Evolution of Business Show en David J. Clare. All rights reserved. The purpose of the show is to educate, tell stories, share successes and learning from real entrepreneurs and leaders who are evolving themselves and their businesses to stay relevant in the hearts and minds of the people they choose to serve. Mixed in with some stories of businesses well-known businesses and leaders who grew into obscurity or faded away into the sunset because they lost sight of what matters most...their purpose. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d7b77a46-bad6-11ea-83db-4f249a097c6b/image/8699bb0eef5902e0facc16d10d6351f7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Evolution of Business Show no episodic How are you evolving to stay relevant in the hearts and minds of the people you choose to serve? Dave Clare The purpose of the show is to educate, tell stories, share successes and learning from real entrepreneurs and leaders who are evolving themselves and their businesses to stay relevant in the hearts and minds of the people they choose to serve. Mixed in with some stories of businesses well-known businesses and leaders who grew into obscurity or faded away into the sunset because they lost sight of what matters most...their purpose. The purpose of the show is to educate, tell stories, share successes and learning from real entrepreneurs and leaders who are evolving themselves and their businesses to stay relevant in the hearts and minds of the people they choose to serve. Mixed in with some stories of businesses well-known businesses and leaders who grew into obscurity or faded away into the sunset because they lost sight of what matters most...their purpose.

]]> Dave Clare dave@daveclare.com Petar Lackovic - The $2 Billion Dollar Sales Person PETAR LACKOVIC First and foremost, Petar is a loving husband and an amazing father After that, he is a highly sought-after international entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and speaker who specialises in creating and implementing successful systemised sales processes that produce tried and proven replicable sales results for businesses enabling them to achieve consistent world-class results and over has generated $2 billion in sales and revenue for him and his clients. Founder of The Sales Institute and the ‘Reverse Selling Method Petar has a unique ability to impact the growth and profitability of any business through his enhanced Sales Systems and Sales Training ability. Petar is also Founder of Australia's leading sales training programs ‘CONVERT Club’ and ‘The Sales Accelerator’, to help business owners to quickly inject cash flow into their business and replicate on a larger scale. Petar has mastered the art and cracked the code in teaching people how to sell more than they ever have before without being pushy, without relying on scripts and has had success with thousands of businesses across the globe in over 140 different industries. He is constantly being asked to share his business growth expertise to craft & implement strategies/models into their sales teams to make them less salesy & increase conversions, with companies that have included Channel 9, Mazda, ING, Westpac, Club Med, Sanity, HMV and Virgin Music, Cancer Council, Elders Real Estate and Macquarie University just to name a few! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:39:00 -0000 Petar Lackovic full 3 3 Dave Clare How the lessons learned working in Mum & Dad's shop helped form the 2 billion dollar sales person PETAR LACKOVIC First and foremost, Petar is a loving husband and an amazing father After that, he is a highly sought-after international entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and speaker who specialises in creating and implementing successful systemised sales processes that produce tried and proven replicable sales results for businesses enabling them to achieve consistent world-class results and over has generated $2 billion in sales and revenue for him and his clients. Founder of The Sales Institute and the ‘Reverse Selling Method Petar has a unique ability to impact the growth and profitability of any business through his enhanced Sales Systems and Sales Training ability. Petar is also Founder of Australia's leading sales training programs ‘CONVERT Club’ and ‘The Sales Accelerator’, to help business owners to quickly inject cash flow into their business and replicate on a larger scale. Petar has mastered the art and cracked the code in teaching people how to sell more than they ever have before without being pushy, without relying on scripts and has had success with thousands of businesses across the globe in over 140 different industries. He is constantly being asked to share his business growth expertise to craft & implement strategies/models into their sales teams to make them less salesy & increase conversions, with companies that have included Channel 9, Mazda, ING, Westpac, Club Med, Sanity, HMV and Virgin Music, Cancer Council, Elders Real Estate and Macquarie University just to name a few! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices PETAR LACKOVIC

First and foremost, Petar is a loving husband and an amazing father

After that, he is a highly sought-after international entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and speaker who specialises in creating and implementing successful systemised sales processes that produce tried and proven replicable sales results for businesses enabling them to achieve consistent world-class results and over has generated $2 billion in sales and revenue for him and his clients.

Founder of The Sales Institute and the ‘Reverse Selling Method Petar has a unique ability to impact the growth and profitability of any business through his enhanced Sales Systems and Sales Training ability.

Petar is also Founder of Australia's leading sales training programs ‘CONVERT Club’ and ‘The Sales Accelerator’, to help business owners to quickly inject cash flow into their business and replicate on a larger scale.

Petar has mastered the art and cracked the code in teaching people how to sell more than they ever have before without being pushy, without relying on scripts and has had success with thousands of businesses across the globe in over 140 different industries.

He is constantly being asked to share his business growth expertise to craft & implement strategies/models into their sales teams to make them less salesy & increase conversions, with companies that have included Channel 9, Mazda, ING, Westpac, Club Med, Sanity, HMV and Virgin Music, Cancer Council, Elders Real Estate and Macquarie University just to name a few!

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]]> 4016 Nic Hayes - Sitting At Media's Table From wanting to be a Police Officer, to working in media monitoring and then seeing an opportunity to start a business. This is the journey of evolution of Nic Hayes and Media Stable in bringing the voices of the future to media's table. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Nic Hayes is the Founder and Managing Director of expert and thought-leader directory Media Stable a national media guide servicing print, radio, television, and online media in Australia. With over 18 years of experience in the media intelligence, public relations, and media production industries across Australia and the United Kingdom the quest for greater knowledge and understanding is a daily process for this former media hack and flack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0000 Nic Hayes full 3 2 Dave Clare The Real Story Behind Helping Others Share Their Real Story From wanting to be a Police Officer, to working in media monitoring and then seeing an opportunity to start a business. This is the journey of evolution of Nic Hayes and Media Stable in bringing the voices of the future to media's table. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Nic Hayes is the Founder and Managing Director of expert and thought-leader directory Media Stable a national media guide servicing print, radio, television, and online media in Australia. With over 18 years of experience in the media intelligence, public relations, and media production industries across Australia and the United Kingdom the quest for greater knowledge and understanding is a daily process for this former media hack and flack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices From wanting to be a Police Officer, to working in media monitoring and then seeing an opportunity to start a business. This is the journey of evolution of Nic Hayes and Media Stable in bringing the voices of the future to media's table.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Nic Hayes is the Founder and Managing Director of expert and thought-leader directory Media Stable a national media guide servicing print, radio, television, and online media in Australia. With over 18 years of experience in the media intelligence, public relations, and media production industries across Australia and the United Kingdom the quest for greater knowledge and understanding is a daily process for this former media hack and flack.

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]]> 2829 Professor Gary Martin - From Teacher to Australia's Leading Social Affairs and Workplace Expert Life is rarely a straight line. When you listen to Prof. Gary Martin take you on his journey from being a teacher to becoming Australia's most astute leadership and management professionals. Now as the Chief Executive Officer, of AIM WA, Gary is a Social Affairs and Workplace Expert, a Columnist, a Director, and a LinkedIn Top Voice 2018 for his work as a Speaker and Content Creator. We couldn't think of a better person to kick off Season Three with. This episode is packed with leadership nuggets as Prof. Gary shares with us his journey and his latest work on what is beyond IQ and EQ. ABOUT Emeritus Professor Gary Martin is an expert in workplace matters, including leadership and management and human resources. He studies the art and science of ‘work’ providing commentary on ‘what is trending’ in workplaces across the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. A former academic, Gary is a highly regarded CEO, a Board Director, keynote speaker and a columnist. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of The Australian Institute of Management in WA (AIM WA) an organisation dedicated to building better workplaces. He is the only Western Australian to make LinkedIn Top Voices in 2018, having shared over 100 articles on workplace matters in that year, and with some 50,000 followers Australia-wide. His opinion pieces on workplace topics have been published around Australia including locally in The West Australian, The Sunday Times, Business News and WA Today and interstate in The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Mercury, The Adelaide Advertiser and The Age Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 -0000 Professor Gary Martin full 3 1 Dave Clare Learning that there is more to leadership than just IQ and EQ Life is rarely a straight line. When you listen to Prof. Gary Martin take you on his journey from being a teacher to becoming Australia's most astute leadership and management professionals. Now as the Chief Executive Officer, of AIM WA, Gary is a Social Affairs and Workplace Expert, a Columnist, a Director, and a LinkedIn Top Voice 2018 for his work as a Speaker and Content Creator. We couldn't think of a better person to kick off Season Three with. This episode is packed with leadership nuggets as Prof. Gary shares with us his journey and his latest work on what is beyond IQ and EQ. ABOUT Emeritus Professor Gary Martin is an expert in workplace matters, including leadership and management and human resources. He studies the art and science of ‘work’ providing commentary on ‘what is trending’ in workplaces across the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. A former academic, Gary is a highly regarded CEO, a Board Director, keynote speaker and a columnist. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of The Australian Institute of Management in WA (AIM WA) an organisation dedicated to building better workplaces. He is the only Western Australian to make LinkedIn Top Voices in 2018, having shared over 100 articles on workplace matters in that year, and with some 50,000 followers Australia-wide. His opinion pieces on workplace topics have been published around Australia including locally in The West Australian, The Sunday Times, Business News and WA Today and interstate in The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Mercury, The Adelaide Advertiser and The Age Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Life is rarely a straight line. When you listen to Prof. Gary Martin take you on his journey from being a teacher to becoming Australia's most astute leadership and management professionals. Now as the Chief Executive Officer, of AIM WA, Gary is a Social Affairs and Workplace Expert, a Columnist, a Director, and a LinkedIn Top Voice 2018 for his work as a Speaker and Content Creator.

We couldn't think of a better person to kick off Season Three with. This episode is packed with leadership nuggets as Prof. Gary shares with us his journey and his latest work on what is beyond IQ and EQ.


ABOUT

Emeritus Professor Gary Martin is an expert in workplace matters, including leadership and management and human resources. He studies the art and science of ‘work’ providing commentary on ‘what is trending’ in workplaces across the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors.

A former academic, Gary is a highly regarded CEO, a Board Director, keynote speaker and a columnist. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of The Australian Institute of Management in WA (AIM WA) an organisation dedicated to building better workplaces.

He is the only Western Australian to make LinkedIn Top Voices in 2018, having shared over 100 articles on workplace matters in that year, and with some 50,000 followers Australia-wide. His opinion pieces on workplace topics have been published around Australia including locally in The West Australian, The Sunday Times, Business News and WA Today and interstate in The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Mercury, The Adelaide Advertiser and The Age

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]]> 3918 Amy Jacobson - Finding Your Y When Amy was 17, she really disappointed her parents. Actually, her dad was pissed. At that moment, she decided to prove them wrong and would show them that she could be successful without going to university straight out of school. After climbing the corporate ladder and earning a "university-qualified" equivalent income, Amy felt like she had absolutely smashed her parents' doubts and fears and more importantly, proved them wrong. One month after Amy achieved her final measure of success of an executive-level title and pay packet, she handed in her resignation and notice period. Amy started to come back to her core fascination with the mind. Attending conferences and workshops, hearing speakers, gaining qualifications, being a speaker and trainer herself, and working with people each and every day as a leader, it started to become clear...it was time.  She had found her ‘y’ and it was time for me to listen to herself and act on the advice she was sharing with so many others.  This is Amy's story of evolution... ABOUT: Amy Jacobson is an experienced Emotional Intelligence specialist, passionate speaker, inspirational leadership trainer and highly sought after Coach. She works with businesses and career-minded people to achieve outstanding results, ignite passion, and develop strengths. Furthermore, Amy guides her clients on how to use Emotional Intelligence to create a clear career path to high performance and success. Amy has a burning passion and drive to see people reach their full potential, embrace their strengths and find their ‘y’. Whether it’s running a business, creating inspiring leaders and mentors or working one on one, everyone needs a ‘y’. People often describe Amy as: A dynamic and passionate speaker delivering practical tools to implement Insightful and inspirational Having a rare quality to balance IQ, AI and EI A leader that challenges others to think completely differently Amy is an Internationally recognised Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis and a Certified Level 2 Advanced Coach. In addition to this, she also holds an Associate Diploma in Management and Financial Services (Financial Planning), to name a few. With over 20 years of experience in the Corporate world with 15 of those spent in Senior positions. Her roles included transforming teams and the performance of businesses across Service Delivery, New Business/Sales, Project Management, Product, and Technical. Traveling with her husband and gorgeous children is Amy’s second love. She loves meeting people all around the world and thus experiencing their way of life and truly appreciating their ‘y’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:26:33 -0000 Amy Jacobson full 2 7 Dave Clare From disappointing your parents to becoming a world-class emotional intelligence expert. When Amy was 17, she really disappointed her parents. Actually, her dad was pissed. At that moment, she decided to prove them wrong and would show them that she could be successful without going to university straight out of school. After climbing the corporate ladder and earning a "university-qualified" equivalent income, Amy felt like she had absolutely smashed her parents' doubts and fears and more importantly, proved them wrong. One month after Amy achieved her final measure of success of an executive-level title and pay packet, she handed in her resignation and notice period. Amy started to come back to her core fascination with the mind. Attending conferences and workshops, hearing speakers, gaining qualifications, being a speaker and trainer herself, and working with people each and every day as a leader, it started to become clear...it was time.  She had found her ‘y’ and it was time for me to listen to herself and act on the advice she was sharing with so many others.  This is Amy's story of evolution... ABOUT: Amy Jacobson is an experienced Emotional Intelligence specialist, passionate speaker, inspirational leadership trainer and highly sought after Coach. She works with businesses and career-minded people to achieve outstanding results, ignite passion, and develop strengths. Furthermore, Amy guides her clients on how to use Emotional Intelligence to create a clear career path to high performance and success. Amy has a burning passion and drive to see people reach their full potential, embrace their strengths and find their ‘y’. Whether it’s running a business, creating inspiring leaders and mentors or working one on one, everyone needs a ‘y’. People often describe Amy as: A dynamic and passionate speaker delivering practical tools to implement Insightful and inspirational Having a rare quality to balance IQ, AI and EI A leader that challenges others to think completely differently Amy is an Internationally recognised Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis and a Certified Level 2 Advanced Coach. In addition to this, she also holds an Associate Diploma in Management and Financial Services (Financial Planning), to name a few. With over 20 years of experience in the Corporate world with 15 of those spent in Senior positions. Her roles included transforming teams and the performance of businesses across Service Delivery, New Business/Sales, Project Management, Product, and Technical. Traveling with her husband and gorgeous children is Amy’s second love. She loves meeting people all around the world and thus experiencing their way of life and truly appreciating their ‘y’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When Amy was 17, she really disappointed her parents. Actually, her dad was pissed. At that moment, she decided to prove them wrong and would show them that she could be successful without going to university straight out of school. After climbing the corporate ladder and earning a "university-qualified" equivalent income, Amy felt like she had absolutely smashed her parents' doubts and fears and more importantly, proved them wrong.

One month after Amy achieved her final measure of success of an executive-level title and pay packet, she handed in her resignation and notice period.

Amy started to come back to her core fascination with the mind. Attending conferences and workshops, hearing speakers, gaining qualifications, being a speaker and trainer herself, and working with people each and every day as a leader, it started to become clear...it was time. 

She had found her ‘y’ and it was time for me to listen to herself and act on the advice she was sharing with so many others. 

This is Amy's story of evolution...

ABOUT:

Amy Jacobson is an experienced Emotional Intelligence specialist, passionate speaker, inspirational leadership trainer and highly sought after Coach. She works with businesses and career-minded people to achieve outstanding results, ignite passion, and develop strengths. Furthermore, Amy guides her clients on how to use Emotional Intelligence to create a clear career path to high performance and success. Amy has a burning passion and drive to see people reach their full potential, embrace their strengths and find their ‘y’. Whether it’s running a business, creating inspiring leaders and mentors or working one on one, everyone needs a ‘y’.

People often describe Amy as:

  • A dynamic and passionate speaker delivering practical tools to implement
  • Insightful and inspirational
  • Having a rare quality to balance IQ, AI and EI
  • A leader that challenges others to think completely differently


Amy is an Internationally recognised Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis and a Certified Level 2 Advanced Coach. In addition to this, she also holds an Associate Diploma in Management and Financial Services (Financial Planning), to name a few. With over 20 years of experience in the Corporate world with 15 of those spent in Senior positions. Her roles included transforming teams and the performance of businesses across Service Delivery, New Business/Sales, Project Management, Product, and Technical.

Traveling with her husband and gorgeous children is Amy’s second love. She loves meeting people all around the world and thus experiencing their way of life and truly appreciating their ‘y’.

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]]> 3740 Dawn S Kirk - Heartbeat Leadership Dawn shares her journey of evolution from learning to play the violin in a band, to her time in track and field and basketball all the way through to becoming a leadership author, speaker and coach. She has created BestU4Life to help corporate executives and their organizations take a People-First approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution. Dawn believes that people are the heartbeat of every business, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved through people. ABOUT Dawn lives with her husband of twenty-six years, Tony Kirk, and their two teenage sons, Kendall and Kristopher, near Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively involved in her church and contributes as a member of the church board. Dawn S. Kirk has coached, trained, and developed more than 10,000 associates in Fortune 100 companies using her Heartbeat Leadership method. She has spent over 26 years working with #1 Consumer Packaged Goods companies across sales, finance, marketing, operations, national accounts, and commercial sectors. For sixteen of those years, she held senior executive positions with Frito-Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) and The Coca-Cola Company, leading teams as large as 5,000 employees through organizational growth, transformations, and transitions. She has earned numerous awards, including Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women, and was inducted into the VIP Woman of the Year Circle by the National Association of Professional Women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:00:00 -0000 Dawn S Kirk full 2 6 Dave Clare A Leadership Journey Through Music, Sports and Business Develop The Heartbeat of Leadership Dawn shares her journey of evolution from learning to play the violin in a band, to her time in track and field and basketball all the way through to becoming a leadership author, speaker and coach. She has created BestU4Life to help corporate executives and their organizations take a People-First approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution. Dawn believes that people are the heartbeat of every business, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved through people. ABOUT Dawn lives with her husband of twenty-six years, Tony Kirk, and their two teenage sons, Kendall and Kristopher, near Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively involved in her church and contributes as a member of the church board. Dawn S. Kirk has coached, trained, and developed more than 10,000 associates in Fortune 100 companies using her Heartbeat Leadership method. She has spent over 26 years working with #1 Consumer Packaged Goods companies across sales, finance, marketing, operations, national accounts, and commercial sectors. For sixteen of those years, she held senior executive positions with Frito-Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) and The Coca-Cola Company, leading teams as large as 5,000 employees through organizational growth, transformations, and transitions. She has earned numerous awards, including Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women, and was inducted into the VIP Woman of the Year Circle by the National Association of Professional Women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Dawn shares her journey of evolution from learning to play the violin in a band, to her time in track and field and basketball all the way through to becoming a leadership author, speaker and coach.

She has created BestU4Life to help corporate executives and their organizations take a People-First approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution.

Dawn believes that people are the heartbeat of every business, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved through people.


ABOUT

Dawn lives with her husband of twenty-six years, Tony Kirk, and their two teenage sons, Kendall and Kristopher, near Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively involved in her church and contributes as a member of the church board.

Dawn S. Kirk has coached, trained, and developed more than 10,000 associates in Fortune 100 companies using her Heartbeat Leadership method.

She has spent over 26 years working with #1 Consumer Packaged Goods companies across sales, finance, marketing, operations, national accounts, and commercial sectors.

For sixteen of those years, she held senior executive positions with Frito-Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) and The Coca-Cola Company, leading teams as large as 5,000 employees through organizational growth, transformations, and transitions.

She has earned numerous awards, including Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women, and was inducted into the VIP Woman of the Year Circle by the National Association of Professional Women.

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]]> 3153 Shil Shanghavi - Chatter Chief at Chatterbox Public Speaking Shil wasn't always a sought after speaker coach, speaker and the Chatterchief at Chatterbox Public Speaking. After choosing to use public speaking as a way to deal with his stutter and fears, he turned this challenge into a business to help other people face their fears and obstacles to become amazing speakers and presenters. He is now a thought leader in the speaking industry. He is changing the speaker training game. Shil is the first speaker coach in Perth to introduce Virtual Reality as a groundbreaking tool to face the fear of public speaking. Public Speaking has always been Shil's greatest fear - so he knows exactly what it feels like when your body goes numb, your heart starts racing and your mind goes into overdrive! Despite living with a stutter, Shil has trained himself to become a professional speaker and developed an intimate understanding of how to harness and control the fear of speaking. Combining two decades of creative speaking techniques, Shil works with his clients to become confident presenters, guiding them to discover innate hidden strengths to find their own speaking style. He has developed models and techniques which show you how to control your emotions and use your experiences to craft stories, so you can deliver memorable presentations anytime, anywhere to any audience. Shil works with entrepreneurs, start up ventures, SME and ASX listed companies in Australia and Internationally and has presented or coached across most industries. Renowned for teaching intuitive public speaking skills, Shil's workshops and coaching methods teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of presenting and speaking with impact to engage and influence audiences. Shil is a Board Member for Guerrilla Establishment, an Industry Expert for WA Leaders, a presentation mentor for Impact100 WA and a speaker coach for TEDxPerth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:20:07 -0000 Shil Shanghavi full 2 5 Dave Clare How Facing Fears and Overcoming Challenges Turned Into a Business Shil wasn't always a sought after speaker coach, speaker and the Chatterchief at Chatterbox Public Speaking. After choosing to use public speaking as a way to deal with his stutter and fears, he turned this challenge into a business to help other people face their fears and obstacles to become amazing speakers and presenters. He is now a thought leader in the speaking industry. He is changing the speaker training game. Shil is the first speaker coach in Perth to introduce Virtual Reality as a groundbreaking tool to face the fear of public speaking. Public Speaking has always been Shil's greatest fear - so he knows exactly what it feels like when your body goes numb, your heart starts racing and your mind goes into overdrive! Despite living with a stutter, Shil has trained himself to become a professional speaker and developed an intimate understanding of how to harness and control the fear of speaking. Combining two decades of creative speaking techniques, Shil works with his clients to become confident presenters, guiding them to discover innate hidden strengths to find their own speaking style. He has developed models and techniques which show you how to control your emotions and use your experiences to craft stories, so you can deliver memorable presentations anytime, anywhere to any audience. Shil works with entrepreneurs, start up ventures, SME and ASX listed companies in Australia and Internationally and has presented or coached across most industries. Renowned for teaching intuitive public speaking skills, Shil's workshops and coaching methods teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of presenting and speaking with impact to engage and influence audiences. Shil is a Board Member for Guerrilla Establishment, an Industry Expert for WA Leaders, a presentation mentor for Impact100 WA and a speaker coach for TEDxPerth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Shil wasn't always a sought after speaker coach, speaker and the Chatterchief at Chatterbox Public Speaking. After choosing to use public speaking as a way to deal with his stutter and fears, he turned this challenge into a business to help other people face their fears and obstacles to become amazing speakers and presenters. He is now a thought leader in the speaking industry. He is changing the speaker training game.

Shil is the first speaker coach in Perth to introduce Virtual Reality as a groundbreaking tool to face the fear of public speaking.

Public Speaking has always been Shil's greatest fear - so he knows exactly what it feels like when your body goes numb, your heart starts racing and your mind goes into overdrive! Despite living with a stutter, Shil has trained himself to become a professional speaker and developed an intimate understanding of how to harness and control the fear of speaking. Combining two decades of creative speaking techniques, Shil works with his clients to become confident presenters, guiding them to discover innate hidden strengths to find their own speaking style.

He has developed models and techniques which show you how to control your emotions and use your experiences to craft stories, so you can deliver memorable presentations anytime, anywhere to any audience.

Shil works with entrepreneurs, start up ventures, SME and ASX listed companies in Australia and Internationally and has presented or coached across most industries.

Renowned for teaching intuitive public speaking skills, Shil's workshops and coaching methods teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of presenting and speaking with impact to engage and influence audiences.

Shil is a Board Member for Guerrilla Establishment, an Industry Expert for WA Leaders, a presentation mentor for Impact100 WA and a speaker coach for TEDxPerth.

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]]> 2853 Bourby Webster - A Violist, Entrepreneur, Educator, Presenter and Producer Who Decided to Break The Rules. A Violist, Entrepreneur, Educator, Presenter and Producer Who Decided to Break The Rules. Bourby Webster, Founder & CEO of Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has broken the rules in her industry because her mission is "Music for everyone." The PSO was founded in 2011 with a massive ambition to reach a new audience; retain talent in West Australia; create jobs and; showcase talent. Since 2011, the PSO has performed to over 350,000 people from Karratha through to Kwinana in West Australia. Playing Vivaldi to Nirvana. They've paid over $2 million in fees to over 150 musicians and created pathways into careers. Bourby supports community engagement programs. In 2019 she was West Australian of the Year in Arts & Culture. A winner of the 40 under 40 Entreprenuers and a Finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:15:00 -0000 Bourby Webster full 2 4 Dave Clare When You believe That Music Is for Everyone, You May Have to Break Some Rules A Violist, Entrepreneur, Educator, Presenter and Producer Who Decided to Break The Rules. Bourby Webster, Founder & CEO of Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has broken the rules in her industry because her mission is "Music for everyone." The PSO was founded in 2011 with a massive ambition to reach a new audience; retain talent in West Australia; create jobs and; showcase talent. Since 2011, the PSO has performed to over 350,000 people from Karratha through to Kwinana in West Australia. Playing Vivaldi to Nirvana. They've paid over $2 million in fees to over 150 musicians and created pathways into careers. Bourby supports community engagement programs. In 2019 she was West Australian of the Year in Arts & Culture. A winner of the 40 under 40 Entreprenuers and a Finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A Violist, Entrepreneur, Educator, Presenter and Producer Who Decided to Break The Rules.

Bourby Webster, Founder & CEO of Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has broken the rules in her industry because her mission is "Music for everyone."

The PSO was founded in 2011 with a massive ambition to reach a new audience; retain talent in West Australia; create jobs and; showcase talent. Since 2011, the PSO has performed to over 350,000 people from Karratha through to Kwinana in West Australia. Playing Vivaldi to Nirvana. They've paid over $2 million in fees to over 150 musicians and created pathways into careers.

Bourby supports community engagement programs. In 2019 she was West Australian of the Year in Arts & Culture. A winner of the 40 under 40 Entreprenuers and a Finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award.

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]]> 3883 Col Levander - RatesCalc What Happens When You Cross a Psychologist, Technologist and a Publican Together? You get Col Levander. Col takes us on a journey through all his careers and how he ended up starting a tech company in the recruitment industry space. Col is a legend in the recruiting world in Australia. A lovable and personable character that lives by the motto "If you don't know, then ask." ABOUT Col has worked in the recruitment industry for nearly 30 years with 8 years specifically in technology consulting.  He has worked with boutique, national and global organisations gaining invaluable experience and life lessons to share and enable clients with these unique insights. He well known and well-loved in recruitment circles, fondly regarded for his approachability and down to earth attitude. He has successfully set up 4 staffing agencies, lived in 5 cities, 3 states and travelled extensively across the Asia Pacific region, delivering recruitment and technology solutions. Col is a subject matter expert on compliance, awards, pay rates and assisting clients to achieve speed to market & efficiencies to protect their businesses. Col now lives on the Sunshine Coast with his family and manages a global team of specialists. In most recent years, with his team, Col has he developed an Australian made, world-class, multi-award-winning application -Ratescalc.com -Which is a unique software like no other. It's an application which is a quoting engine, rates management tool and payroll compliance and governance platform which has the ability to guide businesses to gain maximum profitability from its services. Soon to be launching in New Zealand, Asia and the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:00:00 -0000 Col Levander full 2 3 Dave Clare What Happens When You Cross a Psychologist, Technologist and a Publican Together? What Happens When You Cross a Psychologist, Technologist and a Publican Together? You get Col Levander. Col takes us on a journey through all his careers and how he ended up starting a tech company in the recruitment industry space. Col is a legend in the recruiting world in Australia. A lovable and personable character that lives by the motto "If you don't know, then ask." ABOUT Col has worked in the recruitment industry for nearly 30 years with 8 years specifically in technology consulting.  He has worked with boutique, national and global organisations gaining invaluable experience and life lessons to share and enable clients with these unique insights. He well known and well-loved in recruitment circles, fondly regarded for his approachability and down to earth attitude. He has successfully set up 4 staffing agencies, lived in 5 cities, 3 states and travelled extensively across the Asia Pacific region, delivering recruitment and technology solutions. Col is a subject matter expert on compliance, awards, pay rates and assisting clients to achieve speed to market & efficiencies to protect their businesses. Col now lives on the Sunshine Coast with his family and manages a global team of specialists. In most recent years, with his team, Col has he developed an Australian made, world-class, multi-award-winning application -Ratescalc.com -Which is a unique software like no other. It's an application which is a quoting engine, rates management tool and payroll compliance and governance platform which has the ability to guide businesses to gain maximum profitability from its services. Soon to be launching in New Zealand, Asia and the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What Happens When You Cross a Psychologist, Technologist and a Publican Together?

You get Col Levander. Col takes us on a journey through all his careers and how he ended up starting a tech company in the recruitment industry space. Col is a legend in the recruiting world in Australia. A lovable and personable character that lives by the motto "If you don't know, then ask."


ABOUT

Col has worked in the recruitment industry for nearly 30 years with 8 years specifically in technology consulting. 

He has worked with boutique, national and global organisations gaining invaluable experience and life lessons to share and enable clients with these unique insights. He well known and well-loved in recruitment circles, fondly regarded for his approachability and down to earth attitude.

He has successfully set up 4 staffing agencies, lived in 5 cities, 3 states and travelled extensively across the Asia Pacific region, delivering recruitment and technology solutions.

Col is a subject matter expert on compliance, awards, pay rates and assisting clients to achieve speed to market & efficiencies to protect their businesses. Col now lives on the Sunshine Coast with his family and manages a global team of specialists.

In most recent years, with his team, Col has he developed an Australian made, world-class, multi-award-winning application -Ratescalc.com -Which is a unique software like no other. It's an application which is a quoting engine, rates management tool and payroll compliance and governance platform which has the ability to guide businesses to gain maximum profitability from its services. Soon to be launching in New Zealand, Asia and the UK.

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]]> 3234 Lisa Messenger, CEO & Founder of the Collective Hub Lisa launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential. Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt. ABOUT Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing CEO of The Messenger Group, as well as founder and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub – a multi-platform entrepreneurial lifestyle destination with a mandate to disrupt, challenge and inspire. Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself. With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:00:00 -0000 Lisa Messenger full 2 2 Dave Clare Becoming an Entrepreneur Accidentally on Purpose and Igniting the Human Potential Lisa launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential. Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt. ABOUT Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing CEO of The Messenger Group, as well as founder and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub – a multi-platform entrepreneurial lifestyle destination with a mandate to disrupt, challenge and inspire. Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself. With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Lisa launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential.

Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt.


ABOUT

Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing CEO of The Messenger Group, as well as founder and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub – a multi-platform entrepreneurial lifestyle destination with a mandate to disrupt, challenge and inspire.

Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.

With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.

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]]> 4106 Garry Ridge - Chairman & CEO of WD-40 | The Consciously Incompetent, Probably Wrong and Roughly Right CEO & Chairman of WD-40: Garry Ridge | In 1953, a fledgling #company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of 3 set out to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for use in the aerospace industry. Working in a small lab in San Diego, California, it took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out. But they must have been really good because the original secret formula for WD40® was perfected on the 40th try is still in use today. We are kicking off Season Two of the Evolution of Business Show in style with this LIVE #podcast. We are going to unlock many secrets...perhaps all except one...the over 60-year-old formulation of WD-40® remains a secret today, and still will after this podcast. Garry Ridge, Chairman, and CEO of WD-40 Company is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. I am looking forward to launching season two with fellow native Australian, Garry Ridge. ABOUT Garry O. Ridge, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Garry joined WD-40 Company in 1987 and held various leadership positions in the company before being appointed to CEO in 1997. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego where he teaches leadership development, talent management, and succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work: A native of Australia and holds a certificate in Modern Retailing and wholesale distribution and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. As CEO of WD-40 Company since 1997, Garry has helped re-ignite excitement and create cultures that foster break-through innovation in companies and workplaces in over 62 countries. His first-hand experiences in transforming a global brand with a market cap of $2.3 billion, as well as his deep, profound commitment to creating workplace cultures that support the individual passions of all who work there, have attracted the recognition of today’s most influential thought leaders. In 2016, he was named Igniter of the Year by Simon Sinek. Inc.com placed him in the fourth position in its list of Top 10 Global CEOs in 2017. Garry has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Freedom at Work from WorldBlu. Most recently, he is a contributor in the Marshall Goldsmith/Frances Hesselbein book, Work is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose From the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 23 Nov 2020 06:27:54 -0000 Garry Ridge full 2 1 Dave Clare The Consciously Incompetent, Probably Wrong and Roughly Right CEO & Chairman of WD-40 | The Consciously Incompetent, Probably Wrong and Roughly Right CEO & Chairman of WD-40: Garry Ridge | In 1953, a fledgling #company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of 3 set out to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for use in the aerospace industry. Working in a small lab in San Diego, California, it took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out. But they must have been really good because the original secret formula for WD40® was perfected on the 40th try is still in use today. We are kicking off Season Two of the Evolution of Business Show in style with this LIVE #podcast. We are going to unlock many secrets...perhaps all except one...the over 60-year-old formulation of WD-40® remains a secret today, and still will after this podcast. Garry Ridge, Chairman, and CEO of WD-40 Company is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. I am looking forward to launching season two with fellow native Australian, Garry Ridge. ABOUT Garry O. Ridge, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Garry joined WD-40 Company in 1987 and held various leadership positions in the company before being appointed to CEO in 1997. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego where he teaches leadership development, talent management, and succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work: A native of Australia and holds a certificate in Modern Retailing and wholesale distribution and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. As CEO of WD-40 Company since 1997, Garry has helped re-ignite excitement and create cultures that foster break-through innovation in companies and workplaces in over 62 countries. His first-hand experiences in transforming a global brand with a market cap of $2.3 billion, as well as his deep, profound commitment to creating workplace cultures that support the individual passions of all who work there, have attracted the recognition of today’s most influential thought leaders. In 2016, he was named Igniter of the Year by Simon Sinek. Inc.com placed him in the fourth position in its list of Top 10 Global CEOs in 2017. Garry has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Freedom at Work from WorldBlu. Most recently, he is a contributor in the Marshall Goldsmith/Frances Hesselbein book, Work is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose From the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | The Consciously Incompetent, Probably Wrong and Roughly Right CEO & Chairman of WD-40: Garry Ridge |

In 1953, a fledgling #company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of 3 set out to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for use in the aerospace industry. Working in a small lab in San Diego, California, it took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out. But they must have been really good because the original secret formula for WD40® was perfected on the 40th try is still in use today.

We are kicking off Season Two of the Evolution of Business Show in style with this LIVE #podcast.

We are going to unlock many secrets...perhaps all except one...the over 60-year-old formulation of WD-40® remains a secret today, and still will after this podcast.

Garry Ridge, Chairman, and CEO of WD-40 Company is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company.

I am looking forward to launching season two with fellow native Australian, Garry Ridge.


ABOUT

Garry O. Ridge, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Garry joined WD-40 Company in 1987 and held various leadership positions in the company before being appointed to CEO in 1997.

He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego where he teaches leadership development, talent management, and succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program.

He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work:

A native of Australia and holds a certificate in Modern Retailing and wholesale distribution and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego.

As CEO of WD-40 Company since 1997, Garry has helped re-ignite excitement and create cultures that foster break-through innovation in companies and workplaces in over 62 countries.

His first-hand experiences in transforming a global brand with a market cap of $2.3 billion, as well as his deep, profound commitment to creating workplace cultures that support the individual passions of all who work there, have attracted the recognition of today’s most influential thought leaders.

In 2016, he was named Igniter of the Year by Simon Sinek.

Inc.com placed him in the fourth position in its list of Top 10 Global CEOs in 2017.

Garry has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Freedom at Work from WorldBlu.

Most recently, he is a contributor in the Marshall Goldsmith/Frances Hesselbein book, Work is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose From the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders.

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]]> 3488 Santo Arabia - MentorCo Grounded among some of the biggest corporations in both Australia and the World, Santo has developed a taste for helping small businesses succeed by applying big business strategy. Utilising the resources allocated to him by some of Australia’s largest employers, Santo has proven his disciplines work effectively by achieving the goals and objectives cascaded down from his C level colleagues. Culture and strategy are among some of the area’s Santo delves deep into and provides a service that focuses on mindset around these two facets. ABOUT Santo Arabia is a father of three children and he and his lovely wife live in Adelaide SA. He is a Mentor at MentorCo. and has a passion for helping Small Business Think Big! Santo is also the Director of Convertd, a business that helps you generate more leads, sales and customers using digital advertising Owner Driver at Team Arabia he uses racing as a way to improve #mindhealth A volunteer for Little Heroes Foundation, who Proudly supporting seriously ill children and their families, ensuring they have access to the very best care. As an Ambassador for Lifeback Tracker, which is an Early Intervention Tool to assist when confronted with Anxiety, Stress or early signs of Depression. Santo is spreading the word that there is a better way to live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:31:00 -0000 Santo Arabia full 1 11 Dave Clare A Passion for Helping Small Businesses Think big Grounded among some of the biggest corporations in both Australia and the World, Santo has developed a taste for helping small businesses succeed by applying big business strategy. Utilising the resources allocated to him by some of Australia’s largest employers, Santo has proven his disciplines work effectively by achieving the goals and objectives cascaded down from his C level colleagues. Culture and strategy are among some of the area’s Santo delves deep into and provides a service that focuses on mindset around these two facets. ABOUT Santo Arabia is a father of three children and he and his lovely wife live in Adelaide SA. He is a Mentor at MentorCo. and has a passion for helping Small Business Think Big! Santo is also the Director of Convertd, a business that helps you generate more leads, sales and customers using digital advertising Owner Driver at Team Arabia he uses racing as a way to improve #mindhealth A volunteer for Little Heroes Foundation, who Proudly supporting seriously ill children and their families, ensuring they have access to the very best care. As an Ambassador for Lifeback Tracker, which is an Early Intervention Tool to assist when confronted with Anxiety, Stress or early signs of Depression. Santo is spreading the word that there is a better way to live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Grounded among some of the biggest corporations in both Australia and the World, Santo has developed a taste for helping small businesses succeed by applying big business strategy. Utilising the resources allocated to him by some of Australia’s largest employers, Santo has proven his disciplines work effectively by achieving the goals and objectives cascaded down from his C level colleagues.

Culture and strategy are among some of the area’s Santo delves deep into and provides a service that focuses on mindset around these two facets.


ABOUT

Santo Arabia is a father of three children and he and his lovely wife live in Adelaide SA. He is a Mentor at MentorCo. and has a passion for helping Small Business Think Big! Santo is also the Director of Convertd, a business that helps you generate more leads, sales and customers using digital advertising

Owner Driver at Team Arabia he uses racing as a way to improve #mindhealth

A volunteer for Little Heroes Foundation, who Proudly supporting seriously ill children and their families, ensuring they have access to the very best care.

As an Ambassador for Lifeback Tracker, which is an Early Intervention Tool to assist when confronted with Anxiety, Stress or early signs of Depression.

Santo is spreading the word that there is a better way to live.

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]]> 3534 Jo Burston - CEO & Founder of Inspiring Rare Birds This is the story of how one of life's "sliding door" moments created an accidental entrepreneur. When a sales pitch turned into a business pitch because of one simple question, Jo Burston ended up becoming an entrepreneur. 6 weeks after the failed sales pitch, she had an investor, business partner and a mentor...and that was just the beginning. In five years she had a business that turned over $40 million dollars. You don't get to stay on Australia's Top 30 Female Entrepreneur list for seven years running without having something special. Jo has a gift for business and some powerful life philosophies that she shares with us in this episode. ABOUT Jo Burston is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs. She has launched six businesses, the standout being Job Capital which went from $0 to $40-million turnover in five years and has kept her on the list of Australia’s top 30 female entrepreneurs since 2013. Jo has worked in partnership with the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and Office For Women (OFW) as well as global brands such as Microsoft, Google, EY, PwC and XERO. Her most recent launch is startup.business, which runs entrepreneurial Learning in Action programs for school-aged children in curriculum in every state in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:06:00 -0000 Jo Burston full 1 10 Dave Clare How An Accidental Entrepreneur Became One of Australia’s Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs This is the story of how one of life's "sliding door" moments created an accidental entrepreneur. When a sales pitch turned into a business pitch because of one simple question, Jo Burston ended up becoming an entrepreneur. 6 weeks after the failed sales pitch, she had an investor, business partner and a mentor...and that was just the beginning. In five years she had a business that turned over $40 million dollars. You don't get to stay on Australia's Top 30 Female Entrepreneur list for seven years running without having something special. Jo has a gift for business and some powerful life philosophies that she shares with us in this episode. ABOUT Jo Burston is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs. She has launched six businesses, the standout being Job Capital which went from $0 to $40-million turnover in five years and has kept her on the list of Australia’s top 30 female entrepreneurs since 2013. Jo has worked in partnership with the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and Office For Women (OFW) as well as global brands such as Microsoft, Google, EY, PwC and XERO. Her most recent launch is startup.business, which runs entrepreneurial Learning in Action programs for school-aged children in curriculum in every state in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is the story of how one of life's "sliding door" moments created an accidental entrepreneur. When a sales pitch turned into a business pitch because of one simple question, Jo Burston ended up becoming an entrepreneur. 6 weeks after the failed sales pitch, she had an investor, business partner and a mentor...and that was just the beginning. In five years she had a business that turned over $40 million dollars.

You don't get to stay on Australia's Top 30 Female Entrepreneur list for seven years running without having something special. Jo has a gift for business and some powerful life philosophies that she shares with us in this episode.


ABOUT

Jo Burston is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs. She has launched six businesses, the standout being Job Capital which went from $0 to $40-million turnover in five years and has kept her on the list of Australia’s top 30 female entrepreneurs since 2013. Jo has worked in partnership with the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and Office For Women (OFW) as well as global brands such as Microsoft, Google, EY, PwC and XERO.

Her most recent launch is startup.business, which runs entrepreneurial Learning in Action programs for school-aged children in curriculum in every state in Australia.

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]]> 4721 no Steve Rodgers - Executive Zen When the universe gives you a tap on the shoulder, you should listen. Thankfully Steve Rodgers, today's guest did just that and led to a soul change. After leading one of the largest real estate agencies in America and working with Warren Buffet, Steve was riding high on the life of a C-Suite Executive. Unfortunately it was having a toll on his relationships and health. Something had to change. Steve had to change. Thanks to being coached by a monk, Steve has shifted from EGO (Edging good out) to IGI (Inviting good in). Sit back and get ready for an epic journey with best selling author, business consultant and executive zen master, Steve Rodgers ABOUT: Steve lives near San Diego with his beautiful wife Mary Lou and trusted golden retriever. When not coaching and consulting, he enjoys bike riding, yoga, meditation, and spending time with his children and grandchildren. Steve Rodgers, Author of Amazon #1 Best-selling book “Lead to Gold,” soon to launch book “The IGI Principles,” and creator of Alchemy Advisors coaching and consulting firm He is a former Warren Buffet CEO who experienced a radical spiritual transformation that has evolved into a new mission as a purpose-driven consultant and entrepreneur coach, in demand international keynote speaker, and bestselling author. Steve specializes in helping business owners and leaders increase profits while bringing spiritual intelligence into every aspect of their personal and professional lives to invite in success, fulfillment, and abundance beyond their wildest dreams. He recognizes himself as a spiritual being having a human experience whose purpose is to help individuals discover their purpose and maximize their highest good in life and business.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:20:00 -0000 Steve Rodgers full 1 9 Dave Clare How a tap on the shoulder from the universe created a soul change that turned lead into gold. When the universe gives you a tap on the shoulder, you should listen. Thankfully Steve Rodgers, today's guest did just that and led to a soul change. After leading one of the largest real estate agencies in America and working with Warren Buffet, Steve was riding high on the life of a C-Suite Executive. Unfortunately it was having a toll on his relationships and health. Something had to change. Steve had to change. Thanks to being coached by a monk, Steve has shifted from EGO (Edging good out) to IGI (Inviting good in). Sit back and get ready for an epic journey with best selling author, business consultant and executive zen master, Steve Rodgers ABOUT: Steve lives near San Diego with his beautiful wife Mary Lou and trusted golden retriever. When not coaching and consulting, he enjoys bike riding, yoga, meditation, and spending time with his children and grandchildren. Steve Rodgers, Author of Amazon #1 Best-selling book “Lead to Gold,” soon to launch book “The IGI Principles,” and creator of Alchemy Advisors coaching and consulting firm He is a former Warren Buffet CEO who experienced a radical spiritual transformation that has evolved into a new mission as a purpose-driven consultant and entrepreneur coach, in demand international keynote speaker, and bestselling author. Steve specializes in helping business owners and leaders increase profits while bringing spiritual intelligence into every aspect of their personal and professional lives to invite in success, fulfillment, and abundance beyond their wildest dreams. He recognizes himself as a spiritual being having a human experience whose purpose is to help individuals discover their purpose and maximize their highest good in life and business.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When the universe gives you a tap on the shoulder, you should listen. Thankfully Steve Rodgers, today's guest did just that and led to a soul change.

After leading one of the largest real estate agencies in America and working with Warren Buffet, Steve was riding high on the life of a C-Suite Executive. Unfortunately it was having a toll on his relationships and health. Something had to change. Steve had to change.

Thanks to being coached by a monk, Steve has shifted from EGO (Edging good out) to IGI (Inviting good in).

Sit back and get ready for an epic journey with best selling author, business consultant and executive zen master, Steve Rodgers


ABOUT:

Steve lives near San Diego with his beautiful wife Mary Lou and trusted golden retriever.

When not coaching and consulting, he enjoys bike riding, yoga, meditation, and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Steve Rodgers, Author of Amazon #1 Best-selling book “Lead to Gold,” soon to launch book “The IGI Principles,” and creator of Alchemy Advisors coaching and consulting firm

He is a former Warren Buffet CEO who experienced a radical spiritual transformation that has evolved into a new mission as a purpose-driven consultant and entrepreneur coach, in demand international keynote speaker, and bestselling author.

Steve specializes in helping business owners and leaders increase profits while bringing spiritual intelligence into every aspect of their personal and professional lives to invite in success, fulfillment, and abundance beyond their wildest dreams.

He recognizes himself as a spiritual being having a human experience whose purpose is to help individuals discover their purpose and maximize their highest good in life and business. 

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]]> 4036 no Jeffrey Hayzlett - Prime Time TV & Podcast Host, Best Selling Author and Global Business Celebrity Jeffrey Hayzlett is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer and c-suite executive who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance, and brand building. He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV. Jeff is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and prime-time host, and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump for three seasons. He takes us on his c-suite journey from the USA to Australia with companies like SNAP and KODAK. His message isn't about helping you become the most smartest person in the room, but to help you become the most strategic person in the room using the philosophy of relevancy, reach and reciprocity. So sit back and relax and get ready to take notes on this one! ABOUT: JEFFREY HAYZLETT - Prime-time TV & Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Global Business Celebrity A prime-time television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, former Fortune 100 CMO, and author of four best-selling business books: Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless, Running the Gauntlet, The Mirror Test and The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures. Hayzlett is one of the most compelling figures in business today and an inductee into the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame. As a leading business expert, Hayzlett is frequently cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week and Chief Executive, among many others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:34:00 -0000 Jeffrey Hayzlett full 1 8 Dave Clare Living a philosophy of relevancy, reach and reciprocity... Jeffrey Hayzlett is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer and c-suite executive who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance, and brand building. He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV. Jeff is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and prime-time host, and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump for three seasons. He takes us on his c-suite journey from the USA to Australia with companies like SNAP and KODAK. His message isn't about helping you become the most smartest person in the room, but to help you become the most strategic person in the room using the philosophy of relevancy, reach and reciprocity. So sit back and relax and get ready to take notes on this one! ABOUT: JEFFREY HAYZLETT - Prime-time TV & Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Global Business Celebrity A prime-time television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, former Fortune 100 CMO, and author of four best-selling business books: Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless, Running the Gauntlet, The Mirror Test and The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures. Hayzlett is one of the most compelling figures in business today and an inductee into the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame. As a leading business expert, Hayzlett is frequently cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week and Chief Executive, among many others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Jeffrey Hayzlett is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer and c-suite executive who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance, and brand building.

He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV.

Jeff is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and prime-time host, and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump for three seasons.

He takes us on his c-suite journey from the USA to Australia with companies like SNAP and KODAK.

His message isn't about helping you become the most smartest person in the room, but to help you become the most strategic person in the room using the philosophy of relevancy, reach and reciprocity.

So sit back and relax and get ready to take notes on this one!


ABOUT:

JEFFREY HAYZLETT - Prime-time TV & Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Global Business Celebrity

A prime-time television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio.

He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders.

Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, former Fortune 100 CMO, and author of four best-selling business books: Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless, Running the Gauntlet, The Mirror Test and The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures.

Hayzlett is one of the most compelling figures in business today and an inductee into the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame. As a leading business expert, Hayzlett is frequently cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week and Chief Executive, among many others.

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]]> 3430 Nick Marvin - Business Consultant What happens when you back yourself on a compelling pursuit of excellence? Our guest, Nick Marvin was born prematurely in India and migrated to Australia, where he started his business journey from zero. He made a name for himself through commitment, hard work and backing himself when others might not have. Nick gained notoriety in WA and across Australia for turning the struggling Perth Wildcats around, both on and off the court to achieve 4 championships in 8 years and make them one of the most profitable sporting businesses in Australia. He has worked with two of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs in Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest Nick believes in the sanctity of goodness and inspiration through excellence. And that we should rejoice in our wins and reflect on our losses. Today he is one of the most sought after business consultants in West Australia. ABOUT: Nick Marvin is a management consultant and non-executive director with over 20 years’ experience across public, private and non-profit organisations. Over the last 12 years he has worked closely with two of Western Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs – Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest – establishing a proven track record of performance. He specialises in organisational transformation through performing teams. Previous roles include chairman of the National Basketball League, managing director of the Perth Wildcats & Perth Lynx, and CEO of World Series Rugby & Western Force. Turnaround of the Wildcats from sustained losses and almost a decade without a championship to its most successful era. Winning four national championships in eight years whilst posting consecutive profits. In 2011, the Wildcats moved from a 4,200 seat stadium to a 13,500 seat Arena which it regularly fills to capacity. It boasts the best attendances and television viewership in the country. He is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Management, a Certified Management Consultant and has an MBA from RMIT University. Author/Journalist – Rolling Stone Magazine, national award recipient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:23:00 -0000 Nick Marvin full 1 7 Dave Clare Back Yourself On A Compelling Pursuit of Excellence What happens when you back yourself on a compelling pursuit of excellence? Our guest, Nick Marvin was born prematurely in India and migrated to Australia, where he started his business journey from zero. He made a name for himself through commitment, hard work and backing himself when others might not have. Nick gained notoriety in WA and across Australia for turning the struggling Perth Wildcats around, both on and off the court to achieve 4 championships in 8 years and make them one of the most profitable sporting businesses in Australia. He has worked with two of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs in Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest Nick believes in the sanctity of goodness and inspiration through excellence. And that we should rejoice in our wins and reflect on our losses. Today he is one of the most sought after business consultants in West Australia. ABOUT: Nick Marvin is a management consultant and non-executive director with over 20 years’ experience across public, private and non-profit organisations. Over the last 12 years he has worked closely with two of Western Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs – Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest – establishing a proven track record of performance. He specialises in organisational transformation through performing teams. Previous roles include chairman of the National Basketball League, managing director of the Perth Wildcats & Perth Lynx, and CEO of World Series Rugby & Western Force. Turnaround of the Wildcats from sustained losses and almost a decade without a championship to its most successful era. Winning four national championships in eight years whilst posting consecutive profits. In 2011, the Wildcats moved from a 4,200 seat stadium to a 13,500 seat Arena which it regularly fills to capacity. It boasts the best attendances and television viewership in the country. He is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Management, a Certified Management Consultant and has an MBA from RMIT University. Author/Journalist – Rolling Stone Magazine, national award recipient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What happens when you back yourself on a compelling pursuit of excellence?

Our guest, Nick Marvin was born prematurely in India and migrated to Australia, where he started his business journey from zero. He made a name for himself through commitment, hard work and backing himself when others might not have. Nick gained notoriety in WA and across Australia for turning the struggling Perth Wildcats around, both on and off the court to achieve 4 championships in 8 years and make them one of the most profitable sporting businesses in Australia.

He has worked with two of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs in Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest

Nick believes in the sanctity of goodness and inspiration through excellence. And that we should rejoice in our wins and reflect on our losses.

Today he is one of the most sought after business consultants in West Australia.

ABOUT:

Nick Marvin is a management consultant and non-executive director with over 20 years’ experience across public, private and non-profit organisations.

Over the last 12 years he has worked closely with two of Western Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs – Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest – establishing a proven track record of performance.

He specialises in organisational transformation through performing teams.

Previous roles include chairman of the National Basketball League, managing director of the Perth Wildcats & Perth Lynx, and CEO of World Series Rugby & Western Force.

Turnaround of the Wildcats from sustained losses and almost a decade without a championship to its most successful era. Winning four national championships in eight years whilst posting consecutive profits. In 2011, the Wildcats moved from a 4,200 seat stadium to a 13,500 seat Arena which it regularly fills to capacity. It boasts the best attendances and television viewership in the country.

He is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Management, a Certified Management Consultant and has an MBA from RMIT University. Author/Journalist – Rolling Stone Magazine, national award recipient.

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]]> 3353 Nathanial Bibby - Bibby Consulting Group Not many businesses make it to 10 years. Our guest on today's podcast is Nathanial Bibby of Bibby Consulting Group who, on the day of recording, were celebrating their 10th anniversary of the beginning of their business. Nat shares with us how he went from broke to starting a business that has generated over $400 million in sales for their clients using LinkedIn strategies alone. He hosts LinkedIn Heroes featuring interviews with entrepreneurs like Grant Cardone, Jules Lund, Kerwin Rae, Jack Delosa, Elena Cardone, Stephanie Rice and Dr John Demartini. Enjoy the journey from desperation to inspiration off the back of a lot of perspiration, with Nat Bibby. ABOUT: Nathanial Bibby is the Managing Director of Bibby Consulting Group, a global digital marketing consulting firm which has built a reputation of delivering cutting-edge strategies including Australia’s first LinkedIn lead generation service. Nathanial won "Best Use of LinkedIn" at the Social Media Marketing Awards 2019. The Social Media Marketing Institute recently ranked Nathanial Number #1 on their "Top 20 LinkedIn Experts in Asia Pacific 2019".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0000 Nathanial Bibby full 1 6 Dave Clare A Journey from Desperation to Inspiration With A Lot Of Perspiration (Hard Work). Not many businesses make it to 10 years. Our guest on today's podcast is Nathanial Bibby of Bibby Consulting Group who, on the day of recording, were celebrating their 10th anniversary of the beginning of their business. Nat shares with us how he went from broke to starting a business that has generated over $400 million in sales for their clients using LinkedIn strategies alone. He hosts LinkedIn Heroes featuring interviews with entrepreneurs like Grant Cardone, Jules Lund, Kerwin Rae, Jack Delosa, Elena Cardone, Stephanie Rice and Dr John Demartini. Enjoy the journey from desperation to inspiration off the back of a lot of perspiration, with Nat Bibby. ABOUT: Nathanial Bibby is the Managing Director of Bibby Consulting Group, a global digital marketing consulting firm which has built a reputation of delivering cutting-edge strategies including Australia’s first LinkedIn lead generation service. Nathanial won "Best Use of LinkedIn" at the Social Media Marketing Awards 2019. The Social Media Marketing Institute recently ranked Nathanial Number #1 on their "Top 20 LinkedIn Experts in Asia Pacific 2019".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Not many businesses make it to 10 years. Our guest on today's podcast is Nathanial Bibby of Bibby Consulting Group who, on the day of recording, were celebrating their 10th anniversary of the beginning of their business.

Nat shares with us how he went from broke to starting a business that has generated over $400 million in sales for their clients using LinkedIn strategies alone. He hosts LinkedIn Heroes featuring interviews with entrepreneurs like Grant Cardone, Jules Lund, Kerwin Rae, Jack Delosa, Elena Cardone, Stephanie Rice and Dr John Demartini.

Enjoy the journey from desperation to inspiration off the back of a lot of perspiration, with Nat Bibby.

ABOUT:

Nathanial Bibby is the Managing Director of Bibby Consulting Group, a global digital marketing consulting firm which has built a reputation of delivering cutting-edge strategies including Australia’s first LinkedIn lead generation service.

Nathanial won "Best Use of LinkedIn" at the Social Media Marketing Awards 2019.

The Social Media Marketing Institute recently ranked Nathanial Number #1 on their "Top 20 LinkedIn Experts in Asia Pacific 2019".  

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]]> 3783 Michael Lane - Success Resources What happens when you are young and full of ego and living the dream, and feel you deserve success, but you haven't done your Entrepreneurial apprenticeship? It all unravels just as quick. However, when you bounce back, invest in yourself, learn, do the work and work hard, you can bounce back just like our guest Michael Lane. After travelling with, and embracing the learnings of Dr. John Demartini, Michael dissolved his ego (most of it) and shifted his focus from income to impact. Now he rubs shoulders with Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Sir Richard Branson and others just like them. When you rub shoulders with these giants in their fields, somethings bound to rub off on you...wisdom. Listen to Michael's story of how he has been organizing events for 17 years which equates to connecting over 12 million people globally with the greatest business and personal development educators and leaders of our time, while he runs multiple businesses that transact over $200 million in revenue per year. ABOUT: Michael Lane: Director, Success Resources Michael is a loving husband, proud father and a keen golfer, and loves living close to the beach in sunny Sydney, Australia. Michael is an Australian entrepreneur and the Director of Success Resources, the world’s largest provider of educational events featuring world-class speakers such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki, to name only a few. Michael is a leader who is passionate about education. He is an expert in the touring business and a master at relationship building. With many of his businesses, he collaborates with a wide spectrum of well-known influencers and experts. At Success Resources, he has been organising events for 17 years which equates to connecting over 12 million people globally with the greatest business and personal development educators and leaders of our time. Aside from Success Resources, Michael is involved with three other companies in the areas of financial services, recruitment and digital media that transact over $200 million in revenue per year.  Social Media Accounts: Instagram: @itsmichaellane Facebook: @itsmichaellane LinkedIn: Michael Lane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:43:00 -0000 Michael Lane full 1 5 Dave Clare How Hard Work, Ego and Quick Success Can Unravel When You Don't Do Your Entrepreneurial Apprenticeship. What happens when you are young and full of ego and living the dream, and feel you deserve success, but you haven't done your Entrepreneurial apprenticeship? It all unravels just as quick. However, when you bounce back, invest in yourself, learn, do the work and work hard, you can bounce back just like our guest Michael Lane. After travelling with, and embracing the learnings of Dr. John Demartini, Michael dissolved his ego (most of it) and shifted his focus from income to impact. Now he rubs shoulders with Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Sir Richard Branson and others just like them. When you rub shoulders with these giants in their fields, somethings bound to rub off on you...wisdom. Listen to Michael's story of how he has been organizing events for 17 years which equates to connecting over 12 million people globally with the greatest business and personal development educators and leaders of our time, while he runs multiple businesses that transact over $200 million in revenue per year. ABOUT: Michael Lane: Director, Success Resources Michael is a loving husband, proud father and a keen golfer, and loves living close to the beach in sunny Sydney, Australia. Michael is an Australian entrepreneur and the Director of Success Resources, the world’s largest provider of educational events featuring world-class speakers such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki, to name only a few. Michael is a leader who is passionate about education. He is an expert in the touring business and a master at relationship building. With many of his businesses, he collaborates with a wide spectrum of well-known influencers and experts. At Success Resources, he has been organising events for 17 years which equates to connecting over 12 million people globally with the greatest business and personal development educators and leaders of our time. Aside from Success Resources, Michael is involved with three other companies in the areas of financial services, recruitment and digital media that transact over $200 million in revenue per year.  Social Media Accounts: Instagram: @itsmichaellane Facebook: @itsmichaellane LinkedIn: Michael Lane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What happens when you are young and full of ego and living the dream, and feel you deserve success, but you haven't done your Entrepreneurial apprenticeship? It all unravels just as quick. However, when you bounce back, invest in yourself, learn, do the work and work hard, you can bounce back just like our guest Michael Lane.

After travelling with, and embracing the learnings of Dr. John Demartini, Michael dissolved his ego (most of it) and shifted his focus from income to impact.

Now he rubs shoulders with Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Sir Richard Branson and others just like them. When you rub shoulders with these giants in their fields, somethings bound to rub off on you...wisdom.

Listen to Michael's story of how he has been organizing events for 17 years which equates to connecting over 12 million people globally with the greatest business and personal development educators and leaders of our time, while he runs multiple businesses that transact over $200 million in revenue per year.


ABOUT:

Michael Lane: Director, Success Resources

Michael is a loving husband, proud father and a keen golfer, and loves living close to the beach in sunny Sydney, Australia.

Michael is an Australian entrepreneur and the Director of Success Resources, the world’s largest provider of educational events featuring world-class speakers such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki, to name only a few.

Michael is a leader who is passionate about education. He is an expert in the touring business and a master at relationship building. With many of his businesses, he collaborates with a wide spectrum of well-known influencers and experts.

At Success Resources, he has been organising events for 17 years which equates to connecting over 12 million people globally with the greatest business and personal development educators and leaders of our time.

Aside from Success Resources, Michael is involved with three other companies in the areas of financial services, recruitment and digital media that transact over $200 million in revenue per year. 

Social Media Accounts:

Instagram: @itsmichaellane

Facebook: @itsmichaellane

LinkedIn: Michael Lane

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]]> 3322 Duncan Wardle - Creativity, Imagination and Intuition in Business Duncan Wardle truly believes that we are all born creative. We are born with amazing imaginations, are full of curiosity, and carry this remarkable built-in tool known as intuition. But somewhere along the way, these four fundamental skills begin to disappear. As we grow, go to school, and eventually move on to corporate life, these traits become diluted – and for some – even go mute. His mission is to remind everyone of these core skill sets we are born with, and teach people how to use these skills to innovate business. He sees his daily responsibility in simple terms: help people and businesses tap into their inner entrepreneur, giving them a simple set of tools that everyone can use to innovate at scale. ABOUT: As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan led the team that helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new story-lines and experiences for consumers around the globe. As founder of iD8 & innov8 he now brings his extensive Disney experience as an Innovation Speaker delivering keynotes, workshops and ideation forums, around the globe helping companies embed a culture of innovation into everyone’s DNA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:27:26 -0000 Duncan Wardle full 1 4 Dave Clare How looking in new and unusual places uncovered insights for innovation and put Buzz Lightyear into space. Duncan Wardle truly believes that we are all born creative. We are born with amazing imaginations, are full of curiosity, and carry this remarkable built-in tool known as intuition. But somewhere along the way, these four fundamental skills begin to disappear. As we grow, go to school, and eventually move on to corporate life, these traits become diluted – and for some – even go mute. His mission is to remind everyone of these core skill sets we are born with, and teach people how to use these skills to innovate business. He sees his daily responsibility in simple terms: help people and businesses tap into their inner entrepreneur, giving them a simple set of tools that everyone can use to innovate at scale. ABOUT: As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan led the team that helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new story-lines and experiences for consumers around the globe. As founder of iD8 & innov8 he now brings his extensive Disney experience as an Innovation Speaker delivering keynotes, workshops and ideation forums, around the globe helping companies embed a culture of innovation into everyone’s DNA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Duncan Wardle truly believes that we are all born creative. We are born with amazing imaginations, are full of curiosity, and carry this remarkable built-in tool known as intuition.

But somewhere along the way, these four fundamental skills begin to disappear. As we grow, go to school, and eventually move on to corporate life, these traits become diluted – and for some – even go mute.

His mission is to remind everyone of these core skill sets we are born with, and teach people how to use these skills to innovate business. He sees his daily responsibility in simple terms: help people and businesses tap into their inner entrepreneur, giving them a simple set of tools that everyone can use to innovate at scale.

ABOUT:

As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan led the team that helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new story-lines and experiences for consumers around the globe. As founder of iD8 & innov8 he now brings his extensive Disney experience as an Innovation Speaker delivering keynotes, workshops and ideation forums, around the globe helping companies embed a culture of innovation into everyone’s DNA.


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]]> 3954 Dr. Glen Richards - Founding Managing Director of Greencross This episode is an adventure in ambition and passion. Our guest, Dr. Glen Richards takes us on a journey from rural northern Queensland, to working in the UK, travelling through Europe and back to Queensland. His lessons, the failures and success, from buying a veterinary clinic in Townsville at the age of 27 through to building a pet care empire and becoming a Shark on Australia's Shark Tank are non-stop through this podcast. Dr. Glen shares his shift in thinking from a Vet to a business owner and then to a CEO. He highlights the power of transformational thinking and the importance of developing networks of support services, business plans and a team of mentors. He also highlights the three key types of people you need in your business and why trying to be all three isn't effective. Finally he shares his view on why businesses should be doing quarterly strategic resets. ABOUT: A devoted family man. Married with his three daughters. Still lives in Queensland. His love for animals continues with 3 dogs and 3 horses to keep the family company. Founding Managing Director of Greencross. Was the Co-founder and Director of Mammoth Pet Holdings Pty Ltd (Petbarn) before it merged with Greencross. Grew up on a grazing property near Richmond NW Qld is where his love and passion for animals began. His parents owned a number of properties and farmed sheep and cattle. At 27, bought a small vet practice in Townsville Within 10 short years, had developed five vet clinics and a large format pet store in Townsville as well as two veterinary hospitals in China. From there, he went on to build a multi million-dollar integrated pet care empire, which now operates more than 200 veterinary hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. Greencross is also Australasia’s leading specialty pet care retailer, with more than 300 stores operating under the brand names Petbarn and City Farmers in Australia and Animates in New Zealand. The company employs over 6000 employees including veterinarians, nurses, retail team members and managers. Since moving from an executive role, Glen spends his time as a professional investor, mentor, and director with a number of companies and his favourite area of interest is helping to scale up health and allied health companies. Chairman of ASX-listed companies Healthia and People Infrastructure. Chairman of two private companies Cardionexus and Naturo Technologies Non-executive director of SmartVet, Petsure (Australia) and Adventure Holdings Australia (Oztrail and Companion). More recently known for his role as an investor and his time on Shark Tank Australia Continues to help foster early stage businesses including his Shark Tank investments through active mentoring, investing and strategic planning sessions. He regularly does public appearances and speaking engagements in the business community to share his scaling up story and his V4P message (Vision, Planning, People, Patience, Passion).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:11:00 -0000 Dr. Glen Richards full 1 1 Dave Clare How, ambition, a train ride through Europe with a bottle of Vodka and a love for Animals led to building a pet care empire. This episode is an adventure in ambition and passion. Our guest, Dr. Glen Richards takes us on a journey from rural northern Queensland, to working in the UK, travelling through Europe and back to Queensland. His lessons, the failures and success, from buying a veterinary clinic in Townsville at the age of 27 through to building a pet care empire and becoming a Shark on Australia's Shark Tank are non-stop through this podcast. Dr. Glen shares his shift in thinking from a Vet to a business owner and then to a CEO. He highlights the power of transformational thinking and the importance of developing networks of support services, business plans and a team of mentors. He also highlights the three key types of people you need in your business and why trying to be all three isn't effective. Finally he shares his view on why businesses should be doing quarterly strategic resets. ABOUT: A devoted family man. Married with his three daughters. Still lives in Queensland. His love for animals continues with 3 dogs and 3 horses to keep the family company. Founding Managing Director of Greencross. Was the Co-founder and Director of Mammoth Pet Holdings Pty Ltd (Petbarn) before it merged with Greencross. Grew up on a grazing property near Richmond NW Qld is where his love and passion for animals began. His parents owned a number of properties and farmed sheep and cattle. At 27, bought a small vet practice in Townsville Within 10 short years, had developed five vet clinics and a large format pet store in Townsville as well as two veterinary hospitals in China. From there, he went on to build a multi million-dollar integrated pet care empire, which now operates more than 200 veterinary hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. Greencross is also Australasia’s leading specialty pet care retailer, with more than 300 stores operating under the brand names Petbarn and City Farmers in Australia and Animates in New Zealand. The company employs over 6000 employees including veterinarians, nurses, retail team members and managers. Since moving from an executive role, Glen spends his time as a professional investor, mentor, and director with a number of companies and his favourite area of interest is helping to scale up health and allied health companies. Chairman of ASX-listed companies Healthia and People Infrastructure. Chairman of two private companies Cardionexus and Naturo Technologies Non-executive director of SmartVet, Petsure (Australia) and Adventure Holdings Australia (Oztrail and Companion). More recently known for his role as an investor and his time on Shark Tank Australia Continues to help foster early stage businesses including his Shark Tank investments through active mentoring, investing and strategic planning sessions. He regularly does public appearances and speaking engagements in the business community to share his scaling up story and his V4P message (Vision, Planning, People, Patience, Passion).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode is an adventure in ambition and passion.

Our guest, Dr. Glen Richards takes us on a journey from rural northern Queensland, to working in the UK, travelling through Europe and back to Queensland. His lessons, the failures and success, from buying a veterinary clinic in Townsville at the age of 27 through to building a pet care empire and becoming a Shark on Australia's Shark Tank are non-stop through this podcast.

Dr. Glen shares his shift in thinking from a Vet to a business owner and then to a CEO. He highlights the power of transformational thinking and the importance of developing networks of support services, business plans and a team of mentors.

He also highlights the three key types of people you need in your business and why trying to be all three isn't effective.

Finally he shares his view on why businesses should be doing quarterly strategic resets.


ABOUT:

A devoted family man. Married with his three daughters. Still lives in Queensland.

His love for animals continues with 3 dogs and 3 horses to keep the family company.

Founding Managing Director of Greencross. Was the Co-founder and Director of Mammoth Pet Holdings Pty Ltd (Petbarn) before it merged with Greencross.

Grew up on a grazing property near Richmond NW Qld is where his love and passion for animals began. His parents owned a number of properties and farmed sheep and cattle.

At 27, bought a small vet practice in Townsville

Within 10 short years, had developed five vet clinics and a large format pet store in Townsville as well as two veterinary hospitals in China.

From there, he went on to build a multi million-dollar integrated pet care empire, which now operates more than 200 veterinary hospitals in Australia and New Zealand.

Greencross is also Australasia’s leading specialty pet care retailer, with more than 300 stores operating under the brand names Petbarn and City Farmers in Australia and Animates in New Zealand. The company employs over 6000 employees including veterinarians, nurses, retail team members and managers.

Since moving from an executive role, Glen spends his time as a professional investor, mentor, and director with a number of companies and his favourite area of interest is helping to scale up health and allied health companies.

Chairman of ASX-listed companies Healthia and People Infrastructure.

Chairman of two private companies Cardionexus and Naturo Technologies

Non-executive director of SmartVet, Petsure (Australia) and Adventure Holdings Australia (Oztrail and Companion).

More recently known for his role as an investor and his time on Shark Tank Australia

Continues to help foster early stage businesses including his Shark Tank investments through active mentoring, investing and strategic planning sessions. He regularly does public appearances and speaking engagements in the business community to share his scaling up story and his V4P message (Vision, Planning, People, Patience, Passion). 

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]]> 3833 Levi Saunders - SEO, Lead Conversion & Optimization What Does a Multi-level Marketer, a Male Stripper, a Teacher and an Expert in SEO All Have in Common? Well they are all part of the journey of evolution of this episodes guest, Levi Saunders. Levi takes us on an epic journey to how he found his passion for business. It all starts with joining a multi-level marketing company and ends up co-founding one of Australia's top digital agencies. It's one heck of a ride with so many powerful lessons learned at every stage of the way. This is one episode you won't want to miss. ABOUT: Levi Saunders is Co-Founder of Digital Hitmen. He has several far reaching achievements, both far and wide through the online realm. Through dedication and hardwork, Levi and his business partner Brad have taken Digital Hitmen to be one of the top agencies in WA and across Australia. He is the co-owner of several businesses including an online flooring store, decorative concrete paving and a classic car charter service. Using his extensive SEO skills and expertise, Levi and his team have acquired thousands of leads for their own business and their clients. When it comes to generating leads, or a website, or just improving our conversion rate, Levi Saunders is the go-to guy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 07 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0000 Levi Saunders full 1 2 Dave Clare What Does a Multi-level Marketer, a Male Stripper, a Teacher and an Expert in SEO All Have in Common? What Does a Multi-level Marketer, a Male Stripper, a Teacher and an Expert in SEO All Have in Common? Well they are all part of the journey of evolution of this episodes guest, Levi Saunders. Levi takes us on an epic journey to how he found his passion for business. It all starts with joining a multi-level marketing company and ends up co-founding one of Australia's top digital agencies. It's one heck of a ride with so many powerful lessons learned at every stage of the way. This is one episode you won't want to miss. ABOUT: Levi Saunders is Co-Founder of Digital Hitmen. He has several far reaching achievements, both far and wide through the online realm. Through dedication and hardwork, Levi and his business partner Brad have taken Digital Hitmen to be one of the top agencies in WA and across Australia. He is the co-owner of several businesses including an online flooring store, decorative concrete paving and a classic car charter service. Using his extensive SEO skills and expertise, Levi and his team have acquired thousands of leads for their own business and their clients. When it comes to generating leads, or a website, or just improving our conversion rate, Levi Saunders is the go-to guy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What Does a Multi-level Marketer, a Male Stripper, a Teacher and an Expert in SEO All Have in Common?

Well they are all part of the journey of evolution of this episodes guest, Levi Saunders. Levi takes us on an epic journey to how he found his passion for business. It all starts with joining a multi-level marketing company and ends up co-founding one of Australia's top digital agencies.

It's one heck of a ride with so many powerful lessons learned at every stage of the way. This is one episode you won't want to miss.

ABOUT:

Levi Saunders is Co-Founder of Digital Hitmen. He has several far reaching achievements, both far and wide through the online realm. Through dedication and hardwork, Levi and his business partner Brad have taken Digital Hitmen to be one of the top agencies in WA and across Australia. He is the co-owner of several businesses including an online flooring store, decorative concrete paving and a classic car charter service.

Using his extensive SEO skills and expertise, Levi and his team have acquired thousands of leads for their own business and their clients.

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]]> 3432 Andrew Priestley - Business Coach When you set your goal to make a six-figure income and have a nice lifestyle, instead of setting a goal for a nice lifestyle and a six-figure income you end up doing circles on a Brisbane bridge. Listen to Andrew as he shares this confronting moment that literally turned his life around. After taking on Rupert Murdoch (not directly) in the publishing and printing space (we all know who won that race), Andrew set himself on a course to a very successful business, so much so that others sought him out to coach them on how to do something similar. Now as one of UK's top Business Coach's, he is the author of four best-selling books and loves to dabble in the culinary arts. Keep your notepad and pen handy, as Andrew drops several nuggets in this episode. He shares the importance of values and purpose in his own evolution as well as learning to make better choices. ABOUT ANDREW: Andrew Priestley is a entrepreneurial leadership mentor, the best selling author of four books and in-demand paid speaker.  His company The Coaching Experience is celebrating 21 years in business coaching and mentoring. He is the founder of Leadership Gigs a global business leadership forum and he is a visiting lecturer at CASS London School of Business in Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is also the Chairman of Clear Sky Childrens Charity UK and is an advisor for The Mahler Foundation. Apart from that his side hustle is publishing business books ... and cooking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 07 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0000 Andrew Priestley full 1 3 Dave Clare Taking on Kerry Packer and Doing U-turns in Life. When you set your goal to make a six-figure income and have a nice lifestyle, instead of setting a goal for a nice lifestyle and a six-figure income you end up doing circles on a Brisbane bridge. Listen to Andrew as he shares this confronting moment that literally turned his life around. After taking on Rupert Murdoch (not directly) in the publishing and printing space (we all know who won that race), Andrew set himself on a course to a very successful business, so much so that others sought him out to coach them on how to do something similar. Now as one of UK's top Business Coach's, he is the author of four best-selling books and loves to dabble in the culinary arts. Keep your notepad and pen handy, as Andrew drops several nuggets in this episode. He shares the importance of values and purpose in his own evolution as well as learning to make better choices. ABOUT ANDREW: Andrew Priestley is a entrepreneurial leadership mentor, the best selling author of four books and in-demand paid speaker.  His company The Coaching Experience is celebrating 21 years in business coaching and mentoring. He is the founder of Leadership Gigs a global business leadership forum and he is a visiting lecturer at CASS London School of Business in Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is also the Chairman of Clear Sky Childrens Charity UK and is an advisor for The Mahler Foundation. Apart from that his side hustle is publishing business books ... and cooking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When you set your goal to make a six-figure income and have a nice lifestyle, instead of setting a goal for a nice lifestyle and a six-figure income you end up doing circles on a Brisbane bridge.

Listen to Andrew as he shares this confronting moment that literally turned his life around. After taking on Rupert Murdoch (not directly) in the publishing and printing space (we all know who won that race), Andrew set himself on a course to a very successful business, so much so that others sought him out to coach them on how to do something similar.

Now as one of UK's top Business Coach's, he is the author of four best-selling books and loves to dabble in the culinary arts.

Keep your notepad and pen handy, as Andrew drops several nuggets in this episode. He shares the importance of values and purpose in his own evolution as well as learning to make better choices.

ABOUT ANDREW:

Andrew Priestley is a entrepreneurial leadership mentor, the best selling author of four books and in-demand paid speaker. 

His company The Coaching Experience is celebrating 21 years in business coaching and mentoring. He is the founder of Leadership Gigs a global business leadership forum and he is a visiting lecturer at CASS London School of Business in Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is also the Chairman of Clear Sky Childrens Charity UK and is an advisor for The Mahler Foundation.

Apart from that his side hustle is publishing business books ... and cooking.

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