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Lorna Jane founder Lorna Clarkson · The SME Stream

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Speaker 1: We Need to Talk Conversations on wellness with Coas FM's
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Speaker 1: Tony Street.
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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to We Need to Talk. It's great
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Speaker 2: to have you with us. It's one of the most
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Speaker 2: beloved act of Where brands in New Zealand. You only
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Speaker 2: have to look at groups of Kiwi women going for
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Speaker 2: a walk or at the gym and you're bound to
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Speaker 2: see the famous Lorna Jane logo, especially on those famous
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Speaker 2: tights that we all love. Laurna Clarkson is the woman
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Speaker 2: behind the uber successful business that is turning thirty five
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Speaker 2: this year and is an exemplary ambassador for the brand.
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Speaker 2: She's had six books published, including two cookbooks. Her motto
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Speaker 2: is you win the morning, you win the day, and
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Speaker 2: prides herself on having a simple yet effective health regime
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Speaker 2: that I cannot wait to hear all about, especially given
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Speaker 2: this is a woman who turns sixty this year and
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Speaker 2: still has a six pack, which we're all very jealous of. Lorna,
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Speaker 2: It's great to talk to you again.
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Speaker 3: Yes, lovely to talk to you as well, Tony. And finally,
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Speaker 3: you should talk about our logo because I was talking
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Speaker 3: you know, like when you hit this thirty five year mark.
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Speaker 3: I was talking to my husband, who was the Seelauna
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Speaker 3: Jane for so many years. He only stood down like
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Speaker 3: two years ago. We were talking about the logo and
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Speaker 3: I remember when I got a friend of mine who
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Speaker 3: was the graphic artist to actually come up with the
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Speaker 3: logo and we worked it out together and stuff, and
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Speaker 3: she sent me this bill and it was really a
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Speaker 3: lot of money for us at the time. I think
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Speaker 3: it was probably five thousand dollars, but that was so
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Speaker 3: much money. And I remember her saying, well, you know,
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Speaker 3: you could just pay me something which was really small
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Speaker 3: every time you use it. And I said, and I said,
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Speaker 3: what should we do? Bill? And we decided to pay
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Speaker 3: her the five thousand dollars or whatever it was. And
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Speaker 3: I'm so glad we did.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine I cannot imagine what that would be
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Speaker 2: like right now? It would probably I mean, I'm glad
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Speaker 2: you Are you still friends with this person?
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Speaker 3: No, she wasn't like a lifetime friend or something that
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Speaker 3: just were in business. We knew someone between us then
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Speaker 3: and she was Canadian and she went back to Canada,
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Speaker 3: so yeah, we lost touch. But yeah, I'm sure she
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Speaker 3: might think about it too every now and again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it must be quite a year of reflection for
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Speaker 2: you with the business turning thirty five, to think where
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Speaker 2: it all started and how far you've come and how
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Speaker 2: much it's changed. Do you think back to those early
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Speaker 2: days very often?
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Speaker 3: No, I think this year has been the biggest time
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Speaker 3: because we've been talking about the thirty five years as
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Speaker 3: the brand, and we've had a few parties and but yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's that catch twenty two where you think, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: it just seems like yesterday that I was cutting patterns
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Speaker 3: on my dining room table and trying to convince people
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Speaker 3: that actively it was going to be a thing. And
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Speaker 3: then when you look back at all the achievements. My
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Speaker 3: dog is trying to get in the door when you look,
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Speaker 3: breaking his head through the glass. It's super cute.
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Speaker 2: He knows that's a great chat.
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Speaker 1: It's not.
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Speaker 3: But then when you look back at everything you've done
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Speaker 3: and all the challenges and all the achievements, I feel
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Speaker 3: like I've lived a million lifetimes. But I guess what
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Speaker 3: I'm most proud of is that the determination, the consistency,
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Speaker 3: the incredible team that I have the joy to work
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Speaker 3: with every day, and it just shows that the craziest
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Speaker 3: of dreams with someone that really knew nothing about building
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Speaker 3: a business. And if you had told me that this
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Speaker 3: business was going to be this size thirty five years ago,
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Speaker 3: I would have run for the hills, like I would
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Speaker 3: have said, no way, I cannot do that because I couldn't.
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Speaker 3: You know, I didn't have any of the skills that
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Speaker 3: I have now. But it just shows that when you
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Speaker 3: have determination, you have consistency, you have a great team,
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Speaker 3: that the craziest ideas with someone who is really not
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Speaker 3: built for business can come true.
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Speaker 2: You say you're not built for business, but I mean
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Speaker 2: it's been pre successful over the last thirty five years,
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Speaker 2: and you were a trailblazer in the sense of the
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Speaker 2: active weere term and we've talked about that before. But
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Speaker 2: one thing that surprises me is Active where came in
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Speaker 2: and with such a row, but it is still as big,
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Speaker 2: if not bigger today And I can't believe we're in
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Speaker 2: a world now where it's acceptable for me to go
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Speaker 2: to events and my sneakers and more casual wear. And
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Speaker 2: I'm so thankful for that because it wouldn't. I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: I've dreamed of it even twenty years ago, to not
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Speaker 2: we heal sometimes and you're part of that, you've made
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Speaker 2: it cool to wear it in more formal settings, and
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Speaker 2: has that surprised you how it's taken on.
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Speaker 3: Active where was a vision that was really clear to
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Speaker 3: me from the very beginning. And you know, I've been
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Speaker 3: coined with being the first one to use that term
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Speaker 3: active with by media all over the world, so I'm
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Speaker 3: sure they've done their research for me. I was. It
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Speaker 3: was as simple as I was working in the fitness
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Speaker 3: industry and I was teaching classes running around in you know,
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Speaker 3: g string leotarzan Tits totally not acceptable in a shopping center,
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Speaker 3: so I couldn't really do any of my errands or
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Speaker 3: walk past the building side or anything like that, you know.
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Speaker 3: So it was me just creating something that I wanted
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Speaker 3: in my life. And then I saw how it changed
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Speaker 3: the women who in my classes, who asked me to
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Speaker 3: make it for them. It changed how they felt. My
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Speaker 3: vision was clear. I just wanted something that women could
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Speaker 3: put on do their workouts, but also live their life in.
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Speaker 3: And I called it active war because I wanted her
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Speaker 3: to put it on and be active. I knew if
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Speaker 3: I could design the right thing, it would transform the
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Speaker 3: way women lived our lives, and that is exactly what
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Speaker 3: you're describing, you know, Like I'm at work and I'm
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Speaker 3: in a tracksuit, you know what I mean. But it's
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Speaker 3: an elevated track sit and I feel comfortable wearing it.
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Speaker 3: I could wear this with a shoe or a sneaker.
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Speaker 3: So I couldn't have done this without the momentum of
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Speaker 3: all the other brands getting on board with it as well.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've never wanted to be the biggest active
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Speaker 3: with brand in the world. Just the best between you
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Speaker 3: and me.
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Speaker 2: Great strategy.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it definitely gained momentum when the idea. People started
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Speaker 3: seeing women wearing this type of thing and adapting it
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Speaker 3: to the normal life. So a lot of brands have
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Speaker 3: you contributed, but I am really proud to say that
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Speaker 3: I was the first.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great thing to have. I know, you
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Speaker 2: stay across all of the moving trens and you're seating trees.
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Speaker 2: In the last say two or three years, what have
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Speaker 2: you noticed an active weir? What is becoming popular? How
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Speaker 2: has it changed?
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Speaker 3: I think there's been a lot of change in technology,
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Speaker 3: Like there's definitely been the fabrics are getting better, the
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Speaker 3: types of products we can use for support, you know,
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Speaker 3: we have thermal leggings that feel like a normal legging,
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Speaker 3: but they trap the body heat against your legs and
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Speaker 3: keep you warm. They're very popular in New Zealand, Yes
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Speaker 3: they are. You know this whole trend of women wearing leggings,
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Speaker 3: you know, with a jacket and a shirt and wearing
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Speaker 3: it to work. I think the most common thing that
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Speaker 3: people ask me in an interview is how do you
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Speaker 3: compete with all the other Active Way brands? And you know,
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Speaker 3: what's going to happen and is it going to die?
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Speaker 3: And people think it's over, but I really know that
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Speaker 3: it's just the beginning and the casualization of fashion and
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Speaker 3: adapting to how women actually live their lives, you know,
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Speaker 3: actually the things they have to do and you know
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Speaker 3: you can't do it in a pencil skirt and high heels.
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Speaker 3: Don't live your life like that. So I feel like
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Speaker 3: that's what's happening into Active where I feel like it's
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Speaker 3: just we're getting that hybrid of an actual pant that
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Speaker 3: possibly would look like something you would wear to work,
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Speaker 3: but it's in a technical fabric that wicks moisture or
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Speaker 3: keeps you warm or doesn't crease. I mean, who has
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Speaker 3: time for ironing.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't iron at all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't. I just tuck it in a stand
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Speaker 3: up straight.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's exactly what I do. And I know
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Speaker 2: what you mean about those items that can go from
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Speaker 2: one thing to the other. And I love I've got
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Speaker 2: an example of my own because I've got a pair
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Speaker 2: of your They're like the cargo kind of pants, the
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Speaker 2: black cargo pants that you've got, so I can wear
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Speaker 2: them to radio. Then I can wear them to do
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Speaker 2: all of my errands, and they're still appropriate to wear
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Speaker 2: when I coach my netball team in the afternoon. And
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Speaker 2: if that means I don't have to change, it's just well,
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Speaker 2: you don't have time. You don't have time to change anymore,
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Speaker 2: I think, because we're all doing so many different things.
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Speaker 3: But it also ticks the box Tony with sustainability. If
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Speaker 3: you can do so many things in a pair of
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Speaker 3: black legging or those pants you're talking about, or a
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Speaker 3: really cool zip up tracksuit that you know you can
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Speaker 3: wear the pants with a shirt. You know, I just
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Speaker 3: feel sustainability. And you know, the cost of living these days,
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Speaker 3: if we can spend less money on clothes by good
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Speaker 3: quality clothes that are adaptable across our lives. You know,
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Speaker 3: I just feel like it's not just what women want,
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Speaker 3: how they want to look, or how they want to
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Speaker 3: feel in their clothing. It's also all the other things
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Speaker 3: that are affecting her and her world at the moment.
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Speaker 1: You're listening. Do we need a talk with Tony Street?
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Speaker 2: Look? I know that you you have adapted what you've
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Speaker 2: done because you were in the fitness industry to start with, right,
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Speaker 2: But I feel like as time has gone on and
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Speaker 2: you are turning sixty this year, you have maintained such
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Speaker 2: a great physical appearance you can't you cannot go past it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I look at you here, and you do
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Speaker 2: not look like you're about to turn sixty. You do
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Speaker 2: look so fit and healthy and glowing. And I know
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Speaker 2: that you do this by consistency, and you have a
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Speaker 2: re teen, but so many people want to know exactly
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Speaker 2: what that is and how it has changed now that
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Speaker 2: you are hitting into your sixties. Has it changed markedly?
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Speaker 3: Okay? So first of all, can you stop reminding me
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Speaker 3: that I'm sixteen?
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Speaker 2: I know I feel bad. No, you should be happy
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Speaker 2: about it, because you don't even look.
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Speaker 3: At No, I'm not, And you know I've really gotten
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Speaker 3: over I think it was about forty five that I
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Speaker 3: got over the resistance to talk about my age, because
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Speaker 3: I really was resistant, and a journalist explained to me
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Speaker 3: that it gives people a benchmark to say, well, by
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Speaker 3: the time I'm forty or forty five, I could have
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Speaker 3: achieved this as well, you know, So I really then
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Speaker 3: understood that it was actually beneficial to talk about it
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Speaker 3: because it was a way of helping other people or
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Speaker 3: inspiring other people. So I was just joking when I said,
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Speaker 3: stopped finding me. So, yeah, what do I do my
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Speaker 3: morning routine? You're going to be really disappointed. You're really
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Speaker 3: are to be disappointed because my general life routine and
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Speaker 3: running this business and doing everything else to stay fit
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Speaker 3: and healthy and happy and getting that you cannot get
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Speaker 3: work life balance because you know, as soon as you
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Speaker 3: find it, it moves again. Everything's crazy. But just trying
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Speaker 3: to get some sort of resemblance of some sort of
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Speaker 3: balance at the end of every workday, I look at
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Speaker 3: the next day, so I'm really prepared. So you know,
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Speaker 3: last night I knew I had this interview with me
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Speaker 3: with you in the morning, and you know, so I
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Speaker 3: sort of read through a few things that I knew
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Speaker 3: we were going to talk about, and then I looked
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Speaker 3: at the rest of my day and send off any
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Speaker 3: emails to my team, so I really clear my head.
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Speaker 3: So I really value sleep and relaxation. So I am
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Speaker 3: a little bit of a perfectionist, a little bit over
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Speaker 3: the top. So if I didn't do that, I would
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Speaker 3: be thinking about it all night and possibly not you know,
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Speaker 3: have a good night's sleep. So that's really important to me,
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Speaker 3: is to plan and look at anything that I need
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Speaker 3: to address the day before. In the morning, I usually
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Speaker 3: get up at five five point thirty. This morning, it
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Speaker 3: was five, and then I like to have an hour
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Speaker 3: before I train. I just not that sort of person
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Speaker 3: who wants to like rush into my day because I
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Speaker 3: feel like that sets me up for the day. So
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Speaker 3: you know, I have some fruit. I have like at
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Speaker 3: the moment, I'm having like a I went to a
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Speaker 3: health retreat and they were having this ginger lemon tea
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Speaker 3: that's supposed to aid your digestion. So I'm trying that out.
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Speaker 3: You know. Usually I would have had a coffee and
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Speaker 3: then I go and I train every day every morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm not that I'm not that good that I can
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Speaker 3: say I'm going to do it in the afternoon because
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Speaker 3: things get busy and it will just you know, be gone.
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Speaker 3: So I train in the morning. Pretty much. My regime
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Speaker 3: is work out in the morning, make sure I eat
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Speaker 3: really good food, you know, like I've got a really
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Speaker 3: big sweet tooth. But I just try to have natural sugars,
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Speaker 3: all those sorts of things. I have a bit of
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Speaker 3: a system where I make myself be positive every day.
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Speaker 3: I'm fortunate enough that I am naturally a positive person.
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Speaker 3: I do look for the best in people and the
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Speaker 3: best in things. And you tell me a problem, I've
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Speaker 3: come up with a solution, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 3: or convince you to move on if there is no solution.
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Speaker 3: So but I make sure I'm starting my day that way.
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Speaker 3: Like if if my husband, you know, because we always
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Speaker 3: go for a walk in the morning as well, after
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Speaker 3: we've trained and we talk about our day and that
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Speaker 3: sort of thing. If he starts throwing too many problems
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Speaker 3: on me, I just tell him to stop. But because
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Speaker 3: I just don't want to go into the day like that,
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Speaker 3: you know. And I manage my stress. I do quite
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Speaker 3: a bit of meditation. But to me, that's just like
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Speaker 3: sitting and breathing for five minutes. It's not a big
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Speaker 3: deal that I feel like a lot of people talk
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Speaker 3: about in meditation. I'm not into it that much. And
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Speaker 3: as I said before, I make sure I get enough sleep.
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Speaker 3: I'm in bed by nine point thirty, you know, and
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Speaker 3: I might be reading, i might not be going to sleep,
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Speaker 3: but I'm definitely in bed ready to relax. I love
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Speaker 3: red light therapy. If anyone's like interested in skin, like
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Speaker 3: for me, it changed my skin.
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Speaker 2: How do I change it?
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Speaker 3: It just makes it glow like I just feel like
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Speaker 3: and you know who it might be psychosomatic, who knows
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Speaker 3: My friend in and Alice, like she does all the research,
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Speaker 3: She's incredible everything like that. So I always just said her,
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Speaker 3: what's the best red light mask? And then I get
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: What's the one you use by ad of interest.
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Speaker 3: Only luks not sponsored, yep, but incredible And at the
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Speaker 3: moment I'm trying out, They've got these special under eye
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Speaker 3: once because I feel like as I'm getting older, I'm
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Speaker 3: getting like, you know, I never used to have those
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Speaker 3: little bags under my eyes. So if you can visualize
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Speaker 3: this morning before I went training, I'm sitting there with
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Speaker 3: these little red light things. I'm my eyes. I find
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Speaker 3: it look good for you this morning.
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Speaker 2: It works.
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Speaker 3: But that's it really. During the week Bill and I
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Speaker 3: don't really go out for dinner or you know, I
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Speaker 3: don't really drink alcohol. I might have a margaar reader
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Speaker 3: of its special occasion with some friends on the weekend,
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Speaker 3: but we really do most of our socializing on the
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Speaker 3: weekend because we're really focused on our work. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's really simple. Work out every day, eat well, stay positive,
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Speaker 3: manage to stress, and get enough sleep.
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Speaker 2: I just want to break down the working out because
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Speaker 2: a lot of the experts are physiologists. I've spoken to
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Speaker 2: lift tvy weights, lift tavy weights once you're over forty,
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Speaker 2: and if you're in periminipause or minipause, it's very much
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Speaker 2: the advice. Now, is that what you do?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I do. I've been. I've been strength training since
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Speaker 3: I was forty. And you know what, Tony, I wish
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Speaker 3: i'd started earlier being a fitness instructor. I was just
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Speaker 3: doing heaps of cardio and just eating whatever I wanted.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was pretty much exercising and so I
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Speaker 3: could eat everything, you know, and as I got older,
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Speaker 3: I realized that nutrition was such an and I wrote
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Speaker 3: two cookbooks about it. Like nutrition was just such an
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Speaker 3: important part of how you would feel every day and
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Speaker 3: how your body would actually function, your skin, all of
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Speaker 3: those things that when you're in your twenties, it's just
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Speaker 3: beautiful anyway, right, Like it just just comes naturally, but
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Speaker 3: you don't know that at the time. So then I
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Speaker 3: started caring all about what I what I ate, and
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Speaker 3: I feel like for me personally, when I do too
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Speaker 3: much cardio, it makes me crave the foods I shouldn't eat.
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Speaker 3: I don't know whether there's any real, you know, meaning
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Speaker 3: behind that, but that's just what happens to me. So
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Speaker 3: I started like doing more hiking and walking. I wait
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Speaker 3: train two to four times a week. I do two
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Speaker 3: sessions with the trainer, two on my own. I try
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Speaker 3: to get two or three yoga classes in I go
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Speaker 3: to a really great yoga studio, Environ, but they also
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Speaker 3: have an app so, you know, like Monday, I was
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Speaker 3: really busy and I thought I have to do something,
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Speaker 3: So I just did a half our yoga class, you know,
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Speaker 3: and my walk in the morning. To me, it's like,
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Speaker 3: just do something. It doesn't matter what you do, as
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Speaker 3: long as you do something. Don't break the cycle. Plus,
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Speaker 3: I you know, tell myself, I'm terrible if I don't
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Speaker 3: do it anyway, So I'm not going to put up
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Speaker 3: with that all day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love your theory about the cardio because I've
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Speaker 2: noticed that too. The more cardio I do, the hungrier
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Speaker 2: I get. Whereas that sort of lower, slower, steady state
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Speaker 2: doesn't seem to put you into that same adrenal system.
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Speaker 3: And I started noticing that when I was doing a
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Speaker 3: lot of yoga, and I went just for my own benefit.
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Speaker 3: I went to Bali and did a month's teacher training
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Speaker 3: in yoga. Like I lost like four kilos wow, And
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Speaker 3: I was eating a lot. It was just like it
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Speaker 3: was how it was making me feel, the choices I
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Speaker 3: was making with my food. It was also very hot,
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Speaker 3: I guess, but I put it all back on when
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Speaker 3: I got home, thank goodness. But anyway, back.
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Speaker 2: To the Australian weather, it's much nicer the New Zealand's.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, I couldn't eat like because when I came back,
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Speaker 3: I thought, like, you know, I might try being a vegetarian.
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Speaker 3: See this is a thing, Like we'll talk in six
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Speaker 3: months and I've probably changed things a little bit. My
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Speaker 3: body is like a huge experiment for me. I will
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Speaker 3: try so many different things because I'm really interested in
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Speaker 3: human beings and how we react to things and bettering
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Speaker 3: myself or trying new things and seeing what happens. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: when I came back to Australia, I thought, after Balley
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Speaker 3: because it was a full vegetarian diet, I thought, I
16:40
Speaker 3: love this, I'm going to, you know, try it. But
16:41
Speaker 3: I couldn't, like I didn't have the energy, I couldn't
16:44
Speaker 3: tolerate the stress. You know, so horses for courses, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now that we need to talk with Tony Street.
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Speaker 2: I just want to go back to what you seed
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Speaker 2: about when you hit forty five, you kind of went,
16:58
Speaker 2: I'm fine with aging. What was that turnaround and how
17:01
Speaker 2: did you get yourself into that mental space because a
17:04
Speaker 2: lot of women really struggle with the aging process and can't,
17:08
Speaker 2: you know, almost accept that their body's changing and their
17:11
Speaker 2: looks are different to what they were in their thirties.
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Speaker 3: I think, I think I've always been okay with aging.
17:18
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, I'm surrounded by I have
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Speaker 3: an older sister. My mom is such a beautiful, strong,
17:24
Speaker 3: confident woman, pretty much raised us on her own and
17:28
Speaker 3: my grandmother was an incredibly strong woman. And I just
17:31
Speaker 3: I've never really put my value on how I look
17:35
Speaker 3: all my age, and I feel like I've been appreciated
17:39
Speaker 3: for what I do, like creating active where and running
17:42
Speaker 3: a business, so I feel like my value isn't on
17:45
Speaker 3: my looks. I've always been really comfortable with the aging.
17:47
Speaker 3: It was just my resistance at forty five, or before
17:51
Speaker 3: I was forty five, was to talk about it because
17:53
Speaker 3: I was like, no one asked the man how old
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Speaker 3: they are? Why are they asking me? You know, it's
17:57
Speaker 3: my favorite side coming out. So it was more that,
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Speaker 3: But I guess my advice there would be to understand
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Speaker 3: and look for your value beyond your looks, your value
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Speaker 3: to your family, your value to the people you work with,
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Speaker 3: because I just feel like there's no possible way a
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Speaker 3: man would put his value on his looks as much
18:17
Speaker 3: as women do.
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Speaker 2: You're so absolutely right. And I was in an event
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Speaker 2: yesterday and we were talking about just that and how
18:24
Speaker 2: there is a bit of an alarming trend with younger
18:26
Speaker 2: women to change their faces very young. You know, you're
18:30
Speaker 2: getting teenagers using botox and putting fillers in when they
18:33
Speaker 2: are and their absolute prime. And that worries me about
18:37
Speaker 2: because I've got a couple of young daughters and I think,
18:39
Speaker 2: oh goodness me. You know, aren't they looking at what
18:42
Speaker 2: they want to do with their lives as opposed to
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Speaker 2: just what they look like. I don't know how you
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Speaker 2: change that for the younger people coming through Any ideas on.
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Speaker 3: That, No, I just think it's conversations or for me,
18:55
Speaker 3: For me and things that I've watched in I mean,
18:58
Speaker 3: I don't have children, but my friends have children. Watching
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Speaker 3: them grow up, especially the girls, is that if you
19:03
Speaker 3: give them something they value more than their appearance, like
19:05
Speaker 3: if they're really great at soccer or you know, my
19:08
Speaker 3: niece is a really successful jeweler, but before that, she
19:12
Speaker 3: was taking photographs and I had her working for me
19:14
Speaker 3: and it was all about her art rather than what
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Speaker 3: she looked like. I feel like that, So you just
19:20
Speaker 3: need something else, you know, like how do you keep
19:22
Speaker 3: kids on social media? Get them into sport, you know,
19:25
Speaker 3: or get them into something else it gets them. How
19:27
Speaker 3: do you get them outdoors? You know, create something that
19:30
Speaker 3: they love that they have to be outdoors for. I
19:32
Speaker 3: think it's just giving them alternatives. I feel like if
19:34
Speaker 3: you fall in love with something then you're just going
19:38
Speaker 3: to do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Like, great piece of advice there, Laura, It's been
19:42
Speaker 2: so great to talk to you. I would like to
19:44
Speaker 2: end by just asking what is the hot trend or
19:47
Speaker 2: hot colors that we might see. I mean, we're in
19:50
Speaker 2: the depths of winter hear at the moment, but hoping
19:52
Speaker 2: to get into some lovely, vibrant items as we head
19:56
Speaker 2: towards summer. Is there anything you can tell us in
19:58
Speaker 2: terms of trends that we should be looking out for.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I'm not supposed to do this, but
20:04
Speaker 3: if you could see the other side of this, it's
20:06
Speaker 3: all like the line sheets of everything that's coming in
20:08
Speaker 3: for the new season. So yes, at Lona Jane, we
20:11
Speaker 3: always do color for summer because I feel like it
20:14
Speaker 3: really does have a positive effect on your mood. But
20:17
Speaker 3: we've got some really great prints we're doing, Like florals
20:20
Speaker 3: are definitely coming back. There's a beautiful shade of lemon
20:24
Speaker 3: called buttermilk, like you might be starting to see it
20:26
Speaker 3: coming through in the US and overseas. But that's going
20:29
Speaker 3: to be huge. Tennis skirts like that. Tennis Core is
20:31
Speaker 3: going to be back with oversized T shirts in that
20:35
Speaker 3: sort of versatility of how you dress. We're really doing
20:40
Speaker 3: some really cute things that you could like sets that
20:44
Speaker 3: you can lounge around in, but you know, you could
20:46
Speaker 3: also wear them to bed. They're that comfortable, that sort
20:48
Speaker 3: of thing. We've got swimwear where you can work out
20:52
Speaker 3: in it and then jump into the ocean, so those
20:56
Speaker 3: real swim to gym active sets. So we're really trying
20:59
Speaker 3: to give women that versatility. But yeah, lots of color.
21:03
Speaker 3: The animal prints still going to be there. Yeah, so
21:05
Speaker 3: we're going to put that Leopard. Don't stray too far
21:08
Speaker 3: from Leopard. We've got Gingham coming in, which is really
21:11
Speaker 3: really cute. But yeah, it's going to be a really
21:13
Speaker 3: really bright, fun summer. And for all those people that
21:16
Speaker 3: love our flash dance pants because they are pretty iconic,
21:18
Speaker 3: we actually have a flash dance miniskirt coming in. Ooh,
21:23
Speaker 3: I know, I was super excited about that one.
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Speaker 2: That's incentive to go and get some lunges and squats
21:28
Speaker 2: going ahead of summer.
21:30
Speaker 3: Isn't it a love exactly?
21:32
Speaker 2: Oh well, Lorna, thank you so much again. It's such
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Speaker 2: a pleasure to talk to you. Love to seeing you
21:36
Speaker 2: when you're here in New Zealand.
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Speaker 1: And.
21:37
Speaker 2: I hear a whisper. You might be back next year,
21:39
Speaker 2: so look forward to them.
21:41
Speaker 3: My pleasure. Thanks for having me and I'll see you
21:43
Speaker 3: next year.
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