Do you feel like there's more people coming to you with stories of estrangement from their adult kids than there used to be?

Oh, there's no question.

You know, when I wrote my first book in 2007, you know, I saw a fair number of people, but, but today, I mean, it's, you know, I can't handle the number of referrals that I get.

There's always a story in the news.

You know, I'm contacted, you know, every week to be on s- some interview or TV show or radio [chuckles] show, like your own, like your own.

[chuckles] Um, so I think it is definitely on the rise, um, and I think there's a number of reasons for that.

One is kind of the amplifying effects of social media, Instagram influencers, the way that it can kind of, um, put out a bunch of ideas that may or may not have any basis in reality.

So what are the elements of a successful reconciliation?

Do you feel like there's more people coming to you with stories of estrangement from their adult kids than there used to be?

Oh, there's no question.

You know, when I wrote my first book in 2007, you know, I saw a fair number of people.

But, but today, I mean, it's, you know, I can't handle the number of referrals that I get.

There's always a story in the news.

You know, I'm contacted, you know, every week to be on s- some interview or TV show or radio show [chuckles] like your own, like your own.

Um, so I think it is definitely on the rise.

So what are the elements of a successful reconciliation?

Where do you see the Brisbane market going, and where is it currently at post-budget?

Yeah.

So I, I think we're, we're in for a, a slower year.

I think that's probably obvious, and I think that's more so just based around, you know, uh, uncertainty and people sort of resetting their expectations and getting a sort of slightly different understanding of what the Brisbane market is.

But I think the, the underlying conditions remain the same.

You know, I know you've said that about, about Perth as well.

You know, we're enormously undersupplied, particularly for detached housing, with no real horizon inside.

So is it softening at all from, from your perspective? And, and do you think we'll start to slow down once we hit that peak?

Where do you see the Brisbane market going, and where is it currently at post-budget?

Yeah, so I, I think we're, we're in for a, a slower year.

I think that's probably obvious.

And I think that's more so just based around, you know, uh, uncertainty and people sort of resetting their expectations and getting a sort of slightly different understanding of what the Brisbane market is.

But I think the, the underlying conditions remain the same.

You know, I know you've said that about, about Perth as well.

You know, we're enormously undersupplied, particularly for detached housing, with no real horizon inside.

So is it softening at all from, from your perspective? And, and do you think we'll start to slow down once we hit that peak?

How did you get into running? [laughs]

[laughs] Yeah.

[clears throat] That's a great question.

It's definitely been a up and down, uh, journey.

Um, I, I will say, like, as a kid, like, I was definitely the type of kid that was, like, running around the neighborhood.

So I, I grew up in the '80s.

I'm a, I'm a Gen X-er.

Mm-hmm.