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Welcome to The FMNZ 'Leveled Up' Podcast where Chanelle O'Sullivan interviews people from in and around the primary industries with the goal of inspiring others to do, be and try more by providing case studies and real-life chat about how personal life and professional life collides, how to maintain a balance and to show what is possible when you look outside the box and decide to take your life into your own hands.
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Have you heard of 'Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce'? What about that lady in the news who, for 2018, set herself a budget of $1000 for groceries?! Lyn Webster has been dairy farming on her own for 15 years throughout provincial New Zealand. From an urban background in banking, admin and retail management, she went into farming at 31. Lyn went to live on…
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FMNZ Leveled Up Ep5: Dot Kettle, Pure Peony
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Introducing Dot Kettle from Pure Peony! Dot and her partner Georgia have a 100 acres farm where they grow Peonies in Wakefield near Nelson. We talk: - Work/life balance - SheEO* - The science behind peony root - Organics and flowers - Eczema - New products - Working from home - Starting a business - As well as sharing their story leading to transpa…
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FMNZ Leveled Up; Grow BOMA NZ Special - Melissa Clark-Reynolds
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The last interview I had the privilege of conducting at the Grow 2019 Agri-summit was with the fascinating, Melissa Clark-Reynolds. We talked farming business models and whether farmers are farming the land or the product. We covered farm diversification and how that can bring women back into the farming business. Also about how urban women ARE act…
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FMNZ Leveled Up; Grow BOMA NZ Special - Rachel Taulelei + Kerensa Johnston
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Kerensa Johnston and Rachel Taulelei are two incredible Maori women leading the way in agribusiness. I had a fantastic chat not only about what they are involved with now, but WHY they do it. We talk about the values and objectives of Kono and Wakatū and how the two businesses work together. How they balance life, family and career, how they integr…
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FMNZ Leveled Up Ep4: Hayley Rhind, White Chalk
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Hayley Rhind is the designer and director of White Chalk which she started with her sister in-law Ginny by accident. Hayley thought she was destined to be the boy on their Marlborough sheep and beef farm until a few clothes she designed and got Ginny to make while living in Vietnam turned into a million dollar business and some very steep learning …
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FMNZ Leveled Up; Grow 2019 BOMA NZ Special - Amy Keller, PurePlus+
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Amy Keller is Founder and CEO of PurePlus+, a plant based powder created from up-cycled fruits and vegetables that otherwise would be wasted, used to add a nutrient boost into a range of food products including beverages, nutrition bars, super food powder blends, and baking products. As a triple-bottom line company, PurePlus+ is dedicated to reduci…
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FMNZ Leveled Up; Grow 2019 BOMA NZ Special - The Bayuble Team
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Bayuble Woodford House comprises three 2018 graduates of Woodford House—Maggie Peacock, Sarah Wixon, and Zoe Rookes—who joined efforts to extensively research and solve a plastic problem in the fruit industry by encouraging people to wash their fruit. Their creation—the Uble—is a plastic-free, biodegradable, warm-water soluble alternative for the p…
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FMNZ Leveled Up; Grow 2019 BOMA NZ Special - Penny Clark-Hall
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Penny Clark-Hall is the founder of New Zealand’s first Social Licence Consultancy, which helps farmers and agribusinesses earn and maintain their Social Licence to Operate (SLO). Now a Kellogg Rural Leader, Penny has specialised in primary industry PR and Communications. Prior to that, she worked in the film and television industry and as a Video J…
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FMNZ Leveled Up; Grow 2019 BOMA NZ Special - Kay Baxter, Koanga
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Kay Baxter has been an organic gardener for 50 years is the co-founder of the Koanga Institute. She has a vast knowledge of home gardening, nutrient dense food production and the links between regenerative food growing and human health. The Institute and its founders have brought together, New Zealand’s largest collection of NZ heritage vegetable s…
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Now firstly you must excuse my head-cold-voice and brain! I always enjoy talking to Gerard, he's thoughtful, insightful and has a unique 'way' about him that makes him very comfortable to talk to. Gerard has a fantastic history from training to become a priest to teaching to counselling and more. Gerard is now a consultant who founded and runs the …
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Today we speak to Fiona Gower about her busy, multi-layered life as the National President of Rural Women New Zealand, as a hands-on mother, a farmer and a community volunteer. We talk about how she has learnt to balance this and how herself and her husband have really taken a 50/50 approach to parenting. She talks about how and why to say NO as we…
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The first FMNZ Leveled Up Podcast brought Kate Taylor in to chat about her background, her journalism career and how she maintains a balance between her family and her job(s). We talked about Kate's rural fire service involvement, her Kellogg Rural Leadership Project and the book she has just launched; "50 Years Young, A History of the Young Farmer…
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Chanelle O'Sullivan interviews Kaila Colbin from Boma NZ about #BomaGrow2019
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Apologies for the slow start as we navigate Facebook Live for the first time. After the first couple of minutes Kaila joins Chanelle to talk about the upcoming Grow 2019: Boma New Zealand Agri Summit, the future of agriculture and more.
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