37: HoA "A career in Law & Farming" with Caitlin McConnel

Caitlin McConnell is an extremely high achieving young agriculturalist. With a corporate career in litigation law, she also sits on multiple organisations as the chair of the RNA Future Directions committee, non-executive director of the Future Farmers Network, Committee Member of the RNA and she still manages to find time to roll her sleeves up and help on the family grazing property. Caitlin's family property 'Cressbrook Station' is home to the oldest residence in Queensland and is also Queensland's oldest farming business. In today's chat, Caitlin talks candidly about her life experience from growing up in the midst of the Millenium drought and the effect this had on her father, her family and herself. She talks about her challenges with mental illness and how she has found a way to manage it, reconnect herself with farming, balance study and continue to give back to the community. If you or someone you know needs help you can get assistance from Lifeline on 13 11 14, via Beyond Blue or you can reach out to our friends at the This is a Conversations Starter (TIACS) hotline - on 0488 846 988. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/humans-of-agriculture/message