If you are local to Albany, the name Ricarda may sound familiar to you due to her flagship fashion and homewares store on York Street. Following on from part 1.

If you are local to Albany, the name Ricarda may sound familiar to you due to her flagship fashion and homewares store on York Street. While we normally focus on the business in these articles, as we started to talk to Ricarda and her life story unfolded, we realised there was so much more to her story than her current business.

What do you see yourself doing at 92 years old?

Still living independently, overseeing the running of your sheep farm and growing 200 Como Polly Dahlias each year for the sheer joy of it? That’s what Joyce Toone is doing, and she has no plans to stop anytime soon. This month, Gavin and Bec were delighted to sit with Joyce in her cosy kitchen warmed by her 60-year-old wood stove and hear her story over a cuppa and some double coated Tim Tams.

This month’s Coffee with is taking us 4,263 km away from Albany – to Maneroo Station, 3 hours south of Darwin, the home of cattle farmers Phil and Annette Howie.

Rob Prior and Jo Dunlop recently caught up with Ian Neil, CEO of Pivot Support Services to hear about the amazing work Pivot Support Services does in the community.

Grace Schlager is the Director of Schlager Architects and owner of SA Design Collective, a furniture store and design resource.

Kym Arnold and Caitlin Davidovic sat down with Grace to discuss her journey to success and the benefits of adopting an Architect in our everyday lives.

77 years ago in the small town of Caltowie, near Port Pirie in South Australia when Keith Hillam was in year three, young Janet came to that same school in year one. That was the start of a very special personal and business relationship.

Brooke Pearson runs a small women’s only gym in Albany called Just Move. We sat down with Brooke to find out what makes this wonder woman tick and how she’s made Just Move such a special place to train.

This month Rob and Tom both tentatively put on boxing gloves and jumped in the ring with Rob Lovett from Lovett Muay Thai. They discovered how a teenage boy with plenty of energy to burn, initially fell in love with martial arts movies and later became the owner of a successful Muay Thai gym right here in Albany.

Pam recently spent an informative and entertaining half hour with Nikki Milne of The Perth Collective via Zoom. Nikki has become an expert in her field and has scaled a successful business, after identifying a niche in PR and Digital Marketing. Today, Nikki owns an online educational school and a successful PR and Marketing Agency.

When Brendan Taylor first invited Lincoln Hands to join him for a Coffee With chat, he chuckled saying, “mine is not an interesting story to tell”. Brendan disagreed. Lincoln was a sheep farmer, owned two pubs, did a large property development, built a vineyard, managed a station, married twice, has four children aged 12 to 34, had swine flu, a double lung transplant and now, at the age of 68, has embarked on a new business venture with his younger kids.

We are down to a matter of days now until Gary retires as a Partner of Lincolns on 1 July. Although this is a very exciting time for Gary as he embarks on a new post-partnership life, this is a very emotional time for the entire Lincolns team as well as his clients.