MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Get my Book! : https://www.18andlost.com.au/ I am joined by Elle Wilmot who runs the Truly twenties Facebook group with over 13,000 members along with over 70,000 followers online. She is 23 and located in London, we have been virtual friends for a while as we are both putting out content for young people. Her Facebook page has blown me away, it is the most engaged group I have seen in a long time with women in their 20s posting every day, asking for help,...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Get my Book! : https://www.18andlost.com.au/ Jake competed professionally on the World Surf League (WSL) tour for 11 years. He now coaches several WSL athletes, including 7x World Surfing Champion Steph Gilmore, while playing an active role at We Are Feel Good Inc. as Managing Director. But what is we are feel good inc? They say that the best ideas are born out of necessity and when a group of six adventure seeking, outdoor lovers found themselves dreaming...
Aug 15, 2021•50 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Get my Book! : https://www.18andlost.com.au/ Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today is an amazing episode from Mr Gus Rowland. A compassionate bloke, Gus wears his heart on his sleeve. But that heart was shattered the day news arrived that Angus - his friend, mentor and father figure - had taken his life. Angus seemed to have it all – a beautiful family, home, great job, the respect and friendship of many. But he had something else too. Inner w...
Aug 09, 2021•40 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Secret Project: https://drivenyoung.com/igy/ Welcome back to the driven Young podcast and today I am joined by Maddie and Ali, the creators of theherdapp. You may have seen these two on TikTok, they are based in the U.S and have created a new social media app for gen z. Herd is a social space focused on community over comparison. By throwing out the social scale, empowering casual creativity, and providing experience autonomy, Herd aims to restore authenti...
Aug 01, 2021•54 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Secret Project: https://drivenyoung.com/igy/ This is a special episode, a montage of my guests giving advice to their 18-year-old selves. Byron's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/byron__dempsey/ D.Y Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drivenyoungpodcast/ Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/J8a8hS3/ JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 25, 2021•26 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Secret Project: https://drivenyoung.com/igy/ Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by an incredible man, Tom Nash, aka DJ Hooky. At 19 years old Tom was enjoying his life, studying at university when all of a sudden he contracted a disease. 2 weeks later he woke up from a coma with the decision to either amputate his hands and legs or die. Today Tom is a quadruple amputee with hooks for hands hence the name hooky, he is a promoter ...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Today I am joined by a really great friend of mine Annelise McCarthy. Annie has been listening to the podcast since I first started it and reached out to me about 8 months ago. Since then we have become really good friends, she is so inspiring and such a perfect guest for this show. Annelise is a women's public speaking coach slash law student and this episode is all about public speaking. Annie has been public speaking for over 14 years, she represented A...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 17 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Download Swyftx: https://trade.swyftx.com.au/register/?ref=byrondempsey1 Alex is an absolute legend, he is the co-founder of an incredible startup called Swyftx. They are a crypto trading platform here in Australia and have just been evaluated at six hundred million dollars. Alex is currently hiring about 1 person a day and the team at Swyftx is growing fast. He flew down for this episode and spend multiple hours talking, sharing our visions, and having a ...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 5 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by 21-year-old law student Kate Danilova. Kate is a 21-year-old student at the University of Canberra, in her fourth year of law. Currently working as a clerk at Blumers Lawyers, she has been lucky enough to be exposed to a variety of work experiences that complement her bachelor's degree. Over the last 4 years, she has committed to trying everything that this crazy world offers by traveling to...
Jun 27, 2021•48 min
Sponsored by: https://www.kingdomdevelopments.com.au/ MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today we are talking real estate and property. Is it possible for young people to get into the market? And why should we? To discuss this I am joined by Andrew Bodnar, co-founder of Kingdom Development. With over 16 years of experience, Andrew is a veteran of property investment. His ability to spot new market opportunities lead him to start (and sell) his ow...
Jun 20, 2021•52 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by Martin La. Martin reached out to me sharing a bit about his story, he is just an everyday guy like you or I who has overcome a lot and I thought his story would be very relatable to you guys. In this episode, we talk about how Martin Had suicidal thoughts after getting a 34.4 atar. Taught himself how to read and write Got a Scholarship in Plumbing. Never Touched a tool in life. Got the Encou...
Jun 13, 2021•51 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by Matt Caruana. Now.... In this episode I am interviewing Matt Caruana. As you will hear in the episode, at 16 years old Matt attempted suicide, 2 weeks later he woke up from a coma to realise that he was still alive. Today he speaks at schools to share his message and works with young people to help prevent anyone else going through what he did. So if you are sensitive to this stuff I wanted ...
Jun 06, 2021•1 hr 4 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Taylor is a passionate entrepreneur with a focus on social impact, innovation, and inclusion. Taylor is Founder & Strategy Director for Future Frontiers Group, a consultancy with the mission to support and grow purpose-led businesses, and serves as Managing Director of Foundations for Tomorrow . She is also the Curator of the Sydney Global Shapers Hub, a director of the Board of the Global Shapers Community Australia, A FYA Young Social Pioneers progra...
May 30, 2021•50 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today I am joined by a really good friend of mine, Pace Randolph. Pace is a super talented musician and artist who has build a following over 100,000 followers online. Even though we only met about 5 months ago, he has become a really close friend of mine and I am so excited for this episode. This is a really interesting episode, to date it is my longest episode and the majority of it is Pace sharing his story. ...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 27 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today I am joined by 19-year-old Ryleigh Geddes. I mention her age because it is crazy what she has been able to achieve, all before her 20th birthday. Having left school at 15 Ryleigh got a job in radio and has been moving her way up to the point where she is managing one of Sydney's most popular breakfast shows. She is super driven and has a crazy work ethic, she very much embodies what I talk about on this sh...
May 16, 2021•1 hr 17 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today we are discussing a very serious topic. In this episode, I am joined by Maddie Heather, a sexual assault survivor, and host of the Reclaim me podcast. In this episode, Maddie and I discuss all things around sexual crimes relating it to young people in an easy-to-understand way. This is a topic I am passionate about covering, so much so I actually have an entirely new podcast dedicated to sexual assault edu...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Jess is a female empowerment coach and qualified personal trainer who works one on one with women to help them build up their self-confidence and remove self-doubt. Before COVID she lived in Bali working from her laptop running her business but now she joins me in Sydney to share her story and advice with you guys. Today we discuss: Grappling with what to do after school How HECS debt is good and bad Struggling with the impostor monster Living in Bali How ...
May 02, 2021•1 hr 2 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today we are talking all things romantic relationships, specifically for the younger generation. Today I am joined, again by Alisdair Barrie. He has built a following as the relationships dude who has over 750,000 followers online where he shares his opinions, stories and advice on relationships among other topics. This is actually my second episode with Alisdair, we did one a while back, episode 56 on personal ...
Apr 25, 2021•49 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today is another great episode specifically targeting those of you in Gen z who are feeling a bit lost in life. Today I am joined by Uncle Nathan. Nathan is a 19-year-old business student with a passion to help young people with what we should be learning in school, specifically mental health and financial literacy. He has created the brand uncle Nathan and shares blog posts, graphics and his podcast to his audi...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 15 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today for the first time on this show I am joined by a stand up comedian, Simon Taylor. Simon Taylor is a Melbourne-born comedian, who by the age of 24 became a writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Los Angeles. Since then he has written for Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell on the ABC and Magic for Humans on Netflix. In this episode we discuss What Simon did after highschool How he quit his job to pursue his ...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 1 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today we are talking all things creative and how to make it in a creative field. Going into a creative field often has a very unclear pathway especially if you are trying to build your personal brand and reputation as an artist, designer, filmmaker etc. That is why today I am joined by James Patrick. James is a fulltime artist and has been for the past 7 years. Spending all of his time tiny detailed artworks at ...
Apr 04, 2021•56 min
MASTER LINK: https://lu.ma/byrondempsey Free question downloads: https://drivenyoung.com/big-questions-lm/ Happiness scorecard: w ww.happinessscorecard.com.au Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today we are talking about all things happiness and gratitude! So many people are so negative, the news is so negative and so much of what we consume is negative and all of this can have a serious effect on us. So today I have brought on Happiness Expert and researcher Declan Edwards. I met Decl...
Mar 28, 2021•51 min
Join the Coaching Program: http://drivenyoung.com/coach Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I joined by Alasdair Barrie. We met on Clubhouse, hit it off and had some fun chats so I decided to invite him onto the show. Alisdair is a marketing growth hacker / Crypto Trader / Relationships dude who has built a following of over 750,000 followers online. He has worked in over 10 industries and helped run one of the most successful marketing campaigns on TikTok, getting free marketing ...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by an incredibly smart woman. Dr Majeda Awawdeh, the founder of Global Education Academy, has completed a PhD degree at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Mathematics Education and Cognitive Load Theory. She also holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences, a Bachelor degree in Education, and a Masters Degree (with high distinction) in Mathematics Education. She is also the author of an incredible book I hig...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr
Download the App and start investing! https://app.getbamboo.io/invest?referral= Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and guys I am so excited to announce, today is my first ever sponsored episode. After 50 episodes, I have refused all sponsor offers as I am super careful with brands I want to promote. This is how I plan to use sponsors, rather than do a 30-second ad read, I prefer to bring on the founder or CEO and learn about their story and provide as much value as possible. So today I am ...
Mar 07, 2021•42 min
Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today I am joined by student counsellor Olivia Gabriella. And in this episode, we are talking about mental wellbeing, how and why Gen z are going through a pandemic of mental illnesses. This is a hot topic on this show because I believe it is one of the biggest problems young people are facing right now. Every young person I meet seems to have a form of mental illness or knows many people who do, so why is this? Today we go into Olivias story, why she...
Feb 28, 2021•48 min
Today I sit down and have a great conversation with Aaryan Shah. Aaryan is actually the younger brother of Sachin who episode 36 on the show. Aaryan was born with a condition called Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy affects body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance. Basically, he does not have full control of his muscles, he uses a wheelchair to get around... however Aaryan is mentally fine, as you will see in this episode he is a really smart dude...
Feb 21, 2021•50 min
FREE Ebook Download: https://drivenyoung.com/stocks-101/ Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and man do we have an awesome episode today. As you would have seen by he title today we are talking stocks and how to get into the stock market. This conversation is so important and we are covering everything you need to know to get started, and we are covering it in the simplest way I can. Today I am joined by Mitchell Stone, he is an experienced broker who has been in the industry for over 15 ye...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast! Today is another amazing episode with a good mate of mine Ryan Herrington aka that Diet Geezer. ThatDietGeezer is an online coach on a mission to empower people to break their limiting beliefs and realise they can achieve they want in this life! As you will hear in the episode, he came about this after losing over 23 kg in less than 18 months, not through some fancy diet but through mindset, self-education and a coach. I really love the opening to this w...
Feb 07, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast, today is a super interesting episode, if you are a fan of the show I think you will really enjoy this episode as I feel like it almost summarises so many of the key points I talk about so regularly. Today I am joined by Monique Renea Buggè, a 22-year-old founder of the tutoring company Love2learntutoring. Monique reached out to me and we had a chat about some things and I realised how switched on she was when it comes to school and education so I invite...
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 9 min
