Ultimate Global Podcast Episodes

🤝 When George and I thought of organising our first ever in-person event around “Building a Better Australia”, it was focused on creating a forum where people can actually learn something new around: ✅ How can you ensure gender equality across industries? ✅ How can Universities build budding entrepreneurs and future leaders who can think differently, and justify their rationale? ✅ How can the...

👉 What kind of steps we as a community can start taking to ensure gender equality in business & society? As a well-informed society of 2023, we should start asking questions: ❌ If we don't see enough women on a leadership board. ❌ If we come to know that there's a definite pay gap based on gender. ❌ If a company doesn't showcase or practice gender diversity. A surprising fact s...

🤔 Did COVID-19 play a major role in boosting digital initiatives in the Government sector? 👉 Absolutely. This is something we also covered with Victor Dominello earlier this year where he talked about how the adoption rate of public using any digital services launched by the Government rose from 20% to almost 80%. 🏛️ James Diekman from Accelerate Tech also works with a lot of Government sector o...

🤯 Some really mind-boggling stuff is happening in the XR space now. We were recently joined by Sune Wolff from SynergyXR on the Ultimate Global Podcast to discuss about Extended Reality. We discussed on a couple of interesting things during this Podcast: ✅ How can we prevent the knowledge drain using digitising that knowledge? ✅ How did Sune think of starting SynergyXR? ✅ What kind of leadersh...

"Would you rather be at a company where YOU could be YOU? Or would you be at a company where you're scared all the time?", asks Martin Stark who recently joined us on the Ultimate Global Podcast. What does being courageous bring to successful organisations? ✅ Fear of speaking up in a company lies within the culture of any organisation. ✅ A company that doesn't innovate or isn&#...

💡 What were some of the transferrable skills that Ernie Encinas learnt while he moved on from the military to Tech industry? ✅ How to network with other people across departments ✅ Having patience when you are dealing with people on the other spectrum of life ✅ Being kind, generous & understanding towards others. ✅ Learning to respect leaders and people having more experience in life ✅ A...

💡 What are some of the creative ways of exploring jobs and connecting with job recruiters in 2023? This episode is going to be extremely relevant for new job seekers, immigrants and hopefully international students as well. ☑️ Don’t just rely on online applications. Get our there and talk to people. That helps you to build a connection, understand what’s currently relevant in the market and wheth...

🤔 So fascinated with the recent AI trends! And Brand Ninja is another add-on to that now. AI is there to help you, automate and simplify your tasks. It doesn't take away your job but it enables you to upskill yourself. 🦾 Brand Ninja wants to train AI Ninjas to automate your entire content marketing process, from sourcing trending content, to repurposing it as native brand assets to improving...

👉 One of the reasons why we love doing what we do with the Ultimate Global Podcast is because we are able to empower and give voice to women like Maryam Popal Zahid. She has got a really inspirational story of how she came from Afghanistan to Australia around 20 years ago. 🔁 We generally don't have repeat guests but some always love to come back and we always love to help them out in whateve...

🎙️ How can employees be empowered to understand business emissions? They need be provided with the right tools and knowledge by the organisations. We discussed about this and a lot more with Afonso from NetNada recently. 🤝 NetNada was built on the mission that companies, no matter their size, have a vital role to play in the future of our planet. By giving organizations like Dexus, Merivale, URM...

🎙️ We were joined by the hype man for the Australian Startup ecosystem last evening - Dickie Currer. He is currently the Head of Partnerships & New Markets at The Startup Network. This episode would easily go in our top 10, especially because of the knowledge and insights he was able to share for people keen to be associated with the startup ecosystem in the ANZ region. Dickie shared a lot of...

💡 A good leader and a good mentor can completely transform your life. They are both different but you can learn a lot from each one of them if you can really get a good leader/ mentor. When Robin Daniels from LMS365 joined us recently, there was a lot to learn: ✅ Understand your “Why”: Focus on the story and clarity around the story ✅ Understand how you will achieve that “Why” ✅ Always have a...

⏭️ There are a lot of stages that you often go through in a sales cycle before selling a product/ service to your potential customer. 💲 According to David, salespeople are getting more informed now than ever before. Those who eventually want to learn will do. The same applies for the customers as well because they can gather information on your product very easily. With well informed customers al...

⏭️ With increasing cost of living and uncertainty around the environment, it’s now getting more important to take steps towards attaining financial freedom. But what steps can you start taking for that from today onwards? 🌿 Find your “Why”: If there is no reason of why and what you want to do, you will never take the right actions. You will lose motivation in a couple of weeks’ time. 🌿 Write dow...

🌎 The future of global relations looks pretty complex and interesting at this stage. Other than countries playing their individual role towards building a better world, there is a big role to be played by bodies such as the United Nations, IMF, European Union, World Bank, BRICS, G20 and Quad in the near future. 🕤 It is thus important to go back in time and understand the importance of these bodi...

🌍 The reality is that we are definitely in a climate crisis. But the bigger question to ask here is: "Are we ready to upgrade to an alternative clean energy economy?" If not, what is needed to make us completely ready within a specific timeline? That's one of the most critical issues that we discussed recently on the Ultimate Global Podcast with ⚡️Oscar Omegna. 👉 With unprecedente...

🤝 We were recently joined by Sarah Raad to discuss on the experiences of being a business owner vis-a-vis an employee. 💼 When she started working for herself, she encountered the following results: ⬇️ Her income dropped all of a sudden. That's something which every entrepreneur might encounter initially. ⬆️ Working Hours increased: You will need to work tirelessly to get the results. 🌿 Star...

🤝 Last evening, I was joined by the former NSW Labor Party Opposition Leader Jodi McKay on our podcast. She is also the former Shadow Minister of Multiculturalism and currently the National Chair of Australia’s leading business chamber dedicated to promoting bilateral trade and investment between India and Australia. 🇮🇳 🇦🇺 We discussed about a need to further strengthening the relationship betwee...

👉 "Entrepreneurship is a way of living. It's not just a profession or a title. Rather it is a drive towards something you are really passionate to achieve.", says Jonathan Chak. You will have to practise it every day and possibly learn something new from other entrepreneurs as well. But, you have to build your own framework of what works well with your idea. 🤔 Jonathan points at a...

👉 "It's high time for organisations to focus on being both For Profit & For Purpose", says Brianna MacDonald. Is this the best opportunity for Tech Startups to focus on doing good along with just earning profits and possibly look at the Corporate Social Responsibility/ ESG portfolios and responsibilities? 🤔 It's not something which organisations have still been doing with f...

🤝 We were recently joined by Margaret Wright from UniSuper. She has had experience across a diverse range of industries including organisations such as KPMG, Macquarie Bank and UniSuper. 👉 The discussion revolved around several aspects of her career and then linking it back to how the business leaders and citizens can contribute towards making a better Australia. 🇦🇺 When we talk about building a...

🤔 What do angel investors look for in startups? If you are a new CEO/ founder, thinking of launching your idea and raising capital, this episode can be a good listen for you. 👉 To test whether your startup would be successful or not, it is not only about a strong idea but it is also about other factors such as: ✅ Timing: Is it too early or too late to market your product? ✅ People: How strong...

😃 This episode is one of the fascinating ones that we have done recently at the Ultimate Global Podcast with a founder who was initially a dentist and later decided to launch his own tech company, previously known as Elearningforce International and now called LMS365. It was a complete 180 degree turn for Bjarne when he decided to do that. Some of the lessons that Bjarne shared during this episod...

ℹ️ What are some of the dos/ don'ts with fundraising for startups and small companies? 👋 Recently, we were joined by Mike Dias who is the CEO of the ScaleUp Valley. He shared his experiences of helping several founders and CEOs of what really is required to navigate through that the tough phase of raising funds for your company. Typically the 2️⃣ problems listed down by Mike regarding fund-ra...

🏏 ⚽ 🎾 Sports can teach you a hell lot of things that can also be applied in other professions. We were joined by Baxter Holt this week to share what he learnt while playing cricket. Baxter plays cricket for Cricket NSW and Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. 💡 Work Ethic: You need to have the right work ethic and put in a lot of hard work to get the right results. 💡 Patience & Resilien...