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Speaker 1: My Heart. ASI International Women's Day is a global day

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Speaker 1: that celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

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Speaker 1: This year's theme is Accelerate Action, focusing on the need

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Speaker 1: to take swift and decisive steps to achieve gender quality

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Speaker 1: and calling for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the

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Speaker 1: systemic barriers and biases that women face in both the

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Speaker 1: personal and professional spheres. I'm Ebaniepolett and in this week's episode,

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Speaker 1: I speak with two incredible women that have made Tasmania

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Speaker 1: I HEARTSI Coming up, we'll hear from Jack Jumpers CEO

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Speaker 1: Christine Finnegan, but first I want to introduce you to

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Speaker 1: Kim Segram. Kim was working in the hotel industry in

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Speaker 1: her home country of Canada and accelerating quickly up the

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Speaker 1: ranks with a lofty but achievable goal of becoming one

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Speaker 1: of the first female general managers in her company. At work,

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Speaker 1: one day, she met a young Tasmanian man and fell

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Speaker 2: He had those conversations, I was twenty eight at the time,

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Speaker 2: really had myself together as to where I was going

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Speaker 2: and what I was doing, and then this just tossue

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Speaker 2: me for a loop, and I thought, it's not very

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Speaker 1: After pursuing an international romance for two years, Kim and

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Speaker 1: her husband Rod got married, settling in northern Tasmania.

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Speaker 2: I guess when I arrived here, I just realized I

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Speaker 1: Her husband had established a vinyard and their cafe ripples,

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Speaker 1: Kim coming in with her hospitality at sales and marketing experience,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't always smooth sailing.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really want to impose myself on those businesses.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to help them as best as I couldn't

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Speaker 2: and I've got to tell you, I am quite good

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Speaker 2: But then I actually realized that I had much more

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Speaker 1: That work led to Kim becoming part of the Vineyards

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Speaker 1: Association of Tasmania, establishing the marketing and communications arm, helping

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Speaker 1: to celebrate and showcase the incredible work of the state's winemakers,

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Speaker 1: something we're now incredibly well known for right across the world.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't enough. Kim was also working with Brand

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Speaker 2: And I really was so lucky to be able to

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Speaker 1: The hospitality journey also continuing. They sold the Vineyard and

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Speaker 1: worked to purchase Rich's Meal in Launceston, creating a restaurant

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Speaker 2: Through the nineties, restaurants were French, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, pie

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Speaker 2: experience for a Tasi and that's what we did with

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Speaker 1: Stillwater opened in October two thousand, offering something different to

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Speaker 2: By two thousand and one, we'd already won the Renault

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Speaker 2: And the scene that really got us extra mark was

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Speaker 1: Still Water changed hands in twenty twenty. The same year,

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Speaker 1: Kim became a Member of the Order of Australia for

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Speaker 1: Kim was approached by a contact into ninety eleven with

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Speaker 2: I got behind Jenny and I said yeah, And she said, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm going forward to talk to the City Council at

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Speaker 2: Met her formed a firm friendship, cabled an incredible group

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Speaker 2: At that meeting was in November and we actually had

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Speaker 1: It was welcomed with open arms by the laun Sestine community.

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Speaker 1: Continuing to grow from strength to strength, named best farmers

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Speaker 2: The thing that made me most proud is because what

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Speaker 1: It's still a Saturday tradition for many in Lonzestern thirteen

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Speaker 1: years down the line. There's many more things Kim Segrim

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Speaker 1: She was an integral part of Lonsestein's successful bid to

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Speaker 1: part of an exciting new innovation intending to open later

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Speaker 1: this year. We'll have more to tell you though, when

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Speaker 1: that one launches. International Women's Day is something that means

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Speaker 1: a lot to the self described serial entrepreneur, a member

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Speaker 2: I think as women, we need to celebrate each other

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Speaker 2: we're really going to get that equality. I think there

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Speaker 2: are a lot of women out there who work incredibly hard,

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Speaker 2: who do incredible things, and are the unsung heroes, and

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Speaker 2: quite often they might be in supporting role. But that

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Speaker 2: there's no better time than look at the women to

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Speaker 1: After the break, I'll introduce you to Jack Jump as CEO,

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Speaker 1: Christine Finnegan, a champion for equality in sport. But before

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Speaker 1: on the nineteenth of November.

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Speaker 2: I Heart Jazzy, My Hearty.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week's episode of iHeart Tazzy. In

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Speaker 1: celebration of International Women's Day on March eighth, we're profiling

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Speaker 1: improving their communities. Christine Finniger is a name growing in

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Speaker 3: and for me, it was never about really playing in

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Speaker 1: Following her passion, her career did indeed take her to

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Speaker 1: Since then, Christine has continued to rise up the ranks

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Speaker 1: asked her if she thinks that as a woman, she's

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Speaker 3: Anyone who knows me well knows that to wear my

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Speaker 3: built on a whole lot of perseverance, in a hell

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Speaker 1: Christine says it's not the whole story, but that unfortunately

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Speaker 1: conversations like the following have been what she's had to

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Speaker 3: What does a girl running a man's sport that's never

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Speaker 1: So reflection has been a big part of her process,

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Speaker 1: having noticed herself missing out on opportunities, not necessarily to

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Speaker 1: She saw the opportunity to come to Tasmania, starting first

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Speaker 3: Not just for myself but for the people of Tasmania

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Speaker 1: So Christine says that naturally as a public facing leader,

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Speaker 3: When you're a female at that point, you've got to

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Speaker 3: in my real driver has always been to inspire young

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Speaker 3: I think there is proof in the putting that diversity

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Speaker 1: Christine believes that women intrinsically doubt themselves and their abilities

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Speaker 1: the same opportunities as men. It's something she's actively working

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Speaker 3: Here at the jack jumpers taking the leap from chief

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Speaker 3: commercial then into the CEO role. It's a huge learning

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Speaker 1: She's a major voice behind a push for a women's

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Speaker 3: In any sort of stream of life, you should be

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Speaker 3: And I feel like if we're able to bring Tasmania

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Speaker 1: She says. Our country is WNBL players are some of

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Speaker 3: It's not because I'm a woman that I need to

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Speaker 1: It's something that she says she'll continue to be incredibly

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Speaker 3: State, it has been an absolute breeding ground and indeed

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Speaker 3: So when you've got areas of estate that invests so

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Speaker 1: Statistics suggests that many young people tend to drop sport

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Speaker 3: It can't be what you can't see. And if they've

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Speaker 3: and we've got the talent there, then it might just

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Speaker 1: International Women's Day is something Christine Finnegan says is needed

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Speaker 3: We should be doing more to make a level playing

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Speaker 1: According to the International Women's Day website, at the current

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Speaker 3: It's not something that really engenders a lot of excitement

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Speaker 3: women's fastball team in Tasmania, to be the very best

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Speaker 3: they can be and to be something that not only

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Speaker 3: to say the Tasmanium reviews, but that's the Australian Sporting

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Speaker 3: Landscape reviews and hopefully one day has its own place

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Speaker 3: on the global sporting stage for what it's in a

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Speaker 1: And that's it for this week's episode of My Heart Tazzy.

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Speaker 1: A big thank you to Kim Seagram and Christine Fittigan

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Speaker 1: for speaking to us for this international women's stay feature.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ebonie Alblett. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back next week My Heart Tazzy