Brodie Kane

So whether it was the deputy mayor of Waimakariri district on the many years she was on the Canterbury district health board or on Environment Canterbury.

you know, it was always outspoken counsellor or, you know, Jo Cain storms out because she didn't conform to sort of a set of kind of, I guess, guidelines of, you know, she took on, she took on the, she was never ashamed or afraid to take on the patriarchal, patriarchy

or take on a male-dominated arena.

And so, but with that came, you know, like, yeah, the labels outspoken or as if she was always the problem or the, you know.

But it never, I mean, whether it did at times affect her, of course, but, you know, she just kept, like, just marching ahead and always has.

You know, she...

But from a younger, you know, she's one of nine kids, you know, she's a middle kid, you know, and she was always the strong kid in that family.

So she has this internal plumb line.

Yeah.

She sort of just knows who she is.

And just, yeah, just, you know, gosh, she's so strong.

So mentally strong, even with doing all of her athleeting, swimming the Cook Strait, doing an Ironman.

The woman's strength is just like, I have always been in utter awe of just the mental toughness that woman has.

and like good luck taking her on man you know and I just I go thanks to people like you I feel brave enough and sort of strong enough to carry on being loud and being you know empowering others um so that's sort of so that's the strength piece that comes from my mum um

My dad and his family, I learned a lot.

My dad is probably more of a feminist than I am.

And he has just the most beautiful values and his family has this real...

strong sense of social justice and what is right and wrong and i never got to meet his dad but his dad was that's very much where he got him and his um siblings got these this you know strong sense of what was right and what's wrong and the good for for the greater people you know where did that come from when your grandfather

So he was a trade unionist.

A man of the people.