Episodes

  • Voice it - Peter Shearer, Principal of St Joseph's School, Clare

    Voice it - Peter Shearer, Principal of St Joseph's School, Clare
    Oct 13 2024
    It's an end of an era for this man.Peter Shearer.After 22 years at St Joseph's School in Clare, Peter has decided to step down from the top job at the end of 2024.Peter has touched the lives of many people across the regional South Australia working in Catholic schools in Jamestown, Yorketown, Loxton and finally Clare. Originally from Cherryville in the Adelaide Hills, Peter didn’t care much for the classroom, preferring to be outside playing sport or working on his next-door neighbor’s...
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    48 mins
  • Voice it - Kate Mensforth, Clare Valley School of Dance

    Voice it - Kate Mensforth, Clare Valley School of Dance
    Jun 10 2024
    In this episode you’re going to meet Kate Mensforth. We all call her Miss Kate, she’s the woman that's built a soaring business providing children across the Clare Valley and mid north of South Australia access to the world of dance. Kate is the brains behind the Clare Valley School of Dance offering all modes of dance ballet, jazz, ACRO, contemporary, hip hop and even ninja kids, appealing to dancers on a recreational level but also giving them the chance to compete o...
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Voice it - Dave Heinjus, The bloke behind Rural Directions and Pinion Advisory

    Voice it - Dave Heinjus, The bloke behind Rural Directions and Pinion Advisory
    Apr 3 2024
    This episode is about a man who had a entrepreneurial seizure. What was a one-man-show in agribusiness consulting, now is the Chairperson of a multi-national company called Pinion Advisory. A leading-edge national agribusiness, water and environment consulting firm with tentacles reaching across Australia and into America.It all started in South Australia's Clare Valley. Before Pinion, Dave Heinjus founded Rural Directions in 1997, one of the first agribusiness co...
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    39 mins
  • Voice it - George Millington: Coffee to Collinsville ( Part Two)

    Voice it - George Millington: Coffee to Collinsville ( Part Two)
    Feb 26 2024
    Welcome back to the second instalment featuring George Millington.In the last episode you heard about George’s rise in the business world – from his early stock broking days, to transforming a humble coffee business into a successful sought after coffee brand Monjava, which was swiftly bought by San Remo. To then moving into logistics, APD Parcel Delivery.In this episode, you’re going to hear all about the rise and rise of his rural livestock empire. Since he was a young boy, George’s dream w...
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    37 mins
  • Voice it - George Millington: Coffee to Collinsville ( Part One)

    Voice it - George Millington: Coffee to Collinsville ( Part One)
    Feb 19 2024
    Today you will hear the absolute success story of George Millington. He is the man behind Collinsville Stud Merinos – one of the most prominent and well respected sheep-studs in Australia located in the mid north of South Australia.George's success story begins begins with his venture into the coffee industry, where his excellent business sense and a stroke of luck made him a millionaire by his early 30s. After selling his coffee business, he transitioned into logistics, laying the groun...
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    39 mins
  • Voice it - Ali Cooper, owner of Jamestown's boutique caravan park

    Voice it - Ali Cooper, owner of Jamestown's boutique caravan park
    Nov 5 2023
    Meet the super vivacious Ali Cooper, the owner of the The Park in Jamestown.In this case Ali hasn’t started from scratch, but probably feels like she has. She's transformed the local caravan park in Jamestown into a boutique accomodation space for travellers.Ali is also involved in the family farming business with husband “ Seth cooper, has 3 children and is an extremely active community volunteer. Ali’s vision was to provide a boutique accomodation space in Jamestown to enco...
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    32 mins
  • Voice it - Kelly Morgan ( Kelly Kelly Legal) The life of a regional lawyer

    Voice it - Kelly Morgan ( Kelly Kelly Legal) The life of a regional lawyer
    Sep 24 2023
    Meet Kelly Morgan, the woman behind Kelly Kelly Legal, a successful law firm in Jamestown.Kelly grew up on a farm near Yongala, the coldest place in South Australia. She describes herself as an ‘accidental lawyer’, she initially wanted to be school teacher or an architect, but it was her father that ignited the idea of law.When Kelly graduated she had this big idea to head to Sydney and work for the big law firms but her life took an unexpected turn when her father passed aw...
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    43 mins
  • Voice it - Sophie Whitehead " Cooking for the Queen Mother"

    Voice it - Sophie Whitehead " Cooking for the Queen Mother"
    Jul 25 2023
    This is a delightful story about Sophie Whitehead which I played on the Clare Valley Podcast a few months ago and I loved it so much I wanted to share it with my Voice it listeners. Sophie Whitehead's first job job out of college was cooking for royalty. In this episode, you'll hear how she came to be cooking for the Queen Mother, and the experiences she had with not just her, but many members of the Royal family, eg. dancing with Prince Charles at Balmoral Castle. WOW!...
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    18 mins