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New this week · Ep. 316

316: Mum of Four & Fitness Entrepreneur Joy McClymont on Parenting Teens, Confidence & Perimenopause

Finding your place in a farming family isn't always easy, especially when you're raising children. Joy McClymont knows that feeling well. Joy lives on a sheep and cattle property west of Longreach, where she and her husband have raised four children. Before motherhood, Joy had travelled the world, competed in an Ironman World Championship and worked as a teacher. But moving onto her husband's family farm challenged her confidence. Between babies, distance education, drought and farm work, Joy built something of her own: Off the Track Training, an online fitness business supporting rural women. Almost 17 years later, with her eldest at university, three children at boarding school and the challenges of midlife, Joy is preparing to close that chapter. Today, Joy shares the highs and lows of raising four kids in outback Queensland, finding her place on the farm, navigating perimenopause and learning when to put herself first.

• Teenagers
• Adult kids
• Large families
• Distance education
• Boarding School
• Mental Health
• Business owner
• Entrepreneurship
• Career
• Perimenopause
• Menopause