DAWN Cast

In this episode of Dawn Cast, Dawn Founder Dai Le and Keynoteworthy Founder Catherine Ngo are joined by Weh Yeoh, CEO and Co-Founder of Umbo, Co-Founder of Happy Kids Clinic and Founder of OIC Australia. 

Weh Yeoh is a serial social entrepreneur, with his most recent one Umbo founded in 2018, in partnership with Francesca Pinzone and Ed Johnson, created to combat one of Australia’s biggest hidden problems: access to speech and occupational therapy in regional Australia.

Umbo makes it easier for people to see a speech or occupational therapist by connecting those in need with allied health professionals, via our online platform. Through an interactive video calling program, we put therapists in your home with all the tools they need to assess how best to deal with your family’s needs.

Learn more about Umbo: https://www.umbo.com.au/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction to Umbo 

4:13 The need for speech and occupational therapy in rural communities 

5:19 How Umbo connects therapists with clients  

7:08 How the service is delivered (Coviu: Telehealth platform) 

8:37 Trend towards digital health 

11:00 Introduction of other allied health services 

12:02 Wait times for services in rural communities 

14:07 Transition from face-to-face to online 

16:20 Skillset of a leader  

19:38 Weh's leadership during Covid-19 

21:35 Weh's stand up comedy and what's next for Umbo

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DAWN is always eager to learn and share stories from different perspectives. If you have a story to share or know someone who is championing Inclusion & Diversity, please contact us!

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TWITTER - https://twitter.com/yourdawn

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Julia Newbould is editor-at large at Money magazine Australia. She has a long career in financial media, starting in 2000 at Financial Planning magazine. She has worked on most financial services titles and has written for the SMH, The Australian and other mainstream media. She was responsible for marketing communications at BT Financial Group since 2010, and in 2013 she launched the Stella Network to encourage more women in to move into financial planning careers.

Her passion is financial literacy and financial independence, with particular interest on women, who she feels are often left behind in the financial world. Julia has co-written, with financial adviser Kate McCallum, a book for women called The Joy of Money which was released this month and is widely available on-line and in bookshops.

Julia joined Dai Le and Cathy Ngo to share her insights on the importance for individuals, in particular women, to have basic understanding of how to manage their finance and plan for their future.

0:00 - Introduction to book (The Joy of Money) 

4:03 - Representation of women in the financial world 

5:29 - Putting money aside for the short, medium & long term 

6:43 - Saving money and conscious spending 

8:26 - What's your book based on? 

10:02 - How did you get started? 

12:09 - Budgeting 

12:44 - Advice on saving money 

14:46 - Women's participation and knowledge around finance 

16:47 - Superannuation 

19:53 - Debt 

21:35 - Is it too late to invest? 

23:27 - Thoughts on the economy and the future 

25:55 - Tips to kick-start

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CONNECT WITH US! 

DAWN is always eager to learn and share stories from different perspectives. If you have a story to share or know someone who is championing Inclusion & Diversity, please contact us! 

OUR WEBSITE - https://dawn.org.au/ 

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/dawnconnect/ 

TWITTER - https://twitter.com/yourdawn 

LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dawn... 

INSTAGRAM - @dawn_podcast 

SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/dawnpodcast _____________________________________________________________ 

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Khunapong Khunaraksa is a water leader and inspirational storyteller. A winner of the 40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians, Khunapong is passionate about finding new and innovative solutions to empower communities to help themselves. He pioneered water.org's first ever water urban utility financing program named "Water Connect" to assist those living in developing and under-developed countries. He successfully piloted the program in Indonesia and scaled-up within the country and to Cambodia and the Philippines. 

He humbly shared with Dawncast how he empowered over 300,000 people with access to clean water and sanitation. 

TIMESTAMPS 

0:00 Introduction 

2:08 What is water entrepreneurship? 

3:47 Origins of water entrepreneurship 

7:27 What is water engineering? 

10:03 Water sustainability and access 

11:21 Covid-19's effect on water 

13:06 Khunapong's consulting work and not-for-profit work 

14:30 Khunapong's not-for-profit work: water access for children at schools 

16:08 Khunapong's storytelling passion 

19:12 Khunapong's family and his journey towards self-compassion 

22:42 Khunapong's comfort with vulnerability 

24:23 The importance of vulnerability in the water entrepreneurship space 

25:49 Khunapong's future plans 

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CONNECT WITH US! 

DAWN is always eager to learn and share stories from different perspectives. If you have a story to share or know someone who is championing Inclusion & Diversity, please contact us! 

OUR WEBSITE - https://dawn.org.au/ 

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/dawnconnect/ 

TWITTER - https://twitter.com/yourdawn 

LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dawn 

INSTAGRAM - @dawn_podcast 

SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/dawnpodcast 

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CONTACT US! What topics do you like to hear about? Do you have questions you like us to answer in our podcasts? 

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The Eden-Monaro By-Election will be held on July 4th. 

For those who follow Australian politics, this Federal seat is currently held by the Labor Member of the House of Representatives, Mike Kelly, who resigned on April 30th, 2020 due to ill health. The margin of the Federal seat is .9% to Labor. 

Eden-Monaro is known as a "bellwether seat", which means whichever Party wins the seat, determines the Government of the day. It has been that way from 1972 until 2016. But that didn't happy in 2016 when it swung to Labor but Labor didn't win Government. 

It's often the two major parties in Australia - Labor and Liberals - who put up candidates to run in elections. This time it would be no different. However, in recent years, Australia has seen the emergence of Independent candidates running in elections. And as more and more people become cynical about the current system, they are turning away from the major parties and placing their vote on others who were more accessible and representative. 

Can an independent like Karen Porter make a difference in this seat? July 4th is American Independence Day. 

TIMESTAMPS 

0:00 Introduction to Karen Porter 

4:14 Campaigning against the big machinery 

5:43 Eden-Monaro Electorate 

8:42 Karen's unique selling points 

10:04 Stories that are not heard by the major parties 

11:46 How Karen will resonate with the different communities and electorates 12:53 Eden-Monaro roads 

14:54 What inspired you to run as an independent? 

17:22 How Karen is campaigning 

18:08 The size of the Eden-Monaro electorate 

21:08 What are Karen's chances? 

22:04 Supporters and mentors 

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CONNECT WITH US! 

DAWN is always eager to learn and share stories from different perspectives. If you have a story to share or know someone who is championing Inclusion & Diversity, please contact us! 

OUR WEBSITE - https://dawn.org.au/ 

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/dawnconnect/ 

TWITTER - https://twitter.com/yourdawn 

LINKEDIN - linkedin.com/company/dawn

INSTAGRAM - @dawn_podcast 

SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/dawnpodcast _____________________________________________________________ 

CONTACT US! What topics do you like to hear about? Do you have questions you like us to answer in our podcasts? 

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