In Real Time with Millie

Grab a wine, Coffee or cup of tea....  Hot takes with Millie has begun!  ✨ Connect with Kaarme ✨ Käärme Jewels: https://www.instagram.com/kaarmejewels In Real Time with Millie, the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/inrealtimewithmillie Millie: https://www.instagram.com/millie.kaarmejewels/ ✨ Wanting to scale your brand? ✨ Ecommerce Equation is where its at: https://ecommerceequation.com.au/in...

Welcome to the new In Real Time studio! Millie shares a Kaarme team update and what this year taught her about leadership. Then she breaks down her full Q4 plan: early Black Friday access for her community, A, B and C launches, and why the real win is what you plan after Black Friday. ✨ Connect with Kaarme ✨ Käärme Jewels: https://www.instagram.com/kaarmejewels In Real Time with Millie, the podc...

Olivia Jean started selling bags at 15, packing orders and walking them to the post office after school. Years later, she had a bestselling Rover tote, a growing TikTok audience and a business that still wasn’t growing the way she wanted. In this episode of In Real Time with Millie, I’m talking with Olivia about building a bag brand from her bedroom, finding her hero product and learning that view...

What if the smartest thing you could do for your business was stop chasing what looks successful and start listening to what genuinely feels right? In this episode of In Real Time with Millie, Millie sits down with actress, entrepreneur and Pass Around the Smile founder Cleo Massey for an honest conversation about building a business through authenticity, intuition and genuine human connection. Cl...

Alli and Heath didn’t have a website, a business plan or even a separate bank account. What they did have was a leather bag people couldn’t stop buying. In this episode of In Real Time with Millie, I sit down with the founders of Sesa Studios to unpack how an unexpected Christmas sell-out became a fast-growing Australian fashion brand. We get into the realities nobody glamorises: manufacturing del...

I’m back with a solo episode, queens, and we have a LOT to catch up on. I’m sharing the honest reality of building Kaarme through a season of huge growth, constant change and a little bit of founder burnout. We’re talking about protecting your creativity, putting the right people and systems in place, learning to delegate, and accepting that a business can be successful and still feel fucking hard...

What’s the difference between using a trend strategically and simply copying what every other brand is doing? This week, Millie sits down with fashion trend, colour and design strategist Rachel Ussher for a raw, gin-fuelled chat about fashion, creativity and building a brand people can recognise without even seeing the label. With more than 20 years of experience across fashion design, brand owner...

Millie finally gets her longtime friend and unofficial marketing oracle, Taren Anderson, behind the mic. With more than a decade of experience marketing some of Australia’s biggest beauty brands, Taren is usually the woman behind the scenes helping brands grow, rebrand and figure out what the fuck they’re actually doing. Over a bottle of chilled red, they unpack what makes great marketing work, fr...

In this episode of In Real Time, Millie sits down with Tahni, founder of Chilli & Charli, one of Australia’s fastest-growing bamboo sleepwear brands. Tahni launched the business in late 2024 after struggling to find sleepwear she genuinely loved as a new mum. With four children under four, including eight-month-old twins, zero fashion experience and a full-time corporate job, she somehow decid...

What does it really take to launch a beauty brand, sell out within 12 weeks and keep growing when everything behind the scenes is far from polished? In this episode of In Real Time, Millie sits down with Phoebe, co-founder of Balmee Beauty, to unpack the founder journey behind one of Australia’s most exciting emerging lip care brands. Phoebe shares how she & co-founder Ali Beck spent two years...

This week on In Real Time, I'm joined by fellow Gold Coast founder and the woman behind one of Australia's fastest-growing jewellery care brands, Layla Morris from Doctor Diamond. ✨ We chat about the micro moments that change everything  from missing her engagement ring before her bridal shower to spotting a gap in the market that would become Doctor Diamond. We dive into building momentum, handl...

Deep dive NYC, EOFY sale issues, Scaling and growth strategies for Kaarme!  Solo episode deep diving all things business with Millie!

This week on In Real Time, I'm joined by Madi Stefanis, founder of 35mm Co, the brand bringing film photography back to a new generation. We dive into how Madi turned a nostalgic idea into a thriving business, the realities of building a consumer brand from the ground up, and what it really takes to create a brand people genuinely connect with. We chat about marketing, community, navigating the hi...

Sophie is the founder of Seoul Tonic an eastern-inspired wellness brand built on Korean ginseng and pear extracts that she co-created with Mr. Park, a Korean producer in Jeonju, using his grandfather's extraction method. What started as a silver pouch in the Australian beverage fridge has grown into a global brand stocked in beauty stores, hotels, delis, recovery facilities, and — most recently a...

Lily is an Adelaide-born beauty industry insider who cold-emailed her way into Sydney, built a market research agency while finishing a computer science degree, and then turned a two-week business trip to New York into a full life pivot. Now she's four months into building Unfiltered a beauty social platform and app described as "Letterboxed for beauty" and she's raising her first real round in Ma...

Zara is a marketing powerhouse who went from teaching singing lessons in Ballarat, to running her own music school, to climbing the agency world and then cold-emailing Stephen Bartlett and landing a role managing his personal brand in London. In this episode, she and host Kame sit down (in London!) for one of the most honest, high-energy conversations about what it actually takes to build a career...

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In this episode, I sit down with Hannah, the founder of Socially Sands a business built from the ground up with one clear mission: helping others grow, scale, and show up powerfully online. We dive into what it really takes to build a brand in today’s digital world beyond the aesthetics. From growing social platforms with intention, to navigating the pressure of being “always on,” Hannah shares th...

n this episode of IN REAL TIME, I sit down with Laura,  brand and web designer to break down what actually makes a brand convert. We talk about the real impact of branding (beyond just looking “cute”), how your website could be costing you sales without you realising, and the small shifts that make a huge difference in eCommerce. If you’re building a brand, this is the kind of conversation you nee...

In this episode of IN REAL TIME, I sit down with Simone Rae, founder of Salt and Ripple, a swim and activewear brand that’s scaled from $30K months to $200K+ months, serving over 30,000 customers. We get into what it actually looks like to build a product-based business from the ground up, from funding your first collection with your own money, to navigating cash flow, manufacturing, and the reali...

In Real Time is the podcast where business gets personal. Hosted for the women building brands, chasing growth, and figuring it out as they go this is where real founders pull back the curtain on the messy middle. No highlight reels. No polished PR answers. Just raw, honest conversations about what it actually takes to build something from the ground up. Each episode, we sit down with the women be...