She's The Boss Chats

Rachel is an incredible inspiration and an absolute delight to talk to. As the founder of The Happiness Concierge, a business culture consultancy, Rachel really walks the walk and there are many laughs in this interview! Rachel has had a variety of jobs as she worked her way up the corporate ladder, and she also had two periods where she burnt out. Something that is very common in ambitious, entre...

Alex Tullio oozes fabulousness! She's a ball of energy too. Alex's career began in the finance world where she worked as a BDM for a property company. She then became the National Sales Manager at IOOF before rising to the top of the banking world. Today Alex does a few different things including starting up and running her very own consulting business called Alex Tullio Consulting. Here Alex work...

Anni is such a total inspiration. She had two terrible car accidents in her early years, one at school and one after she finished. With both of them, she was lucky to survive and she has spent the last 30 years having operations to correct the damage. You would think, under the circumstances, that she could be bitter about the experience but Anni is such a positive person that she pretty much pick...

Teresa Sperti launched her very first business almost 20 months ago called Artic Fox. Artic Fox is an advisory and training organisation that operates within the digital and marketing transformation space. Teresa spent 20 years in the corporate world working for large and small organisations before rising to the top of her field as chief marketer. She found this role challenging which inspired her...

Rechelle Leahy has her fingers in many pies. She lives in Armidale NSW and launched a fantastic business a few years ago called Regional Collab. Regional Collab essentially helps rural and regional businesses, specifically focused on women, with business strategies and creating financial strategies. Rechelle also does some entrepreneurship training and helps identify and create programs and projec...

Brenda Debesten has lived an outstanding life! Brenda is a chemical engineer with over 15 years of experience in the mining and manufacturing industry. She also coaches women who are struggling to get ahead in male-dominated STEM industries to reach their full potential. Brenda grew up In Zimbabwe in a small mining town. Her father was a doctor and her mother was an entrepreneur who ran multiple b...

Tracy Sheen is an extraordinary powerhouse. From the age of 5, she knew that someday she was going to run her own business and that business is called The Digital Guide. Tracy helps small business owners navigate technology in order to run a successful business. Her journey began 30 years ago when she started working for Strathfield Car Radios selling mobile phones in retail. Tracy was incredibly...

Shannon Gilleland is one very determined woman. She's the inventor of Pronto Bottle which is a self-sterilizing baby bottle that every new mother needs! The concept came to Shannon after giving birth to her first baby four years ago. Shannon went straight to bottle feeding as she struggled with breastfeeding. The bottle basically has a button on the lid that activates the UBC in the bottle making...

Catherine Cervasio, the founder of Aromababy, and Jules sat down together, in real life (!) to do this podcast chat and it was amazing! Catherine's brand is iconic for mothers, especially those with skin conditions, and her 26-year old business now exports to over 12 countries. But when Catherine started, no one had heard of natural skincare or organic products. Everything was synthetic. She had t...

Wow! Talk about resilience! Wait till you hear Cheree's story. After growing up in Queensland with, as she puts it, a 'dysfunctional family', and a father that was an alcoholic due to being one of the Stolen Generation, Cheree left home at 16 with a suitcase and $20, to follow her boyfriend. By the time she was 24, she had 4 kids. Her own marriage wasn't happy either and she was 36 before her kids...

Anne Dobson is an absolute delight to talk to! After a career that encompassed countless jobs across a variety of industries, it took her first child to be born before she did what she was born to do - teach! Her mother knew it from an early age but she didn't want to follow in the family footsteps for a long time. But she loves kids and eventually succumbed. After teaching for almost 30 years, An...

Brownyn Reid is passionate about helping small businesses navigate the procurement process to work with big businesses. And she has walked the walk first! after meeting her hubby at uni, Bronwyn was lucky to travel for the first few years of her married life, living in the Solomon Islands, Swaziland and more before returning to Australia when their first child was born. Having grown up in inland r...

Monica Rosenfeld is definitely a woman to admire. She set off to the UK as a young woman and managed to get work in television over there - as a gopher! Absorbing everything she could, she worked on a documentary series that involved travel to all sorts of glamorous countries, before heading back to Australia when her visa expired. Once she got back, she managed to secure a lowly job on A Current...

Melinda Hird is one of the loveliest (and most glamourous) women you could meet. A video and photography expert, especially for speakers and business leaders, Mel started off her career taking nightclub shots for her boyfriend's business (now husband) as something to do in the evenings while she did her admin job during the day. But she was really good at it so before long she decided to ditch the...

Zoe is the author of People Stuff and is an Australian leadership expert who specialises in helping business leaders navigate the complexities of dealing with their teams and colleagues to make it all easier. But as a Canadian, it's been an interesting journey getting here! She has always had an adventurous spirit, and loves the great outdoors so she loved working at the Summer Camps that they run...

Karen Ostenried has an amazing story, and business to share! She currently offers leadership training using horses as an example of teamwork and how people can work together. But her story as to how she arrived at her current business is fascinating. She started her career as a scientist, specialising in medical research and commercial biotechnology and so we HAD to talk about the pandemic! From t...

Mia Maze is an absolute dynamo! After blagging her way into an international role with realestate.com .au, after suggesting to the CEO that they could move into international sales, she spent 3 years travelling backwards and forwards to Belgium, Italy and the UK securing properties and buyers from overseas. This was followed by a stint in a senior role for Endota Spa, which she absolutely loved, T...

Chris Khor is a wonder woman! Having run her HR company for marketing peeps for a couple of decades (with some name changes and shuffling of staff), she realised that there was a weird thing going on in the business. The people who were getting the advanced leadership courses were the executive teams - but it is middle management who need it if they are going to get to the next stage! So she start...

Lisa Hollinshead is so open and generous with her story you will be gripped! Lisa's description of getting caught in Spain during the first lockdown in 2020 is a case of bad luck all around. Her timing was terrible! She also talks about how the pandemic was the impetus for creating the OneAnother Community which offers help and support for people in the community who feel isolated and alone, or wh...

She’s The Boss chats is a regular program featuring in-depth interviews with amazing, inspiring female founders and women who run their own businesses. In each episode, Jules Brooke chats with a businesswoman about their entrepreneurial journey; from when they left school to where they are now (often a very wiggly path!), what their ‘lightbulb’ moment was, the women that have inspired them along t...

My guest for the latest She's The Boss Chats podcast is really making a difference. Carolyn Butler-Madden is the author of Path To Purpose and Founder of The Cause-Effect, a marketing consultancy that specialises in social purpose brand strategies. With a 30 year career in Advertising land, Carolyn felt that brands were losing their way, and research showed that people wouldn't care if 74% of the...

Danielle Dobson is the author of Breaking The Gender Code and is passionate about helping women in business. She started her career in finance, getting an accounting degree and working for a number of companies in Australia, the UK, the USA, and Italy before starting to notice the different pressures and expectations put on men and women. Following the birth of her first child, Danielle decided to...

Lisa Teh is my guest for the latest She's The Boss Chats podcast, and what a woman she is! Lisa is the Founder of CODI Agency (Digital Marketing) and the Co-Founder of Lisnic.com (connecting Business & Mind Mentors with Mentees). As Lisa and I chatted about her career and how it has evolved we found so many things in common. It made it lots of fun. Lisa is not a woman that likes sitting still!...

My latest She's The Boss Chats episode is with my good friend and braniac, the amazing Michel Hogan, an independent brand counsel. Michel believes brands are built on the back of the promises you make to your customers (and potential customers), and whether you keep those promises. Michel is an extraordinary intellect and her story starts in Portland, Victoria then heads to the USA where she built...

My latest She's The Boss Chats episode is with Tanessa Shears, Canadian health and fitness for entrepreneurs. Tenessa has an interesting 'spin' on health and fitness. She focuses on entrepreneurs! Based in Canada, she explains how she chose the industry with the intention of having a small personal training business and how, when she brought it online it changed everything for her. She now has cli...