BUSINESS Real estate tycoon, John McGrath, jumps out of the Shark Tank and into the hot seat
“It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you, always.” OPRAH WINFREY
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GOURMET Find out what made former mayor, Joe Natoli go back to his roots and open a fresh food business with his brother
Lisa Wilkinson opens up about her incredible media career
SHINING THE SPOTLIGHT ON SUCCESSFUL WOMEN WHO ARE MAKING THEIR MARK!
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This month’s issue of Profile is all about successful women and boy do we have an amazing line up for you!
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one more so than our gorgeous cover girl, Lisa Wilkinson! Journalist, editor, TV presenter and currently co-host of the Nine Network’s popular Today show, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Lisa for a candid chat about the successes and challenges she has faced throughout her stellar career. Passionate about encouraging young girls to follow their dreams no matter what, Lisa is a wonderful role model for the next generation of aspiring young women in the media. Anna Rawlings sits down with Joan Sheldon, an incredible woman who joined politics in the male-dominated political scene of the 1990s and went on to become Queensland deputy premier, treasurer, party leader, women’s rights advocate and worthy parliamentarian. Now, at 72-years-of-age, she is just as passionate about politics and is still doing her bit for the local community. Yvette Luciano opens up about her battle with breast cancer and her courageous climb back from this incidious disease to create her dream business, Earth Events. Her story will move and inspire you. Our About Business section is action packed too. We chat with real estate tycoon John McGrath from Shark Tank and I catch up with the Blokes About Town for their predictions on the Sunshine Coast real estate market over the next 12 months. Our gourmet section is packed with mouthwatering stories and recipes and our style queen Tamara Wrigley brings us up to date on all things fashion! We hope you enjoy this fabulous “successful women” issue of Profile magazine! Here’s to strong women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. - author unknown
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Lisa Wilkinson Queen of hearts.
Lisa Wilkinson opens up about her incredible media career.
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people helga dalla
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secret life joan sheldon
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John McGrath jumps out of the Shark Tank and into the hot seat.
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138 the last word caroline o’connor
Caitlyn Shadbolt Me and my guitar.
Caitlyn Shadbolt talks about life and music after X Factor. .
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life storey chris clout
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winter shoe robe tamara wrigley
confused about selling? jason jaeger
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fashion
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real facts
style counsel sheree johnstone
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beauty
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the property window dan perryman
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lifestyle change in retirement tanya mungomery
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the good inspector mark rowlingson
Political trail-blazer
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homegrown janelle drummond
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122 taste john robinson
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110 the sports panel
126 chef profile terry quirke
green thumb juliana wassink
CULTURE 133 tricia taylor
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charity the give back project
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goodlife lisa mills
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health advice
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102 everything mindful craig levitt
SPORT 105 set sail
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Keeping it fresh
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GOURMET 114 joe and anthony natoli 116 ladies at lunch 119 recipe
120 ashleigh bareham
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SOCIALS CHRIS VERMEULEN, BILLY MOORE, JANELLE WALSH, MICHAEL O’CONNOR AND LIANNE DICKSON
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The June issue of Profile Magazine officially launched in true foodie fashion as the Big Top Market Fresh was transformed into a networking hub. Under twinkling lights strung across the ceiling of the ‘Wet Market’, guests devoured plate after plate of delicious locally-grown and prepared food from Hello Harry, Machu Picchu, Zahtar and Piano Bar as well as tasting some of the food on offer from stalls within the market. To cap off the delicious treats, Ideas in Icing whipped up a musk-inspired masterpiece.
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MAKE A CHOICE, TAKE A CHANCE, BE THE CHANGE Alli Grant and Julie Cross joined forces to bring their Make a Choice, Take a Chance, Be the Change show to the Maroochy RSL on 11 June. The show had audience members in stitches as they took everyone on a journey to find the courage needed to quit the quest for perfection and make friends with their flaws, share their sparkle, love themselves, embrace change and own their story. photos Profile Magazine
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SC FALCONS Sunshine Coast’s Rugby League Sunshine Coast Falcons are gearing up for a stellar 2015 season. The Falcons will take on the Mackay Cutters team at the Sunshine Coast Stadium in their seventh home game of the season. Head to Sunshine Coast Stadium, the home of the SC Falcons, to watch the best of our local league and cheer them on. www.scfalcons.com.au
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Art on Cairncross is celebrating their 20th anniversary in art galleries on the Sunshine Coast with an exhibition by their artists, inspired mostly by aspects of the Glasshouse Mountains. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm at 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny.
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Charmaine Wilson’s gift as a medium was discovered in 1999, she has since gone on to communicate with the spirit world and was named Australian Psychic of the Year in 2005, and 2009 Queensland Psychic of the Year. In 2008 she was the winner of The One, a nationwide television search for Australia’s most gifted psychic. On Saturday 11 July at The Events Centre in Caloundra, Charmaine will give her audience opportunity to connect with those who have passed over as she comes to the Sunshine Coast as part of her Happy Memories tour. Tickets from $50. www.theeventscentre.com.au
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This festival offers an array of art and culture including music, theatre, dance, film, food, forms, literature, visual arts and workshops. Set in the Noosaville region, the festival was established in 2002 and has since brought an incredible variety of local, national and international talent to the Sunshine Coast. There will be more than 75 free and ticketed events to attend. www.noosalongweekend.com
On Friday 17 July, hundreds of schools, businesses, clubs and groups throughout Australia will wear their comfiest pyjamas to raise awareness of disadvantaged children in foster care and the valuable work The Pyjama Foundation does for these kids. Currently there are 43,000 kids in foster care in Australia and statistics show that a staggering 75 per cent of these kids will not complete schooling. Pyjama Angels aims to reverse this cycle of disadvantage and The Pyjama Foundation supports and gives children in foster care the opportunity to change the direction of their life with learning life skills and confidence. Registrations are now open for National Pyjama Day. www.thepyjamafoundation.com
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Deborah Hutton is keynote speaker for Connect 2015, a Maroochydore Chamber of Commerce event at the Mooloolaba TAFE. Deborah has covered the landscape of Australian media for over 30 years and as a business person, publisher and founder of Balance by Deborah Hutton, will share tools that have kept her at the top of her game. Firestarter founder Aaron Wood, RedEye founder Wayne Gerard, CSIRO principal scientist in strategic foresight Dr Stefan Hajkowicz and atmail CEO Zach Johnson join the speaker line-up. Tickets cost $199 which include lunch, morning and afternoon tea, as well as canapés and a drink at the post-event networking function. www.connect2015.com.au.
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL SHOWCASE The crème de la crème of the 2015 Sydney Comedy Festival will take the stage at Nambour Civic Centre on Friday 24 July. The line-up features the best of local and international comics, with some fresh new talents to leave your belly sore from a night of hilarity and laughter. With last year’s tour success attracting crowds of thousands, the 2015 showcase tour is set to be the biggest yet. The funniest night of entertainment to hit the Sunshine Coast starts at 8pm, and tickets start from $30. www.scvenuesandevents.com.au
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Australia's leading lady of journalism and television presenting, Lisa Wilkinson will grace the stage at Maroochy RSL on Friday, 31 July. Think Speakers and Events will proudly present the evening, as Lisa shares her incredible, trail-blazing journey through two decades in the Australian media landscape. From publishing to radio and television, the now co-host of the Today show, has a relaxed and informative presenting style that has won her a legion of fans, and will captivate the local audience in this very special evening event. The appearance is scheduled following a 5.30pm to 7pm champagne and canapes courtesy of Profile Magazine's new issue launch, with the speaking event from 7pm. Tickets are $77. www.thinkspeakersandevents.com.au
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LET’S CHAT
NICOLE FUGE SENIOR JOURNALIST PROFILE MAGAZINE
Let’s chat about success
What is success? It’s a loaded question with a multitude of answers as everyone has a different definition of what makes a person successful. It was a realisation which dawned on me while chatting with local milliner Cindy Vogels who was floored by my success in the media – ‘how strange’ I thought, as I walked back to the Profile office, ‘me successful?’
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ut it got me thinking though, what is success? I had always considered someone to be deemed successful by the dollar value of their bank account, but Cindy’s comment made me sit up and take notice of my eightyear journalism career. I often hear the word “success” being tossed around like nobody’s business, everyone patting each other on the back and boosting them up on a golden pedestal. On the exterior they paint the picture of perfection, but deep down, are they truly successful? How is success measured anyway? Success also changes throughout your life and where your priorities sit at the time – a university student will feel a swell of success sweep over them as they’re awarded a high distinction, if you’re a new mum you’ll no doubt be doing fist pumps when you clock up five hours
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sleep, and a business leader will count their success by every rung they climb on the promotional ladder. Before writing this column I did a bit of research into what makes a person successful and found the Daily Mail recently compiled a list of the six traits of a successful woman, it went a little like this.
Assertiveness Aggressiveness Empathy Ego-strength Stress tolerance Bringing vitality and enthusiasm to your work
There are some interesting characteristics in that list and some that I would never initially consider to be a trait of a successful woman, take aggressiveness for example, but I guess like a perfect recipe, when you mould them all together they do create the cast of someone pretty spectacular. In my experience, I’ve found the most successful people are those who don’t spend all of their time tooting their own horns, they are the ones working extremely hard behind the scenes getting the job done. I believe achieving success is a careful balance between deeming yourself successful, having your peers consider you to be successful and someone they strive to emulate, and the number of goals you’re kicking – personally and professionally. profilemag.com.au
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One plus one equals two, and two is not one without the other one — that’s the life of a twin. International award-winning photojournalist, Helga Dalla is capturing this incredible bond in a fascinating series of photographs, and using them to change the lives of twins around the world.
am two centimeters shorter than my sister, my face is slightly rounder and my feet are half a size smaller. These are the only distinct differences between us, we share everything else, including 99.9 per cent of each other's genes. When we were young, people were captivated by us. They would stop and ask Mum a bizillion questions like, ‘how do you tell them apart?’ And, ‘are their personalities different?’ We didn’t understand the hype. To Emma and I, we were just sisters, womb buddies. It wasn’t until I met Helga Dalla did I fully understand people’s interest with identical twins and why our bond should be considered special. The Sunshine Coast photographer and author is about to release her fourth book in the series, A World of Twins, capturing the unique lives of Australian twins through a stunning collection of photographs and words. Helga has photographed hundreds of sets of twins and triplets, some of whom she has had the pleasure of documenting through every stage
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of their little lives. She says a bond between twins is not easy to see with the naked eye, but it’s a whole other story through the lens of a camera. “I was photographing these twins playing in the sand and just talking to their mother as I snapped away. There were a few moments when they looked at each other and didn’t speak, but they smiled. It’s those candid moments between twins that are the good ones, when you think you know enough, then you don’t,” says Helga. Her fascination with twins began six-years-ago during a photography workshop with renowned Sunshine Coast photographer and icon of the creative world, Colin Beard. As part of an assignment, Helga was asked to pick a topic and produce a series of moving photographs, which would later be published. “He told me, ‘You have got to be really passionate about it otherwise you’re just not going to excel, you’re not going to throw everything into it’,” says Helga. Her husband’s children, fraternal twins Luke and Lauren, gave her profilemag.com.au
“It’s those candid moments between twins that are the good ones, when you think you know enough, then you don’t.”
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the idea to photograph twins during a family holiday when talking about their differences and how people were fascinated with them as children. “I thought, that’s it, I need to photograph twins. They are incredibly interesting, it’s a unique topic and I was passionate about the idea, and still am,” says Helga. “Once people found out what I was doing, it was like a domino, they knew of people who knew people… “I then thought, maybe I could do this all around Australia. I created a Facebook page and put it out there and all of a sudden people were willing to pay to be in the book, which made it easy to travel. I have now done volumes two, three and four is with the designer at the moment.” Throughout her years of photographing twins, Helga has met and remained friends with dozens of families who have shared their stories with her. Some of these include the story of Cara and Jacob, whose mother died of an aggressive brain tumour shortly after their birth. Helga wrote in her book, ‘One morning in late 2012, I came across a multiple birth social media post asking for donations for eight-month-old twins who had just lost their mother. My heart ached and I made contact straightaway to find out how to donate. Then I realised that I could share their story by offering them a place in the book and I was delighted when Brian, their father agreed’. She says Brian’s determination to raise the children, his courage and resilience was beautiful to capture and an honour to publish. Another intriguing story of Helga’s was meeting adult identical twins Coral and Ruby in 2012. She wrote, ‘These sisters are so alike and so in tune with each other, it’s both fascinating and beautiful. Luckily for me, they wore different coloured tops that day. I also remember their matching colourful tattoos and black cars with number plates’. Another reason Helga has continued her work with twins is due to the community feedback july 2015
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“The community fascinates me as to how they think of twins, and then talking to twins and parents of twins it fascinated me to how they think they are perceived.”
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from her books, which has also earned her national and international awards including the Summer Award at the third International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography. “It’s not just the bond they have but how people perceive them,” Helga shares. “The community fascinates me as to how they think of twins, and then talking to twins and parents of twins it fascinated me to how they think they are perceived.” Another passion of Helga’s is to use her work to help others in third world countries. She created a website, www.aworldoftwins.com, with a goal to sponsor 100 sets of twins who are currently living in poverty. “A couple of years ago I met with Queensland manager of Compassion Australia and I told them what I was doing and I asked if they had any twins in need of help. They sent me a profile of a set
of twins in south-west Africa, Israel and Sephora, and I sponsored them and have for the past two years now. “Every time I mentioned it people would say how they would like to do that, but they just can’t afford it. Then I thought, if I start this ‘a world of twins’, that for a fraction of the price, the cost of an apple a day, they could collectively sponsor twins.” The foundation raises money through a collective sponsorship, providing twins with access to education, health care, development programs and to give support to the families. Over the course of six years, Helga’s work has progressed from hobby and passion to a life’s work. With the click of a finger and a talented eye for the unseen, she is making twins around the world realise they are special — in more ways than one. profilemag.com.au
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First lady Four decades ago, a politically-minded mother-of-three was spurred into joining her local party. What followed was a career of firsts as Joan Sheldon became Queensland deputy premier, treasurer, party leader, women's rights advocate and worthy parliamentarian.
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he halls of the Queensland Parliament House in Brisbane have borne quiet witness to a procession of influential politicians since its establishment in 1868. In the thenmale dominated era of the early 1990s, one such powerful figure took a seat in the form of a woman who would go on to trail-blaze Queensland politics. During her impressive 14-year political career, Joan Sheldon sat as Member for Caloundra, leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland from 1991 to 1998, and during the Borbidge-Sheldon Government from 1996 to 1998 served as Deputy Premier for the Liberal Party, Treasurer and Minister for the Arts. As I interview Joan, 72, in her Caloundra home, she shares her delight at seeing both myself as journalist, and Rebecca, our photographer, working on her story – Joan is pleased to see “two beautiful, young women” successfully working in media. Coming from a woman who was the first female Deputy Premier in Queensland, and the first female Treasurer in Australia, this is treasured praise. “I was proud, but because a female hadn’t held these positions before I was also under a lot of scrutiny as you can imagine. But I enjoyed the roles, I wanted to try and make a difference, to do something for Queensland and hopefully I achieved some of that,” Joan says, gracefully. Born in Bundaberg, schooled by the Brigidine Nuns at Soubirous College in Scarborough, and a physiotherapy degree from the University of Queensland under her belt; Joan started her professional life with two years at the Mater Hospital, before marrying husband John and welcoming three sons in five years, during which time she lectured part-time at UQ before establishing a physio practice in Wickham Terrace. “I’d been interested in the Liberal Party and politics for some time,” says Joan. “I remember driving home after picking up one of our little chaps at kindy and I had the three boys in the car who were very small, and at that stage under Gough profilemag.com.au
SECRET LIFE Whitlam the economy of our country was going down the tubes, we couldn’t pay our defence forces, we couldn’t pay public servants and they were trying to raise money ... to balance the budget, or get the money into the budget to spend really.” “And that’s when I remember being really concerned.” So in 1975, Joan and husband John joined their local Liberal Party branch, assisting with the organisation and campaign committees, before relocating to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in 1984. In 1990, the National Party sitting member for Caloundra had just retired, and Joan, who had by then firmly entrenched herself in the local community, was asked by the Liberal Party to run for the seat, which had interestingly previously been held by Frank Nicklin for 22 years, and Mike Ahern, both Premiers of the state. Joan won the seat, and the region welcomed, in another first for females, Joan Sheldon as Member for Caloundra. “I remember the media saying, ‘So what are you going to achieve?’ And I said, ‘I’m going to be Deputy Premier of the State and Treasurer’, and they said, ‘Oh yeah’. And a few years later, I was,” she laughs. Diminutive in figure but with a backbone of steel and the interminable mind of a driven and highly intelligent woman, it’s evident Joan in her political heyday was a force to be reckoned with; a quiet pillar of integrity and grace among the sometimes aggressive pull and thrust of the political arena. And in her footsteps, many more women have taken seats on various political benches – including Prime Minister. As for passing the baton to other female politicians, Joan says, “I still think it’s more difficult for women, although there are many more women now. I firmly believe, that as women make up more than half of the population in Australia, then they should be represented in the seats of power, both in Parliament, in the corporate world, in media, the whole lot.” And as a mother herself, Joan tried to introduce more reasonable work hours to Parliament, as well as advocating women’s rights. “Politics is very demanding, it’s not just your time in Parliament, it’s your electorate and all the things you have to attend, and as a leader of course, that makes it doubly so because you have to be around the entire state,” she says. “I made sure in my position that we had more women, when the minister came up with a board that didn’t have a reasonable amount of women on it, I’d send the board back until they did. I brought in awards for women who were achieving in the public service and I also encouraged, particularly young women of ability, to look at politics as a future for them because I felt it was important we had more women in there.”
Joan stayed in Parliament for six years after losing government to the “One Nation juggernaut” taking 11 Liberal Party seats. “Then I decided after nearly 14 years I had had enough, so I retired.” Leaving politics could have been the end of Joan’s story, but she went on to sit on the State Library board and chair the Queensland Ballet, building it up to include Mao’s Last Dancer, Li Cunxin, as artistic director. Joan also chaired the board of St Leo’s College at the University of Queensland for 11 years, and she is also currently, and has been for four years, the Ethics and Integrity Commissioner for the Local Government Association of Queensland, after assisting to write the legislative Code of Ethics for Queensland Parliament and being on the Ethics committee during her days in Parliament. “Now, I advise 630 elected members, councillors, mayors and CEOs on matters of ethics and integrity,” Joan explains. “I think people have a right to think that, at all levels, their politicians have to act firstly in their best interests and secondly with integrity and accountability.” Her steadfast values and nurturing morals served Joan well during her time in politics and now today, as a grandmother to five beautiful granddaughters, and Sunshine Coast resident. “I love the Sunshine Coast, I really enjoyed my work in the electorate, it’s a great honour really to represent the people and have them elect you again and again and I think it’s a beautiful place to live,” Joan reflects. “As a citizen now, I would like to see the Sunshine Coast flourish. I’d like to see more of a depth of industry now than we have. I’m also fairly passionate on making sure we look after our local environment.” Something Joan appreciates by keeping busy and active within the community. “Maybe one day I’ll get to sit in the sun and read a book,” she smiles. And if it were her autobiography, what a read it would be.
“It’s a great HONOUR really to represent the PEOPLE and have them elect you again and again.”
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Wife, mother, mentor, journalist and one of the most respected hosts on Australian television, Lisa Wilkinson has blazed a trail through the Australian media landscape. Ingrid Nelson chats with the media mogul and discovers a little more about what makes her tick.
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hen a 19-year-old Lisa Wilkinson answered a tiny three-line advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald for a receptionist/editorial assistant/girl friday at Dolly magazine she had no idea it was to be the beginning of a stellar media career. In fact, just two years later, the ambitious young journalist found herself at the helm of what was, and still is regarded as the “bible” for teenage girls when she became editor of the popular national magazine, tripling its circulation during her reign. “It was back in the days when the Sydney Morning Herald divided the job ads into women and girls and boys and men,” says Lisa, laughing out loud at the memory. “Whenever I talk to groups of young women these days I literally hear peals of laughter because it’s such a foreign thing for them to think that was even legal. So we have definitely made some headway in terms of how far we have come!” Lisa vividly recalls her first day at Dolly like it was yesterday – knees shaking, heart pounding, full of hopes and dreams and no idea what to expect, she walked nervously through the front door just hoping she would be good enough to answer the phone. july 2015
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done before. I always fit my personal life around my work. “Personally and professionally, jumping off that cliff was the best thing I did. Because I left knowing it was the right thing, even though many in the industry said are you crazy, you have been at Cleo for 10 years. It is the highest selling women’s lifestyle mag per capita in the world – you can write your own ticket, well my own ticket was my family.” It wasn’t long though before opportunities in both radio and television came knocking and Lisa says although broadcast journalism was not something she had designs on at any point of her career, she tried her hand at both. “I loved magazines and I could go back there tomorrow. I always loved the creative process of putting a magazine together and leading a team. There was nothing about working in magazine that I didn’t absolutely love. Leaving it behind was difficult,” she says. “I started doing Beauty and the Beast with Network Ten. It was a great training ground for me and a great time to try my hand at unscripted TV work. I got to work with a great mix of women on the show including Ita Buttrose, Jo Griggs and Gretel Killeen.” It was during this stint that Lisa was noticed by Network 7 and the rest, as they say, is history. “I was working on Weekend Sunrise and filling in for Mel from time to time with Kochie. Then I got the call from Channel 9 offering me the Today show. “Leaving Sunrise, which was riding high at the time and well ahead in the ratings, people thought I needed my head read to move to the underdog. But I grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney so I am a great believer in the underdog. I was certainly a great believer in the Today show and once I met Karl Stefanovic, and having seen him on TV, I knew he was a really good broadcaster. He is such fun, it’s like working with my naughty little brother,” she laughs. “I also knew there was a new executive producer on the show, Tom Molone, who was a mate. I had worked with him in radio and I knew between Tom and Karl this show was going to start working very soon and if they wanted me to be part of that process I knew I was on to a winner.” But as is often the case with successful people, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Lisa. In fact, just recently, Lisa opened up about the incessant bullying she was subjected to during her high school years. “While it really rocks your confidence and your sense of self I had to try and block it out as much as I could. But it’s hard when you are isolated and sitting by yourself in the corner of the playground and you feel sick and you can’t eat lunch because you live in fear today might be the day when they approach you again en masse. “It wasn’t until the last Year 12 exam that I made a promise to myself that I would never again allow someone to dictate who I was and what I was capable of. It was a firm promise and one I keep to this very day. It was a very liberating moment and I remember it like it was yesterday.” It wasn’t until many years later, when Lisa opened up about her bullying on the Today show that she received an emailed apology from one of the gang members and discovered why she was the target of their attacks. “She told me it was because the leader of the gang’s boyfriend thought I was really pretty, so she thought if she re-arranged my face, I wouldn’t be so pretty anymore.”
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“I could never have predicted what would happen from there,” says Lisa. “The attitude I have now is the same as I had then. It was one of enormous gratitude of being lucky enough to find that job in the paper, to be in the right place at the right time, to put my hand up and go for it and back myself.” Lisa recalls being given her first task at the teen magazine selecting the poems from the readers submissions for the popular column ‘Poet’s Corner’. “The previous editorial assistant was being promoted to fashion editor. She apologised and said, ‘I’m sorry we have left you with all the submissions for Poet’s Corner, everyone hates that job’,” she says. “My heart skipped a beat because I had read Dolly for seven years before joining and I used to pour over Poet’s Corner and compare myself to these girls who wrote in, it made me feel confident that I wasn’t alone and we were all trying to find our way in the world. “I remember hearing those words and there was a clunk in my heart because I thought it was such a privilege. She saw a big mess, a pain in the neck, what I saw were the hearts and minds and tears and fears and emotions and frustrations and love and rejections of what it is to be a teenager. “It was a job I kept up until the day I left Dolly seven years later because it kept me in touch with who our audience was. If you forget who your audience is, and this goes for any business, but particularly in the media, if you forget what drives them, what their concerns are and what really matters to them then you have lost touch with your readers, listeners and viewers. It’s a lesson I have never forgotten.” It wasn’t long before the bosses noticed Lisa’s drive and natural talent and she was headhunted by the late Kerry Packer who offered her the editorship of the iconic Cleo magazine. Over the next decade, Lisa guided the magazine to new circulation highs, making it the number one selling women’s lifestyle magazine per capita in the world. Lisa is refreshingly candid and honest about her climb to the top of her game, freely admitting there were times when she simply had to take a risk and “back herself”. “It’s about taking a punt sometimes and jumping off a cliff,” she says passionately. “With every move I’ve ever made I’ve always thought, they haven’t found me out yet! They don’t actually know that I’m not ready for that! I’m only 50 per cent ready, but if they think I’m ready then I’m just going to keep quiet about what I don’t know. I’m going to learn on the job and stay strong and not listen to the white noise and naysayers and people who think I’m not up to it because I know I’m not up to it but if I keep going I will be.” Married to journalist, best-selling author and former Wallaby and rugby international, Peter FitzSimons, the couple has three children, sons Jake, 21 and Louis, 18 and daughter Billi, 17. Chatting with Lisa, it is immediately apparent her family is the centre of her universe and her number one priority. So I am not surprised to discover that after a hugely successful decade as editor of Cleo and at the peak of her career, Lisa decided to take a massive leap of faith and follow her heart to leave the coveted position to raise her growing family. “It coincided with falling pregnant with my second child. We had one healthy child and were about to have a second and my husband Peter and I knew we wanted to have more children so I decided to take time out to be a mum and invest in my personal life, which I had not
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However, despite her harrowing experience, Lisa says schoolyard bullying is often the result of the perpetrator’s experience with domestic violence and is a staunch supporter of reducing the shocking statistics we are currently facing in Australia. “What I discovered was domestic violence made these girls powerless in the home so bullying at school gave them back the power. Domestic violence in this country is at crisis point. In 2015 up to two women a week will die at the hands of a partner. This is a national crisis. The flow on effect is horrendous, those kids will be going to school and bullying other kids. It’s the only way they can take control and that’s the way they think the world works,” she says, the passion in her voice on the other end of the phone line is palpable. In fact, Lisa is championed as a mentor and role model for young women and is only one of three women to speak at the prestigious Andrew Ollie Lecture for which she received huge acclaim. She has also been responsible for helping other young women achieve their dreams and is a big believer in paying it forward. “I think when you find yourself in the fortunate position of people believing in you and giving you a shot you have to pay it forward to other young people in your industry. This is how I have made sense of the very good fortune that I have had. When you know that joy you must make sure others experience it at your hands.” As editor of a magazine myself and also a mother of three, I can’t let the opportunity pass without asking Lisa for her tips on maintaining the elusive work/life balance and I am delighted to hear, despite her high profile, she is just as honest when it comes to the challenges of keeping all the balls in the air. “You have to remember to not try to be perfect at everything you do and understand that occasionally you are going to drop some of those balls you are juggling. Keeping a sense of humour is also so important. “Us women are still incredibly hard on ourselves if we don’t get everything perfect. Social media has created even more pressure on women than there has ever been, it’s a world of make believe. We have to start being kinder to ourselves and kinder to other women. “The level of judgement with social media is toxic. The women I admire are those who are comfortable in their own skin and maintain a sense of humour about the crap that’s out there.” At 55-years-of-age, Lisa says she is at one of the happiest stages of her life, enjoying watching her children grow into happy young adults and loving her current role on the Today show, which has recently celebrated eight years on air. “We are so fortunate to interview such a diverse range of people on the show every day, no two days are the same, from everyday people
“The women I admire are those who are COMFORTABLE in their own skin and maintain a sense of HUMOUR about the crap that’s out there.”
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doing amazing things, to leading politicians, to movie stars. “First and foremost Karl and I are journalists and that is what makes our hearts beat every day. We are information gatherers and we want to give the most up to date information so people can go out there into the day feeling informed. But we also want people to have a smile on their faces as they head out the door so hopefully we do that as well.” As we finish up our interview, I express my excitement about meeting Lisa in person when she shares the highs and lows of her 30-year career with a Sunshine Coast audience later this month at the Maroochydore RSL, thanks to Think Speakers and Events. Lisa is equally excited about her visit, ranking Noosa as her and husband Pete’s holiday destination of choice. “We had our honeymoon in Noosa,” she gushes. “We love the Sunshine Coast and are so looking forward to escaping the cold and enjoying your beautiful sunny skies.” During our interview Lisa apologises for a few interruptions – there’s a message from the set of the Today show, a phone call from her husband, and a reminder from her PA about the ladies charity luncheon she is speaking at later that day. Yet despite her incredibly busy schedule, Lisa is so generous with her time and answers each of my questions at length and with great enthusiasm. I think they’ve finally found you out Lisa, and you didn’t disappoint!
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After a year of battling breast cancer, including a left breast mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Yvette Luciano was broken; physically and spiritually. But instead of falling into a heap, Yvette picked herself up and created her dream business, Earth Events. It’s eco-friendly, sassy, fun, and showcases a host of celebrities such as popular paleo chef Pete Evans.
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he lure of yoga retreats, spiritual gurus, tranquil rainforests, and heavenly massages brings hundreds of thousands of people to Bali’s health and wellness mecca, Ubud, each year. Similarly, Santa Monica, in the United States, is attracting its own following, with many flocking to the peaceful Californian spot for a break from their chaotic lives, and to feed their souls with proper nutrition and relaxation. Sunshine Coast visionary, health advocate, “cancer thriver” and Earth Events founder Yvette Luciano says the Coast is quickly becoming Australia’s own super food epicentre. You only have to pop into any of the coffee shops dotted throughout the region to see Yvette is right. “Santa Monica has a really big health and well-being spiritual movement, and has been for a while,” Yvette says, “It’s the health centre of America where it’s super-cool to be healthy and conscious, and I think that’s what’s going on here on the Sunshine Coast. I think we are becoming the health capital of Australia. Everyone in this industry is really into helping each other.” Yvette’s eco-friendly events business is at the forefront of the Coast’s health revolution, devoted to creating fun, mindful events and a “healthier, happier world”. The company has been responsible for hosting major events for celebrities such as paleo chef Pete Evans, Gabrielle Bernstein, who has been described by Oprah as a “next generation thought leader”, and Australian Idol winner Wes Carr. She also championed her late best friend, the ‘Wellness Warrior’, Jess Ainscough. “We collaborate with soulful speakers, creatives and leaders in health, wellbeing, spirit, music and the arts.” But hold the champagne, because these celebrity showcases are not the norm, swapping alcohol with coconut water, and canapés with bite-sized organic treats. However, serving food is not usually a focus of Yvette’s events, because of its high wastage. “We have a plastic water bottle ban,” she explains, “And ticketing is visual. We are really passionate about reducing waste. We don’t really serve food because 50 per cent of it ends up as waste. We don’t do paper flyers and we only deal with vendors and suppliers who are eco-friendly.” Yvette, 34, has always been a visionary. She quit school when she was 17 to become a rock star, joining an all-girl band with her bass guitar, and rocking the Sydney underground music scene. “I started working at music studios and making money along the way, helping my friends’ profilemag.com.au
VIEW bands and their gigs. I was working in the music industry for Sony Music in marketing and events. That’s where I learned so much about marketing and PR. I was a total music industry party girl.” But Yvette’s life changed forever when she found a lump in her breast on her honeymoon. The self-confessed “eternal optimist” refused to believe there was anything wrong, even up until her left breast mastectomy. “Even at that point I kept thinking it was all going to be a mistake. I was diagnosed a month before I turned 30. I had to cancel my 30th birthday party. I didn’t have any breast cancer in my family, so at that age I definitely wasn’t even thinking about the possibility of breast cancer.” It was Yvette’s husband, Isac, who convinced her to have the lump checked a month later, and they were soon told by doctors the cancer was aggressive and would require several chemo and radiation treatments.
“I think we are becoming the HEALTH CAPITAL of Australia. Everyone in this industry is really into helping each other.” Yvette has since shed the party girl scene and become a health advocate, and also an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, where she is instrumental in research and promotion. While she is now in good health, Yvette will always remain on medication and be closely monitored. Yvette doesn’t call herself a cancer survivor, but instead a “cancer thriver”. She says running a business while battling cancer has been both rewarding and challenging. “Some days I’m positive; although I do have really challenging, dark days. Some days I get really scared and I have a lot of fear. And I have new issues that come up all the time.” It was on a holiday following her cancer treatment that Yvette fell in love with our region and never wanted to go home. “After I had been through cancer I was in a process of completely transforming my life and health.” Soon after the couple settled here, and have stayed for three years. “When we first came here my husband and I agreed we had to move here. Even my parents have moved here from Sydney.” A year after the move, Earth Events was born. Yvette had been studying nutrition and yoga following her cancer treatment, and she Story continued over page july 2015
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decided she wanted to use her skills from the music industry to reach out to more women, through these exciting events. In her remission, she was going to a lot of health events and wanted to give them the “same spark and excitement” that the music scene had. “A couple of years ago people wouldn’t have thought to go to a spiritual or health event as entertainment. I’ve just created the events that I would want to go to. I’m really excited because health and spirituality are becoming just as important and engaging to the mainstream as music and art are.” Yvette says her events are successful because people are embracing this new wave of thinking. “We do this by packaging and presenting the events differently, through the marketing, the vibe at the event, the professionalism, the format, and the way we put things together. We try to keep it funny as well.” The company turns down 99 per cent of booking requests from some of the biggest names in the business, because the intention needs to be right. “Yes I have a business to run and an amazing team, but this isn’t a money making business. Through all the black things that have happened in my life, I have different priorities to other people.” Earth Events has already sold 12,000 tickets for Pete Evans’ The Paleo Way Australian and New Zealand tour, which is hosting 26 shows in two months. “It really shows the kind of numbers we are getting now. Some of my tours are rivalling the biggest music touring companies, and we can’t be more excited to be showcasing our passion to the country. We just did an Australian tour with Gabrielle Bernstein from New York. She’s a spiritual teacher who does a lot of work with Oprah. We now represent her in Australia and New Zealand.” And while Pete Evans has raised a few eyebrows lately with his quirky paleo habits, Yvette has nothing but respect for the TV chef. “I’ve never known someone to be so passionate, devoted and driven. His biggest inspiration is his kids; he’s got the most beautiful heart.” Yvette doesn’t follow a set diet, simply believing in “real food”. “I have tried things in the past. I believe in the benefits of paleo and vegan, but I believe I really found my body works best without a label and just
eating real food, and having lots of rest. If I’m somewhere beautiful with my husband I’m happy to have an organic glass of red wine or champagne at a wedding.” Yvette’s late best friend Jess Ainscough was a huge promoter of natural healing and attracted thousands of followers worldwide for her health advocacy. Yvette will always cherish the moments she shared with Jess, particularly Jess’s humour and their love of dogs. “Jess and I were the only ones who could understand our obsessions with our dogs. We could talk about our dogs for hours and just laugh, drink tea and giggle. She was heaps more silly, funny and hilarious than people might think; and unconditionally loving. She was my biggest cheerleader. I don’t think Earth Events would have existed without her. Every time I mentioned it she would say, ‘yep, you have to do this’. All my leaps and bounds were because of her. She would always come to my events and be front row. We really shared such passion and compassion about helping the world, more so than money and popularity. No matter how heartbroken and devastated I have been (since her passing) I am even more dedicated to continuing her work.” Yvette now has her sights set on teaching inspiring healers, authors and entrepreneurs about PR, marketing and events. “Soul-preneurs will be an interactive academy teaching healers how to heal the world.” But for now Yvette and Isac are focusing on an exciting new chapter of their own: looking for a potential surrogate to carry their baby. Yvette says when doctors told her she would never have a pregnancy, she was devastated. “The three things I asked when I was diagnosed were ‘will I lose my hair, will I have kids and will I die?’ And the ‘will I have kids?’ was such an important thing. My husband and I always wanted kids. That would probably be the worst thing that happened to me since the diagnosis.” However, Yvette hopes the embryos she and Isac stored before she had cancer will be suitable for surrogacy. The lovely couple can’t wait to make their next vision a reality. And we hope they get their fairytale ending too.
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WELCOME to About Business, we’re excited to bring you this month’s issue as we continue to inspire you and reinvigorate your passion for business.
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ometimes the business industry really is like a shark tank, with a group of beady-eyed beings swirling around you, watching your every move. In this issue of About Business, John McGrath from Channel 10’s Shark Tank and CEO of McGrath Estate Agents talks about how he became a business tycoon and even shares some of his top secret tips. John is one of the most influential figures in the Australian residential property industry, having founded his real estate company from his lounge room in 1989, it is now one of the world’s fastest growing real estate groups, selling over $12 billion of residential property this year. McGrath Estate Agents now has 66 offices on the Eastern seaboard of Australia, including here on the Sunshine Coast. This issue, we also speak with Alison Pilling, a local entrepreneur behind one of the country’s largest trade nurseries, who has recently returned from Antarctica, where she attended one of the most unique business think tanks ever staged. And once again, we bring you Blokes About Town, this month Ingrid Nelson and her guests talk all things real estate on the Sunshine Coast. Don’t miss our burgeoning Real Estate section, where we bring you interesting feature stories on award-winning designers and builders from across the Coast, as well as the latest facts and advice from the real estate industry to help you make the best decisions when it comes to buying and selling a home. We hope you enjoy this issue of About Business. For any enquiries or to be involved in the next About Business magazine email chris@chrischilds.com.au
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Breakfast with Ray Martin, lunch with Shane Webcke and dinner with Lisa Wilkinson, sometimes life can be hard … but someone’s got to do it!
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he first half of the year has been a revolving door of inspirational identities here on the Sunshine Coast, as Think Speakers and Events host breakfast, lunch and dinner events with a bevy of high profile speakers including Ray Martin, Shane Webcke and Robyn Moore. Recently we hosted our second Lunch with a Legend event where local league legend Billy Moore, dual Australian representative for both league and union Michael O’Connor, boxing champ Darren Obah and the fastest local on two wheels and all round top bloke Chris Vermeulen joined us for a panel-style Q&A session at the The Surf Club Mooloolaba. Last month, founder of Contiki Tours, John Anderson popped by the Coast for a breakfast event where he spoke about how he took £25 and an idea and turned it into a $300m business. But drum roll please … on 31 July, the one and only Lisa Wilkinson will be joining us for dinner! For more than two decades, Lisa has blazed a trail through the Australian media landscape, first in publishing, then on to radio and television. Lisa’s relaxed and informative presentation style has won her a legion of fans and together with Karl Stefanovic, they have taken the show to new ratings heights since they joined up for the Today show in 2007. Having set the bar in the first half of 2015, Think Speakers and Events is only getting started, with plenty more stellar speakers in the pipeline. To whet your appetite of what’s to come, I can announce internationally-known ‘Mr Body Language’ Allan Pease will be joining us in December. Allan’s keynote addresses, TV shows and advice on personal image are sought after by everyone from business executives and prime ministers, to TV presenters, royalty and rock stars. His sales and communication systems have grown companies from one man bands to multi-nationals. In the meantime, we are very busy negotiating appearances with some wonderful people for the second half of the year, so watch this space!
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JOHN MCGRATH We catch up with the real estate tycoon from Shark Tank to talk all things business.
BLOKES ABOUT TOWN This month our blokes look at trends in real estate on the Sunshine Coast.
ALISON PILLING This local entrepreneur talks about her experience of attending one of the most unique business think tanks ever staged.
MILESTONES Brooke Bennett shares some of her biggest life milestones.
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e’s the real estate kingpin essentially “monopolising” the Australian property market with his self-branded enterprise. And with all the success of the popular property board game, John McGrath, by all intents and purposes, plays the real estate field with strong business acumen. John McGrath was already a familiar face for those in the property game as founder and CEO of McGrath Estate Agents, before television appearances on The Block and more recently Channel 10’s Shark Tank made him a household name. The show sees a parade of hopeful entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of four high-profile, highly successful Australian businesspeople as potential investors – and when it comes to John, they are attempting to impress one of the savviest minds in real estate in the form of an impeccably tailored mogul. As John’s steely gaze pierces a would-be entrepreneur, the brain behind the success is ticking over, carefully number crunching, always focused on the sales, equity, growth, investment that has attributed to his own success; testing the waters to decide if he’ll invest in something that will sink or swim. And when the company figures for McGrath Estate Agents alone
reveal a record $1.27 billion sales for the month of March this year from 1237 transactions – and with more than 750 sales people in his business’ network, an enterprise encompassing residential and commercial sales, property management, mortgage broking through Oxygen Home Loans and career training through Total Real Estate Training, and 66 offices, including one on the Sunshine Coast in Buderim, this is one property shark you want to dive into business with. So, what drives this real estate mogul? “I’ve come to the office every day for the last three decades just wanting to be better than yesterday,” John says on the day of our phone interview, from his company’s headquarters in Sydney. John traces the competitive streak that gave him his headstart back to his sporting days, with initial plans to pursue professional football, relying heavily on his impressive athletic prowess while completing studies at Sydney Boys High School. After finishing school, he was facing an uncertain future after flunking his HSC exams, and sidelined from pursuing what would have been a promising start in football after contracting double lung infections. “My original goal was to be a professional sports person in rugby league, so I think anyone in elite level or professional sports develops
“I think you need to think big and now is the time in history to be thinking big, you can literally start in your lounge room and have a great idea and through things like the internet and technology you can grow a business far more quickly than you were ever able to in the past.”
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November 2014, McGrath Projects set a new Australian record for an off-the-plan Penthouse apartment sale at “The Pacific”, Bondi Beach for $25 million. September 2008, new Australian record for a waterfront home in Coolong Road, Vaucluse for $45 million. October 2007, set new Australian record for a 5-bedroom home, “Tahiti”, in Vaucluse for $29 million. September 2006, set new Australian apartment record for a 4-bedroom apartment at Walsh Bay for over $16 million.
that high level of competitiveness. I think when I was injured and unable to play sport again I had to take that same application and focus and approach from sport to another world – a world of business,” says John. When I ask John what his most memorable sale is, he quickly reels off his top two, despite the fact he has dealt with countless figures in his 30-year career, it says something quite poignant about John’s dedication and pride in his career that he can name the year, the address and the selling price of past sales with such ease. “My first major Australian record sale was a property in Point Piper in Sydney on the harbour which I sold for $11.25 million at 9 Wolseley Crescent in 1989,” he remembers. “That was an Australian record and I think anyone who sets a record in the suburbs for a country feels pretty special to do that. So that was probably the one after the first sale in my career that I remember the most.” That first sale was in 1984, when at 19-years-old, John stepped into the property scene as a then ‘letting clerk’, selling his first property in Paddington, Sydney for $132,000. “You never forget the first one,” John remembers. “It took me almost six months to sell it and I thought I’d be out of a job after three months and they sort of hung in there and my boss was patient and I eventually sold one and it escalated pretty quickly after that.” Prior to this, John was based out of his lounge room, sharing his abode with contracts and real estate papers as he fell into the sharp pace of the property industry.
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“It’s like a lot of small businesses, when you start you haven’t got a lot of cash to fund everything and often your only employee is you and that was definitely the case,” says John. From the get-go, once John focused on building the foundations of a real estate career, swapping the couch for a desk in a serviced office, he was a force to be reckoned with; in a Steve Jobs/Appleesque sweep, John left his first position in a Sydney real estate agency in 1987, after an unsuccessful equity purchase offer, before returning six months later to buy in as a partner, creating success of his own design. “I hate overusing metaphors but it feels like climbing a mountain when you look back and go, wow I’ve travelled a long way but when you’re taking it step by step it doesn’t feel like it’s insurmountable or huge steps,” shares John. John’s impact on the property scene developed rapidly through McGrath Goodhope (1988), McGrath Partners Estate Agents (1991) and finally McGrath Estate Agents (2000) gathering a slew of industry awards, including multiple BRW business accolades, government recognition for business contribution, and corporate awards across the McGrath portfolio. He has penned three business advice books in addition to appearing on the Shark Tank, which is off the back of appearances on The Block over the past decade as resident real estate expert. “It’s funny because I don’t see myself in media … because my day job, my real job is real estate,” says John. “Of his experience as a ‘Shark’, John shares, “I loved taping the first season, it was fascinating. Although it is a demand on your time, you have to become more efficient at what you do. “We spent a month last year taping Shark Tank, so a month out of your core business is always a significant amount of time but it exposes the brand to a lot of new markets and that was one of the incentives for me. “And Shark Tank has exposed me to a whole lot of different sectors … which is very exciting because I have been very focused in the past 20 to 30 years on the real estate space, compared to what is happening in other businesses.” John’s latest domain is tapping into the digital sphere, since joining with Apple in 2007 to develop Australia’s first search criteria-based real estate podcast to send specific properties to buyer’s iPods, as well as dominate the real estate print publication medium with lifestyle and property-focused McGrath Magazine. “We’re a big mobile industry, we would probably be one of the biggest users of mobile technology across Australia,” says John. “We can now list a property in Bulimba in the morning and get an enquiry from Dubai in the afternoon and that’s the exciting part of our business, that there’s a lot of interest in the Australian property market from offshore buyers nowadays, and the internet is allowing them safely and with confidence to make a lot of purchases.” The DNA of the real estate business, John admits, is focused on constant approval from the people who list, buy and sell from the competitive ranks of salesmen and women. And according to John, it takes something BIG to stand out; advice from a shark who knows what it takes to get to the top of the corporate food chain. “I think you need to think big and now is the time in history to be thinking big, you can literally start in your lounge room and have a great idea and through things like the internet and technology you can grow a business far more quickly than you were ever able to in the past,” he says. “I think the expectations of the consumers are greater than they’ve ever been, so you need to no longer be a good business, you need to be a great business ... the great businesses are really starting to dominate the space. “The exciting thing is it’s easy to get going, the challenging thing is you’ve got to be better than you ever have in history to be better
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nowadays. It’s a competitive business landscape out there so anyone who has created a business and had sustainable success is working on that business every day.” “Key ingredients are always quality people. I think no matter what your structure or the size of your business, whether you’ve got one employee or a thousand, you need to have the highest quality people who are passionate about what they do,” shares John. “We have a fairly flat structure, we don’t operate on a huge hierarchy, we only have a few levels of management across our team of 1500. I think it’s important for managers to be as close to as many employees as they can.”
“You need to be looking at investing in Queensland, because in my view that’s going to be the next growth market within Australia.” John ranks his team and the structure of the company as two of the key three points he utilises for his brand’s success, with the third being the incentivised remuneration packages and commission that drives the industry. And to hone that competitive edge as well as pay homage to his love of sport, John sits on the board of the South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL team. “That’s a great joy, it has allowed me to keep very close to the world of football and NRL while focused on my own business,” he shares. “It’s good because we get to help a lot of the young players … you get the opportunity to mentor some of them through this exciting time of their life and a lot of them are looking at investing in property and homes with their family so as a real estate company we often get the opportunity to help them find a home.
“So I am able to mix a few of my passions now of football, mentoring and real estate.” As we conclude the interview, with the news McGrath Estate Agents is set to open a new office in Noosa this month, John shares his predictions for our state market. “I think the immediate future for Queensland is very positive. I’ll just give you the example, in Sydney we’ve seen around about a 40 per cent increase in prices over the last three years and yet in southeast Queensland, and Queensland in general we’ve seen very little price growth. “I think that really suggests to me and a lot of other investors or people in the real estate space you need to be looking at investing in Queensland, because in my view that’s going to be the next growth market within Australia. “That has started already in Brisbane, I think you will see the Gold Coast and the Sunny Coast be the next areas that get the halo effect … we’ve got offices in Toowoomba and Townsville and now Rockhampton so part of the reason we are opening and moving into those areas is we think the real estate market has a terrific future in those coastal regions and major regions as well. “Noosa was always going to be an easy choice for us because there’s a huge Sydney and Melbourne population that invests and frequents Noosa so there’s a ready-made relationship with our brand from New South Wales. “It is one of the important markets on the east coast of Australia, it’s got some of the best luxury and general real estate,” John adds, sharing that he travels every few weeks to south-east Queensland to visit his many regional offices. “From a lifestyle perspective we want to be in places where we would love to live … and where there is a strong investment case for the future.” And what better advice coming from someone who swims with sharks and has a winning streak when it comes to the roll of the property game dice.
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Ingrid Nelson catches up with the real estate gurus of the Sunshine Coast who share their top tips and advice on all things property and investment.
he Sunshine Coast has come a long way in the past few years and the growth is set to continue. Not only are we lucky enough to enjoy an idyllic, laid-back lifestyle, we are also fast becoming the envy of other states as a string of recent major developments make us one of the most exciting locations for investment and employment growth in Australia. You only have to pop into the recently redeveloped Big Top Market Fresh or grab a bite to eat along the rejuvenated Ocean Street to feel the exciting new vibe on the Sunny Coast. Other developments such as the major overhaul of the Maroochydore CBD, the multi billion dollar medical precinct in Birtinya and the proposed Sunshine Coast Airport are key economic drivers, boosting job growth and residential development. I recently caught up with some of the key players in the real estate game on the Sunshine Coast to discover their predictions on what we can expect in the industry over the next year or two. Co hosting the lunch was Gerry Morris of Think Speakers and Events; owner of Think Investment Realty, Jack Childs; Dan Perryman, property specialist with Think Investment Realty; Bernie Weisskamp, sales consultant with Integrale Homes; owner of Century21 Buderim, Grant Smith and Jason Mills, sales manager with Ray White Maroochydore. WHAT DIRECTION CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY HEADING ON THE SUNSHINE COAST OVER THE NEXT 12 TO 24 MONTHS? grant: I think we are going to see some good consistency in the market. With interest rates so low, you have never been able to buy money
as cheap as you can right now. It is a great opportunity to purchase something as an investment or renovator. It’s never been more affordable. Being able to lock in interest rates at 4.35 per cent for up to five years is incredible. Now is the opportunity to secure and hold, particularly in that higher end as there hasn’t been that spurt yet. The houses in the $400,000 to $600,000 bracket have almost exceeded their bottom mark. I have seen some properties in the last 12 to 18 months fetching five to 10 per cent more than what they were purchased at 12 months earlier without any capital improvement. So there is some strong activity. jack: I think we are going to see a lot more growth on the Sunshine Coast. The problem is you can’t get land. We get people all the time looking to buy house and land packages on the Coast but they are in scarce supply. The big market here for investors on the Coast is to find odd blocks of land at Maroochydore or Mooloolaba that you can split in two rather than buy in the bigger estates with smaller blocks. jason: I focus heavily on what’s going on around the CBD. It’s been interesting to watch the trend as it’s happened. People have fresh confidence with the new developments. berni: From a building point of view, we are really busy. We are like the Florida of Australia on the Sunshine Coast so we have lots of people retiring and having a sea change. As Jack says though, land is gone as soon as it’s available. WHAT AREA DO YOU THINK IS NEXT TO SEE A BIG BOOM IN GROWTH? grant: It’s a question we are asked all the time. I think you have to have confidence in the area you are buying. I have friends who are agents
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on the Gold Coast, interstate and Brisbane, they could pick up the phone and sell me a property they say is a bargain, but I wouldn’t know whether it is or not. Everything I own is on the Sunshine Coast. I have new homes, renovated property, duplexes, commercial properties, but they are all in a market I know. I could tell you what is a great buy in Buderim, Mountain Creek and Sippy Downs but could I do the same thing in Caloundra or Coolum? No. You must do your research and go with someone you absolutely trust. For example, I bought my duplex in Caloundra through an agent who is a good friend. He called me and said ‘don’t even drive down here, sign the contract now’, so I did. The first time I saw them was at a building and pest and they are probably one of my best performing investments. dan: One of the important facts we talk about is diversification. We don’t like to talk about one single market or just investing in our own backyard. Regarding the Sunshine Coast, I think you have to look at a number of factors that are going to set the Coast off for the next 18 months. Bernie and Jack mentioned some such as low interest rates land shortages, the other factors are the major infrastructures, one being the hospital. It has gone from a case of people leaving the Coast to get jobs in Brisbane or the mines to people coming back to work in construction or services. In 2013 we had 20 per cent of Queensland’s job growth.
Plaza was called the Sands and the whole corridor was a garden where the goannas lived. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU OFFER PEOPLE WHO ARE THINKING OF BUYING OR INVESTING ON THE SUNSHINE COAST? grant: It is a great time to jump in and buy something and hold on to it. There is so much property on the Sunshine Coast now that is positively geared. Buy into a good market or buy something low maintenance. Just get into the market. jack: Think about buying new. Buying the old homes are ok for people who know what they are doing. A lot of people don’t. When my wife Chris and I started investing in property we bought and renovated all the time but you have to do your sums and keep to a certain budget. We find, particularly for investors, new is so much better. They get all the depreciation, they have six-and-a-half-year warranty, no maintenance costs and of course when it goes on the market to rent everyone loves to rent a new house so it’s easy to get a tenant. grant: I bought my first home in 2009 and went totally overboard (as I do) on the renovation and now six years later I am probably just at a point where I will get my money back. That’s my lesson learnt. Not that the reno was a bad idea but my taste in the value of the renovation exceeded the value of the property! jason: The investors are still there for sure because of interest rates and affordability. There is more money to be made in property than putting it in the bank.
“With any benefits and features around your area, your QUALITY of life improves and people are happy to PAY for that.”
WHAT HAS BEEN THE EFFECTS OF THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF OCEAN STREET? jason: The vibe about the area has changed people’s perception. You can walk down Ocean Street and have your pick of what you want. We didn’t have that before. People in the area have access to fresh fruit and veg markets and cafes and restaurants right on their doorstep. With any benefits and features around your area, your quality of life improves and people are happy to pay for that. The Big Top has been one of the most popular developments. People really wanted to see something good come from it. It was a bit of a white elephant and they have done such a great job with its revamp. jack: I remember coming on holidays as a kid when it was first built and how excited Mum was to take us to this “you beaut” shopping centre. grant: I remember the goannas at the Sands. The shopping centre previous to the Sunshine
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPMENT WISE THAT WOULD HELP SALES FURTHER ON THE SUNSHINE COAST? jason: Balance. The Coast is popular because of its laid back lifestyle. You don’t have a high rise on every single corner. But people are going to keep coming and we are going to have to keep creating jobs, so you have to have that balance between the Coastal lifestyle and still have growth. I can see the argument both ways. You can see why the locals don’t want too much growth, but we still have to make sure we allow developments to create jobs. jack: I think we have the mix pretty much right at the moment. It would be good to see another industry that will create jobs.
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for successful advertising Today there are millions of businesses striving to become successful. They may be the best in their field but if no one has heard of them they can fail. A good advertising strategy can make your business soar, if executed correctly. Kara shares her tips for advertsing and how to give your business the best chance to succeed in today’s competitive market. The following is from Kara’s book Advertising Basics - an easy to follow guide on advertising.
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Hone your campaign for your audience
Gear your advertising campaign toward your target market. Don’t try to cover the whole audience – you will end up attracting no-one. Make your ads speak to them on a personal level, know what grabs their attention.
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Remember you have to spend money to make money. The more you spend on advertising the more you will make in sales, if you advertise in the right place. If you spend very little but expect fast results, you will be disappointed.
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Advertise where your customers will see it
Do some research and place your adverts in the mediums that your target demographic interact with regularly. If you want to advertise in a magazine, which magazine specifically are they reading? Or maybe you’re considering radio? If so – which station?
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You need to convey your Unique Selling Proposition (what makes you different), in your advertising. Your customer needs to know why they should go to you rather than the guy down the road. What are you going to give them that the other company won’t?
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Advertise before you run out of customers
Many small business owners say they can’t afford to advertise because sales are down. Likewise many businesses say they are too busy they don’t need more customers. You need to think ahead about how you are going to keep the sales going! If you are making money think about advertising, not for sales now, but for your future pipeline of income.
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Remember within your target demographic there are subsets: people who prefer magazines, people who like to dabble in social media, people who prefer radio. So it is wise to choose a few avenues to spend your advertising dollar on. That way you dominate the market for your particular service or product. It takes at least three to seven sightings for your customer to actually buy from you, so the more places they see your brand, the better!
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Be interesting
People don’t read ads, they read what interests them. So create an ad that your target demographic will find interesting enough to read, and better yet, tell someone else about.
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Keep it simple
Don’t overwhelm people with information. Keep it as simple as possible while getting the necessary information across to the viewer. Don’t use every bit of white space because you can. Leave some breathing room so people can digest your message. Keep in mind a picture says a thousand words.
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Improve and evolve
Keep testing and measuring your return on investment with a spreadsheet. After a few adverts have run you need to assess their effectiveness and make subtle changes. Test whether there is any difference in response. Over the years you need to keep testing, evolving and improving your advertising campaigns.
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Create a great ad, then repeat
If you choose the correct advertising medium and you get your advert right, the leads will come. You must also have repetition of your message. Because people need to be exposed to your brand at least three to seven times before they will recognise your brand and take action, make sure they keep seeing it and each time recognise it as the same company advertising. Looking for more advertising and marketing advice? Contact generalmanager@profilemag.com.au
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There aren’t many business conferences where sleeping in sub-zero conditions on the ice in Antarctica is a part of the itinerary, but for this Coast businesswoman it was an opportunity of a lifetime leading her to a new career path. Carly Rees explores Alison Pilling’s journey from the unknown in Antarctica to building business back on the Sunshine Coast.
urrounded by a blanket of white and giant aluminous icebergs beaming across the horizon, Alison Pilling never expected to be standing there at this point of her life, even in her wildest dreams. The environment was breathtaking in this untouched part of the world where she hoped to unleash her mind and find her next entrepreneurial path back home on the Sunshine Coast. Alison was on a business venture in the most southern part of the world, in Antarctica, with 106 Australian and New Zealand entrepreneurs known as the Unstoppables. The venture was the project of inspiring wealth businessman Julio De Laffitte and was designed to create new business with an aim to solve some of the country’s big problems. And where else is better than this remote part of the world to focus on the mission at hand in complete isolation to unlock inspiration. “When you are in a place like Antarctica it is amazing and you are just in awe of it,” says Alison. “It was just a privilege to be there, where it was untouched by humans and we could really tap into what we needed to do.” For the local business owner it was an obvious choice, after 26 years experience building a financially viable business, ePlants Wholesale Nursery, with her husband – she had another business idea in store. From the Unstoppables trip, 98 new businesses were formed including Alison’s, which endeavours to increase the financial literacy of the younger generation. “I was really concerned about the rising rate of poverty, an estimated 2.5 million Australians are living below the international accepted poverty line,” explains Alison. “Also the growing trend that our children are staying home longer, well into their 20s, I believe has put financial pressure on our families. “I have three children of my own as well, a 20-year-old, an 18-yearold and a 13-year-old and I have built them up to value themselves
and to value their money.” Any challenge in business doesn’t seem to be a great feat for Alison after she braved the tradition of jumping off the ship, past the Antarctic circle, into water that would take human life after five minutes and camped on the ice in freezing conditions for a week. These experiences and the memories of the bitter cold, seals floating on ice in the middle of nowhere and going to sleep to the sound of whales blowing water and ice cracking will never leave Alison. “It was just about being present and really taking it in, it was really a life changing experience for me,” says Alison. “Seven nights in Antarctica was enough time for me, but in saying that I was the last one off the boat and I make a joke they had to look in the cupboards to find me because I didn’t want to leave, you think, ‘Wow, will I ever come back here’.” Being among great entrepreneurial minds allowed Alison to unleash her full potential both mentally and physically. She will never forget the abilities of men and women who have grown their businesses to successful empires all together at once, especially their positivity and ‘never give up’ attitude when they couldn’t get to Antarctica due to weather, at the beginning. The idea of the trip was born from a business function led by politicians who believed the best solution to help Queensland’s debt crisis was to sell the state’s assets. Julio disagreed and other businessmen and women alike who believed new business supporting humanity and the environment to boost the economy was the only answer. From this, bright up-and-coming entrepreneurs and investors joined together with a goal to generate $1 billion worth of business over the next five years to solve critical issues in Australia. Alison’s plan to support youth in their financial endeavours is an important new business in this venture. “It was great that I got to bounce my ideas and what I was about, to
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gained a “clarity of purpose” to help youth in finance on the Sunshine Coast, Australia and all over the world. At the same time as her daughter was at Schoolies on the Gold Coast, a 17-year-old girl fell to her death from the room above her daughter. Alison made a promise to herself that night “this would be life-changing for me because it (the news) felt like a knife”. From the moment Alison returned from her trip earlier this year she started writing a book to help her business titled, How to Get Your Teens off your Payroll, which will be launched this year. She is also working on a number of programs around the topic, which she hopes to present to students in schools to get them excited and interested about learning about their financial future. “That is the clincher for me, I have been sitting back and working in this business (ePlants) that we (her husband and her) started from nothing and now it is my time to step back and leverage myself so I am free to create this new business and it feels amazing to help people,” says Alison. “I am helping people everywhere and it’s not just the young ones, it is the 20-year-olds and the emails and texts from them asking for help – that is what it is about for me.”
Common financial issues for youth Credit card debt: It can snowball into a very big debt
Buying their first car: Taking out big loans to buy a depreciable asset Phone bills: Missing payments on a $20 plan in teenage years can affect home loans in their 20s
“We all have a real MISSION to make a difference to HUMANITY or the planet in some way.” Alison’s top tips in business
• Be true to yourself and do what you love • Give first and then you receive • Set goals and create vision boards
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people who are successful in business and were on the same mission as I am,” says Alison. “We all have a real mission to make a difference to humanity or the planet in some way. I have grown a lot in confidence because I had people saying it (her new business) was a great idea that needed to be put out there.” As a child, Alison was always interested in building a secure future and getting the most out of her money, so it was no surprise she found her way into an accounting degree and a career in finance. Although she moved into business with ePlants, she found herself always helping the younger generation at the workplace on planning ahead for their financial security into the future. “If I talk to my kids, I say you are here for a reason, you are a genius, what is it that you truly love, because you can be paid to do what you love,” says Alison. “It’s not about the gold watch these days, the youth are so flamboyant and tech savvy and I think they will just be chopping and changing and learning their lessons and moving on once they find their path. “It is a world of opportunity out there.” It wasn’t until she had a defining moment in Antarctica, with American success coach Dave Martin, that she moved forward and
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When Brooke Bennett was in Year 12 at Mountain Creek State High School, she was offered a traineeship interview with Centre Management at Kawana Shoppingworld – unbeknownst to her it was the beginning of a vibrant career.
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o be honest, I had no idea what a centre management was,” she admits. “I thought the shopping centre ran itself and when I was told about the interview my first response was, ‘Which shop is that?’ But I was successful with my interview and employed two afternoons a week as an Office Admin Trainee.” At the end of the year, Brooke was offered a role as the ‘Car Park Counter’ for the month of December. “We were, at the time, preparing a development application and as part of that, we had to count the number of free car parks in the car park each day,” she says. “I was assigned to walking the car park on the hour, every hour for seven hours a day, marking on a map all the vacant car parks. By the end of it, I had a great tan and was really fit!” Having proved her worth, Brooke was offered a full time position as a Receptionist/Admin Assistant and moved ahead in leaps and bounds – later being promoted to Promotions Coordinator, then Marketing Manager. She has recently resigned from Kawana Shopping World after 14 years and has a brand new role as Marketing and Promotions Director role at 91.9 Sea FM and 92.7 Mix FM. We caught up with Brooke to share her life’s milestones that have shaped her life and career so far. Life changing milestone 1: Being offered the job as Marketing Manager of Kawana Shoppingworld After two consecutive years of the centre being without a Marketing Manager for six to eight week periods, I decided to put my hand up for the role. I knew I was ready for the challenge and I had the support of the team at Kawana. This is essentially where my career started and my passion for marketing grew even stronger as I learnt the role of the Marketing Manager of a sub-regional shopping centre. I loved the interaction with retailers, the different promotions and events, as well as the involvement a centre had with the community. Life changing milestone 2: Getting married and having a baby I have always been the girl who grew up wanting to get married. I dreamed of the white dress, the love of family, the honeymoon, everything to do with weddings, so was thrilled when in December 2009, my now-husband Jamie, proposed to me on Christmas Day. We experienced an incredible honeymoon in Canada and New York and unbeknown to us at the time, our journey was just starting, as the day after we arrived home, we discovered we were pregnant! My most favourite little person in the world arrived three days before my birthday on 17 April, 2012, a day I will never forget. Jamie and
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I were blessed with a son who we called Jackson and he now remains the absolute light of our lives. Life changing milestone 3: Launching my own magazine I’ve always had a passion for weddings and I felt like I wanted to do something outside of work that fed my passion. I came up with the idea of a free wedding magazine for the Sunshine Coast. I spent a year researching the idea, and in December 2013, launched the first edition of Eternity. It’s a hobby outside of work as my work is my priority, but I love having that little something extra to pour my creative vibes into. Life changing milestone 4: Winning the professional Business Woman of the Year award I was first nominated for the Sunshine Coast Business Women’s Network’s Business Woman Awards in 2011 and made it to the finalist stage, which was a privilege in itself. I couldn’t attend the awards night that year as I was on my honeymoon. I was surprised to be nominated once again in 2014 and went through the process, only to be announced as a finalist again. I was up against some incredible women and remember standing to the side of the stage when my name was called out and just being in absolute shock. This was what I needed to realise that I am good at what I do and I have achieved some great things through my career. Life changing milestone 5: Starting my new career with 91.9 Sea FM and 92.7 Mix FM In December 2014, I saw an ad in the paper for the Marketing and Promotions Director role at 91.9 Sea FM and 92.7 Mix FM. I had known the team at the station for years as I had been a client and when I saw the ad something came over me. Within two weeks, I was offered the job and ready to resign from Kawana Shoppingworld. After almost 14 years at Kawana, it was time to move on. I had done all I could there, won numerous marketing awards, a massive redevelopment ... it was time. But that didn’t make it easy! I cried my eyes out the week before I left. But, I love my new career, the role, the team I work with, it’s fun, vibrant, challenging and the perfect move I needed at the perfect time.
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BUSINESS FIONA ROBERTS ALL ABOUT AWESOME
ALL ABOUT AWESOME:
getting clear
When you’re in the midst of a busy week at work, sometimes it can be difficult to keep a clear head and focus on what’s important. Here are three helpful things to keep in mind and help keep you on track to achieve what you want.
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’ve met a lot of people in business who are fantastic at what they do, but they don’t seem to be doing the one thing that they are in business for – making money. There’s a lot of talk about doing what you love and never working a day in your life (don’t get me wrong, I’m all for that!) but interspersed with your passion, needs to be a healthy dose of ‘down to earth’ and focus. So, here’s three ways I stay clear: Ask yourself the hard questions, and keep asking them: What do you want? Why do you want that? What are you NOT changing that is stopping you? Where are you NOT moving outside of your comfort zone? Each of these questions will reveal multiple layers, so you will need to ask these questions over and over to truly drill down and reveal meaningful answers. Consider keeping a journal, and revisit your answers once you have made some progress and are ready to move to the next level. Write a list, and tick it off: You’ve got your answers now, all you have to do is break it down into bite-sized steps. This process will refine your
answers and give you a further degree of clarity, ensuring your focus is crystal clear. If you get stuck, look at that – why is it hard to move through that particular point? Is this a point you falter at regularly? Revisit daily. I have a daily list of successes, outstanding items and priorities. This inspires personal accountability. I understand that there’s never enough time to do everything, but there’s always time to do the important things. So at the end of each day, I email myself a short list of where I have succeeded (this is SUPER important – otherwise we can become bogged down in what we still have to do and we forget to celebrate our wins), what I have outstanding and of those outstanding items, what my top priorities are. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy, and sometimes – we just need to get out of our own way. Getting clear is the first step. We all want to achieve a million things, but if we aren’t clear on what those things are, it will never happen. Remember, there’s no reason you need to go through this alone, so do join in the conversation at www.allaboutawesome.com.au. I’d love to hear about your goals, challenges and successes.
“Ask for what you want, and be prepared to get it.” ~ Maya Angelo
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tarting a new business can be a daunting task, but Melissa Park made sure she was well prepared, had a clear path of what she wanted to achieve and how she was going to get there. “Make sure you surround yourself with people who support you,” she says. Melissa grew up on the Coast and in 2008, completed a Bachelor of Business (marketing and management) at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She then enjoyed some time travelling and living in Brisbane, Canada and Melbourne. Upon her return to the Coast, Melissa began working in sales and marketing for a local curtain manufacturer. “This really sparked my passion for the industry and I’ve always loved working with customers directly so I thought a retail environment would be perfect for me!”
“Surround yourself with people who support you.” Drawing on her background in marketing and office management, Melissa teamed up with business partner and interior designer Casey Drummond late last year, “the blend of our skills is a perfect match”. Melissa and Casey founded Studio Collective, an interior design studio in Maroochydore. “We work with builders and developers on their commercial projects as well as with residential clients on their new or existing homes,” says Melissa. “We want to build a reputation with our clients as being approachable, creative and good value for money. Our goal is to grow our business organically through being great at what we do and building long-term relationships with our clients. Eventually we would love to have offices in major cities like Brisbane and Melbourne.”
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eet one half of the bubbly mother-and-daughter dynamic of Spoilt Skin beauty clinic in Marcoola – Alice-Rose McIntosh. Since joining her mum, Angela in the clinic three years ago while still at school, Alice has worked her way through extensive studies in retail services, and a one-year course to graduate with a Diploma of Beauty Therapy with the accolade of ‘best practical student’ in her class. “I have a real passion for it – working with my hands, seeing the difference I can make, those before and afters,” says Alice. “I enjoy meeting people and talking with the customers, it’s fantastic. It’s great working with mum – we are a team and it’s always positive.”
“I have a real passion for it – working with my hands, seeing the diff erence I can make ...” With a passion for knowledge, Alice is currently studying to attain Dermalogica expert status through the company. To successfully reach this level, she has to complete 30 masterclasses. “As the head person here that is involved in becoming an expert, I can give the best advice on the products,” she smiles. “The training has been really educational, I’ve learned a lot. It’s pretty rewarding and it helps me when it comes to helping my clients achieve great results with their skin.” This constant training is accompanied by attending beauty expos, classes and a congress meet scheduled in August through Dermalogica. “It allows us to know what is going on worldwide with the beauty industry,” says Alice. “Here on the Sunshine Coast, we are slowly getting up with the times, there is definitely a lot more technology involved with the facials and a lot more cosmetic surgery.” Alice shares the main concern they see with local clients is sun damage, as well as eyebrow shaping and anti-ageing, and in future, she plans to increase her knowledge with introducing cutting-edge services and technology. In the meantime, she will continue to learn from her mentor. “It’s rewarding to get knowledge from Mum, she’s had about 15 years in the beauty industry, so I can learn from her, and she can guide me as well.”
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LIFE STOREY
Chris Clout shows us around his awardwinning home
LIFESTYLE CHANGE IN RETIREMENT
Tanya Mungomery looks at the pros and cons of housing options
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Beginning his career as an apprentice carpenter, Chris Clout’s work has evolved into beautiful awardwinning designs, transcending the boundaries of conventional carpentry. But at the core of his designs is a humble philosophy centered on the important values of functional family life and living.
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rom the first floor of his two-storey cubby house, a six-yearold Chris Clout hunches over to check out his handiwork. The design is complete with support posts, framework, bracing, ladders and a solid roof over the second storey, which I’d bet provided a pretty decent view over the neighbourhood at Jervis Bay, New South Wales, where Chris grew up. “That’s one of many cubbies, there was one every week for years,” he says with fond recollection. “They were always pretty out there…I had quite elaborate ones, the council was going past one day and said, ‘have you got approval for this near the power lines?’ “We were building pools and water slides, my dad was a builder and he had job sites all around, so we always had heaps of timber.” A lot of kids build cubby houses, but most designs are limited to a couple of chairs with an old sheet strewn over the top – at best, the most lavish self-built cubbies are a couple of planks of wood nailed between a few sturdy branches. So it’s fair to say Chris was in a league of his own from an early age.
“I grew up in a family full of builders and designers,” explains Chris. “When I was 16, Mum and Dad bought a beach house and over the years we kept renovating and adding to it and Dad used to let me design it.” Chris laments he hated English at school, but was good at woodwork, maths and art, so carpentry seemed like a good fit and a starting point for a burgeoning career. “Since I was a little kid, I wanted to play with hammers on Dad’s job site. We were always living in houses that we were renovating, I was surrounded by it, so I did a carpentry apprenticeship.” Chris completed half of his apprenticeship in Jervis Bay and the remainder here on the Sunshine Coast, which proved to be confusing, as both states had different building codes and regulations. Chris went on to work for his Uncle Paul while completing a TAFE course, but he was well advanced and fast-tracked his career. He worked for his uncle for four years and says many of his designs went on to win awards.
“Since I was a little kid, I wanted to play with hammers on Dad’s job site, we were always living in houses that we were renovating, I was surrounded by it, so I did a carpentry apprenticeship.”
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“During my time with him, there was a property boom here, it was a good time,” he says. “I got to design, not just muck around with doing drafting and details ... what I designed had never really been built before, it’s always new.” Chris was 25-years-of-age when he started his own business as a residential building designer and immediately started winning awards. In his first year of business, he won the prestigious Building Designers Association of Australia, National Design Excellence Award, 2009. “I started building cubbies when I was a kid and now I’m working on $6 million houses – which are like big cubby houses for big adults and all their toys!” Most recently, Chris Clout Design entered four projects into the Sunshine Coast Design Awards and came out trumps, winning Best Residential Interiors; Best New Home Over $2M; Best New Home $750 to $1M; and Best Multi Residential up to 6 units. But one of Chris’s most prized designs is his home at Sunshine Beach, aptly named the Cubby House, which he and his wife Dani have put on the market, to make way for their next exciting venture. The Asian-inspired four-bedroom, two-level home has taken out seven awards, including the 2014 Best Alteration/Addition in Residential Design at the National NABD Design Awards. “We bought over 10 years ago now, over the years we were going to do a duplex and units but the economy slowed down, so we’ve kept renovating it to a point where it’s finished,” he says. “I want to dream bigger and go bigger.” Much of Chris’s inspiration comes from resorts in Vanuatu, Fiji and New Zealand, as well as South African architecture. “Sometimes I do best when I don’t look at anything else and get inspired too much,” he says. “I spent a lot of years spending money and staying in the best hotels and experiencing different bathrooms and kitchens, you see the positives and the negatives. “Travelling was one big thing for inspiration ... the place where we got married in Bali three years ago, it is an interesting place, with a very mixed multicultural atmosphere, that place is pretty special.” Having worked tirelessly – quite often until 1am most days, to build a reputation of quality, Chris is now in a position to “pick and choose” the good jobs. “That’s taken a while, but I’m getting to design houses with no budget and they’re quite upmarket, luxury houses, so you can be rewarded with your pay check, but also in being able to have a bit of freedom.” Having just welcomed his second child into the world, Chris is growing and nurturing his business in line with his family values. If the foundation is anything to go by, the next chapter in his life ‘storey’ is sure to be an exciting one.
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The process of selling your property can seem daunting at times but it may be comforting to know that there are essentially only two ways to go about it – with a price or without.
lmost 80 years of local real estate experience here at Henzells has taught us that both methods deliver excellent outcomes. It really comes down to individual circumstances and personal choice as to which option suits you best, but whichever way you jump it should be done in close consultation with an experienced local property agent to guide you through the process. Setting a price. Sounds obvious and it is, however it is setting the right price that is the important factor in determining whether or not you achieve a beneficial outcome. Obviously all sellers want to attain the highest possible price for their property, but there is no point persisting in thinking a home is worth more than the market will offer or settling on a set amount of money and refusing to budge. It is important to be realistic when setting a price. Communicate with an agent who knows the area well, do your research and look at what similar homes in the area are selling for to arrive at an accurate assessment of your property’s value. Setting a price has many advantages. It can be less intimidating for buyers (and sellers) than, for example, the auction process. Setting a price also means you are more likely to target genuine buyers who know what they can afford. Even though you have set a price, flexibility is the key to success. Buyers are more educated than ever before so carefully consider all offers. Time and time again we see sellers wishing they had taken the first offer on their home as it is often the best.
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The second way to sell your home is by not setting a price. Most people automatically think “auction” in this space and that is certainly a useful strategy under the right circumstances, for instance if there is high interest and demand for the property. However, it is not the only way. Increasingly homes are being advertised “by negotiation”. This is when a property is offered to the market without a set sale price and buyers are encouraged to make an offer and negotiate. This is an appealing method for many sellers as it can deliver the benefits of an auction strategy without the time constraints and other pressures that many find stressful. It also enables sellers to negotiate on terms and conditions, such as length of settlement, as well as the price. When taking this route, it is important to set boundaries. Respond to market feedback. If results aren’t forthcoming within a strict set timeframe, it is important to set a price without haste, take the home to auction or remove it from market. Buyers tend to lose interest if a property is listed by negotiation for a long period of time, because they will assume there is something wrong with it or it is overpriced. Once again, it all comes down to listening to the market, being realistic about what price you will accept and choosing an experienced local agent with excellent communication skills to guide you through the negotiation process. Among the myriad of different selling strategies you often hear bandied about, it should be reassuring to know that there are really only two options to consider, with a price or without.
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There can be a lot of confusion surrounding the legislative requirements for landlords before, during and after the tenancy. Below are the answers to some of the most frequently-asked questions we receive. Q: What do I need to do before I rent the property? A: This is dependent on many variable factors, such as your budget and the age and condition of the property. In general, below is what we as agents would generally recommend having completed prior to the property being advertised: n
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Q: When do I have to service the smoke alarms? A: All smoke alarms must be serviced, tested and made compliant within 30 days of the signed lease beginning. The tenant also has rules to follow with smoke alarms, such as not tampering with them or removing them, and not making them inoperable at any time. It is recommended that you engage a licensed, reputable company to carry out work to the smoke alarms to ensure legislative requirements are met as your property manager is not qualified to provide advice about this. Q: Can I charge my tenant for water and sewerage usage? A: The answer to this question is dependent on a few things – n
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Q: If an inclusion to the property stops working will I have to have it repaired or replaced? A: Yes. As per the RTRA Act, all fixtures, fittings and inclusions of the property must be maintained in working order by the lessor for the duration of the tenancy. Fixtures are things that are attached to, or installed in, the property (e.g. picture hooks) and inclusions are items supplied for the tenants use (such as the dishwasher, air conditioner or televisions). Q: How much notice do I need to give my tenant if I want them to leave? A: Regardless of whether the tenant has signed a fixed term or periodic lease, you will need to provide a minimum of two months notice with a Form 12, without grounds. This notice cannot end before the lease end date if they have signed a fixed term lease. If you are asking the tenant to leave due to an un-remedied breach (for example rent arrears) different time frames do apply. The time frames required for notice periods can be found and downloaded from the RTA Queensland website. n
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HOUSING MINISTRY TO ADDRESS AFFORDABILITY Politicians from the major parties are seeking the creation of a dedicated housing ministry. They say their goal is to make homes more affordable. The final report of the Senate Economics References Committee's affordable housing inquiry said a housing minister was needed to provide leadership across portfolios and governments. The committee wants the new portfolio to be located in a central agency such as Treasury or the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The parliamentary committee consisted of seven Labor MPs, five from the Coalition, two from the Greens and two independents. The committee said governments at all levels have a responsibility to use policy interventions to improve the efficiency and affordability of the housing market. “As such, the 64
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HOME LOAN DEMAND REACHES SIX-YEAR HIGH Loans to homebuyers have hit their highest level since September 2009. The ABS says there were 54,686 mortgage commitments in March, up 5.1 per cent in annual terms. That included a 7.1 per cent rise in loan approvals for established homes to 46,105 and a 3.4 per cent increase in loan approvals to buy new homes to 2777. However, loan approvals to build new homes fell 7.4 per cent to 5804. The average mortgage for an owner-occupier grew 7.3 per cent to $342,500, while
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5.1% The annual increase in mortgage commitments calculated in March 2015. Loans to homebuyers have hit their highest level since September 2009.
the average mortgage for a first home buyer rose 7.8 per cent to $326,300. Overall, property buyers made $31.6 billion in housing finance commitments in March, up 15.6 per cent on last year. The owner-occupied share rose 12.4 per cent to $18.7 billion, while the investor share jumped 20.6 per cent to $12.9 billion. Over the year, investors increased their share of loans from 39.1 per cent to 40.8 per cent.
NO NATIONAL BOOM, SAYS ANALYST Experienced property analyst Louis Christopher is the latest to confirm that there is no national property boom. Louis, of SQM Research, says asking prices continue to rise in Sydney and Melbourne, but the picture is not consistent across the country. He says the number of property listings has fallen in most capital cities. Nationally, the number of listed properties fell 2.8 per cent in April. “The numbers clearly illustrate there is no national housing boom,” says Louis. “But the Sydney market has become the ‘problem child’ for the RBA and it looks like Melbourne is now heading that way as well. In contrast, median asking house prices in Darwin continue to fall with year-on-year comparisons showing a 12-month decline of 3.5 per cent. Perth also recorded declines in house asking prices.”
BIG BUDGET WINS FOR BUILDERS There are more than 300,000 small businesses (more than any other industry) in the building and construction industry who are winners from the Budget. “Master Builders called for a Budget to boost confidence and viability for business in the here and now and the Government has delivered,” says Wilhelm Harnisch, CEO of Master Builders Australia. “The $5.5 billion small business package will massively boost confidence, activity and jobs in the industry. In an industry as capital intensive as building and construction, the immediate july 2015
write off of assets up to $20,000 will provide an immediate stimulus. “Measures to cut tax for both small companies and sole traders will also underpin a reboot of confidence for builders, home-buyers and consumers. Master Builders called for short term tax measures to boost building activity and maintain the momentum of the housing upturn and these measures have exceeded builders’ expectations.”
“The $5.5 billion small business package will massively boost confidence, activity and jobs in the industry.” CHINESE BUYING TIPPED TO HIT $60BIL A report forecasts Chinese investment in the Australian property market will continue to rise. Financial services company Credit Suisse predicts residential property investment from Chinesebased investors and new immigrants from China will more than double over the next six years to $60 billion. Foreign investment is blamed by misinformed observers for locking first-home buyers out of the market, but experts say the public has a distorted view of how much the Chinese truly influence housing prices. “It sounds like a big amount, but realistically it’s still a pretty small percentage of the entire market,” says Cameron Kusher, senior analyst with property data analysts CoreLogic RP Data. “Yes, it does have an effect on prices, but only in a narrow area: new houses in estates and new apartments in the inner city.” Information sourced from www.thinkinvestmentrealty.com.au, www.reiq.com and www.genworth.com.au
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investments at their favourite destination because it’s a great place to holiday, they get swept away in the feeling that comes to them in the location. They convince themselves that owning a property there means they may have ‘free’ accommodation on that occasional getaway while doubling as an investment. Rarely have I heard that this type of investment has delivered any more than a very expensive form of accommodation to the investor. Similar stories emerge about universitystyle accommodation in the hope that little Johnny may one day require a room for his studies. Many times I have heard stories of the late Aunty Doris who has left a rundown cottage behind which is going to be sold at a bargain and will make for a beautiful renovation. Unfortunately none of these are objective investment decisions, these decisions are not based on the primary reason we invest in property, which is to create wealth.
Over the years I have witnessed hundreds of investors making decisions on their future through investing in property, some good decisions, some not so sound decisions.
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Kangaroo Point, Brisbane • Brand new architecturally designed two bedroom luxury apartments • Allocated secure car parking • Premium Kangaroo Point location, adjacent to CBD
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The Marc is one of a kind in Brisbane. Explicitly designed for a location brimming with energy and vitality - ultra spacious, mega stylish, at the smart edge of current design, with all the essential comforts. Many apartments enjoy great views of the river, the CBD or towards Moreton Bay. From the residents-only recreation deck on level 9, stunning vistas stretch out in all directions. The clean-lined exterior façade is Art Deco inspired. A simple silhouette offsets bold characteristics with fine detailing. Well-sized apartment interiors capture the modern mood. The clarity of Danishinspired design is functional and accessible, graceful and beautiful. Stylish kitchens integrate fluently with living spaces, so entertaining is sheer pleasure. And extra-generous balconies are all about living large: whether it’s a dinner for two or inviting everyone round for drinks before a night out. The Marc brings coffee culture and eclectic retail on side too, with a street-level café and shops. Must have amenities include pay TV and ADSL internet, air conditioning and intercom security. Another advantage: specially negotiated bulk electricity discounts for occupiers.
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The Marc is designed by Red Door Architecture, a boutique design studio focused on creating outcomes for their clients that incorporate spacial requirements while helping them realise their ideals and values through architecture. The entire Red Door team believes in economical, sustainable and smart design and takes a contemporary, sophisticated, versatile and eye-catching approach to creating space The design for The Marc takes account of site and local contextual constraints, and applies climate-responsive principles to create a building that offers residents a comfortable home and enhances the urban environment of Kangaroo Point. The sub-tropical South East Queensland climate that invites contemporary outdoor living has been carefully considered. Extended slabs to the Northern façade limit solar exposure to the glazing during the heat of the summer. Angled perforated screens to the Western façade regulate harsh afternoon sun while enabling views to the CBD. Comfort and environmental considerations are behind every unique layout.
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The Marc presents as a destination with a soul, prized by all who admire individual artistic expression. Savoring the challenge of crafting its enlightened interiors, Mary Durack Interior Design reinterprets the principles of Scandinavian style. Through is the clever use of colour, timber patterns, organic shapes and contemporary graffiti art, The Marc’s imaginative environments express a new energy. Externally, strong horizontal elements and sinuous geometric screens are reminiscent of the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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The well known Brisbane inner-city suburb of Kangaroo Point is a highly sought after 1.3km2 geographical area bordering the Brisbane River directly adjacent the CBD. Home to a relatively youthful population, the avergage age is 35 with the employment sector dominated by a high proportion of professionals and service related roles. Due to the close proximity to employment, entertainment and education amenities, Kangaroo Point is a prime destination for property owners and tenants. The household average occupancy is just 1.9 people meaning a good proportion of couples and singles reside in the area. A large portion of occupants are in the long term rental market which provides a good base of demand for quality rental properties and drives above average yeilds. Vacancy rates have been healthy in the area, however can fluctuate at times partially influenced by short stay accomodation options with regular vacancies. Avoiding these types of “short stay” properties and adhering to a particular set of property investment parameters will ensure you avoid sporadic rents and maintain quality long term leases. Kangaroo Point residents have multiple transport options including; bus, bike and ferry with direct access to the city via the Story Bridge, the Captain Cook Bridge, City Ferry network and a proposed new pedestrian bridge planned to link into Edward Street, Brisbane CBD. The Marc, strategically set in the heart of Kangaroo Point meets and exceeds a number of important property investment parameters including location, design, value, rent-ability and appeal. In addition, the developer has committed to deliver some extra inclusions along with rental protection for property investors.
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tanya mungomery Integrity. Knowledge. Results. Tanya Mungomery brings 20 years of client service experience to her role with McGrath and prides herself on exceeding clients’ expectations through her friendly and professional manner. Dedicated to delivering exceptional results in a stress free manner with proven results, Tanya makes an excellent choice for the sale of your property offering six star service and advice delivered with integrity.
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Lifestyle CHANGE IN RETIREMENT Escapism, life reassessment, returning home, quality of life or health/environment are just some of the reasons retirees choose a lifestyle change and the best place to start is by writing a list of all the things you want from your home once your kids leave the nest.
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Downside includes body corporate rules; problem neighbours and no way to avoid them feeling claustrophobic or too close to neighbours; high body corporate fees; and lack of parking for visitors. A BEACH PAD Retirees are tending to move to the beach from all over Australia, and to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to be by the beach. Mooloolaba, Alexandra Headlands, Caloundra and Coolum would be great places for a beach pad. The positives include exercise – with the beach at your back door to motivate you to get moving; easy-going lifestyle; more events during peak holiday seasons offset by quieter months during off-peak; property values potentially boosted by overlooking ocean and potential appeal to visiting friends and family. The negatives include salt spray can damage car/house which means high strata maintenance costs; tourist season can make it difficult to find a car park and beach towns can suffer volatile markets where prices yo-yo between the peaks and troughs of a property cycle. My advice is to ask lots of other people about their experiences, research widely and spend time finding somewhere that suits both people if you are a couple. Write a list of all the things you want from downsizing, find out all moving costs and also have a Plan B. profilemagazine
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THE GOOD inspector They say your home is your castle, but what if your castle is full of termites, snakes and other unwanted creepy crawlies? What if the foundations have rotted from a leak in your bathroom and the plaster has gone soggy? Well, for Mark Rowlingson, all this is just another day in the office.
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t is a serious job, being a building and pest inspector. People’s livelihoods are on the line, but so is their safety, so how do you draw the line? For Mark Rowlingson the distinction is easy because for this tradie, a home is a haven and a haven should be sturdy. “I once heard a story about a building inspector who was sued because a deck in a home he had given the all-clear for crumbled, killing three people. That’s why our job is so important and why everyone, buying or selling, should enlist our advice,” he says. Mark began in the construction industry as a builder apprentice for the Queensland Government in 2003. After completing his trade, he moved to Mt Isa to work with the world’s second largest mining company, taking on an office role for the contracts department. “That was a pretty interesting role, I learnt a lot about contracts and contract law, which has helped me with what I do now,” says Mark. “Giving some general advice to clients that have never bought a house and have signed a contract, and don’t understand what it means to have a building inspection and pest inspection done, and what they can do with it as a result and the findings in the reports.” Before relocating to Brisbane, Mark expanded his industry experience at Mornington Island, an Aboriginal community of more than 1000 off the gulf of Queensland. “I was the foreman up there, although we didn’t do too much new construction, we did a lot of renovations and maintenance for the Department of Housing, but everyday was a challenge and I learnt a lot from my role,” says Mark. “It was an isolated community you could only get to by plane. It was the sort of place where you had to plan ahead at least a month because of the time it took to get materials to the island. Everything had to be barged into the community and over the wet season there was no fresh fruit for a month if the roads were cut. It was very different.” Qualifying as a builder in 2008, Mark started up his own building and pest inspection business in North Brisbane, before buying into a franchise. Since then, Mark’s eyes have been opened to a new world of “bad” construction and dodgy home renovations that have gone horribly wrong! “The worst that comes to mind is when homeowners try and do work to their own property, when they want to do major renovations to a house and try and take it on themselves,” says Mark. “People do a lot of damage to their house doing it that way, they don’t realise the consequences, and while they think they are improving it aesthetically, they are actually reducing the value of their home. “Most of the time the work done is so bad it would need to be ripped out and started again, and if they do things like a bathroom themselves, if they don’t do a proper waterproof membrane by a licensed contractor, that devalues the whole house because the whole bathroom would need to come out because the floor is going to rot.” On top of home-renos-gone-wrong, Mark also inspects homes for pests, crawling through roofs in search of termites, ants and even snakes. “Crawling through roofs is probably the worst part of my job, especially in summer. I keep saying that I need to start doing yoga classes because sometimes I have to crawl through roofs where I am twisting and contorting myself.” Mark admits that although he does not have a fear of confined spaces, snakes give him the heebie-jeebies. “The worst experience I have had was a house that was 120-years-
old and had been moved. It was the old rectory from the Anglican Church in Brisbane. They moved the house out in five or six pieces 10-yearsago, out onto a 10-acre block on the side of a hill,” he says. “It was all pieced back together, fully renovated and an absolutely beautiful house. However, as I was doing the external examination I noticed a snake skin hanging down from an open eve and went and saw the owners to ask them if they had things moving around in the roof before showing them the snake skin. They said, ‘oh no that’s the small one, the snake that’s usually up there, his skin comes out of the roof and curls up on the ground, it’s about five metres long!’... Needles to say, I never went up there!” It’s obvious how important Mark’s work is to the building and real estate industry, especially for homeowners preparing to put their house on the market. “Pre-sale inspections can work in favour of the seller, because they know of the defects before the buyer and can use it as a negotiation tool because they are aware of that upfront, they know that they would need to get it fixed beforehand or provide the information to the buyer,” he says. “To get maximum profit for the house it is always better to get a building inspection done, especially an older property such as an old Queenslander that has been let go. We can find some pretty serious things wrong with them especially on decks, which can collapse if the structure is not sound.” Selling houses can be scary, but with Mark’s advice, the task doesn’t seem so daunting.
“I keep saying that I need to start doing yoga classes because sometimes I have to crawl through roofs where I am twisting and contorting myself.”
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WINTER SHOE ROBE WORDS TAMARA WRIGLEY
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ur feet aren’t cold-blooded creatures and therefore we shouldn’t put them into hibernation just because it’s wintertime. Let’s embrace our feet and more importantly our winter shoe collection. Gone are the days when we have to wear big, thick, unattractive shoes on our feet. There are so many ranges and styles in boots for the AW2015 season and in particular, the peep toe ankle boots, knee-high mesh fitted boot or the reptile/textured boot, which should all be on your must-have shoe shopping list for this autumn/ winter season. “FREEZE! – Step away from the plain black boot.”
Try something different When you prepare your outfit for work or play, how much attention do you pay to what goes on your feet? What I love most about winter is the bevy of boots on display and there are so many different styles available, allowing you to dress up any outfit. This month in About Style, we showcase the best in winter shoes and when it comes to the beauty department, it’s all about being photoshoot ready! As always we bring you informative columns from leading beauty experts to have you looking your best. In the Life section, we continue to showcase the healthy and inspirational people among us, providing you with lots of interesting tips and tricks to take away and apply to your daily life. And in the Home section we bring you some inspo for cosying up your bedroom this winter. For more fashion advice visit www.istyletv.com.au
That’s right, we all tend to trend towards our traditional black boot and don’t get me wrong, every wardrobe should have a plain black boot, but why not think outside the box and add a little colour, patterns, textures, buckles, zippers and of course heels to your boot range. This season is all about colour, textures, tassels, reptile print, and stylish eyelets-inspired boots. Dress those feet up instead of dressing them down. If you are still levitating towards your black boot, why not go for one that has a bit of embossing, snake print, buckles or zippers as its standout feature. Maybe even a pair with a stunning gold-plated feature on the heel or upper of the shoe or the counter of the shoe, it will just give it that pop. My winter boot tips are to invest in a really great pair of leather boots, ones that are going to last you several seasons and stay in vogue for several seasons as well. The other styles of boots as mentioned above are more seasonal and should be purchased with this in mind. What is trending this season may not be in style next season. Embrace your winter shoes and don’t be afraid to let your toes see the daylight every now and then during winter.
A little bit of texture on a plain boot is enough to make it pop.
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Winter Warmers Look glamorous from top to toe this autumn/winter season with these must-have shoes and stylish accessories.
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ome of Sheree Johnstone’s earliest memories as a child, are playing in her mother’s clothing stores in Mooloolaba. Before she was a teenager, she was already helping from a business perspective and then opened her first store at the age of 21, called Unseen in Mooloolaba. Sheree later opened another two stores, before taking a break to start a family. In 2013, Sheree partnered with a girlfriend to open Burnish, but is now back on her own and relaunching under the name of her original store name – Unseen Boutique. Sheree has a natural eye for fashion and revels in pulling outfits together for her clients, she also has a great love of wardrobe staples and working them into transeasonal trends.
profile: Who was your earliest influence when it comes to fashion? sheree: Fashion pedigree does not come much stronger. My mother Robyn is a well known fashionista herself. She owned three prominent ladies’ clothing stores in Mooloolaba over a period of 27 years. From age five I spent every afternoon after school at the stores where I learned from the best in the business. From age 12 I began working in the stores and assisting with the buying. It became evident that I had a natural eye for fashion. profile: How would you describe your own fashion style? sheree: I mostly wear staples which are multipurpose in natural fabrics that you can mix and match and add that stunning piece to dress up or stay casual.
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profile: Where does the inspiration come from? sheree: Inspiration comes from an absolute love of fashion and the desire for Unseen to continue to be the ultimate fashion destination. profile: What colours are you loving working with at the moment? sheree: Shades of grey!
We are lucky on the Sunshine Coast that we can adapt our wardrobes to be transeasonal as our winters are very mild.
profile: What is your favourite season to style for? sheree: I love summer for dresses and playsuits, and winter for pants/leggings and boots. We are lucky on the Sunshine Coast that we can adapt our wardrobes to be transeasonal as our winters are very mild. profile: What is the current fashion trend you’re loving? sheree: I am loving my white Paige distressed denim jeans. They are so comfortable and white is so fresh they also team back with any top and shoe style.
profile: How long does it take you to get ready before going out? sheree: About 30 minutes. I have never spent hours getting ready. I will often leave the hair salon with wet hair because I have trouble sitting for hours.
profile: What is the must-have fashion item we should all have? sheree: The current issue of Vogue magazine, silk and knit tops in navy or grey, and distressed denim jeans.
profile: What is it like pulling outfits together for customers? sheree: That is the fun part! I love finding styles that are flattering and that clients instantly feel fabulous in. It is so rewarding and why I love my job!
profile: What do you always have in your handbag? sheree: My diary, I would be lost without it, my iPhone, my DVF sunglasses and lip balm.
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Hair loss or thinning hair in women can be very DISTRESSING. It affects self-esteem, CONFIDENCE and can bring women to tears …
BEAUTY I have unsightly cellulite! How do I get rid of it? Help! My hair is falling out! HAIR LOSS IN WOMEN WITH KAREY GALEA Some hair loss in women is easily explained: weight loss, low iron levels, poor diet and stress can all contribute to hair loss or thinning hair – hair needs a healthy diet to flourish. However, hair loss due to poor diet and stress can be temporary. The hair follicle isn’t damaged and the hair can grow back once these factors are addressed. This is also true for hair loss after child birth or following cancer treatment, in most cases hair should grow back. Another form of hair loss is genetic when hair gradually thins over the years. It can start at any age, is progressive and inherited. This type of hair loss usually starts at the front top area of the head and can extend to the back. With genetic hair loss the hair follicle is damaged, over time it gets smaller. The hair you grow will be finer which will result in thinning, sparse hair. Hair loss or thinning hair in women can be very distressing. It affects self-esteem, confidence and can bring women to tears at the frustration of losing our luscious locks. In genetic hair loss, the gene can be passed down by either parent and can affect just one child and not the next. I try to remind myself it’s only hair and there are ways to eliminate the look of thinning hair and I should consider myself lucky, unlike some of my dearest friends who have lost their hair through traumatic circumstances. If you are concerned about hair loss a dermatologist can help. These doctors specialise in diagnosing and treating hair, skin and nails. HAIRY PEPPER www.hairypepper.com.au 82
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The curse for over 90 per cent of women, cellulite is usually found on thighs, upper arms and bottom and can be slight in appearance or very prominent. The good news is cellulite can be treated, often with excellent results from simple treatments and exercise. What is cellulite? In simple terms, your fat or tissues have a connective tissue disorder. This is a fat charter breakdown creating the formation of dimples in the skin, usually attributed to a poor circulation system, eg not enough exercise such as sitting too long or poor nutrition. Surprisingly, many fit young women attend clinics at the first sign of cellulite to ensure the fat cells are controlled before unsightly deposits take effect. Here are six simple rules to control or eradicate cellulite:
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Janelle Drummond talks about her family business
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Find out what inspired Camilla Hansen’s latest candle collection
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“Visiting people in their homes and ENHANCING their room with amazing fabrics, wallpaper or window coverings is what I ENJOY.”
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Janelle Drummond learnt a lot from her mum – how to tie her shoelaces and how to make a mean roast dinner. But it’s what Janelle learnt from working alongside her mum in running their successful business that has proven to be the most valuable.
NATURAL OR WHITE?
White is brighter, because it reflects more light, and will provide a sharper contrast with the rest of the colors in your room. It also draws more attention to the window. Natural offers a warmer, softer look, and tends to more easily blend with or complement the other colors in your room.
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CONTROL THE LIGHT
Sheers and laces filter light without blocking it. Natural or white cottons or blends are translucent and soften the light. Woven fabrics, lined curtains and insulated curtains nearly block out the light.
TIE YOUR CURTAINS BACK
When you tie back your curtains, you allow more light to come through your windows and visually widen them. Where you tie them back is a matter of personal preference. You may even change the height of your tiebacks from season to season, to change the feeling in your room.
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customer walks into Janelle Drummond’s curtains, blinds and home decor showroom and starts browsing, brushing their fingertips over the collection of fabrics and textiles looking for the right piece to complete their home. This is where Janelle really shines. “I love helping people,” she says with a warm smile, even after 30 years in the industry she never tires of it. “I love helping people with selections for their home … visiting people in their homes and enhancing their room with amazing fabrics, wallpaper or window coverings is what I enjoy.” In 1983, Janelle’s mum, Gene, bought a small store at Dicky Beach. “Mum had no experience in this trade, but had a love of fabrics and good business skills and “N” Curtains expanded very quickly,” she says. “Soon we were in a bigger showroom with more staff.” Janelle was a teacher and a mum of a small child, and wanted to be in a profession that was more flexible for a young mother. So she started working for her mum. “I worked part-time for the first few years while Mum taught me all about the industry and business,” she says. “By then I was ready to manage my own showroom and we started a store in Maroochydore. Next was a store in Caboolture and life was very busy. “Mum called my sister Leanne who lived in Melbourne and had a real interest in business. She said we’re expanding and could do with some help, so she and her husband moved to Queensland and joined the business. “My younger sister Paula also came to work with us and managed our Caboolture store, she shared the family passion for business and worked in the company for several years before she and her husband began their own (hair dressing) business.” In 1998 their dad died suddenly, prompting Gene to retire and Leanne and Janelle to buy the business. “I’m so fortunate to have been involved in a business with my sisters and mother,” says Janelle. “We were in partnership for a combined 30 years and never had a cross word, we’ve always been very open and respectful of each other’s opinions.” july 2015
They tend to block out more light than unlined curtains, when closed. Secondly, they offer a bit more insulating value. And because the lining is usually natural or white in colour, the view from the street can be made consistent from window to window, even though inside, different rooms have different colours.
COLOUR SELECTION
Solid colours or prints are refreshing and draw attention to the window. Soft, neutral colours can complement the colours in your carpeting, furniture, or wallpaper. If the window is interesting architecturally, you may want to emphasise that feature through colour selection. Don’t hesitate to experiment with mixing naturals and whites, or prints, stripes and solids. Warm shades of reds and yellows will add life to a room. Cool colours – blues or whites, or earth tones like greens and browns are restful.
Leanne had an interest in the manufacturing side and so after 15 years at In Curtains & Blinds, she established her own business, which manufactures all of their curtains and blinds and has since expanded to service customers across Australia. Both Janelle and Leanne have continued the family ties within business with their respective daughters. “Casey, my daughter, worked with us during her school years, then she was off travelling and working overseas for four years and then back to Brisbane to study interior design,” says Janelle. “She’s now settled back on the Coast and has just opened a design studio.” Meanwhile Leanne’s daughter Lucy left school and has joined her mother in business. In order to keep the brand fresh and exciting, Janelle is preparing to do some rebranding, updating the showroom, branching into larger commercial jobs here and interstate, and working in partnership with Casey. Now, opening the curtain on a new era for Janelle and her family’s businesses, she is excited about what the future holds.
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CAMILLA HANSEN
Camilla Hansen strikes a match and takes a deep breath in, as memories of basking in the sun, by the lapping shores of Noosa River, come floating back. Camilla started making candles about three years ago, at first making them for family and friends, before making them a part of her brand Noosa Handmade and eventually creating specialised ‘moments’ collections.
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oosa Moments was her first range, with each candle dedicated to a beautiful location including Little Cove, Noosa River, Hidden Grove and Sunshine Beach. She has also recently launched a Port Douglas collection and has other locations in the works. profile: How does a scent change the feel of a room/space? camilla: A scent does not only change the feel of a room but it also affects your mood and the whole atmosphere. It changes the whole experience of the room and you can play around with it to create a specific feeling that you are after. For example, I always keep a reed diffuser on my desk and everytime I enter the office it triggers my mind into inspiration and creativity mode. In the same way you can burn relaxing scents next to your bath and you have created yourself a luxurious home spa. profile: Which rooms in the house should have candles burning? camilla: To make the most of your candles it is a good idea to keep them in rooms where you spend your evenings, when you are more likely to burn candles, such as your living room and kitchen. That way you will enjoy every minute of their burn time and be able to keep an eye on them. Having said that, there is no reason to leave the other rooms out – it is just as lovely to have a reed diffuser spreading its divine scent in any space as it is a candle. You can even store reed diffusers in your closet to give your clothes a fresh scent and yourself a divine start to the day! profile: Where did the idea come from for your Location Candles? camilla: The idea to feature specific locations on the candles simply came to mind when I was travelling around the coast and was wishing that I could capture the feeling, the views, the vibes and the scents of the place I was in. I wanted to be able to bring it home with me in a little package and share it with others, kind of like a photo album but with a twist. More locations are coming within the next few months, but I cannot yet tell you which ones as it is a bit of a secret. Let’s just say that coastal towns in Victoria and New South Wales can expect to be captured in a jar very soon!
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profile: Where does your inspiration come from when creating scents? camilla: When creating new scents a lot is taken into consideration. First of all we choose which location we wish to feature and then try to think about which scent comes to mind at that spot. Woody notes go hand in hand with our Daintree Rainforest candles while a hint of ocean breeze goes well with our Little Cove candles. profile: What is your favourite scent/location? camilla: My favourite is Laguna Bay. It has a smooth scent of sandalwood and creamy vanilla beans. Yum! When you close your eyes and breathe in the aromas of the candle it will take your mind to a deep forest full of natural scents with romantic and sweet notes. It has that perfect balance between feminine and masculine which is very appealing, it is soft yet distinct. Another favourite is Island Point from our Port Douglas collection that is a warm blend of juicy pineapples and zesty lemons. It is a very special location right at the water where a lot of weddings take place. profile: What is the most popular scent/location? camilla: Tea Tree Bay is without a doubt our most popular location candle. It is one of those places in Noosa that has a bit of everything – the ocean views, the surrounding of the National Park and a golden beach. Or maybe it’s popular because of the fresh scent of coconuts and zesty limes? It is a combination that you easily fall in love with as it represents what a beautiful coastal town is all about – long days on the beach, tropical vibes, magical scents and a relaxing holiday feeling. When people smell that candle I often hear them say, ‘This scent IS Noosa’.
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GLASSHOUSE FRAGRANCES TRIPLE SCENTED CANDLE, CONEY ISLAND, RRP $39.95, STOCKISTS WWW.GLASSHOUSEFRAGRANCES.COM
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BEAUTIFUL WORDS JULIANA WASSINK, THE GARDEN, MALENY
Mid-winter can be one of the gloomier times in the garden, but it doesn’t have to be. There are still plenty of plants with bright flowers around the garden right now, to keep your space looking fresh and inviting.
Camellias and azaleas are great for shady spots in the garden with both species flowering now and available in a large colour wave. Don’t forget to feed them though, to keep them healthy and happy.
July is the time to prune roses. Prune off inward-facing branches to create an overall vase shape. This allows the air to move freely through the bush helping to stop diseases such as black spot. Always make sure you cut the branch on an angle and not too close or far from the bud. You can prune roses back to about one third of the original bush size – don’t be scared, they will love you for it! However, don’t be too hard on climbers as it will affect their growing/flowering cycle.
While you are at it, don’t forget to fertilise your flower and vegetable seedlings and flowering bulbs. Keep an eye out for the first buds of those magnificent magnolias. It is now time to sow potatoes, cabbages, zucchini, tomatoes, sweetcorn and capsicums in your vegetable garden. For those beds that are empty, dig them over and enrich with compost ready for the next crop planting in early spring.
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Now is also the time to sharpen your pruning tools and put them to use. Prune deciduous shrubs except those that flower in spring – you don’t want to cut off their new flowering growth.
It is also the best time to transplant deciduous shrubs and trees and plant barerooted roses, citrus and fruit trees. Enjoy the Queensland Garden Show on 10 to 12 July, in Nambour, where 55 nurseries and 360 exhibitors take part in lectures, demonstrations and workshops. www.qldgardenexpo.com.au
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Two local friends started The Give Back Project Sunshine Coast in a bid to entice more young people into the volunteer workforce and contribute to the good of the world. The pair recently left their corporate jobs to live a simpler, more purposeful life.
t’s that reoccurring daydream that many of us have at the work desk: escaping the big city life for a sea or tree change, where there’s less chaos and more time for rejuvenating our weary souls. Most of us are too afraid to take that leap of faith into a simpler life, but two local friends have done just that. James Reynolds, of Noosa, and Jen Birt, of Coolum, have swapped traffic jams for ocean swims by shedding their corporate jobs at a major bank to enjoy a better work/life balance on the Sunshine Coast. But most importantly, they wanted more time to give back to the community which gives so much to them. With their extra time they launched The Give Back Project Sunshine Coast in a bid to encourage
younger people into the volunteering service; a workload mostly being taken care of by retirees. The pair saw there was a need to present volunteering in a more attractive package, so they could encourage young people to get out and help their community, potentially doubling or tripling the current volunteer workforce. James says when he and Jen started sharing their life goals at work, they quickly realised there was more for them outside the nine-to-five grind. “Jen and I didn’t fit the mould of the corporate world. We stumbled across each other and realised we were like-minded early on,” says James. “We wanted to pursue more soulful things than the corporate world gives you.”
“It’s an old Native American tradition that when you take something from the Earth you must put something back.” - Forestnation.
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JAMES REYNOLDS AND JEN BIRT
After leaving the bank, James launched Totem Wealth, which gave him more time to work towards personal goals, such as contributing to the good of the world. “I wanted something more human, more connected,” he says. “We both knew we wanted to have some kind of community involvement.” Jen says since having her daughter, Sophie, 18 months ago, and choosing to work from home empowering women through her life coach business, Let Her Shine, she felt she could spare some time to help others. Having moved from a very busy life in Melbourne five years ago, Jen noticed more of a community focus on the Sunshine Coast, and decided to come on board with her mum, who is an Anglican minister at a Maroochydore church, to help feed the Coast’s homeless community. “It has shocked me seeing how many people need help,” she says. Seeing this real side of the Coast encouraged Jen to take things into her own hands, “Helping people in the community makes you feel good, it lifts the soul”. The Give Back Project acts as a bridge between organisations and the people, bringing the people-power to the services that need help the most. It targets the 25-to-45 age group, of which volunteer numbers are scarce. “If one person did one hour a week, that’s four hours a month, which is 200 hours a year,” says James. “If one person invites a few of their mates, and their mates invite a few more, it won’t be long until we can bring that figure up to 5000 hours.” Jen says it’s about giving back collectively, in order to ease the workload, “We have done 30 hours collectively so far, a lot of hands make light work”. To capture the attention of younger members, the project is mindful about making sure the events are fun, active and outdoors, which James and Jen believe is in line with what Coast locals are all about.
James says some people want to volunteer but don’t know how or what they can do. “It’s hard to know what to do and you don’t want to feel you have to commit to something,” says James. “We want it to be non-committal and accessible. We connect people who want to give back their time to volunteer at events in a way that suits them. It’s easy, fun and social. We don’t want to make anyone feel guilty.” Because the project’s primary focus is to be appealing to younger people, they must not only have a non-forceful approach, but keep things simple. “For the things we do, usually all you need is a pair of gloves,” says James. “We make sure many of our events are active, outside and with friends or family members, such as tree plantings, working in parks or on the beach. “If more people come on board, less people are needed. If one person can bring three or four of their mates to the beach to pick up some rubbish they get to hang with their friends on the beach and do something positive.” With Landcare providing the native trees, Jen and James sought advice from Sunshine Coast Council to find the best spot for the trees to grow, and together they planted the entire 100 trees at Weyba Esplanade, Noosa Heads. It took them five hours – if they had 20 people helping them they could have had the job done in an hour. Since their debut, they have grown their team, and together have removed 12kg of rubbish through a Surfrider Foundation beach clean initiative and tended to gardens at Lions Park, Coolum. To sign up to the group’s projects visit www.facebook.com/ thegivebackprojectsc and watch out for upcoming events.
“We connect people who want to give back their time to volunteer at events in a way that suits them. It’s easy, fun and social.”
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Lisa Mills remembers her introduction to yoga fondly. She was in Greece in 2004, attending a yoga retreat and a much-needed break from her hectic work schedule as a professional deaf theatre director and deaf arts consultant in London.
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• Establish daily routines • Create a vision board
• Set small achievable goals
• Sleep and drink well
• Do physical activities you enjoy • Eat wholesome foods
• Be around positive people
• Be grateful • Be attentive to those you love
• Do random acts of kindness • Rephrase negative thoughts into positive thoughts • Meditate or be present while doing single tasks where possible to still the mind
I know I need to catch up on sleep and drink more water. And to kindly tell my husband it’s his turn to do night duty with the babies. profile: What is your biggest health no-no? lisa: For me it’s poor mental health. When I have been in poor mental form I didn’t look after the people I care about and more importantly I didn’t look after me. And then everything else spiralled out of control too. Poor mental health can happen to anyone. And the consequences can sometimes be harmful. profile: How do you personally achieve a healthier being? lisa: That is my mission this year! I will return to Bali to do advanced yoga teacher training by doing a 300-hour yoga teacher training course. By doing this I will take some much needed time out from my familiar surroundings and routines, to reconnect with me and strengthen my mind, body and spirit. Doing lots of yoga in a serene environment like Bali does wonders for a healthier being. And my loved ones will benefit too as they will get to be with the transformed me.
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Workshops for teen girls to build a higher levels of self worth. Suffering from an eating disorder, lacking confidence, bullied at “school, a feeling of not fitting in and misinterpreting her self worth
based on media images, our 13 year old daughter was in serious trouble. This was 12 months ago. We had an amazing dietician on our side and at the same time discovered Dawn Osborne’s Seeing Beauty Program which opened the door for our daughter to meet girls who felt the same about life as she did, allowing her to feel a little bit more ‘normal’. These workshops took the pressure off her, it wasn’t like being in a classroom where she felt she was being judged or had to score well in the next exam, or at a specialists office where she had thoughts of what’s wrong with me now! If any of this resinates with you, I encourage you to enroll your daughter in Dawn’s Seeing Beauty Program, it was life changing for our daughter. Deanne, Little Mountain QLD
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All those of us with a heart beat have woken up at some stage or another with what we affectionately refer to as ‘morning mouth.’ There is no one single cause for this bad breath and normally no simple quick fix. Diagnosis is normally made through a process of elimination. The most common causes can include: • • • •
Poor oral hygiene Disease in the mouth – either decay or gum disease Respiratory tract infections Dry mouth (often caused by salivary gland disfunction or medications) • External factors – like smoking, food and drink • Systemic illnesses The distinctive smell can strike periodically or be persistent, depending on the cause. In many people, the millions of bacteria that live in the mouth (particularly on the top of the tongue) are the primary cause of bad breath. The mouth’s warm, moist conditions make an ideal environment for these bacteria to grow. Bad breath is by no means a recent phenomenon, with records mentioning the embarrassing condition, dating back to 1550 B.C. It remains today an issue that can cause social embarrassment and alienation. So what can be done? Firstly, it’s important to treat not only the bad breath itself, but the cause – otherwise you’ll be fighting the symptoms for a great deal of time – wasting your time and money.
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Living well every day and making each day count is a choice each of us have, including the little things in life that create health and happiness. Make your life worth remembering. Try these simple steps to make life incredibly rewarding: 1. Stay fit and eat well – when your body works well, your brain works better. More oxygen, blood flow, and good nutrients to raise your brain chemicals, not only make you happy but give you abundant energy. Include all food groups to supply you with fuel to keep up with extra pressures. Avoid foods with chemicals and preservatives, choose organic and avoid chemicals in your home.
Things to try : • Paying extra attention to oral hygiene routines – ensuring you brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day and floss nightly. • Make sure you brush your tongue every day – brushing as far back as is comfortable. The bristles of your toothbrush will do a great job, no need for special tools. • Antibacterial mouth rinses and gum chewing can help. • Avoid foods and habits like smoking that can worsen the smell. • When no toothbrush is available – try rinsing out your mouth with water, chewing some sugar free gum – even your grandma’s old ‘chew some parsley’ cure, has been known to do the trick.
2. Sleep well, at least eight hours – go to bed early and get solid sleep through the night.
But, if your bad breath persists, there may be a more sinister cause for the problem so it’s important to visit your dentist or hygienist to get to the root of the problem.
6. Have goals that you work towards every day – there’s nothing more rewarding than achieving something that makes you feel proud. Make a list of everything you ever wanted to do, now start doing them.
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3. Do something every day that you love – that fills your heart and keeps you balanced, a walk on the beach, run through a forest, or swim in the ocean. 4. Be around people you love – friends, family, debrief with your bestie, catch up with a mate, nothing is better for the soul than connecting and laughing with people who love you. 5. Be true to yourself – have the courage to walk away from anything that makes you unhappy.
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ERIK’S STORY “I required tattoo removal treatment after being accepted into the Australian Defence Force and underwent eight sessions of laser at another clinic that seemed to make very little difference. Annoyed with the amount of time it was taking with next-to-no-progress, it was delaying my enlistment by nearly 18 months and I started looking for other methods available. I even thought about whether or not I should just take a grinding wheel to the tattoo in question – but being that it was on my neck, others convinced me that it might not be a good idea! I found Mel at Skinial and within the first session, the ink was gone on the areas she treated. It was a much better outcome and only two further treatments were required before the tattoo was completely gone and I was accepted into the defence force. I found the treatment at Skinial a much quicker and more effective way to remove a tattoo, not to mention a fraction of the cost compared to laser. So overall it was a positive experience and no grinding wheel required!” SKINIAL COZmedics, Ground Floor, 49 The Esplanade, Maroochydore p. 0400 400 982 e. scsouth@skinial.com www.skinial.com july 2015
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f you are looking for a better inside and outside, you must have the right positive attitude. People know me as an extremely positive person. This comes from my absolute belief through my journey and experiences, that you can never be too positive. I see day in and day out that the people who abound with positive energy and brilliant attitudes are more likely to increase their chances of amazing results. The ones who are hard on themselves through negative thoughts and making excuses, have a hard time getting the results they are looking for. Obtaining a positive attitude is not as simple as flicking on a switch. So the question is; how do we achieve a positive view on every circumstance in life? To do this, we need to work through some basics first. This involves feeding and training our brain and souls, just as we do a bicep curl to grow, strengthen or develop that particular muscle. We need fuel and exercise for the mind, building relentlessly on a positive attitude to win the prize of sustainable happiness.
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Following these simple exercises and principles have proven to get my clients on the right track. ✓ Don’t judge or compare yourself to others – your competition is you ✓ Remind yourself that anything is possible if you put in the effort and want it enough ✓ Remember everything happens for a reason ✓ Set smart goals (write them down, don’t just think it) ✓ Before you leave the house, make sure you look like a rock star. Everyday a new friend can come into your life (first impressions last) ✓ If someone upsets you in a negative way, don’t let it get you down. Rise above it and be the better person ✓ Stay upbeat and keep a smile on your dial – there are thousands worse off than you and a million reasons to smile ✓
If it makes you feel good, do it.
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Yoga Central offers a variety of classes and instruction/ self maintenance courses for all levels of experience based on the ‘Madhya’ style of yoga created by Darren Evans. The teaching of yoga ‘Madhya’ addresses the body and its structural issues. Darren approaches his classes in a light hearted but focused manner steering his students towards a dedicated and balanced experience to assist them in gaining clarity and vitality through yoga and healthy living. www.yogacentral.com.au
The Big Boing Indoor Trampoline Park The Big Boing Indoor Trampoline Park is fun for the whole family from ages two-and-a-half years. It features over 1000 square metres of interconnecting trampolines and walled playing courts. The park has basketball slam dunking, a large air bag with four jumping lanes and junior areas. Enjoy trampolining, tricking and fitness on the tramps, plus birthday parties and work bonding sessions. You won’t even know you are exercising, while having so much fun. Book online, so you don’t miss out. Phone: 5493 6015 www.thebigboing.com.au
Get your life on the right track with our Vitality Trail, where we introduce you to interesting and exciting events and activities in health and wellbeing on the Sunshine Coast.
Dance Fitness
“It’s never too late to start dancing” is Hayley’s motto at Dance Fitness Sunshine Coast – the Coast’s leading adult dance studio based in Maroochydore. At DFSC the main focus is having fun while getting fit and most women love to dance! Their goal is to have women of all ages (18+) doing what they love in a comfortable, friendly environment. As well as offering the weekly classes that include burlesque, ballet, booty camp and many styles of dance fitness, DFSC also offer mums and bubs classes – baby wearing ballet and mummy’s booty camp, with the other specialty being weddings! Offering burlesque for hen’s parties and bridal dances for the couple’s first dance, choreographed to suit each couple/bridal party/flash mob. For more information, contact Hayley. Phone: 0412 050 651 www.dancefitnesssc.com.au hayley@dancefitnesssc.com.au 100
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The Mount Ngungun summit walking track is 2.8km return, so allow about two hours to complete at a comfortable pace. Mount Ngungun is about 3km from the Glass House Mountains township via Coonowrin and Fullertons Roads. The track begins in open forest with a fern understory. Part way up the mountain there is a great view of Mount Tibrogargan and the track passes a small rock overhang. The summit provides spectacular closeup views of nearby Mount Tibrogargan, Mount Coonowrin and Mount Beerwah. Caution, the track passes close to cliff edges, so supervise children closely. Take extra care around the summit area in wet weather as rocks become very slippery. Walk carefully to avoid dislodging rocks, they might hit walkers or climbers below you. www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/glass-house-mountains
Mapleton National Park Walk Several short walking tracks are provided in Mapleton National Park. The Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk, a 58 km walking track with overnight campsites, passes through Mapleton National Park. Walkers can also take shorter day walks along this great walk. There are various walking tracks including Linda Garrett circuit (700m return), Pilularis forest walk (800m), Bonyee walk (400m). Roads in Mapleton National Park are unsealed. As a result of flood damage, most roads require four-wheel-drive vehicles for safe access and visiting in dry weather conditions is recommended. www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/mapleton-forest
Sunshine Coast Stand Up Paddle Centre Get on board with the fastest growing water sport on the Sunshine Coast, stand up paddle boarding (SUP). The growth of SUP in Australia and especially on the Sunshine Coast has been huge. We have some of the world’s best beaches and waterways to enjoy this exciting sport. It’s fun, easy to learn and great for all ages, everyone from toddlers to grandparents can enjoy the sport and there is a board for everybody’s budget. It’s also very healthy, offering a great body workout on the water. The Sunshine Coast Stand Up Paddle Centre in Caloundra is the longest established SUP shop in Queensland and since opening in 2006 have helped many people to get involved in the sport, and stock boards and accessories for flat water paddling, surf and racing. www.sunshinecoastsupcentre.com.au
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ould life be different if we lived it by the moment? As we moved along another year from May into June, I noted that 151 days had already passed. How many moments is that? (According to an old medieval unit of time, a moment is equivalent to 90 seconds.) That means 144,960 moments had already happened. So how many do you remember? Or more importantly, how many moments were you happy in? Do you take the time to appreciate the moments? Or are you too busy filling the time to notice, until they are past? I know I’m often guilty of ‘filling the time’ and almost finding it difficult to be still. Fed by a sense of doing or achieving, I can easily get driven from one task to the next, not even taking the time to ‘stop and smell the roses’ as they say. That is one thing that mindfulness has taught me. To stop and reflect on a moment in time, at that time. I remember learning how to do a ‘walking meditation’. Sounds funny but you do it with eyes open. The purpose is to slow down enough to notice each step you take. Two experiences spring to mind with this style of mindfulness. Once was walking along “Be happy in the Mooloolaba Beach and slowly enough MOMENT, that’s enough. walking to focus on each step. Feeling the sand under Each moment is all we my feet and noticing the sensations on the skin. It was an amazingly refreshing thing to feel NEED, not more.” (although funnily at the time, my wife was trying – Mother Teresa to pull me along to match her pace). The second time was recently when I decided to take a long walk barefoot over wet grass. Rather than taking the practical approach of keeping my feet clean and dry, again I felt a sense of freedom in experiencing something so simple as that. It allowed me be mindful in the moment. Enough time to slow down and enjoy a simple sensation. Outside of meditation, mindfulness for me is slowing enough to notice the moment. Becoming an observer to the moment as well as the participant. Being able to step outside of your own (ego) to avoid either worry about the future or experience guilt about the past. To be able to be present and observe at any time you choose. I was recently working with a colleague who asked: what difference does mindfulness make to better decisions? I said it gives you time. I likened it to football (sorry ladies). It was often said that the great Wally Lewis seemed to have more time to do things on the field than other players. This meant he had the ability to see beyond the flurry of activity occurring all around him, and to be in the moment and see opportunities others could not see. One could say he was being ‘mindful’ in the moment. By being able to slow his mind he could observe so much more than others. Being mindful in the moment. I encourage you to find your journey to mindfulness to uncover its truly transformational benefits. 102
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s there a sport that you have dreamed of doing, but just haven’t had the courage to pursue? It took a big change in my life for me to take up kitesurfing. I now absolutely love it! I started out watching my brother kiting and spent plenty of time thinking about how scary, yet fun, it looked! Finally, about three years later, I came across a great coach to help me to be one of those kiters I had watched for so long. I was terrified of this sport and never ever thought I would overcome my fear. When I started learning, I made sure my instructor knew exactly how scared I was and he slowly pushed me through the process. He gradually built up my confidence and I began grasping the basic skills of kitesurfing. After about six months I could actually kite across the river mouth at Cotton Tree and, with more time on the water, I began picking up little skills like turning, jumping and even learning how to do a little back roll.
“I challenge you to take a LEAP and have a go at a sport that you have dreamed of trying!” In most sports, one can achieve small goals and then set new challenges. I found that if I told someone else what my goals were, I had to answer to them and therefore, needed to push myself through the scariness to achieve what I’d set out to do. There are so many fun activities on the Coast and maybe you just need a little encouragement to get out there and become involved. You never know where that may lead. Through kitesurfing I have met amazing people and developed so many great friendships, while also being inspired to have the courage to do so much more. I challenge you to take a leap and have a go at a sport that you have dreamed of trying! This month, beaches from Caloundra through to Noosa have seen one of the biggest influxes of grommets enrolling in Surfing Australia’s Vegemite SurfGroms Program, this past summer and Dave Lammin, Sport Development Manager from Surfing Queensland explains what all the fuss is about. So no matter which sport you prefer, just get out there, be active and make the most of what our beautiful region has to offer.
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PROS .. · Great for adults to learn to sail on, easy to manoeuvre and more stable. · More space adding to comfort. · Have a good cockpit so are generally dryer. · Social, as you sail with crew. · Some will have small cabins for overnight passages.
A small single-hulled sailboat is usually between two to six metres in length and can be sailed by one or two people, sometimes more depending on the design and space. They have no keel or lead weight to counteract the wind so the crew use their body weight to keep the boat upright.
CONS ... · Small, so best suited to children. · Have to use your bodyweight to counter the wind and this can be tiring, it requires a moderate level of fitness. · Can capsize, so plan on getting wet however they are very easy to right again. · Need to be rigged and derigged every time you sail
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A medium size single-hull sailboat that has a keel. Keels have a lead weight added to the underside of a boat to counteract the forces of the wind and current on the boat helping to keep the vessel upright. Keelboats are normally stored on a mooring (a permanent anchor with a float) or in a marina.
CONS ... · As the size of the boat increases so does the cost to maintain it. · Generally need to organise more than one crew, so inability to just up and sail. · You need greater strength to manage vessel as everything is larger. · Lots of things to bump your head on or stub your toe on. · Less sensitive than a dinghy so will take longer to build wind awareness. This is just two of the many types of sailboats out there and as with everything the best way to learn is simply by doing, so get on the water and give it a go. profilemagazine
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As a free surfer, Dean Brady was continuously on ‘the search’. Contracted by Rip Curl, Dean’s pro-surfing, jet-setting lifestyle saw him travel the globe in the pursuit of the perfect wave. Now, the Sunshine Beach local has caught a new break in his own backyard.
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he silhouette of a surfer bobbing just behind the break off Sunshine Beach scans the horizon, before cutting perfect lines in a deep blue barrel. The salt water that flows under Dean Brady’s board is part of just one ocean the free-surfer, with a reputation as one of the world’s best, has surfed. For a decade, Dean led an enviable, sundrenched, salt-flecked lifestyle literally chasing the swells, living the aloha spirit and flying high on international waves; a scout of the sea following the breaks to Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Morocco, Portugal, and more. Through archipelagos, private charters and isolated islands, Dean explored the ocean’s surface, eyes on the horizon for the perfect set to roll through. “I spent half of each year travelling to waves where my job was to get photos for magazines and footage for movie projects, that kept my sponsors happy, but my genuine desire and passion was to surf big, perfect waves. If they haven’t been surfed before, that was the ultimate, the free surfer’s grand final victory,” says Dean. As we chat at a coffee house in Noosaville, Dean happily shares his career highlights, with the easy-going nature of the quintessential Australian surfer whose roots are heavily embedded in the sand, the bright sunshine and cool flow of the sea now part of his disposition. Dean shares the experience of surfing against American great Kelly Slater in Rip Curl’s San Francisco World Championship Tour event as a crowd of 15,000 watched on. Kelly was on his way to win the world title, and Dean, as a wildcard, was up against the top seed. “That was an awesome experience, surfing against Kelly. Even though I lost to him I was happy with my performance. I ended up needing one high score to beat him, not being in a combination (needing two scores)
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against Kelly was an okay position, considering he’s the best surfer ever with 11 world titles. I was most happy I didn’t buckle under the pressure, there were 15,000 people on the beach, and being a full-time free surfer I hadn’t done a contest in over a year,” Dean reflects. Dean has surfed swells at the Great Barrier Reef, taken on the monster waves at Shipsterns in Tasmania, and ridden the ‘Mexican Pipeline’, the biggest waves of any beach break. And closer to home, Dean, now 29, has stayed true to his Sunshine Coast upbringing, settling with his own young family, wife Ellie, and sons Noah, two and Raff, one in Sunshine Beach, after being born in Cooroy and growing up in Noosa, Pomona and Sunrise Beach. He was first introduced to surfing at five-years-old, but played a lot of sports and didn’t really get into it until he was 12, relatively late in a competitive sense, but Dean quickly became embedded in the local surf scene. “I think the thing that hooked me was the fact that every wave breaks differently so you’ve got to draw new lines on each wave, it never gets old … and I just love being out in the ocean,” he says. At 13-years-old, Dean started surfing competitively, and by the time he was 15, had Rip Curl on board as a sponsor, at age 17, a state and scholastic national title under his belt, before landing a spot on Rip Curl’s international team at 19-years-old. However at age 20, Dean gave up competing to focus on surfing bigger, better waves. Standing at close to two meters tall and with a strong 100kg frame, Dean was classed as a ‘power surfer’, meaning he throws a lot of water. “I was a big kid, so naturally I don’t surf fast in the small waves most contests are held in … instead of travelling and competing on the World Qualifying Series where the waves are notoriously dismal, I wanted to be where I could push my surfing.”
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“I think the thing that hooked me was the fact that every wave breaks differently so you’ve got to draw new lines on each wave, it never gets old … and I just love being out in the ocean.”
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“I’m still unsure if this was the smartest move career-wise, regardless that’s where my focus was and I wanted to chase it! I was fortunate that Rip Curl offered me an international free surfing gig, which was exactly what I wanted to do.” The only routine as Dean waited for the calls that would determine his next travel destination, was spending October in Mexico and November and December on the North Shore of Hawaii, in a house Rip Curl rented right on the beach in front of Pipeline and Backdoor breaks. “I was there when Mick (Fanning) won his first world title which was awesome,” Dean remembers. “To see how he handled himself through the weeks leading into the Pipe Masters, he is a true professional. But also grounded, Mick has the time to chat to anyone, not just when the cameras are rolling. The night he won the world title we had 200+ people partying in the house. We were drinking beer out of the World Title trophy, and it tasted so good! It must’ve had something to do with the silver,” he laughs. Then, following the global financial crisis in 2007-08, Dean’s contract with Rip Curl was cut, off the back of one of his best career years having landed two front cover photos of Surfing Life Magazine and Surfing World. After spending a “tough year” on a Chinchilla mine site which saw Dean swap the watery curl of a wave for the dusty, land-based version of a pipeline, and away from his family, friends, and beloved beach, he met with Ross Philips, owner of surf academy Tropicsurf. Dean was hooked, and started with the company just over 12 months ago, currently managing Tropicsurf Noosa, teaching a junior squad and private groups, and obtaining his Surf Coach Ticket with Surfing Queensland. Dean’s also joined with his old school friend Jarryd, a previous Brisbane Lions player with a sports science degree, to form an elite pro-movement business specialising in strength and conditioning workouts. Dean’s love for surfing and his status as an ex-pro surfer means he is well poised to comment on how he’s seen the sport and its culture change. “I remember when I was growing up, you almost had to live on the Gold Coast to become a professional surfer, there’d been a few pro surfers come out of the Sunshine Coast but the Gold Coast just had so much quality with Joel Parkinson, Mick Fanning, Occy (Mark Occhilupo),” Dean says. “Then guys like Julian Wilson, Wade Goodall, Mitch Coleborn, all of them suddenly came out of the Sunshine Coast.” And Dean himself was one of the game-changers. “There was one year in the Surfing Life Hot 100 issue which is where they name the best 100 surfers in Australia and take the top 10 on a trip. In that one year, there was me, Julian, Wade and Mitch on that trip, so four kids from the Sunshine Coast in the top 10 in Australia. “I feel like since then we’ve sort of bulldozed a few barriers for the kids behind us. “I’m sure you’ll see a lot more people in the coming years making the world tour … and we’ve got Julian (Wilson) flying the flag now and he has been a big influence,” says Dean. The call of the ocean sees him still regularly surfing the stretch from Sunshine Beach to Coolum and Tea Tree Bay and First Point at Noosa as his favourite spots. “I’m the fittest I’ve ever been thanks to Jarryd and Pro Movement and because of that I’m really focused on my surfing,” he says. “I’m really enjoying this stage of my life with having a family and being posted up here for most of the year. Noosa is one of the best places you could live, we’re very lucky.” Dean is now set to travel to the Maldives in August for Tropicsurf ’s ‘Champion’s Trophy’ which sees past World Champions step back into the contest arena and battle it out against each other.
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Beaches from Caloundra to Noosa have seen one of the biggest influxes of grommets enrolling in Surfing Australia’s Vegemite SurfGroms Program. Affiliated Surfing Queensland Surf Schools on the Sunshine Coast saw over 1600 young boys and girls, graduate from the Vegemite SurfGroms Program last summer.
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“There are also a huge number of kids graduating from this program who simply LOVE participating in the sport on recreational basis.”
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THE SPORTS PANEL At the Think Speakers and Event lunch held at the Mooloolaba Surf Club, four local sporting legends joined forces on ‘The Sports Panel’ to share their career highlights and what they’re up to now. Anna Rawlings reports.
DARREN OBAH: THE BOXER Legend Status: The ‘iron man’ of Australian boxing with eight Australian Championships, 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, number one contender for the WBA World Middleweight Title and fought at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1999.
Profile: What are your career highlights? Darren: Winning the Australian titles, fighting in Madison Square Garden for a world title, but I went nine rounds and held my spot for two years after that, because I was probably too tough for my own good, put up a hard show. My biggest problem is when they hit me I have to give something back, and that can get you into trouble. Profile: What’s your opinion on the recent Mayweather/Pacquiao fight? Darren: The art of boxing is hit and don’t be hit and that’s what Mayweather does, everyone complains but I thought he won fair and square. I was going for Pacquiao. Profile: What are you up to now? Darren: I run Darren Obah’s Boxercise, been doing that for almost 25 years now. I run the Sunshine Coast Boxing Club out of there, we try to teach kids, they learn not just boxing out of my gym, they learn manners and respect, in everyday life that helps you. I reckon I’ve got one more fight this year, I have never retired – I might have a fight for my 50th. 110
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Panel Question: Should drug cheats be wiped out of sport? Darren: As a sportsman I’ve been tempted a lot of times; when you’re fighting those fellas in an international competition, they’re all on drugs and they’ve got the right drug to cover it up. But I think if they’ve stood their time (ban) and they still have the drive to try and keep competing without it and still do good, that’s probably a better sportsman. So for them to come back, there’s a legend in both ways and I have to give them credit there.
MICHAEL O’CONNOR: - THE DUAL CODE PLAYER Legend Status: Former rugby league and rugby union footballer who represented Australia in both codes as a dual-code rugby international, player talent scout and head coach for the Australian Rugby Sevens Team.
Profile: What are your career highlights? Michael: Being selected in the 1977 Australian schoolboys side – that was a famous side that toured England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Japan and Holland and we went undefeated. I was living in Canberra and I got a really good break in 1979 and it was the first and only time Australia had a trial for Wallaby selection, taking a team to Argentina and I got selected to play in that. I was only 18 at the time. That was my really big break – that 1979 trial and selection to go to Argentina for the first ever Wallaby trip. profilemag.com.au
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Profile: How did you become the Rugby Sevens coach? Michael: I was doing some talent ID work for the rugby union not long after it became professional. At the time the high performance unit had no one to travel over to Argentina and Chile over Christmas with the Sevens in the tournament so I offered to go as manager and that really opened my eyes to the crowds over there, the enthusiasm for the game, and I thought, this game has really got a good future, it’s an international game. It grew my interest for Rugby Sevens and then I became coach about eight years ago. Profile: What are you up to now? Michael: I’m still involved with doing a little bit of development coaching in Brisbane, the main Sevens squad moved to Sydney full time last year so that was the end of my tenure as I had to make a decision whether I was going to move back to Sydney and I thought at my stage in life I thought I wouldn’t, and it was time for the boys to have a new coach. My children all grew up on the Sunshine Coast, they all live away now, but my wife and I are in the same house we have been for 20 years, at Sunshine Beach. Panel Question: What do you think of an international coach training an Australian team? Michael: Your players learn from the coach and if you’ve got the best candidate and he’s from Ireland, you get him because he’s an asset. But ideally, if you’ve got two coaches of similar ability and you have to split hairs, you’d probably go with the Australian coach.
BILLY MOORE: THE QUEENSLANDER Legend Status: NRL player who has represented North Sydney, Queensland and Australia and famous for initiating the iconic ‘Queenslander’ call down the tunnel before an Origin game.
Profile: What are your career highlights? Billy:: I’m from the southern-Queensland town of Wallangarra, which has 300 people and is 50 meters from the border of New South Wales. I grew up watching Origin from the lounge room floor and decided then that that was what I wanted to do. When I was 15 I started training virtually every day and when I was 20 I made my debut for Queensland, and when you set a goal like that so far in advance and you achieve it, that’s basically about as good as it comes. Playing for Queensland was a dream come true and playing for Australia was the icing on the cake. Profile: What’s your take on creating the ‘Queenslander’ war cry? Billy: It’s great, it actually happened 20 years ago this year. I’ve become the public face of it which is outstanding. It basically means we’re part of this tribe, we’re proud to belong to this and we believe in it. State of Origin is I suppose the epitome of it but it relates
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Profile: What was being a dual-code footballer like? Michael: I think certainly when I was playing union, the thing that really attracted me to the game was the international flavour and the travel, Sydney rugby league was really based in Sydney back in the early ‘80s, we didn’t have a national competition. So with league, I found that really gruelling and really tough, short turnarounds and just the training and the physicality I found really constant.
to everything, every business or pursuit, Queenslanders attach that word to it. I’m honoured to be the face of it but it’s a brand that belongs to all Queenslanders. Profile: How has the game changed since you retired 15 years ago? Billy: The game has gotten faster, more professional, the athletes are better. The thing is, the game must always remember its heritage and where it has come from because the strength of everybody is our history. I think in the last 18 months it has really got a lot more savvy with remembering how it got to where it got to and it’s a lot more strategic in growing and developing as a brand and product. Profile: What are you up to now? Billy: I’m now a restaurateur as half-owner of Mooloolaba pizzeria Augello’s. In business it’s a competitive world and you’ve got to be on your game but because of the team we have assembled, it’s a game I’m prepared to play. I’m also involved in corporate speaking and radio; I talk about some bad business decisions I made post-football. My story is about the fact it’s not what mistakes you make, but what you do afterwards. Profile: A very important question; who’s your pick for the Origin 2015 win? Billy: Queensland! (Unbiased of course)! Queensland winning the first game in Sydney was huge because that is the strongest advantage, home ground with 80,000 fans. But in saying that, in each series, game one is usually the most dour because the guys are still feeling each other out, game two and three are more exciting because the teams are playing to stay alive.
CHRIS VERMEULEN: MOTOGP LEGEND Legend Status: Australian motorcycle racer who has won various world championships and MotoGP events.
Panel Question: What do you think about sporting legends being role models? Chris: I think everybody in society has the responsibility to be a role model but anybody in the limelight particularly. I love working with young kids in sport, their motivation and how eager they are … so I find I would like to help them rather than influence them in a bad way.
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On a rainy day in France in 2007, sleek motorbikes lap around a race course in Le Mans. Australia’s Chris Vermeulen crosses the finish line and wins the French MotoGP. Today, the homegrown sporting hero is a family man and Fox Sports Australia commentator.
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t took a young Chris Vermeulen 0.2 of a second to decide he wanted to turn motorbike racing into a career. And once he accelerated his pursuit of the sport, he was off and racing, on his way to become a world champion in the sport. I had the pleasure of catching up with the winner of the 2003 World Supersport title, 10 World Superbike races and the 2007 French MotoGP at Mooloolaba Surf Club before he appeared on the panel at Think Speakers and Event’s ‘Lunch with a Legend’. Coming across as one of the most genuine, easy-going men of the sport, Chris now enjoys life with his wife Toni and 18-month-old daughter Georgia here on the Sunshine Coast; swapping the fast laps of the race track for fatherhood – chasing Georgia around their home property, instead of chasing after world titles. Their new home neighbours the property in Yandina where Chris grew up, and jumped on his first motorbike as a toddler. “Mum and Dad bought me a motorbike, Dad would teach me to ride on the bike and before I turned three, I could ride the motorbike on my own. I learnt to balance and I was away,” remembers Chris. When Chris was six-years-old, he joined a BMX racing club in Yandina, before swapping the pedals for something with a little more power and starting motocross at age 11, in flattrack racing; which is a speedway course with left and right corners, ridden at high speeds. “Even from a young age we were doing 130km to 140km per hour speeds. I became reasonably successful as a junior rider,” says Chris. As well as racing, Chris also played tennis, up to the day his tennis coach gave him the choice between tennis or racing motorbikes. “It took me 0.2 of a second to decide to go and race motorbikes,” Chris smiles. After he turned 16, Chris was eligible for road racing, and entered into the sport. “I was pretty quick from the get-go on the bikes. I did half a season in Australia and then another full season in Australia and I was the fastest rookie by far,” says Chris. At 17-years-old with an already accelerating career, Chris moved to England with the support of British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Barry Sheene. “Barry took me to England and did the British championship for a year, then I got a break into World Championship Racing and then two years later I was a world champion and won quite a lot of races,” says Chris, somewhat modestly. At 21-years-old, Chris made an impression on the global grid, taking
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out his first world champion title in Italy, becoming the youngest world champion ever at that time to win his class. “I finished second in that race but it clinched the world title, my family was there, my girlfriend (now wife) was there. To be the best in the world, it was something I’ll never forget.” In 2007, Chris’s win in the elite MotoGP in Le Mans in France as Suzuki’s only Grand Prix winner in the four-stroke era was another memorable career moment. “To stand on the podium with two other world champions in Marco Melandri and Casey Stoner, to be standing there and beating a field like Valentino Rossi, was a very special moment.” Of his impressive career, Chris shares some insight into the travelling and fitness required to race at such high speeds, with just a gleaming motorbike between the rider and the road. As a contracted rider, Chris would be part of a two-rider team with 35 staff including chefs, management, engineers and mechanics. “There were hard times but being able to get on the best motorbikes in the world on the best tracks, with the best mechanics and the other best riders in the world made up for that,” he says. After competing in every intended race from 1990 to 2010, Chris’s racing stalled after he was involved in a major crash during the season-opening of the MotoGP on Phillip Island in 2010, facing six months of non-weight bearing, and nine months off the bike. “It gave me time to reflect about life. I loved motorbike racing and I still do but I realised there was more to life than that. My wife wanted to start having a family and I wasn’t going to have kids in that environment so we moved back to Australia from England.” Chris and Toni, who had met in England in 2003, married three years ago, and have settled more than comfortably into family life. “I am sure it is clichéd but nothing else matters, I would give up motorbike racing just for her,” says Chris of his daughter, sharing that Georgia is already a keen motorbike enthusiast! He has swapped the weekly international return flights, racing and travel for a more balanced lifestyle with family, property investment and a role as a motorbike racing host for Fox Sports Australia. Chris admits he still has the “competitive edge”, and participates in dirt bike races, joining with other retired Australian riders to promote the flattrack events as a growing sport, and promotes Suzuki and BMW bikes.
“To stand on the podium with two other world champions in Marco Melandri and Casey Stoner, to be standing there and beating a field like Valentino Rossi, was a very special moment.”
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“For us, food and eating has always been about experience and family.”
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Third generation greengrocers, former Maroochy Shire Council Mayor Joe Natoli and his brother Anthony have gone back to their roots with the recent launch of their new fresh food business at the Big Top Market Fresh. Alli Grant caught up with the Italian duo to learn more.
y name is Alli and I am vegetable obsessed! Always have been. We’d go to a restaurant and the waitress would look at me strangely when, at the ripe old age of four, I’d order a plate of vegetables. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, squash – I’d eat it all, and still do. Yum! But vegies today are not what they used to be. Nope. Especially if you buy them from a supermarket. Rich, lush, wholesome flavours have been genetically modified out of many of the fresh foods we eat to make way for longer shelf-lives and visually perfect vegetables. A tasty tomato is a distant memory. Sigh. Unless, of course, you buy your fresh produce from a market or traditional greengrocer, someone who handpicks their goods, understands the importance of flavour over longevity and perfection, truly gets the seasonality of produce, and is passionate about what we put into our mouths (and stomachs). Enter Maroochydore’s latest fresh food offering – The Two Bros
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Specialising in Fresh – owned and operated by former Maroochy Shire Council Mayor Joe Natoli and his brother, Anthony. These brothers live and breathe fresh produce. Seriously. Third generation greengrocers, it’s in their DNA. I’d go so far as to say that you’d find tomato juice running through their veins instead of blood! “Our grandfather’s first job in Australia when he arrived from Italy was in a Sydney fruit and vegetable store, and he went on to own his own shops. Some of my earliest memories are helping out in Dad’s shop, carrying the 20kg bags of potatoes,” Joe recalls. But The Two Bros, which recently opened at the renovated Big Top Market Fresh, isn’t your average fruit and vegie store. It’s a buffet of tasty morsels for true blue foodies who appreciate quality and share the brothers’ passion for all things food. Freshly baked pies, award-winning gelato, imported deli goods, readymade meals, Italian bakery goods, and the freshest of seafood sit happily alongside the handpicked produce. Wherever possible, the profilemag.com.au
manager of our businesses and the main buyer at the markets. It’s a role I naturally take on, but everyone is doing their part,” he explains. “We have spent 2000 hours researching trends in the industry, the location, the transient nature of the Coast, the competitors, and finding the very best products on the market .... we knew just another fruit and vegie shop in a food court wouldn’t work,” Joe says. “A mixed business was the only way forward for us.” The Two Bros Specialising in Fresh is all about adding value to the customer. “We won’t charge you any more to cook your fresh fish or to cut your melon. And we will give you the opportunity to sample our fresh fruits. We’re going back to those old-fashioned ways – it’s about building trust with our customers,” adds Joe. “You will always get the right answer from us. We will help you to pick a ripe rockmelon ... our customers can expect to get expert advice, no matter what their question,” Anthony says (adding a much-needed tutorial for this novice on how to pick a ripe honeydew melon). The three of us are soon lost in tales of Italian meals and family traditions, as the brothers recall trips made “back home” to Salina, an island in the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily. “For us, food and eating has always been about experience and family. I remember going back to Italy with my wife Rosanna 20 years ago ... my family took us up into the mountains to a feast of traditional foods ... baby goat in the most amazing sauce cooked in big old woodfired ovens. It was so delicious even though it was really peasant food. It left such an impression,” says Joe. And this is exactly what the Natoli brothers want to achieve with The Two Bros. They want to leave an impression, to pass on their passion, and to teach, just as they have been taught. As the old saying goes, find something you love doing and you won’t work another day in your life. Well, the Natoli brothers seem to have done just that. The pair exudes passion for what they do and pride in their new venture. It’s not just another business for Anthony and Joe. It’s personal. It’s part of who they are. It’s in their blood.
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brothers buy local – the figs come from Maroochydore, the strawberries from Chevallum, and they only sell (and use) Maleny Dairy’s products. This is the sixth fruit and vegie store the Natoli family has owned on the Sunshine Coast, and it’s certainly the most innovative. You only have to ask Joe about the state-of-the-art fresh seafood cabinet and you can see his eyes light up. This is a labour of love, that’s for sure. “Our philosophy, our driving ethos, is to provide the most amazing quality to our customers. It’s important to respect the food. Flavour is so important. It’s all about respecting the food,” Joe explains, with passion. I ask Anthony to tell me why tomatoes no longer taste like tomatoes (when bought from one of the big supermarkets). He explains that, “it’s because they have developed tomatoes to last longer and to look better. They don’t eat like they used to – the process has interfered with the flavour. They pick them green and gas them to ensure a long shelf-life”. No more supermarket-bought tomatoes for this little black duck! Anthony, who has worked in fruit and veg since the ’80s, will head up the fresh produce section, and he’s certainly the man for the job. We could have talked for hours about the importance of rotating stock, of discipline when it comes to perishable goods, of the seasonality of fruits ... this man knows his stuff! So was it always the plan to jump back into the family business post politics? “No it wasn’t the plan at all! It just happened,” Joe explains. “We were approached about the new markets ... to see if we knew anyone who would be interested. I asked Anthony and he said he’d only do it if I did it too! But we knew that we couldn’t just open another fruit and vegetable shop. They just don’t survive in centres with the big supermarkets. We had to do something different.” Different it is! Joe, who has the role of CEO of the business, invested a lot of time and money researching the industry – travelling to Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Brisbane to check out concepts and refine The Two Bros offering. “As the oldest brother, I was always the
“We will give you the opportunity to sample our fresh fruits. We’re going back to those old-fashioned ways – it’s about building trust with our customers.”
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Whether it’s being at the helm of a large corporation or being a stay-at-home mum, success means different things to different people. Ingrid Nelson sits down with a bunch of local ladies to hear their thoughts on what defines success for them ... what she discovered might just surprise you!
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he dictionary defines success as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. But the question is how exactly do you define it? For some it could be the number of zeros on the end of their bank balance, the title on their business card or the car they drive, for others it might be the number of stamps on their passport or finding the courage to achieve something they never thought possible. For some it could simply mean finding the confidence to attend a networking event. We are all so different, and what drives and motivates us varies wildly depending on many factors including our upbringing, ideals, goals, outlook and personality. I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with a bunch of talented ladies to find out what they define as success. What I discovered was a common thread among their answers and it didn’t involve money, designer clothes or a luxurious home, but something much less tangible. Confidence, happiness and contentment were three words that each of the ladies used to describe what made them consider someone to be successful, as each of them candidly opened up about their own experiences and journeys towards their own success story. Joining me for the delicious lunch at All’ Antica, Buddina was Michelle Evans of 4 Ingredients, Catherine Joy life coach and owner of Lined With Silver, Sue Frost, creator of Inspire Connecting Communities, Karen Podsiadly, lead creative with What The Fox Creative and Siobhan Ablett, business development officer with TAFE East Coast. profile: What external signs indicate a woman’s success to you? sue: Confidence within themselves. The more successful you become, the more confidence you portray because you know who you are and you are comfortable in your own skin. michelle: I go on body language and if someone is kind and their language is kind. You can be confident but when you’re kind you just give off a feeling of success. Successful people can’t wait to talk about their staff, or their friends before they talk about themselves.
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catherine: Sometimes when my kids say someone is driving an awesome car I remind them that we don’t know how much money they owe on that car. I own my Toyota Corolla and I’m happy with that. It has a six stacker CD and Bluetooth, that’s up there for me! In terms of the outward signs, I’ve learned they can often lie. I thought a lot of marriages of friends of ours were perfect until a lot of them dissolved. karen: The ultimate success for me is finding happiness. I love having a smile on my face and making other people happy even if it’s at my own expense. Being successful is about sharing joy but I think you have to get to a certain point within yourself before you realise that’s what you want to do. I used to waste time over envy. Before I bought my first house I was envious of others who owned a house. Now I realise that none of that matters at all. I have a big dent in my car that needs fixing but then I thought that’s $500 I can use to have fun with the kids. profile: Is confidence something that comes with age? sue: I do think it can be but then there are a lot of women my age who don’t have that confidence. I think it’s about stepping out of your comfort zone. The first Profile event I went to seven years ago, I was so nervous I wasn’t going to go. I knew I would feel inadequate. I walked in and out a few times actually. Then a successful business woman chatted with me for a good part of the evening and I felt so much better. I met that woman a year later and she told me she felt the same because the lady who did the expo talked to her. I believe a lot of women go through these experiences and feel just like I did, looking to fit in and talk to someone. karen: But then on the other hand you meet such amazing young people who are so wise and confident too. profile: On that note, what do you think about ‘fake it until you make it’? siobhan: I think sometimes it works for people. If you have that self
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belief and you keep it in perspective and in an environment that is not going to affect anyone else, that’s fine. Faking it until you make it can sometimes give you the confidence you need. karen: I think sometimes you have to fake it until you make it, especially when you are starting out in your career. sue: I’ve learned there are a lot of people who are great at self promoting but they don’t have anything to back it up, there’s no substance to it. karen: That’s called acting! michelle: You find that out pretty quickly though. profile: What are your thoughts on the word authentic and its link to success? siobhan: Personally I don’t think you can beat honesty and authenticity and both are quite related. I think only when you are honest can you be successful. catherine: Authenticity and connection go together and it’s a high measure of success. I don’t think I’ve arrived at success yet, I’m still learning. I do think it’s important to be authentic and it’s made a big difference to the friendships I have made. I am a ‘what you see is what you get’ kind of person. By being open about things such as my infertility and adoption process and my marriage breakup, I received the support I needed. karen: I think once you think you are successful, you are not anymore. It’s a journey, you are always supposed to be learning. profile: What has helped you in your journey towards success? karen: Just recently I have come across this book called Finding your Life’s Purpose by Dan McMillan, based on numerology. I have found it to be so true and it has made a massive impact on my life. It’s really powerful. I have been through a few things in the last year and I have discovered a lot about myself. I have had an exciting new shift and have some new goals and have found a lot of momentum in my career. It’s a really exciting time in my life. catherine: The biggest help has been the support and encouragement given by family and friends. I also think I’ve really benefitted from seeking help when I’ve needed it too. There’s no shame in turning to a mentor or a psychologist or a coach to help you overcome certain obstacles. siobhan: I would say hard work and never be afraid of taking opportunities. Also believing you can achieve what you set out to do (whatever that may be). sue: People encouraging me to step outside of my comfort zone, doing what made a difference even when it felt uncomfortable. profile: What do you consider your biggest success in life so far? catherine: It sounds clichéd but I have really great kids. They’re loving, kind, self-motivated and are pretty confident in themselves. I like to think I’ve had a bit to do with that. karen: I don’t know about success, but I have enjoyed winning a few design awards … oh, and winning first place in the poster design competition at the RNA Show back in 1988 when I was 10. In typical designer style, I procrastinated until the last minute and illustrated my poster the night before the entries were due, and had to stay up late to finish! I guess looking back, that was probably a turning point for me to end up where I am now. siobhan: My three beautiful daughters, they are happy and healthy people. Career-wise, over the last 10 years, being involved in industry which cares for people and their wellbeing. sue: I would have to say building a team that is as dedicated as I am. To build any type of organisation is impossible without a team and even more so when you depend on volunteers, as we do.
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With the winter months upon us, there is no better time to indulge in those delicious comfort foods we all turn to when the temperature drops and you can’t go past the wholesome flavours of traditional Italian fare. There is nothing quite as satisfying as a dish of creamy pasta with fresh crusty bread to warm you up, yum! All’ Antica Italian Restaurant at Kawana has been serving up rustic Italian cuisine in a welcoming laid back environment since first opening its doors in 1990. I’m not surprised to hear the name of the family-friendly restaurant means “old fashioned way”. Owners Helen and Shane (who is also the chef) are passionate about delivering a menu that is fresh and simple – home-style cuisine that lacks the pretension and confusion of some modern dishes. The current menu is a blend of regional dishes from all over Italy. Using only the freshest seasonal local produce, there is always a daily blackboard special to tempt your tastebuds. We received a very warm welcome on the day of our recent visit. Shane and Helen had prepared a delicious threecourse lunch especially for the Profile lunching ladies. We kicked things off with the Pane di Aglio garlic and chive sourdough, the housemade bread with chive and garlic butter infused with extra virgin olive oil was the perfect start to our meals. For entree we were treated to succulent pork belly. Cooked to perfection, it was tender and flavoursome. Next was the Cannelloni Della Casa spinach ricotta cannelloni, the homemade filled pasta tubes with spinach and ricotta, oven baked in a rich Napolitano sauce with marinated eggplant, was to die for. Finishing things off was the vanilla bean panna cotta, traditional cold-set vanilla custard with mixed berry compote and strawberry gelato … absolutely melt-in-your mouth delicious! Amazing food, inviting atmosphere and friendly service … Looks like Shane and Helen have all the right ingredients for success. Belissimo!
All’ Antica 115A Point Cartwright Dr, Buddina QLD 4575
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Sultana stuffed chicken Recipe provided by 4 Ingredients
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4 BONELESS, SKINLESS CHICKEN BREASTS 4 SLICES ALLERGY-FREE PROSCIUTTO 1/3 CUP SULTANA PASTE 8 ASPARAGUS SPEARS
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Preheat oven to 180C. Carefully butterfly each chicken breast by cutting a slit down each breast and slicing almost through so it can be folded out. Lay a thin layer of prosciutto onto each. Spread with sultana paste then asparagus spears, season with salt and cracked pepper to your taste. Roll up and lay seam side down in a baking tray, roast in the centre of the oven until chicken is cooked through, approximately 30 minutes. Remove from the oven to a serving platter. Let stand for five minutes, slice then serve.
In a blender, place the sultanas and blend to make a thick, sweet paste.
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Ashleigh Bareham has come a long way from spruiking her rich chocolate brownies at local market stalls – now she’s feeling quite at home in the MasterChef kitchen, brandishing previously foreign utensils and going head-to-head with renowned chefs.
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perfectly-poached pear glistens in the MasterChef studio lights as Ashleigh Bareham wheels her signature dish towards the three judges, who are already licking their lips. Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston have their poker faces on as they glide a spoon through the coffeepoached flesh of the pear and side of mascarpone ice-cream. “It was absolutely terrifying cooking for the judges for the first time, it was exciting but I’d just got over my nerves of cooking and the cook was finished and then I had to take it into the judges and it was terrifying all over again,” Ashleigh shares. “It was a weird experience but it was amazing.” Since Ashleigh’s introduction to the cooking show, she has been one of the judges’ favourites, her dishes regularly ranking in the top of the pack.
But she truly proved she was a contender when she won the opportunity to compete in the first immunity challenge of the season, against Brisbane chef Ben Williamson. Mentored by Shannon Bennett, Ashleigh concocted a mouth-watering curry, but was pipped at the post. While Ashleigh, aged 23, has impressed on all fronts, she has a sweet spot for desserts and a penchant for baking. “Growing up, Mum was always baking cakes with us, so I was always helping when I was little,” she says. “Both of my grandmothers loved to bake, so we would go over to their houses, I spent a lot of time with them growing up, I would always bake delicious desserts and things, so that’s where it started.” Ashleigh, who grew up in England and moved to the Sunshine Coast when she was 14, says her mum always cooked meals for
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“I watched MasterChef last year and thought it looked like SO MUCH FUN and maybe I could do it. So when the time came and the applications were out I decided to put one in not thinking anything would come of it and I got the call back.”
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“Both of my grandmothers loved to bake, so we would go over to their houses, I spent a lot of time with them growing up, I would always bake delicious desserts and things, so that’s where it started.”
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nges all the time because I like to try new things, once I’ve made something once I don’t usually make it again, it’s onto something new and diff erent, but chocolate, I always like to cook with chocolate, tha t’s my favourite!”
the family from scratch, which further fuelled her passion for food – but it always came back to the sweet stuff. “We always used to bake all sorts of cakes, chocolate is a favourite, so any chocolate cake,” she says with a wicked smile. “Another family favourite is apple crumble, we used to have that every single Sunday after roast dinner and both of my grandparents used to cook that as well.” In 2013, Ashleigh graduated from the University of the Sunshine Coast with a degree in social work, but her love of cooking continued to come to the fore. “It really started to develop when I was at uni doing social work and it was pretty stressful,” she says. “I did lots of field placements and that’s quite hard, so I used to do a lot of cooking in my downtime as a way to de-stress. That was where it started to develop more and I became more interested in trying out lots of new and different recipes.” And so Ashleigh began to feed her food dream by starting a brownie stall at the Big Pineapple, Fishermans Road and Eumundi markets – but it wasn’t quite enough. “I really loved that but wanted something a bit more than just selling brownies,” she says. “I watched MasterChef last year and thought it looked like so much fun and maybe I could do it. So when the time came and the applications were out I decided to put one in not thinking anything
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would come of it and I got the call back.” Not only has MasterChef taught Ashleigh invaluable culinary skills, it has also introduced her to some of the biggest names in the business – namely Maggie Beer and Marco Pierre White. “Having Marco there was a highlight, I was terrified of him when he first came, but he was so lovely to us and so inspirational and talking about dreams all the time, so he was great to have in the kitchen,” she says. “And Maggie Beer, she’s just as lovely as she seems … it’s so surreal, every time I walk into the kitchen I’m like, is this really happening, it never felt like it was real when we were doing all the challenges and meeting these amazing people, I don’t think it really kicked in. “It’s such an honour for us to meet those people because there are so many who look up to them and will never meet them and we got to cook for and feed them.” MasterChef has given Ashleigh the confidence to pursue her food dream of opening a dessert bar with her mum Trudi and younger sister Georgia. “Whether I take the title of MasterChef or not, that’s my ultimate goal, when that will happen, I don’t know,” she says. “I’ll look at getting some work experience and building up those skills before I start taking on something too big on my own.” MasterChef airs 7.30pm Sunday to Thursday on TEN profilemagazine
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John Robinson slides chunks of pineapple, ginger, yellow capsicum, lime, lemon and swede into the juicer and catches the golden liquid in a glass jar. John is one of many people jumping on the juice-cleanse wagon in a bid to achieve a healthier lifestyle, while shedding a few unwanted kilos.
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John set about trialing this theory and went on a juicing cleanse for seven days and says instead of being hungry all week, he felt better. “I felt lighter, leaner, vibrant and energetic – even mentally clearer – which was an especially cool feeling. I really got the benefit of not only cutting out the bad stuff, but adding in loads of good stuff at the same time.” Keen to up the ante, John is embarking on a 30day juice cleanse and encourages others to do the same. The Free the Juicers campaign has also since gone above and beyond simply skolling a few more glasses of juice a day, John is creating a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to bulk-buy brand new juicers to give away. “We ultimately aim to give away 10,000 free juicers – to impact 10,000 families who want to try juicing but may not have access to a juicer,” says John. As a community-based project, John says they are looking for everyday leaders within the community to get involved. “The more people who join our movement, the easier it will be to achieve our goal of impacting 10,000 lives through juicing,” he says. “It’s not easy for one person to source and give away 10,000 juicers – but it’s pretty simple for 10,000 people to source and give away just one juicer each. And the end result is exactly the same.”
“I felt lighter, leaner, vibrant and energetic – even mentally clearer…”
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A WINDOW to the Adelaide hills WORDS STEVE STREET CSW (CERTIFIED SPECIALIST OF WINE USA)
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ne of Australia’s finest cool climate regions with a series of wine and food trails that can match some of the world’s greatest, is less than a 30 minutes’ drive from Adelaide Airport – The Adelaide Hills. Spanning a relatively short distance of 100 kilometres starting slightly east of McLaren Vale in the south to the Barossa’s gateway village of Williamstown in the north. The Adelaide Hills have variable elevation levels ranging from 400 metres around the central areas of Bridgewater and Stirling to the adjacent Mount Lofty Ranges highest point of 727 metres. The region is classified as a unique continental-Mediterranean climate which reflects cooler wet winters and hotter dry summers. Warmer continental growing climates can produce some outstanding and unique qualities in the characteristics of fruit ripeness as a result of a cooler growing season, finishing off in the warmer months where the vines can be stressed somewhat due to lower water table levels by the end of the growing season. Some of the classic characteristics of a cooler climate region in white wine are notes of floral citrus and grassiness, early picked stone fruits and a touch leaner regarding mouthfeel. Meanwhile a lot of cool ripened reds tend to show lighter notes of blueberry and raspberries with hints of white pepper
and lean toward the more mid-weighted style on the palate. Some of the varieties that the Adelaide Hills winemakers are currently focussing on and resulting in high quality wines include Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Shiraz, and small handful of unique European varieties including Fiano, Gruner Veltliner, Nero D’avola, Sagrantino and Aglianico. Interestingly, the most widely planted grape in region is the dark skinned grape Pinot Noir. However most of the Pinot picked, tends not to make the bottle as a red wine but is used together with Chardonnay to produce some of the highest quality sparkling wines in the country. The region boasts over 60 cellar doors that are open for most of the year including prestigious names such as Petaluma and Shaw & Smith. For those interested in the smaller batch, family operated wineries, Ngeringa, Hahndorf Hill and Bird in Hand may be an option. There’s a fantastic array of little townships that are scattered through the region that make wonderful use with some of South Australia’s finest produce. Without a doubt a visit to the region cannot exclude a wander down the main street of Hahndorf for its great cafes, cheese merchants and the long established German Arms Hotel. Check in at www.thewinewall.org for the next Wine Discovery Workshop on the Sunshine Coast with Steve Street.
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All’ Antica With winter well and truly here, 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. Boasting an authentic Italian menu and being fully licensed they offer a warm, rustic atmosphere. Established 25 years ago, All’ Antica is one of the Sunshine Coast’s must-try dining experiences. Their menu is an exciting mix of traditional dishes from the Northern Alps to the rich waters of the Mediterranean that surround Sicily, created with the best local produce and imported ingredients straight from Italy. All’ Antica offers tailored function packages where the entire restaurant may be exclusively booked for functions with 40 or more guests, and they also cater for all dietary requirements. So, what are you waiting for – come in and dine at All’ Antica. 3/115 Point Cartwright Drive, Buddina Phone: 5444 0988 www.allantica.com.au
Follow our Foodie Trail each month as we explore what the Sunshine Coast has to offer for food lovers!
Caloundra Surf Club Mets on Kings The Caloundra Surf Club has revived the heritage listed Pavilion Kiosk located right on Kings Beach. Open from 6am every day, it’s the perfect spot for people who enjoy hand-crafted coffee, a quality selection of loose leaf teas, fresh juices and delicious homestyle food. With an undeniable nostalgic beachside charm the Pavilion offers mouth-watering beef burgers, free-range bacon and egg rolls, and fresh or toasted sandwiches and wraps. Pop in for a meal or enjoy something from the selection of sweet treats. With plenty of warm indoor seating, this cosy café (opposite the salt water pool) will have you coming back for more. 1 Spender Lane, Kings Beach Phone: 5491 8418 Facebook/caloundraSurfClub
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For gluten-free, delicious food, pop into the two Gluten Free For Me stores on the Sunshine Coast. The talented cooks whip up healthy treats including pumpkin pie with coconut cream (dairy-free, grain-free, refined sugar-free and paleo), vegan and paleo chocolate peppermint slice, salted caramel, peanut and chocolate tarts, to more savoury options such as beetroot, feta and chickpea salad, zucchini noodle caprese salad and homemade raisin toast. All of the food and the coffee are served fresh with fantastic customer service. Gluten Free For Me has created an environment within the cafe to cater for everyone, inviting any coeliac to choose anything from the menu without having to worry about the ingredients – while those who aren’t gluten-free will love the mouth-watering selection. Gluten Free For Me is located under The Sebel, Aerodrome Road, and their newly opened store in Kawana Shoppingworld.
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Alfresco Pizzeria and Wine Bar Maroochydore’s rapidly growing CBD has welcomed a new Italian restaurant to the fold, with Alfresco Pizzeria and Wine Bar having officially opened its doors at Emporio Place. The venue offers a range of craft beers, cocktails and wines to complement the traditional and modern Italian dishes on offer. Alfresco Pizzeria and Wine Bar serves a huge range of pizzas, pastas, risottos and mains. The restaurant staff have already received some great comments about all of the food, with the tandoori chicken pizza emerging as the crowd favourite so far. The restaurant offers beautiful waterfront dining in a central location. 701 Emporio Place, Maroochy Boulevard Phone: 0451 829 750 www.alfrescopizzeriaandwinebar.com.au
Milk & Beans Cafe If you like your coffee with a dash of social conscience, then Milk and Beans is the place for you. Twenty cents from every cup sold goes to support homeless youth, struggling families and others in need within the community. While the food is simple, tasty fare, the hero of this specialty coffee house is obviously the coffee! Special attention has been given to producing a brew for the connoisseur, combining master-roasted Wolff Roasters beans with premium quality Maleny Dairies milk. Hot chocolate, chai tea, organic leaf teas and cold drip coffees are also on offer. With the aim of fostering a sense of community, the cafe décor is an eclectic mix of modern industrial, warm timber and comfy lounges that work well to create a cosy, relaxing space for connecting with others. Like a good coffee, Milk and Beans is something to be savoured and experienced! 22/156-158 Alexandra Pde, Alexandra Headland Phone: 5443 5054 www.milkandbeans.com.au
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TOP HAT Terry Quirke WORDS NICOLE FUGE PHOTOS CHESTERTON SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY
TERRY QUIRKE BELLA VENEZIA AND BV PIZZERIA AND WINE BAR IN KAWANA
Having started his apprenticeship at the age of 15, Terry Quirke has spent almost half of his life in the kitchen – and he loves it just as much as the day he first donned his chef ’s whites. But his respect for food started long before that and his first taste of the industry had a rich, tomato flavour to it.
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“I’ve worked in an award-winning seafood restaurant, we won best restaurant in Australia two years in a row (Fish Divine in Airlie Beach, Mackay and Cairns). I also worked on Hamilton Island at a five-star resort,” he says “Then I came to the Sunshine Coast fourand-a-half years ago and I’ve settled in here.” A year ago, Terry was snapped up by the owners of Bella Venezia and BV Pizzeria and Wine Bar in Kawana, taking on the role of senior sous chef at the Kawana restaurant and later being promoted to executive chef on New Year’s night. Having learnt modern and classical French and modern Australian cuisines early in his career, later adding Italian to his repertoire, Terry is now culminating his influences to modernise classical Italian dishes. “We make our own fresh pasta here, so that’s always enjoyable, especially when you get the end product, if you make your own fresh pasta or gnocchi it’s very rewarding when you finish your hard work,” he says. “Whenever we’re working, especially doing different specials, we always get to play and we are looking at a lot of more experimentation and developing the food business a lot more. “I’m very passionate about food, I get enjoyment from people being impressed by what we do, it’s always good when people are happy and it makes it all worthwhile.”
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She charmed the hearts of Australians appearing on reality tv show X Factor in 2014, with her chosen genre of music as raw, real and grassroots as Caitlyn Shadbolt is herself. And, with a new EP in the works, she could just be Australia’s answer to Taylor Swift.
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oahhh feels good just letting go, Woahhh roll it down, let the wind blow, Throwing maps out the window.” This melodic verse in Caitlyn Shadbolt’s new single, Maps out the Window, is a lyrical journey that on reflection shows just how far the country pocket rocket singer has come since she was catapulted into the nation’s attention through reality television show X Factor. In 2014, the Gympie girl’s first clear note of her audition song, country classic Life is a Highway, caught the attention of the panel of superstar judges and captured the hearts of the studio, and later the Australian audience. “I really wanted a country song that everyone would know and was really fun … and would show off my personality so I went with that,” she shares, chatting from her regional home in Gympie. True to her words, Caitlyn’s career took off in the right direction, and she’s en route to the golden horizon of opportunity and beyond. After being selected in the ‘Girls’ category under the mentorship of Ronan Keating, 19-year-old Caitlyn reached top five status, travelling to New York and meeting celebrity guest judges, and taking to the
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competitive stage with her energetic, angelic, country-meets-pop princess vocal talents – iconically performing one ballad in a glamorous gown paired with country boots. After her time on the show, Caitlyn was welcomed back by a homecoming party of thousands of fans in Gympie, before touring with the likes of country music icon Lee Kernaghan, fellow X Factor alumni Taylor Henderson from the 2013 season, performing at various clubs, festivals and pubs, and has just been announced as ambassador for the Gympie Music Muster. “It’s an honour to be announced as an ambassador, and be part of the calibre of artists representing Gympie,” says Caitlyn happily. Life is now filled with glam photoshoots, ambassador appearances and busy rehearsals, but during our phone interview, Caitlyn’s laughter and distinctive Australian twang is a reminder of her down-to-earth upbringing in Gympie with her parents and brother. She still lives on her family’s five-acre property, with an array of animals and the usual farm collateral of quad and motorbikes and sunburnt paddocks. From an early age, Caitlyn was very musically talented, singing, and picking up a guitar for the first time at 11-years-old, and joining her first band at 12. profilemag.com.au
“Playing the guitar got me really passionate about music. It was just me and my guitar for quite a few years,” she remembers. After being an avid watcher of the singing talent show, Caitlyn finally took the step towards making her love of music a serious pursuit and applied for her entry. “I’ve always considered it but I never thought I would have the success I did have. It’s been great, I’m just so grateful for the experience and the support Australia has given me,” she says warmly. “The first audition was scary! I remember I was backstage with my mum and she reckoned I was like a pregnant cat because I couldn’t sit still, I kept prancing around the stage and kept moving,” she laughs. It was the performance that would test her, in front of a large studio audience, and judges Dannii Minogue, Natalie Bassingthwaite, Ronan Keating and RedFoo, before she was off on a whirlwind of fame, a far cry from the quiet south-east region. “Performing in front of a big crowd, that alone is scary but being judged on TV!” Caitlyn exclaims of the pressure. Of the experience, Caitlyn says, “It was so much fun, it’s definitely tiring but a really, really great life experience, and the exposure I was given money can’t buy.” To those considering applying for the show to further their music career, just like her younger self, Caitlyn has some words of wisdom.“Just give it a shot, I did not expect to get as far as I did, so chances are there’s a lot of people thinking that with huge potential! So
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really just be yourself because that’s probably the most attractive thing Australia wants to see – go for it and have fun.” And having fun was a big factor; as part of getting into the top 24 contestants Caitlyn went to New York – her first time overseas, and was expertly guided by Ronan, who, “was great, he was kind of like a fatherly figure for us girls, he would make sure we were happy with what was happening,” says Caitlyn. She reveals of her intention in going on X Factor to break the stigma surrounding country music. “Particularly with the youth of Australia, people think it’s all about cowboys and banjos and all that stuff,” she says. “I think there’s a lot of scope, particularly within the Australian country music industry, it’s got so much potential and people just need time to experience it and listen to it. “I’d love to be the country girl in the pop market, bringing it to a pop mainstream level. I think the genre [of country] is really honest and true and it’s also a part of life, so I will keep being country.” Caitlyn is currently busy recording and working on an EP, or minialbum, to coincide with the Gympie Music Muster on 27-30 August, as well as booking various gigs, and carrying out duties as the Gympie Youth Ambassador. The lead-up to Gympie’s biggest music event will see Caitlyn fulfilling promotional duties and mustering support for the festival, before warming up to perform three out of the four days. “And on the other day I’ll be running amok and enjoying the festival!” she laughs. “This year is the year you must do the muster. It is such a fantastic environment, it doesn’t matter if you’re a country fan or you’re not. The atmosphere and the experience is everything you need.” And it’s the experience of enjoying the journey when the destination is your dreams, as Caitlyn herself sings in Maps out the Window, “Who ever knew it'd be this much fun, following fate straight into the sun.”
“Playing the guitar got me really passionate about music. It was just me and my guitar for quite a few years.”
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to workshops and dedicated my life to it; and then started to teach as well. And that started being the income.” While Tricia is mostly known for her breathtaking pastel seascapes, she is also accomplished in portraits, still-life and landscapes, and she can paint with oils. Tricia paints her seascapes en plein air, meaning painting in the outdoors. She says she is a “very fast painter” and can paint a single seascape in one hour, whereas portraits would take her a week. “It’s quite a great feeling being able to complete your picture just an hour later. And pastels are really good for that too. You don’t have to wash up your brushes or mix the colours on a palette; just straight on the paper.” Tricia says painting en plein air allows her to intricately capture the oceans’ movement and light. “You see colours and tones so much better compared to when you are working from a photo. It’s just phenomenal painting from real life. Especially with the sea, it needs a lot of movement. So you are moving quite quickly.” Tricia’s favourite Sunshine Coast beaches to paint are Moffat Beach and Coolum. And while her art is mostly housed at Caloundra’s Seaview Artist’s Gallery, this year she takes her art internationally. Her itinerary reads like an exciting holiday – Fiji for a week of tutoring art workshops, while exploring the island life and Queenstown, New Zealand, for exquisite autumn-inspired landscapes. Tricia also recently attended the International Pastel Convention in Colorado, the United States. She was thrilled to be representing her country and network with other presidents from pastel societies around the world. “Being with so many other pastel artists and networking is a oncein-a-lifetime experience; especially to go as the president and meet with these people, and teach.” While Tricia’s husband Glenn won’t be able to accompany her on her trips this year, she is looking forward to his retirement so they can travel the world together. “He can’t wait to retire and carry my bags around the world with me,” she says with a laugh.
“There is something SPIRITUAL about being near the water…The crashing waves just get you.”
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ANYTHING GOES This revamped production of hit musical comedy Anything Goes is about to hit the Brisbane stage! Audiences will be treated to a nautical-themed extravaganza of classic musical theatre, tap, jokes and songs, led by the character of evangelist turned nightclub singer Reno Sweeney on board the S.S. American, played by international broadway star Caroline O’Connor. Caroline O’Connor joined by an all-star cast including audience favourite Todd McKenney (The Boy from Oz), and Clare Lyon (Phantom of the Opera) as a wealthy English banker and American debutante couple, Australian musical theatre royalty Wayne Scott Kermond (Singin’ In The Rain) as a gangster, the multi-talented Alex Rathgeber (The Drowsy Chaperone) and more. The fast-paced exuberance, dazzling array of music and dance and delightful antics of the colourful characters are played out in this riveting, hilarious musical celebration as all etiquette and convention is tossed aside. Directed and choreographed by the Helpmann Award-winning team of Dean Bryant and Andrew Hallsworth, the production will appear at QPAC in Brisbane this month. With rave reviews from the New York Times and USA Today, the songs are sure to delight and invoke fond memories of original songwriter and composer Cole Porter’s success with memorable tracks including De-Lovely, I Get A Kick Out Of You and the title song, Anything Goes. LYRIC THEATRE, QPAC, BRISBANE Season: from 28 July, 2015 Performance times: Wed to Sat 8pm, matinees Tues, Wed and Sat 1.30pm and Sun 3pm Price: from $79.90 Bookings: qpac.com.au or phone 136 246 Groups of 12 or more 07 3840 7466 134
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PAPER TOWNS Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green (The Fault In Our Stars) Paper Towns is a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbour Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their home town, Margo suddenly disappears – leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving. Ultimately, to track down Margo, Quentin must find a deeper understanding of true friendship and true love. AT CINEMAS FROM 16 JULY Starring: Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff, Halston Sage Director: Jake Schreier Story by: John Green
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Nook and Cranny in Nambour welcomes reggae/funk/roots performer Jay Hoad on 18 July at 7pm. The Fiji-born musician is featured on Triple J Unearthed for his style as didgeridoo artist and stringed instrument virtuoso, including cigar box guitar, wine box bass, weissenborn lap steel, harmonica, ocarina, djembe, percussion, loops, voice and more. In 2011, Jay supported Bob Marley’s ‘The Wailers’ on the East Coast leg of their North American Tour. Jay performs as a solo artist, and with a high-energy band, has three internationally-released albums and has spent the last seven years on a global tour – following his inspiration for music and culture through the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Fiji, India and North America. He has played at many major festivals, including WOMADelaide and the Port Fairy Folk Music Festival. Jay’s new release Home Is Where The Heart Is features tracks written in locations around the world.
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Back Alley Cats This three-piece band from the Sunshine Coast is comprised of Job Cran, Dale Berends and Alex Swinton, who are bringing their vintage sound with a modern edge to the Nook and Cranny on 11 July at 7.30pm. The Back Alley Cats define themselves as a ‘progabilly’ band, which is a broadly influenced genre of American rock. The band formed in mid-2013, and their unique sound has quickly earned them gigs at various clubs and pubs from Noosa to south Brisbane. The end of 2014 saw the band shift from performing covers to writing and performing original music; developing their first EP, Faces. www.thenooknambour.com or www.facebook.com/TheBackAlleyCats
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The Sunshine Coast has a rich cultural scene, follow the trail each month as we showcase the best of the arts, music and theatre.
Festival of Quilts In “A Celebration of Colour,” the Caloundra Quilters, from the Caloundra Arts Centre Association will hold their Festival of Quilts on 25 and 26 July. The quilters are made up of more than 100 members, who will all showcase their skills, designs and techniques in an impressive, colourful display of quilts. The Caloundra Quilters aim to promote, foster and educate in the craft of patchwork, applique and quilting, and will celebrate their hard work during the festival. The event is held every second year, and in 2013 was a popular attraction with more than 1000 locals and visitors enjoying the quilt display. The festival will include stalls and a variety of high-quality, handmade goods for visitors to purchase, as well as a raffle for a quilt, with tickets available all weekend and the winner drawn at the close of the show on Sunday. www.caloundraartsandcrafts.org.au
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Head Full of Love Presented by Hit Productions and The Events Centre, this warm, awardwinning play features a relationship between a white woman and an Aboriginal woman at the Alice Springs Beanie Festival. The two lead characters tell the story of secrets being shared, and trust in the face of struggle developing into an unlikely friendship, as the distance between the two worlds diminishes. The play also received a Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work for its season at Queensland Theatre Company. Head along to The Events Centre Caloundra on Wednesday, 29 July for a 7.30pm start. Full price tickets are $42. www.scvenuesandevents.com.au profilemagazine
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Noosa Jazz Festival is celebrating its 24th year and from 3 to 6 September, one of Queensland’s best destinations will be playing host to one of the best jazz festivals in Australia. Iconic jazz performers on two stages in the festival village, a jazz river cruise, and the impressive Tastings of Hastings are just some of the highlights across the four days. Perfect for those who want to grab their friends and dance the weekend away, or those who just want to swing by for a great family day out – there is something to suit everyone. Profile Magazine has three x jazz duo tickets up for grabs, which will give the winners two tickets and entry to all four days of the festival, valued at $145 each. Find out more at www.noosajazz.com.au
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Caroline O’Connor is a multi-award winning singer, dancer and actress who continues to perform internationally on the stages of Broadway, the West End, Europe and Australia. She has starred in just about every smash hit musical you can think of and has had plays written especially for her. An absolute star of the stage, Caroline is leading the all star cast of Cole Porter’s smash hit comedy musical Anything Goes alongside Todd McKenney when the show hits Brisbane on 28 July at QPAC.
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I grew up in … Rockdale, NSW The first thing I do when I wake up is … check my voice, then have a coffee. If I could be better at anything it would be … being able to use a computer, tweet etc. I am so not technically savvy. I am at my happiest when … I have had a really good night’s sleep, it is so important for me. When I am not working I am … normally travelling or spending time with friends and family I have been neglecting due to my touring commitments. The best musical I have been cast in was … all of them! Sorry I have to give you my top five – West Side Story, Chicago, Mack & Mabel, Gypsy and of course Anything Goes. My most embarrassing moment on stage was … as a roller skating ‘sperm’ for a BBC Television special, don’t ask! Most people don’t know that I … am really mad about Paris and would love to retire there. When I was growing up I wanted to be … a ballet dancer and if I couldn’t be in theatre I wanted to be an air hostess. I couldn’t live without … my husband. We have been together for 29 years and have had wonderful adventures together. My greatest achievement is … having been employed for so many years in a job that I love. My most annoying habit is … I am a perfectionist, which can be annoying to others. I laugh out loud when … Wayne Scott Kermond says anything! I just love physical humour, another example being Charlie Chaplin. My hidden talent is … I am a very good organiser around the home.
“My most EMBARRASSING moment on stage was … as a roller skating ‘SPERM’ for a BBC Television special, don’t ask!” CAROLINE O’CONNOR
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