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As Fiona and Megan and the Sheep Connect NSW team take a break over Summer, we are replaying some of our most loved interviews of 2020.

As Fiona and Megan and the Sheep Connect NSW team take a break over Summer. We are replaying some of our most loved interviews of 2020.

As Fiona and Megan and the Sheep Connect NSW team take a break over Summer. We are replaying some of our most loved interviews of 2020.

As Fiona and Megan and the Sheep Connect NSW team take a break over Summer, we are replaying some of our most loved interviews of 2020.

As Fiona and Megan and the Sheep Connect NSW team take a break over Summer. We are replaying some of our most loved interviews of 2020.

“Quite frankly, the world of finance is like a second language. I mean, I didn’t understand anything.” - FionaPersonal finance can be incredibly daunting, but understanding your numbers can yield amazing results. My guest for this episode is The Millennial Money Woman, also known as Fiona. She’s nurtured a passion for finance since her preteen years — while she knew that she loved the idea of money management, she didn’t quite have the grasp on it that she wanted, as financial literacy is something that we need to deliberately seek out in our society. And seek it out she did!After graduating with a Masters of Science in personal financial planning (as the only woman in her program), she is now the certified financial planner behind the The Millennial Money Woman website, dedicated to helping young professionals live abundant lives by making the right financial decisions now. She’s also the co-founder of a non-profit that teaches millennials financial literacy.“Let’s be real here — money is really one of the few things that makes the world go round,” Fiona says. “If you really don’t know that much about money … there’s a problem! Because there’s so much more possibility and opportunity out there for you to make a better life!” Fiona is living proof — she bought her first house at the age of 23 and is on track to hit millionaire status in a few years. She wants her readers to achieve similar results, and I’m right there with her!In this episode, she and I discuss the difference between earning wealth and managing it. You could have a $300,000/year income … and still be broke. As Fiona advises, “You earn wealth by retaining money, not by just earning it.” There are many ways to manage your money, and we break down a number of them through a hypothetical scenario involving a $1000 windfall. What would you do if you were handed $1000 right now? If you’re not sure, don’t worry. After this episode, you’ll have some fantastic ideas!“If you’re not managing your money properly, you could be bringing in all the money in the world, but you could still be broke.” - Melissa HoustonIn this episode, we’ll explore:How to decide between saving and investing (based on your own personal situation)Exactly what you can do with $1000 to maximize your returnYour primary options for investment, and the pros and cons of each — a great primer for beginners!Highlights:00:44 Introducing Fiona03:35 The world of finance is male-dominated — but shouldn’t be!04:51 Managing money is as important as making it06:10 You must go out of your way to become financially literate07:11 America v Canada: student loan debt08:04 Make finance fun with The Millennial Money Woman 10:39 Personal finance is personal, so understand your scenario11:06 What should YOU do with $1000? 13:04 Your savings fund rule of thumb15:11 Two ways to invest20:10 The joys of index funds24:20 The ‘Set It & Forget It’ mindset26:27 Become a millionaire on less than $10 a day31:20 Fiona’s #1 takeawayLinks:The Millennial Money Womanhttps://themillennialmoneywoman.com/The CFO Money Methodhttps://melissahoustoncpa.lpages.co/the-cfo-money-method-lead-magnet/Work with mehttps://www.melissahoustoncpa.com/work-with-meWant more tips and inspiration? Follow me on Twitter @melissahcpa and Pinterest @melissahoustoncpacga and visit my website: https://www.melissahoustoncpa.com

Fiona Joy Hawkins is a mainstream Composer/Pianist/Vocalist with an international following, whom she greets weekly with pandemic-inspired, live-streamed concerts. In today's episode, Fiona shares her journey finding music, and the role of the piano in shaping her life. When Fiona was diagnosed with Tourette's, she realized that it's often our weaknesses that give us strength. Having Tourette's taught her about life, and it made her stronger. The piano, and music, became her best friend and comfort. Fiona believes that music is a gift from another world, from ancestors of the past communicating to inspire and give us hope. As Fiona shares, music is a universal language that connects us, speaks to us equally, and yet it's received by all differently. Fiona's wish is to open more hearts to the power of music. To learn more about Fiona and her work visit her website fionajoy.com and flowthegroup.com and on Facebook @fionajoyhawkinsmusic Instagram @fionajoymusic & Twitter @fionajoymusic and her videos on YouTube here Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sydney-weiss/message

As Fiona prepares to head home to Ireland, her brother arrives in Miami to let her know someone's out to get her. Also, in a strange twist of Burn Noticed dynamic, Bri and Chris don't come to a conclusion about whether this is a great episode of television or not, and they aren't on the sides you'd expect! Love us in a non-creepy way? Love us in a creepy way? Send us an email at BurnNoticedPodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @BurnNoticedPod

The contexts that Fiona Abicare has worked within are plentiful: the Golden Age of Hollywood, the shabby chic aesthetic and objects of mass culture, just to name a few. Working with locations such as window shop fronts and gallery settings, the Melbourne-based artist’s work explores the cultural and personal associations and histories we have with various sites, objects and historical periods; creating works that blend art, design, architecture, film and fashion. As Fiona explains in the podcast, she works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context. “The site dictates the approach, [which] dictates the medium, the subject and the starting point,” she says. “I’m not a studio-based artist that goes to the studio every day and does continuous making. I do projects.” Fiona discusses how she explore various historical periods and aesthetic styles, the familial and personal resonance in her work, the experience of working as a technician for other well-known artists, and the current cultural climate in the Australian arts. See more at Art Guide online: https://artguide.com.au/podcast-fiona-abicare-on-the-adventures-of-mediums. Podcast produced by Tiarney Miekus. Engineered by Mino Peric. Soundtrack by Jesse Warren.

Wallace & Gromit and Friends and their talented creators have just arrived at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Aardman Animations. Running until October 29 this latest of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces is a virtually exhaustive exhibition of the company's entire body of work, including their next feature film, Early Man, coming out early next year. Visiting Aardman founders and co-curators, Peter Lord and David Sproxton, working very closely with ACMI head curator Fiona Trigg and the Art Ludique museum in Paris, have delivered a generous serving of early sketches, concept art, original models, plasticine sets and, of course, the plasticine characters themselves! I was fortunate enough to hear Peter and David's brilliant introduction to the exhibition and to chat to Fiona about what it was like to put it all together. All the favourites are there of course: there’s plenty to see of the famous bumbling inventor and his long-suffering dog, some very cute scenes from Shaun the Sheep and a few memorable set pieces from Chicken Run, but many visitors are likely to be surprised by just how many “friends” Wallace & Gromit actually have at Aardman, a company who also did scores of other shorts, commercials, music videos, and even other features films that never got quite as much attention as their first two. It’s easy to forget that their first Academy Award was for Nick Park’s Creature Comforts, the delightful zoo mockumentary that actually beat A Grand Day Out for Best Animated Short in 1989. Just as they’ve been making children’s films that adults can also get into, they’ve also produced some more adult-oriented works that kids are still drawn to because of the animation. As Fiona said during the launch of the exhibition, Claymation has a particular playful and tactile feel to it, a warmth that comes from its refreshing simplicity. Its animators basically get to play around with their favourite toys in front of a camera and make their little creations feel as real to the audience as they to do them. At the media preview I attended, I was very happy, but not really surprised, to see the adults having just as much fun as the tiny kids who also got to go. The wide-eyed children were thrilled to see things like Wallace's vegetable garden, the flying machine from Chicken Run and the massive pirate ship in the back room, right there in the flesh, while the adults were marvelling at the witty details the Aardman animators sneak into these worlds they create. I suppose that Aardman, like Disney, is usually associated with light, cheerful family entertainment, mostly because their animation style is colourful, quirky and humorous, the characters are likeable and most of their films have happy endings. For adults, this might be the overall impression, but certainly for a child these films really make you work for those moments of happiness. Many of their iconic darker scenes feature in the exhibition as well, including the chicken pie machine, Gromit's heartbreaking night in jail, and of course, Feathers McGraw, the evil penguin from A Close Shave.   It was also great to see some of the best comic characters from Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the CGI-animated Flushed Away and their most recent feature, ThePirates! Band of Misfits, who’ve been voiced by such British stars as Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet, actors that any directors would be thrilled to work with, although it looks like they were even more excited to be lending their voices to such classic stories and characters. Wallace & Gromit and Friends is a wondrous exploration of all of Aardman’s many creations and the breadth of talent behind them, bringing its visitors into the worlds of the fan favourites, introducing them to some of their more obscure works and getting them extra excited for the next adventure.   By Christian Tsoutsouvas

This month we weave in and out of a conversation we had with Dame Fiona Reynolds, former Director-General of the National Trust. As Fiona shares about beauty, land, rewilding and much more, we hear from Welsh upland sheep farmer Rees Roberts and spiritual ecologist & artist Nessie Reid with what they think about these issues and ideas. Beauty may seem a little airy-fairy and disconnected from the realities of running a farming business. But please do hear us out to the end…this is about bringing power back to the people. Fiona’s recent book The Fight for Beauty is a call to arms for all of us to pay more attention to matters of the earth and oceans. We caught up with Fiona and she told us how she sees farming fits into the future of a Britain built on beauty.

In response to the amount of interest that our interviews have generated within the subject of NLP, we decided to interview one of the most prominent trainer's and coaches within this field. Fiona Campbell is one of the UK's most distinguished NLP Trainers, who specialises in NLP for Business Success. She is has over 20 years of NLP and Business Coaching experience, having been personally trained by the Founder of NLP, Richard Bandler, who she continues to work with today. When I was preparing for the interview I amazed by the abundance of glowing testimonials that Fiona has received from so many of the people she has trained. Here are just some of the quotes . . . "Fiona really helped me to become more positive in my workplace and become a better leader." "She has helped me particularly in improving my communication and influencing skills in sales situations and making me more successful." "As Fiona works regularly with Richard Bandler, she has firsthand knowledge of new ideas and developments that make her the most current NLP trainer in the country." So, in between a hectic schedule of courses, we managed to sit down with Fiona to record this interview, where she very eloquently explains the fundamentals of NLP and then gives us all NLP techniques which we can immediately apply on the phone, in person and through email to improve the effectiveness of our communication within business. Additional notes and resources: Fiona Campbell Consultancy - NLP Website Current NLP for Business Courses Transcription: Transcript: Introduction to NLP- Fiona Campbell (Max#24)

In this 14-minute podcast, Fiona Broome discusses three main topics: The words we use to describe faeries. Poltergeists - faeries or ghosts? Who has faerie ancestry. Terminology Faeries, pixies, goblins, elementals... what are they?  Are they connected? Fiona describes the problems in using labels and categories to describe faeries.  She traces the history of the term "elementals" to describe nature spirits -- sometimes faeries -- and how extreme the connections have become over many centuries. For example: Elementals of the ground are usually called gnomes, related to the element of Earth, the direction of North, the Moon, and the season of autumn. Sylphs are the elementals of the air, related to the east, the sun, and spring. Salamanders are elementals of fire, the south, Mars, and summer. Undines are elementals of water, the west, Jupiter, and winter. However, that's just one way to categorize faeries.  We can also categorize them by size, by whether or not they seem to remain in groups (or troops), whether they're helpful or mischievous, how they dress, and so on. As Fiona explains, we're guessing.  Our labels may be very wrong. We continue to use these labels because they're popular and -- like using the word "ghosts" for everything from apparitions to poltergeists -- when we say "faeries" or "pixies" or "gnomes," people generally know what we're talking about. However, we are aware of the historical and cultural influences (and interpretations) of those words.  They can change slightly with popular use. Poltergeists While some people call poltergeists elementals, most ghost researchers consider poltergeists part of ghost-related phenomena.  Usually, a poltergeist seems to be an entity that is using the energy of a human, and creating mischief around that human. To learn more about poltergeists, listen to Fiona's Hollow Hill podcast: Poltergeists - What they are, and famous poltergeists. Faerie ancestry Many  people have heard about Fiona's article, Faeries in your family tree.  In this podcast, Fiona explains that most (and perhaps all) nationalities have an historic tradition related to the roots of their people.  Those roots usually have some connections with gods and/or faeries. Though Fiona draws upon her Irish heritage to explain that many people are descended from faeries, the Irish aren't the only ones with fae family trees. References Though most of Fiona's information is drawn from a variety of sources, she confirmed the Pagan-Elementals information at Elements and Elementals. For additional information about faeries, you may enjoy the encyclopedia,  Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, by Carol Rose.  It provides information about many faeries and faerie-related creatures, as well as a helpful section with cross-references that link one culture's faerie names with another's. Music: The Moods of Man, written & orchestrated by James Underberg