Get HEaRd: Podcast interviews
The project saw Radio 4EB partner with WOW Australia to produce a range of interview-based content, outside broadcasts, podcasts and CRN content about women by women. New female broadcasters from diverse backgrounds were mentored by experienced broadcasters and producers and underwent training in outside broadcast, interview techniques, editing and technical support. Here are their stories.
Rhiannon Jenkins - Interview with Sellina McCluskey
Rhiannon Jenkins interviews Sellina McCluskey, her previous high school Japanese teacher of 3 years about the development of Sellina’s Japanese immersion program.
In Sellina’s current role, she is the head of department for Languages and International Programs at Robina State High School on the Gold Coast. For 30 of her 35-year career as an educator, Sellina has been a department head for Languages. As an active member in the Japanese community, Sellina has received recognition from the Queensland Government and Consulate-General of Japan in Brisbane for her efforts towards education. This podcast covers a range of topics such as careers, life, the immersion program, languages and much more.
This podcast is recorded in English and Japanese – you can download a transcript of the Japanese portion of the interview here.
Monica Tseng - Interview with Alicia Mora-Hyde
At the age of 74, Alicia Mora-Hyde creates colourful handcrafted umbrellas, not for rainy days, but for beauty. Monica Tseng goes behind the scenes of Mora-Igra Umbrellas to meet the lady keeping the trade of umbrella making alive in a small Brisbane workshop.
PowWow with Chilli D
Marta - aka Chilli D - has embarked on a mission to explore the many faces of the female entrepreneurial world. The podcast is called PowWow, a ‘pau wau’ is traditionally a cultural gathering or healing ceremony, it also means a discussion or conversation with friends.
In this interview, she chats to Dr Clara Ong, who co-founded Socialsuite, a Melbourne-based startup that has developed a platform better understand their long-term impact “providing both funders and service providers with a platform for easily collecting and reporting on outcomes data, managing their end-to-end workflow of determining what to measure through to generating reports that showcase the outcomes being achieved.”
Chilli D talks to Dr Ong about her early years in the mental health world and her journey as a woman, and discovering her entrepreneurial mind.
Allie van der Lei - In Conversation
Allie van der Lei is a 54-year young Maori woman, who at the age of 16, and still at school, had the opportunity to start a career as a Histology Laboratory Assistant in a large metropolitan hospital. Which meant leaving her home, her family, her parents. The decision came down to two candidates, herself and another student. They both possessed the same qualities, but the interviewer explained to her parents, Maurice and Tuini Kena, that the reason she was offered the job, was because he could see that she was attached to my ‘mothers apron strings’, and if she didn’t leave the small community that she grew up in, she would marry a local farmer and have 10 kids! Courageous Allie has stepped into new worlds, new beginnings many times, even before the term “get comfortable with being uncomfortable” was a thing.
In her first interview, she talks to Fiona Birkin, CEO of Destiny Rescue, a charity at the forefront of rescuing trafficked and sexually enslaved children.
In her second interview, Allie gets to know Jane Gray, who established Chefs Who Care, a program providing meals to homeless people, domestic violence victims and shelters, elderly people and people with disabilities.
