Sober lifestyle grows in popularity, with more Australians giving up alcohol
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Ezrah and Tyrene Waith enjoy their alcohol-free lifestyle on the Gold Coast.
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Ten years ago, teenager Ezrah Waith was in a bustling nightclub on the Gold Coast s glitter strip, with lights flashing and music pumping, when he had an epiphany.
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Weight gain and hangovers were among the reasons for giving up alcohol
Distillers are filling a gap in the market by making low and no-alcohol spirits I just remember standing in the middle of Sin City and realising I didn t need alcohol to be myself, Ezrah said.
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KATHY Bartley is the woman of steel. And her superpower is transforming the Gold Coast from a tourism-reliant town to a city that s putting manufacturing on the map. Even better, she s helping change the industry itself into a more female-friendly workplace ⦠a process that surely should now be dubbed wo-manufacturing. But as the general manager of Neumann Steel, the oldest family-run reinforcing steel business in the country and based in Currumbin, Kathy is engaged in some serious business. And never more so than in that historic year of 2020. Kathy Bartley is the general manager of Neumann Steel As exports from China ground to a halt at the height of the pandemic, Neumann Steel stepped in to provide a locally based solution for other Australian companies struggling to source manufacturing parts.