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How much thinking have you done about money since the pandemic started? How much you’ve got, how much you’ve lost, how much you’ve saved, how much you’re entitled to, how much you’ll need to get through to whenever this thing ends?! In this episode Penny Terry takes a look at how this pandemic has affected the money that is going in and out of our bank accounts, and in and out of our communities. We get into the nitty gritty of actually looking at your spending with financial planner Nick D’Emden from Findex in Launceston. Sarah from the Low Head Tourist park shares a little about how she’s re-looking at her future business opportunities. Mental health clinician Caroline Thain helps us with those tricky money conversations, and also gets us wondering how we continue to care about this pandemic even when, at some stages, it can feel gone. We then catch up again with Dr Nicolas Hookway, sociologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania about how we can create better community structures to help us live well during a pandemic into the future. Plus some thoughts from our favourite fitness instructor Kylie Moore and real estate agent Maureen Lacey about how we prepare for the future.SHOW NOTES:Dr Nicholas Hookway drew his four points from colleague Associate Professor of Sociology at Woolongong University Roger Patulny. Check out his article as featured in The Conversation here: https://theconversation.com/reconnecting-after-coronavirus-4-key-ways-cities-can-counter-anxiety-and-loneliness-136606You can find out more about Nick D’Emden and Findex here: https://www.findex.com.au/office/launcestonNick passed on these links:Findex Covid-19 Resource Centre: https://insights.findex.com.au/covid19/Australian Government Covid-19 Services: https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/subjects/coronavirus-covid-19-and-how-we-may-helpAustralian Government Treasury Support Information: https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/householdsHere’s a link to a budget planner, one of many you will find with a quick internet search:https://moneysmart.gov.au/budgeting/budget-plannerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Does it take a crisis (or pandemic) for us to think a bit more deeply about what’s going on for other people? If so, what are the skills that we need to be a useful crisis buddy? In this episode Penny Terry takes a look at those little things that people are doing to keep an eye on others. We continue to follow the experience of tourism and hospitality manager Bianca Welsh who explains what she’s doing in her workplace to keep an eye on her employees and describes that extra weight of responsibility that we’re all feeling right now to support others. Mental Health Clinician Caroline Thain gives us the 101 of the ‘check-in’ conversation while Dr Nicholas Hookway, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Tasmania, reminds us of the special role that community groups play in keeping us connected, and how we maintain these connections during a pandemic. Which is no surprise to our favourite fitness instructor Kylie Moore who describes how she’s seen the lives of her clients change once they become a member of a community group. Plus, it wouldn’t be an episode about helping others through a crisis if we didn’t talk about food; our ‘go-to’ supporting tool! Dietitian Ngaire Hobbins gives us some tips to make sure our efforts to provide for others doesn’t go to waste.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For many of us we feel like we’re just getting on with life, despite social distancing. But when we stop and think about how many little things have changed in our lives since we were first told to keep 1.5 meters distance and clean ALL THE THINGS…. there’s a fair old list! First up in this episode Penny chats with the marvellous Maureen Lacey and Kylie Moore as we take a look at what it’s been like implementing the practical changes in workplaces and the 'interesting' ways in which people respond. Plus Bianca Welsh from the tourism and hospitality industry gets us thinking about the many new policies and procedures and how they have changed people’s relationship with work. Which leads us into a conversation about the ‘feels’ of social distancing. Dr Nicholas Hookway, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Tasmania helps us to understand loneliness and its distinction from social isolation. Then we check back in again with mental Health Clinician Caroline Thain who’s got some great hacks for reminding others to maintain their distance, and Clinical Psychologist David Bakker is back to help us understand and ‘do’ self-care.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Turns out we all have habits, that we're probably not even be aware of, that help us get on with... life! During a time when there is heaps of change and our routines are all out of whack (cue pandemic), it's pretty easy to break those helpful habits and replace them with helpful ones. In this episode Penny Terry goes deep on habits, why we need them, how we form them, how we break them as she starts to make a plan to 'fix' them. She gets the low down from podcast regulars Clinical Psychologist David Bakker and Mental Health Clinician Caroline Thain, checks in with fitness instructor Kylie Moore (and some of her clients!) and finds out about helpful food habits with Dietitian Ngaire Hobbins.SHOW NOTES:Find out about the awesome Healthy George Town program here:https://georgetown.tas.gov.au/healthy-george-town-programs/You can find out m ore about Clinical Psychologist David Bakker and his app mood mission here: http://moodmission.comDavid Mentioned a couple of habit apps.You can check out Habitica here: https://habitica.com/static/homeOr Streaks here: https://streaksapp.comKylie Moore runs Sherriff Health and Fitness:https://www.facebook.com/Sherriff-Health-Fitness-1773868172887751/If you’d like to get in touch with Caroline Thain – just message Health Speak on social and Penny will pass on her details:Instagram: @podcasthealthspeakFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthspeakpodcast/And you can get in touch with Dietitian Ngaire Hobbins here: https://www.ngairehobbins.comIf you or someone you know needs support with mental health right now please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or you can click through to Beyond Blue here https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One thing that’s certain, is that dealing with uncertainty is hard. Which really sucks right now as uncertainty seems a constant state during COVID-19! So how do we live well amongst the uncertainty of a pandemic? In this episode Penny Terry gets teary as she hears about dealing with the loss of control from Bianca Welsh who is deep in the tourism and hospitality industry. George Town locals Maureen and Kylie talk about those skills that have helped them cope with uncertainty. And Penny gets some tips from the experts as Mental Health Clinician Caroline Thain explains what our brain is doing, and Clinical Phycologist David Bakker gets us excited about an app that will help us track our moods.SHOW NOTES: Find out about the awesome Healthy George Town program here:https://georgetown.tas.gov.au/healthy-george-town-programs/You can check out the Mood Mission app here: http://moodmission.com/#home-sectionYou can find out more about Bianca Welsh here:https://www.stillwater.com.auhttps://www.stillwater.com.au/seven/https://blackcowbistro.com.auMaureen Lacey works for Harcourts East Tamar:https://easttamar.harcourts.com.auKylie Moore runs Sherriff Health and Fitness:https://www.facebook.com/Sherriff-Health-Fitness-1773868172887751/If you’d like to get in touch with Caroline Thain – just message Health Speak on social and Penny will pass on her details:Instagram: @podcasthealthspeakFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthspeakpodcast/If you or someone you know needs support with mental health right now please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or you can click through to Beyond Blue here https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.