
Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast with Renae Hanvin
Let’s face it our future will be one with more natural and unnatural disasters - whether we want them or not, they are here to stay. Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, hosted by corporate2community founder and disaster resilience specialist Renae Hanvin, brings you informal conversations with global and local leaders in emergency management and disaster resilience across government, corporate, small business, non-profit and community stakeholders. Perfect for building your understanding and disaster-related toolkit, there’s no doubt you’ll be inspired to start doing disasters differently today. Visit https://resilientready.org/ to find out more and don’t forget to connect with Renae Hanvin +
Resilient Ready on LinkedIn.
Episodes
41 episodes
Emergency Management in South Australia
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by Leanne Schmidt, Manager Emergency Support at the Local Government Association of South Australia. With decades of experience across SES and fire services, Leanne...
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What 2 things are we doing differently?
In this special 40th episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae reflects on standout conversations from the last ten episodes with thought leaders in disaster resilience. Renae highlights the growing momentum around social capital, the...
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Are schools key to social capital?
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently Renae chats with Dr Briony Towers, founder of Leadrrr and expert in child-centered disaster risk management. They explore the role of schools in building social capital and h...
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The National Emergency Management Stockpile (NEMS)
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by Joe Buffone, Deputy Coordinator General at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). With over 40 years in security and disaster management, Joe has played a key r...
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It’s time to focus on small businesses
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by the Hon Bruce Billson, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO), a tireless advocate for small businesses across the country. Today, we a...
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Grape and wine sector resilience in South Australia
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Professor Paul Arbon AM, a distinguished leader in emergency and disaster resilience and Director of the Torrens Resilience Initiative at Flinders University.To...
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From India to Australia for resilience
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Kruthika Nagananda, a passionate advocate for resilience who moved from India to Australia to pursue her dream of strengthening communities in times of crisis. Today, ...
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Sharing your lived experience with others
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Fiona Jago, a former dairy farmer and small business owner with deep roots in regional Victoria. Fiona and her husband, Mark, made a bold move to purchase and run a ca...
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Building cultural heritage resilience
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Johanna Garnett who is the Manager of Disaster Resilience & Risk Reduction at the South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM). Today we are t...
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Indicators of Community Disaster Fatigue
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Dr Val Ingham who is the Associate Professor, Emergency Management at Charles Sturt University. Today we are talking about Indicators of Community Disaster Fatigue.&nb...
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Bringing social capital and social infrastructure measurement to Australia
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Professor Daniel Aldrich, Director of the resilience and security studies program at Northeastern University in the USA who’s also a volunteer advisory member of Resil...
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30:47

Are we different 2 years on?
In this episode, Renae reflects on the increasing complexity of disasters in Australia, from bushfires and floods to smaller disruptions like power outages and staffing shortages. She emphasises the critical role small businesses play in commun...
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Safeguarding livelihoods and services after disasters
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, I sat down with David Parsons, crisis management expert, and volunteer advisor and delivery partner at Resilient Ready and today we are talking about safeguarding livelihoods and ser...
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27:58

Building thriving communities
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, I sat down with Tracy Collier, GM of Strategy and Programs for the Thriving Communities Partnership and today we are talking about building thriving communities.
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Getting Australia to Buy from the Bush
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently the Podcast, I sit down with Jenn Donovan from Spend with us and we are discussing ‘Getting Australia to Buy from the Bush’.
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The Role of Community Organisations in Disasters
Today Renae sits down with Bridget Tehan, the Senior Policy Advisor at the Victorian Council of Social Services, also called VCOSS. We are sitting down to discuss the role of community organisations in disasters.Bridget has worked for more ...
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2019-20 Victorian Fire Season Inquiry, Phase 2 Report
In the twenty-fivth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Tony Pearce, Victoria’s first Inspector-General for Emergency Management (IGEM). He shares with us how this role was created and h...
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How business networks build resilience
In the twenty-fourth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Lawrence Atkinson from BusinessBM and we are discussing ‘Business networks build resilience’. C2C and BusinessBM hav...
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Strengthening rural, regional & remote communities
In the twenty-third episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Natalie Egleton, CEO of the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR). She was appointed CEO of the FRRR in November 2015...
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27:54

200 days of lockdown
In the twenty-second episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with James Ritchie, the Director of Thamani and Principal Consultant with our C2C collective. He is currently located in Germany and h...
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The future of disaster resilience in Australia
In the twenty-first episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, Renae Hanvin will be talking with Amanda Leck, the Executive Director of the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, also known as AIDR , where she leads a pr...
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25:41

A Year of Doing Disasters Differently
In the twentieth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, hosted by corporate2community founder and disaster resilience specialist Renae Hanvin, she will be reflecting on some of the conversations we’ve had. Renae set up corp...
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A business owner hit by disaster with Susan Gray
In this episode, I'm talking with Susan Gray. She's the president of the Tilba District Chamber of Commerce in the southern region of New South Wales, and the owner of the main pub in Tilba. We're talking about a business owner hit by disaster....
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Top Down Disaster Resilience Doesn’t Work with Mark Duckworth
In the sixteenth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, hosted by corporate2community founder and disaster resilience specialist Renae Hanvin, she will be chatting to Mark Duckworth, Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Dea...
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