Think Big Act Small

Chris Ducker is the founder of a large-scale services business and an online education business that serves leaders and entrepreneurs. He's authored two books: 'Virtual Freedom' and 'Rise of the Youpreneur'. He also hosts an annual 'Youpreneur' summit in the UK.  In this interview, we discuss the value of having a team around you that are empowered to call you out when your weaknesses may be...

"What's the biggest lesson you've learned from being a leader?" This is the question I ask all my guests on  Think Big, Act Small  and it features throughout our season finale of the podcast. This is a Season 1 wrap up episode, loaded with highlights from our first 11 guests: Dr Glen Richards (Shark Tank Australia) Jack Delosa (founder, The Entourage) Ben Hosking (my longtime mentor) Emm...

Janine Allis is best known as the founder of Boost Juice, which came from an idea after a research trip to the US. Starting with one store in Adelaide in 2000, Boost Juice now has over 400 stores in 15 countries. In this episode, Janine shares her leadership and entrepreneurial insights on many topics including: life requiring balance over the long term; that most stress is self-created; and her t...

Jay Baer  is a 7th generation entrepreneur, a New York Times best-selling author of six books and the founder of five multi-million dollar companies.  He is the founder of Convince & Convert , a consulting firm that provides social media strategy and content marketing strategy to "the world's most interesting brands". Virtually located across the US from New York to Los Angeles,...

Carolyn Creswell was an 18-year-old first-year uni student when she bought a small inner-Melbourne muesli manufacturer in 1992. Fast forward 25 years and Carman’s gourmet range of muesli bars, protein bars and muesli is distributed around Australia and internationally. In this interview Carolyn shares her secrets for building a strong team and culture, including a 10:15 am daily huddle. She also p...

Cameron Herold is an entrepreneur, coach, speaker and author. He has built and advised many high-growth franchise businesses including 1800 Got Junk, which operates in Australia, the US and Canada. Today Cameron coaches leaders and entrepreneurs to help them build the skills and knowledge to create purposeful, sustainable businesses. This interview covers everything from ‘grandmother-isms’ to how...

Shayne Elliott is the Group CEO of the ANZ Bank, which has over 50,000 team members across 33 countries. In this episode we go deep into communication. With such a widespread team, communication is critical in Shayne’s role. Shayne also discusses the importance of having the right people in your team, and of taking responsibility for your career development by finding a good boss or coach to learn...

Paul Roos has had an incredible career in the AFL as a player, coach and media commentator. In 2005, after playing 356 games with Fitzroy and Sydney, he coached Sydney to their first premiership in 72 years. Paul's book ‘Here It Is’ details his coaching and leadership philosophy, and he hosts a podcast called ‘The Coach’ to help leaders learn and grow. In this wide-ranging interview, Paul shares h...

Cameron Schwab started his leadership journey in the elite sporting environment of the Australian Football League (AFL), the largest and most professional code in the country. At age 24, Cameron was appointed CEO of the famous Richmond Football Club, becoming the youngest CEO in the 160 year history of the AFL. He spent 25 years in CEO roles at three AFL clubs. He now heads up designCEO, which he...

Emma Isaacs is the founder and global CEO of Business Chicks and author of the new book, Winging It . She was just 18 years old she began her own recruitment business, which she successfully ran for seven years before founding Business Chicks and growing it into Australia's largest and most influential community for women. Emma is passionate about encouraging women to be bold, courageous and to ta...

Ben Hosking is an accountant with tremendous business and life experience. More importantly, he's been a mentor to me on the journey of building The Physio Co since 2004. Almost 15 years on, Ben continues to support my learning and challenge my thinking to help me to grow and become the best leader I can be.

This episode features the inspiring Australian leader, entrepreneur and author, Jack Delosa . Jack is the founder of Australia’s largest education institution for entrepreneurs, The Entourage .   It has a community of over 300,000 members, and exists to educate people to build the life and business of their dreams. Jack’s vision for The Entourage is to improve traditional education throu...

Welcome to The Think Big Act Small Podcast. Learn about the show's host, Tristan White, and get a feel for the leaders and entrepreneurs who will feature in coming episodes.

You may know Dr Glen Richards as the 'growth guy' from Shark Tank Australia. He's also a successful leader and entrepreneur in his own right, having built a successful veterinary practice which grew to a number of practices, before 'thinking big' and bringing together other practices under the banner of Greencross. As co-founder and CEO, Glen oversaw incredible growth which culminated in Greencros...