Lady Leadership - Careers and Business For Women

This week I had the great pleasure to catch up with Wanda Toro Turini! You would describe Wanda as a seasoned entrepreneur! Wanda has a Doctorate in Pharmacy and was in critical care and emergency medicine who always had an interest in the business. She was always the person who had great ideas and wanted to make a change - as such she saw her career shifting to the marketing world.  She had the o...

This week on the Lady Leadership show I interviewed Gabrielle Dolan for the 2nd time. I loved catching up with Gabrielle again and this time we talked about Gabrielle’s 6th book - Magnetic stories.  Gabrielle has definitely used her time in Covid well to come out with a new book! In this chat, we talk about what makes a ‘Magnetic story’ and how businesses can use these both with their customers an...

This week on the Lady Leadership show I caught up with Tracy Litt.  Tracy helps the willing! That is, those that want to do the work! Work on themselves that is.  Tracy Litt is a proven powerhouse of transformation. As a leadership expert, mindset coach, and spiritual advisor, she helps people across the globe to break the patterns that bind them so they can become the highest versions of themselv...

This week I am excited to celebrate 50 episodes of the podcast and as such, I thought that I would share a little more about my own background.  I recorded an episode of the podcast - Should I start my own startup and this focuses on what I have learned and I hope that this can help you in your decision making.  Growing up my Dad ran his own business and I learned quite a lot about business just s...

Customer service? What does that really mean? Is the customer always right? This week I caught up with Monique Richardson to talk all things Customer service and in particular managing difficult Customer behaviour. Monique specialises in Service leadership and is a Customer service speaker, trainer and coach.  Monique and I had so much to talk about in this chat, we both share a love of Retail and...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I got to the catch up with Change and resilience expert - Ciara Lancaster.  After the year that we have had it was great to catch up with Ciara and talk about how we can improve our change resilience.  We talked all things change, what do for yourself, what to do for others and what do for your teams plus how can you avoid burnout and overwhelm.  As a forme...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I caught up with Melissa Browne who is a  money expert! Melissa is a speaker, an author, and an entrepreneur and has just written her fourth book which is called - Budgets Don’t work - But this does.  Melissa helps people unlearn and relearn, to swap behavior, to be aware of our money triggers and our money identity, and to discover how to apply personal le...

Welcome back to the Lady Leadership show for 2021 - in this episode I discuss how I spent some time over the summer break reflecting on the last 12 months and how Lady Leadership has grown from a small idea into a podcast having 45 episodes and having 30 interviews with amazing women and business owners sharing there stories.  Plus I discuss what you can do in your career this year to move it forw...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I caught up with Zoe Routh. Zoe is a leadership expert and learnt how to be a leader running canoeing expeditions in the wilds of Ontario. Zoe signed up to work at a summer camp and a few years later she was leading 2 - 6 week trips canoeing the rivers in Ontario.  Being thrown together with a group of people that you don't know plus being in the wilde...

This week on the Lady Leadership with Sam McIntyre show I caught up with Natalie Siston from Small town leadership! Natalie grew up in Ohio in a small town of 600 people where every body knew everybody. This is the type of place where there were no stop lights.   After leaving for college and working at Fortune500 companies and in silicon valley she had realisation that lessons she learnt growing...

I got to catch up with fellow retail veteran and leadership expert - Jennifer Thornton this week on the Lady Leadership podcast. Jennifer started her career at the mall working first in store as it was cool to hang at the mall, then in operations and then in HR growing her career into the C-suite to the Head of International HR for a large global retailer. Jen got to travel and work around the wor...

Heard the saying - things happen for a reason? Or you should listen to your gut? Or even what is your gut telling you? Well this is the chat that you are going to want to tune into!  I had the great honour of chatting this week to Raquel Vasallo who is a spiritual advisor to female visionaries and leaders. She is an International Speaker, Mystic Artist and Feminine Leadership trendsetter.  Plus sh...

This year has become the year of the virtual meeting and we are all navigating how to create gravitas with co-workers, teams and bosses virtually! I talked this week to Kim Foley who is an expert in how to bring your best to virtual meetings. As one of Kim's colleague said to her at the start of Covid we were all navigating the unknown, now we all need to get comfortable with a new way of wor...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I caught up with Maddie Brown.  Maddie is an accountant with more than 30 years working with small businesses and entrepreneurs - I thought that we were going to be talking mainly Money but this interview was so much more.   Maddie left her secure but underwhelming job at the age of 50 and bought a small accountancy firm . In Maddie's words she was ver...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I caught up  with workplace specialist and author Michelle Gibbings to talk Bad bosses!  At one time or another we've all had a bad boss – whether it’s through bullying and intimidation, unfair feedback or unrealistic workloads. Their behaviour sets the tone for what's acceptable at work and can cause major issues for productivity, staff turnover...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I sat down with Vicki Macdermid from Equilead to to talk leadership and connection through the insights of horses. As an avid horse lover and horse rider this was a chat that I was really looking forward to.  After spending about 30 years working in a corporate career in many leadership roles and being a partner of a large business called Pitch Partners plu...

This week I caught up with Wendy Born - I loved this chat with Wendy about leadership. Wendy has recently written a book called Raising Leaders - using the principles of parenting at work to to become a great leaders and create great leaders.  Wendy says that when you observe the behaviour of leaders you admire, you will see similarities between them and your own experiences as a child or parent. ...

This week I sat down with Penny Locaso who is a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur and author of the new book , Hacking Happiness , based around a quantifiable method she has developed for individuals and organisations to become more skillful at adapting to rapid change.  I first met Penny when she presented at a conference that I was at in her bathing suit! She certainly got my attention and the attentio...

This week I caught up with Alison Hill, CEO of three-time AFR Fast 100 company, Pragmatic thinking.   Pragmatic thinking are a behaviour and strategy motivation company who work with organisations to build better leaders and better cultures through their people strategies. Alison shared how business strategies live and die through their people strategies and that teams need to be engaged, lit up a...

In this episode of Lady Leadership I share my top tips for negotiating your salary.  Negotiating salaries can be difficult, you don't want to pitch yourself too low and you don't want to pitch yourself too high! My golden rule is not to disclose what you want first but rather ask what is the job paying? Any company that advertisers a job is going to have a range that they want to pay for...

This week I got to catch up with the very formidable and very personable - Suz Steele. Suz has been the running Adode ANZ for the past 3 years and says that she has hit her sweet spot at Adobe! They  are true innovators, like being a 40 year old startup and Suz absolutely loves her job! We talk about Digital transformation and how this has been affected by COVID. Suz believes that Digital has prog...

In this weeks episode of the Lady leadership I am talking about why you should have a coach!  I have recently been working with a horse riding coach myself and have realised why more than ever if you want to move forward in any area of life you should find and work with a coach. My horse riding coach has helped me immensely. I share my 5 top reasons why you should have a coach.  I cover: - They wi...

I got to catch up with Sheree Rubenstein this week on the Lady Leadership podcast! I couldn't pronounce Sheree's name right to start with (even though I have know Sheree for years!), we had some drilling in the background and I forgot the questions I was supposed to be asking! But Sheree was a pro and shared such great insights into being an entrepreneur and also starting a startup!  We...

I have recently been asked in a number of Career conversations that I have had with women - Should I start my own startup? I always say 'Yes' but I think it is important to have a think about a couple of things before you dive in! In this short episode of Lady Leadership I chat about the start up businesses that I have created, what I have l learnt through this process and what I would r...

This week on the Lady Leadership podcast I caught up with Fatima Said. Fatima is the owner and founder of a Global Digital agency called Ewave. Ewave has ecommerce at it's core and is based in Australia, Asia and Europe employing 270 people world wide.  Ewave work with some of the biggest brands in the world such as Ripcurl, Coca-Cola, Canon and Sportsgirl to name a few.  Fatima is such an in...