Starting a family is no longer as simple as meeting a partner and falling in love. I’m not sure if fertility challenges are becoming more common, or just more spoken about – but it certainly feels as though both are true.

While stories about fertility challenges are becoming more common, no two are the same.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Kim and Gus from Umbearra Station, 4 hours south of Alice Springs.

Fertility challenges don’t discriminate, and I don’t think it’s as black and white as saying that someone’s journey is easier or harder than anyone else’s – they all have their unique aspects. For Kim and Gus, their remote location meant that they ended up traveling in excess of 40,000 km to conceive their first two children.

To start our conversation, I asked them to take me back to the very start of their journey trying to start a family.

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Starting a family is no longer as simple as meeting a partner and falling in love. I’m not sure if fertility challenges are becoming more common, or just more spoken about – but it certainly feels as though both are true.
While stories about fertility challenges are becoming more common, no two are the same.
In today’s episode, I sit down with Kim and Gus from Umbearra Station, 4 hours south of Alice Springs.
Fertility challenges don’t discriminate, and I don’t think it’s as black and white as saying that someone’s journey is easier or harder than anyone else’s – they all have their unique aspects. For Kim and Gus, their remote location meant that they ended up traveling in excess of 40,000 km to conceive their first two children.
To start our conversation, I asked them to take me back to the very start of their journey trying to start a family.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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Gus and Kim McKay – Travelling 40,000 km to start a family

Felicity Brown is a milliner whose work has been featured at New York Fashion Week not once, but three times.

Twenty years before the bright lights of the big apple called her name, Flic was working in a stock camp in the Northern Territory.

In this episode Flic reflects on her time working on cattle stations, even though it was never a part of her plan...

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Felicity Brown is a milliner whose work has been featured at New York Fashion Week not once, but three times.
Twenty years before the bright lights of the big apple called her name, Flic was working in a stock camp in the Northern Territory.
In this episode Flic reflects on her time working on cattle stations, even though it was never a part of her plan...See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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For the longest time, Wayne Bean just wanted to get ahead. To achieve his career goal of managing a cattle station, to have his own land, and the time to pursue his passion for horses.

And, spoiler alert, he has, by all definitions, gotten ahead. After two decades of managing stations for Heytesbury Pastoral, these days he spends his time on his own property, breeding and training horses for the sport of campdrafting, (of which he is a formidable competitor).

So, when you see him, it’s easy to focus on the flash horse trailer, beautiful horses, and impressive scores in the campdraft arena.

What you don’t see is the 30 plus years of hard work, patience and sacrifice Wayne has put in alongside his wife, Rachel, to get to where he is today.

This episode is Part 1 of our chat with Wayne – where he shares stories from the early years of being a stockman with a young family, just trying to get ahead in life.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the longest time, Wayne Bean just wanted to get ahead. To achieve his career goal of managing a cattle station, to have his own land, and the time to pursue his passion for horses.
And, spoiler alert, he has, by all definitions, gotten ahead. After two decades of managing stations for Heytesbury Pastoral, these days he spends his time on his own property, breeding and training horses for the sport of campdrafting, (of which he is a formidable competitor).
So, when you see him, it’s easy to focus on the flash horse trailer, beautiful horses, and impressive scores in the campdraft arena.
What you don’t see is the 30 plus years of hard work, patience and sacrifice Wayne has put in alongside his wife, Rachel, to get to where he is today.
This episode is Part 1 of our chat with Wayne – where he shares stories from the early years of being a stockman with a young family, just trying to get ahead in life.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Wayne Bean (Part 1) - Just trying to get ahead

This is Part 2 of our chat with Willie Cook. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, go back and listen to it first – trust me – you don’t want to listen to these episodes back to front – and yes, I know some of you do that…

In this episode, Willie shares what it was really like being filmed for the tv series Outback Ringer, and what he thought about the final product.

He also speaks candidly about the challenges he faced in 2023, and how its impacted his plans for 2024.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is Part 2 of our chat with Willie Cook. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, go back and listen to it first – trust me – you don’t want to listen to these episodes back to front – and yes, I know some of you do that…
In this episode, Willie shares what it was really like being filmed for the tv series Outback Ringer, and what he thought about the final product.
He also speaks candidly about the challenges he faced in 2023, and how its impacted his plans for 2024.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Gus and Kim McKay – Travelling 40,000 km to start a family

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