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1 APR

A fellow lover of rural stories and one of my greatest friends, Ali Smith

After more than 100 episodes of Company this is the FINAL EPISODE. I will *miss* the privilege of stepping into the lives of ordinary and extraordinary rural women in such an intimate way. But chapters end and that's what's happening here. It seems fitting to have Ali Smith - one of my greatest friends - as my final guest. She really does embody all I love about storytelling in rural Australia. She's bubbly and unbelievable generous in every role she's ever turned her hand to, she's endlessly thoughtful and respectful and despite all this she would never want any fanfare or grand accolades. Ali grew up in the city both Canberra and Sydney but she LOVES rural people and their lives , and thats perfect because she now lives on a farm with her partner Gus at Burren Junction in northern New South Wales. Gosh that community is lucky to have her as a journalist for the local paper. They're lucky because - many would never know the depths of her experience as a journo. She's worked for Laurie Oakes - one of the greatest political journalists Australia has known. During her 8 years with 60 minutes - another of Australia's greatest current affairs shows -she spend hours and hours beside Turia Pitt as she recovered from her horrific burns - a person she now remains very special friends with. She's also an author - last year she co-authored Outback Astronomer with Liz Hayes from 60 minutes. Smith to me is the antithesis of integrity in every avenue of life. I'm really lucky to be able to call her one of my closest friends. I'm so happy to be celebrating all her achievements here and I hope you enjoy it too. Company is a podcast produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia. Listen to more than 100 other stories just like this one in our backlog.

1 Apr

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1hr 7min
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
11 MAR

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.

11 Mar

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48 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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1hr 8min
20/11/2024

Lottie Rae: A real WTF story

One of the worlds biggest supermodels, arguably the world biggest supermodel, Gigi Hadid has commissioned an art work from a young artist who lives in Trangie in Central West NSW Lottie Rae works from a shipping container at hoe home in Trangie where she live with her husband and two boys. Last year she ditched her coffee shop and homewares shop in town to become a full time artist- and thank god she did otherwise we would not have this story to tell. This is a Manson Podcasting production in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

20/11/2024

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28 min
07/07/2020

Lo Corcoran is writing a cookbook

Today’s guest has a beautiful way of honouring her favourite family moments - through cooking. Lo Corcoran lives in Boorowa in southern NSW with her husband and her three daughters – and has spent a lot of her life in the kitchen – and often it’s been alongside some of the great cooks of her family. Her website and blog Lo’s Kitchen pays homage to this and she so generously shares all this goodness on Instagram too. She’s published 250 published recipes and 40 recipes waiting to be written up and a post wall full of recipes to include in her cookbook – which she is going to write – one day.

07/07/2020

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30 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
11/12/2024

Skye Ward: A very special guest for our last episode of 2024

Skye Ward's journey as a mother, daughter, granddaughter and professional have taken many weaves and turns, especially in the last few years. After a series of personally challenging events; trouble holding pregnancies, an industrial waste development proposal over the hill from her family home and then managing COVID lockdowns with a two week old baby and two older children - all of a sudden and seemingly with no notice, Skye hit a brick wall... she was really pushed to the edge And it spurred on some big 'make you feel sick' kind of life decisions. The biggest decision for the Ward family it was to sell the family farm, which had been in her mothers family for generations. The reason I wanted to have Skye on this podcast not primarily because she has been through a lot but also because I think she has so much to offer in the way she articulates what she's learnt from these times. And I think, well I hope her reflections on this most challenging of times - might be a balm to you too, as you navigate life's inevitable twists and turns.

11/12/2024

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1hr 7min
30/10/2023

Sophie Godwin, Queen of Sunday's

Welcome to a new way of doing this podcast; Daily Routines. We’re here on Substack because I know how much you guys love this podcast, and I reckon the good people of Substack will love it too. We have not had a Daily Routines now for almost a year and I’ve missed it (and you dear listeners) so I just can’t wait to get back into it. A new episode of Daily Routines will drop each week up until Christmas when we will take a break until the end of Australian school holidays in 2024. If you can’t do without, there is a backlog of Daily Routines to make your way through including episodes with Annabelle Hickson (Galah Press), Carmen Quade (seriously good organisational tips in here) and the beautiful Jane Cay of Birdsnest. I mean who even looks like this on a Sunday? I certainly want to! This is the delightful Sophie Godwin, UK based recipe writer, caterer and author. In this episode, Sophie leads us through an ideal Sunday - and believe me there is nothing to be scared of - she laments ‘not really having a routine’ but then realises it’s full of nothinness, simplicity and just doing what she loves. Sophie’s first book; Sundays, A Cookbook, is our kind of ode to Sundays. You can purchase it here now. (Good chrissy pressie ladies!) Sophie likes; Sleeping in. 10am at least. Walk. Not a big one. Couch. Scrolling. Bit-o-cooking. Maybe a roast in the oven. Maybe a late lunch with good friends. Only the one’s with a relaxing vibe. Maybe some rain. More couch. More scrolling. Big bowl of Pasta for dinner. Showered in Parmesan. Do you dread Sunday’s too? Send this to any friends you’ve ever had a big Saturday with and make their week/life better. Get full access to Company on Sundays at companyonsundays.substack.com/subscribe

30/10/2023

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17 min
14/08/2025

Don't call it a bush business, call it a brilliant business with Emma Williams from Acre Agency

Sometimes I think we are all guilty of posting about our businesses to social media and hoping for the best..... Today guest Emma Williams, saw an opportunity in that... After years of working in communications. marketing and branding - she had a hunch that she could help ag businesses market themselves in a way that brought about proper growth. She started Acre Agency just under two years ago and has worked with more than 50 clients and recently grown her team to five. Emma describes herself as a generalist - she and her business know the basics of many things - and so when it comes to telling the story of a business - she thinks she's got her finger on the pulse as to what will work and why. There is no cookie cutting here. And she know's her stuff; here she is. Company is a Manson Podcasting production in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

14/08/2025

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40 min

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Top Shows

A fellow lover of rural stories and one of my greatest friends, Ali Smith

On Endings with me and Cressida Cains

The unique power of rural stories in filmaking with Sascha Estens

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

Lottie Rae: A real WTF story

Lo Corcoran is writing a cookbook

Self Care and Ag Leadership with Kathleen Allan

Skye Ward: A very special guest for our last episode of 2024

Sophie Godwin, Queen of Sunday's

Don't call it a bush business, call it a brilliant business with Emma Williams from Acre Agency

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