Stand Out Life

A proud Vietnamese refugee, Diem Fuggersberger has an insatiable hunger for big ideas and chasing big goals. She is relentless in this pursuit. Amongst her incredible successes Diem has also experienced significant business and personal challenges and in our conversation shares openly how she faced these challenges and held strong to her values. She unpacks her incredible story fleeing Vietnam wit...

Dr Anita Heiss is an author, poet and satirist - she has written 16 books including her memoir ‘Am I Black Enough for You?’. She is a Lifetime Ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and currently divides her time between writing, public speaking, MCing, managing the Epic Good Foundation and being a 'creative disruptor'. In this episode we unpack Anita’s creative writing process, how she...

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Multiple best-selling author, international speaker and acclaimed nutritional biochemist; with all she continues to achieve Dr Libby Weaver is about as down to earth, real, and warm as they come. Libby has dedicated her life to exploring the science behind well-being and how what we eat, what we think and our core beliefs impact how well we really feel. In this episode we explore why changing eati...

Matina Jewell grew up in the hinterland of Byron Bay before launching into a military career that saw her embark on military and peace-keeping operations around the world. Matti had a remarkable career in the military earning eight war medals across 15 years. Throughout this conversation we talk about mindsets of leadership, dealing with hardship and her experience of a career-ending injury whilst...

Skye Anderton is owner, founder and Chief Dreamer of successful jewellery brand Ruby Olive. Her colourful imagination, thirst for travel, and passion for designing beautiful things gave wings to her dream, and in 2010 Ruby Olive the label was born! Skye’s been around the block a few times. She has over 14 years experience in the Fashion Accessory industry with eight of those years spent working in...

After a very successful 10 year career as an elite athlete, Steph Rice experienced the ebbs and flows that come from living a very competitive and highly profile life. After breaking onto the world stage as a 17 year old with an amazing performance of two Gold Medals at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Stephanie went onto achieve greater success becoming one of our greatest ever Olympians wh...

Janine Allis An adventurer at heart, traveling the world as a young Aussie backpacker in the 80’s, working as a camp councillor in San Fransisco to being a Stewardess on David Bowie’s yacht. She then went on the adventure of entrepreneurism and 17 years ago launched one of the first juice bars in Australia - before there was one on every corner. The name of this juice store was Boost Juice - which...

Julie Cross - International Speaker Julie Cross is a dynamo human and someone that came on my radar about 3 years ago. She is a multi-award winning speaker, and in her own words, a non-award winning mother of two boys. Two years ago Julie put a post up on Facebook one Sunday evening of her in her bikini talking about body image. She woke up the next morning to 120K comments and 80K shares, and a w...

Tricia Velthuizen - CEO Churchill Education In 2016 Tricia was recognised as CEO of the Year in Australian HR Awards for her work at Churchill Education. Tricia has a fascinating story - in fact stories was the common denominator in our conversation. Tricia is one of the most captivating story-tellers that I have encountered. Having worked as a Crown Prosecutor for 10 years, launched her business...

Kathy Lette - International Author Kathy Lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who takes on serious current issues, and was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Uni of Wollongong. She is one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism and you’ll hear throughout this conversation that she is still rallying the troops in this regard. In fact her call is for women to be given...

Katie Noonan - Singer Songwriter Katie Noonan’s technical mastery and pure voice makes her one of Australia’s most versatile and beloved vocalists. A mother, singer, producer, songwriter, pianist and business woman, this 4 x ARIA Award winning and 7 x platinum selling songstress first received widespread praise as the angel-voiced songstress of indie-pop band George and has since taken audiences o...

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Ambitious, feisty, driven, and passionate Michelle Cox is a dynamic force. Having spent 17 years in the travel industry after owning and managing a hotel in Alice Springs from the age of 23, Michelle found herself on an adult gap-year exploring what impact she wanted to have on the world. Four years ago Michelle set up the Sydney office of an agency business and is now the Global COO of Bastion Co...

Emma Booth - Paralympian Emma Booth is an Australian Equestrian Paralympian. Emma previously competed in Eventing (which comprises of Dressage, Cross-Country and Show Jumping), until one evening in 2013 – while travelling home from a competition – was left paralysed after a being involved in a horrific car accident.  Only six months after sustaining the life changing injury, Emma was back in the s...

Olivia Ruello - CEO of Business Chicks Soul-filled, purpose-driven, uber-organised, dynamic leader, and a voice for those who don't have a voice, are a few of the ways that you can describe Olivia Ruello. Stepping into the role as CEO of Business Chicks, Australia's largest women's networking organisation, Liv injects her belief about culture, supporting women, and creating incredible communities...

Jacinta McDonell - Founder Human Kind Project & Urban Yoga Occasionally you get the chance to connect with someone who not only lights up a room but absolutely walks their talk. Jacinta is one of those people - and once she sets her mind on something being done you can be left with no doubt that it will in fact be done. Jacinta and I connected after an extraordinary experience in Malawi and have r...

Elka Whalan - Olympian & Media Personality Elka Whalan (nee Graham) reached world #1 in 200m freestyle, attended two Olympic games, as well as Commonwealth Games and World Championships in her 7 year career. She was part of that famous medley relay team who were disqualified in 2001 for jumping in the pool too early, and as Elka says were world champions for all of 30 seconds! Married to waterpolo...

Dan Norris - Entrepreneur Plenty of people talk about being a serial entrepreneur, not many can back it up with evidence. Dan can. Although success wasn't always forth-coming. In 2013 Dan was 2 weeks away from unemployment after 8 years of business failure. Within a week he launched a WordPress support service called WP Curve. Since we recorded this episode Dan has sold this business to GoDaddy. H...

Shelly Horton - Journalist and Media Personality Since taking her Mum's advice to 'not sleep with anyone' from her home town of Kingaroy Shelly Horton has never been afraid of forging her own path. As one of Australia's leading media personalities Shelly's opinion can be heard nationally a number of times a week in her regular segments on Channel Nine, while she's chatting with Richard Glover on A...

Keri Krieger - Acupuncturist and Health Coach Keri Krieger is one of those people that everyone needs to know. Seriously. Take a moment now, Google her, then come back. Keri helps women come home to themselves. In their practices. In their personal lives. In their bodies. She is passionate to offer women a way to learn how to truly nourish themselves mind body and spirit to step away from over wor...

Stand Out Life Episode 11 guest Magdalena Roze gives her take on what on means to live a Stand Out Life. LISTEN to full episode: www.soundcloud.com/standoutlife/ep11 www.alisonhill.com.au/standoutlife

Magdalena Roze is an award-winning TV presenter who got so fascinated with the weather she went onto to study it and became a meteorologist. A few years ago she underwent a sea change moving from Sydney to Byron Bay where her husband Darren Roberston, chef from Three Blue Ducks fame, established the restaurant at The Farm on the outskirts of Byron. In this episode Mags shares the challenges and op...

Kylie Rogers - Managing Director at Mamamia Kylie Rogers is someone who knows a thing or two about marketing - after 17 years working in Sales and Marketing with Channel Ten it was actually a comment from her 6 year old son that jolted her into realising she had to make a change to her career. After a break with her family she eventually landed the role of National Sales Director with the largest...

As featured on Episode 09 of the Stand Out Life Podcast. Listen to full episode via www.soundcloud.com/standoutlife/ep09 For more: www.alisonhill.com.au/standoutlife