Take 5 Weekly

This week's lineup: a Canadian homecoming, a Certificate IV that's already changing how worksites think about safety, and a bus full of first responders who just got their day made.

In a few days I'm Ballina to Sydney to Edmonton — and this trip has been over a month in the planning, built on the back of 40 years of relationship-building. One trip to bring it all home.

The Last Great Canadian: The Paul Padlesky Story isn't a marketing campaign dressed up as a documentary. It's the real story of a man who's spent his life on Winefred Lake, northern Alberta, and we've built around telling it properly — content, commemorative collectibles, and a freshly rebuilt trapperpaul.com that's ready to take bookings the moment Paul gives the nod.

While I'm in Edmonton I'm sitting down face-to-face with broadcasters who've already had nine pitches land in their inbox. Alongside the story itself, we're bringing the merchandise — branded gear that puts Take 5 and Trapper Paul in front of people the way we do everything: generosity first, sales pitch never. There's also a five-coin commemorative series rolling off the press at Kwik Kopy (1,100 units, thank you Himanshu) that tells the wider Take 5 story — Trapper Paul, JJ's Scrap Metal, Chef Bryan Goulet, and more — one coin at a time.

Same week, same town: Chef Jeffrey Scott II is launching his steak sauce. Big days ahead.

While the suitcase was packing itself, the Academy kept moving. The BSB41419 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety is live on take5media.com.au — 12 units, a proper 40-question summative assessment, 80% pass mark, and a certificate that lands in your inbox the moment you've earned it.

This isn't theory written by someone who's never stood on a site. It's 30+ years of broadcast and safety media experience — Shell, BHP, Roper Bar, Genesee Wyoming — distilled into something a supervisor can actually use on a Monday morning. We've also added the ICAM Supervisor Awareness course for anyone who needs to understand incident causation without sitting through a week of PowerPoint.

First responders give everything on shift. STR8ON4U exists to give a little of it back.

Our Love Bus event on June 15 took 33 first responders and their people on a free day out — Babalino's Bakery, Lan Bathhouse, Sandbar, Oriental Express Byron Bay — no strings, no sales pitch, just a thank you.

This is radical generosity in action: merchandise, moments, and community before a single invoice goes out. If you run a business in the Northern Rivers and want to be part of the next Love Bus run, get in touch.