The time was right to reassess my social media world. It’s not like I didn’t anticipate that at some stage my ‘role’ and my opinions and connections would somehow collide. Nevertheless, the feeling of being ‘noticed’, ‘found out’ for my left-leaning views (despite some confusing and unnoticed sharing of the right at times) was a […]
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I wasn’t sure I would know Julie Congdon when we arranged to meet in the January summer holidays of 2019 however when I saw Julie and her family standing at my front door tears rolled. In this moment I realised that this woman was still my primary school bestie, Julie Brown. Julie, her husband Scott
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There are 53 people who have the role of Director of Regional Development (DRD) for the Regional Development Australia network across Australia. Megan and I are two of them. Megan’s region stretches across the Central West and Western region of NSW, in fact 25% of NSW, Wiradjuri country. She recently posted about an exhausting yet
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It’s almost one month now since I officially hatched the Meet My Friends project. One month, only 3 (of 1,266) interviews published and a couple in draft. But I don’t feel deflated. Yet. And the encouragement I’ve been getting from many friends is certainly keeping me motivated. My kids have offered their ever present encouragement:
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Suzanne Gaye Smoothy Sue Smoothy is kindness personified. Also known as Suzie / Sunshine Suzie we first met in 2005 when I was running a TAFE class to assist artists learn skills in business. Despite my best attempts in the land before Etsy, Ebay, Facebook and inexpensive web development it was a tough then for
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God I love these people. And it’s not every day you get a two for the price of one Facebook / and real-life friend. Jason is the son of my mum’s best friend – my brother from my other mother. We’ve known each other forever – well, my forever, Jason is close to two years
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Paul Sekfy “Every story has a tail” says Paul half way through our conversation over lunch at the new Elk on 38 in Macksville. It’s true, every story does have a tail (and many rabbit holes) when I catch up with Paul. We catch up for a festival of conversation over lunch a couple of
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Mackenzie Boorer Mackenzie and I met before Facebook was invented. As the big brother of one of my son’s early childhood friends we agreed he must have been around ten when we first met. Over the years there have been many interactions with the Boorer family. It’s a small community. Mackenzie was my daughter’s buddy
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Like many other busy mums in business my life generally consists of really busy days connecting with dozens of people and evenings speaking as little as possible except for that treasured time with tween and teens who may, or may not feel like engaging. Oh who the hell am I kidding, by the time the