Courage Unravelled Sana Turnock

Have you ever made a quick decision that turns out to be monumentally life changing? Rural business coach Tori Kopke has. She’s made at least three. Find out how backpacker Texan Tori finds herself stuck in Margaret River with no money after having spent it doing numerous wine tours. Where to next? Travelling gives you the courage to do some crazy things. She chooses the wheatbelt town of Cunderdin to have her final Australian adventure before heading back to Texas. What happens ne...

Today we enter the world of psychologist Steph Schmidt and her experience with post-natal depression. Not just once but twice. Post-natal depression doesn’t discriminate, even when you’ve been trained with tools and strategies at your fingertips. Steph talks about her time and what has helped her move through the challenges that PND brings. We also talk about what it’s like to be a rural psychologist in isolated communities and be 2020 Agrifutures Rural Women’s Award winner during COVID1...

What is it that makes someone want to become an activist? Peta Goodwin is an activist and co-founder of the unplanned movement called Nannas for Native Forests. Being an activist takes time, co-ordination skills and a lot of work – especially if you are the co-founder. There has been a groundswell of support for Nannas for Native Forests as people realise or come to realise how destructive the culling of forests means for the environment. Destroying trees has consequences - for humans a...

Meet Melia Brent-White. A past wine maker who gained minor celebrity status in the 2000s. Find out why she decided to radically change direction and leave the wine industry and the family legacy. The decision meant setting out on her own courageous path. A path that would take Melia towards Body Talk - an energetic-type therapy which enables Melia to communicate with the body to help it heal itself. Growing up rurally and being a bush kid Melia never lost connection with the l...

Ever wondered what it would be like to foster a child in the middle of nowhere? Jane Smith (not her real name) lives on a station somewhere in Australia on 1 million acres of land. Jane was studying to be a doctor and during her training she did a few units on indigenous affairs and thought she had it all covered when she and her husband decided to adopt two indigenous children. Little did she realise she was going to go on a roller coaster ride that would involve intergenerational ...

Libby Finlayson grew up rurally and on stations during her childhood and eventually got married to a farmer. She loved her life. She was on acreage, worked the land and with animals, got to ride horses all the time and began a family with her husband on the land. One day, it all changed. She was given unexpected news. Her husband no longer wanted to be married – to her. Libby’s whole world was rocked. The farming and community life she adored was no more. Find out how Libby changed ...