Let's Get Fresh: Recent Episodes
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Darren Kelk (a.k.a ‘His Royal Freshness’) is a networker extraordinaire, travel agent and the founder of Fresh Networking, Melbourne’s fastest growing business networking group. HRF is on a mission to create a community of better business owners through the awesome power of networking. In ‘Let’s Get Fresh’ he and his team invite a cast of fascinating guests to share their stories, in a right royal feast of entertainment, inspiration and positivity.
You only get one 8th birthday! Well, break out the streamers and candles because at Fresh Networking it's our year for it.
This is particularly worth celebrating in business as we've all heard about the seven year itch. Staying relevant, 'fresh' and excited long-term takes commitment, dedication and effort. Three cheers for Fresh as it leaves that 'itch' behind and rolls into seven years feeling vibrant and accomplished. This episode is a birthday celebration to reflect on the eight years of beginning something new (the very first Fresh get-together where it all began), right through to the building of an entire nationwide (and somewhat international) community. The lessons learned, the skills acquired, the peaks, the troughs, the friendships, the experiences and most of all the business support, education and exponential growth.
Tiffanee Cook (the Host and Producer of Let's Get Fresh) speaks to Darren Kelk (His Royal Freshness, the Founder of Fresh) about the journey and amidst this conversation you'll hear snippets of feedback from a handful of our members - Laura Litcanu, Sana Hosseini, Shaun Resnik, Jo Fisher, Hayley Meeking and Emily Potter. If there's one thing we love at Fresh amidst all the grown-up stuff around business and networking, it's the fun, friendships and the celebration of our successes along the way... so we invite you to pour yourself a birthday champagne and sit in on the party with this episode.
Sponsored By Darren Kelk | Travel Managers Australia | www.travelmanagers.com.au/ptm/DarrenKelk/
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Well this episode is a great pump-you-up story of small business putting it’s big business pants on and taking Australia by storm. You might be familiar with Kate Save who appeared on the Australian Shark Tank back in 2017. Well today as Kate heads up Be Fit Food, which is now one of Australia’s largest healthy food distribution services, we are chatting about her journey of how it all started... the three humble years of passionate grinding away to provide a Kate knew her clients needed and then that moment of courage, chance and action that saw the business multiply beyond expectation (and preparation) when Boost Juice’s Janine Allis put her dollars and her faith into Kate’s business. This is one of those stories that as a small business owner, sole trader or entrepreneur has the potential to fuel YOU to take action, keep striving or look at the process you’re likely in the middle of and realise we are all just one decision or action away from exploding our business through the roof (metaphorically, of course). If you need to hear the message ‘you can’t fail if you never give up’ then buckle up because there’s all that and more in this episode. I LOVED it, and I’m sure you will too. Sponsored By Darren Kelk | Travel Managers Australia | www.travelmanagers.com.au/ptm/DarrenKelk/ Check out Fresh Networking and visit a café or online hub today www.freshnetworking.com.au
Five seconds can make or break us. Five seconds can be a fleeting moment or can feel like an eternity. A lot can happen in five seconds but it’s how we prepare for that five seconds that counts. Today’s guest Derrick McManus was perforated 14 times in under five seconds when 14 of the 18 bullets fired at him from a semi automatic assault rifle hit their target. He lay on the ground bleeding to death for three hours before his counterparts could safely get to him. It is what he did leading up to this moment that allowed Derrick to live to tell this story and believe it or not there is a lot of valuable wisdom we as business owners can draw from his training and experience.
Derrick was a South Australian Police officer operating in the elite Special Tasks And Rescue (STAR) Group. He held specialist skills as a sniper, diver and was trained by the military elite Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) in counter-terrorist tactics. This is a physically, mentally and emotionally demanding environment. It is an extreme, potentially overwhelming, volatile environment in every way. Derrick had proactively prepared himself physically, mentally and emotionally for the challenges he could expect as a result of the choices he had made. He took responsibility for his actions and for all possible consequences. Today he is sharing his insights in how we as business owners can physically, mentally and emotionally prepare ourselves for what we may expect to encounter in the world of business and life.
Sponsored By Darren Kelk | Travel Managers Australia | www.travelmanagers.com.au/ptm/DarrenKelk/
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This is a super fun episode about the somewhat mystical topic of marketing. If you own a business or work in a business or offer a professional service then guess what... marketing matters?
But, what is marketing and what isn't?
Does it require a specific budget?
How does marketing bleed into the interactions our clients and customers have with our business and team?
Can we market for free or does it need to cost an arm and a leg?
Is it actually measurable?
These are some of the questions I fire and the effervescent Tim Reid who has earned himself quite the reputation in the business and marketing space in Australia. Host of the Australia's #1 business marketing podcast, aptly named the Small Business Big Marketing podcast Tim Reid has worked in some of the most reputable large marketing agencies and gained himself traction in the media as a voice worth listening to... and so, let's listen to it shall we??
Sponsored By Krys Sutton | The CRM Team | www.crmteam.com.au
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As you (hopefully) know by now, our values at Fresh revolve heavily around community, teamwork and personal growth. So in line with this, we wanted to open the educational door for a casual conversation around inclusion and equity both in our businesses and in our personal lives.
Why? Well for a start, research shows that gender diversity in business results in a 15% increase to profitability. In addition to that,we are living amidst an evolving landscape of terminology and language, and in order to continue to build strong relationships in business (and life) and to provide safe, inclusive environments resulting in high performing businesses and opportunities, it is important that we have an awareness on and a desire to learn about how our language and labelling might positively or negatively affect our team members, colleagues, clients and customers.
Now, as I host this conversation I'll be the first to raise my hand to admit that with all the best of intentions, I'm still wearing my LGBTQI and gender identity 'L' plates and I certainly ride the clutch a number of times as we discuss some of the nuances of pronouns, gender and personal identity. I hope we open the door slightly for those who are not familiar and perhaps tentative when it comes to how to address our LGBTQI friends.
Sponsored By Daniel Vicino | Spire Business Services | www.spire-business.com.au
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What makes people tick? What's behind decisions that defy logic? And how can we apply what we know about this to our branding and culture as a business?
Let's ask Dan Monheit, who's curiosity lives and breathes at the intersection of creativity and behavioural science. Dan is on a mission to help more business leaders, marketers and brands understand why people do the things that they do. His expertise in this space has seen him present on the topic to thousands of people, both locally, and at major international events including SXSW in Austin Texas.
I think you're going to love this episode.. I know I learned a thing or two. And hey while I've got you here, can I ask a favour? (that will make sense once you've listen in)
Enjoy!
Sponsored By Darren Kelk | Travel Managers Australia | www.travelmanagers.com.au/ptm/DarrenKelk/
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Give yourself permission to do something extraordinary in business. These are the words of the world renowned Dr. John Demartini who joins me in today's podcast. A man who is best known for his work around 'values', so of course we explore this topic and (pardon the pun) value is precisely what it brings to the table.
How often do we take the time to understand what values drive the people who drive our business? Dr. Demartini shares his method for understanding potential team members values in the recruitment stage and how imperative this is for the success of our business. He also shares his 'how to scale up your business' in great detail and if you're a solopreneur or small business this is going to be a gold mine!
So go on, give yourself permission to do something extraordinary in business and tune in for this episode.
Sponsored By Darren Kelk | Travel Managers Australia | www.travelmanagers.com.au/ptm/DarrenKelk/
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The initial thought that came to mind when I planned on speaking to the former Facebook Aus/NZ CEO was all about creating a culture and fitting in to an established company culture. When Stephen was onboarded as Facebook's CEO he was almost double the average age of the rest of the company. So naturally I was fascinated to get some insight from Stephen around what he learned going into this experience. How to fit in, influence and lead an established company.
Further to this however, Stephen is a gold mine of experience and wisdom around leadership (his philosophy on this is a cracker), knowing what makes a great idea succeed or fail, creating a culture bigger than one person (for us solo-preneurs) and the power of great branding and great marketing.
It's fair to say I'm chuffed to bring you this episode, grab a pen and paper and get ready to learn :)
Sponsored By Darren Kelk | Travel Managers Australia | www.travelmanagers.com.au/ptm/DarrenKelk/
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Mark LeBusque joins us today to talk about his experience going from being a corporate employee, to building his own independent business. As most of us can relate, there are a whole lot of lessons that smack us between the eyes (from seemingly nowhere) when we decide to walk this new and exciting path in business and I absolutely loved chatting about this with Mark. From his realisation around the need to treat humans in the workplace like... well, humans! To stepping into vulnerability when it comes to learning how to build relationships in a business and networking sense. We talk about the mistakes we've made and the value of the discomfort we have stepped into along the way. Oh and by the way, Mark is a human-focused leadership mentor and coach so in my opinion, he was the perfect choice for this particular conversation.
Mark LeBusque | www.marklebusque.com
This episode is sponsored by: Collab Agency | David Gaff - www.collabagency.com.au
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Join 'His Royal Freshness' Darren Kelk, Founder of Fresh Networking and Shaun Resnik, founding member on the couch as LGF host, Tiffanee Cook asks the hard hitting question on everybody's lips... 'Is networking a dirty word?' Go on and admit it, you've likely turned your nose up at the idea of networking at some point (maybe you still do). Well we are here in this episode to sit beside you and say that 'we all did too' at some point.
This episode is a casual get-to-know-us chat around networking in general and our own experiences with it. Why Fresh is different, what we have learned, how we have evolved personally and professionally through networking and why it's a non-negotiable in our business and personal lives.
Don't worry, we're not here to 'sell you' into the network. We just want to share some great resources to help entrepreneurs and businesses to thrive.
This episode is sponsored by: Aussie Home Loans South Yarra | Sana Hosseini
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