Company
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A fellow lover of rural stories and one of my greatest friends, Ali Smith
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After more than 100 episodes of Company this is the FINAL EPISODE. I will *miss* the privilege of stepping into the lives of ordinary and extraordin...
The unique power of rural stories in filmaking with Sascha Estens
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sascha Estens is a film maker living in Moree and working all over Australia. Chances are if you come across a short film that has anything to do w...
On Endings with me and Cressida Cains
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I know it's been a while. The end of 2025 was Tumultuous for me, with a capital T. Of late I’ve become a full time farmer. Previously I was a farmi...
Self Care and Ag Leadership with Kathleen Allan
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Kathleen Allen who's coined a number of phrases around female leadership in agriculture. She's lives on a farm not to far from me,...
Kristen Diprose: Rural podcasting as conversation
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a pretty big deep dive into one of my favourite topics: podcasting in rural Australia. Kirsten Diprose and I have the same vocation. We mak...
Zoe Lamont cannot stop building brilliant businesses
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest has always been a self confessed nerd - who had brains and the will to study but never really knew what she wanted to do. Zoe Lamont'...
Don't call it a bush business, call it a brilliant business with Emma Williams from Acre Agency
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes I think we are all guilty of posting about our businesses to social media and hoping for the best..... Today guest Emma Williams, saw an op...
Em Armstrong vibing in from Outback NSW
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This girl, woman, firecracker is Em Armstrong and let me tell you she's a REAL vibe. She lives on a property between Carathool and Goolgowi and her...
Le Sac co-owner Sahra Dixon was always losing her garden tools
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is all about highlighting and celebrating the brilliant women of rural and regional Australia and all the wonderful things they are achie...
Gordi: From a farm in Canowindra to the world Stage
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I've been wanting to interview Gordi for years because she's such a good example of the women I want to highlight. She grew up on a sheep and hay fa...
Stephanie Trethewey's had some *huge* life changes in the last 12 months.
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Trethewey is the Founder and CEO of Motherland a non-for -profit organisation on a mission to reduce isolation for Mum's living in rural Au...
Georgie Poole: Community woman, storyteller and Rabobank's in-house journalist
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, for our last episode for Season 1, 2025 I down with Georgie Poole; someone I've always wanted to get to know better. I feel like our career p...
Two magazine editors: one city, one country come together for the Galah Regional Photography Prize
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with magazines - seriously - from the age of about 8,9 or 10 - I used to save all my pennies to buy...
Bronnie Taylor on the brilliance of rural women
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bronnie Taylor used to be a Politician. In the NSW Parliament. In Cabinet as a Minister for Mental Health, Regional Health and Women. She's not a p...
Lou Crawford's farm is the ultimate city getaway
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you looking for a girls getaway - that's truely a girls getaway. As in no phone service, beautiful surroundings, the chance to fully recharge an...
Edwina Sharrock OAM and her business learnings from Birth Beat
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Edwina Sharrock OAM is an extreme extrovert - its true she's done the tests - and rather than trying to quieten her spirit she's run with it - and ach...
A new era for Georgie Robertson of the Regional PR and Co
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is well known to rural Australian's and every media outlet in the country, If you see an innovative rural story written up in the Austr...
Olympic Gold Medallist Giaan Rooney has her husband Sam Levett to thank for her love of farming
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back to Company for 2025 - it feel like about 3 years since I was last talking with you. We've got an exciting year of stories line...
Skye Ward: A very special guest for our last episode of 2024
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Skye Ward's journey as a mother, daughter, granddaughter and professional have taken many weaves and turns, especially in the last few years. After a ...
Ali Lord- CEO of innovative global events business and farm girl
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a little bit of a having your cake and eating it too kinda story. Today's guest is an impressive example of a women who's managed to run a wor...
Lottie Rae: A real WTF story
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the worlds biggest supermodels, arguably the world biggest supermodel, Gigi Hadid has commissioned an art work from a young artist who lives in...
Whitney Spicer: Using Art in products, collaborations and the world of wholesaling
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're all scouring the socials, the internet and the shops for 'gifts' right now - pressie giving season is here! When I think about rural and region...
Jane Robertson: When business becomes a beast
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the last six and a half years Millwoods shoes owned by Jane Robertson has exponentially grown. From just one type of shoe in 2019 to 37 different...
Emily Quigley: How to have your brand featured on the runway in Paris Fashion Week
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Quigley is the founder of Peggy & Twig a luxury jewellery brand that lives in Trangie in central west New South Wales but was a feature on the ...
Gabby Neal: From Condobolin to New York and back
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can I help agriculture? How can I use my skills and contacts? Oh my god. I think this is the eternal question of females who've grown up on the l...
Jackie Elliott: Rural Women's Day
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Elliott started Rural Women's Day - an event for rural women to get off the farm - because she was lonely. Five years later, it's become a na...
Julia Spicer OAM's next project for rural Australia
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Spicer OAM grew up in a small rural community and now lives with her husband Tony on at Goondiwindi, QLD. Julia, the child of two teachers, ha...
Maria Crawford: Coles livestock, Innovation and Sustainability manager
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is certainly one to share with the farmer in your life. (Not to say that it’s not uber interesting to all of our regular listeners) Mar...
Nadja Wallington and ChaLou Wines: A Dark Horse of the Wine Industry
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest Nadja Wallington of ChaLou Winery in Orange is about to take you on a journey into the world of wine and how to make it. This woman and...
Claire Taylor: A refreshing look at selling the story of Agriculture
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we meet international speaker and agricultural commentator and all round cool chick, Claire Taylor – who originally hails from a beef farm nea...
Dr Anneline Padayachee: All farmers are scientists
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today our guest is a scientist – she is not dull, she is super interesting and she has a lot to offer the industry of agriculture. Nutritional food...
LIVE IN CONVERSATION with Emily Riggs of Iris & Wool
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Season 3 of Company for 2024 coming to you in partnership with our friends at Rabobank Australia, without who we would not be bringing...
Paddock to Paris: Shannan Davey, Boxing (Narrabri, NSW)
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shannan Davey has spent the last couple of weeks exploring Paris while competing in the Olympics. It’s a far cry from the life he was leading in th...
Paddock to Paris: Jamieson Leeson, Paralympic Boccia (Dunedoo, NSW)
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Look out for 21 year old Jamieson Leeson, who hails from Dunedoo in central west New South Wales in the upcoming Paralympics. She’ll be representin...
Paddock to Paris: Patrick Tiernan, Marathon (Toowoomba, QLD)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Tiernan blew everyone's expectations when he was amongst the lead pack for the 10,000m track event at the Tokyo Olympics. Less than 100m from ...
Paddock to Paris: Aislin Jones: Skeet Shooting (Lakes Entrance, VIC)
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You may not have heard of Aislin Jones before but I challenge you not to impressed by this woman’s integrity, maturity and goal setting ability! ...
Paddock to Paris: Col Pearse: Paralympic Swimming (Bamawm Extension, VIC)
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Col Pearse grew up at a tiny Victorian locality called Bamawm Extension where the ratio of cows to people is 500:1. At the age of 2 he lost his righ...
Paddock to Paris: Jack O'Brien, Rowing (Walgett, NSW)
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One man to look out for in the Opening Ceremony – and in the Australian Men’s Rowing 8 Boat is 26 year old Jack O’Brien from Walgett in north we...
BONUS: Stephanie Wood: Newsletter Queen and Author of Fake
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who know’s me. Or who follow’s along here will know, I love newsletters. I love media, and magazines, and stories. And now I am just a bit...
Introducing: Paddock To Paris
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing: Paddock To Paris a Manson Podcasting Podcast celebrating rural and regionlal athletes on their way to the Paris Olympics. Search Paddoc...
Carmen Quade: How to run your farm office (or life) like a boss
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carmen Quade lives with her husband on a cropping farm at Tallimba near West Wyalong in central west New South Wales. They have five children and two ...
Holly Goodman: Becoming a fashion designer in rural Australia
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you noticed a boom in rural fashion designers? Last September, Holly Goodman and I sat down to record this interview. Holly lives in Tamwor...
Kirsten Carriol: How to do big business with Lanolin
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of a unique coming together of a molecular scientist, a farmer and a PR and marketing executive in the beauty industry (all within o...
Carly Baker Burnham: How to do it your way
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve never met a farmer like Carly Baker Burnham before. She is SO in touch with herself. She listens to her intuition, works out what she wants a...
Claire Mactaggart: How to do quiet leadership
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Mactaggart amongst other things; has been a contributing writer for - one of Australia's most loved publications - Country Style magazine for 1...
Georgie Somerset: How to become a leader
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If I was going to be in QLD there was one woman I just had to interview. Georgie Somerset But it wasn't the titles to her name that pushed me to tie...
BONUS: Sarah Wheeler: The Outback Long Ride
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a bit over a week, in May 2024, Sarah Wheeler and her horses - Shifty and Sally - will set out on The Outback Long Ride, a 5,500km journey through ...
BONUS: Cara Spreadborough: An Ode to Liberty
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I first met Cara Spreadborough when we started talking about a sponsorship for our newsletter Company on Sunday’s. (So full disclosure, Cara’s la...
Jodie Goldsworthy: How to make family business, big business
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jodie Goldsworthy is a co-founder and director of Beechworth Honey based in Beechworth, Vic. When Jodie and her husband Steven decided - out of the bl...
Bourby Webster: How to build music culture in the bush
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you go to a stadium in Australia or even just a local footy match - singing, chanting and war cries are not uncommon. We’ve all been there - a...
Kim McDonnell: How to build a social enterprise
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Ayr to Mt Isa to Melbourne to New York; entreprenuer Kim McDonnell's social enterprise, Thankful is an example of how to successfully outgrow you...
Edwina Bartholomew: How to manage a 3am alarm
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sleep, Eat, Work, Rest, Play, Mess about, Sing, Read, Eat, Bath, Read, Sleep - Rinse and Repeat. This is the life of Channel 7’s Sunrise presenter ...
Bec Bignell: How to make a film about farmers
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bec Bignell is a West Australian film maker on the road to big things, her biggest project to-date, her film HOMESPUN was picked up by streaming giant...
Annabelle Hickson: How to make a magazine
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Annabelle Hickson talks about the idea of feeling ideas running through her blood like some ind of addict. But when it comes to her print magazine an...
Bush Journal, editor and photographer Jess Howard muses on her place in agriculture and farming
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up as one of four children on a sheep farm in southern New South Wales, I think I always knew that it would not be me that was coming home to ...
Uber organisational expert and South Australian farmer Bridget Johns
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's no deny-ing it today's guest is infatuated with routines, systems and being organised. Bridget Johns lives on a broad-acre cropping, sheep an...
Sophie Weeding is making her mark in the world of beautiful accomodation
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest Sophie Weeding is rural girl born and bred making her make as a mark as super talent bed and breakfast creator in Tasmania. Born of l...
Tambo Teddies a true resilience in the bush story
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we head to north, and then West, to the main street of Tambo in Queensland. To meet the current co-owner of Tambo Teddies – a beautiful bush b...
Sally Branson Dalwood is in the 'growth stage' of her life
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first is The Suite Set, a business making and manufacturing hospital packing bags, and the second is Sally Branson Consulting, a crisis management...
Rosie Henderson, photographer from the most beautiful place on earth, Esperance WA
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie is a photographer, videographer, and creative director based in Esperance on the south coast of Western Australia. Having spent her childhood in...
Skye O'Neill, co-founder Fieldfare Press, UK
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The older I get, the more I fall in love with England and its gardens and landscapes. And today’s guest speaks to that and another of my loves, mag...
Kimberley Furness, Oak Magazine Bendigo, Victoria
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today really is living the life I would love to live as a rural content maker. Kimberley Furness is the editor and founder of Oak Magazine ...
Recording life stories - and sugar in tea with Dimity Brassil
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Dimity Brassil from A Lasting Tale a professional interview service for people with a lifetime of stories to share. Family History...
Rural wedding dress maker Melinda O'Donohue
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I think today guest has one of the coolest jobs. Melinda O’Donohue makes wedding dresses, not from a swanky studio in city but from her farm near G...
Louise FitzRoy: From Guyra to the Cayman Islands
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest Louise FitzRoy is a good friend, and a total wonder woman – she lives her life between her family farm at Guyra in the NSW New Engla...
Bec Fing is here to get you organised
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bec Fing from House Paddock Consulting, is a master of routines. She is a professional get things done person, get systems in place, your shop in orde...
The main street of Hay, NSW is humming with movie makers right now
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hay, Hell and Booligal are words made famous by much loved Australian poet Banjo Patterson and today I’ll take you to the so-called 'Hell' (which is...
100 years of female advocacy with the CWA of NSW
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the Association's one hundred year long history, its women have become known as the reliable, just-get-stuff-done kinda people and it rings true to...
Celebrating the CWA of NSW with author Liz Harfull
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The legend of the iconic Country Women Association makes up the threads of the cloth that is worn (and honoured and respected) by many, if not all the...
Armidale girl, Steph Hunt's unique role in the media's coverage of the Ukraine war
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest has rural roots that keep her sane, especially at the moment. Stephanie is the Senior Editor for the Asia Pacific at a group called S...
Birdsnest CEO, Jane Cay LIVE at The Collective Grenfell
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I'm really chuffed to be bringing you this very special live recording of the Company podcast from regional co-working space, The Collective, Grenfell...
Sheila Smith went from the Pilbara mines to super yachts in the Caribbean and back home to open a interior design studio and BnB in Hay, NSW
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today interior designer Sheila Smith is a glowing example that a childhood in rural Australia is no hinderance to development of a world-clas...
Emma Williams, co-founder Impact Meat
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Apparently Beef Snacking is a thing - and bringing it to the fore is the mission of Emma Williams who, alongside her mother, is the brains behind Impa...
Kate Hufton, former co-owner The Sir George, Jugiong
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is the epitome of no-fuss go-getterism! Kate Hufton is the former co-owner of The Sir George pub and restaurant (and now accomodation) i...
Company x BFTB big break Pitch
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking into normal transmission today to bring you my Pitch for the Buy From The Bush x PayPalAu Big Break Competition. Thank you for listening! Sk...
A bad boss and an oven inspired Kate Greenwood's business Greenwood Designs
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Greenwood has always had an itch. An itch to make and create. But as is often the case, it took a while for her to take her urge to make things ...
Australian born Kristy McGregor on starting rural mag, Shepherdess in NZ
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kristy McGregor was born on a 1 acre block in Camden now on the outskirts of Sydney. She's the lady behind New Zealand's, Shepherdess the rural womens...
A new kind of healthy with integrative nutrition coach Denise McClelland-Yates
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest, Denise McClelland Yates from Grenfell in central west New South Wales, rings true precisely the sort of women I want to tap into: amb...
Lucinda Newton has been eyeing off jewellery since she was a child
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is someone you want to put on your online shopping list. Even if you don’t put anything in the cart, the wonders that Lucinda Newton...
Shani Nottingham's Bread Tag Project is something we should all know about
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Bread Tag Project started when Shani Nottingham's boys were hungry and devouring tonnes of bread a week and leaving the bread tags all over the ki...
Elise Croker will inspire you to start your own rural BnB
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a story about taking a rundown building in the main street of a country town – and being bold with it to create a beautiful space that peopl...
Lindner Socks are keeping your feet warm this winter.
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the main street of the southern NSW town of Crookwell you'll find a small building stocked with rows and rows of colourful socks, some are thick an...
BONUS: Atty Mitchell and Women Behind Wool
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’ve decided to bring you a little bonus episode for two reasons. I think today’s guest is a pretty cool chick and someone you need to know ...
Ducks On The Pond a new podcast from rural Victoria
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As you know this Series of Company has been brought to you with support from Amanda at the The Grampians Goods Co and this interview was her idea and ...
Dr Belinda Mahwinney: a champion of co-working in a small regional towns
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the co-owner of The Grenfell Collective. A beautiful co-working space in Grenfell in central west New South Wales. Dr Belinda Mahw...
Artist Zoe Young's childhood was a melting pot of different Australian cultures
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The crazy lovely artist Zoe Young is my guest today. As a child – Zoe and her family moved around with the seasons – this meant a circuit of 3 pri...
Victoria McGrane runs her textile business from a bus
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria McGrane of the Scenic Route is a daydreamer with a big imagination and she's at her best when she's surrounded by nature, so it makes perfect...
Kristy Withers built her multi-million dollar business, Incy Interiors from regional Australia
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is total sunshine and I cannot believe the size of the empire she has built from regional Australia. Kristy Withers is the founder of ...
Amanda Cochran of the Grampians Goods Co built her brand to suit her surrounds
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! After a long hiatus here I'm pleased to tell you that the next 6 episodes will be brought to you in partnership with the Grampians Goods...
Tea for teenagers with 15 yr old Sienna Capra from Spill The Tea Co.
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is a 15 year old business entrepreneur from Greenethrope in central west New South Wales. Sienna Capra has just launched her own brand...
An idea one day, reality the next: Mea Campbell's The Letterbox Project
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I was unaware of the work of today’s guest until only a week or two ago. Mea Campbell of Connected AU is real go-getter. You’ll know what I mean w...
Mamamia's Head of Podcasts, Liza Ratliff grew up in the rural town of Barraba, NSW
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Liza Ratliff grew up an only child in the small rural town of Barraba in north western New South Wales - even in childhood she was good at the hussle,...
Edwina Mill has baked over 20,000 biccies this year
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From two ovens in her home kitchen (all council approved) in Inverell, NSW, Edwina Mill has handmade over 26,000 personalised biccies in the last 12 m...
Claire Dunne started her own publication at 22 years of age
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you love country living then today’s guest will be another than needs no introduction. It's Claire Dunne the editor of Graziher magazine. At the ...
Tahlia McSwain has been stuck at sea for more than 100 days
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Right now here in Australia many of us are being plunged back into lockdown due to COVID-19 and for many the second time around is harder, more isolat...
Former editor-in-chief Country Style magazine Victoria Carey
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I’m honoured to say the least to have been able to interview today’s guest. It’s the former editor-in-chief Country Style Magazine Victoria Care...
Lo Corcoran is writing a cookbook
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest has a beautiful way of honouring her favourite family moments - through cooking. Lo Corcoran lives in Boorowa in southern NSW with her...
Tori Packer's latest project was schemed up at 2am
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today you're going to meet a girl, who has a community collaboration project that I think you should all get on board with. In fact, if you’re a sma...
Milliner Fiona Schofield wanted to work in fashion but liked hats better
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest on this episode was suggested by a beautiful listener (thank you) but for years I've been perving on her hats and handiwork from afar. It's F...
Stephanie Corkhill Hyles radiates positivity
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“When we were little Mum got sick of us drawing on the walls and she used to cover our small hall, either weekly or daily, in brown paper and she wo...