How Christopher Hodges Put Contemporary Indigenous Art on the Map

In this episode of Build It, They'll Come, host Helen Dalley sits down with artist, sculptor, and gallerist Christopher Hodges, founder of Utopia Art Sydney. Hodges shares the story of opening his gallery in 1988 with a vision to showcase contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists side by …

Grove Juice – empire-building farmer Dick Estens thrives on challenges, buying a struggling orange juice brand at the age of 59, as the Aussie citrus sector was in its death throes

Over many decades, Moree NSW-based farmer Dick Estens built not just one, but two formidable agribusiness empires. Starting out with just $200,000 in net assets, Dick leased land, share farmed and then managed to scale up a massive cotton farming operation.   Then when many might think about retir…

Wrinkles Schminkles: Gabrielle Requena's journey from a side-hustle idea to a multi-million dollar exit

Gabrielle Requena, the founder of Wrinkles Schminkles, shares her entrepreneurial journey, detailing how she built a successful skincare brand from a simple idea. Starting with a Bachelor and Master of E-commerce, Gabrielle gained valuable experience at Deloitte Consulting and eBay, which laid the …

School for Life – Annabelle Chauncy changing lives by building schools providing quality education in Uganda, to help “educate poverty out of existence”

When uni student Annabelle Chauncy volunteered in Uganda, in her words, she was blown away by the poverty and the lack of resources, including education, in much of rural Uganda. So she not only had a dream to try and change that, but she acted on it.  At 22 years of age, Annabelle set about buil…

David Paradice AO on Trust, Teamwork, expert Stock Picking and Managing Millions of Your Retirement Dollars

 In this episode of Build It They'll Come. host Helen Dalley sits down with David Paradice AO, the founder and driving force behind Paradice Investment Management. Starting 26 years ago with just a single client and $30 million under management, Paradice has built a boutique investing powerhouse t…

De Bortoli Wines - Darren De Bortoli on heritage, hustle and helping build an iconic wine empire (while navigating challenges of a global wine glut, declines in wine consumption and even water shortages)

When he took over the family wine business in 1994 at the tender age of 33, Darren De Bortoli continued a legacy his father Deen had built on that was De Bortoli Wines, centred around the vineyard his grandfather planted in the NSW Riverina. Darren was a young superstar, having created as a newly …

Michael Reid Galleries – Michael Reid building a global art business “ecosystem” – from Sydney to Berlin, the NSW Southern Highlands to Los Angeles, while bootstrapping his scaleup and gathering people along the way

After years as an art critic writing about art, art consultant Michael Reid decided to take the plunge into the business side of the market and become a gallerist. He had his university degrees, but Michael Reid knew his strongest foundation actually came from his time spent honing expertise and hi…

Macquarie Technology Group - David Tudehope disrupts telco giant Telstra, building a phone, internet, cyber security, data centres and AI group to support business, now worth over $1.5 billion

David Tudehope left the finance world in the early 1990’s with a dream to service small to medium business who complained of poor service and overcharging by the monopolist at the time, Telstra.  Tudehope wasn’t a digital expert nor a highly trained computer engineer. But he understood numbers, and…

OOXii Global – Dr Sarah Crowe helps more people see, with her mobile OOXii Vision Kit getting low cost, durable, prescription eye glasses to the millions who need better vision but cannot access eye glasses

Since Dr Sarah Crowe had her lightbulb idea, and invented her completely mobile, vision testing and glasses kit, then ran a trial in remote Papua New Guinea and started to show  the impact her OOXii Vision Kit could have, to medical professionals in India and Vanuatu, she was inundated with positiv…

Kantoko – Zac Altman 2.0 innovating with an ADHD telehealth service, offering professional diagnosis and care for adults, via a subscription model

While navigating Australia’s mental health system to deal with his personal assessment and ongoing care, entrepreneur Zac Altman felt frustrated and thought, quite simply, there must be a better way to help the huge number of adults with ADHD get the proper care and support they need. To help solve…