Ultimate Global Podcast Episodes

❤️ My love for Ryde has grown even more now, first after interviewing Victor Dominello and now his successor Jordan Lane. 2️⃣ great individuals: one has already proven himself as a Minister of Customer Service & Digital Govt, and other on the verge of making a historical first tenure in the Parliament of New South Wales. 😃 It's so refreshing to see millenials like Jordan Lane enter into p...

🇮🇳 🇦🇺 Is this the best time for India-Australia relationship to strengthen even further from here onwards? 🤝 We also need to change the vocabulary of this bilateral relationship and possibly think of changing it from the 3 C’s (Cricket, Curry & the Commonwealth) to the 3 E’s (Economy, Energy & Education). 🏏 Cricket still plays a major role in acting as a tool for diplomacy and friendship...

🏡 Hybrid work has now become the new normal where employees are preferring flexible ways of working. Workplace attitudes have changed a lot after the COVID-19 pandemic in the way they recruit people and want their employees to work. 🤝 We were recently joined by Joseph Essey, where we uncovered a lot about the challenges faced by small businesses and people on how they can effectively handle thei...

👉 One of the defining characteristics of a courageous business leader is having self-belief in yourself and your idea. Showcasing courage by overcoming different fears can play a pivotal role to succeed in whatever you want to achieve. No matter how good we are at doing certain things, it always takes courage to do that. Are there any specific traits of a courageous leader? 🙌 We can only achieve...

💯 What a wonderful statement by Startmate: “We believe in people before they believe in themselves. And they we believe in them forever.” ⬆There has been a significant boom in startups across Australia and New Zealand. And Michael and his team at Startmate have definitely played a major role in helping and grooming a lot of those startup founders. 🤝 Startmate is helping anyone and everyone to ge...

💡 Another exciting story of a new founder and there’s always something new to learn from each of those stories on the Ultimate Global Podcast. 🤝 In this episode, we were joined by Ryan Nindra who is the Founder of Starlite. Starlite was envisioned with one goal in mind - to help individuals gain the soft-skills required to create a meaningful change in our world. 💬 Ryan shared some of the chall...

🤔 What’s more valuable: Career or CV? This can be different for different people, depending upon what stage of the career you are at and the industry you are working at. Some of the things that we learnt here from the conversation with Wolfgang are: ✅ CVs are definitely critical in judging the fundamentals of any individual. ✅ Don’t be afraid even if you have gaps in your career, unless you hav...

🤔 Have you thought of going beyond Agile? Or are you still stuck in figuring out what's Agile? If yes, this episode is a must listen for you. We were recently joined by the co-authors of the book "Beyond Agile" on the Ultimate Global Podcast: Paul Scott and Andrew Walker.    📚 This book is the story of a company called 3 wks, but it is also the story of a few people who are trying to e...

👩 On this Women’s Day, let’s spread this beautiful message to all the women out there to feel confident about themselves. Your gender, size or anything else shouldn’t let you down by any chance.    And as Sharon pointed out in this episode, we need to empower women and make them feel OKAY about who they are.    Be it Angela Merkel or Jacinda Ardern, women around the globe have...

Are you taking a step further towards becoming a conscious leader? What are the traits of a conscious leader?   Tom Griffin feels that conscious leadership is as much about leading your own life as it is about being a point of inspiration that leads others. It’s also about having a perspective that doesn’t get lost in the specifics of the content.    Conscious leadership is also enc...

🤝🏼 I am always impressed by how the entire team of UNSW Founders keeps on nurturing and guiding such wonderful individuals and ideas.   🚀 Ismat’s journey from being in research to becoming the co-founder of Synbiote is absolutely inspirational. It was also a great learning curve for him to understand the business side of things and understand the challenges while commercialising your idea....

🏡 Leading remote teams effectively was one of the biggest challenges for companies during the COVID-19 pandemic. But this was also a great opportunity for them to test out a new remote model of working in a team.    Some of the challenges included:  ① How to set accountability for team members while working remotely  ② No face-2-face interactions with team members, which I alw...

😄 This has been one of the most interesting Podcast recordings that we have ever had with the New South Wales Minister of Customer Service and Minister of Digital Govt, Hon Victor Dominello MP. He is definitely a breath of fresh air to politics and it’s indeed sad to see him leaving politics in March this year.   🤝 Both George and I were absolutely honoured to have him on the Ultimate Globa...

😀 What does it take to become a high performer? Who is a high performer?   ✨ Claire suggests a high performer as someone who possesses the following traits:  ☑ Going above and beyond in what is expected out of you  ☑ Always looking for continuous self development and growth   ☑ Exceeding expectations and goals  ☑ Being an excellent time manager   ☑ Effectively evalu...

ℹ️ What are some of the leadership traits one can learn from Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style?   ✅ She challenged the traditional stereotypes of leadership solely driven by strength and masculinity. She showed how leadership can also be effectively driven by empathy and compassion.   ✅ When the time comes, a leader shouldn’t refrain from taking tough decisions which is for the betterm...

🧠 Having a positive and optimistic mindset absolutely matters in sales.   ⚡ And that should be also combined with bringing in more energy and enthusiasm to your day-2-day activities: be it cold calling, talking to prospects or following up with them on LinkedIn.   🤔 Keenan talked about finding your “Why” while doing sales. Ask yourself these questions:   ✓ What really drives you...

💼 As a CEO and Founder, obstacles will always come your way. And you will have to be ready to find your way out of it.   💰 Ben Kennedy (Founder & CEO of Gecko) also talked about the fact that you will always have to make adjustments to execute your strategies with perfection.   📝 He also discussed about different ways he adopts to make his day productive. One of the best things yo...

🤩 Meeting 100 strangers for 100 different lunches can be a completely crazy idea but can be definitely worth trying out, especially if you like meeting new people.   🤝 Kaley Chu has already done that and she has also inspired Nick Bendel to do so. He is also on a mission to organise 500 lunches with 500 strangers, out of which he has already met 300 of them.     ✈️ Kaley came...

Imagine the kind of knowledge you might gain after reading 100 books. Well, one of our recent guest speakers Mohit Rau has embarked on a journey of reading 100 different books. He joined us as the 69th speaker on the Ultimate Global Podcast.   As you keep on reading more and more books, you keep on learning different things. He has read 62 books till now. Mohit is based in Adelaide and readin...

💼 What really defines a successful business strategy?   🤝 We were recently joined by Lars Vestergaard (CCO, LMS365) as the 68th speaker at the Ultimate Global Podcast. He broke it down into 3 components:  🅐 Long-Term: A successful business strategy must be aligned with the long term vision and goals of the company.  🅑 Customer-Centric: Take the customer feedback from time-to-time....

Along with gaining profits, it’s also important for businesses to deliver purpose and impact in the lives of people through their initiatives.   Mangala Martinus joined us recently as the 67th speaker on the Ultimate Global Podcast, where he shared the inspiring story of Payments Consulting Australia and how a proportion of their revenue is going towards charities every year.   In line w...

🤝 We were recently joined by Phung Ling (Enterprise BDR, Adobe) as the 66th speaker on the Ultimate Global Podcast to discuss about “Breaking into Software Sales”.   👇 Phung Ling shared some tips for new peeps wanting to join Software sales:  - Have a LinkedIn presence  - Being proactive on LinkedIn and reaching out to people (organising coffee chats, sending personalised connecti...

📈 With increasing costs of living, taking better financial decisions that are driven by SMART goals is becoming more and more important for people.   👉 In this episode, we were joined by Gary Brown (Co-Founder, Hatcher Advisory) as the 65th speaker on the Ultimate Global Podcast.    Gary talked about the importance of following 3 things while taking better financial decisions as p...

Getting your business started from scratch isn’t easy. It takes courage and dedication to start something of your own.   In the special series of episodes for CEOs, Founders & Co-Founders, we recently invited Simon Holloway (Head of Community at Vegepod) as the 64th speaker on the Ultimate Global Podcast. Vegepod is enabling everyone and anyone to grow their own food.    Simon s...

Getting your business started from scratch isn’t easy. It takes courage and dedication to start something of your own.   In the special series of episodes for CEOs, Founders & Co-Founders, we recently invited Simon Holloway (Head of Community at Vegapod) as the 64th speaker on the Ultimate Global Podcast. Vegepod is enabling everyone and anyone to grow their own food.    Simon s...