Chief Meta Chicks Podcast

Sandra D’Souza is the Founder and CEO of Ellect . Sandra has built a career on breaking barriers and building pathways for women in leadership. She’s a business leader, entrepreneur, and changemaker who knows how to turn vision into action. Ellect is a platform launched on International Women’s Day in 2019 to drive gender equality and diversity in business and on boards, aligned with the United Na...

Sarah Petty is the Founder and Director of Olive Business Partners . Sarah provides a Virtual CFO service to business owners looking for senior expertise that suits their business stage and budgets. This arrangement allows her clients to leverage her tremendous wealth of experience as a CFO, a qualified CPA, and as a Board member. Earlier in her career, Sarah oversaw the financial management of bu...

Kathryn Elliott is the Founder of The Alcohol Mindset Coach . Kathryn's business supports individuals to explore their relationship with alcohol and make changes to create positive impacts on their mental and emotional health, productivity, personal lives and careers. She has a career background of 25-30 years in media and in PR and is also a breast cancer survivor and thriver. Following that expe...

Belinda Paul is the Founder of RCYCL . Belinda has worked in the fashion industry for over 25 years and in she founded RCYCL, an organisation that helps solve the textile pollution problem. RCYCL provides a direct-to-consumer return satchel that allows people to easily recycle their used clothing at the end of its life cycle. The service creates an immediate impact on the environment while contrib...

Monique Tyrer is an ecommerce strategist at INTERSPORT Australia, while concurrently exploring the intersection of music, technology, and rights management through her work as a DJ. With a global career across Australia, Japan, Singapore and Manila, she brings deep commercial expertise to solving real-world problems in the creator economy. Monique is also the co-host of the radio show House of Her...

Sarah Petty is the Founder and Director of Olive Business Partners . With a wealth of experience as a CFO and a qualified CPA, Sarah is passionate about working with business owners and leaders who are energised by what they do and are driven by purpose. Throughout her career, Sarah has overseen the financial management of businesses across all growth stages, ranging from small startups to industr...

Emma Thomson is the Founder of Pitch it Up Cricket . Emma is an experienced medical scientist and Sales Project Manager and previously worked in the healthcare industry for 25 years. She founded Pitch It Up Cricket in 2021 after becoming a cricket mum and bowling to her son in the backyard. She realised that there was a big gap in the bowling machine market for young kids and she took it upon hers...

Boob Armour was born after Suzie underwent a series of tests for breast cancer, which fortunately came back negative. During the process Suzie’s surgeon asked her whether she had experienced breast trauma before. Curiosity got the better of her and she took it upon herself to do some research, particularly in sport and she discovered many women and girls playing contact sport sustained breast inju...

Jo Stanley is the Founder of Broad Radio . After being discovered performing stand-up comedy in a dingy pub more than 20 years ago, Jo spent more than a decade as one half of the record-breaking Number 1 breakfast radio show, The Matt & Jo Show on Fox FM. In 2016, she teamed up with Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann on Gold 104.3, taking that show to Number 1 as well. She is now co-host of The House of...

Sam Symes is the Founder and Managing Director of Spark Sports Grips. Sam is our first male guest on the Chief Meta Chicks Podcast, but he absolutely fits the bill as a true champion for women in sport and business! Sam has a background in coaching, teaching and sports management, as well as workforce transformation. He founded Spark Sports Grips after his young daughter’s request to learn how to...

Clare Martin is a Transformational Mindset Coach. Over the past decade, Clare has specialised in helping entrepreneurs master their mindset, maximise their potential and manifest their dream life. Her mission is to guide clients back to believing in their innate power as a human being, by removing blocks such as the self-doubt, fear, and lack of self-belief and to eradicate resistance to change, o...

Leigh Morrison is the Founder of be. Coaching. Leigh is a Leadership & Executive Coach and Career Mentor. She started her career in advertising agencies, and then she transitioned to client-side marketing, working at Coca Cola Company, where she oversaw the launch of Coke Zero. She has a passion for developing teams and culture. This interview covers a number of important topics, including: Th...

Debra Tay is the Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer of Cycling Bears. Debra has over 23 years of banking experience, from corporate and investment banking to Wealth Management in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Australia. While leading the ultra high net worth team in Singapore and Malaysia for a large private bank, Debra was inspired to venture into luxury wellness to fill a gap she identifie...

Amy Crosland is the Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Sports Technologies Network, ASTN. Amy is one of Australian sport’s leading figures turbo-charging the women’s sports tech sector. Born and raised in Tamworth, Amy has built an epic career, working with the United Nations, the UK Ministry of Justice, and recently was Australian boss of global tech firm, Orion. She joined the ASTN in 202...

Saara Jamieson is the Founder and CEO of Cool Beans Underwear. Saara studied at The University of Queensland gaining a Bachelor of Science in Animal and Veterinary Bioscience. After university she worked for a Medical Research Institute in the gastroenterology lab studying Colorectal Cancer. She has also co-authored a number of scientific papers on the topic. After trying to fall pregnant for over...

Reanna Browne is the Founder of Work Futures. Reanna is an academically trained and practising futurist and globally recognised voice on futures thinking and strategic foresight. She has been acknowledged as one of the World's Top Female Futurists by peers in the field. As the founder of Work Futures, a global strategic foresight consultancy, Reanna helps organisations to regain their future throug...

Natalie Moore and Lisa Saunders launched Own Your Health Collective to address the gap in the market around information relating to menstrual cycles, in particular around perimenopause, menopause and post menopause. Own Your Health Collective provides both medical and nutritional information and training programs to individuals, schools, government entities and corporates. Lisa & Nat’s Peri Me...

Belinda Paul is the Founder of RCYCL . Belinda has worked in the fashion industry for over 25 years and after being caught in the bushfires of early 2020 whilst holidaying with her family, she founded RCYCL , an organisation that helps solve the textile pollution problem. RCYCL provides a direct-to-consumer return satchel that allows people to easily recycle their used clothing at the end of its l...

Holly Bailey is the Founder of Play Like a Girl , Australia’s first leadership development program designed to lead girls’ personal and professional journeys through a sports lens. Growing up, Holly immersed herself in a boyish world of rules and competition, she played with the intensity of her male counterparts. However, after realising the power of embracing her feminine traits, she made a majo...

Caroline Pag e is the Head of Communications at Virtually Human Studio , a full stack entertainment studio and owner of the world famous Australian born Web3 horse racing game Zed Run. She is a Communications Director & Cultural Change Leader with over 15 years of international experience driving organisational transformation, business performance and employee engagement for private, not-for-p...

Kate Cornick is the Chief Executive Officer of LaunchVic. Kate has a very interesting background from competitive sport, through to studying engineering and launching her own app. For the last 7 years she has been the CEO of Launch VIC. Kate has always had a mentality of giving it a go and throwing her hat in the ring. She talks about the opportunities that come with being one of few women in the...

Michelle Schuberg is the Chief Executive Officer of Curiious. She started her career dancing and in the performing arts and then had an extensive career in marketing and advertising. Curiious is an immersive tech innovator platform upon which Chief Meta Chicks World is built. This interview covers a number of important topics, including: How to take an audience on a journey from A to B The importa...

Carolyn Breeze is the Chief Executive Officer of Scalare Partners. Carolyn has built an amazing and successful career in telecommunications and digital payments. She is a Web3 enthusiast, and sees the potential of web3 technology for fast, reliable, transparent and secure transactions, however, she is disappointed by the slow pace of adoption and the development of effective Web3 use cases in Aust...

Rachael Powell is the Chief Customer Officer of Xero. She is an incredible leader; warm, empathetic and incredibly successful, and she is loved by everyone I’ve met that knows her. She is coming to the end of 8 amazing years of growth and success at Xero, and I have the pleasure of interviewing her as she closes one chapter and opens the next one! This interview covers a number of important topics...

Karen Finch is the Founder & CEO of Legally Yours, Australia’s leading online legal marketplace. She launched Legally Yours in 2014 to bridge the gap between affordable legal services and trustworthy experienced fixed-fee lawyers. Karen essentially launched the “fixed fee” revolution. Legally Yours is a community for like-minded progressive legal professionals who connect and learn from each o...