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Company
by Manson Podcasting Network
A podcast, produced in rural Australia, bringing together ambitious women from the bush, the city and all over the world. As a former ABC Rural journalist, Company host Skye Manson loves to shine the spotlight on rural people doing amazing things. Each series will include a hand picked mix of stories from well known and inspirational women in our cities, international friends and colleagues and of course - country women who're killing it in business.
Episodes
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A fellow lover of rural stories and one of my greatest friends, Ali Smith
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...
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The unique power of rural stories in filmaking with Sascha Estens
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...
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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...
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Self Care and Ag Leadership with Kathleen Allan
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...
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Kristen Diprose: Rural podcasting as conversation
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…
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Zoe Lamont cannot stop building brilliant businesses
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...
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Don't call it a bush business, call it a brilliant business with Emma Williams from Acre Agency
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...
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Em Armstrong vibing in from Outback NSW
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...
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Le Sac co-owner Sahra Dixon was always losing her garden tools
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.…
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Gordi: From a farm in Canowindra to the world Stage
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...
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Stephanie Trethewey's had some *huge* life changes in the last 12 months.
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…
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Georgie Poole: Community woman, storyteller and Rabobank's in-house journalist
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...
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Two magazine editors: one city, one country come together for the Galah Regional Photography Prize
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...
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Bronnie Taylor on the brilliance of rural women
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...
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Lou Crawford's farm is the ultimate city getaway
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...
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Edwina Sharrock OAM and her business learnings from Birth Beat
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...
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A new era for Georgie Robertson of the Regional PR and Co
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...
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Olympic Gold Medallist Giaan Rooney has her husband Sam Levett to thank for her love of farming
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…
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Skye Ward: A very special guest for our last episode of 2024
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…
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Ali Lord- CEO of innovative global events business and farm girl
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...
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Lottie Rae: A real WTF story
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...
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Whitney Spicer: Using Art in products, collaborations and the world of wholesaling
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…
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Jane Robertson: When business becomes a beast
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...
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Emily Quigley: How to have your brand featured on the runway in Paris Fashion Week
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...
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Gabby Neal: From Condobolin to New York and back
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...
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Jackie Elliott: Rural Women's Day
Jackie Elliott started Rural Women's Day - an event for rural women to get off the farm - because she was lonely. Five years later, it's become a nation-wide success with numerous events, hosted in small rural communities all over Australia. Rural Women's Day is a non-for-profit organisation and...
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Julia Spicer OAM's next project for rural Australia
Julia Spicer OAM grew up in a small rural community and now lives with her husband Tony on at Goondiwindi, QLD. Julia, the child of two teachers, has clearly been influenced by her parents vocation. She’s a teacher, a sharer, someone who likes to see others rise and shine - and in some ways this…
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Maria Crawford: Coles livestock, Innovation and Sustainability manager
This episode is certainly one to share with the farmer in your life. (Not to say that it’s not uber interesting to all of our regular listeners) Maria Crawford is a country girl, who’s progressed through the ag industry - with a keen and detailed interest in how supply chains operate. This…
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Nadja Wallington and ChaLou Wines: A Dark Horse of the Wine Industry
Today's guest Nadja Wallington of ChaLou Winery in Orange is about to take you on a journey into the world of wine and how to make it. This woman and her husband, Steve Mobbs, have just been awarded The James Halliday Dark Horse Award; one of the most prestigious awards of the Australian wine...
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Claire Taylor: A refreshing look at selling the story of Agriculture
Today we meet international speaker and agricultural commentator and all round cool chick, Claire Taylor – who originally hails from a beef farm near Ayr in the south west of Scotland and will soon call Orange in central west NSW home. Claire started her working life as a producer for the BBC...
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Dr Anneline Padayachee: All farmers are scientists
Today our guest is a scientist – she is not dull, she is super interesting and she has a lot to offer the industry of agriculture. Nutritional food scientist, Dr Anneline Padayachee took to the stage recently at LambEx in Adelaide recently, comparing consumer perceptions of lamb to those of beef....
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LIVE IN CONVERSATION with Emily Riggs of Iris & Wool
Welcome back to Season 3 of Company for 2024 coming to you in partnership with our friends at Rabobank Australia, without who we would not be bringing you all these wonderful stories with such regularity. Today the podcast is sounding slightly different. It’s a live recording of my conversation...
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Paddock to Paris: Shannan Davey, Boxing (Narrabri, NSW)
Shannan Davey has spent the last couple of weeks exploring Paris while competing in the Olympics. It’s a far cry from the life he was leading in the regional town of Narrabri at the age of 10. He was regularly fighting in the playground, was hyperactive in the classroom and loved to eat pizza on...
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Paddock to Paris: Jamieson Leeson, Paralympic Boccia (Dunedoo, NSW)
Look out for 21 year old Jamieson Leeson, who hails from Dunedoo in central west New South Wales in the upcoming Paralympics. She’ll be representing Australia in Boccia in both the individual and pairs events in the B3 classification. Boccia is one of the only sports specific to the Paralympics…
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Paddock to Paris: Patrick Tiernan, Marathon (Toowoomba, QLD)
Patrick Tiernan blew everyone's expectations when he was amongst the lead pack for the 10,000m track event at the Tokyo Olympics. Less than 100m from the finish line as the pace continued to increase, Pat stumbled to his hands. Many Australians can remember watching on in devestation for him, but...
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Paddock to Paris: Aislin Jones: Skeet Shooting (Lakes Entrance, VIC)
You may not have heard of Aislin Jones before but I challenge you not to impressed by this woman’s integrity, maturity and goal setting ability! Aislin will be competing in the Olympic Skeet Clay Target Shooting Event and then ever-so-casually will also take herself off to run a her first ever...
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Paddock to Paris: Col Pearse: Paralympic Swimming (Bamawm Extension, VIC)
Col Pearse grew up at a tiny Victorian locality called Bamawm Extension where the ratio of cows to people is 500:1. At the age of 2 he lost his right foot in a lawn mower accident. This, he says. never really impacted his life and he went on to lead a normal, hyper-active childhood playing any…
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Paddock to Paris: Jack O'Brien, Rowing (Walgett, NSW)
One man to look out for in the Opening Ceremony – and in the Australian Men’s Rowing 8 Boat is 26 year old Jack O’Brien from Walgett in north west NSW Since the middle of May he’s been training, lapping, perfecting his style, mind, muscles and mentality, in various training camps and competitions...
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BONUS: Stephanie Wood: Newsletter Queen and Author of Fake
Anyone who know’s me. Or who follow’s along here will know, I love newsletters. I love media, and magazines, and stories. And now I am just a bit smug with newsletters – they are delivered to my inbox, I do not have to read anything I don’t want to and the diversity is waaaaaaaay hugher than in...
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Introducing: Paddock To Paris
Introducing: Paddock To Paris a Manson Podcasting Podcast celebrating rural and regionlal athletes on their way to the Paris Olympics. Search Paddock to Paris in your podcast app and follow or subscribe to make sure you don't miss an episode. Today we give you a taste of Skye Manson's…
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Carmen Quade: How to run your farm office (or life) like a boss
Carmen Quade lives with her husband on a cropping farm at Tallimba near West Wyalong in central west New South Wales. They have five children and two businesses. Carmen is a total office geek; she LOVES it, and she’s good at it. And when she realised this was the case, after studying her Masters…
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Holly Goodman: Becoming a fashion designer in rural Australia
Have you noticed a boom in rural fashion designers? Last September, Holly Goodman and I sat down to record this interview. Holly lives in Tamworth with her husband and three young children and is a fashion designer with her own label, Peter Bill, which has morphed from young boys clothing into a...
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Kirsten Carriol: How to do big business with Lanolin
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...
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Carly Baker Burnham: How to do it your way
I’ve never met a farmer like Carly Baker Burnham before. She is SO in touch with herself. She listens to her intuition, works out what she wants and then gains confidence to push forward in that area - no matter how unconventional it may seem to the often traditional mindset of those in...
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Claire Mactaggart: How to do quiet leadership
Claire Mactaggart amongst other things; has been a contributing writer for - one of Australia's most loved publications - Country Style magazine for 19 years. She's been a lynchpin in opening the eyes of everyday Australians to the the way of life, homes, gardens and businesses of rural and...
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Georgie Somerset: How to become a leader
If I was going to be in QLD there was one woman I just had to interview. Georgie Somerset But it wasn't the titles to her name that pushed me to tie her down at one of the busiest weeks of her life, Beef Week in Rockhampton, QLD, it was her endless championing of young people in agriculture that...
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BONUS: Sarah Wheeler: The Outback Long Ride
In a bit over a week, in May 2024, Sarah Wheeler and her horses - Shifty and Sally - will set out on The Outback Long Ride, a 5,500km journey through Outback NSW and QLD honouring the lives of her late parents and raising funds and awareness for upper GI cancers through the Pancare Foundation and...
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BONUS: Cara Spreadborough: An Ode to Liberty
I first met Cara Spreadborough when we started talking about a sponsorship for our newsletter Company on Sunday’s. (So full disclosure, Cara’s label Sorority Clothing has been paying for a sponsorship of our newsletter for the last six weeks. ) I knew not much about Cara’s high end fashion…
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Jodie Goldsworthy: How to make family business, big business
Jodie Goldsworthy is a co-founder and director of Beechworth Honey based in Beechworth, Vic. When Jodie and her husband Steven decided - out of the blue* - to take on a beekeeping venture of their own they had not a bee hive to thier name. It was starting from scratch. What they did have was four...
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Bourby Webster: How to build music culture in the bush
When you go to a stadium in Australia or even just a local footy match - singing, chanting and war cries are not uncommon. We’ve all been there - and experienced the power, that feeling, of people coming together and singing. In Britain is also the case for live orchestra events. But in…
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A podcast, produced in rural Australia, bringing together ambitious women from the bush, the city and all over the world. As a former ABC Rural journalist, Company host Skye Manson loves to shine the spotlight on rural people doing amazing things. Each series will include a hand picked mix of stories from well known and inspirational women in our cities, international friends and colleagues and of course - country women who're killing it in business.
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