations with my dad saying

868
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Speaker 6: people want raw milk.

869
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Speaker 4: And Dad saying, oh, well yep.

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Speaker 6: And he was always a big risk taker, and he said, well,

871
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 6: why don't you come home put the raw milk brand

872
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 6: in your name because you own nothing, you know, you

873
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 6: own nothing to lose, that's right, because I think it's

874
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 6: seventy thousand dollars fine, and you potentially go to jail

875
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 6: if you're caught as a dairy farmer supplying raw milk.

876
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 4: Highly illegal business is raw milk.

877
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: He would have known, don't you have to label it

878
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: as for your per skin care or something.

879
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 6: Yes, So that's what I did. I went home and

880
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 6: created a brand called Aphrodite bath Milk. It was the

881
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 6: first one in Victoria, and that was fabulous. I'm just

882
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 6: I love the industry and I'm so passionate about it.

883
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 6: But I'd married a boy from the city because my

884
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 6: mum also said, do not ever marry a dairy farmer.

885
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 6: And I had married a city boy who was quite

886
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 6: resistant moving to the country, but he did and he

887
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 6: loved it. But Lakes Entrance also doesn't have all the opportunities.

888
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 6: I guess if you're not a fisherman or a builder

889
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 6: or sort of trade, there aren't that many other opportunities necessarily.

890
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 6: That was sort of back about twelve years ago. So

891
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 6: we ended up moving to Warrigal and I was very

892
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 6: sad to tell my dad that I'm sorry, I have

893
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 6: to sort of choose between my husband or you. I

894
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 6: had to cut that umbilical cord, and little did I

895
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 6: know that, unfortunately, he really struggled with that because he

896
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 6: did have to sell his business and things changed on

897
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 6: the farm and whatnot.

898
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 4: Because it was very.

899
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 6: Much a family business and where we all chipped in

900
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 6: and helped out and he lost his identity, which was

901
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 6: the beginning of his mental health journey and battle and battle.

902
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 6: It was because us as a family stood by him,

903
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 6: loved him and cared for him, and unfortunately it wasn't enough,

904
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 6: and he took his own life about four years ago,

905
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 6: five years ago, so absolutely devastating. I'll never forget that day.

906
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 6: It was the biggest lioness moment of my entire life,

907
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 6: where I just something rose up in me and I thought,

908
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 6: this is not good enough. This is not his full stop,

909
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 6: this is not his life pit. You know, this is

910
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 6: not his story.

911
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 4: And I didn't know it or anything at the time.

912
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 6: But I didn't know what it was, but I just

913
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 6: knew that I would do something to change his legacy.

914
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 4: His legacy. Yeah.

915
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 6: A few weeks after that, the dairy crisis happened and

916
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 6: I was one of the co founders of Warrigal Farmer's Market.

917
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 6: People were reaching out to us on social media asking

918
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 6: what milk they should buy that is local and farmer owned.

919
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 4: They weld.

920
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 6: You know, the public really showed up and ABC Gipsland

921
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 6: hosted a panel of dairy farmers. That explained to the

922
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 6: public what it was because its quite a complex issue.

923
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 6: And I was friends with a dairy farmer from Gindervic

924
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 6: who had lost money in that crisis, and he already

925
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 6: had the thought of wanting to value add to his milk.

926
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 4: He's beautiful Jersey milk.

927
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 6: And so we just sort of had this conversation and

928
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 6: it was on that day that yes, we decided we

929
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 6: would have start a milk brand that had three pillars.

930
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 6: And it wasn't even like a complicated process. Oh my goodness,

931
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 6: how do we start? It was like literally like, okay,

932
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 6: if we're going to start a milk brand, it's all

933
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 6: about farmers being paid a fair price, creating social change

934
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 6: in rural mental health and kindness.

935
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 4: That was it.

936
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 6: And we said about creating a brand, and we had

937
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 6: milk in a bottle. Three months later, I have ghost bums.

938
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's Kipsland Jersey.

939
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh my gosh, Sally, I didn't know any of that.

940
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: That is extraordinary.

941
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:46,959
Speaker 4: So it's been.

942
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 6: But that doesn't end there, because obviously with any small

943
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 6: business you have challenges.

944
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: Oh so.

945
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 6: The first, I guess the first real big challenge was

946
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 6: that our processor pulled the pin on us. We had

947
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 6: four weeks and it's not hard. It's not easy to

948
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 6: find an Australian processor to process milk. I think there's

949
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 6: about twenty eight farmer Australian owned milk brands in Australia.

950
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 6: Like it's a really small it's a really small scene. Yeah,

951
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 6: all of the other milks are foreign owned, so none

952
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 6: of those profits actually stay in Australia. And I think that's,

953
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 6: you know, one of those big things we need to

954
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 6: be mindful of as shoppers.

955
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 4: We actually have the power.

956
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: We have so much power, so much and people really

957
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: underestimate that because they feel quite removed, I think, from

958
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: the actual issues and don't realize they're like, oh, one

959
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: person's not going to make a difference. All of the

960
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: people together are lots of one people together.

961
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 6: Yes, it counts one hundred percent. And we are so

962
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 6: grateful to all of our supporters that choose to pay

963
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 6: those few cents more to support our milk brand because

964
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 6: it really matters. Going back to the issue of not

965
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 6: having a processor and not having a credit rating and

966
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 6: not having any money, we decided to crowdfund and we

967
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 6: raised one hundred and ten thousand dollars in three weeks

968
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 6: by asking people to pre purchase bottles of milk.

969
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 4: Which then so good, which then.

970
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 6: Allowed us to d mothball my dad's factory in Lake Centrance.

971
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. The full circle, the full circle.

972
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 4: So that's what happened, and.

973
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: Now you're back back in the family factory. Yeah, Oh

974
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: my gosh. That it's so beautiful.

975
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it's just created this beautiful vibe and energy

976
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 6: and new life to our property.

977
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 4: It's super special. That is so special.

978
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: That just makes me want to only drink gifts on

979
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: Jersey for the rest of my life.

980
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. So we are about doing so many things,

981
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 6: and there's so many offshoots to our little brand, and

982
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 6: one thing we do love to do is, you know,

983
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 6: random acts of kindness. So we do put a little

984
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 6: bit of a budget aside and just try and bless

985
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 6: other farmers and just do things that maybe they wouldn't expect.

986
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 5: You know.

987
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 6: I was actually having a little flashback just out in

988
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 6: the four year before because there's this gold beds set

989
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 6: up that we've all been taking photos on that we

990
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 6: had a pillow final arm.

991
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: It's been great.

992
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 6: And one of the farmers that read our story in

993
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 6: the Weekly Times, reached out and we had this beautiful

994
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 6: conversation about his story and what he was battling with.

995
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 6: And he had years of drought, you know, thirteen million

996
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 6: dollar desh and just not knowing when it was ever

997
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 6: going to end. And sort of in the conversation realizing that,

998
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 6: you know, he's sleeping on the floor because he didn't

999
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 6: have a bed in this farmhouse and whatnot.

1000
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 4: And just super cool because we were able to use

1001
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 4: that bit.

1002
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 6: Of money that we have aside and just in that

1003
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 6: moment bring the bed company in his local town and

1004
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 6: organize a bed to be delivered.

1005
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 4: And the bed company calling me.

1006
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 6: The farmer's quite speechless and he doesn't understand what to do.

1007
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 6: I took a few days for him to call me,

1008
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 6: and he just he said, I'm a man of many words, Sally,

1009
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,959
Speaker 6: but you know, this random act of kind, so whatever

1010
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 6: you call.

1011
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: It, could he does never know what it is. A

1012
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 1: weird thing.

1013
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 4: Why would you give your profits away?

1014
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 6: He couldn't quite grasp the fact that that had happened,

1015
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 6: and he said, no one had ever been kind to

1016
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 6: him before.

1017
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 4: Oh my god. And I think having a.

1018
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 6: Business with purpose and meaning, you know, and meaning and

1019
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,760
Speaker 6: the ability to do these things as a business owner.

1020
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 6: You know, it's an absolute joy. And we have a

1021
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 6: little campaign called Milk Moore Goodness and we've actually got

1022
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 6: a in collaboration with Levi's the denim with a denim

1023
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 6: jacket and on the back it says Milk More Goodness.

1024
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 6: And anyway, we're doing cool stuff which I can tell

1025
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 6: you about.

1026
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: We could just take your day, but yeah, I could

1027
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: talk to you. You're my new hero. This is incredible,

1028
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: such a legend.

1029
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 6: But you know, it's like bringing it back to today.

1030
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 6: It's about the collaboration, just powering numbers and helping us

1031
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 6: to get word out about everyone's project. It's not just

1032
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 6: about dairy. It's about there's a holy shoe with my

1033
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 6: mate Andrew Boormer. He has Ballmer farms and he grows

1034
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 6: spinach and baby broccoli in his on the plate. You know,

1035
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 6: in COVID he lost so much money because cafees shut down.

1036
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 6: And you know the flow on and ripple effect of

1037
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 6: all of these things, especially when you're a primary producer.

1038
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 6: It's not like you can store something away until it

1039
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 6: gets better. When you when you're producing fresh food with

1040
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 6: a short shelf life, it is imperative that we have

1041
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 6: connections and work together to solve our solve our problems

1042
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 6: and find solutions.

1043
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, So you are just doing such an amazing

1044
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: job to be a really strong voice in this region

1045
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: on plf of everyone and make people like me so

1046
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: excited to be here and to come back and to

1047
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: support everyone. Because yeah, you're just doing such amazing things.

1048
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: And I'm so grateful that you got me to come

1049
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: down and just welcomed me so warmly. You're just a

1050
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: shining light.

1051
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 6: Well, thank you for showing up with your energy and

1052
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 6: your passion because and being open to it and having

1053
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 6: these conversations and you know, for you to provide a

1054
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 6: platform for us to share our stories and our region

1055
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 6: is incredible.

1056
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: Oh it's a privilege. Very quick question though, What makes

1057
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: you yay? What's your joy?

1058
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 6: My absolute joy and what I look forward to every

1059
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 6: single month is the Warrigal Farmer's Market.

1060
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: I love that As a consumer, Well yeah I do.

1061
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 4: I just show up and I'm part of that community.

1062
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 6: It is my people, it is my hood, and I

1063
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 6: get so energized by it because it's about food and

1064
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 6: people and food is the number one thing that brings

1065
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 6: people together right, totally. We are unhappy people if we

1066
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 6: can't eat, and I think that just sums it up.

1067
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 6: And the other thing that really brings me joy is

1068
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 6: just simply today it is about putting fruit food on

1069
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 6: a plate and having people coming over and having conversations

1070
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 6: and like that is my yay.

1071
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: Amazing, thank you so much for everything. Well, that was

1072
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: just a tiny snippet of the many amazing people I

1073
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: got to spend a few days with. That felt actually

1074
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: like an expanse a few weeks. There's something so refreshing

1075
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: about getting out of your own environment, and even more

1076
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: relaxing when it's out into the beautiful countryside that we

1077
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: are surrounded by. So my recommendation for this week isn't

1078
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: a film or a book or a TV show. It's

1079
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: a place. Since none of us are going overseas anytime soon,

1080
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: if you're looking for an adventure, head to Gippsland and

1081
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 1: explore the beautiful scenery, fabulous businesses and meet the loveliest people.

1082
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: Warrigal is only an hour from Melbourne and Sally's Creamy

1083
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: butter alone makes the trip worth your while. It's just

1084
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: a different kind of hospitality. I felt so warmly welcome

1085
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: in every single interaction during my stay, such a sincere

1086
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: interest and appreciation for one that you just don't get

1087
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: as much in the city. I mean, how's this for delightful?

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Speaker 1: My amazing videographer l Balu, who also was the co

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Speaker 1: founder of the Amazing MTSKI so is no stranger to

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Speaker 1: the joys of regional communities. Shar and I stayed at

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Speaker 1: an eco retreat homestay with incredible views called VU at Gindervic,

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Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes out of town, and when we

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Speaker 1: got home after the talk on the first night, it

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Speaker 1: was after midnight. The host, Anita had left us homemade cake, wine,

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Speaker 1: cheese in the fridge, port even some chocolate and the

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Speaker 1: fire on with a little handwritten note just saying that

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Speaker 1: we'd had a really big day on the road and

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Speaker 1: we absolutely deserved a nightcap. How cute is that? And

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Speaker 1: then woke up the next day to her making us

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Speaker 1: breakfast with honey from her beehive. It was just so delightful,

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Speaker 1: how gorgeous. So I've put the video up on Instagram

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Speaker 1: so you can have a little bit of a look

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Speaker 1: and get some visuals to accompany the stories that you've

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Speaker 1: heard today and I'll share the itinery soon too, And

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Speaker 1: if you have any questions about the region, let me know.

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Speaker 1: I want to get on to anyone. I hope you

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Speaker 1: guys really really enjoyed hearing about some more local unsung heroes.

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Speaker 1: It was just a privilege to sing about them. And

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Speaker 1: of course now that we'll be on the road more

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Speaker 1: in the coming months, if you think your neighborhood is

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Speaker 1: a bit special, please let me know, as I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: on the hunt for more places to share and more

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Speaker 1: path yeas to discover. We are just so lucky to

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Speaker 1: live in this wonderful country. I hope you're all having

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Speaker 1: a fabulous week and are seizing your yay