Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Grant Aldrich.  Grant founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 yea...

Our special guest today is Rachel Ellner Lebensohn, founder of seyopa.com .  Rachel grew up as a professional actress from the age of five to eighteen in both Israel and the United States. She then served in the Film Production Unit of the IDF Air Force before going on to graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television. Rachel also holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. C...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Isabella Liu.  Isabella is the Founder of Invincible Co., a positivity movement which focuses on building positivity and validation from within to create your own purpose-led business and live as an entity for yourself, rather than an entity for other people. Learn more at - invincible-co.com

In a special Rising Tide Startups episode from New Zealand, we catch up with Anthony Baxter, founder of Firefly Digital. Anthony is not only founder and CEO, he is also a salesman, digital marketer and life enthusiast. Learn more at fireflydigital.co.nz

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Albert Jing.  Albert Jing is the Founder and CEO of OneFriends. He founded OneFriends in late 2018. Since then, Albert has led an eight member team of specialist contracted app developers, engineers, QA testers and app designer in the development of the OneFriends app. OneFriends is now live on the Apple App Store after a long beta period and rounds of...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Duco Van Breemen.  Duco is the founding general manager of Australia’s first innovation hub, Haymarket HQ,  supporting technology companies and exporters to grow into the Asia-Pacific. To date, they have supported over 550 companies from 30+ countries to grow and expand their operations via our mentoring, coworking and digital programming services. Lear...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Amy Smith, founder of Aligned Tribe.  Amy Smith started her first business at the young age of 12 and by age 22 was working across the globe helping organisations of all sizes from start-ups to large enterprises, such as HSBC and the YMCA to optimize their Human Resource strategies. Amy has worked within one of the largest executive networks of 16,000+...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jethro Marks.  Jethro is co-founder of the arch-enemy of Amazon called TheNile.com.au. The Nile launched in 2003 and has since become one of the largest sellers on eBay Australia. The eBay store is home to millions of unique listings across 11 categories, including Books, DVDs, Baby Products, Toys and more. The Nile has been built on over a decade of ex...

Our special guest today is Suzanne Mercier, founder of Purpose to Profit."  Suzanne has a strong background in marketing & advertising.  She was also the first woman on Board of George Patterson Advertising. Her skills set includes: Serial entrepreneur Advertising Agency (Creative Campaigns) Small Business Educational Network (Bite Size Skills) Mindset Transformation business (Imposterhood) Busine...

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Caroline LePron. Caroline, originally from Southern France, moved to Australia 12 years ago for a 6-month internship and never left (except for a short stint in the San Francisco bay area)! She is a serial Entrepreneur, Mom of a little girl and married to another startup founder named Jacques. After a soft launch, she just launched Skoutli.com in...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is John "J D" Dean.  John is the founder of Sales Director Central and helps frustrated MDs, VPs and business owners INCREASE revenue by 100’s of Thousands by IDENTIFYING and RECTIFYING poor focus in sales pipelines, sales processes and sales team behaviours.  His “Outsourced Sales Director” program will give YOU access to top performing Sales Directors wh...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Jacques Lepron.  Jacques is passionate about technologies in the mobility/IoT and supply chain such as those related to telematics, connected devices and the autonomous vehicles.  He builds customer-facing partnership and technical / product integrations channels for tech companies.  Jacques is also the founder of Driverli, a startup that is des...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Marek Zmysłowski.  Marek is a Polish-born entrepreneur and executive, focused on Online Business and Renewable Energy, and passionate about Frontier and Emerging Markets. He co-founded Sunroof.se – a 2-in-1 Solar Roofs producer, HotelOnline.co – a Travel Technology Company, and Jumia Travel – Africa’s Biggest Hotel Booking Portal listed on NYSE as part...

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Roger Lawrence.  Roger is passionate about disruptive technology and empowering people to achieve mastery. He has worked with some of the biggest technology companies across the world. All of his roles have involved combining technology and high calibre individuals to resolve complex challenges - from learning to program in high school, to deliver...

Our special guest today is Kirk Penn.   Kirk is one of the nicest and humblest guests we have ever had on the podcast.  In these days of bitter confrontation and polarization, we need more people like Kirk Penn around the globe. Kirk is the Founder and Principal Advisory Consultant at Service Management Specialists . He and his team are typically asked to - review capabilities, frame pragmatic way...

Our guest today on the podcast is Adala Bolto, founder of Zadi Fitness.  Adala has a strong passion and dedication to fitness lifestyle and fashion with more than 14 years in the fitness industry. She has excelled in her career as a personal trainer and popular group fitness instructor , specialising in Les Mills programs such as Body attack , Body pump, as well as studio cycle boxing classes and...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Ben Kennedy.  Ben is a 20 year old university student, with a background as an accountant, and has just launched his new startup Gecko. Gecko helps everyday Aussies cash in on their clutter and helps people rent what they want, when they want it. They work towards changing users from consumers to sharers by reducing waste and reusing materials. Learn mo...

Today's special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Hayley Saddington.  Hayley is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, including Winner, Telstra Business Womens Awards for Business Innovation. Working in the fast-evolving world of medical devices has thrown up many challenges for Hayley  who started her company, HALO Medical Devices, while still a physiotherapy student. She developed a new goniomete...

Our special guest today is Linh Podetti. Linh believes in doing what you love and living a life that’s purposeful and meaningful. Her mission in life is to create job opportunities for talented people across the globe, helping them to do what they love, regardless of where they live in the world. Linh is passionate about entrepreneurship and runs multiple businesses. She currently spends most of h...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Katie Bryan. Katie is the multi award-nominated Founder of Propeller Advisory, one of the fastest growing advisory, accounting, and Virtual CFO firms in Australia. Katie also proudly serves as Treasurer for the Virtual CFO Association Executive Committee. Propeller Advisory and Katie Bryan were recently named finalists for New Firm of the Year, New Part...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Scott Beebe.  Scott is the founder of My Business On Purpose, a business coaching, training, and strategy group that helps small business owners and organizational leaders transition from working IN their businesses to working ON their businesses. Scott is also the host of the Business On Purpose podcast; a weekly podcast where Scott interviews...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Matt Johns, founder of Deliberat.com.au .  Matt is incredibly passionate about deliberately designed experiences - for both customers and employees, placing significant value in understanding how people are feeling and thinking before designing targeted solutions. He believes the experience a brand creates for its customers should be viewed as a...

Laura Bell Greeno is a marketing strategist, startup coach and creative planner at WEBSCOUT. She helps startups grow and scale. She also mentors marketers into the next level of their careers and trains digital agencies through growing pains and efficient operational scaling: people, process, sales, integration and martech. Laura recently sold Ecomdash, her ecommerce SaaS startup, for $9.6 million...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Liam Austin.  Liam is a virtual event strategist, having launched over 15 virtual summits and online business networking events, hosting over 400 speakers whilst educating 100,000+ business owners through his programs. As the co-founder of Entrepreneurs HQ, Liam is a specialist at making it easy for people to create their own virtual summits and online...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Author, Speaker and Emcee, Steve Hughes.  Steve is the President of Hit Your Stride, LLC, a consultancy that helps people look and sound smart when they talk. He’s also a sought-after speaker, the author of the book Captivate: Presentations That Engage and Inspire and has been featured on CBS, NPR, and BBC Radio.  Learn more at hityourstride.com