Chew the Fat

Bailey Pickles is 22 and has already been asked by Apple to compose the music for their 50th Anniversary, Mr. Beast to compose the music for Beast Games S2 and Vivid to light up the city with his music for Sydney's biggest light show. He built an audience of 1.6M+ by posting videos of him playing piano on TikTok and Instagram. He would hear a song for the first time and immediately be able to...

Farm town kid to professional break dancer to founder who got a company to IPO at $526M. Joe Stolte reveals why it's okay to lack talent, why he quit his $250k Microsoft job, and how AI agents will replace your entire team, Joe Stolte is a serial tech entrepreneur who built and sold companies including GrowFlow ($62.5M exit) and helped take Lottery.com public ($526M IPO). He's the co-founder of Pr...

Prison at 16. Millionaire at 27. $127M net worth today. Dan Martell reveals how a computer in rehab saved his life and why your trauma is your greatest business asset. Dan Martell is a serial tech entrepreneur who built and sold three software companies by age 30. He is the founder of SaaS Academy, angel investor in over 50 startups, and author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, 'Buy...

She sold over 100k books, built a global investing community (10M+ podcast downloads), and helps women control their money in a world that told them not to. Simran Kaur is the founder of Girls That Invest, one of the world’s largest financial education platforms for women, with listeners across 190 countries. From reading The Intelligent Investor and thinking “there has to be an easier way,” to se...

He started with $500 at 21, built two companies worth $100M+ combined, and still lives in the same small apartment he did when they made their first $6M. Izzy Whitley is the founder of Auckland Labour Hire and co-founder of Fitout Solutions that together bring in over $100M in annual revenue across New Zealand and Australia. He started out after being put on academic leave for flunking all his exa...

She built a $100M+ global fashion empire from her parents’ garage, hid her business from her immigrant parents for two years, and is now a Shark on Shark Tank Australia. Jane Lu is the founder of Showpo, one of Australia’s most successful e-commerce brands with over 100 employees worldwide. But the journey started with a secret: quitting her secure job at KPMG, pretending to catch the bus to work...

She’s queen of a $300M food empire including Boost Juice and Betty’s Burgers. But she went to a school known only for their yard fights and teen pregnancies. Here is why she wouldn’t change a thing. Janine Allis is the founder of Boost and chair of Retail Zoo. With zero business experience, she opened 100 stores in four years, became a household name on Shark Tank , and has just gone back on Survi...

She built a $22M skincare brand with a team of 26 marketers and hundreds of TikTok micro-influencers. But then she found a multi-million dollar gap in the hair growth market. Rachael Wilde is the co-founder of TBH Skincare and hair growth brand, Bouf. Not only has Bouf partnered with Indie Clinton, they also achieved $500K+ in revenue in the first week of launch. In this episode of Chew the Fat, R...

He built 19 companies, runs a $100M+ business today, has 3.6M followers across platforms and now asks strangers on the street: ‘What’s your dream?’. Simon Squibb is on a mission to fix the education system. Instead of politics, he’s taken it to the streets and onto TikTok, building one of the world’s largest platforms for inspiring people to follow their dreams. His videos have reached hundreds of...

He was spending 1 hour a week on his $200M business (while running 10 others) because he was bored. Meet Australia's youngest ever Shark and founder of Oodie, Davie Fogarty. Davie Fogarty is the founder of Oodie (a $850M+ business) and Daily Mentor (where he mentored over 1,000 founders). His education was multiple failed businesses including a Vietnamese roll shop, bottled seasonings and cons...

This is an emergency debate on the best way to get rich in 2025... real estate or business? $25M+ property portfolio owner vs the $560M co-founder of Eucalyptus went head to head. Jack Henderson built a $25M+ property portfolio by the age of 27 and now runs a 120 employee property buyers agency. Charlie Gearside co-founded Eucalyptus, a healthtech company valued at over $560M. Both have made a lot...

He built a multiple apps that hit #1 on the App Store, raised $37M by 28, and now runs one of the fastest-growing AI agent companies in the world. Jacky Koh is the co-founder and CEO of Relevance AI, which makes the deployment of AI agents available to everyone and are used by Canva, Asahi and Autodesk and more.  He explained how he deploys 200,000 AI agents a month, taught himself economics by pl...

She sold 2M units in a country of 5M people in Year 1 of the business. At one store, her beverages were outselling Coca-Cola. When a founder is obsessed, this is what happens. Kate Gatfield-Jeffries is the co-founder of Moodi, the wellness brand taking over ANZ. In just 3 years Moodi has scaled to being in the top 1% of highest meta ad spenders in the world (multi-millions $), been sold in nearly...

He nearly got fired 2 weeks into his first startup, wrote a mattress ad that outraged Christians and co-founded Eucalyptus ($800M+ valuation). Charlie Gearside is the co-founder of Eucalyptus, the healthtech company behind viral brands including Pilot, Juniper, Kin, Software and Compound. Their mission is to fix a broken healthcare system, and they aren’t afraid to use controversial (and often hil...

She made $400K from her side business while working full-time, did customer service during her workouts, and got 16M views on her first TikTok video. Rosie Collins is the founder of Deja Marc, a personalised jewellery brand that started from her making engravings at Trophy Land to now signing retail agreements with Australia's largest shopping centre franchise. She doesn't consider her jewellery a...

He built a second brain using ChatGPT, uploaded 1000 hours of his raw thoughts, and used AI to change not just his business - but his identity. Matt Lakajev is the founder of Seven Figure Creators and Australia’s #1 lead gen expert. But this episode is about something deeper than sales. After working 16-hour days, hitting burnout, and revisiting old trauma at Coachella, Matt built an AI-powered se...

She scaled a side hustle to $1M in 1 year with only 1 employee. And she did it all through a pregnancy. Mikhailla Fitzgerald is the founder of a talent agency that was acquired just four years after launch. But behind the headlines is a story of rebuilding after losing a child, shutting down a 7-figure business to avoid burnout, and figuring out who she was after giving up the founder title. In th...

She broke her bones to ski, trained through clinical PTSD, and now is a world champion footballer and dual paralympian. Rae Anderson is a dual Paralympian who’s represented Australia in long jump, javelin, alpine skiing, and football. From being told she didn’t “look disabled” to winning a World Cup with the ParaMatildas, Rae’s story shows that anything is possible with unbeaten resilience. In thi...

She built a multi-million dollar franchise, raised over $1M for positive impact, and now she’s on a mission to help 70,000 businesses give $1B by 2035. Alana Nicholls is the founder of ProPurpose, a movement helping business owners embed generosity into their business models. But before that, she grew Platinum Electricians with her husband from a single van to a national franchise, while sponsorin...

He went from selling creatine in high school to running 90 gyms across 13 countries - and now he’s moving his entire family to the US to chase the next chapter. Michael Ramsey is the co-founder of Strong, the $35M Pilates franchise. But while most would coast at 90 locations, Michael believes if you're not growing, you're dying. So he sold everything, packed two suitcases, and moved his fa...

She dedicated 42 years to curing childhood cancer, helped double survival rates in leukaemia children and now leads a global revolution in personalised treatment. Professor Michelle Haber is the Executive Director of the Children’s Cancer Institute. What began as a three-person lab in 1984 has now grown into a world-leading research institute responsible for doubling survival rates in some of the...

She moved to Bali to start a business at 21, before getting her bikinis in the hands of EmRata. Bridgette Gale founded her swimwear brand at 21, cracked the US market from Bali, made $100K overnight with a collaboration with Jessie James Decker, and cold emailed Emily Ratajkowski’s agent before landing her for a shoot. In this episode of Chew the Fat, Bridgette shares how she grew her swimwear bus...

Can a coffee chat change your life? Do mentors choose their mentee first? And can a 21 year old really run a $60 million HealthTech company? Here’s your answer. Akhil Gadde is the co-founder of DR2, a health tech company that acquired Australia’s largest after-hours doctor services and scaled to over $60 million in revenue, just two years after launch. In this episode of Chew the Fat, Akhil shares...

AJ was abandoned at 14, hid his childhood from everyone including his wife, but now runs an 8-figure wellness company. AJ Williams is the founder of Revel Saunas, a business built on obsession, data, and a drive to prove what's possible when you put the middle finger up to adversity. He aimed to hit $3 million in revenue within 12 months, but did it in the first and is now at over $30M. In thi...

How to book 3000 sales calls with $0 ad spend…this is a masterclass by Matt Lakajev. He turned down a $280k salary to start a business, and now makes $280/month! Matt Lakajev is ranked No.1 in Australia for lead generation across all social media channels. He helps business owners make money through LinkedIn and is the founder of Seven Figure Creators. In this conversation, Matt reveals why most b...