Don't Stop Us Now AI Edition

Leaning into your strengths is perhaps the most powerful thing you can do as an individual to progress your career AND enjoy it more.  And if it’s that important we figured we should have a conversation about this! So we did! :-)  In this week’s episode, Claire and Greta have a lot of fun talking about everything you need to know to own your strengths, thrive and feel more fulfilled. We...

Today you are coming on tour with us to a newly opened, state of the art immersive technologies research centre at Portsmouth University in England.  The CCIXR, or Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality, is the UK’s first facility where the latest in special effects, gaming and virtual reality technologies are all brought together.  Come with us as we learn all about this cut...

We’re back from our much needed holiday and super excited about our guest this week. She’s a technology veteran who’s just made the leap, after a long career with big global tech brands, to run a climate tech startup in Singapore.  Maya Hari spent over 15 years in the digital media, mobile and e-commerce industries, working in the US and in Asia Pacific with companies such as Google, Samsung...

This week we have a treat in store for you: an Australian entrepreneur who’s literally bringing nature indoors with her creation of a whole new segment using Australian native botanicals for products such as handwash, cleaning products, and dog shampoo.  Founder of Bondi Wash, Belinda Everingham, launched her business in 2013. Today, the premium Bondi Wash range is sold and known around the w...

We can hardly believe it but Don’t Stop Us Now! is officially 4 years old!  It was quite a different world back when we launched in 2018. Covid wasn’t a ‘thing’, working from home was often seen as a privilege, and organisations never would have believed they could ‘convert’ to digital and remote operations as easily and rapidly as they did. We’ve had a ball going back through the 146 episode...

Our guest this week is a truly pioneering woman in so many fields. For instance, if you live in Australia today, then many of the rights you may take for granted came about thanks, at least in part, to the determined and courageous stand of feminist pioneer, businesswoman and writer, Wendy McCarthy.  From campaigning tirelessly for women’s rights, to smashing the glass ceiling time after time...

This week’s guest was named IT Woman of the Year for the APAC region in 2020 and despite her illustrious and super busy career in senior regional leadership roles at Google, Twitter and Cloudflare, Aliza Knox also managed to find time to mentor many women along the way.  As a result of all her rich experience, Aliza has just published a book on the 6 essential mindshifts you need to rise and...

It’s not everyday you come across a global marketing leader who trained as an engineer and computer scientist! But that’s true for our visionary guest this week, Lucinda Barlow.  Lucinda is Senior Director, Head of Marketing for Asia Pacific for Uber. Before joining Uber two years ago, Lucinda was global Marketing Director for YouTube, with its 2 billion daily users. With more than 20 years o...

We’re back from Covid (hooray!) and so even more excited about this week’s inspiring guest!  Joanna Flint is Chief Commercial Officer for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group where she’s responsible for its global marketing, sales, revenue management, brand and distribution functions. She is also a member of the company’s Board.  Joanna joined the luxury brand last year after more than twel...

This week’s mini episode explores what it takes to build a successful partnership with a co-founder.  One thing we’ve noticed with numerous early stage startups is the challenge in those very early days of finding a co-founder, or co-founders, whom you can really work with for the long term, even when the pressure’s on.  So often you hear of acrimonious founder breakups and it got us ask...

We have a smart operator and a great champion for women on the show this week.  Her name is Vered Raviv Schwarz  and she’s spent the past 20 years in disruptive tech companies, based in Israel.  These days Vered is President and Chief Operating Officer for Guesty, a property management platform offering software that’s used by people renting out short term and vacation rental proper...

This week’s mini episode is all about the value of having a mindset of ‘keeping on going’ even when you stumble. Now that isn’t always easy is it?  One woman who’s really mastered the knack of telling herself constructive stories when things don’t go to plan, is US-based international Uber executive, Julia Paige. Julia is Uber’s global head of Social Impact and she also happens to be a mum of...

We’re super excited about our first guest for the year. Speaker, author and storyteller, Briony Benjamin, is known for the amazing and purposeful viral videos she creates, as well as her book, ‘Life is Tough But So are You’, which came out last year.  Briony is a master at her craft and she’s also incredibly inspiring when she talks about her cancer journey. In this episode you’ll hear about:...

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”.  Oscar Wilde  Being genuinely yourself sounds good but it’s not always easy to do is it?  It takes strength to resist the societal pressures and norms we all operate under, and it also takes real clarity on what actually is important, deep down, to each of us as individuals. It’s always so interesting to hear how different people define...

Career decisions can be tricky things can’t they? Often they can be some of the most stressful decisions we make; decisions such as: ” Should I say yes to this project or transfer?” Or “Should I stay in my job or should I go?”  These times come to nearly all of us . . . unless you’re the Queen of course who’s just reached her 70th year anniversary in her job! Can you imagine that?  Our H...

What better way to start a new Lunar Year than by dusting off any Omicron blues and ensuring you have the right mindset for the day and week ahead?  Our first mini episode for the year brings you self-confessed ‘rabid optimist’ and former Australian of the Year, Dr Fiona Wood. This inspiring powerhouse manages to stay incredibly positive despite her very confronting and life-saving work as a...

Our first episode for 2022 explores different ways of thinking about your year ahead. You’ll hear us have a candid and informal conversation about how we’re individually thinking about our own plans and aspirations, and how to make them happen.  You may be surprised at just how different our approaches are! You’ll learn why Greta thinks getting really granular with her time management is...

We’re really thrilled to share a very different type of episode, one that features some of the best advice and insights from six of our incredible guests this year. We recap some of the key themes that emerged from 2021 AND we explore how to set yourself up for 2022. If you’re looking for some perspective at the end of another crazy year filled with all the highs, lows, cancellations, and uncertai...

Our mini episode this week is a cracker… we revisit the advice of high achieving changemaker, speaker and author, Holly Ransom, who’s thoughts on managing her energy not her time really struck a chord with us and many of you. Not only that, in this episode we’re sharing some valuable advice from Holly that you haven’t heard before. So if you’ve been thinking you want next year to be different to t...

Happy December everyone!  The end of the year can mean travel planning for a lot of people, and business trips and holidays are the bread and butter for the fashion entrepreneur and founder on the show this week, Stefanie Nissen. California-based Stefanie founded her business ‘Trvl Porter’ with the idea that you would arrive at your destination to find a hand-picked travel wardrobe waiting fo...

This week’s mini episode is all about crowdfunding and in particular equity crowdfunding.  Equity crowdfunding is where retail investors can buy a share in a young company which is seeking funding without having to list on the stock exchange or take on formal VC capital.  Capital raising can be such a time consuming occupation for a Founder yet if you have the right offer for equity crow...

With so much talk about the ‘Great Resignation’ and all the job changes that are occurring as a result, what better time to make sure your LinkedIn profile is working for you?  In this episode we share some valuable ‘insider’ tips and gain an insight into how recruiters use LinkedIn to find the right people. We’ll also hear from US based Executive Resume writer and expert Donna Svei who will...

We’re in the ‘home straight’ heading towards the end of the year and following the crazy year so many of us have had (thanks COVID!) we thought what better time to remind ourselves of tools to help prevent burnout?  We were lucky enough a few weeks back to run an online seminar on burnout with the best selling author, psychologist and leadership expert, Dr Jacinta Jiménez, and, as so many peo...

We’re excited to be bringing you an inspiring and very relevant guest this week given world leaders have been meeting at COP 26 in Glasgow for vital climate talks as this episode goes to air.  Tessa Clarke is Co-founder and CEO of the international food sharing and household goods app called OLIO. Her passion for sustainability and for creating simple ways to help all of us to take simple but...

Welcome to this week’s mini episode all about how you should think about career opportunities. Making career decisions can be really stressful can’t it?  One guest who made a big impression on us with her career advice is the well known Australasian leader, Michelle Guthrie.  Michelle has had an international career including being CEO of Star TV in Asia, a senior executive at Google in...