08. The city girl who loved all things rural with Emma Irene
Send us Fan Mail From a city girl with a love of all things rural to riding out and singing to 25,000 people at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Emma Irene is a singer, show announcer and presenter, and a horse-mad musical theatre kid who never planned to combine her two loves. “It came about by accident.” We talk imposter syndrome, looking after your voice (“H2O hydration is one of the best things you can do”) and that moment time stood still in front of a crowd of 25,000.
28 Sept 2026
07. Telling regional Australian stories with Louisa Gilmour
Send us Fan Mail Louisa Gilmour is an aspiring film director and producer with a deep passion for telling authentic Australian stories, and the 2026 NSW Young Woman. Louisa grew up in Warialda in a family involved in the show scene. She competed as a Junior Young Woman as a teen, then headed to Sydney to study filmmaking. Years later, she came back to the Young Woman program with a clear reason why. "I wanted to do my best for the community that raised me. We're very much a big family." In th...
31 Aug 2026
06. Bendigo Brittle with Greta Donaldson
Send us Fan Mail Greta Donaldson grew up in northern Victoria, the middle of three sisters, with grandmas she describes as "bloody good cooks." What started as a hobby - making brittle from her grandma's CWA recipe - turned into Bendigo Brittle, a business built on the kind of handmade quality Greta grew up on. Before all that, Greta was deep in the corporate world, working in Public Relations in Melbourne. In this episode, she opens up about the tipping point that made her walk away fr...
25 Aug 2026
05. Two states. Two titles. One long-standing friendship. With Cassie Bush and Aleacea Nixon
Send us Fan Mail Two states. Two titles. One long-standing friendship. Cassie Bush (2025 NSW Young Woman of the Year, Cootamundra) and Aleacea Nixon (2025 Queensland Showgirl, and the first woman from Roma to take out the title) have been mates for years - and last year they both landed the biggest titles in their respective states. In this episode, Cassie and Aleacea pull back the curtain on what the Young Woman and Showgirl programs involve - the new skills, the friendships, the parts nobod...
6 Aug 2026
04. Buy, sell and trade local produce with Brehoni Jordyn
Send us Fan Mail Brehoni grew up on a Western Australian property surrounded by animals and fruit trees, for the most part knowing where her food came from. That upbringing planted the seed for Incaberry, an app that lets people buy, sell and trade local, home-grown produce. From civil engineering and accounting to building a food-tech app from scratch, Brehoni's path wasn't obvious - she had no idea where to start. But once the idea hit, she went all in: 6.5 years and $300K invested, plus a ...
11 Jul 2026
03. From chocolate-dipped peaches to saving Australia's surplus food with Kelly Johnson
Send us Fan Mail Kelly Johnson is a dairy farmer's daughter who didn't set out to build a business. She wanted to stop good food going to waste. What started with chocolate-dipped peaches has grown into Woodlane Pantry - soups, risottos, meals, hike food, freeze-dried fruit, food for the elderly - all made from surplus and second-grade produce that farmers and backyard growers would otherwise throw out. In 2025, Kelly was named the South Australian winner of the AgriFutures Rural Women's Awar...
5 Jul 2026
02. Balance inside and out with Laura Kiel
Send us Fan Mail Laura Kiel grew up in Yeoval. At school she referred to herself as 'the allergy girl' - living on pear and rice for her first few years. As she grew up, her mum always found ways of making great food that met her dietary needs. Now she's a nutritionist and pilates instructor based in Parkes, helping women figure out why they feel tired, foggy or "off." In this episode, we talk about... Why so many women are under-eating (and don't even know it)The gut-brain connection - your ...
29 Jun 2026
01. Ag Heroes with Claudia Humphries
Send us Fan Mail Did you know some kids think a bull is female? Or have no idea how food gets to their plate? Claudia Humphries is on a mission to fix that. Claudia grew up on the land, became an ag teacher, worked as a governess in remote Australia and now teaches at the School of the Air in Dubbo. She's also the founder of Ag Heroes - a business born over a beer with her dad, trying to solve one of agriculture's biggest problems: kids growing up with zero connection to where their food and ...
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