Daniel catches up with David Keir, Founder of Dash and Principle at Entrepreneur Purpose. From his vast knowledge in financial advisory to world leading companies, and after successfully scaling Domino's presence in China, David now supports and mentors values-driven entrepreneurs to help them scale their own success. In this episode, David shares his entrepreneurial endeavours and the many lessons his learned along the way, including why trust is crucial for every leader, how taking a step back...
Jan 06, 2023•56 min
Daniel catches up with Kellie Rigney, Founder and Creative Director of Zjoosh. With 14 stores in Australia, and over 100 team members, Kellie operates a high-end lifestyle brand, providing luxurious fashion and homeware to women on the go. From being a corporate lawyer, to now operating a successful retail business, Kellie shares what she's learned in her career, including how to grow your company the right way, the importance of listening to your people, being prepared for difficult times, adap...
Dec 16, 2022•53 min
Daniel catches up with Alexander Baumjohann, renowned Professional Football Player who's played for some of the best teams in Germany, Brazil, and Australia. Now, his mission is to ignite the passion of football in Australia, to strengthen the football community and bring prosperity to the nation. With his remarkable achievements as an athlete, and now in business, Alex shares his lessons about how obsession brings greatness, what the best form of leadership is for A-players, improving from fail...
Dec 08, 2022•50 min
Over the past few months, Daniel has been dropping hints that an exciting announcement was on the way, and in this week's episode it has finally arrived. Introducing Boa, asocial media platform exclusively for business owners and entrepreneurs that ensures no entrepreneur has to be on the journey alone. In this episode Daniel delves into the reason he started Boa, some of the lessons he learnt along the way and how to get involved as a founding user.
Dec 02, 2022•11 min
Daniel catches up with Renee Francis, Founder and Director of The Bubble Co. With teams across Australia and New Zealand, The Bubble Co. is a full-service digital agency that specialises in Web3 marketing and provides clients with all their digital marketing needs to effectively reach their audience. From her experience in the corporate world to now running her own successful company, Renee discusses what makes an effective leader, how to build a unique business model from your values, and share...
Nov 25, 2022•53 min
Daniel catches up with Tim Cullen, CEO of TradieSpec. With almost 300 vehicles on the streets, TradieSpec is Australia's largest trade vehicle supplier and rent-to-own service, ensuring all tradies have access to a reliable, affordable, and well-fitted vehicle to suit all their business needs. After starting his business at just 26, Tim's company has grown at an exceptional pace, and he shares his lessons on how every business leader needs to deeply understand their market, their team, their com...
Nov 18, 2022•54 min
Daniel catches up with Maria Bellissimo-Magrin, Founder of Belgrin, who combines her love of design and business experience to help companies use their brand and marketing to build the best creative visual-identities in their industry. In this episode, Maria discusses what she's done to overcome her biggest challenges, how understanding the value she's offering lead to her success and talks about the strategies every company should use to future-proof their brand.
Nov 10, 2022•55 min
Daniel catches up with Rick Williams, Owner of Platform 24. With over a decade of experience, Platform 24 is a Sydney IT solutions provider, specialising in end-to-end cyber security and support, ensuring that businesses have the best procedures and tools to be protected in this new digital environment. Combining his unique background in teaching and IT, Rick discusses how business owners can overcome the challenges of cyber security, how to find balance and build trust with new and existing tea...
Nov 04, 2022•52 min
Daniel catches up with Andrew Baxter, Founder of 24hr Business Plan. As former CEO of two of the country’s biggest communications agencies, Publicis and Ogilvy, Andrew was involved in iconic projects such as AAMI’s ‘Rhonda & Ketut’ & Coca Cola’s ‘Share a Coke’ campaign. With his extensive career background, Andrew shares the principles every business needs to create a world leading brand, how to service customers at every step of their journey, and what components are essential for an ef...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Daniel catches up with Brady Yoshia, Founder of Brady Marcs Buyers Advisory. With offices in Sydney & Canberra, the buyers agency is serving new and experienced homeowners with a dedicated, professional, and unified team who are committed to helping them find their dream home or investment property. With years of business and real estate experience, Brady shares her entrepreneurial journey, from team building to overcoming her worst business challenges, special insights into Australia's curr...
Oct 20, 2022•48 min
Daniel catches up with Ryan Jones, Managing Director of Ryan Jones Building Co, whose mission is to serve families and build them the highest-quality boutique homes to enjoy for generations. Daniel and Ryan discuss insights on starting a business with no experience, how to find existing processes to gain an edge in your industry, and how to build trust with your clients and your team.
Oct 16, 2022•43 min
Daniel catches up with Robbie Allison, Managing Director of QualityVend and Director at Blackroo Industries, where he gives a second chance Indigenous youth, provides financial support to disadvantaged communities, and supply’s Australia with the best vending machines in the country. Robbie and Daniel discuss the importance of every team member having a known progression plan and clear vision of the company’s future as well as how profitable companies can also have a strong social purpose....
Oct 06, 2022•55 min
Daniel catches up with Mona Chiha, Co-Founder of Capital & Centric Funding. Building a smart solution that analyses behavioural spend and other factors to create borrowers’ profiles, CCF is a credit provider that aims to streamline and automate the lending process for small to medium loans in Australia. Daniel and Mona talk about the significance of community to a successful life, both personal and professional, and discuss the commonalities between motherhood and leadership that we can all ...
Sep 22, 2022•49 min
Daniel catches up with Scott Baker, Founder & CEO of Baker Group. After choosing a trade over school and joining the family business soon after, Scott decided to go out on his own at 25. Only 4 years later, Scott has now expanded the company nationally, servicing hospitality and catering groups such as Sofitel & Merivale across NSW, QLD, VIC & SA. Daniel and Scott speak about the challenges of starting a business at a young age, the importance of confidence in your service & stra...
Sep 16, 2022•54 min
Daniel catches up with Kevin Lerdwichagul, CEO of Glitch Productions. Starting the business from their parents’ garage, Kevin and his brother grew the animation studio’s Youtube channel to 7million subscribers, 100 Million monthly viewers and a team of 30 in just 5 years. Daniel and Kevin discuss how to create superfans for you and your business through relevant content, why Youtube is the best platform to do so and review everything you need to know to build a successful Youtube channel....
Sep 09, 2022•55 min
Daniel catches up with Gael Donnay, Managing Director of Stepinsight. Feeling inspired by Australia’s entrepreneurial culture after immigrating from Belgium, Gael left the corporate world to start software development company Stepinsight. Working with all business stages and sizes, Gael and his team create cutting-edge software solutions and help companies navigate through their digital transformation. Daniel and Gael look at the software development process for building an App, things to know &...
Sep 02, 2022•55 min
Daniel catches up with Amelia Johnson from Flightcharter.com.au. Running a successful events business over the past years, Amelia recently reconnected with her passion for the aviation industry, now helping clients find the right aircrafts and offers for their private flight needs at Flightcharter.com.au. Daniel and Amelia talk all things flying private and tell Amelia’s stories of getting her own pilot license - the good, the bad and the unexpected.
Aug 25, 2022•57 min
Daniel catches up with Rich Harvey, Founder & CEO of Propertybuyer.com.au. Economist, property investor and buyers advocate, Rich is also the former President of the Real Estate Buyers Agent Association of Australia and received many awards for his work in the industry. Daniel and Rich take a close look at today’s property market, why the next three months are a great time to purchase and discuss why Rich believes Australia isn’t heading into a recession.
Aug 19, 2022•54 min
Daniel catches up with Saurabh Thaper, Owner of Turbo and Viddi. Always an entrepreneur at heart, Saurabh quit his corporate career a few years ago to take a chance in business. Now he successfully runs recruitment software companies Turbo and Viddi, with the goal to improve the hiring process for businesses by making it more efficient and cost effective. Daniel and Saurabh discuss the current recruitment environment, tools to identify the right talent and talk about one of the most overlooked i...
Aug 12, 2022•56 min
Daniel catches up with Mikeila Scheckenbach, Founder of Bandit Design Group. Starting the branding agency at only 24, Mikeila now runs a national team of six, working with industry disrupting brands across the globe. Daniel and Mikeila speak about the effects of introducing a 4-day work week on culture and performance, creating a flexible work environment for your staff and review the steps to define a killer brand identity.
Aug 05, 2022•51 min
Daniel catches up with Nicholas Robert Alderdice, Founder of Learning Vault. With an offering of flexible licences and tailored courses, Nicholas and his team aim to revolutionise teaching frameworks and the education industry as a whole to shape the next generation of skilled professionals & leaders. Daniel and Nicholas address issues within the current education system, how they can be solved and discuss how to identify training needs within your team to increase performance & outcomes...
Jul 28, 2022•53 min
Daniel catches up with serial entrepreneur Dave Malcolm. After co-founding Marley Spoon and scaling the business to over 350 staff, Dave exited the business in 2020 moving on to new ventures. Using his extensive knowledge in marketing and business growth, he recently took on the role of CMO for blockchain ecosystem Myria. Daniel and Dave discuss key tools for business scaling such as performance marketing, talk all things Web3 and why Dave is all in when it comes to Crypto.
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Daniel catches up with Katya Vakulenko, Founder of Soup Agency . Starting the company three years ago on her own, Katya and her team now provide a range of digital marketing services to clients globally. Earlier this year, Katya took her entire team on a two week 'working holiday' to Bali, making headlines in publications all around the world. Daniel and Katya talk about creating a team culture that empowers staff & attracts new talent and discuss the importance of strong relationships and c...
Jul 15, 2022•52 min
In this podcast special, Daniel takes you behind the scenes of the Club of United Business. Discover the latest CUB updates and lessons Daniel learned along the way. In this episode: Daniel shares the story that led to Mark Bouris’ recent acquisition of equity in CUB, the club’s national expansion plans, PR updates and what business owners can learn from the media - PLUS Daniel reveals his secret plans to democratise networking for any business owner through his new digital platform....
Jul 08, 2022•21 min
Daniel catches up with Peter Heery, Founder of Cascade Studios. After 18 years of growing his Digital Agency Inzen to great success, Peter is now on a mission to shake up the computer gaming industry with his new venture Cascade Studios, fulfilling a life-long dream of his. Daniel and Peter discuss the huge potential that lies in the gaming industry, speak about his plan to revolutionise the market with his RPG title 'Primescape' and dive back into Peter's digital expertise reviewing IT essentia...
Jul 01, 2022•51 min
Daniel catches up with Andrew Baxter, Founder of 24hr Business Plan. As former CEO of two of the country's biggest communications agencies, Publicis and Ogilvy, Andrew was involved in iconic projects such as AAMI's 'Rhonda & Ketut' & Coca Cola's 'Share a Coke' campaign. Daniel and Andrew speak about his extensive career in the marketing industry, the BTS of some of Australia's most famous ad campaigns and the lessons he took from his experience into starting his newest venture, 24hr Busi...
Jun 23, 2022•54 min
Daniel catches up with Karen Beattie, Founder of The Growth Faculty. Karen launched the education business holding large scale events featuring high-calibre speakers such as Simon Sinek & the Obamas. But when Covid hit, she turned her greatest challenge yet into an opportunity, now providing exclusive access to virtual live masterclasses with the world’s greatest business leaders. Daniel and Karen speak about greatest lessons from leaders such as Hilary Clinton & Jim Collins, discuss cha...
Jun 17, 2022•58 min
Daniel catches up with Michael Cratt, Managing Director of Av-Comm Space & Defence. Building & sustaining satellite ground stations for government and defence clients since 1981, Av-Comm’s mission is to ensure the efficacy of Australia’s long-term space capability by reinforcing its position within the local and international market. Daniel and Michael speak about challenges of taking on the family business, the importance of support through the people around you and look at the crucial ...
Jun 10, 2022•53 min
Daniel catches up with Joey Crútch & Sam Dunleavy, Co-Founders of The Yacht Life Australia. Based in Sydney, The Yacht Life is the leading agency for luxury yacht travel and charter events in Australia & the South Pacific. Previously working on the world's most prestigious yachts, Joey & Sam are now putting their passion for boating into their business, creating bespoke experiences for their clients. Joey & Sam share memories of working with celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio ...
Jun 03, 2022•48 min
In this special episode, Daniel catches up with the CEO Club Ukraine, hosting an intimate conversation between the club's President Serhiy Haydaychuk and a group of CEO Club members. On the 24th February the lives of the Ukrainian people changed forever. In this conversation you will hear first-hand how Ukraine's business owners are fighting to keep their people safe and businesses alive. Demonstrating the important role we are able to play as business owners in our own communities. We hope to b...
May 31, 2022•59 min
