Chewing The Fat On Flexibility

We’re back in 2019 with a catch up on flexibility in our lives, our community and the general consensus across Australia on a whole range of issues to do with flexibility – family, lifestyle, wage disparity, women in politics and our politics/leaders generally. Apologies for the audio quality from Helen’s end – persist because we […]

Helen had the pleasure of catching up with an old HR Pal, Vanessa Rawson.  Vanessa’s journey is wonderful, courageous, adventurous and altogether designed to give other people courage to follow their dreams. Helen & Vanessa’s paths originally crossed some 10 years ago in the world of HR and since then, have both embarked on a […]

In this conversation we chew the fat with the delightful Emma Heuston, author of The Tracksuit Economy:How to work productively AND effectively from home. Emma is also a Practice Leader (Partner equivalent) with NewLaw firm, LegalVision. Emma manages a team while working part time (4 days a week over 5 days) and remotely (in the […]

Let’s make it work baby – the fabulous Catherine Brooks Catherine Brooks is a Principal of Moores (a Melbourne law firm), workplace relations and child safety expert and author of the new book Let’s Make it Work Baby: A Kick-Arse Guide to Personal and Professional Success for New Parents. It was an absolute delight catching […]

Honest to goodness, this interview had me go out for a run (okay, well a fast walk) that afternoon! Tim is a full time HR Business Partner with Mercer and is also an AFL boundary umpire. Flexibility and fitness make it possible for Tim to manage this work-life integration – it also requires adaptability on […]

  The fabulous Jacqui Davis joins us over a Friday coffee and vegemite toast from our beloved local café (@themabel) to talk all things flexibility – and in particular what it takes to leap off the corporate ladder into the unknown of a much needed career break and life-adjustment, and then the leap back into […]

We welcome back Kim Grady to our PodCast as she updates us on all things Gourmet Roaming, and what has bought her back home, the dangers of hiking, and falling, and seriously hurting yourself, and being carried down a Mountain by some amazing strangers, meeting McDreamy and his gorgeous girlfriend, the kindness of strangers and […]

We’re back for 2018 and catch up on what happened in 2017! Leonie has enjoyed a year of new business and work opportunities and the varying degrees of flexibility with running your own business with staff.  Helen returns from 14 months travelling Australia with her family, has pulled up stumps on 27 acres at the […]

Kim has made the incredible decision to leap into the not yet chartered territory of being her own getaway reporter… well sort of… she gets to choose the destination, the script, and the menu!  Having worked her way up the career ladder at an awesome speed, she got to the top, looked around and felt […]

We had the pleasure of interviewing an amazing General Manager who has implemented flexible working practices with her whole team.  Yep, she’s adopted a one in all in approach and best of all, she agreed to come on our PodCast. Now Skye Hart is not her real name, but to protect confidentiality and commercial sensitivities […]

What is there to say about this jet-setting amazing person?  Allison is inspirational.  In the short time I’ve known her, she returned home to Australia in tow with her lovely partner, Rob.  She’d completed her gig at Burberry, moved to regional Victoria and took on a major role with a retail chain.  She subsequently was […]

Trump has won.  Hilary has lost.  What does this tell us about our system of politics, people, corporate greed, the fight of the little people, trust and the American way? Join us as we chew the fat on all things Trump.

This PodCast was such a delight to be a part of and we could have kept chatting for hours (hmm, yes okay we like to chew the fat).  We were so grateful to have Natasha Besliev, CEO of Bonnier Publishing Australia, and Adele Coultas, HR Manager of Bonnier Publishing Australia. Their stories of flexible work, […]

It’s a Friday lunchtime.  We could be at the gym, we could be reading a book, we could be running around crazy, performing any number of juggling acts, like most days, oh yes, and we could be at work…  but instead we are  drinking champagne, eating delicious food from The Mabel, and chewing the fat […]

Laini Shaw is the Holiday Queen.  And I’m jealous.  She has managed to intrinsically manouvre a HR career and massive chunks of time off to enjoy her passion of travel. How? What? Why? How? Blink, gulp, how on earth did this HR Professional manage to challenge the status quo, re-align her entrenched professional ethos of […]

It’s a pleasure to bring you the altogether fabulous Jo Stevens.  Jo is someone who is ridiculously talented, hard working, courageous, smart, delightful and effortlessly classy. I have had the pleasure of knowing Jo for over 8 years now and she helped me pass the dreaded Performance Management Class at Uni – I’m forever grateful […]

What do you get when you put a Car Karaoke Queen who is a HR Guru together with a Travel Queen & highly intelligent CPA/IT/Business Transformation Specialist ….. you got it, The Whole Package.  We are delighted to introduce to you Sharna Peters and Deanna Spowart, the newest and brightest combination to hit one of Australia’s […]

OK, so juggling isn’t your forte, ours either, but we’ve found a family that juggles a full life – working professional parents, 5 kids, 4 families, 1 very gorgeous dog, 15 acres, sporting events, school drop off and pick up and manage to be so happy.  They talk about the kids being the barometer of […]

Ok folks, it’s been a while but we are delighted to bring you, the one, the only, the delightful, incredibly talented, gorgeous, considerate and effervescent Angela Sparano to our Podcast Chewing the Fat on Flexibility.  Angela is one of the most delightful, pragmatic, strategic, consultative, passionate and engaged HR Practitioners (how manages risk not puts […]

We are absolutely delighted to be able to bring you the two amazing men in our life – Garth, Helen’s Husband and Tim, Leonie’s Husband. We thought it would be great for you to hear about their experiences of flexibility, as you would have gathered from the journey so far, we love our blokes, maybe have given […]