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Aussie Real Estate Podcast"Struggling with Mortgage Repayments? Here’s Your Legal Right!We talk with Claire Tacon from The Consumer Action Law Centre’s Financial Counselling Practice about people struggling to pay their mortgage. Did you know Australian credit laws allow you to request a loan variation from your bank if your financial situation changes?
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2025-02-2413 minAussie Real Estate Podcast"Struggling with Mortgage Repayments? Here’s Your Legal Right!We talk with Claire Tacon from The Consumer Action Law Centre’s Financial Counselling Practice about people struggling to pay their mortgage. Did you know Australian credit laws allow you to request a loan variation from your bank if your financial situation changes?
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2025-02-2413 min
SBS On the MoneySBS On the Money: What is the National Debt Helpline?Calls to the National Debt Helpline has risen by 28 per cent so far this year, so Rhayna Bosch speaks with Claire Tacon from the Consumer Action Law Centre to find out more about the service, plus SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Josh Gilbert from eToro on the day's market action including a resurgence in Bitcoin
2023-10-2413 min
Parallel CareersEpisode 12 | Kim Pittaway“It's essential when we're writing non-fiction for it to be non-fiction. My experience has always been that f**king with the facts f**ks with the emotion. And so sometimes it's because you think that fudging the facts will get you to the truth faster, or will get you to the emotion faster. But often what it gets you to is a surface emotion. False facts get you to false emotion. So sticking with the facts, trying to work your way on the page with the messiness of human experience brings more nuance to that emotional truth that you're tr...
2022-12-2625 minParallel CareersEpisode 11 | Wayde Compton“What I tell my students is that, you know, when they publish someday and work with an editor, it'll be a breeze. Because if you spent two years or more workshopping your work creatively, where you've got 20 people telling you their opinions about it and what they like about it, what they didn't like about it—that's far harder. What they're doing in, in a creative writing class is far harder than working with an editor later, where you're just getting one person's opinion. And I tell them, at this point, I'm like, if somebody has a piece of advi...
2022-11-2824 minParallel CareersEpisode 10 | Tanya Boteju“I always say that I learned to be a writer by teaching. I didn't take a creative writing course in high school. I didn't take any creative writing courses in university. I really credit teaching writing with my knowledge of writing, which seems kind of backward, but having to understand writing enough to teach it, I felt like I knew enough about the writing process when I started writing Kings, Queens and In-Betweens enough to get something down on paper.”In this episode, Tanya Boteju shares her thoughts on writing for Young Adult audiences and how teaching writ...
2022-10-3120 minParallel CareersEpisode 9 | Liz Howard“I certainly see the plasticity and the infinite possibilities there are within language as a way to expand the limits of the, the quote unquote world and a way to dream of another world where liberation is possible. And to try and, in some way, approach it in language as a way of possibly immanentizing it. Some people might think that's sort of anarchical or utopian, but I think that one needs the audacity to be able to dream of these things. And that is what I'm trying to do in language.”In this episode, Liz...
2022-09-2722 minParallel CareersEpisode 8 | Michael V. Smith“Mostly when I'm teaching, I am trying really hard to get out of the way of the student's own creative process. So I don't want to dictate what students make. I like to give a writing prompt that invites them to source their own material, to give them a degree of choice in how they find what they want to write about. So I trust a lot in the unconscious, that the unconscious is just going to deliver something that has value for them. Because the unconscious doesn't like to waste its time.”In this episode, Michael V. S...
2022-08-2925 minParallel CareersEpisode 7 | Eufemia FantettiIn this episode, Eufemia Fantetti describes how she approaches teaching with compassion, outlines the challenges of writing about emotional trauma, and shares how she uses humour as a superpower and a shield.She discusses: 0:52 | teachers who take their frustrations out on students and why it’s important to provide practical tips in every lesson 4:34 | writing food and complicated relationships in her short story collection A Recipe for Disaster and Other Unlikely Tales of Love 8:44 | finding the narrative frame for her memoir My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me and how the “fool’s journey” provided a...
2022-07-2524 minParallel CareersEpisode 6 | Ian Williams"I think it's really important, even if you are not, you know, not gonna be a writer, to still acknowledge that you have right to creative production. There's nothing that says that you have to stop drawing or, or painting after middle school or high school. Celebrate your capacity to make something out of nothing."In this episode, Ian Williams discusses tackling complicated ethical issues in his writing and finding ways to maintain lifelong creativity. He discusses:0:50 | Examining thorny moral and ethical questions through a mathematical model in his poetry collection W...
2022-06-2723 minParallel CareersEpisode 5 | Tanis MacDonald“The other thing I say in Out of Line after ‘if you don't have community, art will break your heart’ is your heart will be broken anyway, eventually, but it's better with community. You will recover faster and you won't die of heartbreak if you have community.”In this episode, Tanis MacDonald encourages us to challenge the voices in the canon that do not satisfy, and examines her changing relationship with both walking and art.She discusses:1:06 | How poetry attracts people with its strangeness and makes space for two disparate ideas to sit a...
2022-05-2720 minParallel CareersEpisode 4 | Adam Pottle“I don't believe that I would be a writer if I wasn’t Deaf. I think that being born deaf kind of derailed me from the kind of path that, that the men in my family tend to take. My dad worked for CN Rail, and my brother worked for CN Rail, and my dad's dad worked for CN Rail. So being Deaf kind of took me away and steered me away from, from that path and down a more artistic and imaginative path.”In this episode, Adam Pottle shares the importance of believing in the st...
2022-04-2523 minParallel CareersEpisode 3 | Ayelet Tsabari“I think that there's something inspiring to students about knowing that I don't come from an academic background. My career experience in my thirties—I was a waitress and a house cleaner. So I think that that's actually a good balance to have in an institute that teaches something creative.”In this episode, Ayelet Tsabari discusses writing about contested places, giving voice to her community and how stories can resonate in unexpected ways. She discusses:1:46 | Being Writer-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library and running drop-in workshops for immigrants and people who write in their second...
2022-03-2824 minParallel CareersEpisode 2 | Richard Van Camp“You want to be continually energized by your students. And that's really the dance of mentorship. And that's the gift of mentorship, is that when you finally get an afternoon to return to your own work, you're going with that hunger that they showed you all the time.”In this episode, Richard Van Camp discusses his life’s work as a storyteller and writer to pass on teachings for the next generation, and his excitement about the future of Indigenous literature. 0:29 | Realizing as a child that the school curriculum he was learning was cultural theft a...
2022-02-2833 minParallel CareersEpisode 1 | Dina Del Bucchia“I think I was a bad writer before I discovered that I could use humor effectively and that I could use it at all. Being able to crack into just something and use humor kind of broke open a little bit of a creative gate that was really holding me back.”In this episode, Dina Del Bucchia discusses developing her own comedic voice outside an academic setting and bringing humour to cultural critique. She discusses:1:39 | Marrying humour to the emotional core of the story3:15 | Encouraging students to write comedy that “punches up” in her i...
2022-01-2823 minParallel CareersEpisode 12 | Carrianne Leung"Writing's my playground. So I feel very free. I feel, you know, we're in a world where there's not a lot of freedom. I feel like I'm free on the page." In this episode, Carrianne Leung challenges established ideas about craft and teaching, and shares how her writing aims to show the complexity and fullness of being human. She discusses:How her work as a sociologist intersects with her work as a fiction writer in its concernswith the narratives we tell ourselves and how she’s rethinking the traditional writer’swork...
2021-12-0824 minParallel CareersEpisode 11 | Sheryda Warrener"I think with a poem, you always want to have something at stake that you just are not going to be able to answer, but you keep trying to get at it in this way, in that way, in this way."In this episode, Sheryda Warrener explores how poems anchor us in the world, the importance of making space for ritual, and how her students build material from sensory experience.She discusses:· Teaching English to children and adults in Japan and Sweden, and how the experiences shaped her as a...
2021-11-2924 minParallel CareersEpisode 10 | Madhur Anand"Writing is something that I really come at as a writer. And I think, like many writers, we all bring our, our lenses to what we write. Science--now I'm realizing more and more—it's a language, it's an entire language. Which, of course, has a culture associated with it as all languages do. And I bring that language and culture to my writing"In this episode, Madhur Anand challenges the divide between art and science and proposes new structures for writing, informed by the natural world. She discusses:Her Governor-General-Award-Winning mem...
2021-10-2518 minParallel CareersEpisode 9 | Derek Newman-Stille"I talk about speculative fiction in particular, as theory given characters and taken form. And so, rather than it just being like a theoretic concept out there somewhere, it becomes this very specific—here's a character that embodies this theory. Here's a world that embodies this theory. And then we play it out."In this episode, Derek Newman-Stille discusses breaking down the classroom hierarchy, disrupting fairy tales, and the need for Disability Arts.They discuss:Getting “a-ha!” moments through arts-based research, and sharing research insights in the public sphere...
2021-09-2720 minParallel CareersEpisode 8 | Chelene Knight“When I think about teachers as gatekeepers, I think deeply about privilege and what our access to information and knowledge looks like. I recall a lot of the opportunities that have been offered to me came from a teacher just paying attention. And so when I think of gatekeeping at that smaller scale, it's also the teacher needing to pay attention to that and to open the door and say, 'Hey, you. You can come into the space. It's totally fine.’”In this episode, Chelene Knight discusses creating new containers for learning and how she’s shapin...
2021-08-3017 minParallel CareersEpisode 7 | Erin Bow“My own background in physics has taught me wonder. As a poet, we deal mostly in metaphors and a metaphor says that this is that - that's what equations do too. Equations say that mass is energy. Just being able to throw yourself at the universe and find out everything you can is a great background for a scientist or for an artist.”In this episode, Erin Bow discusses the lightning bolt of inspiration and balancing writing, teaching and science translation. She discusses:1:57 | Her advice for young writers2:56 | Writing the books that...
2021-07-2616 minParallel CareersEpisode 6 | Kathy Friedman“Many people have lifted me up and have given me a helping hand in my career and I wouldn't be here without them. And so the more I can do to pull up the next generation, the more I will do. And that's what teaching is all about.”In this episode, Kathy Friedman discusses offering students choice and control in the classroom. She discusses:0:27 | Building Mad literary arts and Inkwell Workshops3:09 | Being trauma-informed and making participants feel seen5:57 | Her forthcoming collection All the Shining People and exploring Jewish South African identity duri...
2021-06-2816 minParallel CareersEpisode 5 | Francine Cunningham“For me, poetry is really where my heart lives. And the reason why these poems are maybe such short emotional bursts is because that's how my heart functions. I definitely know I'm not a super technical poet. I'm not a structural form poet. My poetry is just me heart-speaking. And that's it. And that's all I want it to be. And that's all it needs to be.”In this episode, Francine Cunningham discusses giving people permission to write their own stories. She discusses:0:32 | Working with youth who feel disconnected from their own...
2021-05-3117 minParallel CareersEpisode 4 | Farzana Doctor“If you're going to walk into any room and do any kind of presentation, you just want to assume that people are really happy that you're there. You bring more of yourself. You're less focused on your content and more interested in who's in the room and what they might need. You go from rigid to fluid.” Farzana Doctor discusses how her career as a psychotherapist informs her writing and teaching practices. In this episode, she discusses:02:14 | The lightning bolt of inspiration that helped her revise her novel All I...
2021-04-2617 minParallel CareersEpisode 3 | Dorothy Palmer“I think the idea of an emerging writer only being someone barely emerged from puberty is a problem. Some 25% of Canada is over 65. Where are our first time senior writers? The only senior writers we see are people who have had a long career. Who started in their thirties. And some of that is fueled by capitalism. I've had agents look me in the eye and say, ‘You know, you're a fabulous writer. You're as good a writer as anyone I represent, but I'm just not going to take you on because I don't think you have five book...
2021-03-2918 minParallel CareersEpisode 2 | Paul Vermeersch“When someone commits to being an artist of any kind, they are also committing to a lifelong process of learning. I want to always be a student of the craft of writing, even when my job is to teach it. As Mr. Miyagi told Daniel in The Karate Kid, someone always knows more karate. And I want to learn all the karate I can when it comes to writing poetry.”Paul Vermeersch discusses how, to become an artist, you must commit to a life-long process of learning. In this...
2021-02-2219 minParallel CareersEpisode 1 | Lamees Al Ethari“Am I doing enough? I mean, with the new generations of students, everybody's plugged in and knowledge is out there. So in the classroom, what are they actually coming to learn from me? What am I giving them?”Lamees Al Ethari questions how to know when you’re doing enough as a teacher and a writer. In this episode, she discusses:00:30 | Developing diverse course reading lists and the impact of representation on students 02:39 | The development of her memoir Waiting for the Rain: An Iraqi Memoir and her poetry collection, From the Wou...
2021-01-2513 minParallel CareersIntroducing Parallel CareersAbout the Podcast:Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Ta...
2020-12-2100 min
Mind Your Own RetirementMind Your Own Retirement - Episode 27 - MoneyClaire Tacon from the National Debt Helpline joins us to explain how to get out from under debt. This is the time of year when suddenly many people can overspend, and the credit card bills that come in the new year may be a little shocking. Claire reveals who can help you, how to avoid debt vultures and pitfalls to avoid debt.
2019-12-3107 min
Mind Your Own RetirementMind Your Own Retirement - Episode 27In episode 27 of Mind Your Own Retirement, Kaye reveals what Santa brought Kaye for Christmas and John shares his latest philanthropic passion, as well as how you can help the unsung victims of Australia’s tragic bushfires.
Claire Tacon from the National Debt Helpline joins us to explain how to get out from under debt. This is the time of year when suddenly many people can overspend, and the credit card bills that come in the new year may be a little shocking. Claire reveals who can help you, how to avoid debt vultures and pitfalls to avoid debt.
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2019-12-2831 min
Super Informed RadioWould you rather talk about your weight or your money?How many people know the nitty gritty of your finances? Our guess is not that many, right? Not surprising, since talking about money can be considered impolite, garish or simply ‘not the done thing’.
According to US research by the app Acorns, 68% of people would rather talk about their weight than their money. Why is that? And what can we do about it?
We spoke with Claire Tacon, a financial counsellor with the National Debt Helpline, on the changes to societal attitudes about money and what makes people talk—or keep quiet—about it.
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2018-02-1518 min