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The unique power of rural stories in filmaking with Sascha Estens

Sascha Estens is a film maker living in Moree and working all over Australia. Chances are if you come across a short film that has anything to do with rural Australia that really grabs you then its come from her film production business Rabbit Hop Films. She's had a super cool life, which twists and turns all over the place and all over the globe. She's always wanted to do film, but I guess she took a while to find her confidence in it as a viable business - so she's had many other different adventures along the way. She certainly has a creative whimsical heir about her - even through the microphone. Rural Australia is lucky to have people like Sasha - who have experienced so many wide and varied versions of life in so many different places with so many different people - the quantum of that is such a valuable perspective on how unique and world-class Australia Ag and its people are. Company is a podcast produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

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48 min
4 MAR

On Endings with me and Cressida Cains

I know it's been a while. The end of 2025 was Tumultuous for me, with a capital T. Of late I’ve become a full time farmer. Previously I was a farming sous chef, well actually not really I was really a mother, enabling the proper farmer to do their work while I did some part time work and kept the home fires burning - they are no longer farming so I am - and the mothering well that continues too. So it’s time for my world to get a bit smaller, before it hopefully gets big again. This will be the final season of Company. I started this podcast 6 years ago and have interviewed over 100 guests 100 guests is a lot but it honestly feels more like 500 to me - because it feels like I have been interviewing extraordinary rural people for my whole working life - which I actually have through my ABC work, and with other various ag companies and government agencies and through my on stage work. Today's guest also has something to say about Endings. It's the lovely, gentle Cressida Cains who for the last 15 years has developed and run Pecora Dairy a sheep dairy and cheesery in Robertson in the NSW Southern Highlands. But Pecora Dairy is no longer. At the end of last year Cressida made the tough decision to close that chapter. I think, in Australia, there's a certain stigma attached to any family that decides to leave a farm, or sell up - it's so often viewed as a failure. But Cressida wants to say; that it's not a failure, and she hopes to be able to change the narrative - and say it's not a failure, it's brave - and its really important to recognise when it is time to stop, time to leave - rather than staying and staying and staying. Company is a podcast produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

4 Mar

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37 min
20/11/2025

Self Care and Ag Leadership with Kathleen Allan

Today's guest is Kathleen Allen who's coined a number of phrases around female leadership in agriculture. She's lives on a farm not to far from me, near Bowning on the NSW Southern Tablelands. Kathleen is part of a growing movement to NOT work so hard on the farm, to enable her to focus more on family - and to subsidise her farming lifestyle with a full time professional career. From the conversations I'm having everywhere - I'm seeing and hearing that making money from farming is hard, too hard in many cases - and more and more people are remaining on farm but are downsizing and releasing the pressure. She's a really good example of looking after yourself, leading in a way that makes sense to her way of life as a farm girl - she loves getting her nails done and sprays a spritzes herself with perfume every time she steps out the door. Company is hosted by Skye Manson and produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

20/11/2025

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41 min
05/03/2025

A new era for Georgie Robertson of the Regional PR and Co

Today's guest is well known to rural Australian's and every media outlet in the country, If you see an innovative rural story written up in the Australian or a regional woman in Country Style or someone cool on the Today show - chances are Georgie Robertson has had a hand in getting the story there. Georgie is the Regional PR Co which will now become the Regional PR and Co - because this years she's scaling up. I often sit and wonder how she does all she does, her work championing the best and most innovative and impactful businesses outside of the cities seems endless and her own impact is not to be underestimated. This chat is about just that - how she manages it all - but let's start at the most exciting part and that is - what will be new for her in 2025. This is a Manson Podcasting production in partnership with Rabobank Australia - join our weekly conversation via the Company on Sunday newsletter at companyonsundays.substack.com

05/03/2025

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42 min
10/07/2024

BONUS: Stephanie Wood: Newsletter Queen and Author of Fake

Anyone who know’s me. Or who follow’s along here will know, I love newsletters. I love media, and magazines, and stories. And now I am just a bit smug with newsletters – they are delivered to my inbox, I do not have to read anything I don’t want to and the diversity is waaaaaaaay hugher than in normal journalism. One of my favourites, in fact most likely my favourite newsletter is from Sydney based journalist, author, dog lover and wannabe cook, Stephanie Wood. Many of you will be familiar with Stephanie Cook. Her byline; has adorned many, many of the articles of the the Good Weekend Magazine. And she’s also the author of Fake. A book documenting her relationship with a man who promised her the world, but who was in fact was an elaborate liar, swindler and ‘fabulist’ who prized everything from Stephanie financially, mentally and emotionally. Fake was published in 2019 but THIS WEEK her book was released – to brilliantly high acclaim – as series on Paramount Plus – Asher Keddie plays Stephanie…. We all must watch it! In this special bonus episode of Company – I converse with Stephanie, it does not feel like an interview. It was recorded last year – and at this time – Fake’s TV adaptation was not public knowledge. So our focus is on writing and daily routines and newsletters, and exactly why she chooses to write one.

10/07/2024

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36 min
05/11/2025

Kristen Diprose: Rural podcasting as conversation

This is a pretty big deep dive into one of my favourite topics: podcasting in rural Australia. Kirsten Diprose and I have the same vocation. We make podcasts from rural Australia, focused on stories from rural Australia. The difference is that Kirsten was originally a city girl - who now lives on a sheep, cattle, cropping and even dairy farm with her husband and two boys - so she's not used to the nuances of rural life in the same way that I am. It's this curiosity that's sparked a whole new business for Kirsten: the Rural Podcasting Co and also a PHD looking deep into rural journalism, podcasting and conversations in our communities. To add - she's actually living her best life at the moment travelling around Australia in a caravan ...... and so naturally that's where we started our chat. Company is produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

05/11/2025

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51 min
21/05/2025

Le Sac co-owner Sahra Dixon was always losing her garden tools

This podcast is all about highlighting and celebrating the brilliant women of rural and regional Australia and all the wonderful things they are achieving. In more recent time we've chose to focus more closely on the in's and out's of some female run rural businesses and today is no exception. Our guest Sahra Tohow Dixon owns garden workwear brand Le Sac with her mother-in-law Trish Dixon. It's a new brand that's quickly gained a lot of attention and marketshare in the bush. And I think this is due in part to the combined skills its owners. Sahra's family originated from Somalia. Her father was possibly one of the first Somalian immigrants to Australia in the 1970's. As a child growing up in Queensland ,Sahra loved Netball and Fashion and didn't much like school - she ended up working in fashion, PR and marketing in various roles in London and Australia before she met her husband Hamish. Now's she's a part time farmer, part time many other (creative) things ...... as you will learn here today. You can find le sac @le_sac__ - https://www.instagram.com/le_sac__/ Or online at shoplesac.com Company is a Manson Podcasting Production in partnership with Rabobank Australia. Get more involved with our crew and everything we love by signing up to our free fortnightly newsletter at companyonsundays.substack.com - And if you choose to pay for a subscription, its 10 bucks a week, you will receive email missives twice a week.

21/05/2025

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40 min
29/10/2025

Zoe Lamont cannot stop building brilliant businesses

Today's guest has always been a self confessed nerd - who had brains and the will to study but never really knew what she wanted to do. Zoe Lamont's life has been full of twists and turns - there is absolutely no clear trajectory in this story. But her life, her career has been FULL - and full of some huge mould breaking businesses and achievements. Now Zoe lives with her husband and two children on a farm between Wagga Wagga and Junee. Her main venture right now is Farm Door. Which I actually had no idea about......the reason I've always wanted to speak with Zoe about her start up superannuation business, Verve Super, which was a superannuation company with a holistic approach full focused on women and female investments. Company is a podcast produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

29/10/2025

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50 min
03/04/2025

Two magazine editors: one city, one country come together for the Galah Regional Photography Prize

For as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with magazines - seriously - from the age of about 8,9 or 10 - I used to save all my pennies to buy hoards of magazines, it started as Australian geographic and then morphed into Girlfriend and Dolly, then Cosmopolitan, the Harpers Bazaar and Country Style and Vogue and now Graziher and Galah and UK Homes and Garden - and on the weekends i always buy the SMH for the Good Weekend and the Spectrum. So to sit down with two women who have edited two of my favourite publications to talk about the world of magazine writing and story selection - is pure indulgence. Katrina Strickland is the former editor of the Good Weekend Magazine and Annabelle Hickson is the editor of Galah. The reason we came together was to to speak about Galah's Regional Photography Prize of which Katrina is a judge - and which is cued up to feature in Good Weekend magazine this weekend. Keep a look out. But wow - this conversation is so much than that. It paddles from conversation to masterclass to part counselling session and back again - it's a long episode and I dont take that lightly I know your time is [resciosu but I really struggled to cut it down. For you - I hope you're able to sense the intensity of commitment to getting stories from your lives into the mainstream. Company is a Manson Podcasting production in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

03/04/2025

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1h 8m
19/03/2025

Edwina Sharrock OAM and her business learnings from Birth Beat

Edwina Sharrock OAM is an extreme extrovert - its true she's done the tests - and rather than trying to quieten her spirit she's run with it - and achieved a LOOOOTT. Edwina grew up in Tamworth, went away and returned. Now she lives with her husband, two children and fave child-dog Daryl on five acres in a house her husband build just outside of town. This story is not really about Edwina's life but about her growth as an incredible business woman in rural Australia. Her business Birth Beat - started as a birthing course for locals in her living room and segued into a recognised and respected anti-natal course utilised by most of the large hospitals in Sydney and big corporate employers such as SalesForce. There was a little run for her money on Shark Tank also thrown in there and now the business has been sold to Device Technologies, an Australian based Med -Tech company. She the Deputy Chair of the Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network and the Co-Chair of the Telstra Regional Council. She was the National winner of the Commonwealth Bank 21-day Challenge Innovation Award, a Google Regional Online Hero, Nominated for Hesta Nurse/Midwife of the Year, winner of NSW Telstra small business award, Oceana alumni of the Cartier Women's Initiative and listed in the AFR 100 women influence. So I guess you can imagine that the last 18 months since selling Birth Beat have been a challenging transition - but she's back in the fold - and here to share her learnings. This is a Manson Podcasting Production in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

19/03/2025

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53 min

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The unique power of rural stories in filmaking with Sascha Estens

On Endings with me and Cressida Cains

Self Care and Ag Leadership with Kathleen Allan

A new era for Georgie Robertson of the Regional PR and Co

BONUS: Stephanie Wood: Newsletter Queen and Author of Fake

Kristen Diprose: Rural podcasting as conversation

Le Sac co-owner Sahra Dixon was always losing her garden tools

Zoe Lamont cannot stop building brilliant businesses

Two magazine editors: one city, one country come together for the Galah Regional Photography Prize

Edwina Sharrock OAM and her business learnings from Birth Beat

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