Today on this episode of The Drive Home to Hawkesbury, Rachael had the unique opportunity of catching up with the Mayor Mary Lyons-Buckett to hear about all the great things happening in the Hawkesbury.

Councillor Mary Lyons-Buckett is a Lawyer/Mediator, who lives in Kurrajong and has lived in the Hawkesbury area for 36 years. Clr Lyons-Buckett was first elected to Hawkesbury City Council in September 2012 and is the current Mayor, being elected in September 2016. She currently serves on a number of Committees on behalf of Council, including: • Human Services Advisory Committee • Hawkesbury Civics and Citizenship Committee • Waste Management Advisory Committee • Floodplain Risk Management Advisory Committee • Development Application Monitoring Advisory Committee • ClubGrants Local Committee • Regional Strategic Alliance • McMahon’s Park Management Committee • NSW Public Libraries Committee Clr Lyons-Buckett is also involved in the community in other ways, some of which are:- • Hawkesbury Environment Network • Kurrajong Community Forum • North Richmond and Districts Community Action Association Clr Lyons-Buckett’s other interests outside of her Council commitments include:- • Politics • Law reform • Music • Theatre • Soccer • Swimming

She spoke on all things Hawkesbury and as promised on the livecast I have the links to Investing in your Future Special Rate Variation Overview 2018/2019 Works, Programs and Capital Works as promised below.

A couple of other great initiatives by the Council as follows:-

1/ “Hawkesbury Fest” is being held at Governor Phillip Park on Sunday 29th July from 11am – 3pm. It’s a great opportunity for the Hawkesbury community to come along and get to know the Services that Council provides for everyone.

2/ Inaugural Town Meetings – The launch Event is on 6th June at 6pm Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor.  Questions can be sent in using an online form in writing or by video.  See the Council website or Mayoral Facebook Page for further details.

It was great to get the local update from the Mayor today and I look forward to catching up online again soon.

Rachael 🙂

 

I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and welcome to the drive home to Hawkesbury, where I believe every home has a story and I love sharing those stories on real estate in the Hawkesbury with you. Here we share the best ways to add value to your property, how to avoid the common mistakes people make when buying and selling property, and how to get the maximum return on your investment with a focus on supporting local business. I live love Hawkesbury and can’t wait to get into today’s episode. Let’s get started.
Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on what time you’re watching this episode of the drive home to Hawkesbury. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and I am lucky enough to be joined by the mayor or city council. Met a May. How are you today?
Well, thank you Rachel. How are you today?
Really good. I was lucky enough to meet you. One of the community events and one of the council meetings that was had and I suppose that’s an everyday occurrence for the mere going to and from meetings and meeting a lot of people in the area. Yes. I’m sure that the mayor would be very busy. Sometimes we have technical difficulties in. Sometimes it’s difficult for people to hear, but it’s great that everybody’s on the line and everybody’s looking sign. Hello. We’ve got quite a few viewers and quite a few thumbs up, so thank you for everybody for joining us. What’s it like in the day of a mayor?
Uh, it varies quite significantly. A can be a really jam packed day with lots of meetings including council meetings or briefings or it can be a day out in the community or it can just be a day in the office where I’m catching up on things.
Yeah. Terrific. And you’ve got your finger in so many pies for so many people are looking after the community and doing a great job. How do you manage it or mad on it?
Sorry, Rachel. I miss that.
That’s okay. I was just saying that you have your finger in many pies for the community. You’re looking after so many people. You do so much for your great community advocate. How do you manage it all?
Uh, well it’s just a matter of balancing like it is for any job, I guess it’s balancing your time and working out priorities. There’s a number of things I have to do with your job easily. I can’t change, but in terms of how I get around the community and what I do, it’s reasonably flexible and I can share my time around quite well and also balanced, balanced by family and home life as well.
Yes. And obviously you’ve got a family behind the mayor. What’s, what do they think of you being the mayor and how do they fit into it all? I mean honestly
I may have called for a long time so my children were used to it and um, yeah, my husband’s very supportive so I’m very lucky.
No, it’s terrific, isn’t it? And it’s so nice that you have that family unit there to support you and it’s so important in what we all do. And I think it’s a great thing that I’m super proud of you as, as is everybody in the community, that you’re the mayor for us and you’re doing such a great job out there. So, thank you, we appreciate it. I’m talking about Maryland. Judy, sometimes you, you have to deliver new users that is not so great and one of them is probably on the hot topic list for us in regards to ipod and the writing crease. Um, can you share a little bit about that, the insight, the nine point five percent increase that we’re going to be feeling over the next couple of years and um, how that will impact for the residents?
I didn’t quite hear your question, Rachel, but I did hear you say something about the Slc, so I’ll just run through that a bit. Uh, it is something which will of course impact on households, were aware of that as do all the other cost of living pressures that are occurring at the moment. Now we have a fully costed comprehensive works program and we really have to get these words upgrade our roads safer. We have our major complaint is of course about roads. So we need to fix the roads and we weren’t to introduce this. We would have no improvements at all and in fact we may have to actually reduce services. And make cuts to services because we had such a large consultation period with the community and the community don’t want service and I certainly want to see improvements so we have various policies in place which can assist people who may face hardships or who may want to have some sort of alternate payment plan, but a weight are determined to DB for on this. It’s not a matter of just asking people for more money with
not too sure whether we’ve lost you there, but I’m halfway through talking about the rights of how it’s going to impact the local residents and that it is a difficult thing for the local residents to feel. But certainly the, um, it’s a necessary thing that you are bringing in. And then now you’ve joined us back again and you can finish off what your assignment. A mayor. I’m sorry. The technology last is there for a bit. So you’re saying in regards to the impact is great, however it’s a necessary thing to bring in the ipod.
Yes, it is a necessary thing. Which is unfortunate. But for many years there’s been a backlog of infrastructure, a 90 nights that hasn’t been done and we simply have to fix it because we have to have our roads in good condition for the future and we have to make them Sifa throughout April, so on. So I’ve got a technician in the room now is doing something, um, so um, households estranged already and a way quite aware of that. Yeah, it is
difficult. And I think too, with an older population in some of the areas of Hawkesbury, it is more difficult for them. They have the asset of a home, the value of that asset is increasing. Therefore the value of the rates are increasing with valuer general coming out with increasing values off their properties, which in turn affects the amount of money that they pay for their rights. So it is good that you are sympathetic to them and listening to what’s going on in the community. But also I think it’s equally important that the roads have been improved because I know myself, I’m driving along roads I’ve done remains on particular cause and therefore drives and you know, $250 for a tire or a regional one heavy. It’s expensive. So it’s great that you’re doing the roads and I know that the locals will love them.
Essential that we have to deal with. Yes. We’ve got a, we have to, we have to do what needs to be done.
Yes. And I noticed in the investing in your future, um, some of the right variations which had been founded on, is it okay if I put a link of this up online for people to get an idea as to the money that’s being spent because it’s being well spent in different areas, anywhere from, you know, $1,500 right through to half a million dollars on different roads structures anywhere from glosso India and North Richmond, Richmond, South Windsor, sort tennis and, or before
across the entire Hawkesbury.
Hm. Yeah. So it makes a big difference. And I’m also in regards to the other things that you’re doing. It’s another sheet that I will put up online for people to have a look at. Lots of different areas where you focus in. It’s not just about the rose, you’re looking at business improvement, the volunteer and community development, public domain and pop and maintenance.
I do apologize for it. I’m counting on you. I am only hearing your questions, so I’m on. Sorry mate. Maybe it should be going to some sort of technological upgrade. I’m not sure if I’m saying spend across the entire Hawkesbury area, which is good. So we’ve tried to ensure that the priorities in each area for people, there’ll be ongoing works, but part of doing this is to enable us to be in a position where we can actually continue, uh, to deliver more positively because we, that’s the rationale behind that.
The positive comments coming through. We’ve got somebody saying, love our mayor and there’s a lot of people that I’m a support as off you, madam mayor and I feel that you’re doing a great job. So keep up the good work. Um, there’s a couple of other things too, which I’ve noticed certainly since you’ve been in, in, as mayor that there’s been a lot of community events and a lot more things being, you know, involving the community and one such that’s coming up on the 29th of July, I believe down at government park, which is such a great location for things to be held. Um, tell me a little bit about that. What is, um, Hawkesbury first all about and, and how can people get in touch with people to be involved?
Uh, well I think the Hawkesbury fest is going to be a celebration of local government week, which will be holding it at a family event and it, Phillip Pop, as you say, it’s a fantastic venue for that sort of thing. And uh, there’ll be various things. I’ve got this tier of what will actually think going on a, it’s a new free community event and we’ll have all that area services there to tell people what we do. So we’ll have, for example, a nursery which will be giving away a thousand plants on the day if you need some old plants. Come along and we’ll be planting a tree to celebrate national three day. We’ll have representatives from our animal shelter. They’re hosting competitions that promoting animals available for adoption. Uh, we’ll be opening, I believe, a new pack, I think, uh, so we’ve just had a new, a poc including a splash park installed and a cabinet full of packs.
I that will be opening. We’ll have people from our library, Gallery and museum and uh, we’ll have all free activities for the children liked jumping castles, face painting and roving entertainment, which sounds exciting. And as well as that will have a sheep dog and agility displayed, which I always love dog display and community groups and so on. We’ll also be showcasing their groups and hosting a sausage sizzle. So it should be a wonderful day and you’re quite right to be alongside a beautiful river is always a really good opportunity for the community to get together and enjoy that.
I think so when you have some great events down at government and government,
oh,
with the technology we’re getting plugged in here, which is even better. So you’d be able to hear the questions a little bit easier. So that’s fantastic. Thank you. Mr. Technical and this is technical. Whoever’s helping. Yeah, makes it a little bit easier. Now I’m getting my park is such a great location for those of you that don’t know, it’s at the northern end of Windsor area and it’s got a great boat ramp and you’ve got a lovely park Parkland area for the kids to apply. Plenty of parking. Very accessible. You can walk into town, into the great cafes and shops and the galleries and the museums and um, you know, the local pubs and eatery. So a really good location and I think it’s a good symbiotic relationship between the two. It’s good to bring more business into the area and good for the local shops. What’s the feeling like for the people in the area that you’re, you know, what’s the feedback from you in regards to the local community at the moment? What are you speaking to people about? What are their main concerns and what are their challenges? Mattamy?
Well, that’s quite varied at the moment because people have many different challenges as you could appreciate, uh, we have the theory is big state issues which are impacting people’s such as the corridors and things like that. We have the general pressures people face, such as the cost of living pressures and so on. We’ve got a lot of people who attained to see what we’re going to do with revitalizing our towns as we’ve just recently, as you probably know, a finished a play score survey and we’ve got lots of plans. I’m folding to, uh, you know, try and really boost our townships, playing them off and stole some more exciting things within our towns as well as several new programs that we’ve got going on. So when I’m out and about speaking to people,
I’m not too sure whether anybody else is experiencing their technical planning. Put you back again. So you need to do with the planning and you’re looking after different things within the community to increase and boost the, the infrastructure and the assistance with the local businesses. Is that right?
That’s correct, yes.
Yeah, no, that’s terrific. That’s good. Now it’s a very hot topic at the moment and I’ll speak to the counselor riches in regards to the corridor. There’s 192 kilometers of, of corridor that has proposed. The submissions have now closed, I believe for the first of June. What was the feedback in regards to that matter, mayor and was there any discussion around that? What was the feedback from the community? And also, um, you know, in regards to the acquisition process, that’s another question. The $200,000 did. Can you share with the people listening as to what the feeling is out there and what you feel is going to happen with that card or.
Yes. Well the corridor announcement, it’s no doubt. And I think the government would probably acknowledge that it was not done well at all. It was quite unacceptable to have caused that the level of distress amongst the community. And, and that was the feedback and the immediate feedback we got from people who were simply approached one day to say their land by vehicle. I had four record or, and uh, so it’s evolved from there. There’s been a bit of ambiguity surrounding it because last night there was a news item saying various things would happen and that the issue would go to cabinet on Thursday. A council did actually have, uh, which, uh, is going in after the 13th of June where we’ll discuss it at our council making. So I think one of the main issues has been the level of uncertainty connected to it.
Yeah. You can understand that worry and anxiety around a house that’s been there. The families had the farm or the property for 100 gs and then they’re just being told, well wait, it’s going to take this back because we need to put a card all through here. So I, you know, I, I feel for the people that have their homes that are in that cart or proposed cardinal, but it’s great that as you said, if they’re acknowledging that it wasn’t done correctly and they are allowing the submissions to be put forward to the first of June. And I know that you’re supporting people with their submissions. I know councilor reaches support people with their submissions as I’m sure you know, the full kit of counselors would have been there and the local community just helping one another to understand the process and also, you know, form the information required and have the meetings, local meetings to bring an awareness to the subject.
Yeah,
yeah. No, I think it’s really important. So, um, in regards to community consultation, obviously people are listening, which is great. And as a result of that, you’ve got your first town meeting coming up tomorrow, I believe that’s rather exciting for you.
Yes, we do. We have our first town meeting. I’ve got a list of all of the math is fun. They seem winter, of course it’s the launch of our new town meetings that’s on the sixth of June at 6:00 PM at the Hawkesbury regional gallery, but she’s a lovely opportunity to showcase our beautiful gallery, uh, to the public as well. And then they’re in various other towns. You can find all the dates and times on our website or our council facebook page as well as individual counselors will probably have those on their pages as well, so we’re crossing the entire whole spree and we really welcome people, the descending the questions by video or by email, a special email address and they can send those in and we’ll be answering those and we’ll be telling the public more about what to expect from the SFA program of works and also to update generally on.
Yes. Now I think it’s really important to have those town meetings because obviously everybody’s listened and learned from what happened or what didn’t happen with the corridor and it is important that people get their opportunity to say what they need to so that you know, counselors and mayors like yourself get an understanding of where the constituents of seeing what their thought patterns are, where, where the allegiances lie and what their passion is in the community. So I think it’s great that you’re doing that and it’s so good that it’s going to be locally in Windsor.
That’s so important. So important, Rachel, that we do that because that’s the only way that we really know were here to represent the community so they have to give us the feedback on what they want to see happen and how they want to see that happen. So we’ve done a lot of consultation over the last few years already and this will be furthering on from that. So we really, really welcome, you know, constructive criticism on things that we’re doing. We like input, suggestions, ideas. We love all of that. And, and of course it’s all of our community. It’s not just for the counselors today deciding. So we really have to be channeling what people want to see happen in the future.
Exactly as you said, you know, it’s not a matter of, you know, um, one person making a decision or collective making decision. It’s everybody that needs to make that decision. And I think we all need to put our toe in the water. We need to jump into that, that like together or jump into the river together and make a stand for what’s important to us all. Because if we don’t talk to yourself, you’re not going to know what you want, what we want. So
exactly, it’s really important and, and we all need to work together because we need to be able to identify what we want it for. What were you see the Hawkesbury being in the future as we’ve got a very, very large growing to cc on our doorstep, we have to really define how we want to go in the future and how we want that to be.
Yes, that’s right. And it doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter what political party that you belong to or what position that you hold. As you say, it’s a matter of involvement. Everybody working together cohesively to get that great result for the community. Now, talking about the future, where do you see the future of the Hawkesbury and with vertical living? Um, any sort of new developments that are coming on that may make a difference to the area in general. What’s your thoughts on the future for the spring?
Well, for the future I’d be really keen, first of all, to see a lot of our efforts dedicated to generating more employment opportunities out here. Firstly, because we have so many people who have to make long commutes every day and work out of the area. We really need to capitalize on the opportunities we can generate in that regard. That’s one aspect of it. And we’re working on, on strategies to do that. And the other thing is of course, where he currently preparing a land strategy, so that will be identifying way of various sorts of development and a housing strategy as to what sorts of things. So you mentioned a vertical living. Uh, I would envisage there would be some, a denser development within the city areas where it can be sustained, but of course we in the Hawkesbury have some limitations that other areas don’t have.
We have height limits due to the ref based presence and we also have a floodplain. We have bushfire zones, we have a lot of national park. We’ve got quite a few constraints on the level of development that we can have and a future development. I would like to see a thing quite sustainable and being really good solid development for the future, not just, uh, anything ad hoc anywhere. I think we need, we have an opportunity now to really plan for the future. Uh, we’re on the fringe of the city. We need to retain some buffer zones. We have the food producing area with lungs of the city. We need to really stamp our identity in that regard and ensure that we’re, as, we will have growth, that we have growth that is sustainable and manageable and we also have issues with the, with the flood, you know, our potential for flooding and bushfire is quite extreme. So we also need to encompass all of that planning into our overall planning.
Yeah. Some real valid points there because I think a lot of people don’t realize that those threes, it’s a triangle really isn’t it, with what’s going on in and around the area. Um, Toowoomba with their floods, they had major changes that were made. I know that you’re very aware of that and working towards those sorts of plans, which is terrific, but it’s important as you side to have the employment opportunities and have the businesses that can support those employment opportunities within the area because we have such a great spot. I mean, I don’t want to tell too many people about it because, you know, it’s just such a great secret that we’ve all had for such a long time. But, uh, you know, this beautiful. We can walk down to the river within 250 meters of our office. We’re right there and you can swim in the water if you wanted. You can take your boat out for a run. You can go for a ski and go for a walk with the dog. You can walk in the National Park, you can take your bike for a ride along the bike ways. Um, you can go to some of the national gallery that the museum’s cafes businesses like how lucky are we to be living here? Madeline?
We’re so lucky and we also have so much untapped potential to be able to capitalize on all of these natural attributes that we have, so many of those things are coming through in our town centers, working group and our tourism groups and so on. We’ve just got to actually tie that all together and tie. Told him with the strategic planning, which is something that the state government has wanted us to get our strategic planning in order, so that’s what we’re working on and hopefully that won’t be too much long that before we’ve completed all of that.
Yeah, no, that’s great. We’ve got people saying hello to you. We’ve got catherine saying hello to you. We’ve got Sierra Rosa has given you a shout out. Deborah, Jennifer, Jeanine, Dema, Hendra Kim. Danielle. I’m sorry. For all the people that I can’t say hello to this. So many of them wanted to be online. Is there nobody have any to everybody on the line. We really appreciate everybody joining us. You might become a regular or irregular thing, but I know there has been some questions at the time. If anybody’s got any questions before we finish up today, please ask them. Um, we’ll see if we’ve got any questions that come through. But, um, it’s been terrific to speak to you. And I think too, people don’t realize that, you know, me as a real estate agent, you as the mayor, we do have lives outside of what we do every day. But um, it’s great that we can be involved with our community. But, uh, you know, your daughter just graduated recently too, didn’t she from universities that wrong?
Sorry, I just hit that last week. My daughter just graduated. Very exciting time for the family. It’s my youngest daughter and, and um, the last one because she’s still at unique or she’s still completing a master’s, but um, she, uh, yes. Oh, all three of my children now I’ll qualify it and so on, which is somewhat of a relief. I guess it’s a wonderful thing. Which,
which brings us one it two or three 62 years. So from a, they’re probably super proud of you. You assign that. That was super proud of you. Um, you know, in originally, but now you’re super proud of them for, for achieving what they had done and uh, it’s good to have that family unit is saying before I, it was just one question from somebody that’s comes through, um, what’s at the top of your list as me, what’s the most important thing to you as mayor? I’m sure that there’s probably many things that there are, but, uh,
that’s the question that we’ve had there. Sorry, I didn’t, I didn’t hear it. I’m sorry.
Okay. As a, as the main, what’s the most important thing you feel is, um, is on the top of your list?
I’m really sorry. Actually keeps freezing and I just heard something on the top of my least. Yeah.
So on the top of your list, what is as mayor as the main, what is your priority? What is your number one in your day?
Uh, number one in my day, every day to be committed to what I have promised the community alive will do, which is to work for the betterment of this community and to truly represent what I believe is the best and to try and have our council work together to really deliver what we’ve all promised to the people, even though there may be differences, there is without a doubt all 12 counselors that committed to making the whole spray a better place. And I’m proud to lead people enjoying that. And I hope that that’s what we’re.
Yeah, no, I think you guys are doing a great job or 12 counselors are really appreciated and as you say, whether people agree or don’t agree, it doesn’t matter what stand you have as little as we come together at the end with the real community issues that matter to people and make a difference in everybody’s lives. I think that that’s a great thing. Now, if people had questions in regards to the Hawkesbury or the council or anything else, how would they get in contact with me?
Uh, well they can either email me, mayor at Hawkesbury Dot New South Wales Dot Gov Dot Edu. I have a facebook page, the council has a facebook page, they can call me my numbers and contact details are on the council website and I’m happy to take questions and have conversations with anybody about anything. If they want to make an appointment they can ring the council and they can book an appointment to come and see me as well. No, that’s
great. And that’s what we love about the mayor is she’s always accessible and contactable and um, you know, easy to be able to speak to as I have done to that. And I really appreciate the opportunity. I will put up some leads for people so that they get, if they do want to get in contact or they’ve got some questions in regards to things coming up or the town really tomorrow night, don’t forget, you might get your opportunity to meet Matt, a mare there or alternatively email, email the or any of the questions that you have. And once again, I really appreciate the opportunity to have you on the drive home to Hawkesbury today.
I apologize if I had given disjointed answers, but I haven’t heard all your questions. You, you just freezing in front of me. But I like that. Thank you for having me. I look forward to coming back. Yeah, no, that’s fantastic. And as I say, we do have some technical issues from time to time and both at this Ken free. So we’re both working with that. It is a live show that aren’t any edit, so. Well done for um, you know, hanging in there and we’re also the faces frozen as we’re talking to one another. We still got there in the end I think, and everybody’s giving me the thumbs up and lots of hearts and likes. If anybody’s got any questions, don’t hesitate to contact myself. Rachel Goldsworthy@RachaelGoldsworthy.com dot EU. You can find me at my facebook page and also I’ll put the links up for Mehta met and we will catch up with you on the next episode. We really appreciate your time at a mic. Thank you and goodbye to everybody. Thanks Rachel. Have a lovely day. Bye Bye. Bye.
Thank you so much for taking time out listening to today’s episode. If you have any questions on the process of buying, selling, leasing, or strata management, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Be sure to subscribe on itunes and I really appreciate if you could spread the word by liking and sharing this episode with your family and friends. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and I look forward to catching up with you on the next episode of the Drive Home to Hawkesbury.

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A Strata Report is just like ordering a pest & building when you are purchasing a residential property. A Strata Report or s.108 formerly known as s.164 certificate helps purchasers find out all the relevant information on the property when looking at buying into a Strata/Community or Company Titled property.
This report is separate to a pest and building inspection however it gives a snapshot of the records held by the Strata Manager on behalf of the Owners Corporation and an overview and history on the building or complex. Items included in these reports could include the following:

• Current Ownership
• Ledgers of the property they are looking at purchasing?
• Quarterly levies for the property and date at which they are paid?
• Voting rights?
• Unit entitlement?
• Past, present or proposed Special Levies (additional contributions outside your quarterly levies that may be raised for building defects or major works)?
• Does the Strata Scheme comply with Fire Requirements, Work Health & Safety Obligations and Asbestos Management?
• Is there any information in the records approving animals? Are animals permitted?
• How much is in the sinking fund and Administrative Fund? Are any of the funds in deficit?
• Are there past, present or proposed legal matters?
• Identify any Building Defects or Home Owner Warranty Claims for Defects;
• Identify any Breaches of By-Laws (Rules and Regulations for this building);
• Income and Expenditure with proposed Major Expenditure;
• What is the current value of the building?
• Is the building insured and if so adequately insured? (details of the insurance and cover);
• Are there any compliance related matters within the records such as window and balcony compliance?
• Is there a Capital works Forecast? (a report prepared detailing what the levy contributions should be over the next 10-15 years including detailed maintenance);
• Are there any known disputes within the Strata Scheme;
• Copies of Annual General Meeting Minutes, Extraordinary General Meeting Minutes and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes;
• Copies of building reports, extracts from compliance reports.

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I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and welcome to the drive home to Hawkesbury, where I believe every home has a story and I love sharing those stories on real estate in the Hawkesbury with you. Here we share the best ways to add value to your property, how to avoid the common mistakes people make when buying and selling property, and how to get the maximum return on your investment with a focus on supporting local business. I live love Hawkesbury and can’t wait to get into today’s episode. Let’s get started.
Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on what time you’re watching this episode. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy on the drive home to Hawkesbury and I’ve just finished doing a routine ingoing inspection report for attendant that’s moving into a property at Mcgraw Hill and they’re super excited as are we for them as they’re moving into their new home and a new chapter in their life. I’m on my way back now to the office to complete her astrologer inspection with somebody that has booked that in with us this morning. Now that inspection has been booked because somebody is looking at purchasing a strata property, that strata property, it’s actually located in South Windsor and there is quite a few strata properties in and around South Windsor and scattered throughout the Hawkesbury as well. So when you’re purchasing a property, your combined. So we’ll go through the contract for sale with you but also help you identify what type of property it is.
So sometimes there is a strata property and sometimes it can be torrens title, sometimes it can be limited title, sometimes it can be company title. So they’re all just different ways to identify the type of property that it is and how it should be identified in that regard. Um, with this particular strata property, what the inspector is going to be doing is coming into the office having a look through the books for that particular strata property and owners’ corporation and just seeing how healthy it is, you know, basically it’s, it’s Kinda like, um, when, you know, when you buy a house and you do a pest and building inspection and just want to make sure that the house is absolutely perfect or at least know what the worst case scenario is with the house before you move into it so that you can work towards getting those things fixed.
But equally that’s what a strata report does. So somebody will come into the office of the strata manager who has that particular property or managers that particular property for the owners corporation. And then they’ll just go through the books and records and anything pertaining to that owner’s corporation. Then they’ll give a report to that particular purchase on what the state of the nation is in regards to that strata property. And um, you know, whether there’s any things to flag. So whether the administration or sinking fund is not as healthy as what it could have been or whether there’s things that are coming up like expenses for painting that may not have been disclosed or there might be, you know, a swimming pool that needs to be fixed or ongoing maintenance problems with that particular strata building. So, um, there are just a few things people may want to be looking at. Gentleman’s just walking in trust, the, the crossing there, we’ll let him go. And, um, yeah, just a few things in regards to strider and what you’re at doing when you’re purchasing a strata property. If anybody’s got any questions or comments in regards to real estate strata, all things property, I’m always happy to help. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and I look forward to catching up with you on the next episode.
Thank you so much for taking time out listening to today’s episode. If you have any questions on the process of buying, selling, leasing, or strata management, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Be sure to subscribe on itunes and I really appreciate if you could spread the word by liking and sharing this episode with your family and friends. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and I look forward to catching up with you on the next episode of the Drive Home to Hawkesbury.

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On this episode of The Drive Home to Hawkesbury Rachael catches up with with mother of five, Naturopath, Kathryn Hams with some further insight on the questions raised this week from last week’s podcast. Lots to cover and something for everyone in this Community Noticeboard episode, looking forward to catching up with you all online soon, Rachael 🙂

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I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and welcome to the drive home to Hawkesbury, where I believe every home has a story and I love sharing those stories on real estate in the Hawkesbury with you. Here we share the best ways to add value to your property, how to avoid the common mistakes people make when buying and selling property, and how to get the maximum return on your investment with a focus on supporting local business. I live love Hawkesbury and can’t wait to get into today’s episode. Let’s get started.
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening depending on what time you’re watching this episode. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and today I’m lucky enough to be joined by Katherine Hams, naturopath and local residents. How are you, Catherine? I’m good. Thank you. And how you going today, Rachel? I am going exceptionally well. I do see a little bit of haze in the sky though. I don’t know whether everybody else is experiencing it in the Hawkesbury. Apparently there’s a few burn offs in the Hawkesbury and today. You’re seeing it over your way? I definitely am. I could smell it when I was in Richmond about a half an hour ago, so paypal that investment and things like that. I think that might’ve put even a warning out on the TV about it, but just to take note and to look after themselves with the asthma. But I think when we have fog and it holds it down, that’s really bad too.
It doesn’t give it the chance to escape. Yeah. And the son can’t get through to burn it off either. So. No, it’s not that I’m a meteorologist though, Rachel. I’ve not got that cap yet. I’m working towards it. I’ve gotten my name engage. I might be partially. I’ve seen your rain gauge and I think it does work. It’s good idea. Well that was what my point was. There hasn’t been much rain lately. I was talking to one of the farmers have affluence. I’ve worked out west. Why Out West? And they said that they are expecting rain in my from November last year. They still hadn’t had a drop since November. So yeah, when you don’t have damn water and you don’t have river water to tap into, um, you know, it’s pretty tight when it comes to the water, it’d be a very hard life in some ways, wouldn’t it, to be out on the land and to be dependent on how the weather’s going to be.
And if you weren’t any good at doing rain dances, you’d be pretty well had a beard. I reckon we’ll have to get out bras, ell rods out and start sort of dividing, chasing definitely on the way, you know, it’s right. Well we should get Melissa falling to involved with that. She does the women’s circles and the dancing and then you’re pretty good at the women’s circle style of things as well and catching up with everybody and talking and women’s retreats. So I think it’s a definite weekend in the milking. Yep. That’s it. So what happened on the weekend? Yes, a good point. Um, I actually went to the holistic wellness and spiritual expo, which was held out at this at North Richmond on the weekend and was a lot of fun. Lots of people, different modalities. Um, there was a medium there, Alan Hamel, not too sure whether people are aware with him or not, but he actually listens to the animal spirits and guides and things like that.
And it was just fascinating. Um, I had a and there’s lots of vendors out there. There was lots of people that had some really good staff crystals and tie dye person there, I think in some other clothing. Yeah. And Melissa had a Doterra, the oils that were there and supply was absolutely explicit. I believe the flowers were done by [inaudible] house and that was fantastic. They looked beautiful as usual be shared out to Laura, how are you? And um, everybody was there and um, there was some massage therapists, there was some Canadian ologists, there was some counselors, there was all sorts of modalities, a lot, lots of fun and um, lots of things to do and uh, lots of oils purchase. But I had an interesting, I was just getting coffee as a matter of fact, as I was walking out of the sort of, um, I don’t know in the afternoon and I was grabbing coffee as a break at the fair and I came back and as I was walking past the medium, um, table ACL, I need to speak to you, like you just read to me, just like we’re just having a bit of a chat.
And then, um, my dog that’s passed away, Nigel came into the conversation. I don’t know anybody that’s listening that has had a dog that spends very special pass away or you know, I know Katherine, you’ve had a dog passed recently and everybody, you know, they’re part of the family. They’re part of the bigger picture and it was just nice to and things that they knew about this dog. For those of you who don’t know, my dog was paralyzed before he, he passed away in the vet’s couldn’t work it out. And that’s exactly what the medium said. This dog that is with you every day was paralyzed. You sat with it for the last week and you couldn’t, you couldn’t do anything. He didn’t know what to do, but the doe wants to know that he’s okay and he’s passed on the other side. I’m just thinking on these medium now, this inflammation that, you know, there’s so many different ways an animal can pass and um, you know, for him to know that it was paralyzed and that I sat with it for the last week and that was part of the family and so forth. It was just, um, you know, it’s good to good to hear. I suppose. So, yeah. Interesting.
I think that, um, you know, when you pay skeptical and I’m in respect to everyone lived beliefs and thoughts and you know, the, you know, all that sort of jazz or whatever, but I mean at the end of the day, we all have those inner beliefs and when someone comes up and they do their particular eyes aspects of something to you that no one could have known you really. If you’re a nonbeliever, your hats gotta come off and you’re scratching your head. And I have to rethink this one guy.
Absolutely. There was another circumstance actually, and I’m sure other people listening on the line have had their own experiences too. But this wasn’t to do with me. This is sort of one of the people in the crowd. He did a demonstration of the actual medium ship and there was a lady in the crowd and he and he sort of pointed across the people. There was two people sitting beside one another. Then he sort of prone dean on, on this particular lady. They said, Oh, you visited the grave lately of the mother figure. And that was her mother in law as it turned out. And this mother in law, the tombstone, you’ve changed that completely. You’ve just done that and you’ve made it look pretty. And, um, she wanted to let you know that everything’s okay and that there was a list that you helped with prior to her passing.
And that’s exactly what this lady did. She’d gone to the tombstone recently. She’d read down the whole tombstone with the kids, which he smoked to the mother in law as she always does. And um, she actually showed us photos in her phone of way, she changed the tombstone and she’d only been there recently, like within days of the actual medium ship and she had written the list with this particular lady prior to her passing and she had gone through everything and she does talk to her on a regular basis. And as you say, whether you’re an unbeliever or not, you’ve really got to ask the question, can these all be to coincidences or are there actual things that do happen that are unexplainable but explainable in some otherwise?
Yeah. And I think that’s a topic. It’s like so many others. There could be so long, like how long is a piece of string? But the thing is at the end of the day, as long as you respect each other to have your own beliefs, that’s really all that matters. And you know, if you get confident in it, that’s great too. So no, I completely agree. I think that was comfortable.
Yes, yes. It’s nice to, to hear that they’re doing okay. And then, you know, Nigel as well. And um, you know, now I’ve got little brucey he’s taken his not taking his place but taking his spot on the table, so I’m part of the family now and um, he’s a very big part of what we all do. So
yeah, really good
and are believe you, um, had an interesting discussion with Sandra, your naturopath in regards to, um, all things has she motos and others.
Tell me about that. When did we, when we actually went to thyroid [inaudible] and it was regarding how the thyroid and how the hormones work and how it actually goes either into hypo or hyperthyroidism, which then can develop groves or to Hashimoto’s, but that also links in with your adrenals and fatigue. A lot of things. Somebody body interlinks. Look, it was a really good talk. The trouble is with these things, when you’re talking on these sort of physical and what happens to your body, your terminology can get to a point where it gets a little bit overwhelming for people who do not, are not in that practice of speaking like that. And I mean it was a good chat, but I think I had learned lessons that maybe we needed to actually break it down into smaller bits and I own that. I’ll own that because it’s the feedback that everyone gives us a new Aveda. Same, I think, Rachel, that feedback the most invaluable source of being able to guide a program or a talk or anything you do for someone into the proper aspect that actually works. And without the feed back, we don’t know what works. So I don’t ever look at feedback as negative. I’ll look at it as a positive way to make a change because without it we don’t.
No. And that’s what we love about these shows is that the questions, comments that we get on a regular basis about what people want to hear. So important, but I think it’s a valuable point you making in a practitioner’s world. Those sorts of things like us saying, okay, well this is a phone. Whereas that might be a, there might be a technical term for that particular phone. And it’s the same thing with what you do. You know, there’s technical terms which you just use as normal, every diamond axilla, whereas some people just are not familiar with that and that’s okay too, and as you say, you can tweak it and change it and make it to um, to suit the, um, the, the lay person as we all are when it comes to these sorts of things. And you’re bringing some great topics to the fore because a lot of topics that people don’t realize or you know, thyroid is a big one as she murders is another big one. And not only people just locally, but you’re getting them from Florida. US, you’ve got UK, you’ve got people everywhere tuning Indonesia, which is fantastic.
I think what’s happened with the, a thorough discussion is, is become a thyroid madness and people jump on bandwagons and they do it with a lot of things. It’s like the next phase is this or the next fad or whatever. And it’s the same with health as well. It’s the same with dieting. There’ll be a particular diet that comes and everyone jumps on the bandwagon of that diet and it can be dangerous to jump onto those sort of bandwagons and so I mean from our point of view of the center, because we both suffer Hashi is, it was to try and make it that people actually understood what it was about the symptoms because the thing is that you could write off saying, oh, I’ve got hashtag notice blah blah blah, but you may have something different and you’re not looking after it. It could develop. So yeah, you’re totally correct. Yeah. We’re hitting a lot of places and it’s because this is a worldwide topic too. But um, yeah, thank you. It’s good. And we’ll keep going with those and we’ll just keep learning as we do.
Terrific. That’s fantastic. And talking about learning. I’m going to catch up with the mayor of Hawkesbury City Council next week. I’m on Tuesday at 12 noon. And anybody that’s got any questions or comments for me that wants to chime in at that time, I will put a broadcast online. Um, but it’s going to be fascinating just hearing what a day in the life of Amir’s life, what the responsibilities are for her and how she conducts herself in the office and the best way forward for the Hawkesbury Council and also for the local constituents. I think it’s going to be a fascinating topic.
Yeah. I think a lot of people will, I hope they do tune into that because it’s an open opportunity now for them to be able to, as you say, ask those questions or even if they can’t, Rachel, they could email your message you on facebook questions so that you could even have some list of questions ready to go for it and you know, they could turn in later and listen to the answers to that. So if they can’t get on board when you’re on board because of work, there’s always an open opportunity to go beforehand and, you know, work out what they want to say and get the answers.
Oh, definitely. As there is, um, you know, contracting yourself and talking about that. This is Katherine’s number, just in case people want to get in contact with you. To give Rachel a cat, she got my phone number up and I didn’t have to ask a very good, very good. Um, but I also had one other question during the week, um, from people in regards to deposits and people putting deposits down on houses. We had one particular situation on the weekend where a buyer really liked a property but they weren’t in a position to sign contracts, but they were willing to put a deposit down because they had to speak to the solicitor on Monday. Now sometimes that is amenable to both parties being the vendor or the seller and also the purchaser, but sometimes it’s not. And in this case it was all parties agreed that it was the weekend they weren’t able to speak to their solicitor, so they were going to wait till Monday and then signed contracts, move forward with that on that particular day.
Which is absolutely fine for a lot of reasons because I think all purchases in good faith go to an open home thinking they’re going to buy a house. They want to put a deposit down and they want to move forward with it. Not, oh, I don’t want to sign a contract, I don’t want to put a deposit down and those sorts of things. So it is possible for people to, in good faith, put a deposit down. It doesn’t necessarily mean it wholesale property like it used to do that they used to call that a holding deposit or some sort of thing like that. But that’s not the way it works these days. Um, you know, unless you have a deposit, unless you have a signed contract and an exchange contract, you’re not officially off the market. So it really needs to be an agreement, a gentleman’s agreement between two parties, I suppose that they’re okay, that process and they’re okay to, you know, as it were except the deposit.
And then one day move forward with the exchange of contracts which they’ve done in this case. And it’s been a good outcome for everybody. So if anybody’s got any questions in regards to real estate or any questions in regards to exchanges or deposits in regards to those properties, I’m happy to help. I can be contacted on full five, double seven, double nine slash six four or website Rachael Goldsworthy.com dot EU and Catherine, do you have a website that anybody can go to? The therapy and wellness have on facebook. So that’s one I’ve contacted me at or I’m like message you and I know you’ll put them in contact with me as well. So yeah. And anything else come up from. There was quite a few questions this week but we just sort of took the few key ones from the, the list. Was there anything else that you wanted to cover off before we finish up today?
No, not really. I think that, you know, it’s good that you just mentioned that about the deposit and everything. Can I actually get contracts beforehand from me, Rachel so that they can get this list, just look at it or is that something they don’t do? It’s quite a normal practice now. Yes. That people can get a copy of the contract prior to looking at a property and show that to their solicitors so that because a lot of properties, there’s multiple peoples and there’s wanting to look at it. There’s multiple offers so you don’t want to miss out on that particular property and it’s always good as you say, Castro to get ahead of the game and make sure that you’re organized to get a copy of the contract from the agent that you’re looking at the property through having a throat, your cell phone. When the contracts made up of many things including the details of the property.
The one, four, nine C, two B, which is the zoning. It will tell you whether the roads are going to be widened, whether there’s other things that flood zones involved with a drainage diagram that’s attached to the contract as well. So many things that are attached to the contract that you really need to be aware of. So I just say it’s good to get ahead of the game and and have a look at that beforehand. And then people are able to feel confident with that process. And okay, I’ve been through the contract, I’ve seen my solicitor tick that box and we’ve spoken about this before. There is a due diligence download that we can provide people when they’re looking at property. So if anybody wants a copy of that, we’re more than happy to provide that, um, and just help them and give them the extra seal of approval whilst they’re hitting towards buying their first home or even selling the first time.
Yeah. Oh, that’s good. Well that’s, I just wondered that and I wondered if that was something that was a practice you did, but I mean, as you said, uh, you need to have that exchange anyways, so it’s still really keeps it open, doesn’t it till that final exchange? Absolutely. Yeah. The property is not unconditional until it’s actually gone through the cooling off period and it expires on that cooling off period and once that happens and the deposits been paid, the property then moves into escrow. So it’s all a matter of making sure that the properties. And I guess that everybody does what they need to do to make it all happen and come together. But I think there can be some confusion around it that I capital if I put the point two five percent deposit, it’s my property and nobody else can buy it, that, that’s not actually the case and there is no such thing as a holding deposit. It’s just a deposit that you’ve put down in good faith. I’m here towards exchange and signature and exchange of those contracts to be able to move forward into the cooling off period and then to the unconditional, um, to settlement process.
Interesting. Well, um, thanks for being on the line everybody and thank you Kathryn for being on the line. As per usual. I’m, I’m not going to be here next week because I’m going to the Australian chapter of the funkshway conference which is being held in Melbourne, so it might get cash onto, um, hop on the line and say hi to everybody for me next week. He says, okay with you. That’d be terrific. And, um, anybody that’s got any questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. We love seeing people on the line and we love hearing what people have to say. Any local events, any sporting organizations or any people in business that want to get the word out there about their great business, we’re happy to help in that regard. So, um, thank you for being online and we’ll catch up with everybody next week.
Thank you so much for taking time out listening to today’s episode. If you have any questions on the process of buying, selling, leasing, or strata management, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Be sure to subscribe on itunes and I really appreciate if you could spread the word by liking and sharing this episode with your family and friends. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and I look forward to catching up with you on the next episode of the Drive Home to Hawkesbury.

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Join Rachael Goldsworthy on The Drive Home to Hawkesbury where she explores the benefits of attending the Wholistic Wellness & Spiritual Expo with Melissa Follington who provides Alternative & Holistic Health for people in the Hawkesbury. On the live stream we will discover why so many people love these Events and Rachael would love you to join Melissa and herself on Friday 12 noon and to say thank you for dropping by she will be giving away a special gift for your home to everyone on the Livecast. See you online soon.

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I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and welcome to the drive home to Hawkesbury, where I believe every home has a story and I love sharing those stories on real estate in the Hawkesbury with you. Here we share the best ways to add value to your property, how to avoid the common mistakes people make when buying and selling property, and how to get the maximum return on your investment with a focus on supporting local business. I live love Hawkesbury and can’t wait to get into today’s episode. Let’s get started.
Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on what time you’re watching this broadcast. I Rachael Goldsworthy and I’m on the drive home to Hawkesbury and today I’m super excited because I’m joined by Melissa falling turn. How are you, Melissa? How are you? Yeah, really good. I’m. I’m super excited because we’ve got. We’ve had you on the show before and you gave us so much information about holistic living and being a little bit more spiritual and grounded and and to that aim with the segway through to the holistic wellness and spiritual expo that you’ve got coming up this weekend. Tell me about that.
Oh, it’s so exciting. It’s going to be amazing. Um, I’ve came together with one of my good friends who is the events manager at North Richmond Panthers and um, put together this wonderful event to really connect people with the holistic wellness lifestyle, um, and connects the industries, you know, the businesses in that industry as well. So it was kind of like a networking bit of education and inspiration for people. So it’s going to be fantastic.
That’s awesome. And I can hear kids in the background and I think that we can bring the kids on Sunday with this as well, can’t we?
Absolutely. It’s open for everybody. Men, women, children alike. Um, there’ll be a little bit of something there for everyone. So it’s not targeted to anyone. I’m just like group or anything like that. So there’ll be something there for everyone is going to be amazing.
No, that’s terrific. So can you give people a little bit of a secret, a little, a little bit of a letter of what’s actually gonna Happen? Who’s gonna be there? What are we going to learn?
We have so many. Well, we’ve got a very wide variety of vendors coming along, so apart from myself with the essential oils, um, I’m also going to be running a women’s circle table as well, so educating people a little bit more about connecting women, um, and yeah, just honoring that ancient tradition, that sacred tradition. Um, and then there is obviously going to be yourself. You’ve got you have a little next to me right next to you because I think that that’s where the jams going to be tomorrow and Sunday night. So hopefully we’ll have some really cool musicians playing and there’s going to be an opportunity for all the vendors to present if they feel like they’d like to do that. Um, we’re going to have some great talks, educational talks about the industry. We’ve got some kinesiologists, lots of crystal is massage. Um, we’ve got a show manic kind of native American stalls happening. So Tarot, reading, all that sort of spiritual staff, that’s going to be amazing.
It’s going to be awesome. The energy in that room. I can almost feel it already. I’ll just read it.
It’s amazing. I’m going to go in there and stage it all before we start, so it’s all good,
clear and it’s so important to clear that space and even with real estate in some of the homes that we look at, you know, selling for people or managing and the changeover of the energy from one to another. People don’t realize, and you will probably be able to tell people more so about this, but they don’t realize that everything’s energy. You know, your furniture’s energy, your energy, your house energy, what’s in your house is energy. So if you’ve got good vibes into the property or you’ve got a clean slate, when you go into it, you just feel great walking around and enjoying that space. Whereas if you’ve got yucky stuck, negative, awful energy, it can be a, you know, not the best art. So it’s always good as you say, decide the house before you get started. And I’m so pleased to hear that you’re going to be staging the stage and also the expo area so that everybody could have some awesome energy and really pick up on that, on the die. So that’s terrific. And um, tell me what, what is your, I mean your, your women’s circle, we’ve spoken about this before, you do this quite often and it’s such a great thing and I’ve heard some terrific feedback from the people that attend them. Tell the people listening that you know, may not know about what a women’s circle is and what’s the principle behind it and what can people expect to get out of attending a women’s circle.
Okay. So everyone will take something different depending on what they’re looking for and what they’re needing. I’m basically a women’s circle is a very lost ancient, sacred tradition where women come together and they do a number of things, you know, I mean ancient times, villages were run by women coming together and discussing all sorts of things happening with the village. Healings would take place. It’s a safe space to share and to celebrate milestones in life and to support each other through everything that happens in life. And so that’s what we try to, to put together in our women’s circles today, which just about connecting and I’m like, it feels like home to me, you know, facilitating this and holding space for women to come and shed the layers, shared this in and really live in their true authentic selves. Um, yeah, it’s a beautiful process.
Were you, like I said, you shared what you don’t need anymore and that leaves room to take on more positive aspects of life. Um, and so yeah, everyone gets something different out of it and each circle will be themed differently depending on what the moon’s doing or what I feel drawn to some. I’m putting together some at the moment working with crystals and the archangels, which is going to be beautiful. Um, but yeah, that’s that. It’s such a broad scope. I also do baby blessing way, so that’s kind of like rather than having a baby shower, it’s kind of like honoring the mother and that whole process that our bodies go through. It’s so beautiful. And you know, self matrimony and bridal circles and it. Yeah, the list is endless. You can do so much with it and it’s such a spiritually uplifting beautiful thing to do.
Yeah, no, I think that’s great. And I was watching the balloon go behind you with the kids up and down and and I think that that’s kind of like the energy with all of us at different times throughout their life. It can go up and down, but by having a women’s circle and coming to that women’s circle, I’m sure as you said, you can see those ways. You can talk about things. You can get it out there and then just new slate. Let’s go from this, let’s make things happen and I think people underestimate what you can achieve together as opposed to I’m going to do this myself and I’m just going to do this all align as opposed to somebody who wants to go on that same journey with you. Even though there might be on a different path, they still want to achieve the different things in their life, whatever that might be in it might just be sitting quietly with yourself over a nighttime for 10 minutes and being okay with it.
Absolutely, and that’s what society is like these days, you know, we’re so go, go, go, go, go all the time. And we are, we kind of are segregated from people in our village like in it used to take a village to raise a child and now we’re just doing it all by ourselves. So as women we tend to take on all these labels like mother wife, you know, boss corporate later or whatever, you know, whatever the labels are and said that by coming together in circle we get the opportunity to shed those labels and just be a woman and be in that divine feminine and it’s such a beautiful experience. You know, we have the meditation and the creating side of it and just being and finding, tapping into what really, what, who you are and what you want and when you actually stop and think about those questions, they’re quite profound and they’re quite triggering. But taking that time for yourself and you know, attending a weekly or fortnightly or monthly circle. So fulfilling, so fulfilling.
And if somebody wanted to get involved with the circles that you do, what would they expect? Would it be like an hour at a time or would it be a couple of hours or does it depend on, on the, you mentioned sort of weekly or monthly or quarterly, whatever, to tell us a little bit about that.
Okay. So generally my, my circles tend to run between 90 minutes and two hours depending on the theme and the content. Um, but every circle that you attend will be different. Obviously everyone brings different energy. All of my circles that I’ve run have all been completely different in the energy and everything, but it’s, you know, it’s, it’s very diverse. So if, if it was to say be a weekly thing, you know, you could probably the benefit of doing it weekly is it you really get to know and connect with the group that you’re doing it. So it’s not just like a one off where you might meet some amazing people and then that’s it. It’s kind of really it. It deepens that connection and that process. It’s really quite nice
and I guess trust increases as time goes by. It’s like any relationship, you, you spend that time into the emotional deposit bank and, and the more time that you spend with somebody, the more time you want to spend with them because you share things that maybe nobody else knows or are you, they’ve earned the right to know what you don’t know necessarily shared with everybody and it would just be a safe place to do that, which is terrific.
Yeah. It really is to become a container for whatever you know, you need to put into it. Really. Um, and yeah, it’s, it’s just, it’s something that you really need to experience. It’s such a beautiful thing and I’m so honored that I am able to, to bring this to women and to share this with women. You know, it was something that I was, I was looking for, but there was, I couldn’t find anything in my local area. So I thought, well, I’m going to do this. And I did my um, women circle facilitator course with image and Bailey and I was amazing. She’s a fantastic facilitator and leader and she’s an amazing woman. And honoring heart is her, um, her company there and she just does wonderful things with and for women. So if anyone’s interested in, in doing that, then I highly recommend it.
Big shout out to image and as she’s watching, um, and also I believe Sandra’s watching. Hi Sandra. She says hi mill and Rachel sees Sunday she’s coming along to the expo, which is, I go, no, it’s really exciting to have Sandra on. And also the other people that are here. Hi Barbara big hello to you. It’s kind of like romper room isn’t it to use and we’ll see you in the surf, but um, it’s a bit of fun and it’s a bit of, you know, um, I think it’s just sisterhood and as you said, miles aren’t excluded from it as well. I mean I’m sure it’s different places that we can all catch up and certainly the expo is all inclusive. So anybody that wants to come along on Sunday, I’ll be there on Sunday as well with mill hot seat right next to the mill and her crew and on bringing along with them.
And Michelle Segar, she’s also an expert in bowel biology. Her and her husband live in Castle Hill and she specializes in funkshway and also bound biology, which is all about the study of the home and that the healthy home and making sure that, you know, if you have mold issues, how that affects that child or that person in the house, the sickness that you find, um, you know, people think I, Carol moved into this house and I just can’t get rid of this cold or I’ve got this cough for hit eight that I just can’t move. And then when you start to analyze and you get somebody in like Michelle to have a look at the actual house, he goes, oh, there’s water coming through this wall or there’s a private sleeping or there’s some sort of mold in the area or you might be exposed to electromagnetic fields, which is causing you those headaches. And you wouldn’t even realize that if you weren’t told about those sorts of things. So it’s going to be fascinating having Michelle there. Um, I’ll, I’ll also be helping out with the funkshway and all things healthy homes. And, and happy homes as well because it’s all about making that environment really happy and you know, it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to make it your own home and make it. That’s it, you know?
Yeah.
All about the energy. And also, um, you know, also about your oils even. I mean, I know in my office I’ve got a distressed oil that I use, I’ve got, you know, an uplifting oil. I’ve got to thinking oil, you know, and, and I should really talk to you about that more because I’d love to get you in to consult on what oils we should be using specifically because you’re the expert in that regard. And I think it makes a big difference. But when clients walk in Nice little site, the first thing they say, oh gosh, this place smells beautiful. What, what’s around here, what’s going on? And, and um, you know, you’re probably the best to speak to in that regards, but if somebody wanted to lift the energy of the price was sort of oil, would you suggest that they would use as a, you know, every day and maybe a special one for once a month or once every couple of weeks.
So all of our citrus oils are really, really uplifting. We have some beautiful blend in our range so you can just do the basics like wild orange or lemon or Bergamot. Bergamot is a beautiful, subtle but powerful oil. Um, and that also helps with, you know, self esteem and everything really making you, I’m very comfortable with who you are. So it’s uplifting, but it’s really relaxing at the same time. It’s kind of, it’s kind of like an earl grey tea. That’s exactly what it is, you know, it’s like the Burger Ma, it’s like uplifting but soothing. Um, and yeah, and then we’ve got some beautiful blends which is all of our psychiatrists who say elevation is one of my favorites and it’s called our joyful blend and it’s just, it’s literally joy, but always in a bottle. It’s a beautiful, um, but even like you pick them up so you minty scent and everything, they really uplifting thing. Everything pepe. Um, and again we’ve got some beautiful blends, but wild orange is actually been proven to boost sales and real estate agents. So there you go. Having wild orange in there in the foyer going on earlier, it’s been actually been scientifically proven. I can get your paperwork on it that it boosts sales. So
there must be something in that because when I went to the states everything was pretty much that and the biggest sales push that I’ve ever met, you know, they, they know how to sell things, they know how to market things and um, you know, obviously we get a spin off from that, but that’s really good advice. And maybe while I’m, while I’m always attracted to that orange scent because it’s a really special st and I think it’s, I love peeling an orange, always remember as a kid, and I don’t know about you, but my dad used to teach my sister and my brother and we all used to sit, stand at the kitchen sink and we all were given an orange and a knife and you know, we’re meant to create a toilet seat. I don’t know whether you had the same thing but you feel this way, but it is just try and peel the outside of the orange off and then we slowly got, you know, ripping bits of flesh off and everything along it.
Right. And you said, okay, the final piece is you’ve got to slice the top and then make a toilet seat. So that’s our mind. Okay. We’re making a toilet seat, so make a toilet seat. Yep. Perfect. Okay. Perfect. And I get the same from that is just boys love your lines or any urop. It’s kind of like even um, yellow writing peds. It’s for the creative in a yellow color that your habits for the brain, it makes you think creatively and get through into things. Same thing with citrus, obviously with the lemons and so I’m going to be fascinated with everybody that’s going to be out there on Sundance. Super excited because it starts at 11:00 is 11, 24 and we’re the pan.
Yeah. Yeah. We still have some spots available. If there’s anyone out there who has anything in the holistic wellness and spiritual, um, kind of industry that you’d like to showcase. Just I’m just trying to think how to do this. Probably best to jump onto seven, 10 essentials purely by nature and send me a private message and I can give you all the details. We actually really, really looking for a musician. Someone to come and play the guitar. Yeah. Just someone to come and um, promote themselves, you know, it’s a, um, it’s not a paid Gig, but it’s a really good chance at getting networking out there and getting future future bookings and stuff like that. And just to bring a really nice, cool rely of vibe. Yeah. Really Mellow, kind of poke and validated, so if there’s anyone listening out there, if you know anyone who’s good with a guitar and got a get a good set of pipes and then the my way or we’ll make it happen.
Exactly. Fair. And maybe your kids. I’m not too sure. Any of those people listening online that have a musician or a budding musician that wants to get out there and be part of the community for a very special day for the wellness expo. That would be awesome. Melissa, would love to hear from you. If people wanted to get in touch with you before the expo or after the expo. Melissa, how can they find you? What’s your website address?
Okay, so it’s probably best off instantaneous response through facebook worldwide,
like minutes, literally minutes if you
follow seven, 10 essentials, purity by nature. I’m anyone interested in the women’s circles side of it. It’s called white light to women’s circles and you can find us on there and um, give us a lock and a following. Send me a private message and I’ll get back to you pretty much straight away.
We’ve also got Janine lead online, how I, Janine, thanks for liking the program. She is a wonderful woman and such a wealth of knowledge. She’s actually the prison of the Australian chapter of the international team and I’m hitting down to see her and the rest of the crew in Melbourne, in Brighton. So a big shout out to all my friends. They’re all very special and I’m really looking forward to catching up with everybody, cal and the girls and guys down there. So I’m Brian. I think we’re heading towards. So that should be really good. Janine such done such a wonderful job in getting everybody together and all of the people that are going to be speaking, there’s going to be a talk on, um, I think by tyler he’s actually talking about real estate and dragon veins. So fascinating topics, just everybody has different views and different thoughts and they also have such an impact on us in our lives and we don’t realize it until you start to study.
So thanks so much for joining me today, Melissa. I really appreciate it. I’m so looking forward to Sunday at the wellness, holistic wellness. And Spiritual Expo that we are going to, it’s four, 4:00 PM at finishes facet to live and I am so, and it’s at a panthers North Richmond. So any questions message Melissa falling in her inbox there or I will put that up some links as well so that we’ve got those live. Um, so thank you for everybody being on the line, looking forward to catching up with everybody on Sunday talking all things you know, natural oils, women’s circles, funkshway bowel biology, everything that we can talk about that’s going to make us feel absolutely awesome. Thank you for listening and we’ll catch up with you next time.
Yeah,
I got you. Again.
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On this episode of The Drive Home to Hawkesbury, Rachael is looking forward to speaking with 12 year old State Champion Ayla to find out what Power Tumbling and Gymnastics is all about.

Ayla always had a natural flair for gymnastics. Since starting to walk at 8 months old she was always upside down, balancing on objects or somersaulting. Quite agile and flexible she started gymnastics at the age of 4 years. Knowing the passion was there and wanting to constantly somersault and backflip she joined the well-known local Hawkesbury gym Kachan School of Tumbling and Performance who specialises in Power Tumbling and also Trampoline gymnastics. They are reported to be the leading gym in the sport and currently hold numerous World Titles from their Athletes whom they train.

Power Tumbling is a unique form of gymnastics where you perform your routine on a 25 metre rod or air floor with a series of passes consisting of flips, whips, baronies, back and front saults, double backsaults and twists.

After a year of recreational classes, they spotted her talent and commitment then invited her to join their squad team. Within 12 months of training, Ayla competed at her first State Championships with great results placing 4th in her chosen discipline of Tumbling Double Mini Trampoline and U/13 Trampoline.

2017 brought another successful year for Ayla competing at her second State Age Championships qualifying for the Australian Championships in 2 out of her 3 disciplines. Tumbling and Double Mini Trampoline. Joining the NSW Gymnastics State team she travelling to Melbourne Hiesense Arena to give her all. After a tough competition Ayla finished 11th in Australia for Tumbling and 24th Double Mini Trampoline.

Also later during 2017 the State Levels Championships happened and to Ayla’s surprise, she was able to bring home a Silver Medal for Trampoline.

2018 saw yet another amazing start to the year for Ayla’s love of Tumbling. Becoming Dual State Champion in her U13’s Tumbling and Double Mini Trampoline. They are Ayla’s first gold medals in such a high level of competition.

Ayla leaves on Monday 28th May, 2018 to join her fellow NSW State teammates to compete in her 2 Australian Championships held in Melbourne competing in 4 different events.
U13’s Tumbling and Double Mini Trampoline as State Champion, Trampoline and Synchronised Trampoline. A huge week to come for Ayla and her equally dedicated Mum Sandra, we wish them both the very best for the Australian Championships.

Rachael looks forward to seeing everyone online in support of Ayla for her big event. I Live, Love, Hawkesbury and can’t wait to get into today’s episode.

I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and welcome to The Drive Home to Hawkesbury, where I believe every home has a story and I love sharing those stories on real estate in real estate with you. Here we share the best ways to add value to your property, how to avoid the common mistakes people make when buying and selling property, and how to get the maximum return on your investment with a focus on supporting local business. I live love Hawkesbury and can’t wait to get into today’s episode with you, so let’s get started.
Good afternoon or good evening depending on what time you’re watching this episode. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and super excited to be here with state champion, not only state champion, judo state champion island. That big. That’s good. And tell me a little about gymnastics. When did that start? Were you very young?
I was three years old
years old. Okay. Hello to everybody that’s on here. It’s great to see so many people, Christine, but what says, wow, what a ride up. I’ll, I’ll look forward to seeing you in the interview and also an honorable mention for the very dedicated support person. Mom, hey, how about that? Nice one. Sandra. I hope you’re on the line. Sander. Good to see you too. And who also. We got everybody, the stack of people on here. Just in support of you for next, next week’s national. So when you started, when you were four years old. I live. That’s a pretty big thing. Tell me, what is gymnastics and heady? Get into it.
Well, I just, since I was little, I just started tumbling around the house doing handstands and rose front flips, back, flips, all that kind of stuff.
Yeah. It’s Kinda like just eating a banana sandwiches. I’m really easy stuff and I got even though it’s to. What do you call those things? When you put your hands over your head and you try and stand up and make yourself into a bit of an arch. What’s that? Cool
springs but in tumbling spot we call them flips, flips. What? We jumped. We if we did like a round of kind of thing, then we get back home to our faith, jumped back into our hands. We do that continuously. Okay.
So tell me gymnastics. Where do you train?
I can’t even talk to Christian school is tumbling and performance in Sacramento.
Okay. And what’s that like? You enjoy that? I love it there. And there’s lots of kids and adults that get involved with it too. And how many people would you try and read on any one day?
Um, probably around about eight to 10 people.
Eight to 10 people. And what does a training session like? I mean, I know I like to go for a walk by the river and that kind of stuff, but that’s a bit sedating comparison to the training. That’s somebody specialized that you do. So tell me all about that. What does get, is that an hour? Is it two hours?
It’s a four hours on a Tuesday and a Wednesday and I get four and a half hours on a Saturday.
Oh Wow. And talking
about that, I think Dima is saying hello and beck is saying hello, how are you? They’re your coaches, aren’t they?
Fantastic. And Rebecca as well. And moms online. Hi Mom. Hi Sandra. How are you doing? Your mom is a big support fruit for you as well as. And she, she’s traveling down to Melbourne, I believe, nine. Terrific. And I’ve also got another comment down. He reverts. Thank you very much for coming on. And she said a great story. It takes dedication to reach that standard. Good luck, Aila. It’s really nice to have the support from everybody, isn’t it? Because there’s so many people that are cheering you on and it must be a big thing. I mean not only the Jews state champion, but you’re also school captain at Ebeneezer School, I believe. Like I know what it’s like when you’re running a business. It’s very suddenly things on lots of staff, lots of people to work with. What is it like? It must be the same sort of pressure being a state champion champion and also as a captain.
Well I have to run a lot of assemblies every two weeks or four other captains say I’m dating. They sometimes they have to run assemblies on their own with at paypal.
Wow. Big responsibilities. And you get to go to school with a lot of kids to whatever Nisa big shout out to Mr Brian. He’s the principal. There isn’t anybody else you’d like to say hello to your little brother. Maybe Joe and little Robert. He’s my nephew. Hello Robert. How are you? So now we’ve got a bit of show and so for everybody, because I’m, I feel very, very privileged sitting next to the jail state champion and she’s bought along with her very, very special metals and she’s going to share with you could you walk us through each one of the models that you’ve received and what they mean?
Say at then you go in last year for a national clubs. Then I had this one here was at state levels last year for trampoline.
Hold that one road up to the green light there. And then look at that. Isn’t that amazing? So is there a silver medal or is that a gold medal? It’s a civil war. That’s awesome. Any middle in my. Any place. Just turning up to the competition is just a great achievement, isn’t it?
Then I had. I got this wonderful again, take double, mini tramp and the other of tumbling.
Awesome. Hi Karen and Karen’s online to say hello to you too. I’ll let everybody’s cheering you on as they are for everybody. And noses. You go girl. How about uncle? No, my uncle know. And you’ve got your grandfather on the line as well too. It’s great to have everybody there. So it’s so nice to have the support. So yeah. So, um, which is your favorite middle out of all of those ones that you’ve shown us? My tumbling. This one now that’s a gold medal. You got two gold medals too. Don’t shit. Yeah. That’s awesome. And um, what does it take to get a gold medal? Like what do you need to do that the judges are looking for when you’re doing the tumbling or the gymnastics?
Straight legs to hit the right spot on the floor. Make sure you don’t take off on the mat or the floor, kind of all that stuff.
Okay. So it’s just sort of straight legs on the floor. Straight ahead. Do you have to run really fast as you’re coming up to what you’re doing? It depends. Okay. And what does it depend on?
Um, how did you pass or retain that you’re doing or saying? If I was doing an eight school pass, you may need to run a little bit faster. I doing five scope past. Might want to rather still fast, but a little bit slower.
Okay. For the, the simple real estate agents here online like me, what’s the past and what’s. I’m a five and an eight. What’s the difference between the two? Is that an extra move that you put into the tumble?
What we do is for two passes, which basically means we have to do a five scale retain. Say it a step eight, includes a start and an ending. So Randolph and then say you’re doing whips and flips and then an end, maybe some twists. So Devil’s alright and costs. You would add a little bit more to that.
Wow. No, that’s awesome. And um, tell me when you, you’re doing the routine. So they have music that they play for you or you just got to be focused on that actual move and just get straight into it and do the past. And we’ll normally have music in the gym all the time. Wow. Christine says that you’re doing a great job explaining everything. Isn’t that good? Um, and is it one Mac and taught you put a hood on. It’s cold. Yes, exactly. We’re thinking the same thing, but I’m wearing the Australian colors because we’re all going to the nationals next, next week down to Melbourne. How’s that going to be this for the whole week in Melbourne and yes, Australian championships. And how many of you are traveling down there from your school?
Um, well there’s a couple from Asco that uh, it’s going and then I think instead of stay or the internationals are going, so they actually paid for.
Wow. And because there’s two other competitions that you may be invited to as well. Which ones in Portugal and one’s in Russia, isn’t it?
Yeah. So tell me about that. They’re mainly for the internationals. Yes. And if they qualify at nationals, I think they go to Portugal can. Yeah. No
that’s terrific. Hi Julie. Julie says for it you’re doing an awesome interview. Well done to you. I look, I completely agree. And she’s such an expert on the topic of the tumbling and I’ve, I’ve seen her in action and honestly the energy required. I mean, I’ll look like a giant and comparisons, a little Iowa. I’m not too sure how many kilos. You don’t have to answer that question, but she’s a tiny, tiny thing. How tall are you? I’m like, wow. Okay. So I’m just just under six Ford and that would sort of come up to about here on me, but the way I like I just down these paths. I mean there’s a mat and it’s. How many meters would you say would be 25? 50 million or something like that. Okay. And so she runs down this of amazing pace, those who turns and tumbles and so forth and then lands on both your feet and just big smile and thank you to the crowd. Is that the way it happens?
And safely we can present Isabelle say we did that at the start and at the end.
Oh, awesome. And Sex Sean deem. Hi Zac. How are you? Awesome work. I was still more to come and that’s so true because she’s so talented and she’s had a couple of fantastic years out there in the training and doing everything that she’s doing and I know you’ve got a really good support pro of trainers from a baker and diem and all the people down at, um. What’s the name of your school again? One more time. There we go. So they’re all great people. They work out at the winds of Baptist church down in south windsor there. It’s a great location. If anybody wants to get involved, I’m sure are baker and dean would be pleased to help them. We’ll put up a link on that for people so that they can have a look at that now with the nationals or the Australian championships coming in next week, what are some of the things that you’re thinking about going into that competition? Ireland.
It’s such a big competition. I’m a little bit nervous.
Are you? What are you nervous about?
Well, I really want to try hard to get really, really good and try mean. Yeah,
and we’re super proud of it. And you’re going to do the best you possibly can do on the day, and it doesn’t matter whether you place with you win, whatever it happens, you’re all a winner in our eyes. That’s the way I look at it. So, um, I think it’s fantastic. Now, I don’t know whether anybody’s offered you corporate sponsorship, but I think that you’ve been doing an awesome job in the tumbling and everything else and I’ve spoken to your manager and she’s okay. This, um, she’s also your chaperone and your mother, but, um, we’re going to give you some corporate sponsorship for the event. So that’s for you to take away and now you’re most welcome and we’re happy to support the local sporting organizations and also the local kids because I think it’s really important. It has done so well and she’s a real quiet achiever and she probably wouldn’t.
A lot of people may not know all of the things that she does, but the dedication and training that she has done and achieved over the last few years. And you know, starting from the age of four. And how old are you now? 11. 11. Wow. And you’re going in the underserved teens, is that right? Yeah. So it’s going to be a really big, big thing for her to be down in the competition as for everybody else going in the competition with the school. And I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. Probably a lot of pressure to, as you said, you might be a little bit nervous, but I think you’re going to do a great job as I’m sure everybody else. Thanks. So, um, all the best for down in Melbourne and I hope you come back until it’s lots of great stories and all your adventures and, and how you fear down there and um, you know, what you did and what sort of training you didn’t. Just before we finished, tell me what’s your favorite move on the actual math? What’s your favorite sort of
since yesterday. That’s probably my favorite right now.
Double Talk and what I’m with the double Tuck. Is it really important to pull the legs close to cheer? So what’s, what’s the best way to do that?
Yeah, it’s probably your legs. Say you have like a little bit of gap in your knees and make sure that your team doesn’t like hit your knees.
Okay. Yeah. And when you land what’s important when you’re landing?
I’m just try as much as he can. Try and like stick it, stick it. Yes.
That’s a technical term. And what does stick it mean for the people? Like the real estate agents that don’t know what that means. US out here
scale. And we don’t have to take a step. We just like landon stand there.
Okay. And do you have to put your arms up in the air as though, and wave to people or do any of that sort of thing or. No. Okay. Zach’s giving you a big thumbs up. He thinks that you probably. Do you know Zack a good on your coach? Zach, how are you? Stoked story. What’s that mean?
Ah, very good. Yes, there we go. We’ve got all of the, the um, the trampoline gymnastic. Speak Down Pat with the help of Ilm. And Zach, thank you for that. Well, we wish you all the very best for your training down in preliminary training prior to going down to the Australian championships, Eila and everybody else that’s going down there. We really appreciate you coming on the show. We’re looking forward to catching up with Demi and Rebecca and possibly to upon your return just to see and he all of the latest news and anybody else that wants to share the sports stories of the local community and the hope street. That’s why I’ve created this podcast just so that we can share the great stories that we all get involved with in this and many of them and um, so many unsung heroes and it’s nice to hear about.
Oh Shit to show us all your middles again. I’ll have you just done so well and we’re all super proud of you. So that’s an awesome job and we’re looking forward to hearing about it when you get back. So thanks for being on the line. Our, I’m sure everyone appreciates it and you can give them a big way and we’ll say hello and goodbye until the next time and say goodbye to people. Thanks very much for tuning in. If you’ve got any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact me. I can be contacted@RachaelGoldsworthy.com.au. I also will put some links up from the school and also anything else that people want to know. Questions, comments, love to hear from you, and it will be fantastic. Hi Melinda. Thank you very much for your thumbs up. We really appreciate that and everybody else being on the line and the support for the local problem. Okay, take care and we’ll see you on the next one. Bye for now.
Thank you so much for taking time out of listening to today’s episode. If you have any questions on the process of buying, selling, leasing Australia management, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Be sure to subscribe on itunes and I’d really appreciate if you could spread the word by liking and sharing this episode with your family and friends. I’m Rachael Goldsworthy and I look forward to catching up with you on the next episode of The Drive Home to Hawkesbury.

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