Barrels and Business

Oscar Trimboli is an author, a podcast host, and a master of the art of Deep Listening. His mission is to help people engage in deep, purposeful listening that fosters genuine understanding and connection. About Oscar Oscar has a wealth of experience, having been the marketing director for both Vodafone and Microsoft, holding the corporate world in the palm of his hand. His success is rooted not i...

Today I’m joined by a special guest, Shaun Levings, the creator of Island Hop Maldives . He’s been in the travel industry since 1985 and has been involved in surf and adventure tourism since 1993. Shaun is one of the epic pioneers of Maldives surf tourism and you may know the name World Surfaris, Shaun is the creator of World Surfaris and sold the business in 2016. Shaun is here today to talk to u...

I am deeply honored to share the screen with Aluba Fenix, an executive coach and sports psychologist with over 20 years of experience. In this episode, Aluba emphasizes the constant need to reset and recalibrate our views and values, focusing on aligning the mindset and spirit and unlocking the full potential of an individual or a team in achieving high-performance outcomes. There is still an awfu...

Before she became a style icon, an influencer and built a successful business on the internet, Amber Renae was a civil engineer working on a construction site building roads and bridges. Her entrepreneurial journey is a giant roller coaster of success and failures that she rode and overcame again and again.  In this episode, Amber shares her biggest lessons of learning how to delegate and ask...

What experiences have you been putting off, waiting for or not giving yourself the permission to do? Do you work so hard putting off living your best life when you need to live your best life now to run and make the best of your business?   In this episode of Barrels and Business, Million Dollar Mortgage Broker Elisa McRae joins Jade Green to speak about the value of not getting comforta...

For business leaders Jade Green and Kyle Probert, nothing effectively quiets the "monkey mind" as well as the sun, the sea and the waves.  As surfers, it takes loads of patience to spot the perfect wave, to wait for it to come and pick them up. It can look quite effortless for some when they can ride at the right place every time. What is important is taking the time to slow down and eventual...

Teams that don't bond won't build a solid business .  According to high energy trainer, speaker, and mentor Jason Everett, many companies still have not gotten away with boring training in the boardroom. In this episode of Barrels and Business, Jason dives deep into the role of games and play in creating special activities that increase team performance and how transformational experiences dr...

If you are a business leader trying to help your team achieve flow, the necessary first step is achieving it for yourself. Your people internalize everything that you demonstrate on a moment by moment basis.  Jade Green and Mind-Body Wellness Expert Andrew Rooke explore how to help you and your teams manage themselves and teach them the ability to be the best they can be. Tune in to the Barre...

Did you include book reading as a non-negotiable for your 2022 resolutions? It's one habit worth doing throughout life and helps equip you to become your best version as a human and a leader.  In this episode, Jade Green and Kyle Probert sit down to discuss one of the most notable books every entrepreneur should read: The Art of Impossible . Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Exe...

In this amazing conversation with Andrew Houston, owner and founder of Profit for Contractors , we go through what you need to do to stand out, attract people and win the war of top talent from the competitors. As a business owner and as a business leader, we teach you how to connect with your humans so that you cannot only retain them but also motivate them to stay with you and up the profitabili...

After a four-year stint in the U.S. Army, a one-semester attempt at Law School, and switching careers from corporate finance to commercial real estate, John Lee Dumas has gone on to found and host an award-winning podcast, has become an author, and has interviewed thousands of entrepreneurs. It is that dynamic background that makes him the perfect guest to show you how to build a Kick-ass team. Le...

You've probably seen all sorts of videos and memes about people being in an office and still thinking they're on Zoom — muting and yawning while somebody else is talking.  While it can take adjustments easing back in the workplace, business coaches and authorities Jade Green and Mark Creedon discuss mindset changes that need to be adopted to get the most out of your team, and strategies to th...

In 2008, Brett Vowles and Shelley Hedley became business partners with franchised retail stores in Sydney. They were shopping for roller skates and noticed a minimal number of stores that carried roller derby equipment, roller skates and inline skates in general. Always searching for new opportunities, the couple easily saw a hole in the market for roller skates. They took the leap, moved away fro...

Two years of lockdowns and bans have turned the travel and tourism industry into one of the enormous casualties of the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode, TRIPADEAL co-founder Richard Johnston and I sit down for an insightful session sharing the success story of a company born out of an idea in Bali in 2010. His company captured the market of holiday loving baby boomers. When a global emergency...

If you are in Marvel Comics, how do you assemble your team of superheroes who you can trust with your life and will have your back? They will be running through a wall for you and will take on a common enemy, banding together and going to war with you? So you want to think about if you're going to create a team of heroes that have your back in your business, what can you do to bring them together...

If your people haven't really bought into the "why?" -- it's maybe because you don't have it. Businesses lack their overall purpose, centering on the WHAT instead of focusing on WHY. In recruitment, this vision and sense of direction are what your potential perfect candidates are also looking into.  In this episode, I share these insights with Business Consultant and Master Sales Coach Julian...

As a leader and a business owner, it is our responsibility to create a safe space for our people. In this episode, Founder and CEO Dr Angela Lauria of The Author Incubator , named to multiple lists of Top 500 Small Businesses in America, shares this valuable reminder that she emphasizes in her book Make 'Em Beg To Work For You.  Key points covered in this episode: (00:00): Welcome to Barrels...

How often do you take DOWNTIME? Most people end up FEELING GUILTY just thinking about “not being productive” and taking some time to relax and decompress.  Well, GUESS WHAT! Taking time off can actually FILL YOUR CUP with energy and creativity! This is something that applies to everyone in the business, from the leader to the newest employee. Taking a break is NECESSARY to be able to give you...

Do you know what YOUR ENERGY TYPE is? If you don’t, you are MISSING OUT on one of the most important resources you have to achieve peak productivity and maximizing your life. Knowing your energy types as proposed by the genius model developed by Roger James Hamilton is INSTRUMENTAL to making the most of every aspect of your life! In this episode, Charlotte Lane interviews Jade for her Take Control...

How good are you at SIMPLIFYING AND PRIORITIZING? This is something John Blake has had to do in many areas of his life and something he URGES his clients to do. John is a Sales Growth Strategist with over 30 years of experience in the market. He has developed his own system to help huge brands, such as Oakley, sell BIG TIME. During this episode, he shares the seven holes that are DRAINING your lea...

Does what you DO align with who you ARE? Or are you just doing what you think you SHOULD be doing? Cyprien Clerc from the FutureSeeds podcast interviews Jade in an episode FILLED with so many practical insights you might want to take notes to keep up. Jade talks about the importance of taking the first step to find alignment, which is BEING HONEST WITH YOURSELF. You might have convinced yourself t...

Have you CONNECTED with your soul? And what on Earth does that mean? Also, how can this impact your business? Danny Salfield interviews Glen Casey and me in this episode and let me tell you, Glen is one of THE MOST soulful people out there! This conversation was SO GOOD we ended up doing a post-show after the episode “ended”. We just couldn’t stop talking! After a transformative experience in his...

Are you RESPONSE-ABLE? Being able to respond requires you to be in the right mindset, managing your stressors instead of letting them accumulate, build up, and lead you to an explosion that can have terrible consequences for you and your team. When you or anyone in your team explodes because of a trigger, this means the person is REACTING INSTEAD OF RESPONDING.  But what’s the problem with re...

We all have an expiration date.  Are you making sure you are doing ALL THE THINGS you want to do before your time comes? Or are you leaving them for later?   Brian Swan (@unstoppablesurfer) is the co-founder of the Unstoppable Branding Agency & founder of Unstoppable Beard. He went from being a robotics engineer to becoming a semi-pro surfer & online entrepreneur.  His Unsto...

I am SO EXCITED to share this episode with you guys! I get to talk with Eric Edmeades, the founder of Wildfit, Speaker Nation, and Business Freedom.  Oh, and did I mention that he’s also my friend and mentor and he helped me literally CHANGE MY LIFE? Buckle up because this episode comes with some powerful insights! Eric shares his perspectives and practical tips on everything from kitesurfing...