Don't Stop Us Now AI Edition

It doesn’t take much imagination to work out how many challenges tourism businesses have been facing during the pandemic.  Typically, those who’ve been challenged the most can offer us the most interesting and helpful stories and advice. So our latest episode features the first of several amazing female travel entrepreneurs we’ll be featuring in the coming weeks.  Lena Andersson is the F...

Welcome to this week’s Future Proof Me mini episode.  For many of us the past few months have shrunk our world to the confines of our homes and our local suburb. What we’ve noticed can sometimes come with that, is a tendency to lose sight of the bigger picture and of others who may be doing it tougher than we are. It’s why we thought it was really timely for this beautiful reminder from socia...

We have a treat in store for you today with a guest whom we reckon is one of the best storytellers we’ve had on the show.  Australian entrepreneur, Mikaela Jade, otherwise known as Mik, is the Founder and CEO of Indigital, a company developing innovative new ways to digitise and translate knowledge, culture and stories from remote and ancient First Nations communities. Mik, a proud Cabrogal w...

Welcome to another of our mini episodes where we revisit the specific pearls of wisdom that our amazing guests have shared with us.  This week we’re exploring what it takes to really innovate in a big corporate or government organisation. Because, as you’ll hear, successful innovation is about much more than having a great idea. Often the challenge really comes when you try to get that idea o...

Our guest for this week’s episode is Swedish best selling author, financial journalist and women’s economic champion, Katrine Marçal.  Katrine’s two books, ‘ Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner’ and her latest book - ‘ Mother of Invention - How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men ’ explore how women’s roles and contribution have been systemically ignored over time.  Katrine has...

This week’s mini episode is a tribute to all parents and everything they do for their children, particularly when they raise their daughters and sons to believe that women can be CEOs, adventurers and innovators.  When we thought of all that parents do, we were reminded of our conversation with the wonderful social entrepreneur Navyn Salem who has 4 daughters. She started a social business ca...

Our latest podcast episode takes you on a journey all the way to Kathmandu in Nepal. We speak with Sonika Manandhar, a Nepalese entrepreneur and former senior software developer for Microsoft, who’s now a fintech founder committed to improving the lives of women small business owners in Nepal.  Sonika is co-founder and CTO of Aeloi Technologies, an innovative social enterprise and fintech tha...

We’ve been thinking about the impact the global pandemic has had on peoples’ careers and one thing that’s been happening is many folk have been wondering whether it’s time for a career change and, in particular, whether they should start their own business.  So for today’s mini episode, we’ve chosen to share some brilliant advice for founders and potential founders from the successful British...

We’re excited to share this week’s episode with changemaker, leader and author, Holly Ransom.  Holly has pioneered her way into boardrooms and forums at the top end of town but what’s really interesting about Holly is her deep thoughtfulness, her fortitude to blaze her own path, and her drive to make the world a better place.  This 31 year old Aussie has Chaired the G20 Youth Summit, she...

Greetings everyone!  This week’s mini episode is all about challenging our beliefs about who we can and can’t ask for help.  A couple of years ago we spoke with serial entrepreneur, and now author, Rebekah Campbell about her career journey and her childhood growing up in New Zealand.  Rebekah happened to mention that she met with the Prime Minister of New Zealand when she was just 1...

This week’s episode shares the story of founder Sophia Matveeva who found herself having to make a big pivot when the global pandemic hit.  Before Covid, Sophia, a Russian by birth and based in the UK, had been making inroads with her fashion app called Enty. Think of it as a kind of ‘Uber for fashion stylists’, used by growing numbers of consumers, and being featured as App of the Day on Mas...

This week’s mini episode features a global branding and design icon talking about the renewed power branding has in today’s ‘social’ world to create change-making movements.  When we invited the designer, author and podcaster, Debbie Millman, on the show last year she talked about how branding has evolved in the past decade and how the power has shifted to us as consumers and citizens. She ex...

We are so excited about this episode featuring an inspiring and no-topic-off-limits conversation with the globally renowned Sarah Wilson. Sarah has achieved massively in multiple arenas; she’s a former journalist and TV presenter, she’s an author and activist and successful entrepreneur. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful , which best-selli...

This week’s Future Proofing mini episode is all about not letting your ego get the better of you. We were blown away by the maturity and wisdom of young New Zealand entrepreneur, Brianne West, the founder and CEO of Ethique, the global and sustainable cosmetics company. We spoke to her on the show last year.  Brianne’s mission is to rid the world of single-use plastics and Ethique replaces bo...

This week we feature the first ever visual artist on the show when we talk with the entrepreneurial and talented American artist, Taylor White.  Taylor has worked around the world creating incredible street murals and fine art. You may have seen her work in Melbourne, Oslo, Berlin, LA, Miami, and her hometown of Raleigh in North Carolina. Taylor spent a lot of last year driven by the goal to...

This week’s Future Proof mini episode is all about what it takes to get a big idea signed off.  We’re excited to share very wise advice from senior Microsoft exec, Mitra Azizirad, who heads up their AI and Innovation division. Mitra speaks about what you should do when that fantastic idea or innovation you have gets knocked back.  (Hands up who knows that feeling!)  Mitra is someone...

Our episode this week features an American woman who abandoned the security and prestige of working with some of the world’s most sought after ad agencies to start her own businesses. Her name is Allison Kent Smith and one thing that really stands out about her is that she has consciously refused to pretend to be someone she’s not when trying to find VC investors for her startup.   ...

Our mini episode this week is packed with wisdom from one of our most thoughtful guests.  Social entrepreneur, author and one of Forbes Magazine ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds’, Jacqueline Novogratz, blew our socks off with her inspiring purpose and thoughtful wisdom when we spoke with her last year . We particularly loved how Jacqueline spoke inspiringly about courage and creating chang...

This week’s episode is all about becoming a great ‘people person’. It’s something we believe is probably the most important trait of a great leader.  Of course, it’s not always easy to do, particularly these days when many of us are working from home at least some part of each week.  Thanks to Covid, we’re all losing a bit of ‘muscle tone’ when it comes to building and maintaining health...

This week’s Future Proof Me mini episode is all about asking for what you want.  It sounds so simple in theory but it’s not always easy to do is it?  Listen up for great and pragmatic advice on asking and negotiating from the unique and gutsy former advertising CEO, Cindy Gallop. She’s now a Founder and international speaker and she’s passionate about women being treated equally in busin...

This week, we’re really thrilled to be able to share our conversation with experienced founder, CEO and all round impressive operator, Connie Mckeage. Connie recently sold OneVue, the listed fintech business she ran in Sydney for 14 years. It was a dramatic journey at times, particularly when OneVue was left being owed $31 million dollars by another company which had collapsed.  Connie is Can...

This week’s mini episode is all about facing your fears and not being held back in life by the fear of failure.  It’s important to know that we don’t always recognise how we’re feeling as ‘fear of failure’ when we hesitate or say no, but often that’s what lies behind any hesitation.   In this episode we hear again from Kat Dunn . Kat was running Grameen Australia when we spoke a yea...

This week’s episode features one of the most unassuming and humble entrepreneurs we’ve met. Adina Jacobs is the Co-Founder of an international technology accessories company called STM Goods that basically created a whole new category of product when it launched it 23 years ago. (Think really functional and yet not boring laptop backpacks and bags, ipad and tablet covers, chargers, and a whole hos...

This week we look at the realities of being a startup founder. Becoming an entrepreneur and a founder is increasingly popular, even with school students where a recent survey showing that 40% of them now want to be entrepreneurs when they complete their studies.  But it’s not all fame, fortune and delightful autonomy if you intend to build a business that will scale and survive. And we figure...

We have a very special episode this week because we’re sharing the vulnerable story of how one of our guests was subsequently fired from a high profile role in the US and how she navigated her way through the dark times that followed.   That guest is Heidi Hackemer and what she shares in this episode is so generous and valuable for all of us to hear; after all nothing is permanent and pl...