Jim Edwards has been a fixture of the pastoral industry in Western Australia for decades. From growing up on a station near Marble Bar, to being a mustering pilot and station owner - there’s not a lot Jim hasn’t seen or done. At one point, he literally swapped his Pilbara cattle station for a farm in Queensland – talk about a tree change! But, as you’ll learn in this episode, while you can take the man out of Western Australia … there’s something that keeps pulling him back across, even after all these years.

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In today’s episode I’m chatting with the Keogh boys: Clem- 5, Lachy- 8, and Jacob- 10.

These brothers live on Durham Downs Station in South West Queensland, and while they all love station life, they’re chalk and cheese. Jacob is the creative up and coming movie director, Lachy is the cattleman, and Clem, well - Clem is Clem!

Keep your ears peeled for some absolute pearlers in this episode – because we all know that no one can tell a story like a kid!

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Having grown up on an island and spending her childhood with the local surf life savers club, Tannas Godfrey could never have predicted what her future held for her: a career in the Australian Military, falling in love with a bloke from the bush, going through the heartache of unsuccessful succession planning, and having to start over.

It’s so rare that we hear someone speak so candidly about their experience with succession planning, even though its something that every Australian farming family experiences at one point. So, to Tannas, I say thank you for being willing to share your story.

Find the Nuffield Scholarship report on Succession Planning by Alison Larard here: https://www.nuffield.com.au/alison-larard-2018

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According to the dictionary, adapability is: "the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions".

In today’s episode, I sit down with one of the most adaptable people I have ever met – Sally Jolly.

Sally’s family has a long and rich history in the Pilbara pastoral industry, and it’s no surprise that cattle and red dirt run through her veins.

But, just because she started her life on a Pilbara cattle station, it doesn't mean that it was where she was going to stay.

From the wide open spaces of the WA rangelands, to an intensive horticultural farming region in Qld, with many other steps in-between, Sally has shown that her upbringing in the outback has set her up to adapt to any environment.

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Do you remember the old nursey rhyme from primary school that goes along the lines of “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage”.

Well, that was the order of things for Hayley Price – in just over 12 months, she met and married the man of her dreams, falling pregnant just before their wedding.

But during her pregnancy, Hayley was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma, and ended up in a hospital 600km from home for over 6 omnths. That wasn't a part of the plan of all.

In this episode, Hayley shares the story of the best and worst year of her life, and what she’s learnt from it.

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The name Edwina Robertson is synonymous with incredible imagery of people in rural Australia. In amongst being the country’s most sought after Outback wedding photographer, Eddie has had a number of adventures, including traveling across the country without spending a dollar, and trying her hand at jillarooing at the ripe old age of 34.

I recently caught up with Eddie to discuss her incredible adventures, and we ended up having a very candid discussion about how her experience as a jillaroo was far from picture perfect.

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Kirsty Williams lives on Peake Station near Oodnadatta in South Australia. In amongst working on the station, working in town as a teacher, sharing her home with staff, and juggling four kids under the age of 6 (and the endless baskets of dirty laundry that come with it all) – Kirsty certainly didn’t think there was anything interesting about her life to share in a podcast episode.

But what you’ll learn in this episode is that that couldn’t be farther from the truth. To start the episode, I asked Kirsty to tell me about the summer of 2018, when her return back to the station with her 4th child didn’t go exactly as planned...

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