Stories From The Bush – Our Stories are from our community of Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business, stories of Australian’s who work and live in Rural and Regional Australia.
Hear from the 3 founders of Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business – Sarah Britz, Lauren Hateley, and Jenn Donovan – the story is a great one – and worth a listen for sure!
A Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business, Business Owner’s Story
Today we chat with the 3 Founders of Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business – hear our story, hear our inspiration and what we are looking to do in the future.
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Transcript:
Jenn Donovan:
Well, hey there. Welcome to the 10th episode of Stories From the Bush. I am your host, Jenn Donovan, marketer, keynote speaker, social media strategist, and rural girl. Pretty much just obsessed with helping other small business owners who live in rural and regional Australia. I’m a farmer’s wife in the Riverina of New South Wales, a mom of three, and so passionate about sharing these stories of business and life in rural Australia.
Jenn Donovan:
For nine episodes, or 10, if you count the intro one that I did, you’ve listened to my dulcet tones and I have interviewed some pretty extraordinary small business owners living in rural and regional Australia. On the 10th episode, and actually the last one for season one, I thought it was only fitting for you to hear from my co-founders, my co-owners and my co-let’s-get-this-done ladies, Lauren and Sarah. This was actually a recording I did last year for my own podcast.
Jenn Donovan:
Yep. I have two. This one, Stories From the Bush and my small business marketing one called Small Business Made Simple, which has actually over a hundred episodes. Last year I interviewed Lauren and Sarah for a very special episode, which I called How One Idea Can Change the Way Australians Buy. I’ve repurposed it here because that’s what all good marketers do and teach. We should repurpose the content that we have.
Jenn Donovan:
Yes, I’ve repurposed it, yes, to tell a story, but not just in my words, but actually to inspire you to perhaps think about an idea that you might have about your content, will it work? Will it not work? How will it work? This is just our story and how one little idea has managed to change our lives and the lives of so many. Our motto at Spend With Us – Buy From Bush Business is, go hard or go home, and so far this motto has served us very, very well. I hope you enjoy this very special episode.
Jenn Donovan:
I can’t wait for you to hear from Lauren and Sarah and myself about Spend With Us and our little story behind it. Enjoy. Ladies, I’m super excited to have you on the podcast today because I feel this is kind of like a little gem that my audience doesn’t quite know about. The whole Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business, so I’m really excited to have you guys on to help me talk about what it is that all three of us are doing collectively to help rural and regional Australia.
Jenn Donovan:
Before we get there, I’m going to pick on you, Sarah, to introduce yourself to my audience and just tell everyone who you are and what it is that you do, besides what we’re going to talk about today.
Sarah Britz:
Hi Jenn, thanks for having me. Yeah. My name is Sarah Britz. I’m a web designer and developer. I am based on the Central Coast in New South Wales. I’m a mom of two young kids. Yeah. I’ve been working with small businesses for probably more than 17 years now doing their websites and helping them get online presences.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Beautiful. Thank you. Lauren, hello.
Lauren:
Hi Jenn. I’m Lauren, I’m a clinical psychologist. I’ve been working in the field of psychology for 14 years, and based in a small rural country town in Northeast Victoria. I’m a mum of two boys, with another one on the way. I have been located in rural and regional areas for my professional career, and have a deep and evolving interest in rural mental health and also rural small business. I’m very excited to be talking to you today.
Jenn Donovan:
Perfect. Perfect. We have a very unique situation in that we are actually all business partners that have never actually met before, other than on Zoom calls. I feel like a bit of a grownup that I have business partners around the country who we actually haven’t met. I know how I met you two, but how did you two meet? That’s probably … For me, I’m a little bit curious as well. Maybe we need to rewind just a little bit actually, and talk about why you met.
Jenn Donovan:
For you, Lauren and Sarah, back when the bushfires were really scarily happening in both Victoria and New South Wales, you guys set off on a bit of a path for helping those businesses. Sarah, why did you decide to help and what did help look like from your perspective?
Sarah Britz:
Yeah. Being a web designer by trade, I wanted to do something that I could use my skills to give back to the community. Yeah. Rather than donating. I’d already donated when the bushfires were happening. I live on a rural property myself and we were lucky enough to not be affected too badly by any of the bushfires. I put out some calls on social media to see if I could help any small businesses that were affected. I had a number of them contact me.
Sarah Britz:
Through that, I decided to create the Spend With Us site because I realized that it was going to be much easier and quicker for me to create one platform that could support more businesses than create little websites for 10, 15, 20 businesses. That’s how it came about. I came up with the idea of the name Spend With Us just very randomly trying to find a name that was available that would mean something and set that all up. Yeah. It started from there.
Sarah Britz:
I met Lauren very randomly again through social media. She’d started up a Facebook page called Vic Spend With Us, and because we had this similar name, we got in touch. Well, she got in touch with me actually. Yep. Lauren, if you want to continue.
Lauren:
Yeah. Sure. As the bushfires were raging very early in January and also experiencing some code red days in the small rural town that we reside in, my sense of anxiety about the experience of going through a bushfire really escalated. We’re sitting on the couch observing these devastating fires that are going through the state. I noticed that there was some other social media initiatives starting to happen across the country, mostly through Instagram.
Lauren:
That’s not a platform that I’m familiar with. I felt the need to support small, rural Victorian towns that had been devastated by the fires. Rather than just donating money which we can’t directly influence the lives of those affected by bushfires, I set up the Vic Spend With Us Facebook page purely to get some followers to take notice of these businesses that were being affected.
Lauren:
It was purely about getting the details of those businesses that may have been affected in the different towns and reaching out to community notice boards, and businesses just started to contact and ask for a promote through the Facebook page. Like Sarah mentioned that we both had the similar name and I noticed the website, so I reached out to her and it just seemed like a natural fit to collaborate and work together to try and support as many families that were impacted by the trauma of the bushfires.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Okay. Sarah, when you said you just reached out and asked if you could help, where did you go for that? Did you go into Facebook groups? Did you just put a call out on your own socials and people shared that? What did that look like?
Sarah Britz:
I did both of those. I did call out on my own website and my own business Facebook page. I also went into a couple of groups that I knew that I had joined to help support bushfire-affected communities, and put some posts up in there to see if anyone needed help. I’d seen a little piece where these business owners were really worried and anxious about how they were going to get donations or pay their staff or just keep an income coming in because most of these rural businesses didn’t have a website.
Sarah Britz:
They didn’t have any form of accepting online payments when their bricks and mortar stores and things were closed. Yeah. It basically grew out of that, that I created the site. It started off mainly with donations and then it grew into sales and people being able to create … Well, have … Yeah. Create livings through the Spend With Us site. Yeah.
Jenn Donovan:
Because I guess it’s not just businesses who lost their businesses. We’re not talking about just businesses who lost their business in a bushfire. I know Lauren yourself and myself, we don’t live that far from each other in Northeast Victoria. The nearest fires for me were probably a couple of hundred kilometers away, the way the crow flies, and we could hardly breathe. The smoke was absolutely horrendous. Some of these places had to close for safety and for smoke.
Jenn Donovan:
There just was no one around as well. It wasn’t just like people had lost their businesses and couldn’t reopen. It was just basically they couldn’t open.
Sarah Britz:
No. Absolutely. I mean, it was the busiest time of year or should have been the busiest time of year with tourists and people couldn’t get to their towns because roads were cut off because of the bushfires. They had no tourists visiting. The very first business that I had joined up for Spend With Us and was one of the reasons why I decided to create the site, she had to close her restaurant because her son has asthma. They had to actually get away from the town.
Sarah Britz:
It was too bad for them with the smoke. Their town itself wasn’t on fire, but the towns around them were. Yeah. It was a really difficult time and very traumatic, I think, for most of those business owners and community members.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. There’s been so much happened since that I think so many people have forgotten about the horrendous summer we had last summer, like only nine, 10 months ago, because there’s been so much happen this year. That’s why I love that this little podcast is perhaps a little bit timely because we’re heading back into another summer and hopefully nothing like what we saw last summer.
Jenn Donovan:
I guess for a bit of context for the listeners, while Lauren and Sarah were building Spend With Us and helping bushfire businesses, I had created a group a couple of months before that on Facebook. It was very interesting that we’re all Facebook. We have all built these things through Facebook, Facebook groups and our Facebook pages. I was building Buy From and Bush Business group, which just turned one on the weekend, so one year of that.
Jenn Donovan:
We’ll talk about that a little bit later, the good, the bad and the ugly. Yeah. I was very drought-focused because we’re farmers, we were in drought, so a lot of my business owners and I guess colleagues and friends and clients were affected by drought. Still supporting rural and regional Australia, but I came from a different angle, and none of us knew that COVID-19 was going to come and put everybody in the same boat on top of a drought and bushfires as well.
Jenn Donovan:
Lauren, you sound like you’re definitely the little connector here, because you also reached out to me.
Lauren:
Absolutely. I’m full of resources. When I see an opportunity I take the bull by the horns and don’t like to leave a stone unturned. Absolutely. I noticed your Facebook group and thought that the influence that you were having on rural and regional drought-affected businesses was quite profound. That there seemed to be an opportunity for us to connect and utilize the influence that you had received through the group to support, across Australia, small, regional, and rural businesses with the pure focus on improving the quality of life of all of the families and their children.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Yeah. Because we are talking about helping business owners, but you’re absolutely right. It filters down into families. It filters down into communities. I think all three of us have such a sense of community, whether it’s just our community or looking at regional and rural Victoria … Sorry, Australia as a whole community. I would love to hear from both of you, some little stories, maybe about businesses you’ve helped or just people who reached out to you that you’ve managed to have an impact on, but that impact has really stayed with you.
Jenn Donovan:
I know for me, very early on I’ve got some text messages and emails that I’ll never forget reading and they’ll always stay with me. I might not remember the person’s name, but I will definitely remember their story. I’d love if you’ve got anything that you could share with us about what impact you had was building had on communities. I’m going to hit you up first, Lauren.
Lauren:
Cool. Within Victoria, certainly there was a number of different towns that seemed to really jump on board with the Facebook page at that stage. We’re talking the likes of Myrtleford, Bright, Beechworth, Rutherglen, and then even up to Corryong and those small rural Victorian communities. Early on, I also was interviewed by WIN News in Ballarat. There had been a fire go through on the outskirts of Ballarat in a rural area.
Lauren:
One of the businesses involved in that was Leroy Mac Designs who design and make their own Merino wool blankets for babies and children, and also adults, if you please. Their property was devastated with the fire that went through killing livestock and damaging all the fences. It’s those personal stories and the appreciation from the business owner that gives you a sense that what you’re doing is helping and does make a difference.
Lauren:
Over the time that we’ve been doing this, I’ve been really quite impressed at the innovation that businesses have had to survive and to provide staff with ongoing opportunities of employment. Milch Cafe in Falls Creek is one of the businesses that comes to mind in which they were obviously forced to shut their doors and were innovative and came up with a body care range and were cooking what they termed Bushfire Brownies to send out to customers in order to continue to receive an income and employ their staff.
Lauren:
Again, the appreciation from that business owner and the person who runs the cafe has been lovely. There are so many stories like that. What about for you, Sarah?
Sarah Britz:
Yeah. I guess similar. I think the businesses that have had to diversify because of being affected by the bushfires or COVID, they’ve been the ones that really stood out in my mind. There’s a couple such as there’s HoneyBee Hives. There are some beekeepers that were up in Northern New South Wales and their bees and all their bushland around them was ruined by the bushfires. They diversified instead of just making honey, but making all these different balms and things from beeswax and things to create a whole range of bath and body balms and rubs and things.
Sarah Britz:
They’ve made a whole new business. They’ve had great sales through Spend With Us as well, and being able to hire new staff going forward now. They seem to be really thriving, which has been amazing. Again, there’s other businesses that … I had restaurants that have had to close because of the bushfires affecting them and no tourists coming through. They’ve diversified by making and selling their sauces online instead. There’s, I think, Alpine Sauce Company in Victoria. There’s Infused Catering in Deniliquin in New South Wales.
Sarah Britz:
They’re just a couple of the businesses that have had to diversify and create new products and make a living that was something completely different from what they were doing a year ago. That’s been quite an amazing thing to see. The fact that they’ve now embraced online selling as well, which was something that a year ago they never had. Yeah. It’s been great.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. I guess there are some really interesting points coming out of both those stories. For me, a lot of the people … Or not a lot, the stories that stick with me came from people who felt like they found somewhere they belong. They felt like Buy From a Bush Business, the Facebook group was giving them somewhere where they felt there was a community. Even if money was tight, people would still give them the encouragement, still say “Oh wow, that’s beautiful.”
Jenn Donovan:
Or like it, or share it or tag their friends. Many people reached out to me and said, “I’ve always felt like I’m alone because I live on a rural property, but now I’m starting to feel like there’s a whole community of us.” The online platforms are creating some of that, which I thought some of those stories are really quite harrowing and made me cry. But at the end of the day, it was building that community, which I think is what we are all doing at the end of the day, is bringing collectively rural and regional Australia together.
Jenn Donovan:
Even if it is in the form of some sales for them. I love the innovation. You’ve both talked about innovative businesses. I think that’s something, and not only through drought and bushfires, but also through COVID we have definitely seen some businesses, perhaps they’ve always wanted to do it, but that actually gave them the push and the shove.
Jenn Donovan:
Sarah, I know you’re up on the Central Coast there, but for myself living in a small rural community, what you were saying before about taking businesses online, so many of the businesses around me, they have a Facebook presence, maybe an Instagram presence, but definitely don’t have that shopping cart, that whole website that they can check in … Oh, sorry, their customers can check out on and things like that, which is a really good segue into what Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business looks like now.
Jenn Donovan:
I guess, Sarah, as the developer, can you walk us through a little bit as to what the platform looks like now and how it’s changing or how it changed from what you were doing to what you are now? Or what we are now, I should say.
Sarah Britz:
Absolutely. It’s grown like … Well, I guess, since we started. We’ve now got over 600, I think probably over 650 small businesses on our site, which is incredible. They’re from all over rural and regional Australia. There’s, I think probably about four or 5,000 products available to choose from. Such unique and amazing things that you won’t find in your normal store or supermarket. If you’re looking for gifts, there are unique or different … It’s a great place to come to you so that people can buy something and know that their money is going towards a small business that really needs that money.
Jenn Donovan:
It’s like we’ve built a marketplace platform. I call it … Probably haven’t got the copyright to call it this, but I call it our Amazon for rural and regional Australia, because you have to be rural or regional to join the marketplace, the Spend With Us marketplace. But it is basically … You can go there and you can shop with those 650 odd businesses and fill your cart and just check out the once as you go along. Sarah, who did you find also when you were … Sorry, Sarah. Lauren.
Jenn Donovan:
I meant Lauren. I’m looking at Lauren and saying Sarah. Did you find that many businesses that you came across just didn’t have that online presence as well, or I guess, website online presence?
Lauren:
Absolutely. Early on, all of the businesses that I was promoting through the Facebook page, it was just promoting their Facebook pages as well. Yeah. They would receive direct sales through their Facebook or finding the business, for example. Even as all of the devastation of the bushfire subsided, and we could all go and visit the towns again, it was also a platform that people could refer to, to then know which businesses really needed the support.
Lauren:
I know that my little family absolutely loved going to Bright that first weekend that we were allowed to go and visit again and walking through the shops, knowing that this is making a positive contribution to their lives and their wellbeing, which was great. I think also now more than ever, and as we know across the country, it’s been promoted significantly is about shopping small and shopping local. That continues to be something that is really close to my heart.
Lauren:
I get a lot of satisfaction out of being able to purchase from a small business owner and making conscious decisions of changing shopping habits to reflect that as well. Particularly leading up to Christmas this year, I’ve had to be quite organized with the pending arrival of our third baby is rather than going to the department stores online and doing those shopping, it’s about making slightly different choices so that I could continue to support small business.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. I really think there’s a huge movement towards that. In fact, I don’t think, I know. We have the statistical analytical data to show that there really is a change in consumers’ behavior that they do want to support local, support small, whether it’s rural or regional or where their small is and where their local is, but there’s definitely a movement towards it. Sarah, I just wanted to ask you about the platform itself though.
Jenn Donovan:
What if someone is listening and they … It’s for service-based and product-based businesses, but we do have many more product-based businesses on the platform, but what if they already have their own website? Why should they look at being on a marketplace, such as Spend With Us, as well as have their own website?
Sarah Britz:
There’s a lot of benefits of joining a marketplace, as well as having your own website. The main one being we’re driving traffic to your business, and you’ll be getting new consumers coming and finding your business and products that they wouldn’t usually find your business just by going in Google or in your own website. Yeah. One of the best reasons to join a marketplace is that we do a lot of marketing and promotions for you.
Sarah Britz:
We have heaps of consumers coming every day to try and find products and they want to support rural and regional small businesses. If your business is on there, then your business will be found by these consumers. Whereas they wouldn’t know that you exist otherwise. It’s a great opportunity to increase your brand awareness. We will definitely be bringing more sales if you join a marketplace like Spend With Us.
Lauren:
It’s also an extremely affordable option for businesses, rather than going out and having to employ a web developer to develop their own website, which they then need to monitor and continue to pay fees for. It’s extremely affordable option.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Definitely. Just to have a little bit of a brag, you get a website expert, a Facebook expert, a clinical psychologist to help you through everything, as well as other people we pay. Like we have an SEO expert who helps us with our Google ads and getting found on searches and things like that. There is a whole team.
Jenn Donovan:
I guess, when I spoke before about community and how some of those emails and messages I got about creating Buy From a Bush Business and the whole community, we’ve actually created a community between the three of us around all our vendors as well, which is another great thing that you don’t get if you just have a website by yourself.
Jenn Donovan:
We’ve got a sellers group to which we do lots of education videos. We get lots of opportunities, which I guess is a really great point that I know both of you created lots of amazing opportunities for your regional vendors as well. Like there was DFAT, was one of them that comes to mind. Was that you, Lauren or Sarah who got in touch with those sorts of businesses or those enterprises?
Sarah Britz:
Yeah. That was me. Yeah. I heard that DFAT were looking for small businesses that’d been affected by bushfires to support and purchase products from that would be sent to the different embassies for diplomatic events overseas. I contacted them. Yeah. I think we had about five of our small businesses that they ended up purchasing thousands of dollars’ worth from each. Products that were sent to places like Paris, Guadalupe, all sorts of international places to represent Australian small businesses, which was amazing.
Jenn Donovan:
For the listener, I probably should explain. What is DFAT?
Sarah Britz:
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Jenn Donovan:
Yep. Here, I can just say I remember DFAT, but I was like, “Oh, I can’t quite remember what it stands for so I better ask.” Yeah. Just unique opportunities for that. I know my Buy From a Bush Business group, we had the shopping channel for one Saturday. They did a whole Saturday on vendors that they got in contact with. That was kind of, they got, I don’t know, half-hour slots or 15-minute slots, I think it was, to market their products.
Jenn Donovan:
That was incredible, that amount of TV time. Perhaps not prime TV time, but definitely something that they wouldn’t have got an opportunity for, unless they belong to that marketplace community type of thing. Lauren, do you have anything to add to that? Do you come across any of those sorts of promotions or people getting in contact with you?
Lauren:
I think Sarah has got a lot of the resources in that area from the web designer perspective. I’ve had chats along the way to different council chambers in the state, for example. They end up providing our information to the local members within different council areas. As opposed to being able to directly receive opportunities from different organizations, it’s more about the promotion of the site and what our platform provides in terms of opportunities.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Right. Just in case, I’ve skipped over these for any listener because we know this, but I’m not quite sure whether I’ve mentioned this or not. Now, Buy From a Bush Business Facebook group and Spend With Us Facebook site, we have combined both of our businesses and now they’re one. Now we have a Facebook group and we have a online platform, which is a marketplace platform which is growing all the time.
Jenn Donovan:
We’ve got, I think Sarah just said 650 small businesses on the marketplace, which coming into Christmas, we would love a lot more. If you’re listening to this and you’re wondering how you’re going to get more Christmas sales, then maybe reach out to us for sure. What’s next? What’s your big vision? Lauren, I know that you have a vision of three well-behaved, beautiful children. What would be your vision for the Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business marketplace model?
Lauren:
My vision would be that the website becomes the leading website that is an Australian household name for supporting rural, small and regional businesses. That it’s the first point of call to click onto the website, scroll through the products and purchase directly with a small business, and knowing that we’re supporting parts of our country that otherwise would not be recognized. That would be my-
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. We live in a very wide world, wide country. There is a lot. We represent such a small proportion of Northeast Victoria and the Central Coast of New South Wales. Yeah. Like you say, it is, there’s a lot of people to be represented and to be helped. I would like to see it to be a household name as well. Sarah, how about you? What’s next for you for Spend With Us marketplace?
Sarah Britz:
Yeah. Same as what you both have just said. I really would love it to grow and become a household name. I want it to be the first place that consumers go to when they’re looking to do their shopping. There are just so many amazing and wonderful products that can be found on the site. I would really want it to connect the cities and the bush together so that people from the city can buy all these amazing products without actually having to physically go and visit these towns themselves.
Sarah Britz:
Yeah. We’ve got lots of ideas and lots of new features and things that we’ll be bringing to the website over time. We’ve got a bit of roadmap. Yeah. We just want to get the word out there and raise awareness about these small businesses and just get people shopping.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Especially coming into Christmas, we’re hoping that people will certainly be able to go back to their markets and there’ll be no closures going forward or anything like that. Having that security of an online marketplace or somewhere where they can host a web store is really quite security going into Christmas because they are … Well, they’re not guaranteed sales. But they’re almost guaranteed sales as opposed to weather-dependent markets and things like that.
Jenn Donovan:
I guess what you say about the products and being unique, it’s just, if you haven’t been on to Spend With Us, so all the Ws spendwithus.com.au, just go for a browse. Because if you’ve ever had someone that’s hard to buy for, or someone that has everything, it’s like Christmas in there, because there are so many different things that you don’t see in the big department stores or at your local supermarket and things like that.
Jenn Donovan:
Some people are just amazing with what they handmake, but of course it’s not all about handmade things. Even still, some people are very, very, very, very, very talented and often blow me out of the water with their talent. There’s also just small businesses who are using it as their online platform as well. Ladies, I have loved hearing our story, I guess it’s our story. I think I’ve even learnt a few little things about what happened before we joined forces to really, I guess, change the landscape of people buying from rural and regional businesses.
Jenn Donovan:
But also, as Lauren put it so eloquently, just also changing people’s lives and changing families as well. That’s very heartwarming, I think. Any parting words? Any last parting words? Anything that I haven’t mentioned that you would like people to know about our journey, your journey, the future? Lauren, do you have anything you wanted to add?
Lauren:
2020 has been an incredibly challenging year for each and every one of us across the country and in different formats, depending on the state that we live in. I just, leading into Christmas, would just love for people to be mindful of being present and being grateful for what we have. It is going to be a different Christmas. There’s going to be a lot of families that won’t get to connect with their loved ones.
Lauren:
By sharing your love via a gift or a surprise that can arrive on the doorstep that you’ve purchased through Spend With Us would also make a positive contribution to another family’s life.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. What do we say? Makes a small business owner do a happy dance. Sarah, any final words from you?
Sarah Britz:
I guess I’d love to get out there that if you are a small business and you haven’t got a website or even if you do have a website and you’d like to look at ways to increase your sales, come and have a look at Spend With Us. It’s a really simple platform to join. We’ve got heaps of different packages. We’ve got a bushfire support plan if your business was affected by the bushfires. We’d love to get your business on board and really help you through the holiday season and beyond.
Sarah Britz:
We want to create a community for rural and regional small business owners. We’d love to have you involved with it too.
Jenn Donovan:
Yeah. Beautiful. I will, of course put the links to all of these in the show notes as well, so that you can go to the show notes and just find the links and click and comment and check it all out. Ladies, this has been a little bit of time coming. Trying to coordinate three very busy moms, business owners, has been a little bit tough, but I’m really thankful that you’ve given up your time for me today to do this. I think it’s such a heartwarming story. I love the fact that we are all in this together.
Jenn Donovan:
One day I hope that we actually get to sit down and have a cheeky wine and celebrate in person for sure. I really hope you enjoyed that episode. Perhaps you’ve been inspired to see things a little bit differently in your world or in your life. Like I said, this is the last episode of season one in Stories From the Bush. Season two won’t be too far away, I promise. If you’d like to sponsor a podcast episode, then get in touch and we’ll chat for sure.
Jenn Donovan:
Otherwise, thanks for listening in. Don’t forget to hit the subscribe button because then you’ll get a notification when season two drops. Whether you listened to one or you listened to all of them, I thank you for listening to our Stories From the Bush. If you haven’t checked out our marketplace, Spend With Us, at www.spendwithus.com.au, head there and support rural and regional small businesses. It’s so much bigger than just supporting Lauren, Sarah and I.
Jenn Donovan:
You are supporting thousands of small business owners and their families and their small towns as well. Again, don’t forget to hit subscribe. Of course, we’d love a rating and a review so that our show can go far and wider than just as far as it’s going right now. We would really love for you to leave a rating and review. Until next time, for season two, thank you from the bottom of our heart.
Jenn Donovan:
Please don’t forget to support us and all our amazing guests we’ve had on season one. Thank you and catch you soon.
