JULY 2017
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INGRID NELSON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
“Teach your daughters to worry less about fitting into glass slippers and more about shattering glass ceilings.”
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s a mother of two daughters, this quote I came across recently really resonated with me, particularly as we launch this month’s issue of Profile, which is all about celebrating the powerful women among us – those who are inspiring, motivating and making a change within the local community and further afield. Women can do anything and it’s something I instill in both my girls as they find their place in the world, which really is their oyster in this day and age. We have an incredible line up of stories for you this month, including a couple of high profile women I was honoured to meet when they visited the Sunshine Coast recently – bushfire survivor Turia Pitt and digital media influencer Mia Freedman. Talk about inspiring! On our cover this month, we discover how family law specialist Pippa Colman blazed a trail for women in the industry and the exciting new phase the business is entering with two new partners joining her at the helm. Watch this space. We also chat with the Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Debbie Platz, who opens up about the challenges she has faced as a woman in the force, her progress through the ranks and how she is paving the way for other young officers to follow in her footsteps. Passionate community leader Carmel Crouch shares her untold journey that led to the creation of not-for-profit organisation STEPS, and there are plenty more fantastic stories featured inside. As always, we also bring you up to date on all things business, fashion, lifestyle, culture and of course, what’s on across the Sunshine Coast. As part of an incredibly talented and inspiring team of women here at Profile, I am proud to be a woman in 2017, and the Powerful Women issue promises to be one of our best yet! So sit back, take some well deserved time out and enjoy!
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In a day and age where we, as women, become distracted by our endless to-do list at home or at work, we forget to stop, breathe, and appreciate what we’re capable of. And living in a society where we have constant access to the rich and famous, we often lose sight of reality and who the real role models are.
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am proud to be a woman, and no I’m not about to break into Helen Reddy’s I am Woman, but when you take a moment out of your busy day to think about all that we can achieve, we’re pretty remarkable and resilient creatures. But in a world dominated by social media, which has become a portal into the lives of the rich and famous, I worry about the increasing amount of pressure it is putting on the younger generation, particularly females, to strive for an unattainable perfection (in the real world). What you see is the showreel, the very best of their lives, and it’s the same with most of us on social media, it’s a modern day show and tell where our popularity and success in life is measured by heart emoticons. I’m guilty of it too, what you see is a ‘candid’ shot of me enjoying a cup of coffee, but what you don’t see are the dozens of snaps that hit the cutting room floor because my hand might look weird or I have too many smile lines (and by that time my coffee has turned stone cold – all for the likes). Recently I was speaking with an acquaintance and they asked what I’d been up to. I had not long returned from an interstate holiday and was telling them all about it, when they replied, ‘Oh I didn’t know you’d been on holidays, I didn’t see any photos on Facebook’. It’s almost like if something isn’t splashed across our screens, it hasn’t actually happened. While social media claims to connect people, I think it is quite the opposite, as it allows you to know the goings on of people around you without having to actually speak to or see them. I say it’s time to take a reality check. What happened to picking up the phone and calling a friend you haven’t seen in a long time? And what happened to idolising the everyday woman? I’m talking about good old fashioned role models.
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In putting this month’s magazine together, we have witnessed some amazing women within our local community and further afield, who are achieving success across the spectrum of business, charity, media, agriculture, politics and motivational speaking, to name but a few. And there is also a phenomenal amount of strength and power in the women who surround you – your mum, sister, grandmother, best friend, colleagues, and don’t forget about the barista sista who makes your coffee every morning! I am fortunate that in my job I meet inspiring women on a daily basis, and have the privilege of telling their stories, many of whom don’t believe they have a very interesting tale to tell. And I believe that is because in a time where we showcase perfection, so much talent, beauty and hard work goes unnoticed, and it’s a shame. We need to celebrate the women in our lives, congratulate them for the work they do, whether that be in a business sense, at home or within the greater community, because you each have a superpower within – raising a baby on very little sleep; being the anchor of your family; mentoring a colleague; finding strength to love life after the death of a partner – there is great value in each and every one of you and it’s about time you start believing it. What is your superpower?
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Feminist, mother, author, broadcaster, and creator of a hugely successful digital women’s network, Mia Freedman is a force to be reckoned with. But it’s her real raw and honest approach to women’s issues that has seen her become an icon among Australian women.
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hatting with Mia Freedman is like having coffee with a long lost friend. Warm, personable, incredibly quick witted and totally relatable, she is the epitome of today’s modern working woman. The brainchild behind Australia’s largest women’s digital media empire, Mamamia, Mia’s honesty and no-holds-barred approach to women’s issues have made her a household name. I was delighted to catch up with the Australian icon recently, to discover what makes her tick and as a working mother-of-three myself, let’s just say we had lots in common! PROFILE: WHY DID YOU BECOME A JOURNALIST? MIA: I really wanted to work in a job that
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overlapped with what I loved. In hindsight, I realise now that throughout my career I have worked in whatever area of the media I have been a consumer of. In the ‘90s it was all about women’s magazines in the 2000s it’s all about the internet. So I just wanted to be where I felt the action was and I have been driven and drawn towards women’s media my whole life.
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I want to REASSURE women we are all in it together and no matter how mainstream social media makes you feel, you are normal and YOU ARE AMAZING.”
PROFILE: WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT IN YOUR CAREER? MIA: The first time Julia Gillard came into
the Mamamia office when she was Prime Minister. She came in to do a live blog, before there was Facebook Live. She sat at my desk and she was delightful. That was a pinch me moment. Malcolm Turnbull launching my most recent book, Work Strife Balance, was another highlight. PROFILE: DO YOU EVER STOP AND REALISE JUST HOW SUCCESSFUL YOU HAVE BECOME? MIA: No! I am always shocked that anyone
would want to listen to anything I had to say or that they would come to my events or buy my books. I am amazed. But I’ve discovered that although it’s a risk, by telling my stories and revealing my failings as a mother, as a wife, as a friend, it reassures other women it’s not just them. And when I speak at events and see all the other women nodding their heads in agreement, they reassure me I’m normal too!
PROFILE: YOU ARE SO ACCOMPLISHED MIA, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT GOOD AT? MIA: When you come to see me speak, you
see my sweet spot – all dressed up, makeup on, talking about a subject I know really, really well. But I’m also the person that only learnt a couple of years ago that Argentina wasn’t in Europe. I crash my car pretty much on a daily basis, there are bits falling off it all the time. There are lots of things I don’t know and can’t do and am hopeless at. PROFILE: WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE BETTER AT? MIA: How long have you got? I’m not
good at time management. I always think it’s going to take me 10 minutes to get anywhere, which of course it’s not. I wish I was less addicted to my phone. I wish I could cook. I wish I had a filter. I wish I was more consistent. I wish I had a longer concentration span. july 2017
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PROFILE: WHAT IS A TYPICAL DAY FOR YOU? MIA: I get up at about six am. I can’t really
communicate with anyone until I’ve had my first cup of tea, my children know that! I always try to be the first one up so I can drink my tea and catch up on the news and look at my phone. But inevitably my kids will hear me and they will get up as well. I usually chat with them then I go and exercise and my husband does the morning shift with the kids, getting them breakfast and so forth. We have a treadmill and I go for a run every morning. I have to do that for my mental health. It’s my time, that’s not negotiable. After that I get ready to go to work.
PROFILE: YOU ARE KNOWN FOR YOUR UNORTHODOX DRESS SENSE MIA, TELL US ABOUT THAT. MIA: I’m well aware I often look ridiculous.
But I dress to give myself joy. Wearing bright colours and clashing prints and sparkly things is the four-year-old in me. I think I’ve always had that. My mum tells me when I was in preschool the teachers would tell her I kept disappearing to change, so my mum would have to check my bag in the morning. I’ve always been into clothes. I’m not a label girl either, the cheaper the better for me. It doesn’t matter where it came from, I have no hierarchy. I love choosing what I am going to wear to work. I lay it all out on the bed the night before and often my husband will say, ‘Are you serious’?
PROFILE: WHO IS ON YOUR BUCKET LIST TO INTERVIEW? MIA: Sheryl Sandberg and Lena Dunham.
Although a lot of my high profile journo friends say don’t interview your heroes, it spoils it sometimes. I did interview Liz Gilbert and my gosh she didn’t disappoint. It was one of the highlights of my career. PROFILE: WHO ARE YOUR MENTORS? MIA: I have a really close circle of
girlfriends. Most of them are in the industry and some of them have super high profiles like Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb, Jane Kennedy and Lisa Wilkinson, and others who are less well known but just as influential to me such as Rebecca Sparrow, Paula Joye, Wendy Squires and Amelia Lester. These are women who do similar things to what I do. We all support each other because sometimes being in the public eye can be lonely, but hard for other people to understand because you are complaining about things that sound so indulgent. Like, ‘Oh the Daily Mail published a really mean story about me’, cry me a river! They hold me up. Part of the success of having a good marriage is having a strong network of women who provide me with a huge amount of emotional support and comfort. A partner can’t be expected to do all that. It takes a village to stand behind a woman! PROFILE: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR? MIA: Helping women feel better about profilemagazine
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themselves. That is what I try to do every day. That’s why I wrote the book, that’s why I launched Mamamia. I want to reassure women we are all in it together and no matter how mainstream social media makes you feel, you are normal and you are amazing. PROFILE: AS A MOTHER-OF-THREE YOURSELF, WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE FOR PARENTS OF TEENS DEALING WITH THE PRESSURES OF SOCIAL MEDIA THESE DAYS? MIA: I think it’s crucial to be able to talk
to your kids in their language and about the things they are into. Learning about Snapchat, watching what is trending, if it’s huge among your child’s peer group, you can’t dismiss it and you can’t ignore it. We have to help them navigate the world they live in, if you don’t you will alienate your kids from you. PROFILE: HOW DO YOU UNWIND? MIA: By doing absolutely nothing. I like
mooching around, listening to podcasts while I’m rearranging my wardrobe. I also spend a ridiculous amount of time with my 10
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family. I work with my son and husband and I am at home every night and all weekend. There might be one night a week when I go out with a girlfriend, otherwise we are all home. They are among my favourite people in the world to hang with. PROFILE: HOW DO YOU FIND A HAPPY BALANCE BETWEEN YOUR CAREER AND FAMILY? MIA: I’ve always spent a lot of time with
my kids. The idea that if you have a high profile job that somehow that means you never see your kids is not true. I choose not to go to lunches and launches because I enjoy being home with my family more. PROFILE: WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF? MIA: If I’m really honest, one of the most
proud moments I had was last year when Mamamia dedicated a week to pregnancy loss awareness. I lost a baby girl myself at 27, halfway through my second pregnancy. It was the most awful thing and so many women have been through it. It was before the internet, so I couldn’t just Google it and I couldn’t find other stories about
The idea that if you have a high profile job that somehow that means you never see your kids is NOT TRUE. I choose not to go to lunches and launches because I enjoy being home with my FAMILY more.”
other women. That’s all I wanted to know. I withdrew from everyone in my life because I felt so alone, I felt like a failure. It started the seed for Mamamia all those years ago. It was about wanting women to feel normal, wanting to reassure women, wanting to make the world a better place for women and you can do that many ways, one of which is by publishing a story from someone who is experiencing something really personal. All the things we experience as women are incredibly common, such as pregnancy loss, yet I knew no one who had gone through it. For me I had come full circle. PROFILE: WHAT IS THE TOUGHEST PART OF YOUR JOB? MIA: It used to be meetings. Meetings
destroy my soul. They are exhausting. I behave very badly in meetings and I can be quite disruptive. The business is better and I am better when I’m not involved in management. Of course when you start in business, you can’t afford to delegate to anyone because you can’t afford to hire anyone. Now we have a fantastic management team and a leadership team and a managing director, so I spend my days immersed in the creative side of the business, making podcasts, meeting with clients, coming up with ideas and being the creative driver of the business, rather than a manager. profilemag.com.au
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Carmel Crouch is a passionate community leader, who has created opportunities for people with a disability for almost 30 years through STEPS Group Australia. But what has remained largely untold is the selfless journey that led to the creation of the not-for-profit organisation.
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once read a quote that said, “Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference”, and in the time I spent with Carmel Crouch, I couldn’t find a more fitting description for this wonderful woman. Forty-three years ago, Carmel’s life changed when she met a tiny baby named Matthew, who was born 12 weeks premature and weighed just two pound two ounces. Despite knowing he could have a level of disability due to being so premature, Carmel wanted to adopt him and love him regardless. In 1985, Carmel and her family moved from mid-western New South Wales, where they ran a sheep and wheat farm for 20 years, to the Sunshine Coast, where they bought a food distribution business they owned and operated for 15 years. “During that period of time, my son was invited to leave school at 15, because he had a disability,” Carmel says, “so I went looking for an organisation to help and instead found a bunch of parents who were looking for the same thing.”
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The group put in an application for funding and received a grant – enough to launch STEPS association and charity, which ran a disability employment program, securing employment for young people with disabilities and supporting them in their jobs, including making sure they were always paid proper wages.
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Carmel soon became president of the association, which in 2014 became a company due to its phenomenal growth, and she now holds the position of managing director and board chair. While Carmel has continued to be heavily involved since its foundation, she has simultaneously owned and operated high profile businesses. But when the previous managing director of STEPS left to pursue other opportunities six years ago, Carmel stepped in ‘for six months’ – and she’s never left. STEPS has prospered at the hands of Carmel’s experience, knowledge and business acumen.
“Community organisations are notorious for being ‘community organisations’ and not businesses,” she says, “and while we are a not-for-profit organisation, I rarely talk about us as that, I talk about us as a for-purpose business. We’re a business with a mission. If you don’t think like that, you’re not going to be sustainable and you’re not going to be here for long.” The STEPS project Carmel is most proud of to date is STEPS Pathways College, which opened in May, welcoming its first round of students. BEN MURPHY, CARMEL CROUCH AND MAYOR MARK JAMIESON AT THE TURNING OF THE SOD
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That’s the SUCCESS for us – not in them spending 12 months here, but in maintaining INDEPENDENCE when they leave.”
“We have 11 spaces for people with disabilities to move in, they’ll come and live with us for 12 months and we’ll teach them how to be independant and when they leave, they’ll hopefully go and live independently. That’s the success for us – not in them spending 12 months here, but in maintaining independence when they leave.” STEPS also teaches language literacy in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland, and refugee sites in Cairns, Darwin and Tasmania. They also have a site in Alice Springs where they work with indigenous communities, providing disability support services, as well as language, literacy and numeracy training. STEPS also recently won a place on a panel for Employability Skills Training, which will enable them to help about 7000 youth aged 15 to 24 in their footprint of Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. july 2017
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I’d like to see a greater integration of people with disabilities into employment. The REALITY is that when you give somebody with a disability an opportunity to work, they are the most loyal worker you could have, they don’t take days off and they go to work because they’re so GRATEFUL to be given the opportunity.”
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“The major reason for the college is that it’s very difficult to teach your own children how to be independent, and it is very hard to teach your own child independence – it’s a whole lot easier to teach someone else’s children independence. They have the view that, ‘You’re the mother, isn’t that your job?’” The STEPS Grand Winter Ball on 15 July, will continue raising much-needed funds for Pathways College, which Carmel says will cost a substantial amount of money every year to run. “We chose not to get government funding for it, because it always comes with strings, and I don’t like strings. So we decided to ask the community for help and I get goosebumps every time I think about how much the community has put into this. It’s astounding – $1.3 million worth of community money built that place,” she says.
“Having Carmel lead this organisation, coming from a successful business sector, has made a huge difference for us. In all our programs we work with local employers, whether it’s training or employment, we find out what their needs are and provide mutually beneficial solutions that actually meet their business needs – that’s been a big difference,” STEPS marketing and communications manager Elisa Monagle says. “It doesn’t matter how many clients we have or how many students we have, without receptive and educative employers, who understand the benefit of employing someone with a disability or employing someone who has come through one of our training programs, we don’t have a purpose to do anything. So building the relationships with employers everywhere we are is the most important thing we do,” Carmel adds. “It would be remiss of me to say the world is fully accepting of people with disabilities, because that is not the truth, but the world is quite different to what it was 30 years ago, and I hope it doesn’t take another 30 years to get further advanced.”
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Bubbly, down-to-earth and unabashedly honest, Jess Eva has made a name for herself on the Sunshine Coast as an announcer on 91.9 Sea FM. Now, the outspoken mum-of-two is lending her familiar voice to an important cause and helping to empower other women.
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feel like I’m scamming my fellow mums a little bit at the moment,” laughs Jess, “Can you please just point out that this is not my life – I don’t sit around in a clean house with my hair and make-up done, and I bought all these flowers from Woolies last night to jazz up the place.” As Jess Eva jokes about her busy and typically much messier home life as the working mother of two children under the age of four, it’s obvious why the cheeky and laid back radio host has become such a beloved figure on the Sunshine Coast. As one half of 91.9 Sea FM’s hugely successful breakfast program BarRat and Jess, the highly relatable and unapologetically honest announcer has made it her mission to help other local women realise it’s okay to not be perfect, and that being average or different is in fact normal and nothing to be ashamed of.
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It’s a lesson she’s had to learn first hand, but her colourful life is something Jess has now fully embraced and often shares with others over the airwaves. A former Australian champion in lawn bowls, Jess had an unconventional start in radio in 2006 in her hometown of Tatura, Victoria, choosing to “give it a crack” after she failed to qualify for the Commonwealth Games. “At that time, I had the choice of either going to work out in the tomato fields or trying out radio,” she laughs. “I was so shy and insecure; I still am insecure. But I just gave it a go and it was one of the best things I could have done. “You have no option but to have faith in yourself because you’re continually getting feedback. It took me ages to build a thicker skin. I remember one bit of feedback I got when I first started was, ‘That girl sounds like her mouth is having spasms’. You can’t even interpret that in a positive way!” she laughs. “You just have to learn to use feedback to become better, as opposed to seeing it as a criticism.” It’s a career move that has taken her around New South Wales, Queensland, and even the Maldives, but it’s the Sunshine Coast where she eventually settled four years ago with her fiancé
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Norm, working at 91.9 Sea FM alongside Adam ‘BarRat’ Barratt. Now over a decade into her career and more aware of her influence, Jess is using her public profile to shine a light on women’s issues and empower other women in any way she can. “I’m finding that we’re in a really exciting time in radio now where women are allowed to be bold and they’re allowed to speak about what they would like to speak about,” she explains. “In the past women were just the co-hosts, whereas now we can be even hosts and have our own opinions. And I’m so grateful to have been a part of that transition within my career, because I didn’t realise it was a problem until we profilemag.com.au
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You actually have the FREEDOM to become great at whatever it is that you want to become great at. The most EMPOWERING thing you can do within your soul is to just race your own race.”
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were allowed to start talking about things that we wouldn’t have been able to five years ago.” One of those topics is postnatal depression, which Jess shone a light on in 2014 after experiencing it herself with her first child, Fred. And although she was fortunate enough not to experience it with her second child, Matilda, it’s an issue she is still passionate about. “I think a lot of women with PND are perceived as being tired and grumpy, or naggers. We get labelled with so many terms that point to us having a problem with our attitude when in actual fact, what we’re expressing externally is nothing compared to what’s happening to us on the inside,” she says. “For me, (speaking about) it was part of my healing process – if I spoke about it, then it would show me that it wasn’t such a dirty secret. I think by changing that stigma to instead ask the question of why, that will start new conversations for people who don’t know they’ve got it.” Now she’s turning her attention to teaching other women to love themselves – an initiative she is running over the coming months through Sea FM. “If I could feel as comfortable in my own skin 10 years ago as I am now, I feel I july 2017
would have enjoyed life a lot better. I think it’s so vital, especially for young women, to not worry so much about what people say and do, and just immerse themselves in their own passions.” “My mum was the Australian champion gumleaf player and I was an Australian champion lawn bowls player – both of those things are so not perceived as ‘cool’,” she says with a grin. “Mum would play the gum leaf in front of the kids at school, and initially I was like, ‘Oh my God, stop!’,” she laughs, “but she taught me to just own what you’re doing, love it, and as soon as you let go of trying to control the opinions that come back at you, you actually have the freedom
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to become great at whatever it is that you want to become great at. The most empowering thing you can do within your soul is to just race your own race. “For any girls out there, I want you to know that you can make your money out of your passion. You’re so easily influenced when you’re young, so don’t listen when you’re told what you should be doing and don’t do what you think is going to make you the most amount of money – you will make the most money and happiness out of your passion.” Sound advice from an inspiring woman. profilemagazine
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aunched in 1989, Lexus quality is world-renowned, as is their exemplary customer service. Just ask sales manager of the Lexus Maroochydore dealership, Jon Miles. “Lexus was built solidly from the outset on customer experience and the Lexus covenant stating that we ‘treat every client as we would a guest in our own home’ has never been more relevant than it is to the Lexus brand as a whole and also at our Maroochydore showroom today,” says Jon. “The Lexus buyer’s expectations when preparing to spend between $40,000 and $750,000 on a motor vehicle are justifiably high. Our clients are entitled, based on our reputation alone, to receive an unsurpassed level of service when considering our marque.”
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From the crisp décor of the showroom to the cutting edge design and latest technology of the Lexus range, Jon says every Lexus vehicle you will see at their Maroochydore dealership is Japanese built, and the attention to detail from the Takumi craftsmen is unsurpassed. “From hand-stitched leathers and handmade steering wheels, to the ultimate in paint quality and the best in overall build and therefore the very best in reliability and durability, there is no better made product on the market,” he says. As with any successful business, it’s the people that make the difference and the team at Lexus Maroochydore is no exception. “Tommy, Carolyn, Jade, John and myself aim to offer a comfortable, knowledgeable, professional and ultimately pleasurable experience,” says Jon. “The biggest and most important quality I can have in my staff above all others is to really listen to our customers – listen to their wants and their needs and then be genuinely equipped to match them to their ultimate motor vehicle.” The female clientele is also well catered for at Lexus Maroochydore, which makes sense given that when it comes to buying a motor vehicle, women make up to 80 per cent of
the purchase decisions. “Carolyn is a seasoned consultant with a real focus on the female market, which is quite unique in our industry,” says Jon. Coupled with incredible vehicle ownership benefits over the four-year warranty period, including roadside assistance, airport valet parking, complimentary car washes, service pick-up and drop-off, complimentary Lexus loan vehicles, lifestyle days, golf days and boardroom facilities, Lexus is about the whole experience from start to finish. “Just as our customers are accustomed to receiving the complete experience when dining at their favourite restaurants or staying at their choice of hotel destinations, we endeavour to continue that experience at their motor dealership.” During his eight years at the Maroochydore dealership, Jon has seen the luxury range grow from just five models to 10 unique vehicles to choose from. The latest offering is the newly launched Lexus LC500 Coupe (pictured) available in 5.0 Litre V8 or Hybrid, which is taking the brand to yet another level. Carbon fibre accented construction, 10 speed gearing, infinity tail lamps and 0-100km/h in 4.7 seconds are just a few of the attributes of this super car, which Jon describes as “an absolute sculpture on wheels”. Drop in and see the team at Maroochydore Lexus today – you won’t be disappointed.
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It’s been five years since Turia Pitt first made headlines after miraculously surviving a bushfire that left her with burns to 65 per cent of her body. What she has achieved since that horrific ordeal is nothing short of remarkable. She shares her story with Profile.
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uria Pitt is one of those people who stops you in your tracks and reminds you just how resilient the human spirit can be. Her strength and unwavering determination to not only survive a near-death experience but go on to complete two Ironman World Championships, walk the Kokoda Trail and become a humanitarian and public speaker, has left Australia and the world in awe of her achievements. I have followed Turia’s journey since that fateful day in September 2011, when the super fit 24-year-old athlete was caught in a bushfire while competing in an ultramarathon through Western Australia’s Kimberley region, which left her clinging to life. Suffering horrific full-thickness burns that required the amputation of several fingers, the former part-time model was unrecognisable after the blaze. But Turia’s survival is not the most remarkable part of her story; it’s how she chose to live her life after being dealt such an unfair hand that is truly inspirational. Young, beautiful, highly educated and working in her dream job as a mining engineer, Turia was in the prime of her life when a last minute decision to run in the disastrous Racing the Planet’s ultramarathon irrevocably changed her life forever. Trapped by a grass fire, she and five other competitors had nowhere to run. “It was surreal,” says Turia. “It’s not something you think will ever happen to you. “Immediately after the accident, I had no idea of the extent of my injuries. I was in an induced coma for a month and when I woke up I was still on a lot of drugs and pain medication. I wasn’t really aware of what had happened to me. Even in hospital I knew some of my fingers had been amputated but I was bandaged up like a mummy so it hadn’t really sunk in.”
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FUTURE Despite months of torturous treatment TURIA PITT AND PROFILE TURIA PITT, MICHAEL HOSKIN EDITOR, INGRID NELSON AND BRYCE CORBETT and many operations before she was released, Turia says her hospital stay was in some ways the easiest part of her recovery. could and hope one day my life would get Trail, trekked part of the Great Wall of “In hospital, you have a team of nurses better,” says Turia. China and the Inca Trail, made countless and doctors, physios and rehab specialists “I felt a responsibility to live the best public appearances as a sought-after guest and your day is jam-packed and passes very life I could because I never wanted any of speaker and raised more than a million quickly,” says Turia. “The hard part was the people who helped me, including the dollars for her charity, Interplast. when I got home. All of a sudden I was doctors that worked on me for hours, to “Interplast provides reconstructive made redundant from my job as a mining think I was ungrateful for what they did surgeries for people who really need it in engineer, my boyfriend Michael had to for me.” developing countries,” says Turia. leave his job and become a full-time carer And she’s not one to dwell on things for “In Australia we have a wonderful for me, we lived with my in-laws and we too long either. medical system. We take so much for were both on Centrelink, and I thought if “I’m a very practical and pragmatic granted in our world. When I go on these this is life, I don’t really want it because it’s person. Whenever I start to wallow in missions and see the people they help who pretty crap. I’m 24 and pretty much useless. self misery, I put a time limit on it for say, are so grateful, it is really beautiful. These All my friends were getting promotions, half an hour, when I am allowed to feel doctors go on these missions in their own or going overseas or getting married and sorry for myself. But I also know it doesn’t time. They are heroes.” having babies, and it was like my Speaking of heroes, Turia life had been put on hold and credits her own remarkable I felt a responsibility to LIVE THE BEST no one cared. I know it wasn’t recovery to Michael and her LIFE I could because I never wanted any family, who have been her support like that but that is how I was feeling at the time. Michael and of the people who helped me, including the crew through the whole ordeal I really had to put our heads and are still her biggest fans. together and create a new life for doctors that worked on me for hours, to think “My recovery was such a ourselves, which we did.” I was ungrateful for what they did for me.” team effort,” says Turia. “I With the unwavering support think whenever you achieve of Michael and her family, Turia slowly something big or great you never do have a purpose – I could be putting that began to make progress and although she it alone, you always have a team of into a run, stretching my body or doing had many a dark day, she decided she was supportive people around you who believe something that can benefit me.” going to make the best of the life she had. in what you are doing and what you are With a steely resolve to regain as much “I could have let what happened to me trying to achieve. normality to her life as she could, Turia define me and had a crap life, or embrace “I remember in hospital my mum set some pretty big goals early on in her my recovery and do everything in my would arrive at 7am every morning and recovery, including completing an Ironman power to rehabilitate myself as fast as I she would have made watermelon juice, event! “During the early days in hospital, they said I wouldn’t run again and I thought, ‘I will show you’! I didn’t even know what an Ironman was but I knew I wanted to do one,” she laughs. “Setting a huge goal like an Ironman gave me something to work for and get out of bed for every morning. The more I got back my physical abilities, the more I felt like Turia.” In the five years since surviving her ordeal in the desert, Turia has competed in two Ironman competitions, founded the School of Champions, walked the Kokoda
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“ cucumber juice, beetroot juice, soups of every sort and concoctions to heal me. Michael would arrive and take me out for a workout, which was raising my arms to 90 degrees at that stage mind you, my dad was there, my brother was there. I definitely would not have done as well as I have without each and every one of them.” These days life is looking great for Turia and Michael, with plans to take some time out and perhaps even marry and start a family. “Life is really good – it’s back to normal,” says Turia. “I really enjoy every day and I’m taking things as they come. “I might actually chill out for a little bit. I pushed myself really hard physically and mentally over the last five years. I’m enjoying going to beach, surfing with Michael. Children and marriage is definitely on the cards.”
It’s been one hell of a roller coaster ride, but Turia says despite the heartache and pain she has learnt so much about herself and what’s really important along the way. “Anyone who has gone through trauma or grief will understand there is no day where you are over it, or when you don’t think about it. It’s always part of my journey and I think that’s ok. I can’t pretend it’s not part of me,” says Turia. “Before the fire, it’s not like I was ungrateful, but I never took the time to stop and reflect on all of the fantastic things I had in my life. If there is one thing I have learned from the fire, it has been taking the time to reflect on what I’ve got and being really grateful for that.”
Setting a huge GOAL like an Ironman gave me something to work for and get out of bed for every morning. The more I got back my PHYSICAL abilities, the more I felt like Turia.”
Since this interview took place Turia and Michael have announced they will welcome their first child in December this year.
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With 42 year’s experience in law and 20 years as an Accredited Specialist Family Law, Pippa Colman has blazed a trail for women in the industry. Now, Pippa Colman & Associates, the largest family law firm on the Sunshine Coast, enters a new phase with Courtenay Ulyate and Sarah Quilliam, joining her at the helm.
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ne of the reasons I’m proud to still be in practice on the Coast is to be an example to women – you can do this.” On the Sunshine Coast, the majority of family lawyers are female, as is the case for graduate law students, which is a trend being witnessed not just locally, but nationwide. And over the past 42 years, Pippa Colman has become a role model, a mentor and a pioneer for women in the legal industry. “When I started in law in 1974 it was unusual for people to divorce and in those days it was a bit of disgrace,” she says. “Society has changed, people are not prepared to put up with unhappiness and in a way I would say that some people are not prepared to try and some don’t like hard times. But it’s hard for me to judge, I’ve only had one husband and I don’t look forward to trading him in!” Pippa, who has been happily married for 34 years and has four children and six grandchildren, was just 17 years old when she was introduced to law and had the job lined up before she’d even graduated from high school. “It was my father’s idea, he’d been to see his local family solicitor in Caloundra and was telling him how well I was doing at school and he asked if I’d considered law and that he’d have a vacancy coming up in a couple of years … I found myself writing a job application that night,” she says.
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IN THE FAMILY Courtenay “I was interested in business and law, but when my brother started studying law, I just followed him. It’s a little bit in the family – we came over to South Africa with the 1820 British settlers and the funny thing is the Ulyates that came at that stage in the Zerioster ship were lawyers, so it goes back.”
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Pippa gained her qualifications through the Solicitor’s Board, and last month “finally” obtained her Master’s Degree. “When I was admitted as a solicitor in 1979 I was the 121st woman in Queensland to be admitted as a solicitor, since then that would be up in the tens of thousands,” she says. “It was a lonely time and that was because there weren’t many lawyers who were woman around, but the profession was much smaller, when I started law in Caloundra there were two firms and now there might be 20.” Pippa opened her first firm in 1981 in partnership with three men and while the practice was successful, she wasn’t particularly happy. Pippa went on to become a fringe lawyer, did mediation and locum work, and consulted. Ironically it was the tax department which eventually pushed her to open her own firm, as she had a large assessment she couldn’t afford to pay. “I thought I better open my own business and make some money so I can pay my tax and that’s how it happened,” she says. In 2001, Pippa Colman & Associates opened and is now the largest family law firm on the Sunshine Coast, providing expert advice on divorce, property settlement, children and parenting issues, pre-nuptial relationship agreements and domestic violence. “I started on day one with just my husband and me, it was funny really, I had to go to court and I had a few boxes for him to unpack and I came back to find him with his shirt off, sweating, trying to put a desk together and he said, ‘I’m leaving this to go and pick up the kids from school’,” she says with a laugh. This month, the firm enters a new phase with two new partners, Courtenay Ulyate and Sarah Quilliam, joining Pippa at the helm. “Having partners makes the firm
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stronger and it also allows me to share the load, but it’s the injection of other people’s ideas which is really exciting. We’re quite a diverse firm, we have solicitors in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, we have men, we have women, we have a university student who comes in and it’s just a happy and vibrant place where everyone contributes,” Pippa says. Sarah was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 2010 and immediately applied for admission in Queensland, as it was where she and her husband wanted to live. She subsequently worked for two other local law firms before joining the team at Pippa Colman & Associates. “Pippa is a trailblazer, having been a female solicitor in the ‘70s, I can’t even imagine,” Sarah says. “There is a lot I’ve learned from Pippa, but mainly I’ve learned to maintain a strength of character, to go with your instinct and what you know to be right and being an empathetic kind-hearted, yet fearless advocate for your client – that is really what Pippa has taught me the most, although the list could go on.” With Pippa being the president of the Sunshine Coast Law Association and Sarah, the president of the Suncoast Community Legal Service management committee, it brings a lot of strength to the new partnership moving forward. “The Suncoast Community Legal Service provides free legal assistance for anyone who needs. It is a very effective and widely-used service for our vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our community, we have more than 100 volunteer solicitors,” Sarah says. profilemag.com.au
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“And in the 1970s, a band of solicitors and I set up the neighbourhood centre in Cotton Tree. Most solicitors on the Sunshine Coast do a lot of pro bono work and generally no one gets to see it, it’s behind the scenes.” “And all of those centres are still functioning, the duty lawyers are still there, the contact centre is still there and the courts rely on it,” Sarah adds. The firm also hosts seminars in their boardroom, which is open to the public, and covers a different aspect of family law each month. “We don’t do legal aid anymore, but I think you’ll find every solicitor in the office has at least one file they’re working on where we’re deliberately not charging because we have a client who has a great need but no money. I’m sure most lawyers on the Sunshine Coast would be doing the same,” Pippa says. july 2017
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“Not everyone has the money to go to a lawyer and sometimes the answer is very simple, sometimes it’s complex, but they fall into the gap where they don’t qualify for legal aid and don’t have any money to pay for private lawyers.” Meanwhile, the Sunshine Coast Law Association is the district law association for the 330 solicitors in the region, which holds regular professional development seminars, social events and charity fundraisers, often raising money for the Sunshine Coast Community Legal Service. “Back in the 1970s and 1980s, I was also one of the solicitors who set up the duty solicitor scheme here, that was originally for criminal matters and it started at Nambour and Maroochydore,” Pippa says. “Then in 1995, another solicitor and I set up the Sunshine Coast Family Contact Centre, where kids go to be exchanged between warring parents, it is a valuable service.
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IN THE FAMILY Sarah “My father is a lawyer, still practicing in Queensland at Thursday Island. My grandfather was a High Court judge in New Zealand, my great-grandfather was a lawyer and prosecutor at the Japanese War Trials, and my great-greatgrandfather was also a lawyer and temporarily a judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court (now High Court). So I’m a fifth generation lawyer, as well as having two uncles in the profession. I come from a line of mainly criminal lawyers, and I believe that I am the first to practice predominantly in family law, and the first woman in my family to practice law.”
Courtenay, who is also volunteer at Suncoast Community Legal Service, says it’s important to be able to give some of your time to people who can’t afford the legal service, which can be very expensive. Having previously been a partner in a large firm in his home country of South Africa, and then going on to run his own practice, Courtenay jokes he will bring a “guy” side to the partnership, drawing on his 25 years’ experience in law. “When I came to Australia in 2012, I actually wanted to own a coffee shop at the beach, isn’t that the dream? “I knocked on the door at Pippa’s and she said she didn’t have a position for me but after three hours over a coffee she said she’d create one for me. She gave me a really big opportunity and I took it.”
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Having worked in many areas of law, Courtenay has specialised in property law in South Africa and family law here in Australia. He says there are quite a few differences between Australian and South African law. “In South Africa, when you get divorced you are required to have all your property settlement and the children’s aspects of the separation sorted out and only then can you get divorced. It’s one package, whereas here you can do a property settlement and then bring an application for children’s orders separately. Then if you want you can get divorced later on, but is not a requirement for obtaining property or parenting orders,” he says. Courtenay, who has been married 21 years and has two adult children, both at the University of the Sunshine Coast, says they moved to the Sunshine Coast to give their children a brighter future and more choices.
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“When we came to Australia, our children were only 14 and 15 years old. With the economic climate in South Africa at the time, our children’s futures would have had limited opportunities,” he says. “And then for my wife and I, it’s much safer for older people here in Australia. So we did it for the family. It was a big move and a difficult decision. But we now know that it was the right one for us.” This year, Pippa, now aged 60, was honoured by the Queensland Law Society by being appointed for a three-year term as a Senior Counsellor, which will see her take on a mentoring role to solicitors across Queensland and potentially further afield, given Family Law is a Commonwealth Law, it’s the same in all states except Western Australia. “I’m glad I’ve lasted the distance, I’m enjoying the practice of law more today than I ever have in my younger days, you get more confident and more relaxed about what you’re doing and I enjoy coming to work. I’m looking forward to celebrating 50 years in practice in 12 years and I might think about retirement then!” profilemag.com.au
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Prior to politics, Fiona Simpson worked as a newspaper journalist who tried her hand at a music career. Then in 1992, she was elected to office and went on to become a key player in the formation of the LNP, before becoming Queensland Parliament’s first female Speaker in 2012.
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n Fiona Simpson’s quarter century in office, she has amassed an impressive list of achievements, including being the youngest woman to be elected into the legislative assembly, and is now the longest serving female in the Queensland Parliament. Possessing an undeniable passion for politics and serving her local community, it’s hard to believe she never planned to pursue it as a career. Fiona was born and raised in the Mallee district of Victoria, a semi-arid part of Australia and tough farming territory. “At the end of every harvest, my folks would have a break and used to holiday in Queensland,” she says. “Mum and Dad realised we were going to be limited for schools, jobs and opportunity (in the Mallee District), so they voted with their feet when I was three years old.” The youngest of four, with two brothers and a sister, Fiona attended primary school in Cooroy and Yandina, and high school in Nambour, after which time she spent a year as a Rotary exchange student in Japan.
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“It was a great experience living in another country, learning the language, but understanding what it is to be in another place where you don’t speak the language when you land,” she says. Despite having a family background in politics (her dad being Member for Cooroora), Fiona didn’t aspire to pursue a career in office and instead studied journalism, Japanese and government at the University of Queensland. And then went on to work as a print journalist for the Sunshine Coast Daily. “I took 12 months off to do a gospel music album and I fully intended on going back into journalism. It was my 12-month creative sabbatical,” she says. “It’s not exactly a career path into politics!” With the objective of making a living as a journalist moonlighting as a singer/ musician, Fiona’s plans derailed after happenings politically and within the community. “I always thought, ‘If you don’t like it, don’t sit back and complain about it.
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“To go from observing to being the person observed and putting the opinion forward was a pretty big shift for me.” Fiona was 27 when elected as the Member for Maroochydore, a brand new seat, and she became the youngest woman at the time to be elected into Queensland Parliament. “One of the things I’ve learnt from that is you’ve got to overcome your fear of what people think, you’ve got to be prepared that not everyone is going to love you in politics, but if you believe in something you’ve got to be willing to stand for it. “The other thing is getting over the fact you are stepping out from being a private citizen into a public space.” Twenty-five years later, Fiona is the longest ever serving woman in the Queensland Parliament. And together with Lawrence Springborg, she played a key role in forming the LNP in 2008. profilemag.com.au
HOMEGROWN security review where we had the counter terrorism experts and police come in and do a full review and a major upgrade. I also implemented the first DVN (Digital Video Network) Live broadcast link to the Parliament and for the first time broadcast Question Time live by TV.” Having dedicated her life to public office, Fiona says she is single, but is a doting aunty with seven nephews and a niece. “I was there for the birth of all three of my sister’s children,” she says with a smile. And it’s evident family always comes
infrastructure and services, such as the duplication of the Maroochy River Bridge and Pacific Paradise Bypass, but it’s the personal stories which get her every time. “Some of those that may never be on the front page of the newspaper but mean most are where you’ve had people come to you and say, ‘I wouldn’t be alive if you “As Deputy of the Nationals and Deputy hadn’t intervened,’ that’s pretty humbling. Opposition Leader, I could see that one “And there was a young woman who of the challenges for us as conservatives in alerted me to the impact of pregnant Queensland was that while the Nationals women being abused through domestic and Liberals weren’t working as one team, violence, and we changed the criminal the Labor party was always going to have a code to recognise people strategic advantage over us,” attack a woman she says honestly. One of the things I’ve learnt from that is you’ve who who’s pregnant, and “To hold government in got to OVERCOME YOUR FEAR of what having a penalty that Queensland, whether you’re reflects that attack upon Labor or conservative, you’ve people think, you’ve got to be prepared for her and her unborn child. got to win your country areas the fact that not everyone is going to love you We changed the criminal and your city areas, you need code as a result of a them both. We’d spent too in politics, but if you BELIEVE in something contact I had who had many years fighting each you’ve got to be willing to stand forward.” been through horrendous other and the proof was in circumstances.” the fact when we formed first, having seen Fiona step aside from While there are sobering moments, there one party, we were better placed to give her role with shadow cabinet, due to her are also others worth celebrating, namely government to Queensland and provide that father’s ill health. Who sadly passed away the Inspiring Women Awards, which alternative to the Labor party.” in May. Fiona established when she was Speaker. Another poignant moment was being “I knew that I needed to be closer Unfortunately the state-wide award wasn’t elected first female Speaker in May 2012. to home and couldn’t be travelling continued when the next Speaker was “It’s not an experience I expected, so it around Queensland during this time. appointed, however Fiona has continued it was an awesome opportunity and honour. I’m not retiring and plan to serve in a on a local level. “A lot of people just see the role when senior role again, so let me dispel any “I’ve had people ask me, ‘Why women you’re controlling the Chamber and in the misunderstandings. I stepped out of the and not men?’ and there is a place also Chamber, but it also has more complex role of shadow minister because I needed to honour good men, but the figures constitutional and security overlays. to be local to care for Dad while fulfilling show a lot of good women don’t get the “I was responsible for the security over my local work responsibilities.” acknowledgement because they will not the Parliament and that’s fairly sobering, so When it comes to the most memorable put themselves forward and too often their I didn’t talk a lot about that publicly, from moments throughout her 25-year story goes unrecorded in history,” she says. a perspective of keeping the Parliament “We need to shine a spotlight on them.” career, Fiona says she could talk about safe. I went through quite an extensive
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people in attendance. They’re not slowing down anytime soon either – in fact, this savvy team is looking to add more exciting experiences to their repertoire, particularly when it comes to corporate events, by taking corporate groups out for day trips so they can bond while experiencing what the Sunshine Coast has to offer. “When we create an event for one of our corporate clients, it’s either for staff morale to show them how much they’re appreciated by a company, or it’s to bring customers in to show them what they can can do. And it’s our job to facilitate that – to bring people together and show off the company,” says Rebekah. Outside of corporate events, Mask Events offers a variety of options to cater to all requirements, styles and budgets, and is no stranger to going above and beyond for clients, ordering in equipment from other suppliers and interstate regularly to ensure they have the perfect event. Offering dry hire, event styling and event management, there hasn’t been an event they’ve passed up yet, and Rebekah says her team loves the challenge of bringing a unique wow-factor to every occasion. “We make sure we give you the absolute best you can get for you budget,” she says. “We have the coolest staff who literally spend their life on Pinterest, so they’re always right across trends, and we always strive to exceed our customer’s expectations.” Taking all the stress out of organising an event so you can truly sit back and enjoy it might be their business, but for Rebekah, Domenic and their team it’s clearly a passion. “I’m in an industry that’s about helping others have a good time; what’s there to not love about that?”
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manda Gore first came to my attention during a presentation she gave to a packed Sunshine Coast audience last year, about the importance of waking up to what really matters. Highly entertaining, captivating and thought provoking, it was the dynamic delivery of her message as much as the content that really made me sit up and pay attention. What’s more, I retained much of what she spoke about and continue to use some of the key tools she shared with us on a daily basis, both at home and at work. You see, Amanda is a presenter with a difference. Renowned for her ability to break down the barriers that separate people in an invigorating, actionpacked ride towards self discovery, she is one of Australia’s and America’s most sought after motivational speakers – and it’s not hard to see why. During her high energy presentation, the dynamic pocket rocket
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demonstrates how people can reconnect to the energy and emotional layers that really drive performance, innovation, relationships, engagement and creativity in their business and personal life. Right from the get-go, Amanda forces the audience to step outside their comfort zone and empowers them to let go of the fear of what others think or FOWOT – but we’ll discuss more about that later. “Every single thing in life is about feelings. Everything,” says Amanda. “How you feel about yourself is the single most important thing in your life. When we start to take ownership of our feelings, only then can we stop blaming others and start being responsible for our own happiness.” She says the same theory can be applied to your business and workplace. “Success in business is also about feelings – a good leader is in touch with how their staff are feeling and empowers them by making sure they feel recognised and acknowledged. They lead authentically to inspire and motivate those around them to achieve outstanding results. “Business owners need to remember that people don’t operate on rationale, they are 80 per cent emotional and 20 per cent rational. Amanda says the first step in creating a joyful workplace is changing people’s behaviour, and the importance of recognition and acknowledgement is the key topic that underpins her entire ethos. “It’s about building trust; it’s about being in tune with their moods. You have to take your time. Find a story that will touch their heart and then use that story as a metaphor for what you want them to do. I often hear people say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but I think you absolutely can. Anybody can change, and they do, but they have to want to change. Sometimes there are physiological parameters involved, but not very often.” The second step is to create the right environment. “Business owners need to create a space where people can be the best version of themselves, by providing a joy filled and fear free environment. Ruling with fear is just flat out not smart. It may work for a short time but it backfires and stabs you in the foot! Operating from a fear base is designed to destroy your business. “Leaders must create a workplace in which people can be the best they can be that is joy-filled and fear-free. Joy decreases burnout by 125 per cent, increases productivity 37 per cent, increases sales by 31 per cent and reduces
errors by 18 per cent. Who doesn’t want to achieve that?!” Amanda says helping people believe in themselves is the third part of the puzzle. “Did you know belief in your own ability is a better predictor of success than any level of skill?,” she says. “You must discover how a person feels about themselves and then recognise and acknowledge the value they bring to the organisation by being very specific about what they have done and how it contributed to the team. “It’s the little things that make a big difference. It can be a big thumbs up or a little sticky note on their computer telling them what a great job they have done, or bringing it up at the next meeting. “Recognition is the single most important thing to everyone,” says Amanda. “When we are little, we have what I call lots of ‘ta-da’ moments. When little kids do ‘tadas’ adults applaud them, so they do them all the time! When we reach about eight years of age, it becomes uncool to do ‘ta-das’ but we are still doing them on the inside! The single most important thing we can do is see people’s ‘ta-das’ and create a ‘ta-da’ culture!” Passionate about spreading joy and teaching people to be ‘energy igniters’ rather than ‘energy suckers’ in the workplace, Amanda says there are lots of positive ways employers can encourage staff to remain positive and motivated at work, which contributes to a happier environment, including her first world problem kit, which comes from an Apple iPhone advertisement. 33
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“It’s basically a plastic zip bag with a straw to suck it up, a picture of a bridge so they can get over it and a cup with a lid so they can shut the full cup! When someone complains about a first world problem at work, you simply give them the kit and say take your pick! “If all else fails, you can always pull out the gratitude glasses,” she says gesturing to the huge yellow loveheart shaped glasses she carries everywhere to remind us to be grateful for all the good we have in our lives. Amanda says bosses need to also keep in mind people’s three core fears. “The three things people fear most are ‘I’m not good enough’, ‘I’m not worth loving’ and ‘I am unsafe in some way’,” says Amanda. “That’s why there is a big push from the US to create safe workplace – it’s paramount to get people working their best. “Look at the feelings of the people in your organisation. How happy are they? Assess the joy within your team. You want optimistic positive people. If they are miserable, people will move from a job that is higher paying to a job where they have more purpose and meaning. “You have to make sure they are emotionally safe; you have to make sure they are growing. You have to take enough time to pick someone who is going to fit the culture you want to develop. You have to be the person you want them to be.” Wise words indeed, Amanda. Now, where did I put those gratitude glasses? 34
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f you toe the line and just do where she realised the true potential of but I think everything needs to be central the same thing that everyone good design principles. to that – we call it following ‘design-led’ else has always done before “I realised design has this ability to really principles. Every decision that you make and live to other people’s make a difference in people’s lives – that by should be about your customer, whether expectations, you’ll never stand out.” thinking about what you’re designing and that be what colours you use, your key This is the philosophy Nita Childs who you’re designing it for, you can change messaging, or what time of day you post lives by to succeed in business, and it’s how people perceive things,” she says. on social media.” clearly working. You see, Nita and her Employing these principles, she became Fast forward four years and Nita’s team of talented ‘foxes’ at What The Fox the mastermind behind the marketing business has now expanded to offer not just Creative, help businesses of all sizes steal strategy for Think Money – which was so design, advertising and branding solutions, the spotlight in their respective industries. successful, they had businesses asking for but also clever marketing strategies and And while much of their work goes on her to do the same for them – and in 2013, quality digital services such as web design, behind the scenes in the world email marketing and social media of branding, strategies and Nita is now sought I realised design has this ability to really campaigns. digital marketing, they have built after to publically speak on digital make a DIFFERENCE in people’s lives strategy and her expertise and a reputation that rivals that of many of the big city agencies. ability to stay on top of the fast– that by thinking about what you’re But leading such an influential moving game is gaining attention designing and who you’re designing business is no simple feat and it within the industry. She is also has taken years of hard work, regularly approached to partner it for, you can change how people long hours, steely determination with marketing professionals in PERCEIVE things.” and family support for Nita to bigger companies to support get to this point. their efforts to stand out from the Nita’s career in marketing developed 10 What The Fox Creative was born. Starting crowd. And while she humbly credits her years ago from her experience in graphic with an initial team of two graphic supportive family and talented team with design. Having started out making gig designers and one website developer, her success, it’s her fantastic and varied posters and CD cover art for her musical Nita juggled assisting clients to achieve clientele that she says is at the heart of friends, Nita went on to design a weekly marketing success with being a new mum. what she does. street press publication, before working Her team has since quadrupled in size and “Our clients have achieved really in design support roles for the Australian her client base has exploded. incredible things, which is testament to Conservation Foundation and Oxfam, “We wanted to show people that the fact that the people we work with are marketing and business growth strategising amazing and the Sunshine Coast is full of doesn’t have to be boring – it can be fun really incredibly inspiring people,” says and quirky. But since then our mission has Nita. become more sophisticated than that,” “Our success is always based on the Nita explains. success of the businesses that we work with “People often see design and marketing and I just feel really blessed that we get to as a different section of their business be a part of their growth journey.”
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Craig Russell HELLOWORLD KAWANA – OWNER/MANAGER Most employees in this industry get great satisfaction hearing clients express what a wonderful holiday they had and that they’ve told all their friends and family. In comparison to other retail jobs, travel agents spend a considerable amount of time consulting with customers. Potential clients will quickly identify if the agent is motivated by money rather than their needs. Performance is based on repeat and referral business therefore there has to be a level of employee job satisfaction to retain staff and maintain success in our industry. Happy staff are more motivated to look after clients, which ultimately increases sales and revenue to be passed on to employees as commission or a bonus (or travel perks). Therefore, it’s fair to say both are motivators, but in the travel world, it’s job satisfaction that generates money.
Dean Sherwell Belinda Kurtz PETITE INTERIORS CO. – CEO/HEAD DESIGNER In the design industry, I feel it’s a combination of both. It can be such a tough industry to break into. Working for free or for very low pay is common, but that can’t be sustained – we all have bills to pay, no matter how much we love our jobs! Employing a team of creatives, it’s also important that they feel they are utilising all of their skills. A varied workload is imperative for their job satisfaction. If I put one of my interior designers on data entry for two weeks, I’d have a riot on my hands! Regularly checking in with how they are feeling, what they are enjoying and allowing them to try new things, I feel, is the key to happy, motivated employees. 46
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TAFE EAST COAST – REGIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LEAD When discussing employees and what motivates them, one size does not fit all in most instances. Pay is a psychological symbol, and the meaning of money is largely subjective. We all have a tendency to think or worry about money, and different people value money for different reasons. For some, money provides security and comfort, while for others it funds their next adventure or bucket list item. If businesses want to motivate their staff, they need to understand what their employees really value and appreciate that each individual is bound to be different. The most important factor pertaining to employee motivation and engagement in the workplace is leadership. Effective leaders are paramount to productivity; they motivate staff to make a real difference. It’s about encouragement through coaching, feedback and listening to understand how, as a manager, you can get the best out of your team.
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THE FORTUNE INSTITUTE – CEO According to a study of four million employees done by The Gallup Organisation, a need for genuine appreciation from their bosses was ranked higher than all other aspects by employees – more important than even more money. Even more surprising is how little appreciation the average worker gets – Gallup’s research showed that over 60 per cent of workers have not been told even once that they have done a good job in the last year! On the other hand, those who said they had received appreciation from bosses in the last seven days commonly recorded an increase in productivity, often above 10 per cent. Gallup’s studies also show that employees who report that they are not recognised at their company are three times more likely to say they’ll quit in the next year. If you want a great company, start appreciating the people who are building it.
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SHINE BEAUTY – CEO I am a strong believer that job satisfaction and empowering your employees is a greater motivator, and worth more to employees than just money alone. An incentive program is extremely important; however working with your staff, understanding their needs and providing flexibility of working hours when possible, will motivate a team more than money ever will. For example, in my business we are predominantly women and mothers. We recognise that many in our staff base have family commitments and that allowing them to manage these during their working week ensures we have happy, loyal and satisfied employees. Allowing a mum an early finish to attend a child’s doctor appointment supports their personal needs and encourages a healthy work/life balance, which is often more appreciated and highly valued than financial gain.
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In education, it’s almost always job satisfaction over money. People are attracted to teaching because of a sense of calling rather than the lure of a great salary, which might help them feel better about the parts of the job they don’t enjoy, but won’t be enough to keep them in the profession. Teachers are motivated by making a difference in young people’s lives. The feeling that their work is meaningful and valued by others creates a powerful sense of self-worth and therefore job satisfaction. Workplace wellbeing guru Angela Maiers calls this “mattering” and argues that its impact is immeasurable and immense – the search for significance is a biological necessity not just a nicety. As a result, people will give their all at work when they enjoy deep job satisfaction.
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the antics they’ve come to expect from him when broadcasting soft news stories. That jovial attitude continues to surface throughout this interview, but despite the jokes, it’s obvious his job and the responsibility that comes with it is something he doesn’t take on lightly. “I don’t think people would be surprised by how much we clown around when the cameras are off. But it’s a real credit to everyone I work with at how quickly, when it gets down to a point where we’ve got to go live for a story, everyone snaps into gear and gets it done,” Lincoln explains.
“There are always different truths for everybody involved so it is quite a responsibility to tell everyone’s story as truthfully and as accurately as possible, because the way you put it forward on TV may not be the way everyone else sees it.” Born in Moree and schooled in Toowoomba, Lincoln says that much like other teenagers, he had no idea what he wanted to do when he left school. Having shown a flair for English and drama, he ended up undertaking a dual degree in journalism and law at QUT, and quickly discovered he had a passion for television.
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BUSINESS “Mum’s a teacher and she always said, and it’s what I try and tell a lot of kids when they’re doing subject selections or uni selections, that if you do something that you like, you’re going to do it a lot better,” he says. Scoring his first gig straight out of university at WIN News in Toowoomba, Lincoln wound up on the Sunshine Coast after a stint as a reporter in Darwin – a role that thanks to the region’s lack of connectivity, he says taught him that the hours of preparation and organisation behind the scenes setting up for a story is usually far more stressful than anything that will ever happen on air. But that’s not to say what does happen in front of the camera is easy by any standard. “Whenever people are dealing with loss – it doesn’t always have to be loss of life or family or a loved one, sometimes it’s people who have lost their livelihoods or jobs or homes through fire or disaster or whatever – that’s always a bit tough,” he says, going on to express a particular sadness about some of the horrific accidents he’s had to cover from the scene. “The worst thing about what we do, I find, is that you actually feel really useless. At the time and place, you’re not trained or qualified, and you can’t do anything to help. If anything, you feel like you’re in the way. But after the fact, you get time to think about how we do serve an important purpose of telling a story, and it’s a story that needs to be told. “As a sidenote, it does make you a very safe driver. I never speed – in fact I don’t think I’ve ever taken a risk on the roads since I’ve started this job, seeing the amount of terrible accidents I’ve had to go to. I can’t imagine how it would be for first responders who go to them all the time. I take my hat off to all first responders and anyone who deals with that.” july 2017
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This front row seat to so many tragic and often preventable headlines has inspired Lincoln to become more charitable and encourage others to do the same, and it was with this in mind that his now viral YouTube video responding to an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge nomination was created. That said, he admits the 2014 video – made to encourage family and friends to donate time and effort to deserving causes rather than putting themselves through mild discomfort to simply raise awareness – was an interesting crash course in how even the best intentions can be misinterpreted on the internet. “It’s like if you make a popular video about how good dogs are; there is going to be a fair chunk of the world who are going to say, ‘Well you must hate cats’, which is just not true but unfortunately that’s how the internet works,” he says with a shrug. It hasn’t stopped him from trying to turn the spotlight on worthy causes though, and he remains particularly vocal about blood donation. “Giving blood is the easiest thing anyone can do to save a life. If you’re trying to find the easiest way to do the most good, that’s
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just an hour out of your day every couple of weeks and has the potential to save three lives. I don’t think there is a better inputoutput in terms of charitable giving that exists in the world,” he says. This empathy derived by his experiences behind the news displays a different side to the often stoic WIN News presenter – one that is typically masked by the professionalism required by the job. But utilising his place in the public eye for the benefit of others is something he is incredibly passionate about, and a practice he says he’ll continue doing into the future. “I think there is no point having a profile unless you use it for something good. It’s pretty self serving otherwise and that doesn’t make any sense to me,” he explains. “If you’ve got any influence in any way, shape or form, whether it be wealth or fame, and you’re not using it for good, it kind of defeats the purpose of having it.” profilemagazine
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DID YOU KNOW? Ronald Wayne, also known as the third founder of Apple alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, sold his shares for only $800 after 12 days working with the company. His stake, which was 10 per cent of the company, would be worth $35 billion today with Apple’s current valuation.
Though it is best known for its smart phones and other electronics, Samsung’s other business areas include weapons manufacturing, life insurance, and theme park management.
Despite being a high school dropout, Dave Thomas helped save KFC. When he started working at Hobby House Restaurant, he met Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. After serving in the Korean War, Dave bought four failing KFC fast food restaurants, turned them around and sold them back to KFC for $1.5 million. With that, he started his own fast food chain, Wendy’s.
THE AVERAGE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY WILL SPEND MORE ON ADVERTISING THAN THEY WILL ON ACTUAL RESEARCH – UP TO TWICE AS MUCH MORE!
In 1999, Google’s founders were willing to sell the company to a web portal called Excite for under $1 million. However, Excite passed on the offer.
The YKK on zippers stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha. The company makes about 90 per cent of the world’s zippers in over 206 facilities across 52 countries. They not only make the zippers, they also make the machines that make the zippers. Their largest factory makes over seven million zippers daily.
Joanne Rowling, better known by her initials J K, does not have a middle name, according to her birth certificate. The use of the author’s initials instead of her full name was a marketing ploy designed to make her work acceptable to boys who actively choose not to read books by women.
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The first email spam was sent out in 1994 by the law firm, Canter & Siegel.
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BEN & JERRY’S WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE A BAGEL COMPANY. BEN COHEN AND JERRY GREENFIELD CHANGED THEIR MINDS WHEN THEY FOUND OUT HOW EXPENSIVE THE BAGEL EQUIPMENT WAS, AND TOOK A $5 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON ICE CREAM MAKING. The founder of FedEx, Fred Smith, once saved the company by taking its last $5000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Vegas. The company was on the verge of bankruptcy with no one willing to give them any more loans. Smith took the company’s last $5000, flew to Vegas and played Blackjack. Today the company is estimated to be worth $25-$35 billion.
Years ago Hulk Hogan missed a call from his agent to sponsor a new indoor grill, who then gave it to George Foreman, who was also his client. George Foreman earned nearly $500 million off marketing the grill.
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By the time we reach age 65, we will have seen about two million TV commercials.
WHEN THE INVENTOR OF THE PRINGLES CAN, FREDRIC J. BAUR DIED, HE WAS CREMATED AND BURIED IN A PRINGLES CAN, AS PER HIS WISHES.
Half of the ownership of Domino’s Pizza was once traded for a used Volkswagen Beetle. In 1961, brothers Tom and James Monaghan bought pizza restaurant, DomiNick’s for $500. After eight months, James decided to trade his stake to his brother for the car. 38 years later, Tom sold 93 per cent of his stake for one billion dollars. Bacon and eggs were not considered breakfast foods until the 1920s, when Sigmund Freud’s nephew was hired by a packing company to create a marketing campaign to increase bacon sales.
The T-shirt was invented in 1904 and was marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons.
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Japanese people traditionally eat KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago. KFC is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders two months in advance.
NINTENDO From the Japanese name, Nintendou. ‘Nin’ can be translated as entrusted and ‘ten-dou’ means heaven.
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Jacqui Wilson-Smith teeters on the precipice of city and country. While she loves endurance horse riding and painting portraits of her family, she has a killer innovative instinct; and it’s this unique combination which lead to Jacqui being named RIRDC Queensland Rural Woman of the Year.
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ith a handful of hay in her right hand, Jacqui WilsonSmith walks towards the fence, “Miiiiilton, Shaaaaanika”, and up from the lower paddock trots a caramel-coloured jersey steer and orphaned foal, both of whom are the family’s loving pets. Navigating her way carefully through the chook pen and taking me on a tour of their five-acre property at Eerwah Vale, Jacqui is on her way to work, wearing a silk printed shift dress, black opaque tights and sensible flat ankle boots – which as she points out are a necessity when living a rural lifestyle. Jacqui has managed to perfectly craft the role of an innovative business woman with a passion for rural industries, while also being an attentive wife to husband James, and mother to 12-year-old twins Sam and Grace and 10-year-old son Max. “I cut lots of corners, don’t sweat the small stuff,” she says honestly. “Both of us have jobs that aren’t routine, my travel schedule changes all the time and he’s the same, so day by day we look at our diaries and say, ‘Can you do drop off? I can do sport’, and however it works out, we juggle it.” Jacqui grew up in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, on small hobby farms, and says her upbringing was very similar to that of her own children. They always had lots of animals (she even rode to school on a horse for one year) and enjoyed relaxed country living, while her parents had professional careers. “I’ve always had that rural connection and a sense of adventure and enjoy being in the bush,” she says. “When I went to boarding school in Years 11 and 12, I met proper bush kids and even though on the Sunshine Coast we were predominantly living on hobby farms, my value system was really aligned to the bush kids and I’ve always related well to country people.” profilemag.com.au
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We launched this brand, with the codesign input from the consumers, in 2002. It’s now the third LARGEST selling wine BRAND in the UK!”
Upon graduating, Jacqui studied commerce at the University of Queensland and went on to work for Ernst and Young in Brisbane. “It was the wrong fit for me, but I was lucky that in my first year of doing auditing, Buderim Ginger was one of my clients and they were recruiting for a marketing officer in 1995,” she says. “Everyone thought I was throwing my career away, I had a great opportunity to be an accountant with Ernst and Young and it was a safe and professional job and they wondered why I’d want to be marketing for a company on the Sunshine Coast, when I could be in the city. “That was my bravest career move – I followed my heart and it was the right thing to do for me because marketing and innovation, which is the route I’ve ended up taking, has that lovely combination of being very analytical but it has room for creativity and flare.” After working for Buderim Ginger, Jacqui moved to the United Kingdom, where she spent a year waitressing in july 2017
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London and travelling, before moving out to Bristol where she met her landlord and now-husband James. “The first job was marketing in entry level wines, no one wanted it,” she says with a laugh. “The first project I did was a brand that was dying, called Babycham, it was a perry, a sparkling pear drink and it had been really big in the ‘50s and continued to go down ever since. I had a go of it and managed to get a 30 per cent increase through a retro repositioning. “From there they started giving me some more interesting brands to work on, as they saw I loved the innovation side and I started going down that route. “They had all this excess wine in California and couldn’t sell it, so we created a brand from scratch and it was called Echo Falls. With a cross functional team, we collaborated and brainstormed a whole heap of ideas and then we went
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and interviewed consumers. We called it Echo Falls, inspired by the waterfalls in the Yosemite National Park, which I’d never been to! “We launched this brand, with the codesign input from the consumers, in 2002. It’s now the third largest selling wine brand in the UK!” Jacqui then went on to look after Hardy’s Wine, which in 2004 saw Australian wines overtake the French category and Hardy’s become the number one brand in the UK. In 2007, after almost a decade overseas, Jacqui returned to Australia with her husband, their twin children and another baby on the way. “I had that homing feeling once I had the kids and I didn’t think we could give them the upbringing in the UK, and the freedom I had as a child, unless we won the lotto,” she says. “Still wanting to have a career I thought it was going to be good to be close to my family, I missed that support network.” James agreed to stay at home for a year with the three children, with the intention of writing a book, as he couldn’t work as a barrister until he converted his English law qualifications to Australia. “I lined up about 10 job interviews in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, because I was looking at food, wine and drinks-based companies, and everyone was very keen to see me – I didn’t tell them I was pregnant because I thought it was irrelevant given James was going to look after the children. I soon found out no one wanted to employ me. “It put us in a bit of a pickle and we ended up living in my parent’s barn, where I opened a consultancy business in innovation and marketing and started working for myself. My first client was an agricultural-based company in Maroochydore and I was interviewing farmers from all over Australia who were using silage, and I was doing this from my hospital bed after I had Max.” With three kids under the age of two, Jacqui and James did anything to bring money in, she continued running her consultancy business and James went into real estate. “They were the early years and the years that made us stronger, but it was hard trying to make ends meet,” she says. “Being a consultant, you never know when the next job is going to come up, and I found that stressful because for 10 years in my life I was so used to having a job where I’d have a regular paycheck.
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“So I knocked on the door of Gourmet Garden and asked if they needed a marketing and innovation consultant.” Jacqui’s timing was impeccable and she began working there full time in 2009. “During those eight years, one of the most exciting things we did was launch the lightly dried herbs and spices, we spent so much time with consumers finding out what their problems were with herbs, and we asked what the problems were with our herbs in tubes and that was a really hard question to ask, but a really good question,” she says. “My top tip that I give to any business is to seek out the failure points in your business, whether it’s a product or service; ask people what’s wrong with it, because when you figure out the failure points, that is opportunity for creative improvements.” From 2009 to 2017, Jacqui has helped the Sunshine Coast business more than double its growth, and has seen it boom in the international market, now over 65 per cent of its sales are in exports. Much of the success in launching new products, Jacqui says, is a result of the design-led thinking process – an iterative process of observing, defining the failure points, ideating and testing in the marketplace and continuing to go around that circle. “The keys of success are having a collaborative team, great leadership, being customer-centric and being brave enough to challenge the status quo,” Jacqui says. With almost 25 years experience in innovation and marketing, Jacqui wanted to do more and co-founded the Food and Agribusiness Network in November 2015. “The idea that there needs to be a cluster group came out of the Regional Economic Development Strategy, from Sunshine Coast Council, which identified a gap and myself and a few other industry colleagues co-founded FAN,” she says. 54
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“We want to actively contribute to doubling the region’s food and agribusiness economy by 2030 and we want this region to be renowned for its food culture and innovation in agribusiness. “Agriculture is one of the least mature industries across Australia when it comes to technology. Technology is imbedded in so many other industries, but in agriculture it’s still very early days, so it’s a great time for startups or scale-ups to think about how they can identify opportunities in ag-tech.” FAN has since reached out to farmers, chefs, value adders, food processors, retailers and distributors to find out what has been missing from the industry, and the answer was, “good old fashioned networking, sharing and collaborating”. Earlier this year, Jacqui was named the RIRDC Queensland Rural Woman of the Year, and with her $10,000 bursary winnings is launching a FAN online learning platform to enable the creation of virtual communities where rural businesses can collaborate, learn how to speed up the pace of innovation, reduce risks and create business growth. “Farming is very isolating and they learn to become independent, but imagine if they could help each other out. In times of need, they’re always the first
ones there, but they’re always the last to say they need help. Let’s try and get the collaboration going before there’s a crisis or a catastrophe,” she says. “Of the proportion of businesses that are innovation-active, agriculture is one of the lowest in Australia. Compared to other parts of the world, Australia is benchmarking poorly when it comes to collaborating, so there’s an opportunity for agriculture, as well as Australia nationally to think about working together more, which is why I believe networks are important, it’s just about getting some proof behind it. “I’d also love to see more females in agriculture, according to a study by KPMG, only 23 per cent of Australian people working in agriculture are female.” The pilot program for the new online training platform is design-led thinking and innovation and Jacqui is using Gourmet Garden’s new innovation, Meat Finishing Drizzles, which launched last month, as the case study. “We’ll be documenting the journey and showing the design thinking process, sharing our failures and learnings along the way, hosting webinars and turning it into an educational tool for other businesses,” she says. Jacqui lets out a deep breath as she closes her laptop, she’s worked fiercely to reach this point and has no intention of failing now.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GETTING A DIVORCE SARAH QUILLIAM | PIPPA COLMAN & ASSOCIATES SOLICITORS
People often tell us that they want a “divorce”. This word is often used interchangeably by people who actually want a property settlement, or a parenting arrangement. In fact, the process of divorce is quite different to a property settlement or parenting dispute and is treated differently by the Courts.
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Divorce Order will be granted upon application to the Family Court of Australia by one or both spouses, provided that some requirements have been met. Depending on your circumstance, it may not be necessary for you to go to Court for your divorce. In Australia, we have a “no fault” divorce system. The only ground on which a Divorce Order can be granted is when the marriage has “broken down irretrievably”. The Court will accept this if it is satisfied that the spouses have been separated for at least 12 months prior to the date of filing the Application for Divorce. It is therefore prudent to make sure that the separation date is agreed, or it is at least agreed that it was more than a year ago. The Court will not make a Divorce Order if there is a likelihood of cohabitation being resumed. If it has been less than two years since you were married, or if you have resided in the same home since separation, then you may have to satisfy additional requirements.
If there are children of the marriage under the age of 18 years, then we recommend that you seek legal advice before filing an application, as the Court might not make a Divorce Order if they are not satisfied that there are “proper arrangements” in place for the children.
“The Court might not make a Divorce Order if they are not satisfied that there are “proper arrangements” in place for the children.” When an application has been filed by one spouse, there are additional steps that need to be taken to “serve” that application on the other party. We recommend that you seek legal advice in relation to service requirements, as this can be tricky. You do not need to have settled property to get divorced. However, once your divorce takes effect (usually one month and one day after your Divorce Order is granted), you have 12 months to properly finalise your property and spousal maintenance matters. If you have not done so within that time, the Courts may not allow you to pursue a property settlement. I advise my clients to delay filing for divorce until their property/spousal maintenance matters have been finalised. Divorce can also affect your Will. We recommend having your Will reviewed if you are contemplating divorce.
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They have built a strong reputation for their firm focus on customer service in an industry often driven by the bottom dollar. Meet the friendly faces of BoOom Property who are helping to revolutionise the way locals see real estate.
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hether you are a rookie in real estate or the master of your own property portfolio, the world of investment properties can be daunting if you don’t have the right management by your side. Enter BoOom Property – the friendly team taking the stress out of real estate for both owners and tenants by providing the best property management and customer service on the Sunshine Coast. Operating as part of Imoda Group and boasting the benefits of a close relationship with its sister companies Imoda Properties and Independent Alliance, BoOom is run by a small but dedicated team who, despite their varied backgrounds, understand the concerns of both owners and tenants, and go above and beyond to ensure the best outcomes for all parties involved. Senior property manager Suzanne Perkins joined BoOom after working five years in law enforcement, and is a huge asset to both the team and their clients thanks to her personal experience of owning four investment properties herself. “Having been in the shoes of a homeowner, a landlord and a tenant
myself, I’m in the unique position of being able to really relate to the situation of every person we deal with,” says Suzanne. “I understand the importance of selecting the right tenant in making sure an owner’s property is in good hands; the value in making sure that property is looked after and maintained for the sake of both owner and tenant; and the difference a great property management service makes in ensuring happy, considerate tenants. It’s all just so much easier and stress-free when you have a great working relationship with your property manager.” New to property management, fellow property manager Lori Emerton’s journey with BoOom is a little different. Having started with the company as the receptionist after seeking a workplace with a more supportive and progressive culture, Lori underwent a traineeship and worked her way up the ranks. It’s a move she says she’s happy she made, now finding joy in a more engaging role. “When you have a supportive team, you want to come to work; there’s a sense of achievement,” she says. “Plus, giving great customer service on this level is so rewarding. Our clients are always so grateful to have someone who has their back.” With a passion for property management that is clear to see, there is no better team to entrust your greatest financial asset than BoOom Property.
To chat to a friendly face about how BoOom Property can benefit you, call Suzanne, Lori or Mark on 5452 4000 or visit BoOom.com.au
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The strength of the Toowoomba economy coupled with affordability and lifestyle provides exceptional prospects for long-term growth and high rental yields well into the future. Toowoomba is arguably the best investment destination in Australia right now.
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TOOWOOMBA, THE NEXT PROPERTY HOTSPOT Toowoomba is Australia’s largest inland regional centre with an extremely diverse economy and home to some of the largest infrastructure projects in Australia.
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With an amazing array of industry and jobs in education, transport, agriculture, health, retail, professional services, defence, resources and manufacturing it’s easy to understand why Toowoomba has one of Queensland’s lowest unemployment rates and highest population growths. Renowned for its natural beauty and rolling rural expanse, Toowoomba has moved from modest agricultural centre to a major economic hub. While it still provides services to its roots in the Darling Downs agricultural industry, nowadays it’s a multi-speed economy rarely found in regional areas and that is going to propel Toowoomba decades into the future without so much as a bump in the road.
FACTS Population Growth: 160,000 moving toward 200,000 Business & Tourism: Over 3 million visitors per year Gross Regional Product: A whopping $8.19 Billion Development investment: $10 Billion worth of projects TOOWOOMBA THE INFRASTRUCTURE GIANT
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A mass of infrastructure projects have awakened the giant, from modest agricultural centre to infrastructure and employment powerhouse, Toowoomba is now on the radar for big business and investors. Some of the highlights below; • Australia’s newest jet capable airport now open passenger flights to Sydney daily and cargo flights to China • Wellcamp business park - Aviation services and industry hub • The Toowoomba Range Crossing - The largest modern day road project worth $1.6 Billion • Bulli Creek Solar Farm - The largest project in QLD $1 Billion • Melbourne to Brisbane Rail Project $5 Billion spend for the region • Interlink SQ - Hub connecting rail & road transport • Grand Central Shopping Centre - $500 Million redevelopment
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Renowned for its natural beauty and rolling rural expanse, Toowoomba has moved from modest agricultural centre to a major economic hub.
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A desire to make a difference put Debbie Platz on the path to becoming one of the country’s most influential women in law enforcement. The Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner shares her rise through the ranks and her battle to get more women in uniform.
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oman, mother, protector, leader; Debbie Platz has worn many hats over the years. But it is her position as Assistant Commissioner with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) that has fuelled her desire to take on what she says is her biggest challenge yet – helping her fellow sisters-in-arms cement their place as a valuable part of the nation’s police services. After spending 32 years climbing the ranks of the Queensland Police Service, 22 of which were spent on the Sunshine Coast, Debbie has had an incredibly diverse career. From her time as a detective with the Child Protection and Investigation Unit, where she investigated crimes against children, to her role seeking justice in the courts for murder and sexual assault offences as a police prosecutor, Debbie has helped put away some of the state’s worst offenders. DEBBIE PLATZ AND HUSBAND GLENN FERGUSON
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She has also trained police prosecutors, officers and recruits, managed internal reviews, and worked as the staff officer to the Queensland Commissioner, the Ministerial Liaison Officer and the Assistant Commissioner of the North Coast Region. But while it is this wealth of experience that saw Debbie land the prestigious role of national manager for crime operations with the AFP in January this year, her career hasn’t come without its challenges. Debbie joined the QPS in 1985 after an initial interest in journalism saw her shadow journalist and former crime reporter Kay McGrath. Instead, she found her true calling – behind the police tape. “I got to see what was happening and thought I would probably rather be on the other side where all the action was happening, so that’s what initially sparked my interest,” Debbie says. “I had some connections with the police – not in a bad way!” she jokes, “I had a few friends who were police officers so I spoke with them and started asking them questions. Of course, then I went home and told my parents, who were not very happy at all.”
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Her parents’ concerns over her entering what they deemed to be a dangerous profession were just the beginning of her struggle to achieve in the blue uniform. “At the time, very few women joined policing agencies – it was not a common thing for a woman to do,” explains Debbie. “It wasn’t until later in my career that I started to take notice of how women were being treated and how we could do better in that space. One of the things I look back at and really regret is the fact that I didn’t help out a lot of women along the way, as I progressed through the ranks. I didn’t realise early enough that I had a responsibility to bring people on a journey with me. It wasn’t until I got towards the top that I realised, ‘Hey, I’m the only one here, where are all the women?’.
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“For a while in the Queensland Police career or life. Generally this happens to the worst a lot,” Debbie explains. “But for Service I was the most senior female and be when women decide to have children, me the challenge is what encourages me to every meeting I went to was all men. I so the policies around retaining women keep going. The smart criminals are often don’t believe anyone purposely set out during that childbearing, family-raising one step ahead of the police and with to leave me out, but sometimes you sort period have to be far more flexible,” says technology changing at such a fast rate ... of felt left out. I realised I needed to do Debbie, a mother-of-three herself. it’s an increasingly complex role that we something more to help women have to play,” she says. feel confident enough to take Now responsible for I didn’t realise early enough that I had a action – because they had the sensitive government RESPONSIBILITY to bring people on potential and the merit and investigations, criminal the ability, but a lot of them operations responses to crimes a journey with me. It wasn’t until I got weren’t prepared to put their such as illegal drug, firearm towards the top that I realised, ‘Hey, I’m the and animal smuggling, and hand up and apply for things. So I’ve really made an effort only one here, where are all the women?’.” international victim-based over the last five years, during operations, the Assistant “It’s about we as a team and what we as my time in the Queensland Police Service Commissioner is faced with a daunting a community can do to combat our issues.” to make sure that I did things that helped and demanding role, but it’s a challenge While she’s become an unofficial women.” she says she is more than happy to take on ambassador for women in the force, it’s not With this in mind, Debbie pushed – especially if it means paving the way for just the lack of female influence within the for a women’s only leadership program, other ambitious women. ranks that Debbie must deal with, but a which the Australian Institute of Police “I always say to people that if you are constantly evolving world of crime. Management has been successfully running offered an opportunity to do something, “You can tend to lose that perspective for the past three years, and has been unless you absolutely can’t do it, you of what the reality is for the community vocal about doing more to ensure other should take it. That’s why I am now with because you’re dealing with the worst of women, like her, have the opportunity to the AFP.” become leaders. She also took on the role of president for the Australian Council of Women and Policing, ensuring a voice for women in law enforcement. But despite attempts by police services in many states to improve the number of female officers with a 50/50 recruitment policy, the number of women in the forces are still down – making it clear that fixing the problem will be no easy feat. “When I left the Queensland Police Service, it had 28 per cent of females across all ranks. If they continue to recruit at 50/50 for the next 10 years but continue to lose the number of females at the same rate, in 10 years they’ll have only increased to 33.5 per cent. “If you don’t have your retention strategy right, then we’re still going to lose so many females at a certain point in their
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Emollients are creams and lotions that are able to penetrate beyond the top skin layer into the deeper layers, helping to hold water deeper in the skin. Humectants work a bit differently as they draw moisture from the outside in. Ingredients such as hyaluronic acid increase the total amount of water that the skin can hold. The key to finding the right moisturiser is combining all three types of ingredients together. Seeing a skin therapist for a skin assessment will also help you determine the correct moisturiser for your skin’s conditions, making it easier to know what exactly to look for. Remember, if you invest in your skin, it will reward you in the long term. COASTAL PLASTIC SURGERY 19/5 Innovation Parkway, Birtinya Phone: 5437 9333 coastalplasticsurgery.com.au
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Out of the box architecture and a stunning rainforest backdrop is the perfect setting for this breathtaking home at Verrierdale. Its retractable roof opens to reveal a tent-like canopy that allows the family to feel like they are literally living outdoors. Glamping anyone?
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magine lying in bed at night gazing up at the stars, glass walls that disappear to allow the natural breezes and sounds of the idyllic bushland in. That dream became a reality for local couple, Nick and Nicole New, who built their dream home on 15 acres at Verrierdale, just 15 minutes from the beaches of Noosa, last year. Working with revered Sunshine Coast architect Dan Sparks, the couple initially wanted a home that was light, bright and
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airy, with room for their two children, Oliver, 3 and Florence, almost 2, to grow and enjoy the bushland surrounds. But after a meeting with Dan, they fell in love with his innovative plan for something much more special. “We initially wanted an airy threebedroom home with lots of natural light so we didn’t have to turn the lights on during the day,” says Nicole. “We wanted an open-plan living area and a central kitchen where family and profilemag.com.au
friends could perch themselves while we prepared meals and entertained and we wanted rainforest views from all the bedrooms.” What they didn’t expect was a home that not only ticked all their boxes but essentially brings the outside in, allowing exceptional connection with nature. “We met Dan out at the block one day the modern, minimalist feel of the interior. and showed him the site, and he came In the kitchen, the oversized stainlessback six weeks later with something really steel bench is a show stopper as are the unique and special,” says Nicole. beautifully-designed bathrooms complete “Initially he presented us with a with quality fixtures and fittings. pavilion-style house and then he drew us Not only does the home transcend the the plans of a tent house with a sliding boundaries of traditional architecture, its roof, which was nothing like what we had functional design allows the family to enjoy imagined. the best of all “To be honest, at seasons. It’s the central area of the first I wasn’t too sure “The house is house, when you open about the design, really functional,” but when Dan says Nicole. “It the roof and slide the explained it to me allows the breezes doors back and just look in during summer and I could visualise it we couldn’t let it out to the BEAUTIFUL and in winter the go. In the end both sun penetrates RAINFOREST, it’s Nick and I became the concrete slab emotionally invested warming the just magical.” in the roof.” whole house up.” Built by Jaicon Construction, the And although Nicole loves everything modern home itself is a simple low about the home, the kitchen and living pavilion-style design, which is the perfect area is one of her favourite spots. juxtaposition to the soft curves of the “It’s the central area of the house, when cloud-like structure above. you open the roof and slide the doors back Dan had previously only used this type and just look out to the beautiful rainforest, of structure in commercial projects like it’s just magical,” says Nicole. shopping centres and sports stadiums. “Oliver and Florence love the freedom Made from material manufactured in of the land, they go exploring around the France, engineered in Australia and put house and in the bush. We have a little together in the Philippines, the five hundred tree swing and they have all their little square metres of taught translucent fabric gardening tools and I can still see them is most impressive and the talking point of from the house. anyone who visits the home. “Sometimes I have to pinch myself that Inside, the rich timber reveals made we live here, I just love it, it’s a dream from trees from the land are a standout come true.” feature and floor-to-ceiling glass windows open right up to let the outside in. The living area opens up to a huge timber deck. With views of the stunning rainforest, it’s the perfect spot to entertain family and friends. The understated neutral colour scheme and stone flooring perfectly complements
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Adventure photographer Krystle Wright on her quest to live an extraordinary life
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The ‘Crazy Bull’ heads to Brisbane for Regional Flavours, where he shares his favourite recipe using mushrooms
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Place the popping corn in the paper bag and then fold over the opening two or three times. Place in a microwave for 1.5-2 minutes (each microwave is different, stop when the kernels pop quickly). Spread the popcorn out on a silpat lined tray. Melt the chocolate and add the coconut oil to make it a bit easier to pour. Drizzle the chocolate over the popcorn and then sprinkle the chopped almonds on top. Allow to set completely. 78
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“RESEARCH SHOWS THAT BEETROOT AND ITS JUICE CAN LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE, COMBAT INFLAMMATION, AND BOOST STAMINA.”
BRIGHTEN UP A BORING MEAL AND BOOST BOTH THE FLAVOUR AND NUTRITION VALUE BY ADDING A LITTLE BEETROOT. While it may be an Australian favourite, beetroot remains a fairly unusual ingredient in everyday home cooking. But full of nutrients and bursting with flavour, this brightly coloured bulb definitely deserves to be included more often – and not just as a burger topping. Whether you roast it, juice it or blend it with other flavours, beetroot will always add some flair to a dish, and it’s also jampacked with goodness. Research shows that beetroot and its juice can lower blood pressure, combat inflammation, and boost stamina, thanks to the combination of antioxidants and nitrates it contains. It’s also full of fibre and a whole host of other nutrients and minerals, making it great for digestion and much more. It’s even believed to help combat cancer and ward off dementia! The greens are just as beneficial too, rich in iron, calcium and protein – cook them and eat them like you would spinach. So next time you’re cooking, don’t ‘beet’ around the bush – get creative and look for ways to include this tasty superfood.
‘BEET’ IT LETHBRIDGE BRUSCHETTA
A herb and garlic baguette with pickled mussels, cured salmon, and a fresh buffalo mozzarella and herb medley, served with chilli praline and beetroot and feta pesto.
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PESTO 100g feta 100g salted cashews 1 large boiled beetroot 2 cloves garlic 1 tsp of sugar ½ bunch basil 200ml olive oil
PESTO: Blend all ingredients together until creamy. BRUSCHETTA: Finely chop the garlic and place a quarter in a small bowl with a quarter of the herbs and a quarter of the olive oil. Add salt and pepper and mix, then spread on the sliced baguette and bake until crispy. Dice the mussels and salmon into small pieces. Place into a mixing bowl with the remaining herbs, onion, garlic, lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil and tomatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste and roughly combine, before leaving the mixture to rest for five minutes.
BRUSCHETTA 1 jar pickled mussels 1 fresh salmon portion 1 tub fresh buffalo mozzarella 1 lemon ½ cup red onion, finely chopped ¼ cup coriander, finely chopped ¼ cup parsley, chopped 50ml olive oil 2 tbsp cider vinegar Salt and pepper to taste 5 garlic cloves 2 tomatoes, finely chopped 1 sliced baguette or French stick PRALINE 1 cup white caster sugar 1 chilli, chopped
PRALINE: Melt the sugar until golden brown. Spread over a greased tray and sprinkle the chilli over the to top, gently pressing down with a wooden spoon. Refrigerate for 10 minutes. Tap the tray on a bench top until the praline shatters into shards. TO SERVE: Break the mozzarella all over the base of your plate, and add a generous smear of the pesto. After positioning the baguette slices on top, spread a generous serve of the bruschetta mix on the baguette, and garnish with a shard of chilli praline, as pictured. Enjoy with a glass of Lethbridge Pinot Gris.
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Affectionately known as the Crazy Bull, Miguel Maestre entered the culinary industry with a bang – fusing the Spanish ingredients and cooking styles of his heritage with Australian menus.
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orn in Murcia in the south of Spain, Miguel Maestre’s love for food has been prominent from a young age, and is something that has carried through into his high profile culinary career. While you know and love him as a co-host of The Living Room, Miguel has forged a strong and successful reputation in the food industry, starting with his role as head chef of Tony Bilson’s bistro, Number One, when he was just 27, where he also worked alongside fellow celebrity chef Manu Feildel. He then went on to open the biggest Spanish restaurant in Australia, El Toro Loco, at Manly Beach. At age 29, Miguel was invited to cater the Emirates Melbourne Cup, which put him on a national and international stage. Miguel was later recognised and celebrated when His Majesty The King of Spain gave him the highest award a citizen can receive – the Order of Civil Merit, for his “extraordinary service to the nation for the benefit of Spain in the Australian media”. Profile catches up with Miguel ahead of his appearance at Regional Flavours in South Bank Parklands, Brisbane on 15-16 July, where he promises to showcase one of his favourite ingredients – mushrooms, and just how versatile and delicious they can be. profilemag.com.au
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Our FAMILY time really revolved around cooking and SHARING of food.”
PROFILE: TELL US ABOUT YOUR INTRODUCTION TO FOOD AND COOKING. MIGUEL: My inspiration for cooking came
from my mum and my heritage in Spain. My mum comes from a family of 20 and every Sunday there would be a family meal cooked at my grandmother’s house. Our family time really revolved around cooking and sharing of food.
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PROFILE: WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PURSUE COOKING AS A CAREER? MIGUEL: Due to my family history with
food and cooking, I found that this was where my talents lay, and what I was born to do. I didn’t really feel that I was good at anything else. PROFILE: WHAT WAS THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU EVER RECEIVED IN THE KITCHEN? MIGUEL: The best piece of advice that I
received was from an English chef named Jose. He told me, “Not to be scared of pressure, because pressure turns a lump of coal into a diamond!” Pressure makes you stronger and better at what you do. PROFILE: WHAT HAS BEEN THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR CAREER? MIGUEL: I have many highlights. Being
a chef for the Emirates Marquee for Melbourne Cup, the opening day of my first restaurant, El Toro Loco. Also being awarded the Order of Civil Merit of Spain. This was presented to me by the King of Spain.
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PROFILE: WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT FOOD AND COOKING? MIGUEL: The reward of seeing people
I cook for happy and enjoying what I’ve made for them.
PROFILE: WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE DISH TO COOK? MIGUEL: I love cooking Paella Maestre, as
it’s my signature dish and I can adapt it to utilise local ingredients wherever I am.
• 200g quinoa • 1L vegetable stock • 1 large field mushroom, chopped in small cubes • 1 punnet button mushrooms, quartered • 2 cloves garlic, finely diced • Splash olive oil • Splash sherry vinegar • 1 bunch chives, finely chopped • 1 bunch parsley, finely chopped • 6 large iceberg lettuce leaves • 1 small punnet cherry heirloom tomato, quartered • 1/2 Spanish onion, finely diced • 10 green olives, pitted, finely chopped Cook quinoa and vegetable stock in a medium pot on medium heat until quinoa is soft. Set aside. In a large frying pan on high heat, pan-fry mushrooms (save a handful of mushrooms for the salsa), garlic, splash of olive oil and finish with half of the chives and parsley. Mix with quinoa and half of tomatoes. Blanch lettuce leaves in boiling water for 2 seconds and cool down into iced water. Pat dry with paper towel.
cultures and have my children experience different tastes. There really isn’t something that I cook repeatedly. I mix it up!
To assemble raviolo, line the inside of a ladle with glad wrap with enough hanging over the edge to wrap up the parcel. Add lettuce leaf on top of glad wrap and fill with mushroom and quinoa mix. Fold the lettuce leaf closed and tightly close the glad wrap.
PROFILE: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON’T LIKE THE TASTE OF? MIGUEL: I don’t love the aftertaste of mint
Take raviolo out of ladle and steam for one minute (still in glad wrap). Remove glad wrap to serve.
PROFILE: WHEN YOU’RE AT HOME, WHAT IS YOUR GO-TO DISH TO COOK? MIGUEL: I love to cook dishes from all
and chocolate combined. No after dinner mints for me!
To make the salsa, combine tomato, mushrooms, onion, olives, parsley, chives with olive oil and sherry vinegar. Season to taste. Serve raviolo on top of salsa.
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WORDS NICOLE FUGE PHOTOS LANI CARTER VENUE SEASON RESTAURANT NOOSA
As Marilyn Monroe once said, “Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world”. What if you then poured her a glass of wine, sat her at a table with a group of strong and independent local business women, and served her a delicious lunch? Now that’s a powerful combination!
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verlooking the glorious Noosa Main Beach at Season Restaurant, laughter and conversation flowed freely as my beautiful guests Angela Espie and Jo McDonald from La Clinique, Georgina Hammond from Candy Addictions, Maree McGrath from Profile Magazine, and photographer Lani Carter, shared some of the most pivotal moments in the making of ‘me’. This vulnerability prompted a surge of support and love, which was a truly remarkable thing to see, given some of the ladies were only meeting for the first time. Talk about girl power!
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PROFILE: WHAT DO YOU DEFINE AS A POWERFUL WOMAN? GEORGINA: I think a powerful woman is
somebody who knows what they want, has direction and doesn’t waver. Anyone can be powerful in their situation. ANGELA: Passionate. A powerful woman to me is someone who is passionate and it could be about anything, her children, her job, who she is as a woman, when your passion comes through you are at your most powerful. JO: A powerful woman to me is someone who in the face of adversity can be themselves. So you are fully challenged and you can feel yourself sweating, but
you’re yourself and you believe in what you believe in because you’ve worked so hard getting to what you believe in and now you stand by those principles without putting them on someone else. That’s what I think is powerful. MAREE: Mine is similar to Georgina’s actually, a woman who knows what she wants and she gets it.
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PROFILE: WHO IS THE MOST INSPIRING WOMAN YOU KNOW? GEORGINA: My mother, she’s always
believed in me. She’s never stopped something I truly believe in and that has inspired me because it would be so easy to put your foot down. She has always taken the time to listen to me and poured her energy into making that happen, whether it be opening a restaurant at 21 in London, or whether it’s, ‘Mum we’re moving to Australia with your grandchildren aged one and two’, she’s never stopped me. That’s why my mother has inspired me. ANGELA: My mum and my daughter now, we’re really connected. She’s 10 and she inspires me to be better, she has taught me love from a different angle, how to give, how to receive, how to show, how to feel, everything. My mother taught me that and you understand love from that, but to be able to transition that into your children
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it’s a really incredible thing. Raising little girls is a hard job, but she’s inspires me to be the mum who is supportive and kind and knowledgeable, and put boundaries in place – we are raising women. JO: I am particularly inspired by my mum. She’s come from a very European background, where women are in the kitchen and I was brought up that way and inside me was this rebellion, so for me to come through that and inspire my mum, ‘Mum you can be anything, you don’t have to be in the kitchen, to set her free a little bit’, and she’s right by my side now, she’s my biggest supporter. MAREE: Quentin Bryce has always been someone who I look up to. I love the way she dresses, very classical, very powerful and she’s so poised. I really admire her, when she was Governor General I loved to watch her in action, she was just amazing. PROFILE: HAS THERE BEEN A MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU’VE FELT PARTICULARLY POWERFUL? MAREE: It was when I was sales manager
for Census in Brisbane, and I don’t like to use the word powerful but I had a really big team of sales people, at one point there were about 30, and I had chosen to not be in an office, I had chosen to sit out with my sales people, which was kind of out of the box. I distinctly remember a day, standing up and just watching this team of 30 people on the phone and doing their thing and it was a day of victory, I just knew I had nailed it; you know that whatever you do right now can change a sales person’s life, it can change the direction of the company, it was quite a moment and I still remember it as clear as day. It was an amazing feeling, the highlight of my career, incredible. LANI: I have three sons and my first two births were really bad, but my last birth I had a water birth and it was so empowering. I was a totally different person and I just got in there and kicked its arse and I was winning at life, in the most beautiful way. It really was so empowering because I was so afraid I had so much fear and anxiety. GEORGINA: I find that question really hard because of the levels of your life. If you said the most powerful moment in your 20s it was probably getting married at such a young age, opening our own restaurant and having my children, in my 30s it was profilemag.com.au
coming out here knowing no one; in my 40s it was changing my career and creating a new journey. ANGELA: I have always wanted to travel, and after I had some surgery I saved every penny I had for a year and took my daughter to Europe and I remember standing on a mountain in Switzerland and it was the anniversary of my mum’s passing and I remember standing on the mountain and ringing Jo and I can’t even explain the feeling of doing all of that myself. I always thought I would need a husband to be someone and here I was standing there and looking out. The other moment was when Jo and I held a charity event last year on my birthday and I got to get up in front of a whole room full of strangers and tell them my story and I don’t think I’ve ever felt more powerful and more beautiful and more at peace with myself ever, that was a defining moment in my life, that shut the book for me. JO: I remember the day I woke up and said my old life is over, it was the biggest decision I’ve ever had to make. But I had to decide to be me.
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A POWERFUL WOMAN to me is someone who is passionate and it could be about anything, her children, her job, who she is as a woman, when your PASSION comes through you are at your most powerful.”
PROFILE: DO YOU THINK WOMEN DRAW THEIR POWER FROM WITHIN, OR FROM THEIR ENVIRONMENT/THOSE AROUND THEM? MAREE: From within, absolutely, if you
think you are, you are.
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the environment is so much harsher these days, the things women are confronted with now are so difficult, we’re trying to fit into a man’s world, we’re trying to become these equals as human beings and there are people in power who don’t want that to happen, but I really think it’s a state of mind. july 2017
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L A D I E S AT L U N C H R E V I E W SEASON RESTAURANT NOOSA On an unseasonably warm day, Noosa really turned it on for us, which was made evident by the number of people enjoying a leisurely lunch on a weekday. For the unassuming, Season Restaurant is tucked away behind Hastings Street, and is one of the gems in Noosa’s culinary crown; boasting superb views over Noosa’s Main Beach and offering the best in beachfront dining for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week. In keeping with the name of the restaurant, they regularly change their menu to reflect the freshest produce in season, whether that be locally caught seafood, or the freshest of fruit and vegetables. As this was my first visit to the renowned restaurant, I absolutely soaked up the delicious view and atmosphere, and running my eyes over the menu I was equally impressed. With options to suit all appetites, from appetisers to mains, vegetarian options, salads, breads and even something for the kids, it was almost impossible to settle. I ordered the ricotta and basil stuffed zucchini flowers with charred asparagus,
witlof and lemon olive oil; it was delicate and light – ideal for a lunch with the girls, matched with a chilled white wine. The golden crumb coating was a winning combination with the creamy ricotta, and the zucchini flower and asparagus was cooked perfectly, still with a little bite of freshness. While some of the other meals ordered around the table were more generous in size, this was one of the restaurant’s smaller dishes (which the waitress warned me of upon ordering, in case I was more peckish), but it was the perfect size to leave a little room for dessert – which is my favourite meal! Every single item on the dessert menu looked scrumptious, but the standout was the dark chocolate pave, orange blossom fig, pistachio ice cream and soil; as soon as the plate hit the table I was giving myself a high five for ordering so well! The chocolate pave was light and fluffy in texture, while being decadent and rich in taste, perfectly paired with the earthiness of the fig and freshness of the pistachio ice cream, which really packed in the flavour. Each bite was heaven and it presented just as beautifully, as did the white chocolate panna cotta, which I had to sneak a taste of; soft and silky, it had the perfect amount of wobble (which we had to test of course), and the petite pears were the ideal accompaniment. Whether it’s for a lunch with the ladies, a casual brunch, a romantic dinner with your significant other, or maybe a special occasion to celebrate in numbers, Season Restaurant is a feast for the senses. 25 Hastings St, Noosa Heads 5447 3747
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ON THE MENU • Roast chicken salad, jamon, turkish bread croutons, gem lettuce, radicchio, buttermilk dressing and parmesan • Seared ocean trout nicoise salad, white anchovies, seeded mustard dressing • Seared scallops, butifarra negra, cauliflower puree, golden raisins, pine nuts, witlof • Roasted vegetables and Woombye feta salad with hazelnut dressing • Ricotta and basil stuffed zucchini flowers and charred asparagus, witlof, lemon olive oil
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All’ Antica With the arrival of winter, warm comfort food is the order of the day for satisfying cravings, and if you’re hungry for Italian trattoria style cuisine come and discover All’ Antica Italian Restaurant. Crowned the best Italian restaurant on the Sunshine Coast in 2016 by the Australia Good Food Guide, All Antica has spent over 25 years at the forefront of the hospitality industry to perfect their dishes, and is now one of the Coast’s must-try dining experiences. Boasting a warm, intimate atmosphere, this fully licensed restaurant offers an unbeatable combination of traditional dishes from the Northern Alps through to the rich waters of the Mediterranean that surround Sicily, all created using the best local produce and ingredients imported straight from Italy.
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3/115 Point Cartwright Drive, Buddina Phone: 5444 0988 allantica.com.au
Lamkin Lane Espresso Bar If you’re looking for the perfect place to savour a rich, smooth cup of local brew, look no further than Lamkin Lane Espresso Bar in Caloundra. Boasting a variety of flavours including the Lamkin Lane house blend, the Tim Adams Specialty Coffee seasonal blend and an alternating roster of three single-origin coffees, there’s a caffeine fix for every taste. The quaint cafe also serves a variety of sweet treats too, making it the perfect pit stop for a pick-me-up. Open 6am to 4pm Monday to Friday and 7am to 12pm weekends, Lamkin Lane is a must-try for all coastal coffee lovers.
31 Lamkin Lane, Caloundra Phone: 0407 888 787
Aimee Provence High Tea Parlour Despite having only opened in June 2016, Aimee Provence has already made a name for itself thanks to its unique, boutique offerings. Owned and operated by Aimee Russell, this Frenchinspired high tea parlour, and homeware and coffee boutique not only serves incredible high teas, but also showcases the glassblowing skills of her English father, with stunning glassware available for purchase. While they serve tasty coffee and cake, their elegant high teas are next level, making them the perfect place for birthdays, bridal and baby showers, engagement celebrations, or a girls’ get together with a difference.
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INSTANT MISO SOUP RECIPE YOSHIKO TAKEUCHI • SERVES 1
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BANANA FRITTER WITH COCONUT LIME SORBET RECIPE FRANK SHEK
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FOR THE BANANAS
300ml hot water 1/2 tablespoon miso 1/4 teaspoon dashi powder pinch of dried, cut wakame
375g glutinous rice flour 400g coconut cream 80g sugar 250g desiccated coconut 150ml milk 40g sesame seeds
8 ripe bananas 3 tablespoons superfine (caster) sugar 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
Put the miso, dashi and wakame in your mug, pour on the boiling water and stir. INSTANT KIT METHOD: Place squares of cling film on your bench then place the miso, then wakame, then dashi onto each square and twist to close. Then refrigerate or freeze.
Mix all ingredients together until combined.
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Dip into the batter and deep fry at 165°C until golden brown. Do this over 4 batches. Drain on paper towel. Combine the sugar and cinnamon powder and sprinkle on the banana fritters.
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Peel the bananas and cut each in half diagonally.
Serve with a drizzle of palm sugar syrup and scoops of coconut lime sorbet.
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PAVLOVA PARFAITS RECIPE ANNA LISLE • GLUTEN FREE, DAIRY FREE, VEGETARIAN • SERVES 6-8
INGREDIENTS 6 free range egg whites, at room temperature pinch of sea salt 300g caster (superfine) sugar 1 tablespoon cornflour (cornstarch), plus extra for dusting 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract COCONUT LIME CREAM 2 x 400ml tins coconut milk, chilled overnight zest of 1/2 lime 1 banana, peeled and thinly sliced (or any seasonal fruit) 3 kiwifruit, peeled and diced 3 passionfruit, pulp scooped out Preheat oven to 100°C. Line a large tray with baking (parchment) paper and dust with a little extra cornflour. Using hand-held beaters or an electric mixer, whisk egg whites and salt until stiff peaks form. With motor running, add sugar, a tablespoon at a time, whisking until sugar dissolves, around 4-5 minutes. Fold in cornflour, vinegar and vanilla. Transfer to prepared tray, shaping the meringue into a 20cm diameter circle, gently smoothing around the edges and making sure the top is flat. Bake in the middle of the oven for 3 hours. At this point, turn off the oven and leave to cool completely with the door closed. For the coconut lime cream, scoop off the solid top layer of ‘cream’ from the tins of coconut milk and place cream in a clean bowl. Using hand-held beaters or an electric mixer, whisk for 1-2 minutes or until it thickens to the same consistency as whipped cream. Stir through the lime zest. At this point, you may prefer to serve the pavlova whole – simply spread the coconut lime cream on top and scatter with fruit. If making parfaits, gently break up the pavlova into meringue pieces with your hands. Assemble 6-8 glass jars or bowls and layer the meringue shards, lime cream and fruit, building up to the top of the jar/bowl, reserving a little fruit for the top. Serve immediately. NOTE: When choosing your coconut milk, select a brand that has no additives (otherwise it won’t set in the refrigerator).
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LISBON There’s always something to love about every city I visit, but Lisbon is a uniquely charming city. It’s centuries old but has perfected the art of ageing with grace and style. The streets are lined with multi-storey homes adorned in ornate, Moorish tiles. Some are missing, some are cracked, but that’s just part of its charm.
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isbon is Europe’s most western and sunniest capital city, and it successfully won over the hearts of 60 digital nomads last month. It is a hilly, albeit walkable city and I loved spending a month not needing any public transport to get around. Every day I trudged my laptop up the steep cobblestoned back streets, which had worn away over time making it a slippery, dangerous operation. I also learnt to not put all my faith in Siri because she will take you up some exhausting steep mountain to save 30 seconds, as opposed to the more sensible route around it. We touched down in Lisbon late on a Saturday night, buzzing with excitement. Our previous pitstop of Prague was beautiful but freezing, and we were beyond ready to defrost. The image of Lisbon painted in our minds was one of sun and ocean, and the group came together for a beach trip, catching a train up the coast to the city’s most well-known beach district, Cascais. The biggest downside of the month was how real the distance felt from Australia. It was the hardest time difference I’ll have all year. But even with starting later I was still struggling with those early mornings in a city that typically wakes up late and stays up even later. Some of my fellow remotes from the US were flying home for bucks parties and work conferences, but this month it really hit home I can’t be next to loved ones back home when they need me. On the topic of home, one pleasant surprise about Lisbon was the streets lined in jacaranda trees that bloomed just as we arrived. It sent me right back to my childhood.
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There was something about Lisbon that captured the HEARTS of the entire group. The people were KIND, the lifestyle was LAIDBACK and the food was absolutely DELICIOUS.”
While there are endless, amazing restaurants and cool cafes in Lisbon, I was lucky to find the most affordable and delicious places during my first week. I’ll never forget those quiet, local spots decorated with faded blue and white tiles, the special written up on scrap paper in the window and the same old men sipping espressos. I developed such a strong love affair with grilled sardines at these sorts of restaurants that by the end of the month I couldn’t stomach the taste of fish. The pinnacle of taste in Lisbon though, were the luscious little tarts of heaven known as Pasteis De Nata. Locals have it as a quick breakfast on the go, and sweet-tooth foreigners like me lose their marbles over them. A Pastel De Nata is a warm vanilla egg custard nestled in a crisp sweet pastry shell. They have this fascinating history of being invented by monks and the original recipe is still closely guarded. Tasting the Pastel De Nata, found only in a bakery 20 minutes north in Belem, exposed me to a new pastry standard I can’t even fathom. This city is amazing and it is understandable why its popularity is growing at a rate the airport can’t keep up with (I spent four hours in line at customs upon arrival). There was something about Lisbon that captured the hearts of the entire group. The people were kind, the lifestyle was laidback and the food was absolutely delicious. I’ll be Naomi at the 25 back for sure. de A br il Bri fa
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WORDS TAYLA ARTHUR PHOTOS KRYSTLE WRIGHT
Displaying power through her creativity and lust for life, adventure photographer Krystle Wright has paved her own successful career path, proving that when it comes to achieving your goals, not even the sky’s the limit.
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espite her outwardly calm nature, Krystle Wright fidgets in her seat as if she’s itching to get her hands on a camera and seek out some action, although I doubt she’d find it here if she did. Having seen her incredible photography, the contrast of seeing her seated in Profile’s boardroom is almost laughable. While the self-confessed nomad may be in what most of us would consider an everyday setting, it couldn’t be further removed from her usual ‘office’ – a constantly changing, often high altitude backdrop that alternates between breathtaking mountain ranges and canyons, vast oceans and endless stretches of sky. But this by no means curbs her enthusiasm, her passion for her craft clear as she chats to me about her amazing career as an adventure photographer. Krystle always knew she wanted to work outdoors and says it was actually her mum’s suggestion to combine that desire with her creativity through photography. Admitting that at first she was skeptical she would be able to make a living out of it, it’s a risk she’s glad she took.
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“I started picking up all these photography magazines and I remember seeing the work of Adam Pretty (a professional sports photographer) and just instantly knowing, ‘That’s what I want to do’,” she says.
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It’s not so much whether it’s too RISKY, it’s more about whether I have the experience and KNOWLEDGE to find a way to make it work.”
And initially that’s exactly what she did, uprooting her life in Eudlo after finishing university to work in Sydney as a contributing sports photographer for Agence-France Presse and The Sunday Telegraph, where she worked one to two shifts a week. But it was during the time between those jobs that Krystle discovered her true passion, when curiosity drew her to visually document the more extreme sports taking place in the region.
Over her four years in Sydney, she went from using her downtime to photograph surfers, to building a strong network of mountain bikers, kite-surfers and mountain climbers by regularly attending competitions and exhibitions. Despite having the contacts, Krystle knew that in order to make the leap and become a fulltime adventure photographer, she would have to go overseas. “With adventure, there is definitely a market for it, just not so much here in Australia,” she explains. But what really fuelled her decision to take control of her life was an accident that nearly ended it.
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I just want to live an EXTRAORDINARY life.”
In 2011 Krystle was heavily injured in a paragliding crash in Pakistan, which left her unconscious for five minutes and suffering from broken bones, tissue damage and severe bruising after she collided with boulders upon take-off. “After that trip I came back and was like, ‘I don’t want to be in a relationship’. I left Sydney and I quit my job. And what really spurred it on from there was that I had a phone call from an old lecturer at university, and she said, ‘I’ve got this friend I need to put you in touch with’, and so I talked to this guy and he said, ‘Do you want to work in Antarctica?’.”
At 25 years of age, Krystle packed up her belongings and moved them into a shipping container on her grandparent’s property, before spending a season photographing wildlife and scenery in Antarctica. “After that, I was coming back to Australia and I stopped off in New Zealand to see my sister, and I remember sitting there thinking, ‘Why am I going back to Australia? What’s waiting there for me?’. So I started booking these trips. I just thought, ‘It’s now or never, I’ve got to see if I can make this work’.” It was hard getting work in the
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It’s finding that balance of whether you’re just being worried because it’s NATURAL to FEAR, versus that FEELING that something is wrong.”
beginning, and Krystle says in those early days of having to find clients, she struggled. But her immense talent and hard work paid off, and soon it was the clients who were coming to her. “For some reason I think I carry this blind confidence that everything’s going to work out, especially when it’s what I’ve been taught – that it’s patience, persistence, to keep knocking on every door possible,” she says. From hiking alone and unarmed through blizzards and polar bear territory at Baffin Island to scout the best location to capture base-jumpers in action, to flying at 7000 feet in a tandem paraglider over Pakistan, Krystle isn’t afraid to go out of her way to get the perfect shot. “It comes down to knowledge of the sport. It always helps to understand what is going to happen,” she says. “There is always a safe angle to take – if all else fails, it’s easy to find something that will just work. But ideally I’ll see something that inspires me and I’ll take that risk and hopefully create something different and unique.” But she insists her job itself isn’t as dangerous as it may appear. “It’s not so much whether it’s too risky, it’s more about whether I have the experience and knowledge to find a way to make it work,” she says. “It’s finding that balance of whether you’re just being worried because it’s natural to fear, versus that feeling that something is wrong.” That’s not to say she doesn’t get it wrong, but the injuries she has had over the years – a broken ankle, missing teeth, damaged knees – are all lessons in the power of Mother Nature. “They weren’t extreme, they were just stupidity,” she laughs. Another downside is loneliness, and while she loves the travel, Krystle confesses that her often-solo work can be hard to deal with, especially when she has no one to share some of her most amazing experiences with. But she wouldn’t change it for the world and by taking her life and career into her own hands, Krystle has become a well known name in the industry, contracted to do work for a plethora of publications as well as Red Bull and Canon Australia. “I’m so grateful for the opportunities and doors being opened for me thanks to my work,” she says. “I just want to live an extraordinary life.” That she is.
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July PROFILE MAGAZINE JULY LAUNCH
This month we’ll be taking our hats off in acknowledgement of the Sunshine Coast’s amazing leading ladies. Join the team as we celebrate the launch of The Powerful Women Issue at the Ausmar show home at Lighthouse Circuit in Birtinya, where guests will be treated to delicious canapes and bubbles as they mingle with other like minded business people and rub shoulders with our featured stars. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online.
5 GIVE ME 5 FOR KIDS FINAL REVEAL OUTSIDE BROADCAST
Come along to the Alex Surf Club from 6am to 9am to see the Mix FM team officially reveal how much the Sunshine Coast has managed to raise throughout the month of June in support of Give Me 5 For Kids. Mark and Caroline will be there broadcasting live throughout the morning, so join them for a free bacon and egg brekky and celebrate the Coast’s generosity in helping sick kids. wishlist.org.au/Events/MixFMGM54K-151/
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21-30 JULY NOOSA ALIVE! FESTIVAL
Immerse yourself in the cultural experiences of this artistic extravaganza, as some of the world’s best performers descend on various venues around Noosa. Headlined by The Voice’s Naomi Price and her much anticipated performance of Lady Beatle, and featuring shows by the likes of Lior and Queensland Ballet, there is plenty of magic to witness over the week. Ticket prices vary, so see the website for more details.
VILLAGE WEDDING EXPO
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Once a year Montville showcases local wedding providers at the Village Wedding Expo. Come up to their beautiful village in the scenic Sunshine Coast Hinterland and discover why this is a premiere wedding destination. Plan your dream day with the best of their wedding providers in the heritage halls and under the marquees on the Village Green from 9.00am to 3.30pm on Sunday, 16 July. Free entry. Register to win great prizes! avillagewedding.com.au
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29-30 JULY HEAL YOURSELF EXPO
Come along to the Millwell Road Community Centre in Maroochydore from 9.30am to 4.30pm over the weekend and weave your way through the enlightening plethora of stalls, workshops, demonstrations, presentations and performances. Learn how to take control of your physical, emotional and spiritual health, with various speakers, therapists and spirit guides present on the day. Tickets are $5. healyourselfexpo.com 94
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22 JUNE FILM: DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL Get the family together for a hysterical day at the cinemas with Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul set to hit cinemas on 22 June in time for school holidays. Based on the book series by Jeff Kinney, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise is back in time for the June/July school holidays. This time, Greg Heffley (Jason Drucker) convinces his family to go on a road trip to visit their 90-year-old grandmother for her birthday, with the ulterior motive of attending a nearby gamer convention. With a disorderly family consisting of a wimpy kid, an older teenage brother with an attitude, a baby, and two embarrassing parents, predictably none of their plans turn out the way they want them to, with a slew of hilarious issues arising along the way. One thing is certain though – this awkward combination will definitely make for an interesting car ride.
DIRECTOR David Bowers. CAST Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Alexa Blair Robertson, Charlie Wright, Jason Drucker and Beth Keener.
CONCERT: ENOCH ARDEN Taking to the Concert Hall stage on 4 July as part of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) Twilight Notes series, Enoch Arden will have audiences enchanted with its clever storytelling. Combining the charming music of German composer Richard Strauss with the epic poetry of great Romantic era poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden promises to be an emotionally engaging experience for QPAC audiences.
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Narrated by John Bell AO and accompanied on piano by the incredibly talented Simon Tedeschi, Enoch Arden shares the tragic story of a shipwrecked seaman who returns home to find his wife married to his best friend and eventually dies of a broken heart. Enoch Arden comes as the third individual concert of QPAC’s six-part Twilight Notes series, a collection of intimate musical discoveries showcasing the world’s most cherished chamber artisans, and for this particular performance audiences will get to witness the enthralling storytelling of the founder of Bell Shakespeare John Bell, along with the musical magic of internationally acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi. If you’re a lover of classical music, this is one series you do not want to miss, so be sure to take advantage of the world-class talent on display. PHOTO: NAOMI HAMILTON PHOTOGRAPHY
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A star of Australian stage and screen, John Wood first captured national attention for his role of Michael Rafferty in Rafferty’s Rules back in the ‘80s, before playing Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon in the much-loved ‘90s television series, Blue Heelers. These days, he’s showing no signs of slowing down, with the seasoned actor returning in season five of The Doctor Blake Mysteries on ABC later this year and appearing in Hamish & Andy’s current Nine Network series, True Story. Catch John when he performs at the Events Centre Caloundra on 6 July as part of the hilarious stage show, Bakersfield Mist. I grew up in… the Ringwood/Croydon area in outer Melbourne. It was pretty much the bush when we moved there but it’s now a suburb. I had a very ordinary, typical childhood, but a happy one. Unlike most of my peers I actually liked school. I was a boy scout and played footy and cricket, but I had little talent at either. My first job was... a school holiday job at Angliss’ Abattoir and Meatworks, where my father had worked as a cold storage labourer since returning from the war. I got a proper job with the railways as a clerk much later. If I could be better at anything, it would it be… many things, but particularly music. I never really learned because pianos were expensive – as were tennis racquets, believe it or not. When I’m not working... I read, I write (sometimes even for money), and I play guitar, even more badly now that I have rheumatoid arthritis. I also work around the house and muck around with vintage cars. My favourite character to play was… possibly Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Or Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. If I couldn’t act, I… don’t know what I’d do. I have no skill or talent for anything else. Besides, I’ve never really wanted to do anything else. I’m currently reading... Nutshell by Ian McEwen. Levon Helm’s look at his life with The Band is also very interesting, as are any of Ian Rankin’s Rebus novels. The quality I most admire in other people is... truthfulness. The person I would most like to meet is... Pete Townshend (the lead guitarist and songwriter of The Who) because of his amazing use of words as song lyrics, not to mention those incredible power chords. I think he’s pretty much a genius. 98
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