So You Want to Start a Business with Ingrid Thompson

Come join us in this FB Group:   Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is  the  community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup In 2016 Dayana Brooke reached a turning point where she felt travel could no longer be treated as an endless commodity without any thought of the consequences to the environment. It no longer alig...

Come join us in this FB Group:   Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is  the  community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup For the last fifteen years, Jules has been teaching small business owners and entrepreneurs how to grow their sales and get the phone ringing by getting featured for free in the media. She has ow...

Zion is co-founder of Alyka ( alyka.com.au ) - Western Australia's largest in-house digital marketing agency.  Zion started the business from his home and grew it 854% over a 5 year period. Alyka is now a multimillion dollar business with 42 in-house staff, 2 offices worldwide and has been recognised as a 3 times AFR Fast 100 Starter and Telstra business winner. Zion is also a Western Australia 40...

The original interview with Emmanuel Chaveroux has been removed at his request. He is taking a pause in his business. We wish him all the very best and trust that things will work out for the best. I am also personally grateful for the time Emmanual spent being involved with this podcast.   Website :  https://discovermyfrance.com.au/   My guess is that you are here because you are curious about wh...

Jane is an award winning, passionate marketer dedicated to helping small businesses take advantage of the benefits that marketing has to offer. As the Founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing, Jane combines her experience as a qualified marketing professional and her huge passion for building relationships to help businesses navigate the ever-changing world of marketing. Driven by the...

Kindershare connects owners and renters of children's equipment. As founder, Vanouhi is responsible for all operational, growth and development opportunities.  Vanouhi is a passionate and self-motivated individual who is dedicated to the for-purpose sector Vanouhi uses her skills to create value that isn't measured only in dollars.   Website:  https://kindershare.com FB:  www.facebook.com/kindersh...

Come join us in this FB Group:   Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is  the  community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Stevie is an ex-lawyer turned social media marketer. She has spent the past ten years spent working with some of the biggest brands in Australia on marketing strategy and social media, most recent...

Danielle is the co-founder & CEO of Scrunch, a data-driven Influencer Marketing platform helping to connect brands, publishers and agencies to the right Influencers for their campaign.  Danielle has a background in fashion design, blogging and enterprise sales - but her heart really belongs to travel and coffee. 10 years ago she started the blog Brisbane Threads while pursuing a career in enterpri...

What happens when you take a marketing and advertising background, add an English degree and then uncover a passion for entrepreneurship? Really cool stuff. That's Kate, and she's the implementer of awesome ideas over at EOFire. How did this come to be? Well, when she realized after all those years in marketing and advertising and the banking industry she didn't need Corporate America to determine...

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup The $100 MBA is an alternative and complete business education which teaches all the core business concepts for business in the real world. Through online video lessons, vital supportive community, l...

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Jenna Zaffino is amazing!! and this is a terrific interview conversation. Jenna is an expert Pilates teacher with over 15 years of experience in movement education.  Drawing from her background of pr...

Nicole Eckels, founder of Glasshouse Fragrances - one of Australia's leading fragrance empires for the past ten years. I met Nicole recently when she was presenting at an event I attended. Her story is inspiring. Nicole Eckels moved to Australia in 2005 from New York, craving a sea change and new lifestyle for herself and her son. Searching Sydney Nicole was on the mission to find a new candle to...

Many people dream of taking what they know and creating a sustainable business, Jacq Hackett has done just that. Following an extensive career in public sector health agencies, Jacq Hackett made the move from employment to solo consultant in 2000 and has never looked back. Based in New South Wales, Australia, she has an extensive portfolio of consultancy projects under her belt, working across mul...

Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams launched Canva in 2013. It started with Fusion Books and after 5 years Melanie Perkins knew she had the right model for Canva. This is an audio white paper telling the startup story and the 5 lessons Melanie has learned along the way. Thanks for listening and if you are thinking about starting your own business I've written a book called "So You Wan...

Katherine Maslen is a naturopath, nutritionist, author and ambassador for amazing health.  After completing 2 bachelor degrees in health science, she has been helping people be achieve good health for over 9 years. Seven years ago she founded Brisbane Natural Health – a wellness center where she works with her team to help overcome her clients health issues. After seeing clients for 5 days a week...

I have long been in awe of what Kate Morris has achieved. While we wait for her to be a guest on this podcast, here is (my version) of her business startup story! In 1999 Kate knew her potential customers wanted a different experience because she listened to the customers she served at the Clarins counter in a major department store. She started the first online cosmetics store in Australia. Her s...

Kimberley Chan devoted over a decade to a career as a senior lawyer in international corporate organisations – which meant long, hard hours, high pressure and no room for failure. Whilst she had a solid, well-paying job, lived in a beautiful house in a gorgeous part of Sydney and was surrounded by a loving family and friends, she felt drained of life and by life. She was spent. Kimberley spent a y...

One of the definitions of entrepreneur that I heard recently and really like is: "Where once there was nothing, there now is something. The entrepreneur is the person who makes some thing where previously there was nothing" This episode is all about entrepreneurship by this definition. Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic were just 2 blokes in south east Queensland. They looked for an idea for a business a...

Dr Sonia arrived in Australia on her own and with a dental qualification that was not recognised by the Dental Association. Today she owns and runs multiple dental practices and she is here to tell her story - including washing dishes for almost no money !! Dr Sonia is inspiring and energetic and appears regularly in women dental forums in Australia and NZ. Her Mantra in life is "Do it". You can a...

Kate Toon is an award-winning SEO copywriter and SEO consultant with almost two decades of experience in all things advertising, digital and writing. Originally from the UK but now based just outside Sydney. She has worked with big brands such as eHarmony, Curash and Kmart. And she's helped countless small businesses produce great content and improve their copywriting and SEO. Kate is also the fou...

In this episode we meet Hamilton Perkins who is the founder and President of Hamilton Perkins Collection, an e-commerce retailer, offering designer travel bags at an affordable price, while holding the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. In this in-depth interview Hamilton Perkins tells his business startup story of how he takes the bottles...

Hayden Cox is the designer and founder of Haydenshapes Surfboards and the inventor of FutureFlex technology. Best known for his award winning (3 x Surfboard of the Year – USA and AUS) and global best selling surfboard design, Hypto Krypto, Hayden and the brand are also recognized for notable brand projects both within and unconventional to the world of surf. Check out the Haydenshapes website here...

Accelerate your Business Financial Confidence is starting soon - 6 week Accelerator program that will change your life completely and forever   https://www.healthynumbers.com.au/money/ When you understand how money works in your business your life changes completely and forever !! Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs...

Dr. Ben Carvosso is a High Performance Coach with 28 years experience. At the age of 23 he started his entrepreneurial journey, creating one of Australia's biggest allied health care practices.  He then went on to build one of Victoria's premier bulk billing radiology companies, and within 7 years, had 4 practices in SE Victoria, employing over 35 staff, and turning over 3.5M+/year. Ben is super c...

John Lee Dumas is the host of EOFire, an award winning Podcast where he interviews today's most successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week. JLD has grown EOFire into a multi-million dollar a year business with over 1500 interviews and 1.5 million monthly listens. He's the author of The Freedom Journal and The Mastery Journal, two of the most funded publishing campaigns of all time on Kickstarter. All...