The Life In Bold Show

What does it take to run an international fashion label while you are working through the hardest year of your own life? In this instalment of Bold Behind the Brand on The Life In Bold Show, Adrian sits down with Deanna Depetro, co-owner and creative director of Mossman. Deanna takes us from sewing with her mum and her first job at McDonald’s at 14 and nine months, through a retail career built fr...

What if the hardest chapter of your story is the exact reason you're so hard to break? In this solo episode of The Life In Bold Show, Adrian is back from five weeks in Europe with one of his most personal episodes yet. He unpacks why he says being gay is a superpower and what growing up gay has taught him about life at 34. He walks through five reasons: you know what living inauthentically fee...

Most people treat their CV like a legal document, when it should be treated like a billboard: you've got three seconds to make a recruiter stop scanning and take notice. After eight years working as a recruiter, Adrian pulls back the curtain on exactly what happens to your CV the moment it lands on someone's desk, and what most people are getting wrong before they even apply. He breaks down how to...

Are people landing and leaving without engaging? Let's fix that. Your Instagram profile is a shop front, and right now, most people are walking straight past it. In this Business Bootcamp episode, Adrian runs a full audit of what actually turns a profile visit into a follow, and a follow into an inquiry. He breaks down your bio, your highlights, your pinned posts, and the small settings most peopl...

Every interaction you have, every choice you make when no one's watching, every way you show up when someone is, all of it is quietly building or breaking your reputation whether you're paying attention or not. In this episode, Adrian breaks down the four pillars that make up your Personal Brand: your thoughts, your actions, your communication, and your appearance, and why every single one of them...

Adrian marks his 34th birthday with a rapid-fire solo episode running through the ten things he'd go back and tell himself at 24, pulled straight from what's actually moved the needle in his business, his personal brand, and his life. He covers why doing everything at once is a fast track to burnout, why your network outlasts your bank balance, why perfection is just a well-dressed form of procras...

You don't need more followers. You need to learn how to communicate with the ones you’ve already got. Why do we think we need to hit 50k before we can start making real cash? In the first episode of the Business Bootcamp series on The Life In Bold Show, Adrian breaks down exactly how to get fully booked with under 5K followers, and why chasing a bigger audience before you try sell to your current...

Manifestation has a branding problem. The vision boards, the high vibe energy, the affirmations you repeat until they feel hollow etc. For a lot of people, this stuff isn't working. Not because manifestation doesn't work, but because the way it's being sold to us is completely wrong. In this episode of Bold Behind the Brand, Adrian sits down with Melbourne-based manifestation coach Laura Grady, on...

You already know what you should be doing. You know you should post the content, go to the gym, follow the plan. So why don't you? In episode five of The Life In Bold Show, Adrian breaks down the real reason discipline feels impossible for most people, and it has nothing to do with willpower, laziness, or not wanting it badly enough. He gets into what is actually happening inside your brain every...

What does it actually take to walk away from a comfortable, well-paying career and start completely from scratch? For Megan Cross, it meant taking a pay cut, swallowing her pride, and betting everything on herself at 30. In the first ever Bold Behind the Brand guest episode, Adrian sits down with Melbourne personal stylist and content creator Megan Cross to talk about the messy, unglamorous realit...

Most people are waiting to feel confident before they try. Here is the problem with that. Confidence does not come first. Action does. In episode three of The Life In Bold Show, Adrian makes the case for what he calls delusional optimism. The belief that things will work out in your favor even when there is no evidence yet to suggest they will. And why developing that skill might be the most impor...

Most of us are walking around every single day showing up as a version of ourselves that was designed to fit in, not to stand out. And the truth is, your nervous system knows it. In episode two of The Life In Bold Show, Adrian gets into what it actually costs you to live inauthentically. Not just emotionally, but neurologically. The science behind why pretending to be someone else is quietly drain...

We all hit rock bottom at some point. A job loss. A breakup. A moment where everything you thought was solid suddenly isn't. In the first episode of The Life In Bold Show, Adrian gets honest about the moments in his own life where everything fell apart. The kind of moments that make you question who you are, what you are doing, and whether any of it is ever going to get better. He shares the real...

This is not a show for everyone. It is for the ones who have that feeling deep in their gut that they are meant for more. Who want to create a positive impact, live with real freedom, and leave behind a legacy. Who are done being a background character in their own story and ready to make a name for themselves. Adrian Paglia is a business coach and self-help geek who spent years feeling lost, dire...