She's The Boss Chats

Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Kate Toon https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats Kate Toon is a well-loved and a very popular woman for good reason. She's just the best person to talk to when it comes to building your own business because she is super generous with her information. This chat was no different. From her first trip to Australia as a backpacker, Kate was...

Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Meredith Cranmer https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats Meredith's story of how she co-founded the Because agency, one that specialises in brand experiences, is fascinating. It all started with a trip to London at the start of the 2000's. During her time there she got a job working for a new company called because. Run by a very entrep...

Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Stephanie Woollard https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats Stephanie is not your average woman. She always wanted to give back, from a very early age, so when she was on a trip to Nepal and she found 7 very poor, and disabled women huddled together without any of the basic necessities she decided to start there. Her NFP, Seven Women, ha...

Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Megan Del Borrello https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats Megan is an absolute dynamo. Based in Perth, she is the founder of Behind The Brands, a group focused on helping successful female founders with networking, advice, and training. Megan was Managing Director of a marketing agency when her first child was born. She was driven and...

Melissa Dunbar, the founder of Big Fish Events Group, is one of Australia’s top event ‘producers’ (as she prefers to be called) and has been working in the industry for decades. She discusses the wiggly road she took before she started her own company (the story of how she got her first job in the industry is a cracker!) From presenting herself on the doorstep of channel 9 early on in her career t...

Julie Hirsch is one of the most inspiring and driven women in Australia when it comes to being kind to the planet. She is the Co-Founder of Elements Organic Vitamin Teas as well as being the winner of the 2020 Telstra Business Women's Awards for Victoria and being featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Asia in 2020. Starting of in the US as a young woman working on the 2016 election, she fell...

Jen Bishop was a high-flying go-getter from an early age. Burning the candle at both ends, she became a LinkedIn expert, in demand all over the country and was busy, busy, busy. Then her body broke down from the stress and her life as she knew it was over. She had to reinvent herself in a way that made it possible for her to manage her health. Jen's story is inspiring and cautionary. She now has a...

Fiona is a true creative - she's a writer, actor, author, and Co-Founder of a television production house with her partner. She talks about how she traveled in her early years and then started acting in various roles before starting to write - plays, movies, comedy, and now, her own multi-award-winning web-based show, The Drop Off. Fiona's story of how The Drop Off has grown in popularity makes fo...

Candice has an amazing story. Back in the early 2000's when no one really knew what a blog was, she and a handful of others formed The Bloggerati and drew hundreds of thousands of followers. At the time Candice (who is super stylish!) wrote about vintage fashion and beauty. Fast forward a decade or two and Candice is now using her expertise in digital marketing to make a difference to businesses,...

Julia Ewert, aka The Negotiator, is a truly inspiring woman who is helping business owners everywhere understand sales and how to sell without being 'pushy'. From being bullied in her school years to turning it around and owning 5 properties by the age of 30, Julia is the true meaning of the word 'go-getter'. Her story of her years in the corporate sector, her rapid rise to the top, and then her d...

Michelle Brown's business is called From Picture To Page and Beyond. She is a mad paper crafter and one day, out of the blue almost, she made an offer to the woman who was running her favorite crafting show, and it was accepted! So Michelle, who is an engineering consultant when she's not running crafting events, has plunged herself fully into running events for hundreds (her biggest one has thous...

Mel Dancer is only new to the entrepreneurial journey but her story is so interesting that she has to be heard! Mel is an ex-Police Officer. She had always wanted to be a detective and loved her years in the Force, but they were very, very stressful. Mel describes what it was like to work across some pretty full-on crime scenes and how it affects your psychology. Mel realized that when most people...

What a barrel of laughs Chamaine Lovett, the co-founder of Gin Birds, is! She is full of positive energy and fun. Her story of life in the UK as a nurse and health professional prior to moving to Australia is fascinating. once she and her family got here (she has 3 older children and an 8-year-old with her hubby) she got herself a job and made friends with the other Mums at the primary school. Sta...

JJ Ferrari is the founder of Go Bold, a business that makes it really easy for small and medium enterprises to find legitimate experts in a range of fields. After an illustrious sales career in the USA, JJ moved to Australia to be CEO of the Anthony Robbins organization here. Her breadth of knowledge, entrepreneurial spirit, and experience planted the seed for a new business opportunity - enter Go...

Kylie Bartlett is amazing! Her business, The Digital Talent Group is just the latest in a long string of businesses she has started - the first one being an RTO that she sold in her early 20's. She then became a speaker and has spoken at conferences and events all over the world, focusing on social media for businesses. Her book, Friends with Benefits, all about Facebook marketing was the impetus...

Beverley Honig is the founder of Honeylight Enterprises, a business she has built over the last 25 years across a number of industries. With an extensive law background, including a judgeship with the ESC and time as a multilingual, inter-continental lawyer, and vast experience as an accomplished business director with an MBA, Beverley is a fine example of what happens with a positive mindset and...

Naomi Lambert is the founder of The Cool To Be Kind Project, an initiative spreading worldwide kindness through very simple small acts of kindness. It all started in the lead up to Christmas 2017 when Naomi noticed a youth knock over an elderly lady without stopping to help or see if she was OK. That was Naomi’s eureka moment and it got her thinking about how she could spread kindness in the world...

Louise Larkin is the founder of Friend in Me, a company that creates all-inclusive parties so that all children can be involved. The concept has been created to ensure ‘no child gets left behind’ and Louise is a woman who gets stuff done! Following a career in event management for Crown, and after having a ‘lightbulb moment’ on the way to work one day, Louise has stopped at nothing to help thousan...

Susan Jarvis is the founder of the Spicy Boudoir, which aims to boost the confidence of disabled people and people over the age of 50 and help them embrace their sexuality. Susan mentions that she herself just turned 50 a few years ago and noticed that, from her age group onwards, talk about sex seemed to be taboo and suggests this could have had something to do with the time in which this age gro...

Laura Piccardi is the founder of Uppy which provides much-needed life and performance coaching. She is also a speaker, presenter, and the author of Unfaked. Having grown up in an enterprising family and running a number of businesses in Australia, Laura is now parlaying all of her experience to lift the lid on businesses in a fun and entertaining way. As a result of the time she gained over the is...

It’s hard to know where to start with the accolades for this incredible woman of many talents! An early adopter of digital technology and a huge fan of yoga and ‘being of service’, Polly’s interview is fascinating. On her website, she describes herself as an ‘All Purpose’ human but she is also an author, speaker, business strategist, yogi, and good hustler, As one of only 400 people worldwide to h...

An industry veteran in graphic design, Lora Starling is the founder of Starling Design, a business spanning decades across Australia and the UK. Lora’s design philosophy is based on the emotional center, resulting in designs that resonate. She loves a bit of woo woo and has spent a lot of time exploring the influences on a brand. During the chat, Lora talks about how her experience at large design...

Jo Munro is the founder of The Savvy Shopaholic and Media Savvy, bringing together her diverse experience in sales and business channel development, retail, and media commentary. As a female founder, Jo made the leap from a corporate career to entrepreneurship through simply doing what makes her heart sing and pushing through the fear. Jo talks about her inspiration in teaching, developed during h...

Anne Miles is the founder of Suits & Sneakers, an international creative services company, but she has done so much more! As a female founder, she is constantly juggling clients, the work she needs to do on the business in terms of strategy, and implementation. Luckily she has a super-strong work ethic - which you will hear about in the interview. In this interview, Anne explains that she felt...

Karina Bruce is an unstoppable force! As a curvy model, and the co-founder of Hear Us Roar, a marketplace for fashion designers who specialize in curvy women, she is determined to change things in the fashion industry - and no doubt she will! In this episode, Karina and Jules discuss what it was like for Karina as a young woman who experienced bullying for her size at school, and how she eventuall...