Episode 30 - The Disability Support Worker

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0:00:00 - (Nicole): This episode of bring your kid to work is brought to you by Lioness Media.

0:00:04 - (Nicole): It's time to bring your kid to work.

0:00:07 - (Nicole): Hey everyone. It's time to bring your kid to work. It's the family podcast that explores the world of work through the eyes of parents and their kids. Each week we interview one parent and their child to chat about what they do for work, what they like, what they don't like, and how they got there in the first place. Let's find out who we're talking to today.

0:00:29 - (D): Our two fantastic guests today are Kilelie.

0:00:32 - (B): And her son Hudson.

0:00:34 - (D): Kylie Lessio is a disability support worker with over 15 years experience supporting young adults with intellectual disabilities. She loves what she does, helping her clients live their lives to the full and as independently as they're able.

0:00:48 - (B): She has a lot of fun, but.

0:00:50 - (Nicole): It really isn't an easy job.

0:00:52 - (D): As you'll hear in today's episode, she.

0:00:55 - (B): Brings with her her son Hudson.

0:00:56 - (D): At almost 13 years old, hes keen on a career as a rugby league player, but he might also consider joining whats become almost a family business with his two big brothers also working as disability support workers. This was a super special conversation for me. Not only because I loved Kylie and Hudsons thoughtfulness and candor, but also because Kylie is my big sister and Hudson is my nephew. I know you're going to love hearing their story, so let's get on with the show.

0:01:28 - (Nicole): Welcome both of you, to bring your kid to work. I'm really excited to welcome today Kylie and Hudson.

0:01:33 - (Kylie): Hi. Hello.

0:01:34 - (A): And this episode is called the disability support worker.

0:01:38 - (B): And the reason it's called that is.

0:01:40 - (Nicole): Because that's what your mum does, isn't it, Hudson?

0:01:42 - (Hudson): Yes, it is.

0:01:43 - (Nicole): Yes, it is. What is a disability support worker?

0:01:46 - (B): What does she do all day?

0:01:48 - (Hudson): So my mu goes out on most days to her work to help people with disabilities and take them places.

0:01:55 - (B): Yeah.

0:01:55 - (G): Like where?

0:01:56 - (Hudson): Like sometimes theme parks and rugby games and bowling.

0:02:03 - (B): Gotcha.

0:02:04 - (Nicole): That sounds like a great job. Is that a great explanation of it, Kylie? Or is there more that we need to know?

0:02:10 - (Kylie): It might be a little bit more to it than that. I do have a lot of fun, though.

0:02:14 - (B): Yeah.

0:02:15 - (Nicole): So tell me what. What is a typical. Is there a typical day in the life of a disability support worker?

0:02:20 - (Kylie): There're. Nah, every day's different. That's why I love it. There is no typical. We do lot of different things.

0:02:28 - (Nicole): So what are the different things? Tell me about a couple of days. That would give us an idea of what your job is.

0:02:33 - (Kylie): He's right. On my Mondays I do take one of my fellows bowling in the morning and then we do a music program in the afternoon where he likes to get his groove on and sing and dance.

0:02:45 - (Nicole): That sounds amazing.

0:02:46 - (B): What's another day like?

0:02:48 - (Kylie): Tuesdays is african drumming. Thursdays I go for a really nice walk on hin'dam. And Fridays there was a farm expedition, but now we do healing hooves, which is pet therapy with horses.

0:03:05 - (Nicole): Oh, wow, that sounds cool.

0:03:07 - (B): That is pretty cool.

0:03:08 - (G): Yeah.

0:03:09 - (Nicole): When Hudson says you do all these things and you're saying there's a bit more to it, you just told us a lot of great activities.

0:03:15 - (Kylie): I did tell you the fun stuff.

0:03:17 - (Nicole): You did? So what's the other stuff that we.

0:03:20 - (B): Need to know about?

0:03:21 - (Kylie): Well, the other not so great stuff is occasionally you'll be hit, punched, kicked, spat on. That's not so fun.

0:03:29 - (Nicole): That's not so fun.

0:03:31 - (Kylie): I do personal care and things like that as well.

0:03:35 - (Nicole): What does that mean, personal care is.

0:03:38 - (Kylie): Well, if you put it in layman's termss, it's changing bums and feeding and. Yeah, yeah.

0:03:44 - (Nicole): Because some people need extra support. Some people can't do that themselves.

0:03:48 - (Kylie): No, they can't.

0:03:49 - (G): Yeah.

0:03:50 - (Kylie): Some of our clients are non vibal, so we. I know a little bit of sign language, but on my list of things to do is learn sign language properly.

0:03:59 - (B): Yeah.

0:04:00 - (Nicole): Because that'll help you help your clients.

0:04:02 - (Kylie): Yeah. A lot of it is body language and facial expressions that you can communicate with our guys with.

0:04:09 - (Nicole): Okay, that sounds very cool.

0:04:11 - (G): It is pretty cool.

0:04:12 - (Nicole): Hudson, I forgot to ask you, how.

0:04:14 - (B): Old are you and what grade are you in?

0:04:16 - (Hudson): I am almost 13 and I'm in grade seven.

0:04:19 - (Nicole): Oh, so high school already?

0:04:21 - (B): Yep. Yeah.

0:04:23 - (Nicole): What do you love about high school?

0:04:24 - (B): What's your favorite thing at school?

0:04:27 - (Hudson): That we get different classes. It's not the same teacher. Same class all the time.

0:04:32 - (B): Yeah.

0:04:33 - (Nicole): What are your favourite classes? Pe.

0:04:35 - (Hudson): Math and art.

0:04:37 - (Nicole): Nice. Your mum just explained a little bit about what she does for a job and you obviously know a bit about it. Is it something that you want to do when you get big?

0:04:46 - (Hudson): Maybe.

0:04:47 - (G): Maybe?

0:04:48 - (B): Maybe.

0:04:50 - (Nicole): Is it something you want to do though?

0:04:51 - (G): Hudson? Yeah.

0:04:53 - (Kylie): Have you changed your sp.

0:04:54 - (G): Yeah.

0:04:55 - (Kylie): Really?

0:04:56 - (Nicole): Have you?

0:04:57 - (G): Okay 's good.

0:04:58 - (Nicole): Money, money, good money.

0:05:00 - (G): All right.

0:05:01 - (Nicole): What else, though, have you got in your mind of things that you might.

0:05:04 - (B): Want to do when you get big?

0:05:06 - (Hudson): A rugby league player, a social media person.

0:05:11 - (G): Yeah, yeah's.

0:05:13 - (Nicole): So a real variety of things you're interested in?

0:05:15 - (B): Yeah, yeah. This job that mum's got, how long.

0:05:20 - (Nicole): She been doing it?

0:05:21 - (Hudson): A while. Like maybe 20 years or something like that.

0:05:26 - (Kylie): Nearly 1616 years, yeah.

0:05:30 - (B): And does she like it, Hudson?

0:05:32 - (Hudson): She loves it.

0:05:33 - (B): Yeah.

0:05:35 - (Nicole): What gives you that idea that she loves it?

0:05:37 - (B): How do you know that?

0:05:38 - (Hudson): Because she's been there for 16 years and doesn't complain about it.

0:05:42 - (B): Yeah. That's a pretty good indicationeah you do love it, Kylie.

0:05:48 - (Kylie): I do love it.

0:05:49 - (Nicole): What's the best part about your job?

0:05:52 - (Kylie): That it is different every day I laugh out loud. Every day there's someone does something that.

0:05:59 - (B): Just cracks me up.

0:06:00 - (Kylie): I have the best workmates that have become best friends over the years and it's weird, the environment that we're in, because I can tell you or I can tell other people and unless you're in it, you don't really understand what it's like. So that's kind of cool to have friends that do. And I have clients that tell me that they love me all the time and that's nice, too.

0:06:26 - (Nicole): That's pretty nice.

0:06:27 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:06:29 - (Nicole): So that's a good thing about your job, but positive.

0:06:32 - (B): Positive, yeah, positive, positive.

0:06:36 - (Nicole): What would a worst day be like.

0:06:38 - (B): As a disability support worker?

0:06:40 - (Kylie): A worst day is watching one of your favorites have a meltdown and trying to find out the triggers and what started it and how did it get to this point. But then that's another. On another flip side. I love trying to work out why and how and being able to diffuse the situation. Sometimes it can take minutes, other times it can take hours.

0:07:08 - (B): Wow.

0:07:09 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:07:09 - (Nicole): But you're determined to get to the core of it.

0:07:12 - (Kylie): Yeah. I want to know why, so that it doesn't happen again or I can prevent it from happening again or learn from the situation and be able to handle it better the next time.

0:07:23 - (B): Yeah. Wow.

0:07:25 - (Nicole): That sounds like it takes a lot of determination.

0:07:27 - (B): Ye.

0:07:28 - (Nicole): Is that something you've inherited, Hudson?

0:07:30 - (B): Are you determined?

0:07:31 - (G): Yep.

0:07:32 - (B): Yeah?

0:07:34 - (Kylie): Yep.

0:07:36 - (G): I like that.

0:07:38 - (B): How do you think mum got into this job?

0:07:40 - (Nicole): Has she told you any stories about how she started? Did she do training? Did she do uni?

0:07:45 - (B): How did she start?

0:07:47 - (Hudson): I'm not sure.

0:07:48 - (Nicole): No. Do you think she went to uni?

0:07:51 - (B): No. No. So maybe some training?

0:07:54 - (Hudson): Yeah, I think training?

0:07:55 - (B): Yeah.

0:07:56 - (Nicole): What kind of training was it, Kylie, that you had to do to get this job?

0:07:59 - (Kylie): I fell into this. I did a diploma of fitness when my older boys were younger because I was going to the gym all the time and I just wanted to know what muscles was working, what. But one of the subjects was training with people with disabilities and met a fella with an acquired brain injury when he was 16. Fell off a skateboard and. Yeah, poor bugger, he could only like, give thumbs up or thumbs down to answers.

0:08:27 - (B): And because I was a little bit.

0:08:28 - (Kylie): Older, I noticed that the younger people weren't really asking him questions, so I asked him a lot of yes and no questions so that I could have a conversation with him.

0:08:36 - (B): Yeah.

0:08:37 - (Kylie): And then my teacher was like, you should volunteer at receck and sport. And I asked her what that was and had no, hadn't even thought about it. And then did some volunteering and was offered a job.

0:08:49 - (B): Wow.

0:08:50 - (Kylie): Yeah. Never thought I would ever do anything like this and now I can't imagine doing anything else.

0:08:56 - (B): Wow, I love that. Yeah.

0:08:59 - (Nicole): So your pathway was a side kind of training and then volunteering?

0:09:04 - (Kylie): Yes, for our organization, pretty much. If you volunteer. Well, when you volunteer, that's your pathway into the job. Yeah.

0:09:15 - (Nicole): Because working with people with disabilities can be really challenging, can't it? And so you need to make sure that the people who want to apply for jobs have got some experience and they know what they're kind of getting themselves into.

0:09:26 - (Kylie): It's not for everybody and that kind of, in a nice way, filters out the people that you don't think will be great for doing this kind of thing.

0:09:36 - (B): Yeah.

0:09:37 - (Nicole): And I'm assuming it takes big hearts and a lot of patience. Is that a good description of your mum, Hudson?

0:09:45 - (Hudson): Yep.

0:09:45 - (B): Yeah, definitely.

0:09:48 - (Nicole): And Hudson mum's been doing this for 16 years y. But she must have done other things before that. Do you know what her first job was when she was around your age.

0:09:57 - (B): Or a bit older?

0:09:59 - (Hudson): No, I'm not sure.

0:10:01 - (Kylie): You're not sure can telling you any of that.

0:10:05 - (B): You haven't told me anything, Jez.

0:10:08 - (G): That's hard.

0:10:10 - (Nicole): That is harsh. So what was your first job, Kylie?

0:10:14 - (Kylie): My first job was working in like a bait and tackle shop snack bar at Paradise Point Marina. And then I did do uni for a year, but that wasn't really for me. At 1718. So then I worked at Dreamwor as a ride operator.

0:10:33 - (B): Wow.

0:10:34 - (Kylie): And worked at the old original fisherman's wharf as a bartender and parkwood tavern for a while and in a snack bar where I used to do lunch deliveries on a bicycle up and down bundle road in the rain and everything. Oh, that was fun.

0:10:53 - (Nicole): Hudson, what kind of first job do you think you might get?

0:10:56 - (Hudson): Maybe McDonald's or bunnings. Mac is because my brothers did it and Bunnings is really close to us.

0:11:04 - (Nicole): Oh, that's handy. It's always good to be close to something so you can get yourself there and get yourself home.

0:11:09 - (B): And it's good pa. Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

0:11:12 - (Nicole): There's a couple of times you've mentioned good pay.

0:11:15 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:11:15 - (Nicole): What are you going to do with this money when you're earning this money, Hudson, have you got plans for what you want to spend on?

0:11:20 - (Hudson): I'm probably going to save for when I'm 18 te to get a house and car.

0:11:24 - (Nicole): Nice. That's a good idea.

0:11:26 - (G): Yeah.

0:11:27 - (Nicole): M and do you think when you leave school, I know you said rugby player or you said social media manager. You talked about working with momm as a disability support worker. You've got lots of different ideas. Ye do you think you're going to.

0:11:41 - (B): Go to uni when you leave school?

0:11:43 - (Hudson): Well, if I absolutely have to, then I will. But for rugby and social media, if I don't need to, then I'm probably not go.

0:11:51 - (G): Going toa do it.

0:11:52 - (B): Yeah.

0:11:53 - (Nicole): There lots of people who have been to uni and your family or not been to uni and your family. What do you see around you?

0:11:58 - (Hudson): Mom, you went to uni for a year.

0:12:01 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:12:02 - (Hudson): Cameron, my brother did.

0:12:04 - (B): He got a degree.

0:12:05 - (Hudson): Yeah. But I don't think my other brother did, though.

0:12:09 - (Kylie): Yeah, well, he did for a little bit.

0:12:13 - (Nicole): So you've seen some people go and some people not go, so you know that both of those things are an option.

0:12:17 - (B): Yeah. Which is good. Yeah, I love that.

0:12:20 - (Hudson): And they both turned out fine.

0:12:22 - (Nicole): Well, exactly. Because there's a different path for everybody and you don't have to do the same thing as everybody else. What about what jobs that your friends are interested in? Is everybody talking about rugby league at the moment? Is that the kind of passion of.

0:12:36 - (B): People at school with you?

0:12:38 - (Hudson): Most of the school doesn't really like.

0:12:40 - (B): Rugby, so they're like soccer or other.

0:12:43 - (Hudson): Stuff and like some. Most of the girls want to be like marine biologists.

0:12:48 - (Nicole): There's a lot of people who want to be marine biologists. It's amazing.

0:12:52 - (B): Yeah.

0:12:53 - (Nicole): When you finish school and go out into the world, what are you most excited about?

0:12:59 - (Hudson): Staying up whenever I want.

0:13:04 - (B): But what happens when you get tired?

0:13:07 - (Hudson): Well, I'll just stay up until I get tired and then go to sleep.

0:13:11 - (B): Yeah.

0:13:12 - (Nicole): So that is the thing you're most looking forward to staying up. I think that's great. That's a great answer. Kylie, what do you think constitutes a good job? Not necessarily just for you, but what is a good job, do you reckon?

0:13:32 - (Kylie): Something that you enjoy doing as long as it's sustainable and you can live from it, off it, all that sort of stuff. I've always said to the kids, they don't have to go to uni. If they can find a job that they like, then I'd much rather they were happy than in a job that earns them lots of money that they don't like.

0:13:52 - (Nicole): Yeah, for sure. The other thing you mentioned before was around your workmates.

0:13:58 - (G): Yes.

0:13:59 - (Nicole): And particularly, I imagine, in a job like yours, you really need those people to kind of debrief with.

0:14:03 - (B): Absolutely.

0:14:05 - (Nicole): Tell me about the importance of having.

0:14:08 - (B): Good people to work with, apart from.

0:14:10 - (Kylie): The fact that it makes your job a lot easier. I love bouncing ideas off of my friends and I like the diversity at my job because we do. We all have different strengths and there are certain people that you can work with and certain people that you can't work with and there are some you don't want to work with. But I love that there are so many people at my work that we find someone for everybody and you'll make that connection.

0:14:39 - (B): I like that part.

0:14:41 - (Nicole): So you mean clients. You connect the client to the right person for them?

0:14:45 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:14:45 - (Nicole): Because that makes a lot of sense because not everybody's going to get along with everybody else.

0:14:49 - (Kylie): No. Well, that's right. There are quite high need clients that we have, that there are younger staff members that just wouldn't know how to handle a meltdown situation or don't even know how to do personal care because that wasn't something that they were hired for. Their re more sporty or they'll take them to the gym or do arts and crafts and things because that's their strength. That's not my strength.

0:15:21 - (Nicole): So you've got to play to your strengths. I think that's excellent adviceeah. Hudson, when mum's out at work and she's doing her thing, what do you think are the biggest challenges that she.

0:15:33 - (B): Faces with the clients?

0:15:35 - (Hudson): Maybe if something happens to them, like they hurt themselves or they get mad and mom has to deal with it and sometimes Mu gets hit and she's sad because her favorites are getting mad at her.

0:15:48 - (B): Yeah.

0:15:49 - (Nicole): Mum gets quite close to people.

0:15:51 - (B): Does she? Yeah, all the time.

0:15:54 - (Nicole): Quite a really intimate relationship that you then have to build, isn't it?

0:15:59 - (B): Yeah. Yeah.

0:16:01 - (Nicole): When a meltdown kind of happens. Kylie?

0:16:04 - (B): Yeah.

0:16:04 - (Nicole): What does that look like? Because we're talking about adults with intellectual disabilities, aren't we? So we're not talking about little kids.

0:16:13 - (Kylie): No. From the perspective of people in the community or from my perspective, that's a really good point. Is it totally different?

0:16:22 - (B): Yeah.

0:16:23 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:16:23 - (G): Well, give us both.

0:16:24 - (Kylie): From my perspective, it's the. Where what? How? Why? So I'm trying to diffuse the situation and try and bring our clients back to happiness because it's not a happy place to be when you're melting down and screaming and crying and kicking the people that you know care for you but you can't help it, then from the public's perspective, it's.

0:16:50 - (B): Yeah.

0:16:50 - (Kylie): Seeing grown adults attack other people and sometimes hit cars or strip naked in public and see, that's not surprising to me because I've seen that often. But to someone in the public, if you see, you know, a woman in her twenties ripping off her clothes, throwing herself in a car, it can be quite distressing. Yeah. Yeah.

0:17:18 - (Nicole): Hudson, is that something that you've experienced.

0:17:20 - (B): That you've been with mum when she's.

0:17:22 - (Nicole): Been with clients and you kind of go, that's weird. Or different.

0:17:26 - (Hudson): It doesn't really happen when I'm with mum, but primary school that get mad and hits people and do things that I thought, why are they doing that? Until I found out that they have a disability.

0:17:39 - (B): Yeah.

0:17:40 - (Nicole): So do you think mum's job has helped you understand more about people with disabilities and how they can be in the world and how they can live great lives?

0:17:49 - (B): Yeah.

0:17:50 - (Hudson): It makes me realize you don't make fun of them and they can't help what they do all the time.

0:17:55 - (Nicole): Exactly. Because we're all different and we've all got different abilities, whether we have got an intellectual disability or not. Everybody's different and has different strengths. What's a great life look like for someone who has got down syndrome or Prader Willie's syndrome or acquired brain injury?

0:18:12 - (B): Kylie, what kind of a great life.

0:18:14 - (Nicole): Can they have in the community?

0:18:17 - (Kylie): Per. Community acceptance and integration and a lot of my clients do more things than I do. They're out there on surfing camps and state of origin camps and ye sewing club and Special Olympics. Like, I am so not an olympian. I just admire that they. They're so committed to training to get to the Olympics.

0:18:47 - (B): Yeah.

0:18:48 - (Kylie): And work as well. A lot of our guys train to work and volunteer themselves. They just want to be part of the community and that's what we try and help them do.

0:19:00 - (B): Yeah.

0:19:00 - (Nicole): And that includes things like learning to cook and learning to pay bills and things like that if they're living on their own.

0:19:06 - (G): Is that.

0:19:07 - (Nicole): Am I right in that?

0:19:08 - (Kylie): Yeah. Lifestyle skills and people training and things like that. So they can catch the bus or the tram by themselves.

0:19:14 - (G): Yeah.

0:19:15 - (Nicole): These are things you don't even think about, do you, that you would probably be able to work that out yourself. But if you've got an intellectual disability, that's something that you really need help with.

0:19:24 - (B): Exactly, yeah.

0:19:26 - (Nicole): Hudson, what's something recently that you've really needed help with?

0:19:30 - (Hudson): My schoolwork at school.

0:19:32 - (B): Yeah.

0:19:33 - (Hudson): And I need all the teachers and my mum and dad to help me with, like, homework and understanding some things.

0:19:42 - (G): Yeah.

0:19:43 - (Nicole): Because you're young and you're learning new things, and these people with intellectual disabilities are older, but they're still trying to learn new things. And that's, I think, a really important thing for us to understand is that we all can learn lots of different things, but we have to just kind of start where we are. So you're starting from an almost 13 year old who's very brainy and very determined and patient.

0:20:08 - (Nicole): But other people start from different starting lines, don't they?

0:20:11 - (B): Yeah.

0:20:12 - (G): Yeah.

0:20:13 - (Nicole): That makes a lot of sense. I'm making sense to in my own head, to myself. Kylie, if someone is listening to you and going, I don't want to get hit or punched at work, this is not for me. Do you think you could convince them or do you think someone who goes, you know what? I could cope with that. I'd really like to help people. What do you think you'd say to people if they heard this story?

0:20:36 - (Kylie): I think, oh, see, because I never thought I could do it either, but like I said, I couldn't imagine doing anything else. So I don't know if you learn those skills or if it's either in.

0:20:47 - (Hudson): You or not in you.

0:20:49 - (Kylie): I know a lot of my friends say I couldn't do what you do, but a lot of people don't like vomit or bowel movements or things like that. That's not for everyone. I think it's got to be in.

0:21:01 - (B): You a little bit.

0:21:02 - (Kylie): I mean, you can be called to do it, but there are certain people that have come along over the last 16 years that you can just tell it's not their thing. They try some try hard, but I think it's got to be in you.

0:21:18 - (Nicole): Do you think the in new part often comes from someone who has an experience of a family member with an intellectual disability?

0:21:26 - (B): Is that a lot of where your.

0:21:27 - (Nicole): Volunteers and staff members come from?

0:21:30 - (Kylie): We do have a lot of staff who are connected to clients, and I always wondered, why would you want to come and work with people with disabilities when that's what you have to deal with at home? I think I would want to break, but we also have a lot of people volunteer because they've seen us out in the community and just go, well.

0:21:52 - (B): That looks all right.

0:21:54 - (Kylie): But then also, I've had someone ask, well, I've seen people shopping with their clients, and I'd like to go shopping. I said, and I've said to them, well, that's well and good, but you do realize that they're probably at home and they've fed them and they've showered them and they've taken care of their personal care and, oh, no, I didn't know you had to do that.

0:22:16 - (B): Yeah.

0:22:17 - (Kylie): I'm like, yeah, there's a little bit more involved than just shopping as I do, like all bowling or. Yeah, surfing.

0:22:25 - (B): It's a bit more than, yeah, absolutely.

0:22:28 - (Nicole): But it's clear to me, just listening to you, that you have a deep love for what you do.

0:22:34 - (G): Yeah.

0:22:35 - (Nicole): You must find that really rewarding. What are the great moments that you've had with clients where you've gone, wow, they've really stepped up, or they've really done something that you just didn't expect.

0:22:44 - (B): Them to be able to do.

0:22:45 - (Kylie): One I've been bowling with for, geez, over ten years. And I love that. When I first started with him, if he was losing, he would, like, fake an ankle injury or say his rip hurt or something. I'm very blunt and I'm not putting up with that. So we. I'm not Molly coddling. I knew he was faking, and he knew I knew he was faking, and I loved working through that so that he's grown from that and now he's not just a great winner, he's a great loser as well.

0:23:17 - (B): Yeah.

0:23:18 - (Kylie): Yeah. Watching others start their creations and their crafts and watching one of my girls, like, take some clay in her hands and then create this amazing. I remember seeing her do a little dinosaur for the first time, and it was so small and intricate and the process, I was just flabbergasted. There's no way I could have done that.

0:23:40 - (Nicole): It's cool to see people do things that you don't even expect, and it's amazing.

0:23:45 - (Kylie): Yeah.

0:23:46 - (Nicole): Hudson, when it comes to work in the world, is there anything that you're worried about when you start your career, whatever it may be, it's going to.

0:23:56 - (Hudson): Be new for me and I'm going to be bit nervous, and I'll be like the new one there that doesn't really know as much as everyone else does.

0:24:05 - (B): Yeah.

0:24:06 - (Hudson): And it's gonna be really scary and. But eventually, if I like it, I'll continue and then I'll help new people in future years when I'm more experienced.

0:24:19 - (B): Yeah.

0:24:19 - (Nicole): That's really cool. You get to pass the baton. So if that workplace is to be a rugby league team, I need to know which rugby league team would be the top of the list for you to join.

0:24:31 - (Hudson): Cowboys.

0:24:32 - (B): Yeah.

0:24:33 - (Nicole): Stay close to home.

0:24:34 - (Kylie): I think Townsville's a fairway away from home.

0:24:36 - (Nicole): That's true. Sorry, I'm getting my cowboys and my titans confused. I'm not a rugby person, quite clearly.

0:24:44 - (Kylie): No, you won.

0:24:46 - (B): Okay.

0:24:47 - (Nicole): Cowboys North Queensland.

0:24:48 - (Hudson): Yep. I've just been supporting them for ages and. But I'd like to start with the team close to home anyways so I can come visit my parents and family and maybe some. Get them some tickets if we have a home game.

0:25:03 - (B): Yeah.

0:25:03 - (Nicole): Nice.

0:25:04 - (B): I like that idea. I'll come too.

0:25:07 - (Nicole): That sounds fun. Even watch. I would watch rugby league for you, Hudson, is all I'm saying.

0:25:11 - (B): That's how much I love you, Jy.

0:25:14 - (G): Nick.

0:25:15 - (Kylie): Love you.

0:25:16 - (Nicole): That's a lot.

0:25:17 - (Kylie): That's a lot. Love.

0:25:18 - (Nicole): Hudson, is there anything about work or life or anything like that that I have not asked you that you are burning desperately to tell me?

0:25:27 - (Hudson): Not really. I think you've summed everything up, actually.

0:25:30 - (Nicole): What I did miss was what is it about a rugby league player or a social media manager, for example, that appeals to you? Why would you want to do those jobs?

0:25:40 - (Hudson): Well, I love running around all the time and working with mates and teammates and just. It's very fun rugby and if I was social media, I'd like to show everyone and do. Show everyone who I am and do funny things and it's just great.

0:25:59 - (Kylie): Make people laugh.

0:26:00 - (Hudson): Yeah, make people laugh.

0:26:01 - (B): Yeah.

0:26:03 - (Nicole): Not quite an influencer, but maybe youtubeer TikTok or is that what you're thinking?

0:26:07 - (Hudson): Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

0:26:09 - (Nicole): Interesting. That's cool. That wasn't a job when your mum and I were kids, so, you know, that's a whole new category of jobs. And there might be even new categories of jobs when you get ready to leave school and head into the workforce, so who knows?

0:26:22 - (B): Very cool.

0:26:23 - (Hudson): Yeah.

0:26:24 - (Nicole): Kylie, is there anything about your job, life, career, training, anything that I didn't ask you that I should have or that you think people should know?

0:26:33 - (B): No, I don't think so.

0:26:35 - (Kylie): I did further my. We do a lot of online training and CPR and first aid and all that sort of stuff. And I did end up doing a cert for in disability, even though I already had ten years experience just because I felt like I wanted a piece of paper.

0:26:50 - (B): Yeah. I don't know why.

0:26:52 - (Nicole): Made it official that you were good at your job.

0:26:55 - (B): Yeah, yeah.

0:26:56 - (Nicole): So you can always do further training. You don't have to be Hudson's age and going to school. You can be your age and not at school and at work and you.

0:27:03 - (B): Can still do further training and learning well.

0:27:06 - (Kylie): That's right.

0:27:07 - (G): Yeah.

0:27:07 - (Nicole): That's very cool.

0:27:08 - (Kylie): Yeah. You feel like a chain. Go for it.

0:27:11 - (B): Yeah. Yeah.

0:27:12 - (Nicole): I have loved hearing about your job and I've loved chatting to you, Hudson. Thank you both so much for joining me on bringing your kid to work.

0:27:19 - (B): Thank you, Hudson. You're welcome. Thanks, Kylie.

0:27:23 - (Kylie): You're welcome, Nick.

0:27:26 - (Nicole): And we'll have another great couple of people next week and I look forward to having that conversation. So bye for now.

0:27:33 - (Kylie): Bye bye.

0:27:37 - (D): How great is my sister?

0:27:41 - (Nicole): I know I'm supposed to play it.

0:27:42 - (D): Cool as the little sister and not be all fangirling about my big sister, but come on, she's a bit of a legend. I loved hearing the stories about the work that she does. I don't often get to hear such great stories about the different things that she does.

0:27:56 - (Nicole): I do sometimes call her on a.

0:27:58 - (D): Monday and talk to her client that she goes bowling with and have a good laugh with him when he wins at bowling.

0:28:03 - (B): That's fun.

0:28:04 - (Nicole): But I don't get to hear the.

0:28:05 - (D): Stories as much as I'd like. So that was a really cool experience for me. I hope it was great for you, too. I think it's just such a cool thing, what Kylie does, that she is able to support people to live their lives as best as they can live them. And not only does she do that.

0:28:22 - (B): Herself, but that the way in which.

0:28:25 - (D): She does that work has clearly inspired my other two nephews, Cameron and Aidean.

0:28:30 - (B): To do the same work as well.

0:28:32 - (D): They've had people with intellectual disabilities in and out of their lives and home for pretty much their whole childhood. And Kylie has just made sure that everybody knows that just because you're different doesn't mean you are less worthy of.

0:28:46 - (B): Having a great life.

0:28:48 - (D): And they are taking that to heart and doing the same work now and then. Hudson's saying that's something he's thinking about as a possibility as well, which was.

0:28:56 - (Nicole): Quite a surprise to me, but that's pretty cool.

0:28:59 - (D): If you are interested in being a disability support worker, it is a hugely rewarding and really challenging job, but you can do it. So if you're interested, make sure you.

0:29:11 - (B): Have a look at Gold Coast SPR.

0:29:13 - (D): And ran, which is where Kylie and.

0:29:15 - (B): Her boys work, or any organisation close.

0:29:19 - (D): To you that supports NDIS clients. I think that's a really great way to spend your working life, helping others and giving back. Next week we're going to meet another.

0:29:29 - (Nicole): Great couple of guests.

0:29:30 - (D): I cannot wait to introduce them to.

0:29:32 - (B): You, so I will talk to you then. Bye for now.

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