More than 150 people had their spirits lifted thanks to The Farmer Wants a Life event hosted by BMO Business Centre in Moonie and Dalby last week.
BMO communications manager Megan James said professional voice-over artist and international Make a Wish Foundation volunteer of the year Robyn Moore had the audience captivated with both humour and moments of solemn reflection.
“It’s difficult to explain the 2017 The Farmer Wants a Life, it was an experience like we’ve never had before,” Mrs James said.
“The room erupted so many times with side-splitting laughter, then Robyn would take us right to the cliff face and give us moments of real clarity and quiet reflection.”
She said The Farmer Wants a Life was BMO’s way to give local farming communities a morale boost and help them navigate the roller coaster of life.
“We can provide people the best financial planning and accounting advice, but if we are not supporting people in their well-being as a whole person, then our work has little point,” she said.
After revealing she was the voice of Blinky Bill and all the female voices in the How Green Was our Cactus? radio show, Ms Moore drew the audience into the more serious side of her life’s work.
Mrs James said the evening also reminded people to laugh more.
“It was pretty confronting when Robyn told us that in the 1950s people laughed an average of 18 minutes a day, these days we are only laughing around four minutes a day,” she said.