Parenthood & Writing a New Chapter in Wildlife with Tina Strachan

Uh, and Mads, you've also had, run the first in-person education program.

Tell us how it went.

Yeah, that was really exciting.

So we've finally, I guess, uh, had a proper go at our in-person education program.

This one was slightly a little bit different, and something that I hope to run more of in the future, but it is called Building Your Resilience Toolkit.

So this one was based at Melton City Council down here in Victoria, and it was at the Women's Youth Leadership Summit, which was really fun.

So they had, think they had eight or six weeks of different speakers, so Women in Wildlife happened to be one of them, which was really cool.

So I went over there, and it was about an hour and a half, and I just chatted about, uh, my career in particular and how, which is very topical for this podcast, but how it's, uh, not as linear as I, I guess, I hoped it would be, and how everything that I've gone through, and, like, things that I've, um, [lips smack] like, different jobs I've had or not gotten has led me to where I am today.

And, um, yeah, I guess along the way you learn to build resilience in different ways and different forms.

So we, um, all built our own resilience toolkit during the workshop.

And yeah, I got some pictures of some of the girls' resilience toolkits that they were building and that they wrote, and it was just so sweet.

And it was, oh, yeah, it was just so, I guess, inspiring hearing all their stories as well, and, like, what they're going through and how they're getting through tricky times as well.

And it's just, yeah, something that I hope we can run a lot more of in the future, because I think not only I got, like, not only they got a lot out of it, but I got so much out of it too-

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... just hearing all their inspiring stories and how, I guess, passionate and, um, driven they are as, as, like, such young females.

And it just so ex- makes me so excited to see what the future's gonna be like in this space, especially for, I guess, yeah, the women in the wildlife industry.

Uh, but yeah, it was really, really nice, and I am so grateful that, yeah, Melton City Council gave us a go to-

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... present there, 'cause obviously it was a bit of a pilot program.

But yeah, it went really well, and we got some really good feedback.

So yeah, keep an eye o- on that, and if you're interested, definitely reach out, and we can see if we can make it work.

We've got a online program that we can make work for that too if you're not based in Melbourne.

And we've got a couple other educators around the world too that if they're in your area, then they might be able to come close to you as well.

So yeah-

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