When your business is storytelling, it's good to get back on the tools yourself. This is where we do that.

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Stories for Good | 22 June 2020

The Fireside Story

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“The cobbler’s children always have the worst shoes” is an old adage that we think about a lot here at Fireside … because we’re determined to ensure it doesn’t apply to us. So many people who are great at a thing forget to apply those skills to themselves. With that in mind, we recently sat down and poured our narrative out onto a blank page. The end result: our story of who we are, how we fit into the world and why people should engage with us. If you want to know what makes Fireside tick, this is a great place to start.

Growing up in a struggling, single-parent family in Maryborough, central Victoria, Fireside founder Ben Hart found refuge in stories. In primary school he wrote epic tales of adventure in the classroom, featuring knights and dragons. At home, a deep interest in politics and current affairs - stories about the world - was seeded early by a mother who always had ABC news playing in the background and copies of The Age spread across the kitchen table.

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