140: Robyn Verrall was a single mum when her life took an unexpected twist

08/28/22 • 46 min

Robyn Verrall unexpectedly fell pregnant when she was 19, and six months into her pregnancy, her relationship ended. As a nurse and a young single mum, she battled at times just to buy food and support her little girl- and it's these struggles with food security that has ignited her passion to support others through her busines Bully's Meats. Robyn is the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award South Australian Winner and she's been in the headlines- but her story and her motherhood journey has never been told like this. Ironically, she moved to land and later started her meat business after swearing she'd never marry a farmer, but she did. A man who had been there all long- a romance that blossomed thanks to her 20 year high school reunion. This is her story.
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139: The day Louise O'Neill found her husband crying in a paddock

Louise O'Neill knows what it's like to hit burn out as a rural family. She was pregnant with her first child when her husband hit breaking point physically and mentally. After that, they revaluated everything and made some big decisions, one of them was to sell their 5th generation family farm and start fresh elsewhere. Amongst it all, Louise started her business Farm Life Fitness to support the health and wellbeing programs of farming families, and it's her work that saw her win the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award for Western Australia. Louise is originally from the UK, and went travelling around Australia before an ad on Gumtree changed everything. This is her story.
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141: R U OK? Because Jess Bargenquast was far from it

Are you okay? It's the question that changed everything for Jess Bargenquast. Because as a mum, a wife, and an employee, Jess was far from okay. The pressures of life, the motherload, and the constant people pleasing led her to breaking point Then, just as she'd started to put the pieces back together, Jess's dad took his own life, and she hit rock bottom. Jess is ready to share her story, and and she wants to share it now. This Thursday is R U OK? Day, and I hope her story reminds every one to look after each other and to ask the simple question that could save a life. This is her story.
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