With so much talk about the ‘Great Resignation’ and all the job changes that are occurring as a result, what better time to make sure your LinkedIn profile is working for you? In this episode we share some valuable ‘insider’ tips and gain an insight into how recruiters use LinkedIn to find the right people. We’ll also hear from US based Executive Resume writer and expert Donna Svei who will share insights you may be surprised to learn. And you’ll glean some valuable tips to ensure that you are d...
Nov 16, 2021•21 min•Ep. 130
We’re in the ‘home straight’ heading towards the end of the year and following the crazy year so many of us have had (thanks COVID!) we thought what better time to remind ourselves of tools to help prevent burnout? We were lucky enough a few weeks back to run an online seminar on burnout with the best selling author, psychologist and leadership expert, Dr Jacinta Jiménez, and, as so many people signed up, we decided we should revisit Dr Jacinta’s amazing advice from our conversation on the podca...
Nov 09, 2021•8 min•Ep. 129
We’re excited to be bringing you an inspiring and very relevant guest this week given world leaders have been meeting at COP 26 in Glasgow for vital climate talks as this episode goes to air. Tessa Clarke is Co-founder and CEO of the international food sharing and household goods app called OLIO. Her passion for sustainability and for creating simple ways to help all of us to take simple but powerful steps to help the environment is just what we need right now! Tessa and her Co-founder (whom she...
Nov 02, 2021•41 min•Ep. 128
Welcome to this week’s mini episode all about how you should think about career opportunities. Making career decisions can be really stressful can’t it? One guest who made a big impression on us with her career advice is the well known Australasian leader, Michelle Guthrie. Michelle has had an international career including being CEO of Star TV in Asia, a senior executive at Google in Asia, and she was Managing Director of Australia’s national broadcaster the ABC - a term which ended in great co...
Oct 26, 2021•10 min•Ep. 127
It doesn’t take much imagination to work out how many challenges tourism businesses have been facing during the pandemic. Typically, those who’ve been challenged the most can offer us the most interesting and helpful stories and advice. So our latest episode features the first of several amazing female travel entrepreneurs we’ll be featuring in the coming weeks. Lena Andersson is the Founder and CEO of ‘Go Running Tours’, a global platform where you can book guided sightseeing runs in more than ...
Oct 19, 2021•33 min•Ep. 126
Welcome to this week’s Future Proof Me mini episode. For many of us the past few months have shrunk our world to the confines of our homes and our local suburb. What we’ve noticed can sometimes come with that, is a tendency to lose sight of the bigger picture and of others who may be doing it tougher than we are. It’s why we thought it was really timely for this beautiful reminder from social entrepreneur Ronni Kahn of the value we personally derive from helping others, even now when uncertainty...
Oct 12, 2021•5 min•Ep. 125
We have a treat in store for you today with a guest whom we reckon is one of the best storytellers we’ve had on the show. Australian entrepreneur, Mikaela Jade, otherwise known as Mik, is the Founder and CEO of Indigital, a company developing innovative new ways to digitise and translate knowledge, culture and stories from remote and ancient First Nations communities. Mik, a proud Cabrogal woman, is a UN Permanent Forum Indigenous Issues delegate; she’s a member of the World Economic Forum’s Glo...
Oct 05, 2021•42 min•Ep. 124
Welcome to another of our mini episodes where we revisit the specific pearls of wisdom that our amazing guests have shared with us. This week we’re exploring what it takes to really innovate in a big corporate or government organisation. Because, as you’ll hear, successful innovation is about much more than having a great idea. Often the challenge really comes when you try to get that idea off the ground. You may remember a conversation we had with Mandy Birch, an executive with quantum computin...
Sep 28, 2021•7 min•Ep. 123
Our guest for this week’s episode is Swedish best selling author, financial journalist and women’s economic champion, Katrine Marçal. Katrine’s two books, ‘ Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner’ and her latest book - ‘ Mother of Invention - How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men ’ explore how women’s roles and contribution have been systemically ignored over time. Katrine has a fun and engaging way of telling stories that show just how much we’ve missed out on by overlooking the value ...
Sep 21, 2021•37 min•Ep. 122
This week’s mini episode is a tribute to all parents and everything they do for their children, particularly when they raise their daughters and sons to believe that women can be CEOs, adventurers and innovators. When we thought of all that parents do, we were reminded of our conversation with the wonderful social entrepreneur Navyn Salem who has 4 daughters. She started a social business called Edesia Nutrition aiming to end malnutrition in the world. Edesia produces a life saving formulation c...
Sep 14, 2021•9 min•Ep. 121
Our latest podcast episode takes you on a journey all the way to Kathmandu in Nepal. We speak with Sonika Manandhar, a Nepalese entrepreneur and former senior software developer for Microsoft, who’s now a fintech founder committed to improving the lives of women small business owners in Nepal. Sonika is co-founder and CTO of Aeloi Technologies, an innovative social enterprise and fintech that uses digital tokens to facilitate affordable loans to Nepali small businesses that are working in a sust...
Aug 31, 2021•32 min•Ep. 120
We’ve been thinking about the impact the global pandemic has had on peoples’ careers and one thing that’s been happening is many folk have been wondering whether it’s time for a career change and, in particular, whether they should start their own business. So for today’s mini episode, we’ve chosen to share some brilliant advice for founders and potential founders from the successful British entrepreneur, Debbie Wosskow OBE. Debbie is well known for building and selling her online home exchange ...
Aug 24, 2021•8 min•Ep. 119
We’re excited to share this week’s episode with changemaker, leader and author, Holly Ransom. Holly has pioneered her way into boardrooms and forums at the top end of town but what’s really interesting about Holly is her deep thoughtfulness, her fortitude to blaze her own path, and her drive to make the world a better place. This 31 year old Aussie has Chaired the G20 Youth Summit, she’s an internationally sought after speaker and conference MC, and she’s recently completed her Masters of Public...
Aug 17, 2021•44 min•Ep. 118
Greetings everyone! This week’s mini episode is all about challenging our beliefs about who we can and can’t ask for help. A couple of years ago we spoke with serial entrepreneur, and now author, Rebekah Campbell about her career journey and her childhood growing up in New Zealand. Rebekah happened to mention that she met with the Prime Minister of New Zealand when she was just 12 years of age as part of a school project she was doing. She went on to explain how this seminal meeting, that she ha...
Aug 10, 2021•7 min•Ep. 117
This week’s episode shares the story of founder Sophia Matveeva who found herself having to make a big pivot when the global pandemic hit. Before Covid, Sophia, a Russian by birth and based in the UK, had been making inroads with her fashion app called Enty. Think of it as a kind of ‘Uber for fashion stylists’, used by growing numbers of consumers, and being featured as App of the Day on Mashable. However the global lockdowns last year quickly put an end to the need for we consumers to seek styl...
Aug 03, 2021•35 min•Ep. 116
This week’s mini episode features a global branding and design icon talking about the renewed power branding has in today’s ‘social’ world to create change-making movements. When we invited the designer, author and podcaster, Debbie Millman, on the show last year she talked about how branding has evolved in the past decade and how the power has shifted to us as consumers and citizens. She explained it in a historical context that really stuck with us and we thought it was so important, we wanted...
Jul 27, 2021•8 min•Ep. 115
We are so excited about this episode featuring an inspiring and no-topic-off-limits conversation with the globally renowned Sarah Wilson. Sarah has achieved massively in multiple arenas; she’s a former journalist and TV presenter, she’s an author and activist and successful entrepreneur. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful , which best-selling author Mark Manson described as the best book on living with anxiety that he’d ever read. Along w...
Jul 20, 2021•38 min•Ep. 114
This week’s Future Proofing mini episode is all about not letting your ego get the better of you. We were blown away by the maturity and wisdom of young New Zealand entrepreneur, Brianne West, the founder and CEO of Ethique, the global and sustainable cosmetics company. We spoke to her on the show last year. Brianne’s mission is to rid the world of single-use plastics and Ethique replaces bottled products like shampoos with solid bars of concentrated product. Brianne has won all kinds of honours...
Jul 13, 2021•8 min•Ep. 113
This week we feature the first ever visual artist on the show when we talk with the entrepreneurial and talented American artist, Taylor White. Taylor has worked around the world creating incredible street murals and fine art. You may have seen her work in Melbourne, Oslo, Berlin, LA, Miami, and her hometown of Raleigh in North Carolina. Taylor spent a lot of last year driven by the goal to create and produce her own solo exhibition (The Pursuit of Happiness) inspired by her observations of life...
Jul 06, 2021•30 min•Ep. 112
This week’s Future Proof mini episode is all about what it takes to get a big idea signed off. We’re excited to share very wise advice from senior Microsoft exec, Mitra Azizirad, who heads up their AI and Innovation division. Mitra speaks about what you should do when that fantastic idea or innovation you have gets knocked back. (Hands up who knows that feeling!) Mitra is someone who’s had plenty of practise selling-in new ideas and approaches, and one of her top pieces of advice from our conver...
Jun 29, 2021•7 min•Ep. 111
Our episode this week features an American woman who abandoned the security and prestige of working with some of the world’s most sought after ad agencies to start her own businesses. Her name is Allison Kent Smith and one thing that really stands out about her is that she has consciously refused to pretend to be someone she’s not when trying to find VC investors for her startup. That startup, giide.com, is a new platform for creating rich audio learning experiences featuring a host of multimedi...
Jun 22, 2021•34 min•Ep. 110
Our mini episode this week is packed with wisdom from one of our most thoughtful guests. Social entrepreneur, author and one of Forbes Magazine ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds’, Jacqueline Novogratz, blew our socks off with her inspiring purpose and thoughtful wisdom when we spoke with her last year . We particularly loved how Jacqueline spoke inspiringly about courage and creating change, and she uses the analogy of bulls and doves in a brilliant way. At the time she was releasing her lates...
Jun 15, 2021•7 min•Ep. 109
This week’s episode is all about becoming a great ‘people person’. It’s something we believe is probably the most important trait of a great leader. Of course, it’s not always easy to do, particularly these days when many of us are working from home at least some part of each week. Thanks to Covid, we’re all losing a bit of ‘muscle tone’ when it comes to building and maintaining healthy working relationships with our colleagues, direct reports and networks. But fear not as we have just the info ...
Jun 09, 2021•19 min•Ep. 108
This week’s Future Proof Me mini episode is all about asking for what you want. It sounds so simple in theory but it’s not always easy to do is it? Listen up for great and pragmatic advice on asking and negotiating from the unique and gutsy former advertising CEO, Cindy Gallop. She’s now a Founder and international speaker and she’s passionate about women being treated equally in business. You’ll hear Cindy initially talk about being posed a great question about what she wanted to do by an old b...
May 31, 2021•10 min•Ep. 107
This week, we’re really thrilled to be able to share our conversation with experienced founder, CEO and all round impressive operator, Connie Mckeage. Connie recently sold OneVue, the listed fintech business she ran in Sydney for 14 years. It was a dramatic journey at times, particularly when OneVue was left being owed $31 million dollars by another company which had collapsed. Connie is Canadian and has spent most of her career in financial services. With OneVue she and her 200 employees were l...
May 25, 2021•35 min•Ep. 106
This week’s mini episode is all about facing your fears and not being held back in life by the fear of failure. It’s important to know that we don’t always recognise how we’re feeling as ‘fear of failure’ when we hesitate or say no, but often that’s what lies behind any hesitation. In this episode we hear again from Kat Dunn . Kat was running Grameen Australia when we spoke a year or so back and these days Kat is working for herself and very much still focused on social ventures. Kat has thought...
May 18, 2021•7 min•Ep. 105
This week’s episode features one of the most unassuming and humble entrepreneurs we’ve met. Adina Jacobs is the Co-Founder of an international technology accessories company called STM Goods that basically created a whole new category of product when it launched it 23 years ago. (Think really functional and yet not boring laptop backpacks and bags, ipad and tablet covers, chargers, and a whole host of other accessories.) Adina’s success as a young entrepreneur is testament to the power of buildi...
May 11, 2021•37 min•Ep. 104
This week we look at the realities of being a startup founder. Becoming an entrepreneur and a founder is increasingly popular, even with school students where a recent survey showing that 40% of them now want to be entrepreneurs when they complete their studies. But it’s not all fame, fortune and delightful autonomy if you intend to build a business that will scale and survive. And we figured, who better to hear what being a founder is really like than one of Australia’s most successful female e...
May 04, 2021•7 min•Ep. 103
We have a very special episode this week because we’re sharing the vulnerable story of how one of our guests was subsequently fired from a high profile role in the US and how she navigated her way through the dark times that followed. That guest is Heidi Hackemer and what she shares in this episode is so generous and valuable for all of us to hear; after all nothing is permanent and plans fall over on a regular basis. Heidi is a leading creative who had her own brand agency in New York and also ...
Apr 27, 2021•29 min•Ep. 102
This week’s future-proofing mini episode is all about making the most of meetings you attend at work. And seriously, this is one of the most important tools you have to develop your visibility and your reputation. How many times have you sat through a meeting trying to jump in and contribute, or worse, left a meeting realising you hadn’t said anything at all? As you’ll hear in today’s show, more than one senior executive uses the ‘15 minute Rule’ to hold themselves, and sometimes their direct re...
Apr 20, 2021•8 min•Ep. 101
