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title: We warmly welcome Angie Pickering to SMART Recovery Australia | SMART Recovery Australia
description: Welcome to SRAU! What attracted you to the organisation? Thanks - great to be here! My first intro to SMART was through Launch Housing in Melbourne, I was
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# [We warmly welcome Angie Pickering to SMART Recovery Australia | SMART Recovery Australia](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/we-warmly-welcome-angie-pickering-to-smart-recovery-australia)

 Written by [smart recovery](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/author/smart-recovery) | Jul 23, 2020

1. **[ Welcome to SRAU!](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/staff/) What attracted you to the organisation?**

Thanks – great to be here! My first intro to SMART was through Launch Housing in Melbourne, I was counselling people experiencing homelessness in Southbank and some colleagues were running SMART Recovery groups at night, I joined in and loved the approach and program. Meeting Dan, Ange and Ryan during the interview process last month I knew I fit right in and we could do some great work together.

1. ** What are you most looking forward to about your time here?**

Contribution and impact. This project amalgamates several passion and skill areas for me personally and professionally and I get the sense that working with such great people we are going to come up with some awesome ideas and enjoy making them happen.

1. ** If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?**

 A quetzal in flight

Maybe a snow leopard crossed with a quetzal? I would love to be able to fly.

1. ** Obviously this is the best place to work. What’s the weirdest job or work experience you’ve had, and why?**

How about suctioning water and debris out of the mouths of folks pretending they were fine and relaxed while their curling fingers and toes suggested differently? That’s the weirdest way I can describe dental nursing but it was actually a great job.

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