March 7, 2024 • 48 mins
South Australia is home to some remarkable women.
They’re raising foster families. Running cattle stations. Living inspirational lives. Yet, many of their tales of triumph are never profiled, never celebrated. So we’re changing that… every week.. through our Women Of Influence Podcast.
Women of Influence Podcast with Kate Meade for iHeart Radio & Australian Radio Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Kelley Noble from glam Adelaide. My business helps
you discover the hidden gems of South Australia with our
lifestyle news website featuring the best of what's going on
around usay. We showcase the best events, food, wine, tourism experiences, accommodation,
destinations and more. We pride ourselves on using our wide
reach to help champion local businesses. Keep up to date
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with glam Adelaide on our free iPhone app, website or
via our Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello. My name is Kate Mead and I am your host.
It is absolutely wonderful to be joining you again for
the first edition of the Women of Influence podcast, the
Adelaide Edition. A lot has happened since two thousand and
eighteen when this podcast first launched off after attending an
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event for the Australian Financial Review one hundred Women of Influence.
At the time of launching, I was based in Warnable
Regional Victoria with my family and three children, and a
lot has actually happened since then. I've been to Sydney
producing for Joins and Amanda at WSFM, and now in
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twenty twenty three, I find myself in Adelaide I am
the executive producer for the Ali Clark Breakfast Show. And
here's the thing. January third, I arrived in this city
and I knew not a soul. I moved into the
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suburb of Glenelg because I wanted to be near the water,
and it was literally arrive on the third and start
work on the fourth. Now I'm forty one years old,
and so I say to you, how does a woman
in her forties meet new people? And I can tell
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you now from first hand experience after doing the same
thing in Sydney and now doing it again in Adelaide,
it is hard YAKA. You need to say yes to
every single opportunity. You need to embrace new experiences, and
you need to be open to all the amazing people
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that you meet. And I can tell you now I
have met some of the most incredible people since moving here.
And one thing that I have found is that the
people of Adelaide have opened up their arms to not
only show me around, but making sure that this is
a place that I can call home. So thank you
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to everyone that has helped me kind of find my
feet in this brand new city. And you know, as
I got to meet more people I knew very very
early that we needed to do a special edition of
the Women of Influenced podcasts, because you know what it's like.
You get out there and you start meeting more and
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more people and you go, wow, she's got a story.
So over the next ten episodes, we are going to
introduce you to some of the people that I have met.
Some I know really really well. Some only have been
recommended to me, but I have then since fallen in
love with what they do and the work and their passion.
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And you know, as every other episode that has come before,
these episodes, these are women that you should know about.
So thank you in advance to everyone that has shared
a story. Thank you to those that have reached out
and said, hey kay, you've got to meet this person.
And thank you for every download, every listen and every share.
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As you know, this is a passion of mine and
I can't wait to bring you every single story. Our
first episode for the Women of Influenced Adelaide edition is
Kellie Noble, the editor and Managing director of glam Adelaide.
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Here's her story. It certainly is a love story to
South Australia. Hey, Kelly, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Thank you, Kelly.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I moved here on January three, and it will be
forever burnt into my brain because I literally landed in
glenelg Adelaide, and I knew not a soul. It was
literally no one here. And then I started work at
the radio station on January four, and I just started
running at one thousand miles an hour. And over the
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last six months there's been lots of people that I
have met and that you know, some have been absolutely wonderful,
but some have just stepped up and above and beyond
and been, you know, more than just what do we
have to do to make something work, And you have
been one of those people to me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, really, no, thank you, because I think you know
that is a similar story right for you. You've yeah,
you've been everywhere, and.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You know, yeah, so I've been a traveling nomad my
whole life. My parents, well dad was in the Air Force,
so we lived in Canada and England and South Korea
and Country Victoria and Canberra and traveled everywhere. Never knew anyone, obviously,
But when I moved to South Australia. I came here
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when I was twenty three and didn't know anyone, And yeah,
I found it really hard to figure out where to
go and what to do. And I remember being, you know,
twenty three, you want to go out and you want
to party, and this is you know, you meet people out.
And because I was working at Mitsubishi at the time
and it was a factory with three and a half
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thousand men, there was ten women and they were all
my seniors, and they didn't want to go up with me.
I was like, I make friends. So on Saturday nights,
I used to jump in in my MIT's Bishi cult
and I would drive around in the city and I
would follow groups of people, you know, like true storker,
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friendly stalker.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So what a minute would you identify these women? Like
all people? They look young and fun. Let's go see
where they're going.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They were out at ten o'clock on a Saturday night,
so like, they are going somewhere. And the thing that
was really annoying about Adelaide back then is I mean
obviously that the scene was a lot smaller, but the
cool places to go to, like the Vodka Pa didn't
have signage, and so you had to know where to go,
and if you didn't have a network, it was impossible
to find it. There was no They're like, oh, here's
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the Yellow Pages, here's the white pages. Go for your life.
So there was literally no way to find this information.
People using websites like brochures. There was no directories and
there was no way to kind of search for information.
And because we're talking two thousand and so, yeah, by
driving around three years ago, I know, don't even tell me,
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but I would drive around looking for people going, Oh,
they look like they're going out to a club. I'll
follow them and figure out where the club is. And
then I would find the lines and i'd go and
ditch my car and line up, and you know, I'd
get to the front of the line. And one of
the first places I went to was a place called
the Soda Room, and the bouncer goes to me, Oh,
you know, where are all your friends? And I said
I don't have any, and he goes, oh, I'll find
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my friend James and like he can look after you.
And he was this super super nerdy guy and he
sort of adopted me for the night and I just
followed him around and he ended up inviting me to
an Australia Day party, and yeah, I met my REMOVALSS
from me a couch and I was like, I'm going
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to a party, you want to come? And I ended
up dating that guy for five years and then I
luckily I sort of got in with his friends and
managed to form a network. But yeah, it was really
really hard back then to find anything. And that was
kind of the premise of how I started my business.
And it was never meant to be a business. It
was just a MySpace group so people could find out
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what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Can I tell you about my space? Is what I
worry about is that mine still exists out there somewhere,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I think they wiped all they did.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, well that gives me a lot, because it's some
mine would say something ridiculous like you know number three
and likes to dance and drink vodka.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think the scary thing something like you know, I
love John Fi. I don't know what, but I just
I don't know what I wrote anymore. I don't know
What's there be a promise it's gone. Look, I can't
guarantee that.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It'd be some scary photos that got uploaded.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I actually I covered the photos that would have
been on MySpace because we didn't know a lot of
digital photos back then. It was the photos that the
clubs would have taken. You know. That's one of the
ways that Glam Adelaide' sort of have got a leg
up is that I would go out and pretend to
be the photographer. Yeah, and I had my little digital
camera and I was I was putting all those photos
on the Glam Facebook page with a gigantic logo down
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the bottom. And we were the only ones doing social
photos at the time, and so everyone had a Glam
Madelaide MySpace profile picture. And because I've been working at
Mitsubishi and doing like the Internal Employee magazine, I knew
about photoshop and so I could like blur out that
shiny forehead or you know, crop out that bad pose.
(09:23):
And so people had these amazing photos because this is
well before filters, and they never they didn't realize how,
you know, they.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Go, yeah, good, that was two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
How did I look so good? I'd been dancing for hours.
So everyone had these photos. But yeah, yeah, it was
just it was it became a place for everyone to
come together. But those were the sort of photos that
were on MySpace. It was not the sort of the
personal sharing platform of Facebook is. And I remember that
transition into Facebook was so traumatic for me and maybe
(09:53):
for everyone else as well, because you got to personalize
MySpace so much. And that's how I learned how to code,
because you hack into the back of did you ever
do that? Oh my gosh, the people's profiles so you
could like steal their glittery background or their their profile song.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, no, but this is incredible. I'm still wait a minute,
so you can code now too, Well, that's how I yourself.
I had to teach the Actually, I had this conversation
with someone this week and they said to me, okay,
how did you know? For example, so we've got all
of this up in the studio today, all this you know,
the artwork, And I said, who did that for you?
And I said, well I did no, Like, are you joking?
(10:29):
You did that? And I said, well, I've had my
own business, and when you have your own business and
you have no money, you learn to find a way.
Oh yeah, So if I wanted things to look like
I wanted it to look, I just had I would
have loved at the start someone to pay and you know,
off I went type thing or someone to invest or whatever.
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, Madelaide wasn't financial for about seven years. It's just
a hobby. I did everything myself. I took the photos,
I edited the photos. I built the website. And this
was before, like before you had webs that's like WordPress.
So WordPress is brilliant because every time you put new information,
everything kind of reorganizes itself. It's searchable. Back in those days,
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it was real. I had to redesign my website every
single time I had new content. I would have to
move everything off the page and put everything new at
the top and physically create new pages and then linked
to them.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And it was really really time consuming.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm consuming and tedious, and I was working a full
time job, so I was working like an eight till
six job at Mitsubishi. And then and then I would know, well,
then I'd go out and I'd take all the social
photos because I had no money for a social life.
So I had an elaminated media pass I made myself,
and I would love this one so many of them.
I would go up to the front of the queue,
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and you know, at the clubs and whatever, I'd be like,
I'm media here's my media pass. And they're like, oh,
oh yeah, right okay, and then they're like, but where's
your big SLR camera. I say, man, this is the future.
I'd pull out my little credit card size digital camera.
You get.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's not just make it to your fake it. You've
got to have a level of confidence to be able
to go, yeah, this is this is.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
What's done now.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And I actually made my own business cards and laminated
them because at the clubs, like you hand out the
cards so people could go and find the photos, and
then half of them will put them down on the table,
spill a dream connor drop it on the floor. So
I just pick them up and wipe them off and
give them back to the next person. You had to
be thrifty. Yeah, So I ended up with this whole
(12:37):
kind of made up business that just was so I
could get into the clubs and find out the information.
Because all of a sudden, I became the central point.
Everyone was sending me the information, so I didn't have
to go out and kind of beg for it. Yeah,
and so people now kind of like, oh, wow, you know,
you know everything that's going on, and it's like that
took seventeen years. Yeah, to build that network. I've been
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begging people for information about what's going on for nearly
twenty years, and so now I know, But I certainly
don't personally experience all that stuff. And I think that's
where people get confused as well. They're like, oh, can
you tell me really good restaurant to go out to?
And I'm like, I don't have time to go to
a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Are you joking? I'm too busy leminating my own business.
You do not have to laminate your own business cards now,
but does that keep you? I mean, I know for me, Kelly,
no one really knows the struggle. They can see that
here you are and doing this amazing thing, but they
never knew the day that there was no money even
to buy enough bread.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh I had. I remember one year I put in
my tax return and it was for thirty thousand dollars.
And this was in the last ten years. And you know,
all of my peers that went through UNI at the
same time as everyone's on like one hundred and fifty
grand and they're at the sort of peak of their career.
And I was scranging by, like I'd call up my
husband and go, I need you to pay my staff.
(13:57):
I can't get to pay them. Yeah, and it was
really weak by week. And I think having kids really
threw my income off as well, because I didn't ever
take any time off with the kids, and I was
trying to run a business with babies in the office.
I mean, I was working when I was in labor
and then I was working the same day once the
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kids around because I didn't have maternity leave and I had, like,
you know, one staff member, so I had to keep going.
And I've been working seven days a week. Anyone who
knows me knows I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I do not know how you do it, but I
admire it, you know. I just think this is someone
that loves what they've done. Oh, loves what you're doing,
but also understands too that none of this was given
to you either. You know, if you suddenly stopped turning
up to events or stopped writing about it or stopped sharing,
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it could go away.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh totally, yep, because no one works as hard as
you do, you know, And I think nobody where I
sort of place myself in the businesses, I'm the one innovating,
So I'm going, Okay, what else could we do. Are
there any you know, social media platforms we're not using properly?
Or what can we do with plugins and widgets? And
how can we make our website cooler? And what can
(15:13):
we do with our app? Or what can we do
with chat pots? Or what can we do with AI?
And how can we kind of, you know, there's always
something new you've got to learn. So I'm the one
who's researching it, and at the moment, I'm kind of going, Okay,
I really want to have an entire I've built an
intranet site with every single document on every single process
in my business, and now I'm trying to pull together
(15:34):
videos because people aren't reading the documents. I'm like, okay,
so I'll change that. I'll video the whole thing so
that I can take a holiday and people have got
something to fall back onto. So there's always something more.
And that's where I'm kind of moving into the business
and doing all the I want to do more strategic stuff.
I want to do the creative stuff. I want to
do the techy, nerdy stuff, and then you know, my
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team can write and they can do all the fun
stuff and I can kind of I know, but I
would like to have more holidays.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We all would.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Because I do work all the time. Doesn't mean I
want to work all the time, but you know I'm
super productive when I do so there's always there's always
more to learn.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So when I said thank you to you, your eyes
welled up a little bit just to loop back. And
I don't know if it was about the thank you
or that you actually know how hard it is to
have to start from scratch over and over again. Can
you tell me? Because it takes such resilience. Didn't you
(16:35):
haven't just moved once, You've had to do it over
and over and over. You know, I'm finding a place
of home. I had it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's just like when you fall over and it was
like are you okay? And then you get teary again.
I don't know. I think it's a combination of all
the things. You're a bad person.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'm not about I'm not a bad path. But this
is it, Kelly. We can't be who we are and
these strong, successful women, and these are the women that
we showcase without a bit of grit there and a
bitter heartache and a bit of no one knows, No
one knows how hard this has been.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh it's hard. Yeah, like I think that. I mean,
there's always challenges, and that's the thing, Like, there's been
challenges moving, there's been challenges with the business, you know,
just even Covid. I mean, Covid was great for our
business in terms of everybody was online and everybody wanted
(17:39):
to know what was going on. But you know, we
were working till midnight every night. Yeah, and there was
no money, but there was a need. Yeah, So you know,
so we pushed through, and we pushed through, and I
suppose there is no all tiering now is because no
one ever says thank you for that. So it's nice
(18:02):
to be recognized.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, why don't you have tissues?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
What sort of studio is this? You can't go and
make people cry if you're not prepared for I will
go get the tissues.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You hold on their one second, but also lean into
it because it's I mean, how often how often in
all of this, Look, we've got the tissues coming excellent.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, thanks Maria, someone's breaking down, quick, get the tissues.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But here's the thing, so we talk about, Okay, we're
going to do the Women of Influence and I'm going
to do the Adelaide edition because I've just moved to
this city and I'm falling in love with all these people,
and you know, we need to feature these women. So
if you think about you for a second, I mean,
how often have you get a chance to sit down
(18:58):
and say I arrived in Adelaide as a twenty three
year old and I knew nobody, and I was stalking
cars and laminating business cards and there was no money
and I had to keep building. And I, you know,
pausing for a second, just coming far out, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I mean with me because it's been a thousand kilometers
an hour for so long, I think momentums all I've got.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, so you know it's.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I need to keep the speed, but stop all over
because I don't know. I think it's I'm actually really lucky.
I've got a really great team around me at the moment,
and you know, everyone's working really hard, so I can't
take a bit of a breather. But it's been it's
been a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, yeah, and that's the I'm just like you love it. Yeah,
that's it. Passion and drive. I mean that you can't
it can't be replaced, right, So and if that's not
driving you, then money the money's secondary, you know, if
you weren't loving every second. But and I mean, yeah,
(20:15):
you talk about the team, and you talk about where
you're at now and where you'd like it to get.
But having a break, I mean, how do you how
do you even tell a woman, oh, yeah, maybe you
just need to pause for a minute. You know, you've
got children, and there's a husband, and there's you know,
like I don't think sometimes people actually get it. No. No,
when you were running a business, there is no stop.
(20:37):
Even if you go to Bali for a week. I
am sorry that email is still on. You cannot go.
I'm just not going to look at.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It that Today. It was funny Nadia from my TV yesterday,
She's like, oh, have you been in to the Cave
restaurant in Bali. I was like, yeah, I went there
for my birthday. So I sat down and made her
a video and I said to three to I was like,
here you go, this is what you can expect. Like
it's just it's all. It's part of what I do now.
But I think the funny thing is I hated English
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at school. Hated it, like that was my worst subject.
I was into maths and science. I was going to
be a chemical engineer.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh my lordie okay, yeah, yeah, okay, And then Sex
and the City came out. Oh my gosh, yes, change
it all our lives.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I was like, I need to party for a living.
Is this is way more fun? Applied to go to
the school of art and do glass blowing because I
was dating an artist.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Were you being rebellious and or you were? No, obviously
going to be an artist.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I'm quite a good artist. Was I haven't done it
for a long time, but I love being creative, and
so I was, you know, I got a's in art
at school. So I was like, I'm going to be
an artist like my boyfriend. And then I was like,
I can't really get my head around being a starving
artist because everyone was so talented. So I thought, what
can I do that's creative and we'll get me in
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a like I can earn a living. Wanted did pr
because that's what Samantha dear Jones? Seriously, why would you
do anything else?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And that said, have you watched any of the new
episode the new series Glammer?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh not Glamorous? No, I don't know the are.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You going to say? And just like that, yeah, I
can't deal with that. Oh I can. But I think
that's the summersacker for the fashion and the you know,
the romance of it. I put all the other stuff aside.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
No, I haven't watched the new one. Is it good?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
No? But Samantha Jones is an icon. Yeah, her character,
you know absolutely, well, so you wanted to be Samantha.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah. So I went to UNI to do pr and
I discovered it wasn't parties. It was three years of writing,
and I was like, but I hate writing, and you know,
it took me a long time to get into the
swing of it. And I think it's because I changed
from writing essays and writing formal media releases and writing
things that were really serious into the glam Adelaide stuff,
(22:57):
which is, you know, I'm writing like I'm telling you
about something cool that's happening. Yeah, And it's a lot
more conversational and it's a lot more kind of and
that wasn't something that was done back then. I feel
like I'm talking about something one hundred years ago. But
people didn't blog. No, they didn't write casually like you
weren't wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It was a style. Yeah, you weld.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Train at university. I think you still are actually, you know,
to write for something that would be good for the
Australian or the Financial Review, or to write an annual
report for a law firm. Casual writing was never a
thing that was sought after or certainly taught. And even
now it's really interesting trying to find staff because I
want someone who can write like that, and I want
(23:42):
that casual tone. And so people that come out of
university we kind of have to smack it out of them.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, And it's great.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That they can follow a process, which is important in
a business, but we're like, we needed to have a
bit more fun. So I find that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I write like you're talking like here.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah. So I don't necessarily hire from universities anymore. I
get a lot of great interns through and they, you know,
if they're any good, they get off at work. But
I'm kind of opening it up to everyone now and
just going, well, if you can write, I want to
hear from you. Yeah, And there's so much to write
about and that's what I love like. And this is
the thing about South Australia. When I moved here, it
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was like quick run, get out, don't be here.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And why was that? Why do you think that is,
and because so, if I'm honest, I said yes to
this job twenty four hours after being here. I just
was like, let's do it. Yes to adventures, yes to fun,
Yes to a life well lived. I'll never know unless
I go yeah. But I had people absolutely say to me,
(24:48):
you've been in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And then it was how's it going? And I'd say great,
and they'd go, no, really, how's it going? You look
fine to you?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Brother, Oh my god, okay, I.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Why is it? Why is that? Why do people go? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Look? I mean circa two thousand, the scene was different.
We didn't have the lane Way scene here. You had
one big club, which was Heaven. It still exists, no,
oh okay, oh they kind of there's different iterations, but
they moved it from the corner where the Royal Adelaide
Hospital is. That old pub that's there, right on the
very corner. That's where I used to fly to Adelaide
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to see Ministry of Sound DJ's perform there. I was like,
this is so cool because I was living in Canberra
and we didn't have that. But I was in the
process of moving to Sydney when I discovered Adelaide and
I was like, oh my god, I can live on
the beach.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So in a minute you discovered it, Like how do
you discover How did you discover Adelaide? Was there someone? No,
there wasn't anybody here.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
No, No, there was no. The short version of the
story is my dad is from South Australia.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yes, then he traveled.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, so he left their peninsula, you know, when he
was twenty or whatever, got a scholarship when and joined
the Air Force, went to Canada, met my mum and
we never went back. So we never lived in South Australia.
If we went to visit my grandparents, we'd bypass Adelaide
and kind of go around and then go over to
their peninsula. So I didn't know anything about Adelaide. All
I knew about Adelaide was that it was terrible according
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to everyone in Canberra, and because you know, in the
pecking order, there's always got to be someone worse than you,
and I think Adelaide and Camber and Hobart all battled
it out at some point and everyone shit on each
other and there was just you know, no one would take,
no one go. Yeah, we're actually the worst city everyone's like,
oh no, we're actually way better than Hope. But now
all three cities have like come of age and they're
(26:42):
all amazing. But yeah, certainly, twenty odd years ago, Adelaide
was seen as a terrible place to be by people
that weren't in Adelaide. And then the young people in
Adelaide were, you know, they had lights in their eyes
and wanting to go to ce know, Sydney, Melbourne, cause
those were the cool places. But my tragedy actually brought
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us here. My dad's little sister and her husband were
killed in a plane crash. So here this is because
you maybe cry before. I'm just teary, that's all right. Yeah,
So mum and dad moved here because my three cousins
were orphaned. And then I came here on holidays and
I was just like, oh yeah, I'll just come and
visit the family. See mom and dads here, my cousins,
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and just went, oh my god, Adelaide. Yeah, and you know,
Mum and dad had been put into not temporary housing,
but sort of emergency housing, I guess for sudden postings,
and they sort of put you in these places. And
so they've gone from this massive house in Canberra, and
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they've been put into this tiny little unit that was
right on the water in North Haven. And I'd always
said to people, I never want to be like my parents,
because they earn all this money and we go, they
save up and we're gone this one big holiday year.
We'd always go some more amazing for two weeks, We've
got a Thailand or Bali or whatever. But then for
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the rest of the year they worked like dogs, and
they would do flex time and they would start at
seven thirty in the morning. They'd worked till six. They'd
spend the entire weekend gardening, cleaning the house, grocery shopping.
They never had anyone over because the house was never
clean enough, even though they had this big house. And
I said, I never want to be like that. I'd
rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable. And
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when they moved to South Australia was I got put
in this little unit and my sister and I were
at Uni and Canberra. There's no one to look after,
there was no garden, there was no cleaning, say at
the time of their lives, yeah and yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
But they got their life back, yeah, And I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Think they realized it was missing. But obviously through the tragedy,
you know, everyone kind of reassesses their life. You know,
they quit smoking all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, but they.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Were going to the yacht club, having wines, you know,
going to the markets, and they just started living. So
but when I came here, you know, they were in
a house and I was having a coffee in the
front garden, which was like a I don't know, a
one meter buy one meter court. Yeah, and there were
dolphins in front of me, and I was like, this
place is amazing. I didn't even realize the Adelaide was
(29:22):
on the water, Like this is how little I knew
about Adelaide. Yeah. I was like, oh my god. And
then I could afford to buy a house here, yeah,
you know, and I it was surrounded by wineries and
they had Ministry.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Of Sound teacher.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well, I mean, what else do I need set up? Yeah,
so I sort of went back.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
The narrative is so different now, though, isn't it. I mean,
I just in terms of I'm here, So I'm here
having this experience that you're almost describing, which is what
is not to love? Except maybe I've put on about
seven kilos and so I've got here because the food
and the wine is some of the best food and
wine that I've had in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, it's it's really outstanding. And I think one thing
that's just beautiful to watch is sort of the blossoming
of the city that's happened over the last twenty years.
And I've had front row seats because everything that launches,
you know, we get told about and we get to experience,
and it's been a really I'm like, I'm very proud
of the city. Like you know what, how you know,
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people have embraced the change as well, and the people
there's been a massive culture shift and all the people
that were like get out while you can, and now,
you know, the people that are going this is amazing.
Or I had to travel to realize what I was missing,
and I've come back and it's a really you know,
it's it's vibrant, and people are stepping up and they're
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you know, the stuff that you used to have at
a fancy restaurant is now pub food and just everything
has kind of gone to that next level. And they're
you know, embracing the fact that we've got people traveling here,
so they you know, the locals want to show off,
and so they they're making their venue better and their
accommodation better and the festival is better and.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh everything is on steroids almost here. Yeah, it is
just spectacular.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I think, like like I said before, Adelaide's coming of age,
it's now as it's peak time, you know, like it's.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Finally think two in terms of narrative. So I'm meeting
more and more people that will say to me, so
they're Adelaide or South Australian born and bred, and they
will say they were dead serious, why would you want
to live anywhere else?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And I look at them and I think, I get that.
I can see it. I can see why you're embracing this.
I see opportunity in business and work and education. I
think that there's nothing that you can't achieve here on
then might start in Adelaide but turn into national or
global opportunity.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I just think.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
But even like through COVID, it's shifted the way businesses
operate and stuff that wasn't accepted before is now totally
not like normal. So you know, you've got all these
major businesses setting up head offices here because people can
work remotely, you know, You've got people like kaylor At
Sinners who could live anywhere in the world. She can
(32:16):
live here and run her business from here and get
all the best people in the entire world working for her,
but she's based out of Adelaide. Yeah, you know, and
people who were living and you know, working in Melbourne
or Sydney, they came home over COVID and they're allowed
to work remotely. So they're like, why would I go
back because I get such a better quality of life
(32:38):
and I can buy, you know, or rent a better
place here. But I mean, that's the that's a whole
nother story, the whole bloody housing crisis, but whole.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's a whole nother podcast. But I'm not equipped for.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
But everyone's jumping in and going, Okay, well, how do
we solve that? You know, we'll just build more apartments.
And everyone's kind of really stepping up because they understand
that people want to come here, and it's just it's
great and I'm you know, I'm really excited about the
fact that my kids are growing up here. This is
their hometown.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And does that mean something to you too, in terms
of do you have a hometown?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
What's got to be Adelaide.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Now, yeah, I mean did you have a hometown? No? Yeah,
I never did, And so is that important now for
your kids to have a hometown or it's just played
out line.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I love the fact that they do and that they've
got a base and they can always come back to
a base because I didn't have that. I do want
them to travel more because I do see like a
huge disparity between people who have traveled and those who
have not.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It's just good for everyone, isn't it Just to experience.
You don't have to do the high life. It's just
seeing how other people live and work and experience.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Are But it's just, yeah, it's understanding that, you know,
we've got it really good here and you know we
are very privileged in every way, shape and form.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
So I want my kids to, you know, go and
help build an orphanage in Fiji while we stay in
a five star resort, you know, so they can they
can go and see that they're the lucky ones and
they can appreciate what they've got more because they are
growing up spoil. You know, they've got money. They're a
private school. I can't do anything else other than pay
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those bills. We're not zuper flash, but like I'm choosing
to give them those opportunities, but I want them to
have some perspective, you know. I want them to get
out and meet other cultures and eat different food and
you know, sea poverty and want to help those people,
and I want I want them to have a bit
of just experience in other cultures and things, because I
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got a lot of that growing up in Korea. We
you know, we saw all the rice riots and we
were tear gassed at school, and we saw North Korea
and the soldiers and the bar by fences and we
had to learn about their history and you know, that's
all fascinating stuff and it builds you as a person
(35:08):
and to go I've only ever been in Adelaide. You know,
that's it's not enough. I think people need to try
and branch out. But I meet people that haven't even
gone to other towns. Yeah, and you're just like, what,
you know, at least get out and explore South Australia
if you don't want to go into Stata overseas. But
I think people just need to have experiences. And it's
really easy now with your phone to sit at home
(35:31):
and to kind of go, oh, I know about stuff,
but I think you have to experience stuff. And that's again,
that's kind of my passion, and that's what glame Adelaide
is is. It's giving people reasons to leave their bloody
lound ram. It's like, get out and eat new food
and meet new people and explore. Go and yeah, go
and do stuff. Yeah, go for a hike.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I mean, I'm not sure how often your story has
been told, Kelly, and how many times on different in
different forums, and we've only really just scratch the surface.
But I think this paints that picture of why glemal
Delady is what it is. It's this this product of
you and this moving around and seeing the world and
(36:11):
then wanting to connect. Yep, so you are a master
connector of people.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think that's my husband's specialty. I think what I
what I think I'm good at is finding things that
people don't know about and kind of serving it up
to them because everyone's busy. I'm busy. Everyone's busy. They
don't have time to go researching things. And so when
I come across stuff and go, oh, these guys have
a great story like you do. But you know, this
(36:39):
is a really cool little you know, suburban hidden jam,
or there's some you know, there's a Brazilian festival this weekend.
Who knew about that? You know? So going these people
are all doing really cool things that everyone's rubbish at
telling people about those things. Yeah, and it's helping these
small businesses go. All right, well, let me let me
put it in front of our audience and let me
try and bring some people to you. And it is about,
(37:02):
I suppose, connecting people, but it's also just that information
because we're so overloaded with information, and it's like, let
me find things that I think you'll like and I'll
kind of dish it up to you. So glam Adelaide's
almost my personal love letter to South Australia.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Ah, now there's the title for the podcast. That's the
title of the podcast right there. I wait for it
in every episode.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Nowaday, I was looking at your other ones. I was like, God,
do I even have a subject?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Glam Adelaide is my love letter to South Australia.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It is. It's all my favorite stuff. It's all the
stuff that I think is really great and interesting, and
it's like, you know what, And that's why I think
it's slightly hard for me to go, Oh, I find
somebody else to be an editor, and I can go
and be the strategic person or whatever, because I'm like,
I've got so much history now doing this that I
can tell you about everything that's been happening for the
(37:53):
last twenty years. And so when something pops up, I go, oh, well,
you know, like let's talk about ice skating in winter.
Oh well, there's three or four festivals that are doing it.
Go check glenel Go check Port Adelaide. No one's doing
it this year. I don't know if insurance has changed.
It's devastating.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
This is new to me. I thought there was going
to be isolating down at Glenelk, and I've been secretly
quite anxious about it because I've only done it once
and it didn't end well. Did not end well. But
here I am and I say yes to everything, so okay,
well that's good. I don't have to worry about it
or you're like, no, no, no, this is what's happening.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah. But and also knowing what people are interested in going.
I've written about this many times over the years, and
I know that people get really really excited for the
winter festivals and the mold wine and like, and I
tell my staff and they're like, yeah, I don't know,
I don't really care, and it's like no, no, trust me.
People people want to do this. Yeah, they want to
go stand by fire pits and drink old wine and
they want to listen to bands and they're happy to
(38:47):
be outside, like they'll just rug up. But to my
you know, my younger stuff who've never done that before,
it's like Fringe Festival. A lot of them have never
been to Fringe Festival and I have to initiate them
with the world. I'm like, cool, love it.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
So and you know, in the spirit of this is
the Adelaide edition and getting to know Adelaide women and
South Australian women and what's going on. I experienced my
first Fringe Festival this year and I know that we
all hate people from Victoria. I know this, It's okay,
But I'm the Victorian with the dance background. And I
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always thought that Melbourne was the mecca for the arts.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I have been here for six months and after seeing
Fringe and the art galleries and how children here are
brought up with an appreciation, YEP, I think South Australia
might be the mecca for the arts. Now I'm gonna
watch out. Some one's going to jump out. But you
(39:55):
know what an experience this is that I'm having. You know,
slam Adelaid plays a huge role in this, because this
is how do I find it? I've just moved here.
I found a great I should give say who they
are her town. I think the first time I met
you it was the silliest thing to say, but I said,
oh my gosh, oh you're glam Adealette. You do glen and Adeline. Okay,
(40:16):
well I found my hairdresser who does the best blow
waves her town down in glen olg Oh my gosh, amazing.
I found it by typing in hairdressers in the search
on glam Adelaine.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Do you know what I only discovered that you can find?
And this is you know, this makes me laugh because
I feel like I'm so tech. But there's actually like
a whole search section on Google for your website, so
you can see how many times you've shown up in
search results. Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing.
And so I've tapped into this dashboard in the last week.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Actually, I think I've seen this. Tell us those numbers. Yea,
this is insane.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
So yeah, So this month we've had twelve million results
from people searching for content and we've been served up
to them. And it's because we've got forty five thousand
articles on our website. Like we're an encyclopedia for South
Australia because we've been doing it for so long. But
like I only know, I track everything my website hits,
which you know, I think those numbers are pretty cool.
(41:16):
But when you look at how many people just keep
like glam just keeps appearing in all their search results,
I'm like, God's that's actually a really big number.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Oh are you joking? There's twenty six million people in Australia.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yeah, who are all buying Taylor Swift tickets?
Speaker 2 (41:31):
This is insane. By the time this podcast drops, there
will still be people crying but they didn't get to
go to see Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
We're like, okay, so we're going to have to do
a guy, was your office shut down?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Oh yeah no, no, we did a TikTok about it,
every single person in our office and I went and
got my husband's team for his business as well. All
of us were on did anyone get ticket? No, twelve hours,
Oh my gosh. We all logged on at nine. Yeah,
and we were still on there probably about ten o'clock
(42:04):
last night, just in case because they never announced the
end of the VIP tickets, so like, oh, maybe there's
still a few there, so we were just clocking it over.
I did so little work yesterday. It's got to go
down in history is the least productive day in Australian business. Everyone,
even if they didn't like Taylor Swift, they were doing
it for someone else. Yeah, that was a community. We
all came together.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
And now there is a sense of mourning for everyone
else that has missed out.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Absolutely, But you know, first we had the bushfires, then COVID,
now Taylor Swift not giving us tickets.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
It's so in your love letter to South Australia, Yes,
what is the one thing as someone that has maybe
just coming to visit South Australia, they can only do
one thing? I know, what is the one thing that
sums up the heart of essay to you?
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I would say that's a really hard one. I think
if you've got to go and have a dining experience,
but you've got the markets, I mean that's that's definitely
something that visitors are drawn to and talk about a lot.
So maybe it's the markets. The Adelaide Central markets are
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just a I think they're the biggest markets in the
Southern Hemisphere. There is everything you could ever imagine, and
they've only just started stepping up. I went to the
markets in Rome a few years ago and it was wonderful,
Like it was just an experience for the senses. And
I feel like we're kind of getting that vibe because
not only do we have all the market stands and
all of the producers and all of the incredible foods,
(43:43):
but we're starting to get those like those little sexy
wine bars in the markets as well. You know, I've
always had little food stalls and sandwich bars and things,
but we're starting to get like, here's the paler and
here's the you know, here's the oyster bar, and here's
where you can have some wines, or over here you
can taste all the juice from Kangar Island and there's
like so you can kind of make a day of it.
(44:04):
You can kind of just eat your way around the
markets as well as.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Doing some shit. And this is what I mean about. Yeah,
I keep saying it's great. It's this why I'm a
little cuddlier in well.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
I mean, try working for my team. I mean you'd
probably get this as well with your job. But we
get food delivered to the office every day from people
trying to pitch stories, and it's not.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
As much as I would like. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Here's a tray of donuts, you know, like every time
Krispy Kreme come out with a new flavor, we have
a tray. Ye oh my god. But you know, we've
got all the Hague stuff and Lamington's and a lot
of baked goods. But we get a lot of gin
as well. But there's a lot of over indulgence, I think.
So it's good that my team lucky though.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
I've just found Mount Lofty.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Oh god, that's iconic. Yeah, you've got to do that.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah. I've been trying to do it twice a week
because it's killing me. It's so hard. I feel like
every glass of wine and every mouthful of food that's
going up on me.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Up I go, You're just going straight up. It's quite
the challenge. But I mean, you've got the waterfall with
all this winter weather, that's that's worth looking at. But yeah,
I know there's there's a.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Lot of markets, so your mar markets.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Would be the number one or you know, or go
and find we've got one of the number one restaurants
in the world at the moment, in the world in
the world. Heard it here first in Australia, a restaurant Botanic.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh no, no, do not know, No, I do not
down there.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
So this is this has always been a really interesting one.
I went to this place for my wedding lunch after
I had a ceremony in the Botanic Gardens. It's this
restaurant in the heart of the Botanic Gardens. It is
impossible to get to, right, It's just this really like
weird little oasis.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Crazy question. Yeah, I'm having Melanie Flintoff on the podcast. Yes,
she has a dress and it has a building in
it that is the Botanical Garden. That's not it or
that's no, that's like a glass atrium. Thank you for teaching,
which is a teaching which is.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
One of the only ones in the world and it
is stunning. And that's where Michael Boublay had his photo
last week just in case. Okay, oh, another thing, but
this restaurant is like this little oasis since you've got
to follow a path and hopefully you find it. And
it's always been beautiful. It's always been high in dining.
It's always been degastations, but it's been kind of you know,
(46:16):
lots of old people and never busy, and it's always
been this kind of crying shame because it was so
beautiful in such a beautiful location, great food, but it's
just a bit hard to get to. Anyway. They then
got this you know, world class chef on board, remodeled
the restaurant, made it super cool. Now you know, if
we went out for dinner cost to seven hundred bucks.
(46:39):
But it is, it's been rated as I think it's Yeah,
it's the best. I think it got the best was
a Gourmet Traveler or something named at number one restaurant
in Australia this year and they're booked out for the
next six months or so. But like, we've got incredible experiences.
Or go out to McLaren Vale, go to Maxwell's and
there's a maze and I've got a mushroom cave and
(47:01):
world class mine.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Like there's I've been to Mclaravel. But I try to
just pick a different winery every time I go. That's
kind of my strategy.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Once I'm.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Hey, Kelly, we could talk all day, and you know,
I have a EP that works on this show that
will say, kay, you're not allowed to. I love the
idea that this is your love letter to South Australia
as someone that has been literally around the world and
chooses to be here and raise her family and is
so proud and has been so successful. And I do
(47:34):
think even though you say you know your husband is
the connector of people, you have that beautiful ability to
hear someone's story and then say, oh, well, then you
need to meet this person and bring people together. That
is absolutely one of your superpowers. That's something I'm very
grateful for, you know, meeting you and things like that.
But I don't know, it's just wonderful to sit down
(47:56):
with you like this because normally we're running around from
one place to the next. Come into the station and
do this, and it's an honor just to feature your story.
I guess thank you.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I'm just glad that you chose South Australia.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
Yeah, bring it on, absolutely, bring it on. We'll check
back in. There's more to your story though, I think
we have to come back. There's so much that we
didn't touch to be like, I don't want to do
it together. It's going to make me cry.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I'll better make up next take it on
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello. My name is Kate Mead and I am your host.
It is absolutely wonderful to be joining you again for
the first edition of the Women of Influence podcast, the
Adelaide Edition. A lot has happened since two thousand and
eighteen when this podcast first launched off after attending an
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event for the Australian Financial Review one hundred Women of Influence.
At the time of launching, I was based in Warnable
Regional Victoria with my family and three children, and a
lot has actually happened since then. I've been to Sydney
producing for Joins and Amanda at WSFM, and now in
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twenty twenty three, I find myself in Adelaide I am
the executive producer for the Ali Clark Breakfast Show. And
here's the thing. January third, I arrived in this city
and I knew not a soul. I moved into the
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suburb of Glenelg because I wanted to be near the water,
and it was literally arrive on the third and start
work on the fourth. Now I'm forty one years old,
and so I say to you, how does a woman
in her forties meet new people? And I can tell
(01:54):
you now from first hand experience after doing the same
thing in Sydney and now doing it again in Adelaide,
it is hard YAKA. You need to say yes to
every single opportunity. You need to embrace new experiences, and
you need to be open to all the amazing people
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that you meet. And I can tell you now I
have met some of the most incredible people since moving here.
And one thing that I have found is that the
people of Adelaide have opened up their arms to not
only show me around, but making sure that this is
a place that I can call home. So thank you
(02:37):
to everyone that has helped me kind of find my
feet in this brand new city. And you know, as
I got to meet more people I knew very very
early that we needed to do a special edition of
the Women of Influenced podcasts, because you know what it's like.
You get out there and you start meeting more and
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more people and you go, wow, she's got a story.
So over the next ten episodes, we are going to
introduce you to some of the people that I have met.
Some I know really really well. Some only have been
recommended to me, but I have then since fallen in
love with what they do and the work and their passion.
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And you know, as every other episode that has come before,
these episodes, these are women that you should know about.
So thank you in advance to everyone that has shared
a story. Thank you to those that have reached out
and said, hey kay, you've got to meet this person.
And thank you for every download, every listen and every share.
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As you know, this is a passion of mine and
I can't wait to bring you every single story. Our
first episode for the Women of Influenced Adelaide edition is
Kellie Noble, the editor and Managing director of glam Adelaide.
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Here's her story. It certainly is a love story to
South Australia. Hey, Kelly, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Thank you, Kelly.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I moved here on January three, and it will be
forever burnt into my brain because I literally landed in
glenelg Adelaide, and I knew not a soul. It was
literally no one here. And then I started work at
the radio station on January four, and I just started
running at one thousand miles an hour. And over the
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last six months there's been lots of people that I
have met and that you know, some have been absolutely wonderful,
but some have just stepped up and above and beyond
and been, you know, more than just what do we
have to do to make something work, And you have
been one of those people to me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, really, no, thank you, because I think you know
that is a similar story right for you. You've yeah,
you've been everywhere, and.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You know, yeah, so I've been a traveling nomad my
whole life. My parents, well dad was in the Air Force,
so we lived in Canada and England and South Korea
and Country Victoria and Canberra and traveled everywhere. Never knew anyone, obviously,
But when I moved to South Australia. I came here
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when I was twenty three and didn't know anyone, And yeah,
I found it really hard to figure out where to
go and what to do. And I remember being, you know,
twenty three, you want to go out and you want
to party, and this is you know, you meet people out.
And because I was working at Mitsubishi at the time
and it was a factory with three and a half
(05:47):
thousand men, there was ten women and they were all
my seniors, and they didn't want to go up with me.
I was like, I make friends. So on Saturday nights,
I used to jump in in my MIT's Bishi cult
and I would drive around in the city and I
would follow groups of people, you know, like true storker,
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friendly stalker.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So what a minute would you identify these women? Like
all people? They look young and fun. Let's go see
where they're going.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They were out at ten o'clock on a Saturday night,
so like, they are going somewhere. And the thing that
was really annoying about Adelaide back then is I mean
obviously that the scene was a lot smaller, but the
cool places to go to, like the Vodka Pa didn't
have signage, and so you had to know where to go,
and if you didn't have a network, it was impossible
to find it. There was no They're like, oh, here's
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the Yellow Pages, here's the white pages. Go for your life.
So there was literally no way to find this information.
People using websites like brochures. There was no directories and
there was no way to kind of search for information.
And because we're talking two thousand and so, yeah, by
driving around three years ago, I know, don't even tell me,
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but I would drive around looking for people going, Oh,
they look like they're going out to a club. I'll
follow them and figure out where the club is. And
then I would find the lines and i'd go and
ditch my car and line up, and you know, I'd
get to the front of the line. And one of
the first places I went to was a place called
the Soda Room, and the bouncer goes to me, Oh,
you know, where are all your friends? And I said
I don't have any, and he goes, oh, I'll find
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my friend James and like he can look after you.
And he was this super super nerdy guy and he
sort of adopted me for the night and I just
followed him around and he ended up inviting me to
an Australia Day party, and yeah, I met my REMOVALSS
from me a couch and I was like, I'm going
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to a party, you want to come? And I ended
up dating that guy for five years and then I
luckily I sort of got in with his friends and
managed to form a network. But yeah, it was really
really hard back then to find anything. And that was
kind of the premise of how I started my business.
And it was never meant to be a business. It
was just a MySpace group so people could find out
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what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Can I tell you about my space? Is what I
worry about is that mine still exists out there somewhere,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I think they wiped all they did.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, well that gives me a lot, because it's some
mine would say something ridiculous like you know number three
and likes to dance and drink vodka.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think the scary thing something like you know, I
love John Fi. I don't know what, but I just
I don't know what I wrote anymore. I don't know
What's there be a promise it's gone. Look, I can't
guarantee that.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It'd be some scary photos that got uploaded.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I actually I covered the photos that would have
been on MySpace because we didn't know a lot of
digital photos back then. It was the photos that the
clubs would have taken. You know. That's one of the
ways that Glam Adelaide' sort of have got a leg
up is that I would go out and pretend to
be the photographer. Yeah, and I had my little digital
camera and I was I was putting all those photos
on the Glam Facebook page with a gigantic logo down
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the bottom. And we were the only ones doing social
photos at the time, and so everyone had a Glam
Madelaide MySpace profile picture. And because I've been working at
Mitsubishi and doing like the Internal Employee magazine, I knew
about photoshop and so I could like blur out that
shiny forehead or you know, crop out that bad pose.
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And so people had these amazing photos because this is
well before filters, and they never they didn't realize how,
you know, they.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Go, yeah, good, that was two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
How did I look so good? I'd been dancing for hours.
So everyone had these photos. But yeah, yeah, it was
just it was it became a place for everyone to
come together. But those were the sort of photos that
were on MySpace. It was not the sort of the
personal sharing platform of Facebook is. And I remember that
transition into Facebook was so traumatic for me and maybe
(09:53):
for everyone else as well, because you got to personalize
MySpace so much. And that's how I learned how to code,
because you hack into the back of did you ever
do that? Oh my gosh, the people's profiles so you
could like steal their glittery background or their their profile song.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, no, but this is incredible. I'm still wait a minute,
so you can code now too, Well, that's how I yourself.
I had to teach the Actually, I had this conversation
with someone this week and they said to me, okay,
how did you know? For example, so we've got all
of this up in the studio today, all this you know,
the artwork, And I said, who did that for you?
And I said, well I did no, Like, are you joking?
(10:29):
You did that? And I said, well, I've had my
own business, and when you have your own business and
you have no money, you learn to find a way.
Oh yeah, So if I wanted things to look like
I wanted it to look, I just had I would
have loved at the start someone to pay and you know,
off I went type thing or someone to invest or whatever.
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, Madelaide wasn't financial for about seven years. It's just
a hobby. I did everything myself. I took the photos,
I edited the photos. I built the website. And this
was before, like before you had webs that's like WordPress.
So WordPress is brilliant because every time you put new information,
everything kind of reorganizes itself. It's searchable. Back in those days,
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it was real. I had to redesign my website every
single time I had new content. I would have to
move everything off the page and put everything new at
the top and physically create new pages and then linked
to them.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And it was really really time consuming.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm consuming and tedious, and I was working a full
time job, so I was working like an eight till
six job at Mitsubishi. And then and then I would know, well,
then I'd go out and I'd take all the social
photos because I had no money for a social life.
So I had an elaminated media pass I made myself,
and I would love this one so many of them.
I would go up to the front of the queue,
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and you know, at the clubs and whatever, I'd be like,
I'm media here's my media pass. And they're like, oh,
oh yeah, right okay, and then they're like, but where's
your big SLR camera. I say, man, this is the future.
I'd pull out my little credit card size digital camera.
You get.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's not just make it to your fake it. You've
got to have a level of confidence to be able
to go, yeah, this is this is.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
What's done now.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And I actually made my own business cards and laminated
them because at the clubs, like you hand out the
cards so people could go and find the photos, and
then half of them will put them down on the table,
spill a dream connor drop it on the floor. So
I just pick them up and wipe them off and
give them back to the next person. You had to
be thrifty. Yeah, So I ended up with this whole
(12:37):
kind of made up business that just was so I
could get into the clubs and find out the information.
Because all of a sudden, I became the central point.
Everyone was sending me the information, so I didn't have
to go out and kind of beg for it. Yeah,
and so people now kind of like, oh, wow, you know,
you know everything that's going on, and it's like that
took seventeen years. Yeah, to build that network. I've been
(12:58):
begging people for information about what's going on for nearly
twenty years, and so now I know, But I certainly
don't personally experience all that stuff. And I think that's
where people get confused as well. They're like, oh, can
you tell me really good restaurant to go out to?
And I'm like, I don't have time to go to
a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Are you joking? I'm too busy leminating my own business.
You do not have to laminate your own business cards now,
but does that keep you? I mean, I know for me, Kelly,
no one really knows the struggle. They can see that
here you are and doing this amazing thing, but they
never knew the day that there was no money even
to buy enough bread.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh I had. I remember one year I put in
my tax return and it was for thirty thousand dollars.
And this was in the last ten years. And you know,
all of my peers that went through UNI at the
same time as everyone's on like one hundred and fifty
grand and they're at the sort of peak of their career.
And I was scranging by, like I'd call up my
husband and go, I need you to pay my staff.
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I can't get to pay them. Yeah, and it was
really weak by week. And I think having kids really
threw my income off as well, because I didn't ever
take any time off with the kids, and I was
trying to run a business with babies in the office.
I mean, I was working when I was in labor
and then I was working the same day once the
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kids around because I didn't have maternity leave and I had, like,
you know, one staff member, so I had to keep going.
And I've been working seven days a week. Anyone who
knows me knows I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I do not know how you do it, but I
admire it, you know. I just think this is someone
that loves what they've done. Oh, loves what you're doing,
but also understands too that none of this was given
to you either. You know, if you suddenly stopped turning
up to events or stopped writing about it or stopped sharing,
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it could go away.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh totally, yep, because no one works as hard as
you do, you know, And I think nobody where I
sort of place myself in the businesses, I'm the one innovating,
So I'm going, Okay, what else could we do. Are
there any you know, social media platforms we're not using properly?
Or what can we do with plugins and widgets? And
how can we make our website cooler? And what can
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we do with our app? Or what can we do
with chat pots? Or what can we do with AI?
And how can we kind of, you know, there's always
something new you've got to learn. So I'm the one
who's researching it, and at the moment, I'm kind of going, Okay,
I really want to have an entire I've built an
intranet site with every single document on every single process
in my business, and now I'm trying to pull together
(15:34):
videos because people aren't reading the documents. I'm like, okay,
so I'll change that. I'll video the whole thing so
that I can take a holiday and people have got
something to fall back onto. So there's always something more.
And that's where I'm kind of moving into the business
and doing all the I want to do more strategic stuff.
I want to do the creative stuff. I want to
do the techy, nerdy stuff, and then you know, my
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team can write and they can do all the fun
stuff and I can kind of I know, but I
would like to have more holidays.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We all would.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Because I do work all the time. Doesn't mean I
want to work all the time, but you know I'm
super productive when I do so there's always there's always
more to learn.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So when I said thank you to you, your eyes
welled up a little bit just to loop back. And
I don't know if it was about the thank you
or that you actually know how hard it is to
have to start from scratch over and over again. Can
you tell me? Because it takes such resilience. Didn't you
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haven't just moved once, You've had to do it over
and over and over. You know, I'm finding a place
of home. I had it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's just like when you fall over and it was
like are you okay? And then you get teary again.
I don't know. I think it's a combination of all
the things. You're a bad person.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'm not about I'm not a bad path. But this
is it, Kelly. We can't be who we are and
these strong, successful women, and these are the women that
we showcase without a bit of grit there and a
bitter heartache and a bit of no one knows, No
one knows how hard this has been.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh it's hard. Yeah, like I think that. I mean,
there's always challenges, and that's the thing, Like, there's been
challenges moving, there's been challenges with the business, you know,
just even Covid. I mean, Covid was great for our
business in terms of everybody was online and everybody wanted
(17:39):
to know what was going on. But you know, we
were working till midnight every night. Yeah, and there was
no money, but there was a need. Yeah, So you know,
so we pushed through, and we pushed through, and I
suppose there is no all tiering now is because no
one ever says thank you for that. So it's nice
(18:02):
to be recognized.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, why don't you have tissues?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
What sort of studio is this? You can't go and
make people cry if you're not prepared for I will
go get the tissues.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You hold on their one second, but also lean into
it because it's I mean, how often how often in
all of this, Look, we've got the tissues coming excellent.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, thanks Maria, someone's breaking down, quick, get the tissues.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But here's the thing, so we talk about, Okay, we're
going to do the Women of Influence and I'm going
to do the Adelaide edition because I've just moved to
this city and I'm falling in love with all these people,
and you know, we need to feature these women. So
if you think about you for a second, I mean,
how often have you get a chance to sit down
(18:58):
and say I arrived in Adelaide as a twenty three
year old and I knew nobody, and I was stalking
cars and laminating business cards and there was no money
and I had to keep building. And I, you know,
pausing for a second, just coming far out, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I mean with me because it's been a thousand kilometers
an hour for so long, I think momentums all I've got.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, so you know it's.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I need to keep the speed, but stop all over
because I don't know. I think it's I'm actually really lucky.
I've got a really great team around me at the moment,
and you know, everyone's working really hard, so I can't
take a bit of a breather. But it's been it's
been a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, yeah, and that's the I'm just like you love it. Yeah,
that's it. Passion and drive. I mean that you can't
it can't be replaced, right, So and if that's not
driving you, then money the money's secondary, you know, if
you weren't loving every second. But and I mean, yeah,
(20:15):
you talk about the team, and you talk about where
you're at now and where you'd like it to get.
But having a break, I mean, how do you how
do you even tell a woman, oh, yeah, maybe you
just need to pause for a minute. You know, you've
got children, and there's a husband, and there's you know,
like I don't think sometimes people actually get it. No. No,
when you were running a business, there is no stop.
(20:37):
Even if you go to Bali for a week. I
am sorry that email is still on. You cannot go.
I'm just not going to look at.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It that Today. It was funny Nadia from my TV yesterday,
She's like, oh, have you been in to the Cave
restaurant in Bali. I was like, yeah, I went there
for my birthday. So I sat down and made her
a video and I said to three to I was like,
here you go, this is what you can expect. Like
it's just it's all. It's part of what I do now.
But I think the funny thing is I hated English
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at school. Hated it, like that was my worst subject.
I was into maths and science. I was going to
be a chemical engineer.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh my lordie okay, yeah, yeah, okay, And then Sex
and the City came out. Oh my gosh, yes, change
it all our lives.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I was like, I need to party for a living.
Is this is way more fun? Applied to go to
the school of art and do glass blowing because I
was dating an artist.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Were you being rebellious and or you were? No, obviously
going to be an artist.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I'm quite a good artist. Was I haven't done it
for a long time, but I love being creative, and
so I was, you know, I got a's in art
at school. So I was like, I'm going to be
an artist like my boyfriend. And then I was like,
I can't really get my head around being a starving
artist because everyone was so talented. So I thought, what
can I do that's creative and we'll get me in
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a like I can earn a living. Wanted did pr
because that's what Samantha dear Jones? Seriously, why would you
do anything else?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And that said, have you watched any of the new
episode the new series Glammer?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh not Glamorous? No, I don't know the are.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You going to say? And just like that, yeah, I
can't deal with that. Oh I can. But I think
that's the summersacker for the fashion and the you know,
the romance of it. I put all the other stuff aside.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
No, I haven't watched the new one. Is it good?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
No? But Samantha Jones is an icon. Yeah, her character,
you know absolutely, well, so you wanted to be Samantha.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah. So I went to UNI to do pr and
I discovered it wasn't parties. It was three years of writing,
and I was like, but I hate writing, and you know,
it took me a long time to get into the
swing of it. And I think it's because I changed
from writing essays and writing formal media releases and writing
things that were really serious into the glam Adelaide stuff,
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which is, you know, I'm writing like I'm telling you
about something cool that's happening. Yeah, And it's a lot
more conversational and it's a lot more kind of and
that wasn't something that was done back then. I feel
like I'm talking about something one hundred years ago. But
people didn't blog. No, they didn't write casually like you
weren't wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It was a style. Yeah, you weld.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Train at university. I think you still are actually, you know,
to write for something that would be good for the
Australian or the Financial Review, or to write an annual
report for a law firm. Casual writing was never a
thing that was sought after or certainly taught. And even
now it's really interesting trying to find staff because I
want someone who can write like that, and I want
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that casual tone. And so people that come out of
university we kind of have to smack it out of them.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, And it's great.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That they can follow a process, which is important in
a business, but we're like, we needed to have a
bit more fun. So I find that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I write like you're talking like here.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah. So I don't necessarily hire from universities anymore. I
get a lot of great interns through and they, you know,
if they're any good, they get off at work. But
I'm kind of opening it up to everyone now and
just going, well, if you can write, I want to
hear from you. Yeah, And there's so much to write
about and that's what I love like. And this is
the thing about South Australia. When I moved here, it
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was like quick run, get out, don't be here.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And why was that? Why do you think that is,
and because so, if I'm honest, I said yes to
this job twenty four hours after being here. I just
was like, let's do it. Yes to adventures, yes to fun,
Yes to a life well lived. I'll never know unless
I go yeah. But I had people absolutely say to me,
(24:48):
you've been in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And then it was how's it going? And I'd say great,
and they'd go, no, really, how's it going? You look
fine to you?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Brother, Oh my god, okay, I.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Why is it? Why is that? Why do people go? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Look? I mean circa two thousand, the scene was different.
We didn't have the lane Way scene here. You had
one big club, which was Heaven. It still exists, no,
oh okay, oh they kind of there's different iterations, but
they moved it from the corner where the Royal Adelaide
Hospital is. That old pub that's there, right on the
very corner. That's where I used to fly to Adelaide
(25:30):
to see Ministry of Sound DJ's perform there. I was like,
this is so cool because I was living in Canberra
and we didn't have that. But I was in the
process of moving to Sydney when I discovered Adelaide and
I was like, oh my god, I can live on
the beach.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So in a minute you discovered it, Like how do
you discover How did you discover Adelaide? Was there someone? No,
there wasn't anybody here.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
No, No, there was no. The short version of the
story is my dad is from South Australia.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yes, then he traveled.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, so he left their peninsula, you know, when he
was twenty or whatever, got a scholarship when and joined
the Air Force, went to Canada, met my mum and
we never went back. So we never lived in South Australia.
If we went to visit my grandparents, we'd bypass Adelaide
and kind of go around and then go over to
their peninsula. So I didn't know anything about Adelaide. All
I knew about Adelaide was that it was terrible according
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to everyone in Canberra, and because you know, in the
pecking order, there's always got to be someone worse than you,
and I think Adelaide and Camber and Hobart all battled
it out at some point and everyone shit on each
other and there was just you know, no one would take,
no one go. Yeah, we're actually the worst city everyone's like,
oh no, we're actually way better than Hope. But now
all three cities have like come of age and they're
(26:42):
all amazing. But yeah, certainly, twenty odd years ago, Adelaide
was seen as a terrible place to be by people
that weren't in Adelaide. And then the young people in
Adelaide were, you know, they had lights in their eyes
and wanting to go to ce know, Sydney, Melbourne, cause
those were the cool places. But my tragedy actually brought
(27:04):
us here. My dad's little sister and her husband were
killed in a plane crash. So here this is because
you maybe cry before. I'm just teary, that's all right. Yeah,
So mum and dad moved here because my three cousins
were orphaned. And then I came here on holidays and
I was just like, oh yeah, I'll just come and
visit the family. See mom and dads here, my cousins,
(27:28):
and just went, oh my god, Adelaide. Yeah, and you know,
Mum and dad had been put into not temporary housing,
but sort of emergency housing, I guess for sudden postings,
and they sort of put you in these places. And
so they've gone from this massive house in Canberra, and
(27:52):
they've been put into this tiny little unit that was
right on the water in North Haven. And I'd always
said to people, I never want to be like my parents,
because they earn all this money and we go, they
save up and we're gone this one big holiday year.
We'd always go some more amazing for two weeks, We've
got a Thailand or Bali or whatever. But then for
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the rest of the year they worked like dogs, and
they would do flex time and they would start at
seven thirty in the morning. They'd worked till six. They'd
spend the entire weekend gardening, cleaning the house, grocery shopping.
They never had anyone over because the house was never
clean enough, even though they had this big house. And
I said, I never want to be like that. I'd
rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable. And
(28:34):
when they moved to South Australia was I got put
in this little unit and my sister and I were
at Uni and Canberra. There's no one to look after,
there was no garden, there was no cleaning, say at
the time of their lives, yeah and yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
But they got their life back, yeah, And I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Think they realized it was missing. But obviously through the tragedy,
you know, everyone kind of reassesses their life. You know,
they quit smoking all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, but they.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Were going to the yacht club, having wines, you know,
going to the markets, and they just started living. So
but when I came here, you know, they were in
a house and I was having a coffee in the
front garden, which was like a I don't know, a
one meter buy one meter court. Yeah, and there were
dolphins in front of me, and I was like, this
place is amazing. I didn't even realize the Adelaide was
(29:22):
on the water, Like this is how little I knew
about Adelaide. Yeah. I was like, oh my god. And
then I could afford to buy a house here, yeah,
you know, and I it was surrounded by wineries and
they had Ministry.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Of Sound teacher.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well, I mean, what else do I need set up? Yeah,
so I sort of went back.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
The narrative is so different now, though, isn't it. I mean,
I just in terms of I'm here, So I'm here
having this experience that you're almost describing, which is what
is not to love? Except maybe I've put on about
seven kilos and so I've got here because the food
and the wine is some of the best food and
wine that I've had in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, it's it's really outstanding. And I think one thing
that's just beautiful to watch is sort of the blossoming
of the city that's happened over the last twenty years.
And I've had front row seats because everything that launches,
you know, we get told about and we get to experience,
and it's been a really I'm like, I'm very proud
of the city. Like you know what, how you know,
(30:22):
people have embraced the change as well, and the people
there's been a massive culture shift and all the people
that were like get out while you can, and now,
you know, the people that are going this is amazing.
Or I had to travel to realize what I was missing,
and I've come back and it's a really you know,
it's it's vibrant, and people are stepping up and they're
(30:43):
you know, the stuff that you used to have at
a fancy restaurant is now pub food and just everything
has kind of gone to that next level. And they're
you know, embracing the fact that we've got people traveling here,
so they you know, the locals want to show off,
and so they they're making their venue better and their
accommodation better and the festival is better and.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh everything is on steroids almost here. Yeah, it is
just spectacular.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I think, like like I said before, Adelaide's coming of age,
it's now as it's peak time, you know, like it's.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Finally think two in terms of narrative. So I'm meeting
more and more people that will say to me, so
they're Adelaide or South Australian born and bred, and they
will say they were dead serious, why would you want
to live anywhere else?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And I look at them and I think, I get that.
I can see it. I can see why you're embracing this.
I see opportunity in business and work and education. I
think that there's nothing that you can't achieve here on
then might start in Adelaide but turn into national or
global opportunity.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I just think.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
But even like through COVID, it's shifted the way businesses
operate and stuff that wasn't accepted before is now totally
not like normal. So you know, you've got all these
major businesses setting up head offices here because people can
work remotely, you know, You've got people like kaylor At
Sinners who could live anywhere in the world. She can
(32:16):
live here and run her business from here and get
all the best people in the entire world working for her,
but she's based out of Adelaide. Yeah, you know, and
people who were living and you know, working in Melbourne
or Sydney, they came home over COVID and they're allowed
to work remotely. So they're like, why would I go
back because I get such a better quality of life
(32:38):
and I can buy, you know, or rent a better
place here. But I mean, that's the that's a whole
nother story, the whole bloody housing crisis, but whole.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's a whole nother podcast. But I'm not equipped for.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
But everyone's jumping in and going, Okay, well, how do
we solve that? You know, we'll just build more apartments.
And everyone's kind of really stepping up because they understand
that people want to come here, and it's just it's
great and I'm you know, I'm really excited about the
fact that my kids are growing up here. This is
their hometown.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And does that mean something to you too, in terms
of do you have a hometown?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
What's got to be Adelaide.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Now, yeah, I mean did you have a hometown? No? Yeah,
I never did, And so is that important now for
your kids to have a hometown or it's just played
out line.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I love the fact that they do and that they've
got a base and they can always come back to
a base because I didn't have that. I do want
them to travel more because I do see like a
huge disparity between people who have traveled and those who
have not.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It's just good for everyone, isn't it Just to experience.
You don't have to do the high life. It's just
seeing how other people live and work and experience.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Are But it's just, yeah, it's understanding that, you know,
we've got it really good here and you know we
are very privileged in every way, shape and form.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
So I want my kids to, you know, go and
help build an orphanage in Fiji while we stay in
a five star resort, you know, so they can they
can go and see that they're the lucky ones and
they can appreciate what they've got more because they are
growing up spoil. You know, they've got money. They're a
private school. I can't do anything else other than pay
(34:22):
those bills. We're not zuper flash, but like I'm choosing
to give them those opportunities, but I want them to
have some perspective, you know. I want them to get
out and meet other cultures and eat different food and
you know, sea poverty and want to help those people,
and I want I want them to have a bit
of just experience in other cultures and things, because I
(34:45):
got a lot of that growing up in Korea. We
you know, we saw all the rice riots and we
were tear gassed at school, and we saw North Korea
and the soldiers and the bar by fences and we
had to learn about their history and you know, that's
all fascinating stuff and it builds you as a person
(35:08):
and to go I've only ever been in Adelaide. You know,
that's it's not enough. I think people need to try
and branch out. But I meet people that haven't even
gone to other towns. Yeah, and you're just like, what,
you know, at least get out and explore South Australia
if you don't want to go into Stata overseas. But
I think people just need to have experiences. And it's
really easy now with your phone to sit at home
(35:31):
and to kind of go, oh, I know about stuff,
but I think you have to experience stuff. And that's again,
that's kind of my passion, and that's what glame Adelaide
is is. It's giving people reasons to leave their bloody
lound ram. It's like, get out and eat new food
and meet new people and explore. Go and yeah, go
and do stuff. Yeah, go for a hike.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I mean, I'm not sure how often your story has
been told, Kelly, and how many times on different in
different forums, and we've only really just scratch the surface.
But I think this paints that picture of why glemal
Delady is what it is. It's this this product of
you and this moving around and seeing the world and
(36:11):
then wanting to connect. Yep, so you are a master
connector of people.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think that's my husband's specialty. I think what I
what I think I'm good at is finding things that
people don't know about and kind of serving it up
to them because everyone's busy. I'm busy. Everyone's busy. They
don't have time to go researching things. And so when
I come across stuff and go, oh, these guys have
a great story like you do. But you know, this
(36:39):
is a really cool little you know, suburban hidden jam,
or there's some you know, there's a Brazilian festival this weekend.
Who knew about that? You know? So going these people
are all doing really cool things that everyone's rubbish at
telling people about those things. Yeah, and it's helping these
small businesses go. All right, well, let me let me
put it in front of our audience and let me
try and bring some people to you. And it is about,
(37:02):
I suppose, connecting people, but it's also just that information
because we're so overloaded with information, and it's like, let
me find things that I think you'll like and I'll
kind of dish it up to you. So glam Adelaide's
almost my personal love letter to South Australia.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Ah, now there's the title for the podcast. That's the
title of the podcast right there. I wait for it
in every episode.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Nowaday, I was looking at your other ones. I was like, God,
do I even have a subject?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Glam Adelaide is my love letter to South Australia.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It is. It's all my favorite stuff. It's all the
stuff that I think is really great and interesting, and
it's like, you know what, And that's why I think
it's slightly hard for me to go, Oh, I find
somebody else to be an editor, and I can go
and be the strategic person or whatever, because I'm like,
I've got so much history now doing this that I
can tell you about everything that's been happening for the
(37:53):
last twenty years. And so when something pops up, I go, oh, well,
you know, like let's talk about ice skating in winter.
Oh well, there's three or four festivals that are doing it.
Go check glenel Go check Port Adelaide. No one's doing
it this year. I don't know if insurance has changed.
It's devastating.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
This is new to me. I thought there was going
to be isolating down at Glenelk, and I've been secretly
quite anxious about it because I've only done it once
and it didn't end well. Did not end well. But
here I am and I say yes to everything, so okay,
well that's good. I don't have to worry about it
or you're like, no, no, no, this is what's happening.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah. But and also knowing what people are interested in going.
I've written about this many times over the years, and
I know that people get really really excited for the
winter festivals and the mold wine and like, and I
tell my staff and they're like, yeah, I don't know,
I don't really care, and it's like no, no, trust me.
People people want to do this. Yeah, they want to
go stand by fire pits and drink old wine and
they want to listen to bands and they're happy to
(38:47):
be outside, like they'll just rug up. But to my
you know, my younger stuff who've never done that before,
it's like Fringe Festival. A lot of them have never
been to Fringe Festival and I have to initiate them
with the world. I'm like, cool, love it.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
So and you know, in the spirit of this is
the Adelaide edition and getting to know Adelaide women and
South Australian women and what's going on. I experienced my
first Fringe Festival this year and I know that we
all hate people from Victoria. I know this, It's okay,
But I'm the Victorian with the dance background. And I
(39:26):
always thought that Melbourne was the mecca for the arts.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I have been here for six months and after seeing
Fringe and the art galleries and how children here are
brought up with an appreciation, YEP, I think South Australia
might be the mecca for the arts. Now I'm gonna
watch out. Some one's going to jump out. But you
(39:55):
know what an experience this is that I'm having. You know,
slam Adelaid plays a huge role in this, because this
is how do I find it? I've just moved here.
I found a great I should give say who they
are her town. I think the first time I met
you it was the silliest thing to say, but I said,
oh my gosh, oh you're glam Adealette. You do glen and Adeline. Okay,
(40:16):
well I found my hairdresser who does the best blow
waves her town down in glen olg Oh my gosh, amazing.
I found it by typing in hairdressers in the search
on glam Adelaine.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Do you know what I only discovered that you can find?
And this is you know, this makes me laugh because
I feel like I'm so tech. But there's actually like
a whole search section on Google for your website, so
you can see how many times you've shown up in
search results. Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing.
And so I've tapped into this dashboard in the last week.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Actually, I think I've seen this. Tell us those numbers. Yea,
this is insane.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
So yeah, So this month we've had twelve million results
from people searching for content and we've been served up
to them. And it's because we've got forty five thousand
articles on our website. Like we're an encyclopedia for South
Australia because we've been doing it for so long. But
like I only know, I track everything my website hits,
which you know, I think those numbers are pretty cool.
(41:16):
But when you look at how many people just keep
like glam just keeps appearing in all their search results,
I'm like, God's that's actually a really big number.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Oh are you joking? There's twenty six million people in Australia.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yeah, who are all buying Taylor Swift tickets?
Speaker 2 (41:31):
This is insane. By the time this podcast drops, there
will still be people crying but they didn't get to
go to see Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
We're like, okay, so we're going to have to do
a guy, was your office shut down?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Oh yeah no, no, we did a TikTok about it,
every single person in our office and I went and
got my husband's team for his business as well. All
of us were on did anyone get ticket? No, twelve hours,
Oh my gosh. We all logged on at nine. Yeah,
and we were still on there probably about ten o'clock
(42:04):
last night, just in case because they never announced the
end of the VIP tickets, so like, oh, maybe there's
still a few there, so we were just clocking it over.
I did so little work yesterday. It's got to go
down in history is the least productive day in Australian business. Everyone,
even if they didn't like Taylor Swift, they were doing
it for someone else. Yeah, that was a community. We
all came together.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
And now there is a sense of mourning for everyone
else that has missed out.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Absolutely, But you know, first we had the bushfires, then COVID,
now Taylor Swift not giving us tickets.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
It's so in your love letter to South Australia, Yes,
what is the one thing as someone that has maybe
just coming to visit South Australia, they can only do
one thing? I know, what is the one thing that
sums up the heart of essay to you?
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I would say that's a really hard one. I think
if you've got to go and have a dining experience,
but you've got the markets, I mean that's that's definitely
something that visitors are drawn to and talk about a lot.
So maybe it's the markets. The Adelaide Central markets are
(43:21):
just a I think they're the biggest markets in the
Southern Hemisphere. There is everything you could ever imagine, and
they've only just started stepping up. I went to the
markets in Rome a few years ago and it was wonderful,
Like it was just an experience for the senses. And
I feel like we're kind of getting that vibe because
not only do we have all the market stands and
all of the producers and all of the incredible foods,
(43:43):
but we're starting to get those like those little sexy
wine bars in the markets as well. You know, I've
always had little food stalls and sandwich bars and things,
but we're starting to get like, here's the paler and
here's the you know, here's the oyster bar, and here's
where you can have some wines, or over here you
can taste all the juice from Kangar Island and there's
like so you can kind of make a day of it.
(44:04):
You can kind of just eat your way around the
markets as well as.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Doing some shit. And this is what I mean about. Yeah,
I keep saying it's great. It's this why I'm a
little cuddlier in well.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
I mean, try working for my team. I mean you'd
probably get this as well with your job. But we
get food delivered to the office every day from people
trying to pitch stories, and it's not.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
As much as I would like. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Here's a tray of donuts, you know, like every time
Krispy Kreme come out with a new flavor, we have
a tray. Ye oh my god. But you know, we've
got all the Hague stuff and Lamington's and a lot
of baked goods. But we get a lot of gin
as well. But there's a lot of over indulgence, I think.
So it's good that my team lucky though.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
I've just found Mount Lofty.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Oh god, that's iconic. Yeah, you've got to do that.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah. I've been trying to do it twice a week
because it's killing me. It's so hard. I feel like
every glass of wine and every mouthful of food that's
going up on me.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Up I go, You're just going straight up. It's quite
the challenge. But I mean, you've got the waterfall with
all this winter weather, that's that's worth looking at. But yeah,
I know there's there's a.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Lot of markets, so your mar markets.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Would be the number one or you know, or go
and find we've got one of the number one restaurants
in the world at the moment, in the world in
the world. Heard it here first in Australia, a restaurant Botanic.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh no, no, do not know, No, I do not
down there.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
So this is this has always been a really interesting one.
I went to this place for my wedding lunch after
I had a ceremony in the Botanic Gardens. It's this
restaurant in the heart of the Botanic Gardens. It is
impossible to get to, right, It's just this really like
weird little oasis.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Crazy question. Yeah, I'm having Melanie Flintoff on the podcast. Yes,
she has a dress and it has a building in
it that is the Botanical Garden. That's not it or
that's no, that's like a glass atrium. Thank you for teaching,
which is a teaching which is.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
One of the only ones in the world and it
is stunning. And that's where Michael Boublay had his photo
last week just in case. Okay, oh, another thing, but
this restaurant is like this little oasis since you've got
to follow a path and hopefully you find it. And
it's always been beautiful. It's always been high in dining.
It's always been degastations, but it's been kind of you know,
(46:16):
lots of old people and never busy, and it's always
been this kind of crying shame because it was so
beautiful in such a beautiful location, great food, but it's
just a bit hard to get to. Anyway. They then
got this you know, world class chef on board, remodeled
the restaurant, made it super cool. Now you know, if
we went out for dinner cost to seven hundred bucks.
(46:39):
But it is, it's been rated as I think it's Yeah,
it's the best. I think it got the best was
a Gourmet Traveler or something named at number one restaurant
in Australia this year and they're booked out for the
next six months or so. But like, we've got incredible experiences.
Or go out to McLaren Vale, go to Maxwell's and
there's a maze and I've got a mushroom cave and
(47:01):
world class mine.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Like there's I've been to Mclaravel. But I try to
just pick a different winery every time I go. That's
kind of my strategy.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Once I'm.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Hey, Kelly, we could talk all day, and you know,
I have a EP that works on this show that
will say, kay, you're not allowed to. I love the
idea that this is your love letter to South Australia
as someone that has been literally around the world and
chooses to be here and raise her family and is
so proud and has been so successful. And I do
(47:34):
think even though you say you know your husband is
the connector of people, you have that beautiful ability to
hear someone's story and then say, oh, well, then you
need to meet this person and bring people together. That
is absolutely one of your superpowers. That's something I'm very
grateful for, you know, meeting you and things like that.
But I don't know, it's just wonderful to sit down
(47:56):
with you like this because normally we're running around from
one place to the next. Come into the station and
do this, and it's an honor just to feature your story.
I guess thank you.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I'm just glad that you chose South Australia.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
Yeah, bring it on, absolutely, bring it on. We'll check
back in. There's more to your story though, I think
we have to come back. There's so much that we
didn't touch to be like, I don't want to do
it together. It's going to make me cry.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I'll better make up next take it on
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