I'm actually a businessman now.

You know, that happened quite young at school.

I mean, I started dancing when I was seven, started Boreham and Latin, went into contemporary, then back to Boreham and Latin because the contemporary helped me.

Clearly, I went to drama.

I got that from my mum, I believe.

No, it was really, really early.

So I wanted to dance about as much as I wanted to climb Mount Everest, as in I didn't.

Have you got any insight as to how that was initially grown, encouraged, developed? What was it about Arthur Murray that created that strong sense of community, do you think?

that's awesome yeah you guys do so well together thinking about they're talking about connections i think there was such a benefit and value that she brought to summit because of her experience in the emergency setting and all of the relationships she had built And I know that that has helped us and continues to help us.

Yeah, and she's just somebody that is going to go figure it out and just has that.

I was holding my baby at 4 o'clock in the morning the other night, and I was watching Iron Man because I was just trying to pass the time where I could pass him back off to my wife.

And there's this moment where, you know, Tony Stark gets himself out of a cave and he builds this like, you know, arc reactor and someone tries to replicate it and they can't.

And they invest millions and millions of dollars.

And, you know, they've hired scientists and like Obadiah Stane or whatever his name is, the like bad guy starts like shaking the scientists.

And he's like Tony Stark, right? like built this thing in a cave from a box of scraps.

maybe one last thought just in the theme of this conference uh with one percent better uh we listened to all the talks wonderful talks um at that any any strong takeaways or advice or just uh insights you would offer as far as that one percent

Gary Edwards is also the founder of investment group AAM, and says he believes it's the first step in Danatara's larger investment plan into Australian agriculture.

Well, Danatara has had an, a stated interest for over 12 months now about investing in their food and protein supply chains to support food security into Indonesia, and obviously with the recent, uh, announcement as to what's occurred with JBS, I suspect that's the first of a number of, uh, announcements that'll happen into the future.

Indonesians have a very long memory of some challenges that happened in the cattle industry with the suspension of the live export trade in 2011 by the then Australian government.

And, uh, since then they've been looking at ways to ensure that they never face that food security risk, uh, again, because they saw the suspension of the live export cattle trade as a direct impact into their sovereign food security.

So with the establishment of Danatara over the last, uh, two years, one of the stated, uh, parameters that Danatara's been looking to invest in is improved food security and, and their sovereign investment, not in complete ownership, but in partial ownership of, uh, of agricultural supply chains and food supply chains that support the Indonesian population.

Uh, can you talk to me about what this venture will mean for AAM?

Well, I, it, it's great to see that, you know, from an AAM perspective, it's great to see investment from Denantara because it really demonstrates the commitment that they have in long-term investment in stru-- in trade between Australia and, uh, Indonesia.

And I think this is a pretty clear statement, not just for AAM, but for the entire agricultural sector of Australia, that Indonesia and the Indonesian government wants to do long-term business with Australia and Australian businesses.

Yeah

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it really stuck with me because Wade's answer was so important to him as an artist.

He said, "Writing is art, and I feel like I'm so called to do this right now." 'Cause from a marketing standpoint for me, I'm like, "We're...

The train's going this way," and all of a sudden we're gonna go in a different direction.

And he'll obviously still have Viola Shipman novels and be called to do that.

But it really made me realize how, like, if you're an oil painter and all of a sudden you think, "I'm gonna work in pastels or, or watercolors," or, "I feel called to do something different," and it really resonated how important this book was to him to be able to tell the story.

Yeah