Owner To Owner Podcast

@YasminGrigaliunas is the #founder of @circonomy (nee @WorldsBiggestGarageSale) that is delivering big on their mantra of a world where nothing useful goes to waste, including human potential. She brought energy. commitment and    #ownermindset to everything she did prior in roles as #employee #licensee #businessowner #founder and #mentor .  Across three episodes we track right back to the influen...

@YasminGrigaliunas is the #founder of @circonomy (nee @WorldsBiggestGarageSale) that is delivering big on their mantra of a world where nothing useful goes to waste, including human potential. She brought energy. commitment and    #ownermindset to everything she did prior in roles as #employee #licensee #businessowner #founder and #mentor .  Across three episodes we track right back to the influen...

@AllieTaylor # businesspyschologist brings a rich mix of personal and business experience to her work. She was edcuated in #science and has been a #businessowner #businessadviser #familytherapist  Allie co-founded @OrangeKiwi and @ClearwaterInsights  - these are highly specialised businesses with a singular focus on helping #owners and #advisers to navigate the #businesstransition process (spannin...

@Geoff Hetherington teaches business owners #owners to build their #businesses around their life so they stop feeling like an employee & they live on their terms while making more money, have more fun, and spend more time with those that matter most. Geoff openly shares how his work experience in a wide array of industries that have enabled him to identify the #peopleskills need in successful busi...

@Michael Kerr  from @kerrcapital is an experienced adviser to business owners. Michael knew that for a range of reasons some #smallbusinessowners were unable to access quality advice, or the advice and support needed was uneconomic. As a result he designed a program (The DIY Business Sale program) to ensure those owners had access to the best advice on selling a business. The format is easy for ow...

@DavidBarnett trains, coaches and advises individuals on how to get better outcomes when buying or selling a small business. David has an extensive professional network and works with owners and advisers in major international markets including Canada, USA, and the United Kingdom. There are lessons to be learned for Australian small business owners and advisers and in this episode David talks abou...

@DebCurtis is on a mission to grow small business ownership. She has rich experience lending to small businesses. This experience spans big banks, regional banks, non-banks, and community banks. She's the founder of @curtissmallbusinessfinancesolutions  a @smallbusinessadministration lending specialist.  The SBA loan guarantee scheme enables businesses to be purchased with finance against the cash...

@ KatrinaMyers is the co-owner with husband Tim and tribe of 4 children of @BarhamAvocados. It's a generational business that's deeply embedded in the local community. Katrina and Tim had successful professional careers and lived and traveled extensively overseas before the lure of returning to the farm became irresistible.  Katrina and Tim also didn't want running a significant business to be a b...

@CarmenWilliams is the #founder of @GlobalTeams which has grown into a business consisting of 82 #VirtualAssistants . For Carmen (controversially :)) outsourcing isn't about businesses handballing a problem elsewhere for it to be “magically solved.”  At #globalteams they help client's get more from a fuller understanding of #outsourcing and how to best manage finding and working with #businesspart...

Laura Willis Dr Ariella Helfgott and Christopher Mardell are founders of @marinorockssocial owned by the Marino Rocks Community Coop .  In this fourth and final interviews with #coop owners brought to you by @bccm (Business Council Cooperatives & Mutuals) we talk about how the #localcommunity rallied to buy a long-standing local cafe (and building premises) from the original #businessowner .  The...

@MoiraWere AM is deeply entrenched in the #coop movement. She is currently founder of @Henhousecoop  which incubated @flockcoop .  Her career includes leadership roles in #startups , #businesses and #community orientated organisations.  Moira received an Australian honour in 2019 (AM) for her significant service to the community of #SouthAustralia . She is passionate about  #inclusion , #diversity...

@DarrinJohnson   is the #CEO of @KudosServices Kudos Services is a #disabilityagency that supports around about six and a half thousand children and young people living with a #disability to have an independent life and has expertise in the more complex and of disability. Darrin is the second guest in a four-episode series on #cooperatives and #mutuals brought to you by @BCCM ( Business Council of...

@KateBiondo is the #CEO of @GalacticCooperative which is a #workerownedcoop . Kate is the first guest of a four-episode series on #cooperatives and #mutuals brought to you by @BCCM ( Business Council of Cooperatives & Mutuals ) We chat about the decision to start business life as a cooperative, what that involved and the different benefits.   In our discussion we cover; The decision to implement a...

@danielneuhaus from @six8coffee and @traderandco in Yass shares his experiences of starting up an #ethicalcoffee #smallbusiness and his thoughts on where to next for the #coffeeindustry .  In our discussion we cover; Starting a business with a clear #purpose from the confines of a small apartment and growing it to where it is today #coffeeindustryexploitation How travels and experiences of #underd...

@MichelHogan is a #brandcounsel . For her #brand is a result of the #promises you keep. She helps people in business to understand what they care about and how to put it to work. So if you actually do things and make promises that don't align with those things, it's a risk to your business. And it's not just the promises that you make to #customers - it's the promises you make to each other within...

@RossCameron is the owner of Cameron Research Group who researches #smallbusinessowners . Since starting 30 years ago he's personally done a few thousand face-to-face interviews and more than 700 focus groups.  He didn't set out to be a small business owner himself. He worked for a company that did similar sort of research and then went overseas. When he came back to Australia he had some bright i...

@MichaelDuregon founded www.bringbackaustralia.app to help current Australian consumers better understand what products & services they buy are Australian-owned, and not just Australian-made.  The highly successful #australianmade campaign was his prompt and he couldn't walk past what he saw as a big gap and lost opportunities for local #makers and #manufacturers . He had to do something about thi...

Rodger Spencer bought, improved and then sold his inbound call centre business, @AceAnswering After a professional background in structural #engineering , cost engineering #estimating , and #projectmanagement in the oil and gas industry he'd reached that point where he needed a big change. He wanted a break from the intensity of previous jobs entailed and thought the only way out of it completely...

@SaeedJoulaei talks about his experience #buyingabusiness and the big move from being an #employee to a #businessowner . It's a very topical discussion. If you've ever thought about becoming a business owner you have two main alternatives.  Start your own or buy an existing #smallbusiness .  Saeed has now done both and can talk about the pro's and con's of both. He grew up in a little town in Nort...

@SaeedJoulaei talks about his experience #buyingabusiness and the big move from being an #employee to a #businessowner . It's a very topical discussion. If you've ever thought about becoming a business owner you have two main alternatives.  Start your own or buy an existing #smallbusiness .  Saeed has now done both and can talk about the pro's and con's of both. He grew up in a little town in Nort...

Bill Lang is Founder and Director of @smallbusinessaustralia.org .  He's a #HarvardMBA , and a seasoned #smallbusinessowner and operator.  It started in the #foodvan industry with Doctor Dog , selling hot dogs outside of nightclubs and pubs in Melbourne in the 1980's. But more recently the businesses he's involved with are all about helping (including coaching and mentoring) owners; better use the...

@BarbaraBraithwaite is the principal #speechpathologist at @SafeSwallowingEducation in Sydney, and #founder of a couple of #smallbusinesses in or around #SpeechPathology .  Barbara came into talk about her experience selling her first practice. In the episode we talk about; early-career guidance to steer her away from Accountancy and towards Speech Pathology her love of being able to empower a cli...

@RichardShrapnel is a #BusinessStrategist and has deep experience working with the owners of #SmallMediumBusinesses . His strength is looking at how businesses are performing and where they are going. He has recently updated and published a third edition (to take account of #covid19 ) of Going Broke Staying Sane , a workbook to help owners facing #financialdistress to work their way through those...

@JamesMurphy from @kerekere is a #social and #businessentrepreneur . At a young age, he moved over to #Fiji . The @kerekere brand was formed based on a Fijian #custom in which a relative or a neighbor can request something and it must be willingly given with no expectation of repayment. He has a track record of building businesses with a social bent.  Under the @kerekere brand he has built and suc...

@JamesMurphy from @kerekere is a #social and #businessentrepreneur . At a young age, he moved over to #Fiji . The @kerekere brand was formed based on a Fijian #custom in which a relative or a neighbor can request something and it must be willingly given with no expectation of repayment. He has a track record of building businesses with a social bent.  Under the @kerekere brand he has built and suc...