{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F8e96522c-d4c3-40bf-9463-a88c8a8ad909","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Rural Women's Day - Road to Gundagai with Fig&Co","description":"Happy International Rural Women\u2019s DayWith COVID restricting so many events and further isolating rural communities, International Rural Women\u2019s Day is an important date for us to take a moment to celebrate and shine a light on the success of rural women.\r\nIn celebration of Rural Women's Day, OAK Magazine would like to introduce you to some special rural friends from rural Victoria, NSW and Queensland.\r\nThrough these conversations, I hope that women living in rural areas see and hear themselves in these stories, and others recognise how incredibly hardworking, innovative and resilient women living in rural Australia are.\r\nLet me introduce you to a rural friend of mine.\r\nBec Nicholls from FigandCo GundagaiIn September 2020, regional NSW welcomed FigandCo General Store into the retail scene after Bec Nicholls decided she didn\u2019t want to travel for hours to find a gift for her sister.\r\nIn less than a year, Bec has built a network of suppliers from almost every state in Australia. And she is looking forward to moving into a bigger premises by the end of the year. Did I mention that her business has just celebrated its first birthday!\r\nThis is a fabulous conversation about being part of the solution, the challenge of finding a rental space and acquiring wholesalers as a new rural business, and why we need to take time to stop and explore country towns on our next holiday. \r\nMeet my friend Bec from FigandCo.\r\n\r\n\r\nThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: \r\n\r\nChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afriendofmine/message","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/175e5cd8-a805-410e-8ead-916ecfe20dc2/efd98e94e32e1176.jpeg"}