Not only is drone aficionado Meg Kummerow featured as our podcast guest this week, click here to listen, but she’s very generously answered some ‘get to know you’ questions for us too!

As you may have picked up from some of my previous posts, the financial planning part of a business is not my favourite. 

But speaking to Brian Costello from Financial Grace for this week’s podcast, I realised just how fantastic it is that there are people out there who live and breathe it. 

Brian has a diverse and interesting background, including a long career as a bush pilot before turning to financial services. 

He prides himself on putting the ‘service’ back into Financial Services and is very passionate about his rural companies and their success at having secure finances now and into the future. 

Mark Sowerby is Queensland’s Chief Entrepreneur- what an amazing job!

He was pretty reluctant to take on the role because he’s one of those incredibly energised people that take on a million things at a time and nail them all- not least his own brain child- Blue Sky- an alternative investment business and swimming the English Channel (to take a mental break !?) and being a family man as well. 

It’s not often that a dream job offer comes up in your local town. So Sascha Estens made her own. Wanting to stay in her beloved Moree, she started her own business, Rabbit Hop Films and has never looked back. She now services a huge market- locally, nationally and internationally, passionately telling the stories of rural Australia. 

Despite spending years trying, I can’t make more time in the day! 

Luckily there are people who spend their professional lives trying to perfect ways to better manage time. 

Like Jill Rigney, featured on this week’s Beating Around Bush podcast!

Jill has spent most of her career training people in regional and rural areas on time management through her business The Right Mind. http://www.therightmind.com.au/ourpeople

There’s not a lot that Kris Trevilyan can’t turn her hand to. She’s a self-confessed jack of all trades, master of few, but I think that’s a bit modest! Her (current!) day job is managing a cropping enterprise at Banana in Central Queensland, but she’s also an inventor, manufacturer and an alternative health therapist. 

So I got completely distracted while researching James Woodford from Youcamp before our recent interview. 

I haven’t been camping for years and all of a sudden I have a list of potential family holidays I want to do around our area that’s as long as my arm thanks to their website featuring amazing camping and accommodation options on private land. 

The concept of carbon trading and soil health isn’t a new one. But many industry stakeholders, including farmers/graziers themselves, still don’t understand the full potential of trading the carbon in their soil, or that in some cases, it could double their income. 

If there was a competition for multitaskers, Nicole Bond would have to be a finalist. 
Nicole’s recently launched The Outback Gallery, a website showcasing artists living and working in the Australian outback, whom may not otherwise have access to marketing tools. 

When I caught up with her, she was about to head off on a long hike through the Snowy Mountains with another group of likeminded, entrepreneurial women. 

Joy McClymont is one of those people who has energy to burn. She makes me tired just looking at her. 

Her business Off The Track Training is a virtual fitness business, run from her home 100km west of Longreach in-between station life and raising four children. 

What I love most about her business model is that she’s taken obstacles like crappy internet and remote locations and used them to her advantage, eliminating any barriers that give people excuses not to sign up to her programs. 

Has your dream of becoming a farmer been dashed by the reality of the huge cost of land? 

You are certainly not the first. 

The cost of setting up a farming business has daunted many a young person, so much so, that regional and rural communities are really struggling to keep young people in some of these areas.

When I walked into Chrystal Henry’s warehouse I was really worried about how I would keep this interview on track. Boxes and boxes of beautiful children’s clothing was being unpacked everywhere. I’d admired her clothing for a long time, but this was something else! There was some serious designer talent here. 

Thrilled to release the dates and venues for our first Toolkit Tour today. Going to be a cracking trip visiting some of my favourite rural Qld towns throughout October and November; Goondiwindi, Roma, Emerald, St George and Longreach.

When you are asked 'What do you do?' how do you answer? Most likely with explaining what it is that you do for your clients and customers and the services you provide. naturally. But what if there was another way..