Don't Stop Us Now AI Edition

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...

This week’s future-proofing mini episode is all about making the most of meetings you attend at work. And seriously, this is one of the most important tools you have to develop your visibility and your reputation.  How many times have you sat through a meeting trying to jump in and contribute, or worse, left a meeting realising you hadn’t said anything at all? As you’ll hear in today’s show,...

Can you believe it? Almost three years ago we started this podcast and now we’re excited to be releasing this, our 100th episode!  A particular thank you to you if you’ve taken the time to review, subscribe or recommend our show as it really makes all our work that much more worthwhile. And we always love to hear from you, whether it’s guest or show ideas, or any feedback. Just email us here...

This week’s mini episode is about keeping things in perspective and not taking things personally at work. We hear great advice from one of our wisest guests, Julia Paige, Uber’s global head of Social Impact.  We both have in our time, and the wasted hours of angst trying to second-guess the motivations of others or their perceptions of us, were truly a waste of time. How often have you been r...

A recent Microsoft trends in work report showed that 40 billion more emails were sent in February 2021 than the previous February, due to the increase in remote working. No wonder so many of us are feeling burnt out and that our work/life boundaries are all askew!  We’re happy to say our latest ‘How To’ episode is jam-packed with tips on how to appropriately say “No” at work, whether you’re a...

This week’s mini episode focuses on staying current with your skills in the fast changing world of work. Something that’s relevant for all of us given the pace of technology change!  In this episode, we hear from drone and tech expert, Dr Catherine Ball, whom we featured on the show about a year and a half ago. She’s a real dynamo and a passionate believer in accessible lifelong learning.&nbs...

We’re excited to bring you this week’s important conversation with psychologist, burnout expert, author and leadership coach, Dr Jacinta Jiménez. We’ve actually known Jacinta for some years and followed her great work on leadership, coaching and high performance with keen interest. We were really excited when she told us about her new book, The Burnout Fix. Jacinta has broken new ground with this...

This week’s mini episode is in honour of International Women’s Day.  We don’t know about you but this feels like a bit of a watershed year in terms of gender equality and sexual harassment issues rising to almost boiling point in multiple places around the world.  Now is the time to call out inequality, injustice and gendered violence when we see them in action.  In this episode we...

Have you ever felt totally blindsided or cheated?  That’s exactly what happened to our guest this week who spent more than ten years building a startup into a huge success, only to find the company sold by the other investors without receiving a cent. Just two years later the business was valued at over 11 billion dollars! There’s no doubt that serial Scottish entrepreneur Lesley Eccles has r...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Future Proof Me mini-episode.  Valentine’s Day was only a week or two prior to us recording this episode and it really brought home how we’re often primed to make our self worth dependent on being loved or valued by others.  Whereas what really counts, is what we think and say to ourselves!  This brings us to the wisdom of the amazing 92 year old Jun...

Hello and welcome to another special episode of the show.  For those of you listening in the past few weeks, you’ll know that we have finally relented to the many requests over time to share our own stories. Claire’s been overwhelmed with the responses to her episode that we aired two weeks ago and this week it’s Greta’s turn to be interviewed by Claire!  Claire loved chatting with Greta...

This week’s mini ‘Future Proof Me’ episode is all about the power of dreaming big. One person who’s a passionate believer in the power of the dreams we make for ourselves is stationery and Swedish design entrepreneur, Kristina Karlsson - the founder of kikki. K.  We had Kristina on the show around the time her business went into voluntary administration last year. It was a perfect storm and C...

By popular demand, we’re excited to share a unique episode with you today. We’re pretty excited because we’ve been asked to do this since we launched the podcast nearly 3 years ago.  If you haven’t already guessed, we’ve finally relented and will be sharing our own career stories and journeys with you. Today you get to hear all about Claire’s extraordinary career and journey.  Whilst nor...

We’re excited to share our first mini episode for 2021! It’s a topical one for many people, particularly those whose careers may have been affected in some way by COVID in the past year.  We were blown away by the career story of Dr Emma Camp, a coral scientist, a UN Young Leader and a National Geographic Explorer, amongst numerous other accolades she’s earnt along the way.  When you loo...

Hello, Happy New Year and welcome to our first episode for 2021! We couldn’t think of a better guest to start the year with than social entrepreneur Ronni Kahn, the Founder and CEO of OzHarvest.  Ronni is a South African who’s lived in Australia for many years. The story of how she founded and then grew OzHarvest is really quite something.  If you’re not familiar with OzHarvest, it’s Aus...

We can’t think of a better note to finish 2020 on than this week’s episode with an incredible woman and international leader, Michelle Guthrie. Michelle may be best known for her time as Managing Director at the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation which is Australia’s equivalent to the UK’s BBC). She was dismissed halfway through her contract amidst great public controversy. Prior to her role...

In this week’s Future Proof Me mini episode we explore one aspect of a topic we’ve been asked a lot about this year. That topic is career transition and today we dive a little deeper on one thing that can be a major consideration for some, and that’s their financial security.    Particularly in this time of COVID, it’s understandable if you’re giving extra thought to your finances. Of co...

Welcome to our latest How To episode, the last one for 2020! This week we’re exploring how to end this year on a positive note. It’s been such a crazy year! From Australia and California's shocking bushfires to the global COVID pandemic, which has led to so much disruption to all our lives. We like to think of the end of the calendar year as a great opportunity to be a circuit breaker. With so man...

With the crazy year that 2020 has been and many people feeling exhausted as we come into the Holiday season, this week’s mini episode may be exactly what you need.  In ‘Taking Control of Your Calendar’ we revisit some great advice from drone expert and Associate Professor, Dr Cath Ball on optimising your time and calendar. As she puts it so adroitly, she now thinks of emails simply as other p...