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MAR 4

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.

Mar 4

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37 min
09/26/2022

Ryan Butta: wood stacker, Wordle addict, writer, editor and author

I had the pleasure of meeting Ryan at the Mumbrella Publish Awards in Sydney and found his hilarious musings about Wordle - and the fact that his days, and the time he gets out of bed are dictated by it - simply hilarious. He is a funny guy. Ryan is an editor with Galah magazine. The team took out the Best Publisher on that night, beating Australian stalwarts Women's Weekly, InStyle and others. He complies a brilliant Monday-morning newsletter, Galah Weekly which is free. I love it, you should all sign up too at galahpress.com - to add - there is another personal newsletter from Ryan, Out of Office on Substack. ryanbutta.substack.com His book The Ballad of Abdul Wade from all good bookstores or here at Booktopia. Get full access to Company on Sundays at companyonsundays.substack.com/subscribe

09/26/2022

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14 min
06/06/2021

Jess Webb has done the numbers and wool's future looks brightest

Before buying her familys farm near Uralla, Jess and her husband crunched the numbers and found that wool had the most exciting and financially beneficial future. They did not get into wool for emotional reasons, but because its future was the most viable of any sutiable agricultural pursuit in their part of Australia. We love Jess Webb's story because it is reflective of so many everyday women working on wool farms, she's a mum to two young children, she makes business decisions and is a representitive on three Boards including the locally run Fleece to Fashion organisation. Ticket sales for Fleece to Fashion, 10 & 11 September 2021 go on sale in June. Find out more information here.

06/06/2021

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27 min
07/18/2022

Meg Bignell, Author, Dairy Farmer, Marketing Lady, Mother

While folding the washing at her second home in Hobart, Tasmania, Meg Bignell runs us through her daily routine of hating the alarm clock, multi-tasking while walking and then she speaks about her myriad of jobs before her children crash through the front door at 3.30pm - it's a wonder she doesn't have 24/7 overwhelm but somehow she manages! Get full access to Company on Sundays at companyonsundays.substack.com/subscribe

07/18/2022

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15 min
06/08/2022

The women behind the Haddon Rig merino empire

Today we interview Sally and Olivia Falkiner from Haddon Rig merino stud near Warren in central west NSW. Sally met her husband George Falkiner at Haddon Rig as a backpacker and never left. Sally and George were married and had four daughters and so this story is all about these women have worked tirelessly as a part of the Haddon Rig empire for years gone by and (hopefully) many more years to come.

06/08/2022

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42 min
10/03/2022

Bridget Johns: up at 4.44am, data lover, professional organiser and grant writer

Holy moley - talk about organised, and talk about getting results. Bridget Johns - the pin-up girl for a good routine! You can find Bridget at besimplyfree.com.au or on Instagram @be.simplyfree, She's also on Facebook under the same name. Bridget Johns has certainly given me the inspiration to teach my children to take more responsibility for getting themselves ready for school and cleaning up etc. She's really got it sorted on that front! And how good is her list of podcasts to listen to each morning. You can listen to a longer chat with Bridget about how she came to be where she is and what she does on the Manson Podcasting Network's flagship podcast, Company. Get full access to Company on Sundays at companyonsundays.substack.com/subscribe

10/03/2022

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23 min
07/25/2022

Annabelle Hickson: Editor, Mother, Shopkeeper, Pecan farmer-in-part

Annabelle Hickson is the editor-in-chief of Galah Magazine. At large her daily routines oscillate between her 'Stormy-sea-workaholic Mode' and 'Calm-sea-lazy Mode'. Come on a mini journey with Annabelle as considers and reflects on her approach to daily life, concluding that maybe a new approach might be just the balm. You can find Annabelle and all that is happening with Galah @galah.press on Instagram or @annabellehickson Subscribe to Galah Magazine, now produced two times a year via the website galahpress.com . They also have a couple of really great newsletters which you can sign up for here. Get full access to Company on Sundays at companyonsundays.substack.com/subscribe

07/25/2022

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11 min
06/12/2024

Creator, founder and CEO LANO lips

This is the story of a unique coming together of a molecular scientist, a farmer and a PR and marketing executive in the beauty industry (all within one family). Annoyingly; the latter, the marketing and PR exec had experienced dry, cracked lips for the better part of 10 years. Fed up; and driven by memories of childhood holidays spent in the family shearing shed, turned to the most natural, (and foolproof product she could think of; Lanolin. Kirsten Carriol is the founder, creator and CEO of Lanolips Australia a global company that's been running for 15 years now and has a product that's been voted the World's Best Lip Balm. Kirsten is a city girl at heart, but this story I think shows the importance of gifting on-farm experiences to young minds - who can go on to do anything with their lives and you never know what brilliance, they might create from that. You can find Kirsten's products at lanolips.com If you'd like to hear more lifestyle stories from rural Australia we have more podcasts at mansonpodcasting.com Or read our free weekly newsletter. Sign up on the website mansonpodcasting.com

06/12/2024

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32 min
03/06/2024

Annabelle Hickson: How to make a magazine

Annabelle Hickson talks about the idea of feeling ideas running through her blood like some ind of addict. But when it comes to her print magazine and modern media business Galah Press - she IS an addict, a women possessed, to flip the narrative on life in rural Australia. As an original outsider to rural Australia (she grew up in Sydney’s north shore) the mirror that she holds up to people and projects in the bush - is flattering - and it reverberates light deep into the corners of our communities - into the lives of people that sometimes even we ignore - musicians, artists, creatives, artisans - painting a full, diverse and awesome picture of where we live; Don't be deterred if you think you have heard Annabelle's story before, today we discuss the behind the scenes business mentality of her venture. How does Annabelle single-handedly manage and grow this business with no large scale advertisers, a 160,000 dollar printing bill three times a year and contract staff that need to be paid. Galah Press consists of a thrice annually print magazine, two newsletters, multiple events, a new hard cover book - and more things to come, like a podcast and a writers course. Explore it all at digital.galahpress.com Company is Manson Podcasting Network’s flagship show alongside, Daily Routines, Women Behind Wool and Garden. We’re online at mansonpodcasting.com if you want to catch-up or share any of these shows. To fully embed yourself in our community use the website to sign up to our FREE weekly newsletter - it lands on Sunday mornings - and I like to think of it the weekend magazine but in digital format, and curated especially for people like you and me! substack.companyonsundays.com This Season of Company is sponsored by Rabobank. We've been talking about its Client Councils and Community Fund today - if you have a community initiative that will help your community thrive the Rabobank team would love to know about it. rabobank.com.au

03/06/2024

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1 hr
09/19/2022

Victoria McEvoy: City girl, coffee lover and founder of Irving and Powell

Victoria started Irving and Powell in 2014 when she noted a gap in the market for good quality basic clothing. You can peruse her gorgeous clothing at irvingandpowell.com or @irvingandpowell on Instagram. I love that while she appreciates and uses multiple online technology tools, Vic loves nothing more that a good old paper and pen to-do list. She's a great example of mixing the many tools and support mechanisms to enable her to achieve her dreams ie no guilt about after school care. Get full access to Company on Sundays at companyonsundays.substack.com/subscribe

09/19/2022

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18 min

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

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On Endings with me and Cressida Cains

Ryan Butta: wood stacker, Wordle addict, writer, editor and author

Jess Webb has done the numbers and wool's future looks brightest

Meg Bignell, Author, Dairy Farmer, Marketing Lady, Mother

The women behind the Haddon Rig merino empire

Bridget Johns: up at 4.44am, data lover, professional organiser and grant writer

Annabelle Hickson: Editor, Mother, Shopkeeper, Pecan farmer-in-part

Creator, founder and CEO LANO lips

Annabelle Hickson: How to make a magazine

Victoria McEvoy: City girl, coffee lover and founder of Irving and Powell

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