Nicky Verrochi a Mum, wife, daughter, friend and we hear it a lot from Mum’s after a while, sometimes, there is a deep desire for more than those titles, doing something for themselves, an outlet to fill their cups up. After having her 2 kids Nicky did just that, she saw a gap in the market for cute, affordable babywear made from organic cotton. Bambi Mini Co was born. A creative outlet for a creative mind, Nicky dove deep into starting a business and sourcing the highest quality products for th...
Aug 15, 2023•58 min•Season 12Ep. 127
Nat Welfare is a social media strategist and founder of SZN Social , a Melbourne-based marketing agency working with fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands. Some of SZN's clients include Novo Shoes, The DOM, Pilgrim Clothing, InClinic Cosmetics, Lady PWRZ and Silver Bullet Hair. But Nat's path to building a marketing agency has not been a typical one. She doesn't have a degree in marketing and she's never worked in an agency in her life. In fact, she grew up in the country, hailing from the home o...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 12Ep. 126
If you don't go to Europe in Winter than more than likely you will go to Bali. It's Australia's favourite holiday destination and we give you the tea what how to prepare before you go, places to stay, the do's and don'ts to stay safe (listen about gojeks). How was our trip? Where did we go? Where did we stay? Our favourite spot was the Cali Villas in Canggu after that we used Cherry to book our next accomodation and saved ourself a pretty penny. One of us did everything you're not supposed to do...
Aug 01, 2023•55 min•Season 12Ep. 125
We are back! As you can tell we were a little bit rusty in the our life update but Season 12 kicks off with a really important conversation and something we have never really spoken about with our friends and family Organ Donation. Donate a life week is from 23rd-30th July. Only 1 in 10 Australians are registered for organ donation even though 80% of Australians support organ donation. What is it like knowing you need an organ donation, being on the list and finally getting the life saving organ...
Jul 25, 2023•50 min•Season 12Ep. 124
Trigger warning for listeners. In this episode we do speak about fertility and egg freezing. If this is something that makes you extremely uncomfortable we would suggest not listening or only listening until the 15 minute mark. Tully Smyth has nearly been in the public eye longer than she hasn't. Her formative years of her 20's we're broadcasted across Australia for everyone to form opinions, beliefs of who she is. It has taken until now for her to block out the noise and come back to who she ac...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 11Ep. 123
It's that time of year again when everyone seems to crack, what happens if you just push through though? Don't do it . If you take anything from this weeks episode where we talk about burnout and learning the language of your body - you need a break. First of all we go on a bit of a tangent but it's an important one so it also makes the episode subject - we talk money and we normalise talking money with your friends. Again it only takes one person to be vulnerable and honest in a conversation an...
Jun 27, 2023•46 min•Season 11Ep. 122
Friendships are supposed to be easy, what about when they're not though? One of our most popular episodes is The Friendship Breakup (listen here ). Friendships, just like any other relationship, take work. How do you know when a friendship is no longer serving you? What does friendship actually mean and look like to you.. do we have a warped sense of friendship, love and expectations from childhood? FOL (F our Lives) friendships are supposed to be easy and what do you do when they're not.. we ta...
Jun 20, 2023•49 min•Season 11Ep. 121
We sit down and talk with THE Michael Bublè! A man of many talents, Michael Bublè is best known as a sex symbol (his own words), singer but did you know he has one of Australia's leading best selling fragrances at Chemist Warehouse that you can see here. What do you talk about with the biggest A-list celebrity that you have ever interviewed? What we do best, we get deep with life's hard hitting questions, what does success mean to you? We also play our favourite game with that we play with our i...
Jun 13, 2023•23 min•Season 11Ep. 120
Most people when they're a kid always wanted to be famous but what's it like being a child star? We asked Ariel Kaplan who was that kid we all wanted to be growing up - a famous actress on two of Australia's most popular TV shows - The Saddle Club and Neighbours. From being on stage in theatre and plays instead of being on the playgrounds at primary school Ari didn't have a conventional childhood. She has always been working and always been in front of people. What was like that for her? Did it ...
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 11Ep. 119
Breathing is an automatic response by and for our bodies but more and more research is coming out about the quality of your breathing and the relationship it has with your health. We chat with Ella Pike aka the Breath Boss and co-founder of the Breath Haus on the ancient technique of breathwork and how it can radicalise your health, life and quality of your thoughts. The more awareness you have about how you are breathing the more power you have to change your health. Why should we never breath ...
May 30, 2023•56 min•Season 11Ep. 118
The Expansive Space girls Tori and Sarra know a thing or two about manifesting. Have you tried manifesting and it hasn’t worked? Well you’re probably doing it wrong. The Expansive Space is a consulting agency focusing on self development with the belief the bi product of that is attracting everything you want aka manifesting. When you shift your inner world you shift your outer world. We find out how to call things into your life and amazing opportunities, and why we’ve layered everything up wit...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 11Ep. 117
Erin Deering is an Australian entrepreneur and co-founder of global swimwear brand Triangl. She has achieved a phenomenal level of global success with Triangl and were the brand that paved the way for social media marketing as we know it today working with influencers Hailey Bieber and the Jenners. You can hear her story of how she built and exited Triangl in many places, we’re more interested in chatting about who is Erin Deering. What drives her , what are her values and how did she develop a ...
May 16, 2023•59 min•Season 11Ep. 116
This conversation is one that is close to our heart. Lauren Mackellar is a dear friend of ours - we travelled together, worked together and for many years have known she has been developing an amazing luxe haircare brand Robe . In 2022 Lauren found a brain tumour in her head that would force her to no longer be the amazing hair stylist to many of Australia's leading celebs. The launch of Robe was delayed and after losing her hair to treatment and after being told that her hair would no longer gr...
May 09, 2023•49 min•Season 11Ep. 115
A retail expansion and digital acceleration have catapulted Kyha Scott's Bridal Brand Kyha Studios and Chosen by Kyha to a global scale opening up stores in Melbourne, Sydney and New York. How did a former Policewoman become one of the worlds leading bridal designers? We chat about following your dreams, working with family and how to expand your business on a global scale. We didn't forget to talk about trending bridal dresses - what's in, what's out and how to navigate the experience of findin...
May 02, 2023•54 min•Season 11Ep. 114
Jack Boon is one of Australia's leading health and wellness experts on social media. What is your body trying to tell you? What are the signs and symptoms that you you are missing? We talk about sleep, fertility, anxiety, nutrition, skin issues and anti-aging. How do we clean up our diet to and remove stress from our life to live a healthier and happier life? Follow Jack here: @living_rewired_ We have an official instagram page. Stay up to date and see behind the scenes content here. @curious_co...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 11Ep. 113
Life update between us and you this week. What's been going on, where do we want to be going? We talk about expectations and how words don't hold much weight for us anymore, we watch peoples actions. We talk about where we both have room for improvement as people and to lighten the mood we talk about how one of us had a video pop off on TikTok in the last week. We also have an official instagram page for the podcast and would love you if you could throw us some love here. @curious_conversations_...
Apr 17, 2023•45 min•Season 11Ep. 112
Sasha Tyers you may have seen on your FYP on TikTok. She has massed over 30 million likes and has nearly 1 million followers on the platform. Entertaining car diaries and “mukbang” videos have catapulted this 20 year old into full-time content creative work. We find out how she started on TikTok before it was even TikTok, the creative way to capture people into watching videos and editing videos and how she plans and strategises video content. This is a great insight into how to use TikTok and h...
Apr 11, 2023•55 min•Season 11Ep. 111
Imagine it's your first pregnancy, your first child and everything runs smoothly all the way up until the birth. We wanted to celebrate the amazing place that is the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and their Good Friday Appeal with a personal story of someone who had experienced the phenomenal team and facilities. Katie Declase opens up about her time in the Royal Children's Hospital and how lucky we are to have one of the worlds leading Children's Hospitals here in Melbourne. This Good F...
Apr 04, 2023•53 min•Season 11Ep. 110
Are you happy with your finances right now? Do you wish they were better? What's your relationship with money like? Do you have an abundant mindset - there is plenty of money - or a scarce mindset - there is never enough money . Our relationship with money is imprinted by the age 7 by our parents. Want to know your relationship with money just have a look at your parents and the story you keep telling yourself. Do you overspend? Why? Our relationship with money mirrors every relationship in our ...
Mar 28, 2023•58 min•Season 11Ep. 109
Want to build a winning brand? What are people doing wrong? What do you need to implement? Sometimes it's hard to see when you're so in it, enter Harrison Manias heads up one of Australia's leading brand and strategy agencies. Harrison has a 20+year international career with unparalleled success developing and delivering iconic, globally recognisable and high performing brands to markets across North America, Europe, Australia & New Zealand, Africa and Asia. A corporate career that spans med...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 11Ep. 108
Adele Maree is an Australian Tik Tok'er, Youtuber, podcaster who has over 4.1 Billion views on Tik Tok alone. She built a strong, loyal following from her daily vlogs well as her mindset, fitness, and advice content. On curious conversations we chat about stepping into full time content creation and the societal pressures of dating, ageing and all three of us throw advice on how we navigate these phases of our lives. Follow Adele here: @adelemaree e - instagram @adelemareee - Tik Tok @adelemare ...
Mar 14, 2023•58 min•Season 11Ep. 107
One of Australia's favourite stylists and style influencers Lana Wilkinson sits down to chat about her evolution in the business world from corporate life, side hustles, and taking 2 leaps of faith 1. Going into styling full time and 2. Launching her shoe brand Lana Wilkinson completely self funded. The valuable characteristics that corporate life showed her and can show you in becoming a better leader. With any busy woman who is a Mum we talk about balance - what areas of her life is she winnin...
Mar 07, 2023•55 min•Season 11Ep. 106
We’re playing nice in episode 105. Throwing compliments all around and open up about what has been going on for both of us and we get curious asking questions about life and love. We all know we need to be kind and love ourselves but how do you actually start to love yourself, how do we love ourselves and show ourselves love? A Mel Robbins episode inspired this question and says that the feeling of ‘love’ is a result of an action - the feeling of love comes from an action. What actions do you ne...
Feb 28, 2023•46 min•Season 11Ep. 105
There's only one way to describe today's conversation a d&m. Jade Kisnorbo is an international makeup artist who has worked all over the world including Paris and London but we chatted with Jade and Mum Jade, wife Jade. There's no wonder Jade hit the cut of only 5% of make-up artist working in the industry - she is magnetic, real and complete growth mindset - as Tully would say high vibes. We talk about; Relationships - The highs and lows she has experienced in her own The beginning of her c...
Feb 21, 2023•56 min•Season 11Ep. 104
We're all friends here and there's a lot of new curious conversationers so we thought it's about time to reintroduce ourselves and get to know each other a bit more. What are somethings that we thought people might not know about us. Who worked at an AFL club, who fainted first day of their job and what event that bonded us like no other. One of us is terrible at technology and one is ambidextrous. Enjoy getting to know us. We also have an official instagram page for the podcast and would love y...
Feb 14, 2023•45 min•Season 11Ep. 103
When you have lived for 95 years you've definitely seen a lot and the old saying that you only get wiser as you get older seems to getting truer and truer even as we get older. Nanna Shirl , Sarah's Nan, is 95 years old and one of the wisest people we know so we sat down and chatted with both her and Pa, Alex . Nan is one of the greatest story tellers we know and is always so animated. We chat about life, growing up and getting sent away from your parents for quarantine (it makes us look soft co...
Feb 07, 2023•49 min•Season 11Ep. 102
On the back of Morgan Riddle suggesting we do an episode on goals, daily habits and bettering yourself each day.. here it is. How we found out what gives energy to our lives, makes us feel good. When we're feeling off - what's been taking our energy? We go into what we do each day to compound our lives and make it that 1% better each day. "The ability to love yourself improves your ability to be loved. We are unlikely to accept a relationship that is worse than the one we have with ourselves, an...
Jan 31, 2023•55 min•Season 11Ep. 101
Morgan Riddle - never judge a book by its cover . Morgan born and raised in Minnesota USA worked her way up the corporate ladder to be a director of a gaming company and a non-for-profit but is more famously known for touring the Tennis circuit with partner Taylor Fritz . Making tennis cool again, bringing in a new generation of fans to the sport from her high profile social media presence and new Netflix series Breaking Point we chat to Morgan about diving into the world of being a full-time in...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 11Ep. 100
Charis Campbell is a big deal in the crypto world. With over 10 years involved in wealth management Charis is now corporate product manager at Binance Australia - Australia and the worlds leading crypto exchange. With an amazing personal story of how she moved into finance, her journey so far, we were left in awe. An amazing person who it was an absolute pleasure to sit down with and get to know better. We do chat about cryptocurrency, investing and macro economic things such as inflation and th...
Dec 15, 2022•38 min•Season 10Ep. 99
Our favourite regular on the podcast @Davidthemedium at the end of each year comes with a "word" for the following year. We discuss 2023's word and then something amazing happens - David get live "downloads", "messages" whatever you want to call it about 2023 events. It is absolutely amazing to see how he transforms and these messages come through live. We go back and discuss what his predictions were for 2022 on our podcast earlier this year (listen here) and promise who won't go ghost hunting ...
Dec 06, 2022•56 min•Season 10Ep. 98