She's The Boss Chats

In this episode, and as the host of this podcast and the Founder of She's The Boss Group, I have the tables turned on me and I am interviewed by the amazing Fabian Dattner. The interview follows a windy path where we discuss everything from why I have pink hair, to my early career, how I started my Handle Your Own PR business, and some of the peaks and troughs along the way to why we both love Hel...

Libby Moore is on of the nicest people you could meet! The people she has worked for, and with, in her career are household names, yet she remains so down to earth and lovely you will be totally captivated. Libby was enthralled by television and the stage from an early age and studied radio and television at college. She was keen to get experience wherever she could so was delighted when she got t...

The fabulous Lynnaire Johnston is New Zealand's number one Linkedln expert and is ranked 11 out of 20 for the Asia Pacific. She's remarkable and brilliant and absolutely lives up to her reputation. Lynnaire works with small businesses and business professionals and helps them achieve online success through the Linkedln platform. She coaches, trains and is a marketing strategist and Linkedin is the...

Doctor Laura Rusu is an entrepreneur, an adventurer and a stem advocate for women and she's absolutely incredible. She's also the founder and CEO of LENSELL, a global platform for corporate performance democratisation, that removes cost and complexity barriers and makes the corporate financial and non-financial performance information accessible to everyone. If that's not all, Laura also has six p...

Meet the fierce and dignified Margie Hartley, the woman behind GRAM Consulting Group. Margie is one of Australia's leading executive coaches and the founder of GRAM Consulting Group, a community of experts who have deep relationships with organisations and businesses. These experts have backgrounds in psychology, social psychology and anthropology. In Margie's words, "We curate really great experi...

Marlie Jolanda is always on the go and has the ability to talk anybody under the table! Her official title is Meaningful Marketing Business Coach and she's all about helping Fempreneurs discover what is and isn't working for them. Marlie helps these women turn potential customers into paying clients through meaningful marketing and helps them understand who their client really is through working s...

Have you seen (or been part of) the trending hashtag #thislittlegirlisme? Are you curious about who set it up and why? In this interview with the founder of Inspiring Girls in the UK, and the brains behind the #thislittlegirlisme campaign, Miriam Gonzalez, you can hear all about it! Miriam is an extraordinary woman who grew up in a tiny, dusty village in Spain. With a father in politics and a moth...

Kris Grant is the CEO of ASPL Group, a management consultancy, training and recruitment firm focused on aligning people, processes and systems. Kris is passionate about being different in the recruitment landscape and equality is her priority. She encourages flexibility with her people and embraces working mums, veterans and First Nations people and all kinds of diversity and inclusion. Kris start...

For the last five years, Kate Tiller has been running her own business called 'A Perfect Space'. Perfect Space's aim is to bring a new concept to market which disrupts and challenges the world of location scouting and connects film producers, photographers, locations and event managers to never before seen places. These places can range from beautiful mansions on the water to the shack in the back...

Koko Casey is an extraordinary fierce woman with an inner strength most of us will never know. She has overcome life's biggest adversities and is a survivor and this has led to a remarkable new career. Koko is a motivational and inspirational speaker, working alongside the airforce on a high performance and safety team. They travel around to airforce bases to speak about managing stress, performan...

Catherine Jonathan is gorgeous, bubbly and passionate about her African community and she's driving the change for African businesses by providing visibility to their brands. Catherine runs her own PR Agency called, Emerging Brand Africa, and it's an Agency for African/Australian owned businesses in corporate Australia. She's helping small businesses thrive in a multicultural arena while celebrati...

If you're looking for inspiration and empowerment, Dr Olivia Ong is the woman for you. She is incredibly strong in every way and is the founder and CEO of The Heart-Centred Doctor, as well as being a physician in Melbourne. In her business, The Heart-Centred Doctor, Olivia is a medical leadership coach who helps busy high achieving doctors avoid burnout and exhaustion. She also helps them achieve...

Sandy Abram has a bubbly and jovial personality which is contagious! She is the founder of an organic business called First Ray, a wholesale distributor built nearly 16 years ago under the core values of organic, sustainability and ethics. Sandy has recently launched a new marketplace called Ollee which allows purpose-driven brands to connect with businesses and retailers. It's a unique digital pl...

Joanna Downer is the Founder and CEO of a startup called Kitl. Kitl is a tech-enabled and flexible job matching platform described as the "Tinder of jobs". It developed after an earlier creation of a similar concept called The Content Crowd. The brilliant and unique name, Kitl, was created after a brainstorm with Joanna's two partners and cleverly comes from a combination of Little Talent Tool Kit...

If anyone is living the dreamlife, it has to be Debra Johnstone. Debra is living in far north QLD and in her professional life she works as a transformational business and career coach. Most recently, Debra has been working as a transitional midlife coach, as well helping women entering midlife re-discover who they are and develop clarity on what they want in life. She focuses on women in their fo...

If anybody knows how to re-invent themselves, it is Carol O'Halloran. Currently, she hosts and produces many TV shows and is commencing a new one through seniorsonline.vic.gov for the seniors festival. Carol started a TV show when covid first hit, for the over 50s market called, "Over 50". It's focus is that you can't use your age as an excuse to stop you and it's run through channel 31. In Carol'...

Tanya Meessmann is the proud owner of two businesses. The first one is called Girl Shaped Flames and it's a social enterprise focused on developing confidence in high school-aged girls. This was Tanya's first foray into entrepreneurship. The second business is a sister company and a not for profit called Unique You and Tanya is the CEO and a board member of Unique You. Unique You is a service wher...

Ayla is the wedding coordinator and founder of the ever-growing and unique business called Wed Sites. Basically, Wed Sites is an online platform helping couples plan their weddings. It can be accessed from anywhere and is your one-stop shop for keeping everything you need to keep track of your wedding in one place including budgets, guest list tool, digital invitations, dietary requirements and ab...

Melanie De Gioia is my latest guest for the She's The Boss Chats podcast. You'll love this amazing STEM advocate and a podcasting guru as she explains her career path and how she went on to create Ramaley Media. Discovering podcasts was a pivotal moment in Melanie's life. It was a moment that led her to create Ramaley Media, a podcast agency and network that specialises in sharing stories of STEM...

Janelle Bostock, CEO and owner of WNA is an incredible woman! Her story is bound to keep you gripped. Having grown up in rural Queensland, milking the cows every day before and after school right the way through to year ten, Janelle knew what hard work was all about. Her purchase of the networking group was prompted by the premature death of her husband and the need for both support from her netwo...

Dr Elsa Licumba, author of Freedom To Belong, migrant wellbeing coach and all round amazing woman is truly helping migrants in Australia with belonging, (not integrating!) which she explains in the interview. She is a migrant from Africa, and when she arrived she found Australia to be a little bit bewildering and unusual. Elsa believes that one of the biggest challenges migrants face when they arr...

Lisa Macqueen is amazing! After many years working in sales and marketing for the hotel and resort industry globally, she left to work with her husband in his corporate cleaning business, and it took off! In this interview she talks about the first 20 years of her career - in the BEST job ever! - and how she is so thankful she joined her husband as they grew the business to a multi million dollar...

Carly Cohen has built one business with her husband, to a turnover of multiple millions with Leonda By The Yarra , and she now helps female business owners achieve their goals and grow to heights they didn’t know were achievable. She helps them reduce the time it takes to manage their business by 80% through a framework she has lived and breathed in her own business. Carly and her husband first to...

Lisa has spent nearly 10 years and $1M+ developing a program to help reduce teenage road trauma. After spending 20+ years in professional motorsport she thought her experience would better be used for good rather than promoting people going round and round in circles fast!    Lisa: "I was involved in a road trauma fatality when I was 22yo, and now have 2 teenage sons - boys are dying 4:1...

Gill is the Director & Founder of Clover Lane Consulting and Take a Chance on ME. HR talent acquisition, coaching and consulting. Gill has a passion for humanizing the recruitment process, moving beyond traditions, and creating an eco-system style ‘give back’ approach to people, employment, and purpose. For every placement made through Clover Lane, funds go to Take a Chance on Me to support th...