One Wild Ride with Pru Chapman

Veganism is everywhere right now. One reliable source on all things vegan is Ellie Bullen - she's a qualified dietitian and nutritionist with a passion for beautifully colourful plant-based plates full of flavour. She's also a fan of exotic travels and adventure recently combining this with her fave recipes to create - The Global Vegan. This is her second book after her hugely popular blog and coo...

Danni Carr is the Founder of Earth Bottles, a range of eco-friendly, reusable bottles and coffee cups. She is also a mother of two children and partnered with the well-known Australian musician, Ash Grunwald. So life is never dull with a touring husband and a global business to run! Regardless of this she remains down-to-earth with a balanced approach to family life. We sat down for a chat about D...

Ash Grunwald, is a musician well-known to Australia's blues and roots scene, where he's been belting out songs on guitar and stompbox at festivals around the country for decades. He has released nine studio albums and has received five nominations for ARIA Music Awards , with the majority of those albums peaking in the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. He is a dedicated surfer, traveller and true spiritua...

Ash Grunwald, is a musician well-known to Australia's blues and roots scene, where he's been belting out songs on guitar and stompbox at festivals around the country for decades. He has released nine studio albums and has received five nominations for ARIA Music Awards , with the majority of those albums peaking in the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. He is a dedicated surfer, traveller and true spiritua...

New Zealand-born Danny Clayton is the Founder of Salt Gypsy, an independent women's surf company based in Byron Bay. Dedicated to sustainable and ethical production Salt Gypsy celebrates the modern Oceanwoman - surf athleticism, style and diversity in the surfing world. Danny's own wild ride led her here, traversing through a degree in sculpture, experience as a surf instructor, and as a Billabong...

With a whopping 1.6 million downloads, Sophie Walker is the founder and host of the podcast, Australian Birth Stories. The series shares Mother's stories of childbirth. She began the podcast hoping to shed some light on the mystery of birth and take away some of the anxiety, doubts and fears around the unknown by sharing women's first hand accounts. Today her podcast is THE go-to library for pregn...

James Bartle is the Founder & CEO of Outland Denim, an incredible company shaking up the fashion industry. It feels like we're on the front of the tidal wave of change across the fashion industry right now, as more and more information is coming to light about what a harmful industry it is. James talks us through his company where the aim is for 'Zero Exploitation' and that's through the whole sup...

As we dive deep into Season 2 of the One Wild Ride podcast I wanted to share with you WHY I launched this podcast. It wasn't to 'grow my audience' or sign a big advertising deal, it was something quite different. Take a listen to find out!

When Who Gives A Crap learnt that 2.3 billion people across the world didn't have access to a toilet, which led to around 289,000 children's deaths each year from diarrhoeal diseases - they decided to do something about it.  Through their profit-for-purpose model they sell loo paper, paper towel and tissues, and donate a whopping 50% of their profits to help build toilets in less developed countri...

Female founded TOM Organic was launched in 2009 with one goal in mind - 'how to solve the problem of tampons falling out of a handbag and creating embarrassment.' Since then they've been dedicated to providing environmentally conscious products for the entire woman's lifecycle, cutting through with sleek packaging and witty campaigns.  As a company, they're not afraid to do things differently. Gam...

Samantha Gash is an endurance athlete who uses her feats of physical endurance to be a platform for social change. She partners with some incredible organisations like World Vision to storytell draw attention to the people in the places she runs. Sam might be small in stature, but that's the only thing about her that's small about her. An incredibly interesting human, Sam and I sat down in her hou...

Dani Venn is a whole foods cook with a number of very cool projects under her belt. You probably know her from her MasterChef days, where she was a finalist, and again as a MasterChef All Stars in 2012. Nowadays she's Founder of The Wholehearted Cook where she shares recipes and tips on how to 'nourish, nurture and glow'. As always with Dani, she's got an exciting new project on the boil, which wi...

Simon Rowe is Founder of Sleepbus, a service providing a safe and comfortable night's sleep to homeless Australians. One Sleepbus holds 22 secure individual sleep pods and can provide up to 8,030 safe sleeps per year. Today he is based in Melbourne with one fully operational Sleepbus and plans to increase the fleet so that he can provide over 2 million safe sleeps per year! We had a chat with Simo...

Jasmine Mayhead is the Founder of Ethical Made Easy, an online directory created to make shopping for ethical fashion, well, easy. Simple and thought-provoking, this directory really lifts the lid on the fashion industry, providing stories behind the clothing and the products we consume. It provides a little more education and leaves visitors feeling inspired to make a change in the way they consu...

Delta Kay is an Arakwal woman from the Byron Bay region, known as Bundjalung Nation. In this episode I was privileged to share a deeper understanding of the Australian Aboriginal culture. Together, we discussed the importance of preserving and protecting culture, and the beautiful way that aboriginal people nourish, and are nourished by their country. Our Aboriginal culture links the past, present...

Tess Guinery is an artist, designer and poet, as well as, a dedicated wife and mother to three girls, Peaches, Junee and Hopps. Joining us with her Business Manager, Holly Masters, we discussed creativity, keeping things fluid and surrendering to your life purpose. There's much to discover in Tess' dreamy and whimsical world, filled with beautiful words and sunny rainbows. She takes us through her...

Stone & Wood began when three mates chose to set up in Byron Bay in 2008 with a shared vision of building a conscious business and creating a village brewery for the locals. Ten years in and they're still fiercely independent, community-focused and have brought their brewery dreams to life. We chat to the companies Sustainability Manager, James Perrin, about their initiatives and strong focus on l...

Tess Robinson is Founder and Creative Director of Smack Bang Designs. At the ripe old age of 30, Tess has not only built one of Australia's most well-recognised design studio's, but also has another three companies under her belt, She's co-authored a book, she recently won Young Entrepreneur of the year, and she's a new Mum. In this episode, we chatted through the reality of starting a business in...

Odette Barry is the Founder of Odette & Co, a digital marketing and PR agency. This is an industry renowned for burnout, and so within it Odette is championing a new style of working in this shape-shifting environment. Enter the Emotional Workforce, characterised by compassion, connection, honesty and support. Through a combination of experience in corporate finance, running her own gig and the on...

Emma McPherson is the Founder of The Plant Room. She believes that life is all about evolution, and it's evident in everything she touches.   A dedicated meditation student and experienced addiction counsellor, a few years back Em launched The Plant Room. Born from a spirit of growth and a curiosity about the wonders of nature and life itself, The Plant Room fosters connection and community.  Abov...

Verve Super is Australia's first and only super fund designed by women, for women. We sat down with Verve Co-Founder Alex Andrews to find out more about the complex challenge women are facing in increasing their wealth and financial literacy.   Alex has long been passionate about using business as a force for good. With a background in law and activism she is also the Founder of Get Hairy February...

Finders Keepers is less like a market and more like a festival. With over 150,000 attendees every year, the Finders Keepers is the largest Design Market in Australia combining design, art, good food, live music and a fun community spirit all under one awesome roof. Founded in 2008 by Brooke Johnston and Sarah Thornton, the aim for the market has always been simple; to create a supportive environme...

Louise Bannister is the Co-Founder and Editor of Lunch Lady , a magazine where parenting is not taken too seriously but a balanced approach to family life is. Colourful, thoughtful and full-of-cheek, it reminds parents to keep things in perspective and have some fun. Along with Creative Director Lara Burke, Lou is also the co-creator of Frankie magazine , as well as Smith Journal and SPACES. A pas...

Nat Woods and Dan Smith are the Founders Clean Coast Collective , a collective movement against the issue of marine debris on Australia's coastline. They run Trash Tribe expeditions, Their work, however, has a much greater impact than cleaning our beaches.  The transformation that they see their tribe go through on these trips has become stand out. They're also founders of The Corner Palm, a commu...

Frankie Radford is the Founder of The Design Kids, an online resource and community of over 175,000 Design Students across 33 countries. Frankie spent six years building this community, physically traveling to 70+ cities, giving talks at universities, running workshops and personally interviewing over 1,500 Creative Directors. Along the way, Frankie has become one of the world's leading experts on...