Fruitful Conversations
Lynne Schinella chats to people about people. From leadership to friendship, from mindfulness to playfulness, from academics to the human in the street, people share their stories to teach and inspire us to be better versions of ourselves.
Episodes
50 episodes
Episode 19 - Lynne Schinella, Find Your Inner Fruit
Who gets up your nose? Who do you like hanging out with? What annoys other people about YOU? Is that even possible?In this last episode of the season I share a quick rundown of the Fruit personality characteristics bef...
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Episode 18 - Moya Sayer Jones, Little Sister
For almost twenty years, Moya Sayer Jones wrote comedy for TV, print and theatre, too much to mention here, but including Ferals, Bananas in Pyjamas and Petals. She’s also the author of four fiction books.But it was when she wrote her fi...
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Episode 16 - Seriya Cutbush Sound Healing
What I love about this season in the Northern Rivers is that I get to talk to people with very different backgrounds and life journeys to myself. Because this is how I open up and learn. If you are a practical Apple who doesn’t like...
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Episode 15 - Susi Muddiman, Art and Soul
I was excited to chat to today's guest. Susi Muddiman. OAM, is the Director of the Tweed Regional Art Gallery and Margaret Olley Centre just outside Murwillumbah.She’s a local from Lismore and has worked as the director...
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Episode 14 - Toni Scanlan, Acting Up
Toni Scanlan is a stage and television actress, singer, dancer, teacher and director, probably best known to TV viewers as Senior Sargent Helen Blakemore on police drama Water Rats. Her acting credits are too long to list but notab...
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Episode 13 - Rev Rosie Wynter, Poster Girl for God
It's Easter 2023 (and some of you may not remember this is a Christian festival) so it's timely that I introduce you to the the Poster Girl for God. Stay with me. You won’t regret it.The Rev Rosie Wynter is a bit of a fin...
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Episode 12 Anna Mortimer, Food for Thought
Today’s episode is a classic if you’re thinking about jumping off a cliff – metaphorically! and changing your career. Anna Mortimer is co-owner and head chef (the only chef actually) at the unassuming and fabulous little French bistro in ...
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Episode 11 Arabella Douglas Part 2
Arabella Douglas Is a Minyunbal Traditional Owner from Fingal Head in the Bundjalung nation and CEO of Currie Country, an organisation who offers cultural education and events. She is also an environment and planning lawyer, board director and ...
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Episode 10 Arabella Douglas Part 1
Arabella Douglas Is a Minyunbal Traditional Owner from Fingal Head in the Bundjalung nation and CEO of Currie Country, an organisation which offers cultural education and events. She is also an environment and planning lawyer, board director an...
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Episode 10
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Episode 9 Janet Swain All About the Music
Janet Swain is all about the music. She’s had such a diverse and eclectic musical career which has seen her live in Tokyo, Singapore and Kuwait before settling back in Mullumbimby here on Bundjalung country 9 years ago. She is a big...
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Episode 8- Mandaley Perkins, Husk Distillery
Mandaley Perkins was born in Darwin in1960 to a father who’d survived being a prisoner of war on the Burma Siam Railway, enduring horrendous conditions over three years in many of the forced labour camps along the route from what is now souther...
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Episode 7 - Pauline Menczer, World Surfing Champ
Today’s guest is a cracking good chick. Pauline Menczer is an original Aussie Battler. Born in the Bondi of old where money was skint and life was tough, Pauline has battled rheumatoid arthritis from an early age and now also suffers from a rar...
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Episode 6 - Mandy Nolan, Funny Business
Mandy Nolan is a much loved part of the furniture here on Bundjalung Country where she’s lived and been an active member of the community for 30 years. She’s a comedian, author, a journalist, an MC, a speaker, a humour therapist, a comedy...
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Episode 5 - Brett Haylock, the RingMaster
Brett Haylock is a seasoned commercial show producer and co -owner and Ringmaster of the Brunswick Picture House in Brunswick Heads. How he got to be there is an engaging story, starting with a drama loving kid in a tiny country school ...
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Episode 4 - Belinda Jeffery - the Human Hug
If ever you need a bit of calming down or a reminder that being nice has many rewards, you just have to listen to today's guest, the beautiful gentle soul who is Belinda Jeffery,She's an award winning author who has worked as cook (she ...
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Episode 3 - Michael (Wizz) Weir, the Gentle Storyteller
Michael Weir is hard to define by career. He’s kinda anything he wants to be. A businessman, a musician, a mentor, a storyteller, a leader of hip hop workshops, a producer, an artist, a writer. Above all he’s a proud Wiradjuri man and everythin...
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Episode 2 - Christine Manfield, Cheffy Fringe Dweller
Christine Manfield is a determined, resilient, accomplished woman. She’s a chef, a restauranteur, a culinary ambassador for Australia, an award winning author, a food judge and an inveterate traveller with a lust for life. For 25 years she’s ho...
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Season Two, Episode 1 - the Northern Rivers of NSW Intro
Welcome back to Fruitful Conversations where we chat to people who can teach and inspire us to be better versions of ourselves. This season I'm focusing on the beautiful people in my home on Bundjalung Country. You'll hear from che...
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Episode 32 - Lynne Schinella - This Too Shall Pass
In this last episode of the season I went solo and decided to share some of my biggest life lessons with you, in the hope they may be useful, and so my pain wasn't in vain :) But first we take a quick look at the top 3 most listened to ...
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Episode 31 - Pip Harrison - Deeds Not Words
Pip Harrison became MD of Tourism Australia in Sep 2019, realising a lifetime dream. And although all leaders have challenges nothing could have prepared Pip for the 2 years ahead.Pip found her calling in her love of tourism ...
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Episode 31
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Episode 30 - Lisa Ronson - It's All About the Team
When you're chatting to Lisa Ronson time flies. The Chief Marketing Officer of Coles has a hugely impressive CV of senior marketing positions across a wide range of industries from Westpac to Telstra to Tourism Australia.She is hi...
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Episode 29 - Jean Beech - Just Get on With It
Today's guest is someone I've wanted to interview for a while, but the time hasn't been right. She hasn't been well the last 18months and not up to it. Now it's August 2021, half of the Australian population are in lockdown. I'm in northern NSW...
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Episode 28 - Lauren Tischendorf - Swimming with Sharks
Today’s guest is a real find. Lauren Tischendorf recently became the first woman to swim solo around Lord Howe Island in a single 35 km stretch. And if you think that doesn’t sound too hard, think sharks, a treacherous 2.5 metre swell and...
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Episode 27 - Jacqueline Nagle - Resilience is Not a Destination
Todays guest is Jacqueline Nagle, speaker, mentor and facilitator of Any Given Tuesday. And when we talk about people sharing their stories here to teach and inspire us to be better versions of ourselves...well, Jacqueline gives us plenty...
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Episode 27
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Episode 26 - Carmen Platt - Better Than Nothing Is Not Good Enough
Today you’re going to hear from Carmen Platt. She’s the no nonsense founder of the Generous and The Grateful – love that name, right? An organisation that distribute bulky essential used items to people to help furnish their homes like wa...
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