One Wild Ride with Pru Chapman

Benjamin Berry is a fully accredited Wim Hof Method, Oxygen Advantage, and Cold Exposure Facilitator who delivers workshops based on these practices, along with a variety of other breathwork techniques that support mental, emotional, and physical health and fitness. His transformational Breath and Ice workshops have helped thousands of people, in times of personal crisis and expansion, as well as...

Ami Bateman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pleasant State, an ethical home cleaning company, that makes non-toxic and zero-waste dissolvable cleaning bars. Australians spend almost two billion dollars each year on home and laundry products that are making us sick.  Products such as cleaning agents, air fresheners, and plastic packaging that breaks down into inhalable microplastics, are major contrib...

Kayla Houlihan is the founder of Tribe Skincare, a natural, vegan-friendly, Australian-made skincare range, based in Torquay. It was while  running her own skin clinic that Kayla noticed a gap in the market for 'skincare for sensitive skin'. While there were some skincare products or lines for sensitive skin, no brand was completely focusing on. Kayla created Tribe Skincare and bootstapped her way...

Andy Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Heaps Normal. On a mission to change drinking culture Heaps Normal launched in mid-2020 and at the time of this recording less than three years later they had a market valuation of $58 million, not bad for beer without booze. They're now stocked in more than 4000 Australian retailers and venues where they often reportedly outsell alcoholic beer.  Heaps Norm...

Jess & Stef Dadon are the founders of fashionably kinder footwear brand Twoobs.  After one too many blisters encountered traveling to global fashion weeks, the sisters discovered a need for beautiful & comfortable shoes, which led them to create Twoobs in a kinder way. Passionate animal lovers and environmentalists, they've created shoes, a podcast, and an incredible community to answer the burnin...

Abigail Forsyth is the co-founder and managing director of the industry-leading brand KeepCup . Since launching the world's first barista-standard reusable cup in 2009, KeepCup is now embraced by reusers all over the world, diverting millions of single-use cups each and every day.  KeepCup is committed to better business and is certified B Corp, a 1% for the Planet member, and is committed to beco...

Forever Projects helps women break the cycle of poverty and create self-sustaining futures. Founded by Mark Dombkins Forever Projects began with a simple mission - to nourish a newborn – and then helps women thrive in a business that provides ongoing income. This keeps babies with their biological families and out of orphanages – as well as providing a sustainable future. To date, Forever Projects...

Afends are a Byron Bay-based surf and streetwear brand pioneering hemp as a sustainable fabric of the future. Staying true to their tagline of 'question everything' Afends are dismissing outdated propaganda and doubling down on their commitment to this eco-friendly fabric by stepping into commercial production in Australia.  It's a ballsy move within the fashion industry - the second largest pollu...

Erin Morris is the Founder of Young Folks Digital, a B Corp Certified Marketing Agency specialising in helping grow brands that are solving today's problems for a better tomorrow.  They understand the power of marketing and are committed to using that force for the power of good.  By only working with conscious companies, they've become specialists at connecting with the conscious consumer and the...

As the world changes at warp speed we're currently witnessing unprecedented degradation of our society and environment. With governments slow to act, business owners are uniquely placed to take action toward a more sustainable and regenerative future. The time is now to redefine our metrics of success and cast our net of positive return to consider people, planet and profit. As we better consider...

Cat Long is the Founder and CEO of Trace, a digital platform that helps climate-conscious individuals and businesses measure, reduce and offset their carbon footprint and track their impact over time through simple and engaging digital tools. They're on a mission to remove the barriers to climate action, by giving individuals and businesses the power to take immediate steps forward.   In this epis...

Odette Barry is a publicist, PR mentor and the founder of Odette & Co. She knows that every business has a story to tell, and she's here to help empower business owners to tell those stories through the power of PR. She has designed and teaches the Hack Your Own PR program made for business owners, and hosts the Hack Your Own PR podcast, full of tips from some of Australia's best journalists and p...

Ella McLean is the Founder of Hello Lover, a sex-positive place that's open all hours.  From the outside, Hello Lover looks like a beautifully branded and curated online sex shop where you can buy all sorts of play things.  But dig a little deeper and you'll find a brand passionate about taking the guilty out of (everyday) pleasure, and guiding their customers to grow their confidence and sexualit...

Mike Smith is the Founder of Zero Co, a company that delivers personal & home-cleaning products direct to your door, minus the single-use plastic.  With its reusable bottled and refill subscription, it's kind of like the old-school milkman reimagined.  It's a simple concept with potentially BIG results. They're on a mission to untrash the planet, and so far have saved over a million water bottles...

Cedar Anderson is the founder and inventor of Flow Hive, a revolutionary system that produces great honey and is easy on the bees and the beekeepers. This business path is anything but traditional, with an initial humble kickstarter campaign quickly becoming the most successful crowdfunding campaign ever launched outside the US, eventually raising over $16 million. This is a true story of business...

Jessica Maguire is a trauma-informed physiotherapist, passionate about helping people regulate their nervous systems through healthy functioning of their vagus nerve.  She holds a degree in Health Science and a Masters of Physiotherapy and has spent over 14 years in private practice as a physiotherapist. In this episode, we cover how the brain and nervous system change from stress, trauma and chro...

Welcome back friends!  We've got an incredible lineup of guests and topics landing this season, as well as some small changes.  What isn't changing though is our core mission to inspire and educate a better way of business. So strap in for another great season ahead - I can't wait to see where this takes us.  ~ Pru

If you could do one thing to reduce your impact on the planet, eating less meat would be it. Tammy Fry, the global Marketing Director at Fry's Family Foods, and the daughter of the Founder, meaning that she has played a role in building this company since day one. From the humble beginnings of the family kitchen, Fry's has now grown to be the second most widely available plant-based meat alternati...

Rochelle Courtenay is the founder of Share the Dignity, a charity that distributes period products to women experiencing homelessness, fleeing domestic violence, and doing it tough. Share the Dignity collects thousands of period products each year and distributes them directly to charities across Australia.  They work with over 2,500 charities and has 5000 volunteers  have had 2.8 million packets...

In search of the ultimate adventure Henry Brydon spent two years riding 38,000km on a push bike from London to Sydney traversing through more than 30 countries, which made for countless stories of human generosity. To share the spirit of adventure he then went on to start We Are Explorers, an exciting new-media company spreading the love of the outdoors to over 1 million people a month - not to me...

B Corp is a certification for businesses that meet the highest certifiable standards of social and environmental performance as well as transparency, and accountability.  These businesses form a thriving community that drives a global movement of people using business as a force for good. To date, over 3,500 businesses have been B Corp certified in 70 countries and 150 industries, and more than 10...

Riparide is a travel platform focused on unique properties and experiences in regional Australia. Much more than your standard accommodation booking site, Riparide is a highly curated portal into nature orientated adventures. Born as an antidote to the modern world Riparide strives to inspire people to unplug from the city and head outdoors in search of fulfilling moments.  Whether it's a beautifu...

Good Citizens make sunglasses from 100% recycled, single-use plastic bottles. It was founded by Nik Robinson and his 8-year old son Harry with a mission to play their part in 'untrashing' the planet. Every pair of Good Citizens sunnies pays for 1kg of plastic to be pulled out of the ocean. It took Nik and his family 752 days & more than 2500 failed attempts to turn a plastic bottle into a pair of...

Jacqui Lewis is the co-founder of The Broad Place, a space to help people discover their highest grade self through applied ancient knowledge and meditation. It's well known for it's courses teaching integrated mediation, as well as gatherings, workplace programs, and most recently the book Jacqui authored, High Grade Living. What's unique about the approach taken by The Broad Place is the focus o...

Verve Super's Co-founder Alex Andrews is part of Australia's first super fund dedicating 100% of its resources to building the wealth and power of women everywhere. It's an ethical super fund that is doing things differently. In this episode, we dive into the issue of paid parental leave, the gender pay gap and the underlying system that fails to support women through their child-raising years. Th...