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Send us Fan Mail A lot of people start businesses to grow, sell and profit. Others, like this week's guest, chose a different route, the lifestyle business.  Mia Bowyer, Founder of One Earth Marketing, has a built marketing and content services business that automates an organisation's social media channels. She's grown a company that has allowed her to follow her main passions - tr...

Send us Fan Mail Four per cent.  That's currently the number of women founders who achieve funding from VCs (venture capitalists). It's an incredibly low percentage, making the successes of this week's scalr sagecast guest, all the more impressive.  Nikki Tugano, MAPPCP was new to the tech scene when she started SeenCulture barely two years ago. During that time she has been on a ra...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of scalr sagecast! This week we were joined by serial entrepreneur and now implementer of the highly-regarded business operating system, EOS, Col Cuthbert. Col's love of helping businesses grow led to a very successful sales career before he became a partner at The Ayres Group. Over 11 years he oversaw huge growth and eventually sold the business...

Send us Fan Mail I was delighted to be joined on this week's scalr sagecast by someone who I've been following since the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey, Shelin David CA .  As well as being the CFO/Problem Solver for CFOWorx , she's also heavily immersed in the Melbourne start-up ecosystem, supporting women investors and entrepreneurs as part of Women For Impact , Shebacks....

Send us Fan Mail Was great speaking with Mr Candidate Experience himself, Steve Gard for this week's episode of scalr sagecast. From working his way up to lead and grow TA functions, Steve realised he would never fully 'scratch that itch' by remaining as an employee. After COVID put paid to his TA consulting business, Benchmarcx was born along with The Circle Back Initiative, the ph...

Send us Fan Mail With an incredibly broad and varied career, ranging from school teacher to sales and agency recruitment, John Maltby now firmly established as a top-class business coach. During this episode John reflects on how the demand for his services have changed, what the growing trends are and what skills will help people demonstrate value in order to stand apart. John's book recommen...

Send us Fan Mail Having been a corporate high-flyer for many years, Kamm (Kammeron) made a decision to leave that world and start her own coaching and mentoring start-up. A very brave step that she's glad she made. Four-and-a-half years later, The Team Space has worked with numerous boards and leadership teams to create positive change and evolution within their organisations.  Kamm is incred...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest is Founder of the early-stage start-up, Canopy , Sam Garven . Sam's journey has taken her from one end of the world, starting in rural Canada, to where she now calls home, Sydney. Like many seeking a new start down under, she started her career in recruitment before she launched Canopy earlier this year. Purpose-led and with the goal of better supportin...

Send us Fan Mail A stalwart of the Australian start-up scene, this week I had the pleasure to speak with the fantastic Gaz Williams .  We talk start-ups, F*ck Up Nights and how he's developed himself into one of the most renowned and connected people in tech. Fascinating insights shared along with some solid advice on thriving in the chaos that is start-up life.  Gaz shared three books that h...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're joined by the wonderful Helena Turpin . Having spent over 20 years in agency recruitment land, she launched GoFIGR  in late 2020. With a growing team of 10, she has supported numerous businesses to, in turn, support, develop and retain their staff. Helena provided some very frank observations around the challenges and opportunities she's enjoyed and provi...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to be joined by a recruitment legend, Troy Hammond , for this week's episode. During a career spanning over 20 years, he has grown and led established and well-regarded recruitment agencies in Wellington, NZ. During the last decade, however, he has built the go-to agency for tech start-ups in NZ, Talent Army. He's also the host of the top-rated podcast,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the scalr sagecast - bite-sized wisdom for ambitious business minds. Every week, we bring you inspiring stories and hard-won wisdom from a different business leader, so get ready to learn, grow and scale your success! Joining me this week is Natalia Tapia , founder of Graduated . Having spent the early part of her career in project management back in the UK, Nat's...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the scalr sagecast - bite-sized wisdom for ambitious business minds. Every week, we bring you inspiring stories and hard-won wisdom from a different business leader, so get ready to learn, grow and scale your success! Joining me this week is Chris McGowan , founder of ThunderLabs. Having spent north of 20 years in agency recruitment and TA (talent acquisition), Chris be...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the scalr sagecast - bite-sized wisdom for ambitious business minds. Every week, we bring you inspiring stories and hard-won wisdom from a different business leader, so get ready to learn, grow and scale your success! Joining me this week is Laura Johnson , founder of Strivin . Born from the desire to support learning and development during COVID, Laura has created a co...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the scalr sagecast - bite-sized wisdom for ambitious business minds. Every week, we bring you inspiring stories and hard-won wisdom from a different business leader so get ready to learn, grow and scale your success! Joining me this week is Craig Watson. Having initially begun his career in teaching, Craig embraced the entrepreneurial life over a decade ago and has run...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the scalr sagecast - bite-sized wisdom for ambitious business minds. Every week, we bring you inspiring stories and hard-won wisdom from a different business leader so get ready to learn, grow and scale your success! For this first episode, we welcome Mark Armstrong .  Having spent 30 years in the property game, creating the wildly successful Rate My Agent platform, he&...