Family
The modern FIONA NEWTON
MY PARTNER RENEE AND I LEAD A FULL LIFE. WE RUN TWO BUSINESS TOGETHER – THE FITZROY MARKET IN MELBOURNE AND PRODUCTIVE EVENTS & TRAINING (DELIVERING TRAINING IN PRODUCTIVITY TO ORGANISATIONS RIGHT ACROSS AUSTRALIA).
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o add some spice to life, we have a couple of not-so-small side projects – Renee created a music festival, A Hitch to the Sticks, and I co-host a radio show Chicks Talking Footy on Joy949. All this while raising our gorgeous son Jaxson. We are busy people but not stressed (at least not most of the time). With the benefit of years of experience working with our clients to develop their own productivity systems and techniques and the benefit of being in a same sex relationship, we realised we could create our own rules. When we decided to have a child together, there were some other practical decisions to be made like who will carry the baby, will we use a friend or an unknown donor? How many attempts at IVF we were willing to make? The sex method is much more enjoyable and cheaper, so I have heard! However, we also felt free to make some more in-depth decisions about how we created our life as there are no gender roles to navigate. 38
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I have trained many people that work 10-hour days and commute an hour each way to the office and are lucky to spend 30 minutes with their kids before bedtime. We didn’t want a life where one partner was
working 50 hours a week to support us financially, while the other stayed home with our child full time. We are both highly ambitious and driven. So, we wanted to find a more balanced approach where we could both be
Fitzroy Market
