This week Nicola and Di chat with the inspiring and generous Tina Nettlefold. Tina is a full time philanthropist, who reinvented herself in her 60s and founded T.House - a luxury Australian homewares brand that donates 100% of their profits to charity. Tina is a fabulous storyteller, and this episode is packed full of great stories from her life. 

We hear all about Tina’s love life and how it really was third time lucky for her. After one failed marriage and being dumped 6 weeks before her 2nd wedding, Tina went on to meet the man of her dreams and they’ve now been married for 33 years. We hear the juicy story of what happened when Tina’s 2nd husband-to-be dumped her before the wedding - let’s just say it involves a can of paint and an axe. 

Tina talks about the risky move she made with her husband to Malaysia, where he started a successful business, only for it to come crashing down 18 months later and they ended up losing it all. But as you’ll hear with a lot of Tina’s stories, they didn’t dwell on it, but chose to focus on the positives, learn some hard lessons and move to Indonesia where they could start a business all over again. 

She also opens up about the tragic circumstances which caused her to move back to Australia with her family and how she went through a career transition out of the advertising industry and into interior styling. Tina shares how the pandemic in 2020 was the catalyst for another life change and how she came up with the idea of T.House. Taking risks and reinventing herself seem to be themes in Tina’s life. 

We loved talking to Tina about the remarkable work she’s doing and the charities she’s supporting. As she reminds us all, kindness is free. This is a really entertaining conversation and we hope you get lost in Tina’s stories like we did. Enjoy.

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