The AC Podcast

084: Coaching for Health and Wellbeing

In this Episode

Loshni Manikam, leadership coach, consultant, facilitator, and winner of the Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year 2018, joins our host, Sue Stockdale, to talk about health and well-being issues for women in the dairy industry in New Zealand. Loshni shares her personal trials as a wife, mother, and partner in a dairy farm and the brave transition she made to becoming a coach, impacting the lives of hundreds of women, with ripple effects on their families and the communities they are part of.

You Will Learn

• Learn about the difference coaching has made to remote rural areas' health and wellbeing where coaching was unknown 10 years ago
• How the dairy industry is facing ever-increasing challenges
• How Loshni’s self-leadership and ongoing development set an example for her clients, encouraging other coaches to offer their services in less obvious corners of the world

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Guest Bio

Loshni Manikam is a certified leadership coach, consultant, facilitator, and winner of the Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year 2018. She is an equity partner and share milkers with her husband on a 600-cow farm in New Zealand. But after ten years of being a mother, wife, and business partner, she hit a crossroads of 'not thriving:’ an identity crisis. Loshni set up a Facebook group, Thriving Farming Women, became a coach in 2021, and now connects and supports 900 women who want to make positive changes in their lives while supporting the farming industry. She holds a variety of roles with the Southern Dairy Development Trust, Federated Farmers Southlands, the Dairy Women's Network and is an Escalator Programme Coach and Facilitator for the Agri-Women's Development Trust. She is keen to explore opportunities for creating a positive change in the farming industry that puts people at the front and centre of everything they do and develops great leaders.

 

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