Company

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....

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...

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. ...

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 conver...

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 t...

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 childr...

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...

This girl, woman, firecracker is Em Armstrong and let me tell you she's a REAL vibe. She lives on a property between Carathool and Goolgowi and her business Saltbush Stretch is based in a gorgeous studio on the main street of Hay.  I've had the pleasure of working with Em over the last year to devise and develop her podcast Saltbush Babes. It brings all of the urban funky energy to a podcast that'...

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...

I've been wanting to interview Gordi for years because she's such a good example of the women I want to highlight. She grew up on a sheep and hay farm near Canowindra in central west NSW and studied Medicine at University. But as a self proclaimed microphone hog who spend many hours singing in church as a child - she's always loved singing and has been writing songs since the age of 13. Now she's...

Stephanie Trethewey is the Founder and CEO of Motherland a non-for -profit organisation on a mission to reduce isolation for Mum's living in rural Australia. I'm always a-gog at the pace in which Motherland has grown, from the outside looking in it seems they are always celebrating new and exciting big wins. But in the last 12 months - life outside of Motherland - has changed dramatically for Step...

Today, for our last episode for Season 1, 2025 I down with Georgie Poole; someone I've always wanted to get to know better. I feel like our career paths have been running parallel for years. Like me, Georgie is a Mum to three children, she lives in a regional community and works remotely for Rabobank. We are both storytellers - who love where we live - and want nothing more than the awesome people...

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...

Bronnie Taylor used to be a Politician. In the NSW Parliament. In Cabinet as a Minister for Mental Health, Regional Health and Women. She's not a politician any more. But still holds the same vivacious energy to celebrate, elevate and advocate. Particularly for regional women and regional health services. This is a Manson Podcasting podcast in partnership with Rabobank Australia.

Are you looking for a girls getaway - that's truely a girls getaway. As in no phone service, beautiful surroundings, the chance to fully recharge and properly catch up with your nearest and dearest. Rove Numby - run by Lou Crawford at Reid's Flat near Cowra and Boorowa in the NSW southern tablelands - is all that an more Cocktail Bars are replaced with a wood fire in a ramshackle old stone homeste...

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 b...

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...

Hello and welcome back to Company for 2025 - it feel like about 3 years since I was last talking with you. We've got an exciting year of stories lined up for you in 2025 as well as some live events in the works as well. Make sure you subscribe or follow the podcast to keep abreast of these things. To start off the year - our podcast is sounding a bit different today - as we have not one but two gu...

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...

This is a little bit of a having your cake and eating it too kinda story. Today's guest is an impressive example of a women who's managed to run a world-class business in the city while remaining strongly involved in the evolution of her family farm. Ali Lord is the CEO of Headbox Australia, an innovative digital events company that she runs by going between her family farm in remote north QLD and...

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...

We're all scouring the socials, the internet and the shops for 'gifts' right now - pressie giving season is here! When I think about rural and regional businesses that make great presents - Whitney Spicer immediately comes to mind. She an artist, who now also makes 'products' - scarves, tea towels, hats, shirts - from her small farm farm at Manildra near Orange in NSW where she lives with her husb...

For the last six and a half years Millwoods shoes owned by Jane Robertson has exponentially grown. From just one type of shoe in 2019 to 37 different styles and colours of shoes 5 years later. Business has grown 20% year on year at least and her shoes have been stocked in hundreds of stores all over Australia and New Zealand. This conversation is a raw account of what a beast retail business can b...

Emily Quigley is the founder of Peggy & Twig a luxury jewellery brand that lives in Trangie in central west New South Wales but was a feature on the runway at Paris Fashion Week this year. What the hell?! How did this happen? And what's happened to this small bush brand as a result? This whole story is so not what you think. The journey has been strategic, and hot and sweaty and intense. It's a ma...

How can I help agriculture? How can I use my skills and contacts? Oh my god. I think this is the eternal question of females who've grown up on the land. I can definitely relate. Um yes, skills from the runway in New York can help any agricultural business. And that's how Gabby Neal who founded Intact Co - a capsule of staples made from100% wool - see's it too. She grew up on a wool farm near Cond...