The Rural Bridge Podcast

This episode follows Campbell McIntosh’s journey from growing up in a hardworking rural family, through the building and construction industry, and into property development and long-term wealth creation. A big part of the conversation is around the values he was raised with, the influence of his parents, and how those early lessons shaped the way he approached opportunity, risk, and building a li...

Susie Ferrier raised three kids in a house that ran at 150 mile an hour. A country woman from Roma, she built two businesses with babies in a playpen out the back of the shop, long before anyone called it a daycare problem, alongside her husband and a community that watched the Ferrier kids grow up free. For most people, motherhood is the story of raising them. This is the story of what happens af...

Michael Corcoran was chasing his old man around sale yards before he could read. A stock agent's son raised in Glen Innes, with a career across cattle stations up north, live export through Asia, ranches in North America, and back to rural real estate where his family has worked for generations. For most outsiders, rural property looks like a transaction. In this episode, Sam sits down with Michae...

Scott Ferrier built FB Drilling from the ground up alongside his brother Sam. Two blokes, a drilling rig, and a work ethic passed down through three generations of the Ferrier family. For years, that was enough. In this episode, the brothers sit down for the first time on mic and walk back through the decade they spent building something together, the drought years, the 3am starts, the missed wedd...

From the outside, Matt Cock had it all. Plumbing business turning over good money. Trucks, employees, the lot. Underneath, he was running on alcohol, drugs, ego, and 16-hour days, and he knew it. In this episode, Matt sits down with Sam and walks through the years of slow erosion that led to his rock bottom, the family intervention that put him on a plane to rehab, and the five weeks that started...

This episode is a raw conversation between Sam and his lifelong mate Scott Hays around what happens to a man when work becomes his entire identity — and what it costs him before he even realises it. It explores how the work ethic passed down through generations, from grandfathers who went to war to fathers who never stopped moving, quietly shapes the way rural men operate without them ever conscio...

This episode is a raw conversation between Sam and Jennah around what happens to a relationship when life starts getting full, kids, business, work stress, lack of communication, and the pressure of trying to hold everything together at once. It explores how relationships shift from freedom and connection in the early days into something much more complex once family, responsibility, and different...