The Politics of Everything

Big tech has a massive role in our modern existence. Some of it is positive, life-changing even, and some of it perhaps concerning – our digital footprint is everywhere, all day, every day. Have you ever thought there was an option, devoid of going off the grid? I have at times wondered. Data tracking is the process of selecting specific metrics and events to track, then collecting, organizing, an...

A new economy sounds great, right? More opportunities for change and equality – and a new paradigm of power. My guest today agrees. Don Golden is a humanitarian, pastor and founder and impact investment strategist, and fundraising consultant behind Just Capital Quotient (JCQ), a consultancy helping thriving businesses become forces for good. After 30 years of working in the most challenging humani...

One hundred years ago, if you worked in an office, you likely would have been crammed into a large room, sitting shoulder to shoulder with your colleagues in endless rows of desks. Designed to maximise productivity , these offices made it easy for managers to supervise staff, but were terrible for morale. By the 1960s, offices had evolved into a cubicle layout, giving team members small private ar...

Kate Kernaghan and I first worked together in 2018, during a time of crisis – in fact one of the worst droughts on record had ravished NSW and its water systems, and we were the comms people who had to navigate a complex world of stakeholders including the NSW state government, farmers and First Nations landowners. Think of long days on the road, testy town hall meetings and some pretty average ro...

Dana Rubin is a US-based consultant, speechwriter, and speaker who’s on a mission to encourage more women to put their views into the public square. She created the Speaking While Female Speech Bank to broaden our understanding of the role of women orators in history. It’s the world’s largest online archive of women’s speeches from around the world and across time, free for anyone to use. In addit...

++ Trigger warning – this episode discusses addiction and alcohol and may not be suitable for all listeners. Should this show raise issues for you please reach out to someone. In Australia that maybe by calling 13 11 14 (Lifeline ). We live in a culture surrounded by reasons to drink alcohol – when cerebrate, when we are sad, and even just because its Friday night. My guest Sarah Rusbatch is a cer...

Greenwashing is a term most of us have come to learn because it’s become part of the modern vernacular. Also known as green sheen, it is the false or overstated claims to deceive stakeholders into believing a company’s products or services are environmentally safer or sustainable when they may not be. Companies are responding to a world in climate change stress and consumers who want to do their b...

Digital communication is at a base online tools like email, social media messaging and texting to reach other individuals or a specific audience to share a message. Even something as simple as reading the text on a webpage like this can be considered digital communication. We all know this world very well!  My guest is Sharon Zeev Poole, the Founder and Director of highly regarded boutique PR...

Regular listeners of this podcast know I rarely have two guests interviewed at once but for the topic at hand, The Politics of Family Business, this one had to have both co-CEOS here, to make sense. Just over a year ago, sisters Belinda and Amie Lyone became Co-CEOs of COS , an Australian-owned private company offering products and solutions for the workplace. COS was established by their father 4...

My guest today Naby Mariyam is an achiever. She is a fintech pioneer, thought leader, advocate for greater diversity of ideas in fin services and tech, and a keynote speaker. Her accolades include: Host of #hustlechat podcast Finnies – for excellence in business insurtech finalist for 3 years in a row. Fintech leader of the year finalist 2021 and 2022 Insuretch of the year 2021 and 2022 finalist E...

Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards. Self-awareness sometimes feels uncanny and a bit intangible. I feel like my own self-awareness, my moral compass and all its EQ friends have become stronger and louder in my late 40s. My guest today Michael Bunting is a best-selling author and leadership ex...

Empowerment can be defined as promoting one’s sense of self-worth, an ability to make choices, and the right to influence social change for us and others. It is closely aligned with female empowerment – a fundamental human right that’s also key to achieving a more happy, healthy, and wealthy state of play! In Western countries, female empowerment is often associated with specific phases of the wom...

Welcome to the first episode of my 2023 season of The Politics of Everything. Today’s topic is one close to my heart and well, let’s be honest, my business life! We are talking about The Politics of Media. My guest Nic Hayes knows the media game (despite being a former police officer!). He is a 20-year veteran of media, with a broad range of experience covering all aspects of the media cycle; from...

A warning that is episode mentions some themes that may not be suitable for all listeners. If you’re in Australia and experiencing domestic violence or need to speak to a counsellor, please contact 1800 737 732. As the winner of AHIA’s Australia's Best Eco Salon in 2020 & 2021, sustainability and low-tox living is a huge passion for Tenille Lawrence. She is a multi-award-winning hair stylist t...

Mentoring can change your life and your career if done right. One of my standard guest questions asks who their #1 mentor has been and their impact. Most of my formal mentors have been local, as in the same city or at least country ad global mentorship has been limited perhaps by staid ideas of commonality, access and relevance in decades gone by. Today I chat to Sahera Sumar, the Founder of a soc...

Customer service is everything for most businesses that last the distance. Our customer loyalty to a brand or business leader can be shaped by our experiences every day and sometimes our feedback is heard, noted, and more importantly positively acted upon, and sometimes, well it is not and the results can mean the end of the road for that business if that is a recurrent theme. After all there is a...

Shyness is something we rarely talk about let alone elevate in our loud, often brash, TikTok-fuelled all singing and dancing world. Meet Melbourne-based Kaley Chu, the founder of 100 Lunches with Strangers , a movement she founded off the back of her best-selling book of the same name where Kaley shared her journey from a shy immigrant to a confident TEDx Speaker in just 2 years by getting out of...

Workplace wellbeing matters more than ever, as people from all sectors are making health-led decisions that are more valuable perhaps than power, money and status. Having experienced her own life-changing burnout, Sally describes herself as a Burnout Survivor now Thriver, her own journey to recovery inspired her health coaching practice, Health that Heals. Sally McGrath has not one experience with...

Tel K. Ganesan is a self-made serial entrepreneur, engaging public speaker, philanthropist, mentor, film producer, and world traveller with a globally recognized reputation across multiple industries. He currently serves as Founder/CEO of multiple thriving enterprises, including Kyyba, Inc. - a Michigan-headquartered global IT company with over 700 employees and millions in annual revenue - Kyyba...

Steve Hui was one of my early guests on this podcast back in 2018. How our experience of business, life, and travel has changed in four years. I wanted to invite Steve back as a refresher of how our experience as a society has evolved, for better or worse maybe, in a world battered by Covid19 and all the border closure pain that has plagued the airline sector. Airlines are posting record losses as...

Sustainable architecture is also referred to as green architecture or environmental architecture. It challenges architects to produce smart designs and use available technologies to ensure that structures generate minimal harmful effects to the ecosystem and the communities. And with a world in the midst of climate change emergency, it has a big role to play. However, it no doubt has it chall...

JUST A LISTENER WARNING THIS EPISODE CONTAINS REFERENCES TO DRUG ADDICTION AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES. Everyone loves a comeback story. From the late Steve Jobs being fired from Apple the company he started and then returned and then launching iconic products like the iPhone to basketball GOAT Michael Jordan coming out of retirement to lead the Chicago Bulls to championship glory no...

Anyone of my vintage growing up in the 80s and 90s knows my guest today, Alison Brahe. As a teen who wanted a career in journalism, I consumed magazines like oxygen. Alison was the epitome a Dolly  magazine cover girl everyone wanted to be. Even as I posted on my socials, I was speaking to Alison today childhood friends instantly messaged me in excitement and gushing recollections of how...

In the 80s and 90s legal dramas ruled TV viewing in my household. Liability law and litigation seemed to be where the action was at least in that genre. What is the state of play today when it comes to being a successful lawyer? Meet Jamie E. Wright one of the most highly sought-after millennial lawyers and crisis communicators based in Los Angeles, CA. Being at the intersection of the law, busine...

Truth matters but in an era of social media curation and leaders who can lie and remain in power, it can sometimes seem like it doesn’t. We all hold conflicting views of self, and multiple perspectives of who we are and how we should act. As leaders, juggling these selves is a constant tightrope walk as we negotiate our personal and professional lives, a balancing act that often leaves us unsatisf...