Bondi Patrol Podcast
Welcome to The Bondi Patrol Podcast; a conversation with the people who volunteer their time to keep Bondi beach safe for swimmers, run the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club as well as the Bondi community who embrace & support our club, and our values – I’m your host Glen Frost, I’m a Volunteer surf life saver at Bondi, and each episode I’ll be meeting with a local legend; either from our club, from the Australian surf life saving community, or from in and around Bondi.
We exist to save lives, create great Australians and build better communities, and we couldn’t do that without our 1500 volunteers and an engaged and supportive Bondi community, so thank you, we salute you.
The Bondi Patrol Podcast is owned by The Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club. All advertising and sponsorship revenues are paid directly to the Bondi SBLSC. Glen Frost is the Co-Founder and Host of the podcast, and does not profit in any way from the podcast. Glen donates his time to make the podcast happen.
Bondi Patrol Podcast
The Bondi Patrol Podcast: Episode 23: Liz Webb, President, Bondi Bathers Surf Life Saving Club
The Bondi Patrol Podcast: Liz Webb, Club President
About Liz:
Liz was born in Griffith Country NSW. She has lived and worked in various regional places in the Murray Darling Basin (Wagga Wagga, Albury, Leeton) and then worked overseas. Liz moved to Sydney for work in 2001, moved to Bondi and completed her Bronze medallion in 2002.
Liz’s experience in the club is as an active patroller for many years, takin on the vice captain role for Meagher patrol back in the day. Liz has held various roles in Nippers – having been the Director of Nippers for the previous three years, and before that Deputy Director Nippers, and Age Manager for the Yellow Caps. She is now President of our Club
In this episode we discuss:
· Moving to Bondi and starting at the club in 2021 in an active patrolling role with Meagher Patrol.
· Scaling back while having children and while they were younger and then re-engaging with Nippers and taking on various roles as Age Manager, Deputy Nippers Director then Director of Nippers.
· Worked with the Nippers Committee during the COVID period – navigating our way through COVID and beach number restrictions to maintain the Nippers program within the rules and then the post COVID rebuild of the Bondi Nippers program with a different rhythm, more agile and more flexibility.
· Role and obligation of a Club President is to work with the Club Directors and members and help lead the club and ensure it remains relevant into the future. As the first Female President of Bondi Surf Life Savers Club, Liz discusses the significance of taking opportunities to normalise women in leadership role by getting in and just doing it.
· Life outside of club – Liz is the CEO of an environmental advisory and consultancy business of 300 people that do technical studies for major projects to obtain their environmental approval. Projects like Snowy 2.0, solar and wind farms, transmission lines, mines and infrastructure projects. Liz’s is a hydrogeologist – studying both science and engineering with a focus on water management.
