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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 3: There's something amazing happening right just us just listening, and

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Speaker 3: I hope I'm speaking for everyone who's also listening right now.

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Speaker 3: To hearing these people come on and talk about isn't

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Speaker 3: so much what they do, it's the joy they have

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Speaker 3: what brings us alive when you're on your way to

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Speaker 3: work or and you all have a Hunday Wednesdays sometimes

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Speaker 3: and then, but they're still like this little light inside

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Speaker 3: of you that's always there, that is never fully goes

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Speaker 3: out no matter how you feel what's going on in

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Speaker 3: your other life, is that you still know why you

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Speaker 3: do it and what it gives you as well. And

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Speaker 3: just reading all the emails that are coming in which

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Speaker 3: I'll get to tomorrow. These are people just been asked,

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Speaker 3: do you love your job? I think it's also it's

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Speaker 3: that they feel part of something that's more than themselves.

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Speaker 3: You listen to Claire talk about why she goes to

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Speaker 3: and she goes. I'll give it to them. Those over

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Speaker 3: nineteen year olds who she's hosted a lunch for today,

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Speaker 3: She's part something which is more than her sounds. I

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Speaker 3: think we lack that in today's world. There's all this

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Speaker 3: sort of individualism. I think hearing all the stories yesterday

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Speaker 3: and today, that's what it is, is that actually we

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Speaker 3: want a part of something that's more than ourselves. That's

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Speaker 3: what makes us feel happier in whatever work we do.

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Speaker 3: Nil's on the line. Good morning now, you love your

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Speaker 4: Morning?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning Christian? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good now? So what do you do? What do

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Speaker 3: you love so much?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 1: I teach wilderness first Aid And it's a job where

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Speaker 1: we get into remote environments, first nation environments over in

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Speaker 3: This is amazing. And do you teach here in Melbourne,

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Speaker 3: would love to know some basic first ad for wilderness

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Speaker 1: Yes, we do. We teach everyone from fourteen year olds

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Speaker 3: It's amazing how most of us have got no idea

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Speaker 3: of any basic first age. I too have no idea.

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Speaker 3: Now you could be anywhere in a barble at a

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Speaker 3: to be able to do something immediately. Neil, what's the

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Speaker 3: name of your company?

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Speaker 1: Wilderness First Daid Australia.

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Speaker 3: Awesome. Now I love the passion, love what you do.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, no worries it all.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Christian, Jack and Patty. You do a great job.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Kerry. Hey Kerry, Yes, hi hello Kerry, and

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Speaker 3: you love your job. What do you do, Kerry?

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Speaker 4: I get to take people and their dogs on a

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Speaker 3: How cool. That's great? Tell me more what does that mean.

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Speaker 4: The bus is called Balas, the business is called Gourmet

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Speaker 4: paw Print. We've been around for about ten years and

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Speaker 4: we do winery tours, picnics, Nefari's Paws and pubs, ghosts tours,

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Speaker 4: tuple hunts, high tea, all with your dog. Sitting next

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Speaker 4: to you on our lovely bus called Bala, and they

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Speaker 4: get the window seats so they can lick the scenery.

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Speaker 3: This is great. I love that. So if you're going

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Speaker 4: That's right. Yeah, we do. It's small boutique group sizes

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Speaker 3: This is amazing. Kerry and Done and surviving COVID as well,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's not mention that too much.

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Speaker 3: Christian laptops, this great guy.

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Speaker 4: She have to zoom to zoom events.

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Speaker 3: So we all tried that. We all went dark times.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got my poor Prince has been around for

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Speaker 3: I know someone on the show right who loves their

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Speaker 3: some bitsiness. It's Gormet, Paus Gormet. Poor Prince dot com

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Speaker 3: dot at you. That's the one, gotcha, all right? Good

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Speaker 3: luck with it. I think it's a great They're lovely

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Speaker 4: Kerry, Thank you, Christian all the bear.

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Speaker 3: Let's got a Tracy here. Good morning, Tracy, Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 3: All right, Tracy, tell us about what you do and

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Speaker 2: I go into volunteer. I do this without payment, so

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Speaker 2: it's working without getting a wage. But I go into

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Speaker 3: Tracy, an important thing to do. I mean, how did

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's a lot of kids out there without

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Speaker 3: I do? And do you choose to do this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Gets me out of gets me out of going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet you poor thing. I'm so sorry to

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Speaker 2: I've had a good life, Christian, I've had a good life.

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Speaker 2: I've got diagnosed ten years ago with stage three breast cancer.

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Speaker 3: I can't even imagine how hard? And then and then

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I like doing things for people, and

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Speaker 3: So you've been working already in the early hours of

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Speaker 3: It's incredible, what a great thing to do. And I

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Speaker 3: of course, there's people that have fallen between the cracks,

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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah, they know that everyone needs help.

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Speaker 3: Yeah we do. Tracy a real inspiration talking to you.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's got their problems, Christian, So no one's worse off

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Speaker 2: It called the tomsladis, everyone has got a problem.

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Speaker 3: So yes, so many of us are kind of sleepwalking

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Speaker 3: day to day, aren't we? And you remind us that

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Speaker 3: to use the time that we have, Tracy, Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: I learnt the hard way. Don't waste, don't get sick

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Speaker 2: until you're start enjoying your life.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I mean I'm going to write that

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Speaker 3: down in the studio. That's a beautiful thing to say, Tracy.

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Speaker 3: I will write that down. I will try and honor.

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Speaker 3: That is something so telling. I think of the way

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you. You're gonna have me crying there.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, said jackie boy. Tracy. It's been lovely talking

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Speaker 3: to you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you too, you guys, Okay, Can I just say

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Speaker 2: something because you always get breast cancer too every month,

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, yeah, you get breast cancer. My grandfather had

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Speaker 2: Men do get it as well and need to check. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: You never stop care about other people, do you, Even

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Speaker 3: guy no, don't please, don't say sorry't just reached for

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Speaker 3: was doing. Was having quickly feel I've spoken to about that. Tracy. Tracy,

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Speaker 3: this morning with what you had to share and to

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Speaker 3: much on behalf of everyone listening right now. Bless you, Tracy,

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