Podcast appearances and mentions of sue williams

In what has become an annual event here on Flat Chat, this week we were invited on to a webinar run by leading strata lawyer (and Flat Chat sponsor) David Bannerman for the Q&A session that we call Lawyer in the Hot Seat.In it we discuss such diverse issues as Lithium battery safety, a Vegepod balcony plant system that's been banned becasue it's not in keeping with the look of the building, the surprisingly widespread problem of mould and explore the vexed question of underperforming committee members.This is a long session so we have split it and will run the other half next week.  There's a lot in it because, as is the nature of strata, one answer leads to a Jenga stack of other questions. You can check out the Bannerman's website for a stack of strata-related information____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

The week's podcast covers a wide array of topics, from your thoughts on strata committee training, and the ups and downs of the property market to common myths about strata managers.  And we'll throw in a reference to photography as well.We have a look at Amanda Farmer's survey into strata owners' thought on training for strata committee members.  We won't do too many spoilers but it's worth hearing what you, the owners and tenants really want.Then we look at how volatile the building industry has become, with record number of small builders going out of business while the government's housing targets seem to be as out of reach as ever.Then we have a chat about some of the main myths about strata managers, as highlighted by Bobby Lehane, CEO of the Pica Group.And we give a nod to a photograph that accompanied one of Sue's stories about boarding house residents being evicted to make way for luxury houses in Sydney's Paddington.All in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Should you invest in apartments in Australia? In this episode, Sue Williams helps guide your strategy. Once you go down the apartment investing rabbit hole, you then need to consider whether you buy off the plan or not, while understand how it all differs from investing in houses and other types of properties. Whether investing in apartments fits your strategy or not, apartment living is on the rise here in Australia. Over the last 30 years, the number of occupied apartments across the country has more than doubled – up 108% in fact according to the last census, to over 1.4 million apartment dwellings. So, what should apartment investors be considering? The devil is always in the details with any investment, as there are big differences and other costs with apartments that you need to know and incorporate if you are to be successful. And this is where our returning guest Sue Williams comes to the rescue. As you’ll remember from Part 1 of our interview, as an award-winning journalist, writer and best selling author of 32 books to date, Sue has a special interest in property and apartment living based on her own early off the plan apartment experience, which led her to has led her to found the peak Owners Corporation Network for apartment owners many years ago, and she has gone on to co-author the very first complete guide book on Apartment Living. Sue continues to write on all aspects of the industry, and she is also part owner of the Flatchat strata advice website along with being cohost of the long running and popular weekly Flatchat Wrap podcast of the same name. Tune in to learn all things apartments! Connect with Sue suewilliams.com.au Find your Freedom Formula Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour! Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course Subscribe to Property Hub for free now on your favourite podcast player. Take the next step - connect, engage and get more insights with the Property Hub community at linktr.ee/propertyhubau Book a personal solutions session with Bushy to go deeper on your specific property needs or challenges Continue the discussion with likeminded investors and experts on The Property Hub Collective Facebook group Get a copy of Bushy's book, Get Invested, for FREE, and find out what it takes for you to invest in living more, working less Get all Property Hub info here linktr.ee/propertyhubau About Get Invested, a Property Hub show Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential. Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free. For business enquiries, email andrew@apiromarketing.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Wrap is back with a look at sustainable apartments and the reality of spending a bit more to make a unit cheaper to live in.The latest message is that even if the average ‘green' unit costs $11k more, it will save you heaps of money… and salve your conscience too.We also uncover two worrying trends in one of our states where developers are loading up strata committees with their employees – ignoring any allegations of obvious conflicts of interest.Meanwhile, apartment owners seem blissfully unaware that there may be any potential problems. “They say they're going to take care of defects and it's in their best interests to do so, isn't it?”Well, is it?  Or are there some developers who are more concerned with profits than their reputations – since they can change their names any time they like?And finally we look at the conundrum of increased immigration putting pressure on the housing stock versus the need for skilled migrants to build more apartment blocks.Is temporary accommodation in migrant camps the answer? Make them attractive places to stay – they don't have to be like prisons. And would it be any worse than migrants having to share a two-bed flat with a dozen other renters?That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Episode 107 - Kathy Allan, Holistic Nurse, Speaker, Author and Somatic Experience practitioner joins me along with returning from Australia, Sue Williams, Founder and CEO Sports Hypnotherapy and holistic health advocate. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

Childlike curiosity is key to competence, says Sue Williams. Sue is an award-winning journalist, travel writer and best selling author with 32 books to her name and counting. During her around the world story telling journey, she has met the Queen and interviewed the likes of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Russell Crow, along with great thinkers like Edward de Bono and Geoffrey Robertson. And at the other extreme she has covered war, murder, riots, earthquakes, road crashes, lifestyles, film, fashion, soccer and even a top race-writing award for a feature on horse racing, and last but not least, the housing market. What brings her to Get Invested is her journalistic special interest in property and apartment living, which has led her to founding and ongoing involvement with the Flatchat strata advice website and podcast of the same name, along with her regular story contributions on property for all of Australia’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Australian Financial Review and Domain. Today we unpack Sue's incredible personal story and property journey, where you'll learn that curiosity is key to lifelong learning and sustainable success, the importance of asking good questions and so much more. Connect with Sue suewilliams.com.au Find your Freedom Formula Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour! Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course Subscribe to Property Hub for free now on your favourite podcast player. Take the next step - connect, engage and get more insights with the Property Hub community at linktr.ee/propertyhubau Book a personal solutions session with Bushy to go deeper on your specific property needs or challenges Continue the discussion with likeminded investors and experts on The Property Hub Collective Facebook group Get a copy of Bushy's book, Get Invested, for FREE, and find out what it takes for you to invest in living more, working less Get all Property Hub info here linktr.ee/propertyhubau About Get Invested, a Property Hub show Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential. Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free. For business enquiries, email andrew@apiromarketing.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did you know that getting on for 4.5 million Australians live in strata? And who do you think comprises the single largest demographic group, from singles and couples through to one-parent families?Can you even take a wild guess at the total value of strata properties in Oz, or what percentage of strata schemes don't have strata managers?This week we take a deep dive into the latest Australasian (it includes NZ) Strata Insights report from UNSW and SCA.By the way, we got ourselves into a bit of a fankle over the Nepali language, which we mispronounced “nepawlee” rathere than “nepa-ly”, and which we partially correctly said was Nepalese – as in, the official language of Nepal.In fact, Nepali is spoken by more than up to 20 million people, mostly in Nepal and neighbouring parts of India. Smaller speech communities exist in Bhutan, Brunei, and Myanmar. And in Melbourne too, it seems.We also take a quick check on what the various political parties are offering by way of tackling the housing crisis and we talk briefly about why it's such a surprise to see one of our apartment developer giants exposed in the news.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

There's a lot going on in the strata sphere this week, starting with the Sydney Morning Herald's big expose on building defects.It's well worth reading but it's funny how every time a new reporter writes about this stuff, it's treated as if it's just been discovered.Speaking as people who have been on this beat for two decades, we are just glad that the issues are being aired again.Meanwhile strata managers nationally want to know why apartment buildings have been excluded from the multi-billion-dollar boost for solar panel battery storage. By the way, in the podcast we erroneously referred to solar panels, not batteries, as a sharp-eared listener has pointed out.  And we dig into the three-way fight over commission payments between owners (in the shape of the Owners Corporation Network) plus the Australian Consumers Insurance Lobby (ACIL), strata managers, and strata insurers.   That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

We'd love to ignore the election but we can't, so this week we look at what our nation's political parties are offering apartment buyers and renters as we hurtle towards polling day.Everybody agrees we need more housing – and that means more apartments – but the policies differ, including one that an economist has dubbed “the worst economic policy of the 21st century.” And we look at Victoria where the state government is pushing through a no-nimby policy to force councils to accept low-rise apartment blocks.We have a chat about Strata Community Association, the strata managers' peak body's call for national protection for apartment owners from defective buildings.And we look why rents of apartments are rising faster than rents of houses, and where this is happening, including one holiday letting hotspot that's been hit by a 60-night a year limit. That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

We are getting into two of the topics that cause most angst in apartment living, this week: pets and buying property.Firstly, we take a spin around the question of landlords in NSW no longer being able to ban renters' pets for no good reason – and how that will affect the more than 50 per cent of apartment residents who are tenants.This is a question I asked in the Sydney Morning Herald: Will our apartment blocks suddenly be awash with furry friends? Or will property investors – confronted by the other regulation changes, both recent and impending – decide “stuff this for a game of Monopoly” and sell up or switch to Airbnb and its ilk?Then we look at a story Sue wrote for Domain (also in the SMH) about how she went looking to find a new flat for a temporarily overseas friend with the instruction to spend up $1million.What's it like flat hunting for a friend, knowing that if you have made the wrong suggestion that's a million bucks worth of misery for them and you?That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap?____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Last week we said that Strata Community Association NSW  - the states' strata managers' professional body - was in disarray.  Objecting to that negative characterisation, NSW President Robert Anderson agreed to come on to the podcast and answer a few questions.We had no shortage of those. For instance, we asked what the changes at SCA-NSW are. Has SCA-NSW been getting it wrong? Is there a new philosophy or culture, following changes on the SCA-NSW board?Are the changes in the standard agency agreement a recognition that there was something wrong with the previous much maligned version or is it just to comply with changes in legislation?What does SCA-NSW have to do to regain owners' trust? What about training for committee members? Who should do it: SCA, the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) or Fair Trading?And finally, will the SCA continue to claim that it represents owners? It's a slightly longer than usual session and the sound quality is OK but, thanks to the interview being conducted over Zoom, not up to our usual tip-top standards.Enjoy.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

This week we look back at what has been described by some lawyers as one of the most significant legal decisions of the 21st Century – right up there with Donald Trump's court losses.We are talking about the “Jo Cooper” decision five years ago which said strata schemes couldn't impose blanket bans on pets. So many strata schemes have pets these days that it feels like dog and cat ownership is almost compulsory – and no, the sky hasn't fallen in and so far, no frail or elderly person has been savaged to death by marauding chihuahuas.We will also be looking at how the state government is claiming that its moves to ban rent bidding have meant rents have gone down.  And hearing why they are likely to start rising even faster.And we will be answering a question that was asked on radio on James Valentines Afternoons on Tuesday (click here and whizz forward to 1h 35mins) – do you need to have a second, separate laundry sink when you move your washing machine and drier into your renovated kitchen?That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

The long-awaited report into what has become known as the Netstrata Scandal came out last week – too late for the podcast – so we bring it to you in all its glory this week.Fair Trading NSW have, unusually for them, hopped in with a fairly strident comment and Netstrata has responded with vehement denials of wrong-doing and assurances that anything than needed fixing has been fixed.You can find our report on the McGrathNicol findings HERE, the McGrathNicol report HERE,  Fair Trading's response HERE,  and the Netstrata reaction HERE. So what's the truth?  We have had the dubious pleasure of owning in a strata scheme managed by Netstrata and seeing the way they work at close hand.What are they really like?  Listen to this week's Flat Chat Wrap to find out.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

This week's podcast looks at the renewed concern about the effect of short-term holiday lets on affordable housing, following City of Sydney's request to the state government to change the laws to curb Airbnb and its ilk.Last week CoS said about 1000 homes would come back into the residential rental market in central Sydney alone if the government put limits on commercial STHL operators. And we hear rumours that a Victoria-style tax is being considered, with the proceeds going to build new homes.And can we trust an Airbnb survey that says people who can let their homes all year would just shutter them, rather than return them to the residential market?And speaking of new homes, the government has fast-tracked planning approval for a number of high-rise blocks that will house 8000 families.But are they building communities?By the way, the news about the Netstrata report came in after we had recorded the podcast so we will definitely pick that up next week.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

The podcast this week is almost entirely taken up with the new laws that passed the other day in the NSW parliament. We won't see most of them kick in until later in the year, but the effects could be immediate.Dodgy contracts that could see off-the-plan sales rescinded might be being rewritten as we speak.Building managers and strata committee chairs might well be asking what they have to change to fulfil requirements to act in the best interests of strata schemes.Developers' low-ball estimates of levies for new blocks might be getting pumped up a little if a $55k fine could be imposed for deliberately underquoting.But the one unanswered question – in the podcast, at least – is what form the Strata Taskforce is going to take and how it will operate.Such are the vagaries of online publishing that we answered that question in this story, after we had switched off the mikes. But we can have a chat about that next week.And finally, we welcome our new sponsors Strata Community Insurance to the Flat Chat fold. Insurance is all about risk, but we reckon SCInsurance is a safe bet.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

In this week's podcast we wonder whether the announcement of fines for strata managers who don't reveal the various deals and relationships they have with developers and service providers signals a sea change in how NSW Fair Trading regards strata professionals who play fast and loose with the facts.Quite clearly, this is a response to the revelations last year about how Netstrata allegedly hid insurance commissions from its clients. But is it enough?Netstrata is not the biggest strata management company involved in this, nor, in all likelihood, will it be the worst offender. Will we ever find out? Manwhile, strata schemes should not be mistaken in thinking it's your strata manager – the one who turns up at your AGM who will be fined.This is about the companies, large and small, whose culture has evolved from support and service to profits at all costs. Your strata manager is only doing what their job description dictates.Also in the pod, we look at a new drive to build homes specifically for essential service providers like nurses, cops and firies.We discuss the likely impact of the new releases of designs from the NSW pattern book for low-density apartment blocks.And we mull over what should be done about a spare chunk of common property that has been annexed by an enterprising owner.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

This week on the podcast, Rachel & Lynne's guest is freelance writer and author Sue Williams. Sue talks about her long and successful career as a writer and journalist and how it led to non-fiction books and now historical novels. During the episode, Sue talks about: How her career started and when she moved to freelancing Her love of travel writing and why she still does journalism Why following a brief and making it easy for editors will give you more work Why it's hard to pitch story ideas, and why it's important How she secured an agent and publisher for her books The challenge of writing historical fiction and why it's harder than she thought How she uses AI and why it will never replace human content Connect with Sue via her website: https://suewilliams.com.au/  Her latest book is The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress, and is available from all good bookstores. Find Rachel www.rachelsmith.com.au Find Lynne www.lynnetestoni.com Rachel's List www.rachelslist.com.au Thanks (as always) to our sponsors Rounded (www.rounded.com.au), an easy invoicing and accounting solution that helps freelancers run their businesses with confidence. Looking to take advantage of the discount for Rachel's List Gold Members? Email us at: hello@rachelslist.com.au  for the details. Episode edited by Marker Creative Co www.markercreative.co 

In this week's podcast we ask why it is that, while the so-called Arrow decision has established that pre-sale strata contracts are invalid, some developers can get away with signing them.As raised by our friend Francesco Andreone at GoStrata, what needs to be done to the laws to stop this pernicious exploitation of strata owners' lack of knowledge and experience?  And why do we apartment owners have to risk our money in taking developers  to court to re-litigate these cases every time they turn up.On a lighter note, we ask how over-50s would cope with having to share homes again.  Sure it would help with loneliness and isolation, as well as being financially prudent.  But what would other Boomers' behaviour do that drove you mad?And finally, Flat Chat has a new media outlet and a whole new readership (we hope) who have missed out on our 20 years of fighting the good fight for strata owners and residents.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

It seems strata may have a new pantomime villain (like we need one).  This week we look at multi-millionaire developer of fancy pants apartment blocks Tim Gurner.He once shocked an economic conference by saying the country needs 40-50 per cent unemployment.If that wasn't bad enough it's alleged he was the first public figure to draw parallels between young people eating smashed avocado and not being able to afford to buy a home.Now this Melbourne developer of luxury apartments, and some of his customers, are in conflict as defects start to surface in his uber-fancy St Moritz block in the Victorian capital.It's not so much how the mighty have fallen (because he hasn't) as how the prices have fallen, and in a rising market.But before that, we look at the new regulations for strata managers that come in nest week (Feb3) and wonder how much difference they will really make.And finally, Jimmy comes up with his radical plan to build more affordable apartments, saying that affordable luxury is impossible but liveable affordability may be the way forwardIf you can tolerate a bit of noise from your neighbours, and one lift instead of two, surely apartment blocks could be built more cheaply without the risk of them falling down. That's all in the Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

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With half of Australia still in holiday or hangover mode, and half of Sydney stuck on a railway platform somewhere, this is a short and (we hope) sweet Flat Chat Wrap podcast this week.First, we look at a new trend in affordable and comfortable co-living, which already exists in two completed blocks in Sydney, with another one on the way.Then there's the revelation that the price gap between houses and apartment narrowing dramatically, as houses get a bit cheaper and apartments get dearer.And finally there's news of a new and possibly trend-setting addition to a planned apartment block which will doubtless get tongues and tails wagging with its direct appeal to dog owners.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

We are back in the saddle for the new year with the news that the NSW government has come up with a new way of tackling the bureaucracy and red tape that's holding back housing construction – by adding what looks like another level of bureaucracy and red tape.To be fair, the intentions are good. Maybe more really is less, and the new Housing Delivery Authority will accelerate the construction of “State Significant Developments”, especially in areas ripe for development but where Nimbys rule the roost. We shall see.However, one of the more remarkable achievements around this is that the government has managed to announce this without even mentioning one significant and controversial word.Also we hear about the apartment residents who turned their harbour view flat into a huge, expensive New Years Eve event venue … only it wasn't their flat. And we point the fingers at the Sydney residents who have taken Nimbyism to a new low – kicking locals who are already down and permanently out.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Looking forward to 2025 involves a certain amount of looking back. So we wonder this week what will happen, if anything, as a result of the long-delayed outcomes of investigations into Netstrata in particular or strata management in general. And we look at the proposed new strata laws for NSW.  Jimmy speculated that the least likely to make it all the way is the plan to bring strata contracts under Australian Consumer law.Why?  Because the parties with the most to lose – Strata Community Australia and the NSW Attorney General's office – are pretty powerful voices.And we look at our poll on what Flat Chat readers like most about the proposed changes.There's a clear split between laws that affect existing owners and buyers but there's one proposal that will affect everyone in strata that stands out from the crowd.That's all in this week's and 2024's final Flat Chat Wrap____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

From the scandals around Netstrata - and the harsh scrutiny all strata managers have faced as a consequence - to the departure of Building Commissioner David Chandler, 2024 was a huge year in strata.We look at those events as well as the roller-coaster rides for apartment owner clients of two now notorious strata managers who have found it just too easy to convince NCAT members to do exactly what they want, rather than what apartment owners need.In fact, we ask the question, is the NCAT tribunal so ill-equipped to deal with strata issues that it is actively undermining Fair Trading's efforts to improve public confidence in apartment living. And finally, we highlight a new build-to-rent development in the heart of Sydney which will allow long leases and pets, but remove toxic strata committees, rampant rent increases and the threat of Airbnb displacing residential renters.Ooops! In the podcast we said we were going to mention two ambushes in the Four Corners TV episode that brought Netstrata to book.  We talked about Stephen Brell but forgot to mention former Strata Commissioner John Minns.  However, we covered him in detail last week, so you're not really missing out. ____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

This week we say farewell to former Strata Commissioner John Minns who has decided to quit, despite a months-long inquiry into allegations of conflict of interest finding nothing untoward.Jimmy had a long chat with him (off air) which he relates in the podcast, covering his frustrations during his tenure and his fears for the future – not least who will take over his role.The we turn our sights on NCAT – the NSW Tribunal which seems to be doing more to undermine efforts to build confidence in strata than all the dodgy developers and suspect strata managers combined.Can we trust a body that has untrained Members making decisions about our lives when many of them clearly don't know or care about strata? Separate to the point of being in opposition to Fair Trading, the whole Tribunal system is clogged with regurgitated cases that could and should have been dealt with at the first time of asking. Justice delayed is justice denied – and that applies in strata too.And finally it's time to inject some pre-festive cheer with a story of owners who would rather share their new apartment block with low-income tenants, than live in an ivory tower.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Our deadlines meant we missed the chance to talk about the new strata laws proposed for NSW in last week's podcast but that has given us time to think about the proposals and what they mean.For instance, is compulsory training of strata committee members a good or bad thing?Will fear of having sales contracts rescinded deter developers from using embedded networks to save money and cheat their apartment buyers?Will heavy fines stop them from underestimating levies to make their apartment sales unrealistically attractive?Will coming under Australian consumer law mean the end of one-sided strata manager contracts?We can only touch on a few aspects of the proposed new laws but you can find out more about them HERE  … after you have listened to this week's podcast, of course. ____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Episode 88 - Sue Williams, Founder and CEO of Sports Hypnotherapy, advocate for holistic health solutions returns. Then David Collier, Author on ‘Ecoside', world threatening megatrends like climate change and AI joins me. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

Three big stories get most of our attention in this week's podcast.Firstly there's the publication of the new Guide to Strata Living, which earns some praise, but a few brickbats from JimmyT.  You can judge for yourself HERE, where there are also links to the actual guide for you to download.Then there's the recent attack on unfair strata management contracts by eminent construction lawyer Bronwyn Weir.  And, once you've listen to the podcast, you might want to read more about it HERE and HERE (with links to the original ABC news story).Two years ago, Jimmy wrote that apartment blocks in Victoria were rotting from the inside.  Now a report by the strata government's Cladding Safety Victoria has confirmed that half the buildings they inspected were doing exactly that. You can read about it HERE.And finally, would you leave a spare key with someone, in case of emergencies? Should it be compulsory?  That's all in the Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

We've been catching up with all the strata stories that emerged while we were away – and there's a lot of them, covering just about every aspect of apartment living.The plan to boost Sydney's night time economy with 24/7 bar openings has alarmed well-heeled resident so Circular Quay (according to this video on the Sydney Morning Herald website).And there's more angst over noisy gyms which we first highlighted in this podcast and Sue's SMH story before we left for Europe.We discuss why strata schemes are way behind free-standing homes when it comes to installing solar, prompted by this story.  Does it have something to do with embedded networks and devious developers?We look at a renewed push to wash away outdated and anti-sustainability by-laws that forbid drying laundry on balconies.And we wonder if councils could be doing more to encourage the inclusion of creative spaces in new apartment blocks, following this report.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

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Can you imagine paying $30,000 a night for a pad in London? Yes, that's thirty thousand dollars, in case you thought it was a misprint.And this is in a city that has its share of homelessness and has had to introduce a 90-night limit on short-term holiday lets to combat the drain on residential properties caused by platforms like Airbnb and their ilk.Also in Britain, a government survey has revealed how many previously unidentified apartment blocks still have potentially fatal flammable cladding, more than seven years after the Grenfell disaster.Meanwhile the contrast in Australian political approaches to the housing shortage – lack of supply or excess of demand – was brought into stark relief by the result of the US presidential election. One side said it was a failure of investment, the other that it was caused by immigrants. Spoiler alert: Donald Trump will be back in the White House until J D Vance slips an overdose of moonshine and opiates into his diet Coke then announces he was secretly a liberal all this time.Seriously though, as we discover, even a socialist republic has trouble building apartments ordinary people can afford (unless you're Aussie – then they're a bargain).This week's podcast is the last to be recorded on our travels and is a bit shorter than usual, not least because we were cramming the last of our journalistic tasks in between trying to make the most of our dwindling days in France.Next week we'll be back to whatever passes for normal in strata.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Your intrepid Flat Chat team's travels take them to London this week but that doesn't mean they have lost touch with what's happening in Australia.For a start a boost to funding for tenants' supports agencies has been announced by the NSW state government.  That will no doubt be very useful when the inevitable confusion arises from the raft of changes to tenancy laws, passed by state parliament last week, come into effect in the new year.That doesn't just help tenants. As Jimmy says, if landlords or even owners corporations want to know what renters' rights and responsibilities are, check the websites that offer advice to tenants and you'll know exactly where they are coming from.Then we have the latest apartment prices from the last quarter with Queensland outstripping Melbourne.And finally, a sad story that has a bit of everything: A pregnant mother of five falls from a tenth-storey window, a boyfriend with a criminal history, conspiracy theories on the internet and a miracle of survival.But seriously, if as Sue says, you find the story disturbing or know someone who does need advice and support, you can always call Lifeline on 131 114 or go online HERE.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

This week's podcast comes to you from less-than-sunny Glasgow, which may explain the slightly different sound quality.But the chat is up to its usual standards as we speculate on what new Building Commissioner James Sherrard will bring to the job as he fills the substantial shoes recently vacated by the redoubtable David Chandler.Then we have a look at the recent revelations about Netstrata allegedly slipping old receipts and invoices into their strata schemes' portals. This has led to some strata owners realising for the first time how much extra they have been paying for compulsory insurance, thanks to hidden brokerage fees and commissions.And we speculate on what the next strata scandal will be – the potential misuse of “full delegation” clauses in contracts, which allow strata management firms to take over the running of strata schemes with little or no consultation with their owners.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

There are so many issues it strata that are “he said, she said” - or “they said, they said”, to put it in a more contemporary context –  that the temptation to not take sides is sometimes overwhelming.But consider the plight of an owner on the first floor of a block who has a noisy commercial gym operating from 6am until after 7pm every weekday.Then add in the fact that most of her strata committee's members live several floors away from the noise are undisturbed and therefore unperturbed.And, for the cracked and uninviting icing on the strata cake, the role of chair and secretary has been taken by a strata management firm that's rapidly becoming synonymous with shady practises. Should commercial gyms ever be allowed in strata buildings? The local politicians and council officials who can't see any problem don't spend nearly enough time in gyms, or strata for that matter.Also, this week, we use the excuse that we are travelling overseas to look at how the anti-Airbnb backlash is spreading, the form it's taking and how a TV ad campaign is hitting the global holiday rental platform right where it hurts – in the big lie about “sharing”.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

There's a lot of anger and frustration behind this week's edition of the Flat Chat Wrap.The fury on display on a recent episode of A Current Affair on Nine is both clear and understandable.Prospective owners in the Sapphire apartments in Gosford on the Central Coast of NSW had been told to be ready to move in, only to discover that work has stopped on the near-complete block and there is no occupancy certificate.The developer has long ago gone into receivership and the Receiver says they don't have the finances to complete the building, which would include a slate of defect rectifications identified by the NSW Building Commission.Jimmy and Sue discuss how this mess came about and if anything can be done to remedy it.And they also have a chat about whether strata managers are entitled to be angry at Press coverage. It's never ideal when good professionals are tarred with the same brush as bad operators. But is it a case of “don't shoot the messenger”? That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Travel writer Sue Williams joined Michael to discuss underrated Capital cities across the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When it comes to getting your attention, there's nothing quite like being warned that the latest innovation could put you out of business.Okay, we've heard it all before, but imagine if a friend was able to access a reliable response to a strata question instantly, wherever you happen to be. And we're not talking technical, jargon-ridden geeky stuff. If you everyone was able to get an instant answer to a normal question, like what to do about an annoying but scary neighbour, that could put paid to Flat Chat and especially the Flat Chat Forum.That's why this week's podcast started with an experiment over a glass of red (or two) in a pizza restaurant. The results were fascinating, for good and bad reasons, so don't be put off by the fact that we're talking computer stuff.Leading on from that, we look at how spectacularly wrong an AI survey was when asked what you get for your money in real estate.And that in turn takes us to where rents are rising fasts – and not at all – across Australia.Lots to think about, as ever, in this week's Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

It's been a tough few months for strata managers, especially the good ones – and there are many of them – who have been trying to do the best they can for their customers while the industry as a whole has been exposed to strident and mostly valid criticism.The irony for the honest and decent players is that they have been copping the additional scrutiny and suspicions directed at the whole industry without reaping the financial benefits of their vertically integrated, conflicted and less scrupulous rivals.Coincidentally, we recorded this week's podcast with friend-of-the-Wrap Tim Sara, Associate Director of Strata Choice, our sponsors and one of the original strata management firms, on the morning that the NSW government announced it had passed the new laws on conflict of interest, insurance commissions and transparency in strata.Strata Choice has turned its back of vertical integration in recent years, to concentrate solely on its core business - strata management.So we had a chat about that, as well as the  the idea of split first AGMs, how to make strata communities better, and asked who would make a better strata manager – a former hotel concierge or an ex-cop?Notwithstanding some technical audio difficulties (which we hope have been cleared up by our podcast platform Buzzsprout's Magic Mastering), this message from the other side of the strata divide is well worth a listen.  Enjoy. ____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

We start this week's podcast by looking back at the previous episode which has broken all our records for regular downloads.It's not surprising really, given that it was a chat with ABC TV Four Corners investigative reporter Linton Besser about how and why he pulled together the Strata Trap report.At more than 450 downloads after only a week, this one will run and run, as they say in showbiz.This week we look at another of strata's big problems – defects – through the eyes of Acting Building Commissioner Matt Press.  What's happening with defects now that Building Commissioner David Chandler has retired?One thing that hasn't changed is the Building Commission's tendency to use initials,  acronyms and fancy techie terminology. So, just in case you are wondering, the “LDI” referred to means Latent Defects Insurance or it could be DLI (Decennial Liability Insurance).Either way, it's a 10-year insurance against defects that the better developers are able to take out. Maybe they could call it Defects Insurance. Too on the nose?Apart from that, Matt Press assures us that even though David Chandler has gone and Project Intervene has been absorbed into the Building Commission's complaints process, the good work in making sure apartment owners get what they paid for continues unabated.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap. ____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

We're rolling the Wrap out a little early this week because it's connected to the hottest topic in strata right now.Linton Besser, the reporter who brought you the Four Corners report The Strata Trap on Monday, has come on to the podcast to answer our questions about what he's found in the strata industry, not only in NSW, but across Australia. What questions? How about what piqued his interest in the story that led to the exposure of strata management firm Netstrata and the resignation of its General Manager Stephen Brell as President of Strata Community Association (SCA-NSW)?Linton admits he almost ignored the story when the first email landed in his in-tray.  But when another came in a few days later, he thought he might start digging.That led to the 7.30 report on Netstrata and that sparked a tsunami of tips and complaints that led, in turn, to the Four Corners episode.The podcast is a wide-ranging chat about the culture of the strata business  – not just in NSW – that leads to big strata management companies believing they can act with impunity while apartment owners are left “incoherent with rage”.Everyone from complacent politicians to apathetic media operators cops it in this fascinating chat, but he does think some strata managers are suffering too and believes, despite it all, that there is a solution.That's all in this week's Flat Chat Wrap.____________________________________________________Flat Chat is all about apartment living, especially in Australia.Find us on Facebook and Twitter and the Flat Chat website.Send comments and questions to mail@flatchat.com.au.Register to ask and answer questions about apartment living anonymously on the website.Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.

Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist and columnist who's written for all of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines.  Born in England, she has worked in print and TV in the UK and New Zealand, too, before settling in Australia in 1989.Sue spoke at the Kiama Readers' Festival about her latest book ‘Run for your Life' about Nick Stride and his family who were forced to flee for their lives after leaking secrets from Vladimir Putin's one-time deputy.  Nick moved to Russia in 1998 to help build the British Embassy in Moscow, but ended up on the run, hiding off grid on remote beaches on the Dampier Peninsula on the far north Kimberley coast. This session was introduced by local historian, Tony Gilmour. Recorded July 20th 2024

Nick Stride said too much about his former boss, one of Putin's closest allies. Nick Stride, a builder from the UK, feared for his family's safety after discovering alleged financial corruption while building First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov's 140-million-dollar mansion in Moscow. Worried that his every movement was being watched, he hatched a plan to get out and put as much distance as possible between his loved ones and his former boss. They chose Australia. Nick then passed the secret accounting documents he'd taken to an investigative reporter, but by the time it came to publish, Nick and his family's claim for political asylum in Australia was rejected. Seeing no way out, the family went on the run, hiding out amongst the snakes and crocodiles of the country's unforgiving Dampier peninsula, every morning expecting a truck to pull up and tear his family apart.The book about his odyssey is called Run For Your Life, by Sue Williams.Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784Presenter: Asya Fouks Producer: Edgar Maddicott

On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Dr Sue Williams about exactly what quantum counselling is. KEY TAKEAWAYS Quantum counselling is based on quantum physics & epigenetics. Epigenetics deals with how generational good & bad things from previous generations such as trauma, illness, disease, talents & abilities affects us by being imprinted into your DNA & passed down through the generations. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up when I was a kid. I was suitable for a number of different careers but none of them really attracted me, so I did office administration & technology training, as computers were just coming in. It wasn't until my mid-50s that I did mindfulness training & a lightbulb went off. I was drawn more to it as I learned more about it, so I did NLP and hypnosis & my main job now is a clinical hypnotherapist which eventually led me to quantum counselling. There's been a lot of study about how emotions are stored in different organs of the body.  You can look back through your family history for this. If you have emotions trapped in your lungs, that's to do with sorrow and grief, if you don't somehow release that it can stay in the lungs & you have lung conditions for the rest of your life. The liver hods on to anger. When you go into trance in a hypnosis session your brain is slowed down from beta waves to alpha waves, which are the ones that occur just before you go to sleep. Kids below 7-years-old are permanently in the impressionable, alpha wave state, because they need to learn so much. Because they don't have life experience they don't know what's right & wrong, so if they live in an abusive household, this could appear normal and imprint onto their mind as normal. That's how things get passed down from generation to generation. BEST MOMENTS ‘I can use my trainings on animals as well as humans because they too have different things passed down to them from generation to generation.' ‘It's a good path to follow whatever you're drawn to as a child because it will more than likely mean  you'll be really satisfied with the work that you do as you get older.' ‘It's possible to change your DNA by changing your lifestyle to how humans are supposed to live & using hypnotherapy to release trapped feelings, emotions & trauma.' ‘We're conditioned to just grab a pill rather than do some deep work on yourself, but there are other ways.' ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Sue Williams is a clinical hypnotherapist, hypnotic language master practitioner, NLP practitioner, life coach, mindfulness master practitioner, Licenced Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner and a Doctor of Quantum Counselling. LinkedIn ABOUT THE HOST Tze Ching started her entrepreneurial journey back in 2007 with the launch of a sustainable clothing & home furnishing ecommerce business. Next, she created a sustainable fashion brand. In 2019, she launched a social enterprise to help raise awareness about the negative impact of fashion at schools & colleges.  Through the 15-year journey, she learned so much, but easily the most meaningful lesson learned was about the importance of marketing. She now focuses on channelling those insights to help others succeed through We Disrupt Agency, a business coaching, mentoring & digital marketing company.  Tze Ching's mission is to create a community of global change makers and to contribute to positive change in both people & planet. CONTACT DETAILS Website Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn

Episode 67 - Sue Williams, Australian Sports Hypnosis Performance and Recovery Specialist joins with Joe Chura, Entrepreneur and Founder of non-alcoholic beer ‘Go Brewing' and supporter of disabled athletes at Achilles International. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

Episode 65 - This week's show is all hypno - Yep Hypnotherapy for the athlete. Sue Williams shares with us how the power of hypnotherapy and its advancements into the world of pro sport - Phew is mind blowing. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

Day One by Abigail Dean. Set in the Lake District of England, this is about a school shooting and its aftermath. A local school is putting on an annual performance by the older kids, designed to make the four year olds who will start school in the autumn feel comfortable and keen to begin their education – but it all goes horribly wrong, and the way it plays out afterwards is a real sign of the times. A young man with connections to the town becomes convinced that it never happened, while the daughter of one of the teachers killed in the tragedy has a version of events that seems at odds with some of the evidence. It's a sobering premise which I think is probably drawn from recent world events such as the Sandy Hook massacre in the States, after which a denier called Alex Jones claimed it was all made up and peddled gross misinformation.  Run for Your Life by Sue Williams. Nick Stride is an Englishman who moved to Russia in 1998 to work on the construction of a new British Embassy in Moscow, and then later on a palatial new home for one of Putin's sidekicks, a guy named Shuvalov. He fell afoul of them and he and his family (wife, two kids) increasingly feared for their lives and moved half way around the world to Australia where they went completely off the grid, staying on illegally after their visas expired and spending years in the remote Kimberley which must be one of the most inhospitable places on earth. They eventually decided to hand themselves in but the callous indifference of the Australian immigration authorities made reintegration to mainstream society extremely difficult. Nick and his children ended up here in New Zealand where I believe they still live, and feel it's the right time to tell their incredible story.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we'll take a look at hostage negotiations. From criminal kidnappings to political pawns, hostage taking is a tragic business that captivates news readers and fills the plots of thrillers, and - as we've seen recently - it's often a core element between nations at war. But far from the dramatic scenes played out in movies and series, what is actually happening behind the scenes? How do hostage negotiators build rapport and trust and come to agreements with kidnappers? And how are these same tactics useful in lower stakes negotiations? Recent research supports the common sense hypothesis that some people have personality traits that make them better negotiators than others. Individual differences matter. But these traits are possible to change or develop through practice. We'll hear about this research and how we can use it to improve how we perform in and feel about negotiating. We'll also hear how a hostage negotiator and former hostage used these tactics in real life. Danielle Preiss talks with three guests who are deeply familiar with hostage situations and negotiations from three different perspectives. Dr. Hillary Anger Elfenbein, is a professor at the Olin School at Washington University and researches negotiation from the level of buying a car to negotiation for release of hostages. Sue Williams is a hostage negotiator who led the Kidnap and Hostage Negotiation Units for the Metropolitan Police in London. And Thomas Olsson was held hostage by Jabhat Al-Nusra, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, for one and a half years.

In this episode I had the honor to sit down with artist Jeffrey Gibson joined by curator and co-editor of An Indigenous Present, Jenelle Porter. We were given space at SITE Santa Fe in Director Louis Grachos office to have a long and generative conversation while we celebrated the book's launch over Indian Market weekend. We talk about Jeff's practice and his journey to this moment and the Artist shares the vulnerable, complicated, difficult and joyous path of choosing to be an Artist, offering reflection from what he has learned along the way, understanding how the practice and studio has evolved in the 20 some years of being a working Artist. We then dive in with both Jeff and Jenelle to speak on Jeff's thought process behind An Indigenous Present, learning about the years of care and intention behind the project, which is, as Jeff reflects, an “Artist book about Artists”. We round out our 2 plus hour chat with the excitement and work that has come with Jeffrey being named the artist to represent the U.S. at the 60th Venice Biennale. As we end our chat, both Jeff and Jenelle share important and practical insight on how to navigate the art worlds and art markets and Jeffrey reminds us all that “Artists do have the power to set precedence in institutions”. Featured song: SMOKE RINGS SHIMMERS ENDLESS BLUR by Laura Ortman, 2023 Broken Boxes introduction song by India Sky More about the publication An Indigenous Present: https://www.artbook.com/9781636811024.html More about the Artist Jeffrey Gibson Jeffrey Gibson's work fuses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and experience of living in Europe, Asia and the USA with references that span club culture, queer theory, fashion, politics, literature and art history. The artist's multi-faceted practice incorporates painting, performance, sculpture, textiles and video, characterised by vibrant colour and pattern. Gibson was born in 1972, Colorado, USA and he currently lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. The artist combines intricate indigenous artisanal handcraft – such as beadwork, leatherwork and quilting – with narratives of contemporary resistance in protest slogans and song lyrics. This “blend of confrontation and pageantry” is reinforced by what Felicia Feaster describes as a “sense of movement and performance as if these objects ... are costumes waiting for a dancer to inhabit them.” The artist harnesses the power of such materials and techniques to activate overlooked narratives, while embracing the presence of historically marginalised identities. Gibson explains: “I am drawn to these materials because they acknowledge the global world. Historically, beads often came from Italy, the Czech Republic or Poland, and contemporary beads can also come from India, China and Japan. Jingles originated as the lids of tobacco and snuff tins, turned and used to adorn dresses, but now they are commercially made in places such as Taiwan. Metal studs also have trade references and originally may have come from the Spanish, but also have modern references to punk and DIY culture. It's a continual mash-up.” Acknowledging music as a key element in his experience of life as an artist, pop music became one of the primary points of reference in Gibson's practice: musicians became his elders and lyrics became his mantras. Recent paintings synthesise geometric patterns inspired by indigenous American artefacts with the lyrics and psychedelic palette of disco music. Solo exhibitions include ‘THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING', Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2022); ‘This Burning World', Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California (2022); ‘The Body Electric', SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2022) and Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2023); ‘INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE', deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts (2021); ‘To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth', Benenson Center, Art Omi, Ghent, New York (2021); ‘When Fire is Applied to a Stone It Cracks', Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, New York (2020); ‘The Anthropophagic Effect', New Museum, New York City, New York (2019); ‘Like a Hammer', Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin (2019); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (2019); Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi (2019); Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (2018); ‘This Is the Day', Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (2019); Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York (2018) and ‘Love Song', Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2013). For the Toronto Biennial 2022, Gibson presented an evolving installation featuring fifteen moveable stages at Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Other recent group exhibitions include ‘Dreamhome', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2022); ‘Crafting America', Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas (2021); ‘Monuments Now', Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York (2020); ‘Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (2020) and The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York (2019). Works can be found in the collections of Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, amongst others. Gibson is a recipient of numerous awards, notably a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2019), Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant (2015) and Creative Capital Award (2005). More about Curator/Writer Jenelle Porter: Jenelle Porter is a curator and writer living in Los Angeles. Current and recent exhibitions include career surveys of Barbara T. Smith (ICA LA, 2023) and Kay Sekimachi (Berkeley Art Museum, 2021); Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design (ICA/Boston, 2019); and Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting (Mike Kelley Foundation and Hauser & Wirth, New York, 2019). She is co-editor of An Indigenous Present with artist Jeffrey Gibson (fall 2023), and a Viola Frey monograph (fall 2024). From 2011 to 2015 Porter was Mannion Family Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, where she organized Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present and Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams, as well as monographic exhibitions of the work of Jeffrey Gibson, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Dianna Molzan, Christina Ramberg, Mary Reid Kelley, Arlene Shechet, and Erin Shirreff. Her exhibitions have twice been honored by the International Association of Art Critics. As Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2005–10), Porter organized Dance with Camera and Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, the first museum surveys of Trisha Donnelly and Charline von Heyl, and numerous other projects. From 1998–2001 Porter was curator at Artists Space, New York. She began her career in curatorial positions at both the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has authored books and essays including those on artists Polly Apfelbaum, Kathy Butterly, Viola Frey, Jeffrey Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Jay Heikes, Margaret Kilgallen, Liz Larner, Ruby Neri, and Matthew Ritchie, among others. An Indigenous Present: Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter

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