You're in Charge

The family farm couldn't continue, and Casey Treloar knew there was a story to tell. Her dad wasn't ready to share it, so she asked if she could, filmed a live video in the paddock, and woke up to hundreds of thousands of views. Casey on vulnerability, advocacy, and what it gave her dad. Full episode of You're In Charge out now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Casey Treloar reports for Seven News Adelaide by day, and breeds and shows dairy cattle in her spare time. In this final episode of Season 2, she sits down with Sav Perera to talk about how cows created her media career. Casey shares how a quirky Celebrity Milk Off at the Royal Adelaide Show led to work experience, then a job, at Channel 7. She explains why she believes we only put up our own barr...

The most expensive opportunity is the one you never took. That's how Casey Treloar thinks about risk, and it has shaped her whole career. Casey reports for Seven News Adelaide, runs a livestock business on the side, and says cows literally created her career in media. When her family's dairy farm couldn't continue, Casey asked her parents if she could tell their story. Then she filmed a live video...

A dad who wanted out, a husband ready to sell, and a founder who wasn't ready. Sheree Sullivan on leading the sale of Udder Delights, keeping a stake, and the backlash that followed. Full episode of You're In Charge out now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sheree Sullivan on the profit percent question she couldn't answer, the HR dispute she handballed, and why she asks what the lesson is the moment something hurts. Full episode of You're In Charge out now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sheree Sullivan went from a jazz piano degree to running one of Australia's leading Brie and Camembert makers. Her family's goat dairy, Udder Delights, came close to going under more than once, and she says pain has been her biggest teacher. In this conversation with host Sav Perera, Sheree shares the costing wake-up call that changed how she ran the business, the HR lesson she learned after handi...

Sheree Sullivan didn't buy her first house until she was 40. Before that she lived in a shed, then a shop, then a flat, and kept putting her money back into investments and the business. A friend called her the poster child for delayed gratification. The hardest part wasn't the hours. When her dad and her husband both said they wanted out of Udder Delights, Sheree wasn't ready. She led the sale an...

Andrea names the financial jargon that makes business feel like a closed club to a lot of women, then talks about the Women in Business program she started in government to close that gap. From there the conversation turns personal: imposter syndrome, "fake it till you make it," and her own self-talk, "tough it up, princess," the thing she actually tells herself when it gets hard. See omnystudio.c...

Andrea moves from why nobody starts a business "perfect" into the part guests rarely say out loud: she's bad at fitness, feels like there's never enough hours in the day, and hasn't figured out work-life balance so much as learned to be present wherever she is. She talks through burnout, the things politics has taught her are simply out of her control, and closes with her message to young women in...

Before Andrea Michaels held three state government portfolios, she was born to parents who fled Cyprus in 1974 with nothing and landed in Adelaide because it was as far from home as they could get. She grew up sandpapering cabinet doors in her dad's backyard workshop while her mum worked factory shifts, and that work ethic carried her through commercial law, a solo leap into her own firm as a sing...

Andrea Michaels on why risk is unavoidable in business and politics, and the moment she stopped trying to be someone else to succeed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Poppy Nichaloff on running Generation Rise with her husband, and the clearly defined roles that keep them from stepping on each other's toes. When someone outside tries to stir the pot, backing each other up is non-negotiable. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Poppy Nichaloff on the racism young Indigenous creators face just for showing up online. Plus, the moment her husband turned his own childhood trauma into something that helps boys process theirs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Poppy Nichaloff built an online audience before she had kids. Now she's raising two young children and running a business alongside her husband that reaches a lot further than their own feed. That husband is Jacob Nichaloff, known as J-MILLA, a Mak Mak Marranunggu hip hop artist from Darwin and winner of the 2021 Archie Roach Foundation Award. Together they founded Generation Rise, bringing social...

Poppy Nichaloff had an audience before she had kids. Now she has two young children, a business, and a husband she works with every day. That husband is Jacob Nichaloff, known as J-MILLA, a Mak Mak Marranunggu hip hop artist and winner of the 2021 Archie Roach Foundation Award. Together they run Generation Rise, taking social media literacy and mental health workshops into remote First Nations com...

Taryn Brumfitt on the gap she found in workplace wellbeing, and why the same logic sent her into primary schools. Two institutions, one argument. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The full origin story, from a single non-traditional before and after photo to 200 million people in 190 countries. Including the part where she sold a car to keep going. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taryn Brumfitt posted one photograph and it travelled around the world. What followed was 7,000 messages from strangers, a book, a Kickstarter campaign nobody thought would work, and a documentary that beat Guardians of the Galaxy on opening night at the German box office. In this episode of You're In Charge, Sav Perera sits down with the 2023 Australian of the Year, founder of the Body Image Move...

"How hard could it be to make a film?" Taryn Brumfitt was a photographer with three young kids and no film experience when she asked herself that question. She had posted one photograph, a before and after that ran the opposite way to every before and after you have seen, and it went around the world. Seven thousand messages landed in her inbox from strangers telling her how they felt about their...

Past the headline stat about women in higher ed — Nicola Phillips on what actually slows women’s path to governance and leadership, and what’s starting to change. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adelaide University’s Vice-Chancellor on why self-doubt never fully disappears — even at the very top — and why that’s not the problem we think it is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does it really take to lead at the very highest levels - and do you ever stop questioning whether you're good enough? In this episode, Sav sits down with Professor Nicola Phillips, Vice-Chancellor and President of Adelaide University - one of Australia's newest and most ambitious universities, formed by the merger of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. With 30 ye...

“Not making a decision is just not an option.” That’s how Professor Nicola Phillips opened her conversation with Sav Perera - and it set the tone for everything that followed. In Episode 1 of You’re In Charge Season 2, our Vice-Chancellor and President sits down to talk about the leadership lessons that don’t usually make it into a keynote: the impostor feeling that n...

Welcome to Season 2 of You’re In Charge. Hosted by chef, business owner, and MasterChef Sri Lanka judge Sav Perera, this season digs into what it really takes to lead — the confidence to back yourself, and to build a life and career on your own terms. Across the season, Sav sits down with inspiring women in business and leadership to unpack the real stories behind their success: the wi...

As an Indigenous business executive and social activist, Tanya Hosch is no stranger to being the ‘first’ and ‘only’ in some of Australia’s most prominent boardrooms. And if there’s one thing she want’s you to know, it’s to lead with authenticity. In this final episode of You're in Charge Season 1, Tanya and Sav dive deep into the tolls and triumphs o...