Sophie Smith – Turning Heartbreak into Hope | Episode #10

It was 2006 and Sophie and Ash Smith had just discovered that their much longed-for first pregnancy was, in fact, a triplet pregnancy. And while they were well aware of the increased risks of a triplet pregnancy, they were beside themselves with excitement and prepared for their impending bundle o…

Lyndell Palmer-Clarke - Launching and scaling a global brand | Episode #9

Lyndell Palmer-Clarke had moved to London from Australia to pursue a career in singing and entertainment. When that didn’t pan out the way she hoped, she found herself at crossroads. As a self-confessed personal development junkie, she was frustrated that she wasn’t achieving her goals and dreams.…

Pippa Hallas – Driving Change while Maintaining Heritage | Episode #8

Pippa Hallas joined the family business, headed up by her father John, as part of the marketing department in 2005. A few years later, the opportunity came to step into the CEO role and Pippa grabbed it. She was just 33 and the global financial crisis had just hit. One of the first decisions she m…

Maxine Windram – Defying the Retail Recession | Episode #7

Maxine Windram had a hunch. Based on her own experience and those of other women, she knew that the bra shopping experience for bigger busted ladies was generally awful and in many cases downright depressing. Together with her mother Lin, Maxine got serious about researching this niche consumer ma…

Anthony Bell - High Performance in Sport and Business | Episode #6

Anthony Bell is widely regarded as the ‘accountant to the stars’, a term he hates but one that’s hard to escape given he manages the financial affairs of some of Australia’s most successful sports and television stars. Working up the ranks in his father’s accounting firm in the 90’s, Anthony soon …

Samuel Johnson - A Man on a Mission | Episode #5

Samuel Johnson first became known and loved as Evan Wylde in the hit television series The Secret Life of Us. Since then, while continuing to grow and develop as an actor on stage and screen, Samuel has become best known as a brother, who, faced with his sister Connie’s devastating breast cancer d…

Michael Tate – Lessons in Leadership | Episode #4

Just a few decades ago, the self-storage sector was a cottage industry made up of a range of independent operations, many of them husband-and-wife businesses. That's until Michael Tate and his business partner saw an opportunity to group them together under one brand, offering a strength of a stan…

Luke Mangan - Back from the Brink | Episode #3

Luke Mangan was never really that interested in school so when he had the opportunity to leave to pursue an apprenticeship as a chef, he jumped at it. And so began a 30-year journey of ups and downs, including nearly quitting his apprenticeship more than once. He opened his first restaurant, Salt, …

Jaye Edwards - Taking a Torch to the Rule Book | Episode #2

While most hairdressers in their mid 20’s are not long out of their apprenticeship and are busy balancing work with an active social life, Jaye Edwards was opening his third salon and honing the systems on what would eventually be the framework for a 7-salon, 8-figure business that is rapidly going…

Diana Williams - The Power of Marketing to a Niche | Episode #1

30 years ago Di Williams discovered weight training and its benefits. Back then, in her words, men lifted weights and women did aerobics. Not long after, Di opened her first Fernwood Fitness, a female only gym in the outskirts of Bendigo in regional Victoria. Today Fernwood is a booming franchise…