Season 3 Wrap Up ... Grazie from Sonia Nolan

Grazie ... thank you for your company around the warm table during another season of wonderful Western Australian guests making our communities better. 

We recap the Season 3 conversations we enjoyed around La Tavola Calda.

• Kicking Cancer with Lisa Holland
• Connection with Dan Minchin
• Illuminating Lives with Lightbulb Skills...Embracing Independence and Hope with Desley Delic and Megan Hancock
• Storytelling Resilience with Andrea Gibbs
• Fleeing Ukraine and Rebuilding a Life with Olga Hurina
• Eating Disorders and Mental Health with Nicola Cooper
• Weaving Identitites ... Multiculturalism in WA with Karla Benitez
• Breathing Life Back into Our Lands with Anthony James
• Harnessing Community and Healing Touch with Tamala Bosveld
• Thriving in Your Second Spring with Lois Keay Smith
• Good Sammy ... Empowering Disability and Sustainability with Kane Blackman

Warm thanks to:
Sponsor: Females Over Forty-five Fitness in Victoria Park
Sound Engineering: Damon Sutton
Music: William A Spence
... and all our generous and inspiring guests around the warm table this season!

Support the show

Please rate and review this podcast - it helps to share the love with others!
You can also follow My Warm Table on social media and join the conversation:
Facebook Instagram LinkedIn
Catch up on all episodes. You'll find My Warm Table on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Buzzsprout and more ...

My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And so we've come to the end of another eclectic
season of my Warm Table podcast,sharing 11 wonderful stories of
the hope which quietly thriveswithin our Western Australian
communities.
I'd like to sincerely thank allof my generous Warm Table
guests and a big thank you alsoto our Season 3 sponsor, kelly
Riley, from Females Over 45Fitness and the inspiring FOF

(00:23):
women who shared their storiesat the end of each episode about
the strengths they're findingthrough fitness and friendship
at the gym.
Thank you especially to you, mywarm table community of
listeners, for supporting thispassion podcast project.
At its very essence, thispodcast is about conversations
around a warm table ofacceptance, positivity and

(00:44):
curiosity, and I think we'vedelivered that in spades this
season.
I know you've been upliftedthis season.
You've told me and you'velearned more about everyday
people like you and I making ourcommunities kinder, safer,
smarter, more accepting andinclusive Inclusion has been a
big topic.
Megan Hancock and Desley Delickof Lightbulb Skills spoke to us

(01:07):
of their dream business,lightbulb Skills, which has
become a reality in connectingyoung adults with disability in
friendship and learning lifeskills.
Kane Blackman, chief ExecutiveOfficer of Good Sammy, also
shared his dream for people withdisability to find meaningful
employment and for a societywhich was transformed by this
possibility.

(01:28):
So much good work going on atGood Sammy.
Carla Benitez looked atinclusion through the lens of
multicultural diversity and theuntapped talent of migrants
wanting to make their new home,western Australia, an even
better, smarter, brighter placeby contributing their talents
and experiences.
Olga Hurina is one such woman,who fled Ukraine during the

(01:51):
Russian invasion and haswholeheartedly immersed herself
here by learning English,contributing to her community
and finding hope despite thedevastation of her homeland.
Breathing life into devastatedlandscapes was a conversation we
enjoyed with Anthony James,whose passion for regeneration
has seen him traverse thecountry speaking with farmers

(02:12):
around the possibility and powerof regenerative agricultural
practices.
He's seen landscapestransformed and holds great hope
for the future if we allownature to take the lead.
Getting in touch with nature wasone remedy which renowned
mental health therapist, nicolaHooper, recommended.
As we discussed eatingdisorders and the plight of

(02:33):
mental health in our community,especially among young people,
dan Minchin, ceo of Chorus,reminded us of the impact of
connection and reinventingsocial services so they can
inspire community and reduceloneliness among our senior
members of society.
Tamala Bosveld also talked ofcommunity building through her

(02:54):
involvement in creating SoulRunners, a family fun run event
gaining popularity in Perth.
Tamala is a mother marathonrunner and massage therapist who
specialises in therapeuticmassage especially for those
suffering with cancer.
Finding hope through cancer maybe a difficult quest, but our
warm table conversation with mylifelong friend, lisa Holland, a

(03:17):
three-time cancer survivor,left many of you speechless by
her bravery, honesty and herresilience many of you
speechless by her bravery,honesty and her resilience.
Lisa reinvented herself throughthis experience and has come
out filled with hope and anunstoppable zest for life.
Thriving in a second spring wasa fitting topic to explore
around the warm table, and therewas no one better than Lois K

(03:39):
Smith to walk us through thepower of reinvention and how our
life experiences can catalysecareers which can be profound
and match our passions in our50s and beyond.
Andrea Gibbs, a WA comedy actingand storytelling legend,
reminded us of the power oflaughter and the adrenaline of
bare-faced storytelling, becausein the end, it's actually

(04:03):
stories that bind us, and theyhave certainly done so in this
season of my Warm Table, withthe added benefit of inspiring
hope and amplifying the goodwhich sits at the heart of our
community.
My Warm Table is my smallcontribution to add positivity
and warmth to the medialandscape in WA.
I'm delighted to have threeseasons with more than 50

(04:25):
episodes of inspiring WesternAustralians sharing their
stories.
Please continue to tap backinto the back catalogue and
share those episodes with yourfamily and your friends Until we
meet again.
I encourage you to keep yourown tables warm, keep them
positive, accepting and keepthem curious, and thank you for

(04:45):
joining me and helping me createa true Davola Calda.