2025 - The year of living dangerously...connect with new people, learn new things, dive into life and live like no one is judging...

AND The kids are not ok? Chantal chats with Dr Chloe Kidd on the mental health of young people living in rural Australia. Dr Kidd sits on the Momentum research team that is helping to overcome access issues for young rural people needing mental health assistance.

Find out more about the Momentum program here:

www.momentumhub.org.au

What is Momentum?

Momentum offers tailored online treatment programs to help children and adolescents learn new ways to cope with feelings of anxiety and/or unhappiness. Momentum also offers help with sleep difficulties, as well as information on well-being and help-seeking, and tips and information about substance use for adolescents.

Momentum has been designed in collaboration with young people, parents, clinicians and researchers. The program is free to use in Australia and can be worked through at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home.

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Rural Women Leading: Annabelle Hickson creator of Galah Magazine - a runaway success in the cutthroat world of media, on self-belief, failing fast & succeeding beyond our wildest imaginations.

What will Galah Magazine creator-editor, Annabelle Hickson, do next?

A mother of three, a farmer’s wife, a natural-born entrepreneur who lives down the country road from me on a pecan farm, and who seems so self-contained, so unhindered by the rules of life…I just simply had to interview her and find out what on earth makes her tick...what makes her so brave? How did she come to be in this world without caring a jot for whether she fails and falls or not? A woman, it seems, for whom the only thing that matters is following one’s passion with complete abandon, despite harboring some of the fears that hold most of us back from discovering our true selves and putting it at the centre of everything we do.

What are the ingredients to living a life of unadulterated passionate abandon for the things one simply loves to do. Take no prisoners. Total leaps of faith. Fail fast, get back up and carry on...

And what will this, one of rural Australia's true female leaders and entrepreneurs, do next?

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Introducing the Rural Psychologist Podcast

Sarah Crosthwaite, Dairy Farmer, Nuffield Scholar, and Social Worker
has just completed a tour around the globe as part of the Nuffield Scholarship in an effort to understand what's behind the mental health crisis among farmers worldwide. I was both enlightened and intrigued by Sarah's insights into the pressures that create mental health issues for farmers around the world. I am sure you will be too.

Read Sarah's Nuffield report here International Agricultural Research Reports | Nuffield Farming Scholarships

Website to Sarah's counselling service link here:
Home Page - Open Road Counselling

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Rural Women Leading #3: Claire Osborn Booth, one of rural Australia's principal Out-of-the-Box Thought Leaders

Guerie solicitor, farmer, property developer, board director and formidable engineer of community well-being, Clare Osborn Booth talks about the 'enoughness' of being a mum, honoring the family unit, tax law (an obvious connection...) and how to develop derelict rural properties to build the future for your off-farm adult children and revitalize rural communities.

It's a thought-provoking listen to say the least. You'd be crazy to miss it.
https://boothlaw.com.au/


@boothlawadvisory @buckenbah_collective

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Introducing the Rural Psychologist Podcast

What is it really like to manage depression while living in the bush? This is the raw and honest tale of Lisa Jeitz and her journey to manage her depression while living, working and wrangling a young family on a farm in Western Australia.

Thank you to Lisa for telling her story so that she can help others to find the language and courage to ask for help.

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Rural Women Leading #1: Catherine Velisha - Managing Director of $30mil horticulture business talks about what gets her out of bed each day and how even the most successful people have to manage their mental health.


Catherine Velisha is a third-generation owner of Velisha Farms, a horticulture business located in Werribee South Victoria – the Velisha family has been involved in the fresh produce for almost a century. Having worked in the farming industry for over 20 years, Catherine has grown and developed her expertise alongside an ever changing industry landscape. Catherine’s passion and advocacy for agriculture and the people who work in it, inspired the formation of VEG Education in 2020 - an RTO created specifically to facilitate horticulture/agriculture industry with training. VEG Education allows young people to gain practical insight, access, and experience in the Australian food sector, equipping them with the skills to make valuable contributions to farming as a business. The RTO also allows Catherine - and the broader industry - to create long-term sustainability by engaging with the public directly, whilst championing fresh produce and future-focused agricultural practices.

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Remember when the town's newspaper set the tone for a community? Each week we would wait to see who was on the front page and what event had flung them into the limelight. Who was the best footballer in the town and who was the local hero; which kids were going to grow up and be rocket scientists, and which had grown up to graffiti the toilets.

Everything that had happened and everything that was going to happen was there each week for everyone in the community to see, know about, and discuss. We were all on the same page as such, and we all had the opportunity to support each other and know each other through the local 'rag'.

The internet signaled the death knell for many papers and along with it the single point of community knowledge and wisdom that provided a subtle yet important role for all rural communities in binding us together and keeping us informed about what was important.

Does the death of a town's newspaper have an effect? Does it really matter? Join me for a discussion with Damian Morgan, the man who has resurrected over 30 rural newspapers because he believes they are an integral part of the fabric of any rural community and wants to ensure they continue to a play role in informing and bringing together communities through the good times and the bad.


https://damianmorgan.com.au/

Damian Morgan

Damian Morgan is partner and director of the Today News Group which publishes 30 independent newspapers (and online news) across regional Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

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Coaching Ep #2 Finding life direction, setting goals and being motivated in 2024

Listen in to this episode, the second coaching episode for The Rural Psychologist podcast to learn the best way to go about setting goals for the new year to ensure you stay motivated and enthusiastic right through to point where you achieve what you set out to do.

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