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22/06/2022

Recording life stories - and sugar in tea with Dimity Brassil

Today’s guest is Dimity Brassil from A Lasting Tale a professional interview service for people with a lifetime of stories to share. Family History especially in the spoken word has the ability to deeply touch those who consume it – can you imagine listening to your loved ones speak, years after they have left this earth? What a treasured gift, heirloom and a legacy that could be. Well, this is the work of Dimity Brassil and her business A Lasting Tale. Dimity spends her time interviewing and record personal oral histories of people all over Australia. She lives in Albury and most of her work is centered about this location, but not all of it and one day Dimity hopes A Lasting Tale will have people working and recording in communities all over Australia.
16/03/2022

Armidale girl, Steph Hunt's unique role in the media's coverage of the Ukraine war

Today’s guest has rural roots that keep her sane, especially at the moment. Stephanie is the Senior Editor for the Asia Pacific at a group called Storyful: A News and Intelligence Agency. Each day from her home in Sydney, she verifies content on social media before distributing it to news organisations all over the world. It’s a media role that would not have existed 10 years ago, and as you will learn, her task of fact checking grass roots content is so important in the process of getting stories of things like – the war in Ukraine – to air in an accurate manner. I’ve been thinking of her, in the last few weeks, it would have been so intense. Outside of her work with Storyful, Steph has led an extraordinary career which has taken her from her home town of Gunnedah to the newsrooms of Prime News initially then the BBC, SkyNews London, Al Jazeera English and she’s been a supervising producer with Channel 7’s Sunrise. She’s worked with TV teams in Mongolia and Bangladesh for World Vision and Solomon Islands with Unicef. Steph is a TedX talker - and now she has a podcast of her own – And We’re Rolling – which interviews some of the best female correspondents, presenters and reporters in the world. Thank you to the CWA of NSW – Celebrating 100 years in 2022 for supporting this series of Company. You can get more Company goodness by signing up to the newsletter at mansonandcompany.com
24/06/2021

Lindner Socks are keeping your feet warm this winter.

In the main street of the southern NSW town of Crookwell you'll find a small building stocked with rows and rows of colourful socks, some are thick and fluffy, others are thin and refined. Out the back green machines plug away, to make the heritage socks, sewing, shaping and creating some of the most beautiful feet warmers in the country. The Linder Family of Lindner Quality Socks has been making socks for 10 generations and today you'll hear their incredible story which includes moving a young family from Germany to Goulburn, Australia without any English speaking skills, starting up a factory in Crookwell, sourcing wool from local farmers, venturing into tourism and spending a lifetime trying to create the perfect sock. Thank you to Andrew, Linda and Gisela Lindner for sharing their time and their story with me today. Thank you to Lindner Socks who are the Series Sponsor for Company. You can follow them @lindnersocks on Instagram.
11/07/2024

Olivia Barton: Equestrian, Eventing (Wellington, NSW)

This Saturday, Olivia Barton and her horse Holly will board a plane headed for a pre-Olympics training camp in Europe. She’s an eventer – who’s been riding since before she could walk – on her family sheep and cattle farm near Wellington in central west NSW. But this is an Olympic story with a bit more complexity because Olivia’s name isn’t on the Australian Equestrian Olympic team list, nor is she a reserve. But she and her horse will still travel with the team – as an extra ‘just in-case’. And this is the difficult and devastating underside of the Olympics that we don’t often hear about. For all the excitement, nerves and fears of competing in the Olympics, there’s an equal amount of disappointment, frustration and bravery for those who lie in the ‘almost got there’ camp. Her mum tells me Olivia is determined to just ‘keep doing what she’s doing’ in inverted comma’s and will continue to train as if she’s going to the Olympics. When I spoke with Olivia the final Olympic team announcement was still pending. Which I’m glad about because you’ll get an insight into the hopefulness of a young athlete on the brink of selection. This is a Manson Podcasting production in partnership with Rabobank Australia. Production assistance by Alice Mofitt. Follow along @mansonpodcasting on Instagram for more olympics information specific to these stories.
17/12/2019 · Bonus

Xmas Special: The Garden Curator

Gifting from the garden this Christmas with The Garden Curator, Colleen Southwell who loves everything about gardening and nurturing plants. So why not save money and be thoughtful in giving a gift that's from the garden this Christmas.
13/12/2019 · Bonus

Xmas Special: Naomi Bulger

Bringing Back a love for Christmas Cards with Naomi Bulger. Naomi Bulger loves writing and illustrating letters - and thinks we could all give it a go - to reach out to a friend who you've lost touch with, someone overseas or someone who would get a real lift from opening the letterbox to discover beautiful hand written card. Wouldn't we all love that! Thanks for listening to a taste tester of Company the podcast - Season 1 will launch in early 2020. But in the meantime if you can subscribe and rate us on iTunes we would love that! Even better, if you know of someone who might like the podcast - spread the word. You can find me at @skye_manson on Instagram or at mansonandcompany.com. You can find Naomi at @naomibulger on instagram or at naomiloves.com
30/06/2021

Elise Croker will inspire you to start your own rural BnB

This is a story about taking a rundown building in the main street of a country town – and being bold with it to create a beautiful space that people will travel hours to experience. I can think of many country towns that have spaces like this – all they need is someone creative to take hold – and I can also think of many women living in rural towns with the style, nous and grit to do this. Elise Croker wanted to create an accommodation option in Crookwell, NSW that made you feel like you were in London, with old books, artwork and pieces made with love. But she also wanted the space to have a boho feel and be fun and exciting at the same time. The result is her beautiful BnB, Mister Munro in the main street of Crookwell. It's clever and creative and cosy and I love it. If you’re thinking about taking the plunge with an old house or building in your town or on your farm then I hope this story can be an inspiration to you. Thank you to Lindner Quality Socks the sponsor for this Series of Company. Incidentally, Lindner is just across the road from Mister Munro in Crookwell. Get yourselves some cosy socks, walk across the road, pour a red wine and read a book or watch a movie while settling into Elise's Mister Munro.
04/07/2021

Pip Smith's wool and the farm to fabric cycle

Pip Smith and her husband Norm run a holistic fine merino operation near Wellington in NSW and they absolutely love the fibre they produce, they believe in their wool and are proud of how they manage their farm to get the best for their animals. These guys are holistic farmers, who don’t mules their sheep, the use SRS techniques and don’t mules their sheep and after many conversations, trips overseas, research and testing, Pip Smith has been able to not only sell their wool directly to a processor in China, but they also receive a portion of that processed wool back to their farm, which Pip then has turned into scarves, baby wraps, beanies and so on. The path to get to this point was long, and with many hurdles, but now that Pip has broken the back of the system, she’s happy to share her contacts, her learnings and to generally help anyone else who’s interested.
13/05/2021

Ducks On The Pond a new podcast from rural Victoria

As you know this Series of Company has been brought to you with support from Amanda at the The Grampians Goods Co and this interview was her idea and I’m so glad she alerted me to these two women. Former journalist Kirsten Diprose and founder of Rural Women’s Day Jackie Elliot sound they are - in their own rights - busy women beyond belief, with heads that bubble with ideas that later somehow see the light of day! Their latest venture a new podcast. It’s called Ducks on the Pond and it will feature discussions with women all Australian around hand picked themes that important to women living in the country. You all know how I love a new podcast so it was with great excitement that I wanted to learn more about Jackie and Kirsten, what this is all about and how they came to be working together.
20/06/2021

Kelly Dowling is a woman of all trades when it comes to wool

There isn't much in sheep and wool production that this woman can't do! Kelly Dowling runs a 30,000 head superfine merino wool operation in partnership with her Mum, Dad and Brother at Dalton near Gunning in the NSW southern tablelands. Not only is Kelly a classic no-fuss high achiever - she's is in charge of all the wool classing, all stages of sheep husbandry, genetics, general maintenance, book keeping, cooking, being a mother and a bit of advocacy when she can - but we also love that she's never been fussed about feminism and perhaps that's why she's achieved so much as a #womanbehindwool. Because Kelly has had a hand in so many facets of wool production – there is no better person – to answer your questions. Thank you to those of your who reached out on Instagram, Kelly will answer your questions in the second part of this podcast.

Lifestyle podcasts from Rural Australia Founder and Creative Director: Skye Manson

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Recording life stories - and sugar in tea with Dimity Brassil

Armidale girl, Steph Hunt's unique role in the media's coverage of the Ukraine war

Lindner Socks are keeping your feet warm this winter.

Olivia Barton: Equestrian, Eventing (Wellington, NSW)

Xmas Special: The Garden Curator

Xmas Special: Naomi Bulger

Elise Croker will inspire you to start your own rural BnB

Pip Smith's wool and the farm to fabric cycle

Ducks On The Pond a new podcast from rural Victoria

Kelly Dowling is a woman of all trades when it comes to wool

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