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"It's better to try and fail, than to fail not trying". In the first instalment you heard about Tim’s family's mission to escape the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, their trek through the jungles of Cambodia to the Thai Border and the horrors they faced during that 2 year experience. Then you followed their life in Australia and the challenges they faced surrounding poverty, raci...

WOW!!!! The story you’re about to hear will give you goosebumps. It will blow your mind. It will make you appreciate the comforts in life. This is a story of hope, courage, hard work and sheer determination. Tim Siv has all these qualities. You may know him as the local pharmacist in the Clare Valley, with his big happy face plastered on the shop front in the Main street. But there’s more to Tim t...

If you’ve ever wanted to know how to start your own clothing business, listen to this episode. Bronwyn Campbell started Sassy Lass 5 years ago in Riverton, a small town in SA's mid north. It was originally just an excuse to sell a few clothes and drink bubbles with her friends, never did she expect such growth and success in that time. You'll hear about Bron’s life before Sassy Lass, being...

It's time to get an insight into the newspaper game! In this episode you’ll meet Andrew Manuel, the owner of the Plains Producer. Once a local rag, now a major regional newspaper. Though he didn’t start this family newspaper business, he can take a lot of the credit for growing and transforming it. Since taking over the reigns in 2008 he now owns a large slab of the regional newspaper network in r...

Welcome Abby McKee to the Voice it Podcast. By day Abby works in a bank, by night she's in her dungeon arranging beautiful flower arrangements for her next event. Abby is the face behind Magnolia and Co. She started the business 3 years ago and very quickly became one of the most sort after florists and event stylist's in the Clare Valley. Abby grew up on a horse stud near Scone in New Sou...

You must finish high school if you want to run a successful business. Whoever believes that, they're mistaken! This week's guest is proof you don't need a high school or a tertiary education to run your own successful business. In this episode you'll meet a bloke who dropped out of school three weeks into Grade 12, and now runs his own little trucking empire. Rohan Welke operates W...

Deb Scammell runs a business called Talking Livestock, specialising in animal nutrition. Her knowledge and expertise on the subject, is exceptional, to the point, she is considered as one of the state’s most highly regarded and sought after livestock nutrition consultants. Deb grew up in Blyth, she went to University in Adelaide, and worked in numerous roles in agriculture across South Australia a...

Today you’ll meet a very quick witted, heavily tattooed Kiwi who dabbles in wine. His name is Colin McBryde. He and his wife Jen Gardner run a small wine company called Adelina Wines, located in close proximity to the very well established Wendouree Wines, in the beautiful Clare Valley. There are numerous reasons why I wanted to meet Colin. Firstly I haven’t heard much about Adelina, and secondly,...

"Agriculture is becoming Australia's darling again". That's the view of this week's guest, Will Gywnn Jones, owner of Remarkable Meat Company, a meat wholesaling business based in the Clare Valley, South Australia. With many sectors across Australia struggling to survive in a COVID environment, agriculture is one industry that's holding strong. Will has great hopes for th...

Meet the lady behind Bukirk Glamping. Alison 'Chook' Meaney wanted to create a new tourism experience to draw people to the Clare Valley. She thought if people were glamping in England, they'll glamp in Clare surely?!!! She was right! She's been run off her feet since she started the fancy tent project back in 2018. Before running her own glamping project, Chook lived a nomadic lif...

Today you’ll meet an Syrian drug dealing pilot who lives in South Australia's Clare Valley. He’s of Syrian descent, he’s flies a plane and he sells drugs - but the legal kind. Richard ( El-koo- ree) Elkhoury has been a pharmacist in the Clare Valley for 21 years. He's the managing director of Clare Pharmacy Group, Board of directors of Country and Outback Health, Chair of the Yorketown Med...

My guest this week is a very talented woman who has been described as Australia’s Riesling Queen. Kerri Thompson has been making wine in South Australia’s Clare Valley for more than 20 years, founding her winery, Wines by KT in 2006. KT grew up by the beach at Glenelg, but spent a lot of time in the mid north at her grandmother’s farm at Black Springs near Robertstown. So this beach loving girl al...

This is a story about a Scottish lass, who at the age of 22 came to Australia for an 18 month stint to have a crack at being a vet. Little did she know she would meet Mr Right, have three children and two decades later, own and operate three veterinary clinics across the mid north of South Australia. Dr Louise Lehmann is originally from a dairy farm in south-west Scotland. Her first pet was a hors...

Sam MacDonald. Most people in the Clare Valley would know Sam as the owner of SJM, the largest construction company in the mid north of South Australia. He wanted to bail on this interview, not wanting to be in the spotlight, but I’m so glad he went ahead with it, as his story is captivating. A 9 –time award winning company, SJM employs 22 people, working on more than 200 new homes, renovations an...

I'd like to introduce you to the funniest person I have ever met. A big statement I know, but truly I laugh so hard my chest hurts every time I chat to this woman. Marnie Roberts is a owner/winemaker at Matriarch and Rogue in the Clare Valley in South Australia. As well as her quick wit and dry sense of humour, she makes beautiful wine, carving quite a following in wine circles and beyond. She...

My guest is a hard working, honest, compassionate individual. She has also been described as clever, funny, down to earth and blunt. She loves helping people and making a difference to people’s lives. She despises mouth noises, and loves a challenge. Iif you said she could not do something, she would set out to prove you wrong. Meet Lissy Wood. Lissy is originally from a farm near Kimba on the Eyr...

This podcast is all about showcasing talented people in the Clare Valley and across the mid north of South Australia. It is all about recognising those people that started with nothing, who have then built a name, a brand, a successful business through sheer grit and determination. These people are not heavy hitters, they are not making squillions of dollars but they are making a difference to the...