Coffee Pods with Holly Ransom: Recent Episodes
Holly Ransom
Coffee Pods is a podcast designed to fuel your difference by by opening up access to the insights, stories and experiences of remarkable people, who've marched to the beat of their own drum and created a positive butterfly effect in their wake. We believe that in the mere amount of time it takes to have a cup of coffee with someone we can learn from a lifetime of experience. So, come have a coffee break with us, and get the inspirational fuel and practical toolkit you need to be the change you want to see in your life, organisation or community
Thank you for being loyal listeners to the Coffee Pods series. I've missed you! We will be relaunching in 2022. In the meantime, why not hop across to my new series, Energy Trailblazers, produced in partnership with the Energy Disruptor gang over in Canada, and powered by EY.
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Meet Advance Awards Life Sciences Category Finalist, Dr Sandro Demaio.
A public health advocate and sustainable food architect, Dr Alessandro (Sandro) Demaio founded his career using nutrition as a platform for social change. As a recognised global expert and now CEO of VicHealth, Sandro speaks to the three biggest threats for Australians: climate change, obesity and chronic disease. Amplifying the science of his medical background with an art for public presence, Sandro has become a popular figure across broadcast TV, online editorial, news commentary forums and even a cookbook publication. Whether working alongside the Victorian Government at VicHealth, advising the World Health Organisation, co-authoring global reports with UNICEF, co-founding the social movement NCDFREE to engage young leaders from across the world, or founding the biennial festival21, a free event celebrating food and ideas, Sandro is as passionate as he is pragmatic.
A former World Health Organization medical officer who trained and worked at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital, Dr Sandro Demaio’s international perspective has been informed by a decade working across the globe. During his time as CEO of Oslo-based EAT Foundation, he oversaw the launch of the EAT-Lancet Commission; a scientific commission that led to a global conversation around healthy and sustainable diets, including launch events at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and more than 40 other global locations. This report became one of the most discussed pieces of science globally in 2019. Sandro led the Lancet Series on Nutrition and was a central architect in the formation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition. During the COVID-19 crisis, Sandro has been seconded to assist the COVID-19 Department Incident Management Team as the (part-time) Deputy Public Health Commander.
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Not only has Dr Rossa Chiu won numerous international awards including the Advance Asia Impact Award 2020, she also has over 485 patents to her name. A specialist in molecular signatures as a chemical pathologist, Rossa moved to Hong Kong immediately after graduating from the University of Queensland to work in her dream job - researching non-invasive prenatal testing procedures, detecting any abnormalities in unborn babies.
Today, Dr Rossa Chiu is a professor in the department of chemical pathology and Associate Dean for Development at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Rossa is determined to detect early cancer, saying "Very often people only learn about their cancer when they start to become unwell". Rossa and her team have translated their learnings from prenatal detection to bring forward the diagnostic timeline for cancer detection in order to save lives via a simple blood test. At any one time, among every one thousand individuals, there are two persons with known cancer, and only fifty percent of cancer patients survive beyond ten years.
How does Australia's leading cancer researcher keep an eye on IP opportunities while changing diagnostic practices? And why does she consider raising her kids to be the most difficult research project yet?
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Two preeminent female professors discuss careers in science and leadership in #STEMM reflecting on what the world needs today. Thanks to #COVID there has never been a better time to be talking about the relevance of research, diversity in science, and the interconnectedness of public health microbial health and climate science. The qualities of resilience and integrity come through strongly and both Professors advocate passionately for ways to see more women leading organisations in #STEMM.
Meet Professor Karen Day – the Advanced Life Sciences Award winner in 2015.
Professor Karen Day is an infectious disease epidemiologist dedicated to improving global public health. She is a microbe hunter describing the diversity of malaria parasites globally to improve disease surveillance and control. She has extensive international experience leading field programmes in malaria endemic areas of East, West and Southern Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and South America. She is a founder of the scientific discipline of malaria genomic epidemiology. She has a strong track record of mentoring junior scientists.
Professor Day is also an experienced educator and academic administrator in medicine and science having held senior leadership posts in universities in the UK, US and Australia. Highlights include being recruited to University of Oxford in 1993 where she was soon promoted to Professor for her scholarship and leadership. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, having been one of the first women science “dons” at that College.
From 2004-13, Professor Day led the development of interdisciplinary global public health programs as Director of the Institute of Urban and Global Health at New York University. Most recently she has been the Dean of Science at University of Melbourne. Her profile as a manager is a change agent, building new enterprises and restructuring to improve organizational achievement. She now continues her malaria epidemiology research at the University of Melbourne.
Meet Professor Jill Banfield, the Advance Life Sciences 2020 Award Winner.
A mineralogist-turned-microbiologist, Professor Jill Banfield has made outstanding contributions to our knowledge of the structure of microbial communities in natural environments and the human body.
Her pioneering work created the platform to explore the role of gut bacteria in health and disease in humans.
Her contributions to geosciences are also significant, culminating with her recognition by the American Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and Australian Academy of Science.
In addition to being a brilliant and distinguished scientist, Jill is a wise and generous mentor.
She has trained many of the up-and-coming stars of her field and has strongly supported their career advancement.
Born in Armidale, Jill Banfield was educated at the Australian National University where she completed her bachelor's and master's degree, before gaining a PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.
Jill was a faculty member between 1990 – 2001 at University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of Tokyo.
Since 2001, she has been a researcher and professor at the University of California Berkeley with an appointment in the earth and environmental sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Jill leads the Microbial Research initiative within the Innovative Genomics Institute, is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has a position at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Yong In Cho is a fintech expert, specialising in the payments industry, with deep knowledge of the financial technology market across Asia. Currently the Head of eCommerce for the world’s largest payment service company, @Fiserv, Yong In most recently initiated and managed development of a solution allowing Korean tourists and Korean students to enjoy fee-free credit card transactions in Australia. Yong In is a strong promoter of the ‘Australia’ brand, Yong In credits his post-school education at Sydney TAFE, where he gained a diploma in drafting / CAD design, with preparing him for the fast-paced and ever-changing financial technology industry. He also gives a nod to the Australian #sports culture which allowed him to learn about teamwork and make friendships throughout a broader community.
Discussing the social implications for a #cashless economy, Yong In is a generous source of intelligence around fintech policy and regulations, and is passionate about the role trust plays in payment solutions.
A Korean-born Australian, Yong In Cho has built his financial technology expertise over the last 16 years. Yong In is an active contributor to AustCham Korea, as a Board Member and Mentor for the past seven years. His practical approach to challenges has enabled him to succeed in new product development and implement solutions in new markets.
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Professor Bryan Gaensler has stars in his eyes. Literally. Internationally recognised for his groundbreaking work on dying stars, interstellar magnets and cosmic explosions, it's hard not to rediscover the wonderment of the galactic sky listening to Bryan. Living in Toronto with a wife who forgives his midnight scribblings and constant curiosity for the magnetism of the universe, Bryan reflects on success, hard work and serendipity.
Bryan realised at five that there were questions even his parents didn't know the answers to, and decided to become an Astronomer. He worked hard to back up his choice, but he now recognises that others work just as hard and are not afforded such choice. Bryan believes diversity of minds is critical to understanding the universe, and he is rethinking the way we select, support and skill up underrepresented scientists. Are you intentional in 'becoming the network' for those who need you? Find out more about this lively Australian committed to asking the big questions of the world around us.
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Where can a career in big data take you and how do you hold on to the stories that big data can hide? Professor Jenni Evans has leveraged her learnings to tackle some of the world's biggest problems, merging fields of research to find new solutions at the point where disaster threatens to hit. Just as Cyclone Tracey hit Darwin, a love of tropical cyclones hit Professor Jenni Evans when she realised she could bring her skill in mathematics, and a sense of social justice together.
Professor Evans says the way we communicate science can remove people from the consequences rather than drive action. The way we communicate catastrophe so often disempowers action. Professor speaks eloquently about bringing people and communities into the science of decisions affecting their lives and homes. And strives to find creative ways to make science approachable for kids, parents, teachers and policy-makers. We hope you enjoy Professor Jenni Evans, a meteorologist and a storm-chaser who brings the science to story, and the story to science.
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Dr Susan Graham is intent on tackling the biggest challenges of our day. Learn how her young team of audacious problem-solvers maintain an attitude of persistent positivity while staring down our planet's dramatic loss of biodiversity, and two billion hectares of degraded land. Dr Graham sees this mass degradation as an enormous opportunity. She is intent on solving for the mismatch of scale when it comes to rate of degradation to rate of restoration.
An entrepreneur from a young age, Susan has learnt to balance urgent action with deep thinking. Studying both medicine and engineering, she says "I wanted to scale beyond my hands." Where engineering has enabled scalable impact – Dendra became not only the first company to ever plant trees with drones, but as well, to dare to undertake species level analytics of complex biodiverse ecosystems – Australian directness means the team get to the nub of the matter really quickly. There is a compelling tenacity to Susan's confidence to ask 'What's next? How can we change carbon markets?' for example.
We hope you enjoy this conversation with Dr Susan Graham, and clearly hear her call to action to know that today is our day. Now is the time. The need for each of us to play our best game is urgent.
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This week, on our launch episode of the #bornglobal Coffee Pods series, we are joined by NASA's Dr Abigail Allwood as she lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars in real-time. Come behind-the-scenes in a personal interview with this Australian trailblazer.
Dr Abigail Allwood is not only the first Australian but the first female to lead a Mars mission! As the principal investigator of the most complex mission NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, Perseverance is specifically tasked with answering the question of whether life ever existed on a planet other than Earth.
As an @Advance Award winner, Abigail is driven by a passion for science. From her home in California, she wonders how 'thinking like a scientist' can open our minds and reduce our biased worldview right now? Abigail also ponders what we can do to get more girls to imagine having a global (or interplanetary) career in STEM?
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Marta Dusseldorp finds it impossible to live in a small world. From an early age she was able to look around corners and see beneath stories. This gutsy and wonderful #coffeepod conversation ranges from self-discipline and dedication to the bravery of sitting in one’s true, authentic self. Underpinning Marta’s learnings is an incredible sense of the responsibility she feels for her work. Marta builds the awareness that we are given a voice to advocate for ourselves and for each other. She notes that the way to bring people along with you is to show why we are driven in our work, rather than filling up conversations with the what.
As a UNHCR ambassador, Marta lends her stories and her voice to people suffering from global causes in a similar way to the challenging characters she loves to play. Currently, Marta is rehearsing the ground-breaking work exploring domestic violence by Melbourne playwright Angus Cerini. Under her new production label Archipelago Productions, Marta talks about her passion for producing, and the need to amplify conversations and characters that are hidden. ‘The Bleeding Tree’ will be not only a stage show, but with an ABC live screening, a panel discussion, helplines throughout the stream and a safe space for further discussion after the show.
In giving oneself wholly to one’s work, Marta discusses the need to seperate technology from the rehearsal space. In an interesting parallel for workplaces today, she notes that the absence of technology, increases people’s ability to concentrate, to tap into creativity and imagination. Download, subscribe, hit play and get into a world where change is not only possible, but joyous, daring and rewarding.
Marta both articulates and embodies the idea that within the coexistence of vulnerability and confidentiality, sits the power of relatability.
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Landing as a refugee in the upperclass Victorian suburb of Brighton from war-torn Somalia, Mariam Issa shares her thoughts on life, love, community and resilience. Take a moment over coffee to see your world through the eyes of an outsider. You may well be surprised at how the trivial becomes pivotal and conversely, how what we see as critical, can be rendered somewhat absurd.
Mariam interrogates the narratives we tell ourselves and questions who authors our story? She emphasises the tools we need to take back the mastery of our own identity. In looking at the plot lines of the developed world’s women, versus the narrative of the developing world’s women, Mariam wonders about the destruction of Western culture, veiled behind accumulation of material possessions. She suggests the less apparent truth - the loss of communal culture. At a time where harnessing the collective holds great value for workplaces, political movements and community wellbeing, Mariam’s lessons of individual contribution are a rare find.
While Western culture can be quick to dismiss traditions and rituals from abroad, Mariam argues that each of us must improve our listening skills and retain a childlike curiosity. She argues this place of wonder is what activates our ability to tell stories, and therefore to connect humanity. Mariam says, “If you can host someone in your heart, you can host them in your home.” She believes it is the act of listening that gives the power to the story teller. So activate your ear(pod)s, open up your willingness to learn and enjoy a raw CoffeePod from a phenomenal story-teller.
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Life is about choices. Michael Crossland was born fighting for his life and is living proof that adversity is not about what happens to us, but how we deal with it. Still striving for quality of life everyday, Michael is pursued globally to speak to the highest level of leaders, amongst sport, business and education, to empower people to start creating the world they want to live in, today.
A businessman and elite sportsman, Michael asks, are you a passenger or a pilot? He points out, ‘because there are people in this world that would do anything to have your bad day’. After releasing his first autobiography in 2016, he is now a number 1 bestselling author across 6 different countries. We ask Michael, how do you go about building your resilience, like a muscle, day in and day out?
Hit play to be inspired. In this utterly compelling coffee conversation, Michael opens up his wealth of knowledge to listeners with the aim helping leaders push through their own barriers to the next level of positive impact. Despite growing up being told only what he could not do, Michael continually shows the world everything that can be achieved if you can just believe that everything’s going to be okay.
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Growing up, Genevieve Clay-Smith had a feeling of ‘otherness’ that has fuelled a sense of destiny and driven her to align her creative talent with social justice. Leveraging her experience in acting and directing, Gen pursued the film industry as a force for good, making a decision that instead of striving for recognition as an actress herself, she would work to give people living with disability the opportunity to achieve their (socially invisible) dreams. Winning Australia’s iconic short-film festival, Tropfest, with “Be My Brother”, Gen made headlines, challenging the status quo and smashing stigmas by giving people with disability an alternative to the tragic narrative lens they are too often see through.
A true game-changer, Gen’s work has been showcased at the United Nations as well as over 200 film festivals and events world-wide. Genevieve is the 2019 National Telstra Business Women's Award, Emerging Leader winner, the 2015 NSW Young Australian of the year and winner of the 2014 100 Women of Influence, Young Leader award. She also took out B&T's 2015 Women in Media award for creative, and won the 2015 Women's Weekly Women of the Future Awards. Needless to say, she is a mover and a shaker and as a part of the team at Taste has developed a new model of ‘creative inclusion’. We hope you enjoy this rare and delightful opportunity to have a coffee date with someone truly transforming lives, industries and audiences.
This #coffeepod proves that working inclusively doesn’t slow us down or compromise on quality. In fact, the transformation journey requires diverse inputs to change the narrative and therefore change the system. The operating model of so many creative journeys is founded on uncertainty. Uncertainty in terms of finance, acceptance, sustainability… we explore what it takes to suspend belief in transformation… and emerge successful. Come on the creative journey as we ask Gen how she overcame the loneliness of fighting for a more inclusive culture in the film industry. How long was she able to run her startup ‘Bus Stop Films on passion? And how did she successfully build alliances both in terms of social impact community and corporate supporters to bring her vision of inclusion to life?
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Mond Qu is designing a better future through insatiable curiosity. How? It’s not just his ability to blend art and science, or to combine functionality with beauty, Mond Qu is a creative crusader, challenging the processes we live by and revealing the architecture of our choices. The interplay between the digital, the physical and the human.
Founder of United Make, Mond Qu wears many hats as a designer, narrative animator, and digital craftsman. What happens when a trained architect starts challenges digital architecture? When a designer refuses to use virgin materials and instead makes objects that reduce waste, decrease pollution and repurpose what would otherwise thrown out?
How can we all embrace our creativity - one of the most sought after skills in the current age? Mond Qu says being creative is not about painting or drawing. It’s about problem-solving in a different way and collaborating with diversity to achieve a new outcome.
This #coffeepod is infused with tips on being a better collaborator, design-thinker, communicator, and intentional creativity. Come explore the interplay between the digital, the physical and the human. And of course, expect a fair hit of being the change you want to see in the world.
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It’s a double shot this week as founders of Project Rockit (www.projectrockit.com.au), sisters Lucy and Rosie Thomas, talk mobilising change, challenging self doubt and creating open-minded global citizens. Rockit is a project and a platform designed to fuel a world for young people where kindness and respect thrive over bullying, hate and prejudice. Lucy and Rosie created the business soon after leaving high school, the idea grew from a strong desire to impact the way we treat each other - online and off - and instigate the formative conversations that seem to be missing from the education system.
Having both received Order of Australia medals, been named by UNICEF among 12 Digital Champions for Children’s Rights in the Digital Age and sitting on a range of boards including Facebook’s Global Safety Board, the synergy between Lucy and Rosie is matched by the synergy between strategy and creation inherent in Project Rockit. Crystal clear on purpose and focused on the For-Profit Social Enterprise model as key to self-evaluation, market research and relevance, the sisters take the view that young people are experts and have worked with hundreds of thousands of Aussie kids through their school workshops – with no preaching lecturing or judging, just real talk.
So how are two young entrepreneurs navigating the journey of taking a grass roots social movement to a sustainable, scalable, accountable social enterprise? Over the last 12 years, Project Rockit has become a global business and with it, the ambition to break open the echo chamber and have better conversations around conflicting views only increases. In between growing a team, gathering capability and taking care of each other, staying in close contact with school kids remains paramount. The sisters draw strength from these students “who are sick and tired of bullying and prejudice and want to make their voices heard against it”.
In this #coffeepod special we cover so much ground with humility, courage and humanity. I’m left feeling utterly elated at the world our young people are striving to create for us all. Listen and learn.
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In an honest and vulnerable discussion, Jules takes us back to his roots as a year 9 kid sitting up the back of class, heckling teachers, when one day a future mentor acknowledged him and changed his life forever. Now CEO of TRIBE, the fastest growing self-serving marketplace, Jules is moving from control to intention, perfectionism to purpose and is figuring out how to balance the desire to create something amazing, with the instinct to spend more time with those you love.
A hit of inspiration and a coffee date for anyone who is wanting to take on the world while nurturing the world inside themselves, Jules uses wise-cracks to crack open powerful truths. As an advocate and contributor of Reach Foundation, Jules learned the value of vulnerability early. Beyond merely talking authentic leadership, Jules moves through the actions he takes everyday to return to a vulnerable place and get clarity and cut through as a leader. There are so many takeaways in this ripper #coffeepod.
Drink up the sheer determination, dedication and empowerment Jules brings to the table and start designing your life, today…. Oh and checkout an Ikigai map while you’re at it ;)
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Grab a #coffeepod on the go with ONTHEGO Sports founder, the dynamic Mick Spencer. Are you ready for action? Mick discusses how as a leader he constantly reinvents himself. He talks passionately about how to get the right people onboard both as investors and employees - and retain them! His advice to leaders wanting to make change is simply to get started, because every single day counts.
Mick breaks it down: look at what you need to do today but don’t want to do, look at what you want to do but that can wait until tomorrow and finally, look at what is growth related and can make you money. Now go!
In a world where the biggest barrier to entrepreneurs succeeding is ‘not asking the questions’ - what is the craziest thing you’ve ever asked for? Take a hit of insp today and hear Mick recount his supercharged rise to stardom with all the down-to-earth advice of a startup veteran!
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Many of us have a strong sense of our why but struggle with our how. Tami Roos addresses the most powerful how - how to be the best possible version of ourselves. PHD, Best Selling Author, Speaker, Meditation Teacher and Intuitive Healer, Tami Roos was a key catalyst for the mindfulness movement in Australia and correlates science with meditation to enable high performance cultures. When we are all looking for an edge, how are we addressing our own thoughts? Tami Roos talks data as fluidly as feelings.
By 2020 the biggest issue for governments, world wide, is going to be mental health. We are expecting ourselves to be ‘on’ 24/7 and many of us reach for our phones in the morning before taking a moment to appreciate our partners, our kids, or ourselves. Has digitisation and social media made us more connected? Tami says yes - to our devices. Not to each other. And the result is increased stress and anxiety. How can we start our day as fully charged as our mobile phones? Which habits destroy our wellbeing and what are those that we should we build in to be a better version of ourselves?
Over this #coffeepod we talk mental state, performance, knowing our inner selves, surrendering to our emotions and being comfortable with constant change. We discuss how showing up and being truly present changes not only the way you react to people, but the way the world reacts to you. In a society obsessed with an idea of perfection, how does honesty affect our personal relationships? When we constantly compare ourselves to others, how can we step out of judgement and into understanding?
Tami is a renowned thinker, meditation coach and influencer of high performance culture. Grab a coffee with Tami and I, and then take 3 mins afterwards, to experience the compound inourselves...”terest micro moments of stillness can create!
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Seeing the world as a kid gave Lucinda Hartley a unique perspective on community, diversity and equality. In today’s coffee date, we hear lessons from a phenomenal entrepreneur driven to be the change she is longing to see in the world. Lucinda talks business model complexity, the evolution of mentors, the reality of whole-of-self and growing a social analytics platform to do justice to the vibrance and power of local community.
With many business insights to take away, Lucinda dives into creating places for people. What elements must be present for us to structure and create an optimal community in our neighbourhoods, our workplaces, our cities? Lucinda believes that in urban planning, it is critical to acknowledge the existing local community has a lived experience - and therefore expertise - to leverage in change. Learn how we can better uses data to recognise local leadership and inherent behaviours, as well as the ethics and danger of technology if the right voices are not brought to the table.
Neighbourlytics is one of Australia’s fastest growing urban-tech companies, having now created data for more than 500 neighbourhoods in 10+ countries around the world, as well as being deployed by city-makers to influence major urban development projects - from parks to shopping centres. Lucinda Hartley is a Westpac Scholar and a Myer Fellow and together with co-founder Jessica Christiansen-Franks is leading the conversation on urban innovation globally for more than a decade. Grab your coffee and listen in!
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Growing up in the wilds of Patagonia, Gus has always resisted being tamed by the world around him. Gus Balbontin is a true driver of better questions, and holds a healthy disrespect for authority. He has honoured this mindset through landing his dream job as Executive Director and CTO of Lonely Planet.
These days Gus is dedicated to giving leaders a fresh perspective on problem solving - resisting the inclination to go broad and instead defining challenges as narrowly as possible. Gus is on the board of Startup Victoria and is Director of Above All Human. He currently runs Creative Studio and Innovation agency Roshambo, is the co-founder and partner at Atessa and is the Entrepreneur in Residence and Executive Director of VU Innovations at Victoria University.
In this episode of Coffee Pods, Gus shares lessons on counter-intuitive leadership, innovation driven by common sense and the importance of knowing that your own truth is incomplete. These valuable learnings can be applied to all business contexts and especially to individuals striving to keep up with the relentless pace of technology.
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Paul Roos is a former AFL player and senior coach renowned for breaking with command and control style leadership. Instead, he builds mindfulness, empathy and self-awareness in teams. Paul shares the secrets to success as they apply to the business world, focussing on behaviour rather than outcome, alignment rather than exertion.
How did a superstar footballer dodge the masculine stereotype to breathe balance and empathy into footy culture? What does he see as the lesson for all leaders in the high pressure 3-4 minute walk from coaching box to change room at the end of the game? And what does he ask of those in a position to impact the lives of others in terms of role modeling?
In this Coffee Pod conversation, Paul moves beyond talking culture and dives into the day-to-day habits that supercharge action. Share in his vision for future leadership and get ready to show up differently.
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Mikaela Jade is a Cabrogal woman and a ground-breaking entrepreneur who is truly amplifying the voice of Indigenous Australia. Mikaela is a representative of Indigenous peoples at the United Nations and is the founder of technology business Indigital, telling Indigenous stories in innovative ways, including through an augmented reality app.
Mikaela explores what does it look like to combine ancient knowledge-systems with cutting edge digital technology. In a discussion ranging from climate change to ethical digitisation to mental health and to honing our sense of belonging, this week's guest takes entrepreneurial spirit to a whole new level.
How does a park ranger from Sydney discover her roots, harness her 'inner geek' and end up working with tech giants like Microsoft to record, track and augment Indigenous knowledge, all from a remote location in Kakadu? What can white Australia do better to support and celebrate Indigenous culture? And who out there can help get Indigital AR stories into schools and embedded in the education system so our country's wisdom remains alive for future generations? Grab your coffee and throw some fuel on the fire for change.
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Pam Melroy is a retired Air Force test pilot, former NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle commander. Have orbited the earth on no less than three space missions, Pam also commanded the International Space Station and is one of only two women to have commanded the Space Shuttle.
How did a young girl have the tenacity see her dream through to reality after watching Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon 50 years ago? What does it mean to prepare your team for a mission like space? How does one embrace a position of leadership with so much riding on it? And what does Pam ask of us, having seen our home from an integrated perspective and recognising that our planet is our vessel and each of us is crew?
In this episode, Pam discusses everything from dealing with cultural variations in teams to affecting change with a systems engineering mindset. A fascinating Coffee Pod conversation infused with a strong hit inspiration for change-makers - enjoy!
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James Chin Moody. Currently, he's the Co-Founder & CEO of Sendle, a disruptive business that is shaking up the postal industry. Prior to that, he was Executive Director of Development at Australia's National Research Agency, CSIRO.
In this conversation, we talk about what it takes to establish a business and to grow it successfully. How to build a good team, what it takes to maintain your commitment to your vision, and also, the experience that James has had himself, as an entrepreneur.
He's a co-author of a bestselling book, The Sixth Wave: How to succeed in a resource-limited world. He’s also heavily involved in significant global organisations, including the World Economic Forum, he's a Young Global Leader who is also heavily involved in global climate conversations. James is a really phenomenal communicator and his story is fascinating. He's an engineer by background, who's now running one of Australia's fasted growing startups.
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Gabrielle Dolan, she’s a global thought leader on authentic leadership and storytelling.
In this conversation, we're getting into the art of storytelling. Gabrielle has worked with high profile leaders around the globe to help them become better leaders and communicate using the art of business storytelling. We're going to delve into what makes a good story, how is it that you can think about start, middle, and end, how do you get resonance with the people that you're talking to, and a whole variety of other tools, ideas, and strategies that can help you enhance the way that you effectively engage using the power of storytelling.
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Matthew Brimer the co-founder of General Assembly. They're one of the largest educational providers in the world. Many of you will have read about them earlier this year, because they sold to Adecco for $413 million.
In this conversation, Matt and I really delve into the entrepreneurial journey he's been on, not only with General Assembly, with Daybreaker, one of his more recent ventures. We talk about what ideas get cut through with funders. We touch on the struggles and the challenges of entrepreneurial moments. We talk about the keys to building community, which Matt has done so consistently, successfully over the course of all of his entrepreneurial businesses.
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Our first Coffee Pods duo, Danielle Macleod and Nic Devlin, they're the two women behind a business called Somebody Inside, a company dedicated to helping people stand in their own power, get out of their own way, and make life a little bit easier.
Now, in this conversation, we delve into the voices inside our heads, the stories that we tell ourselves, the way that we can limit our own capability and how it is we can take charge of ourselves better in those moments, how we can develop a heart-based leadership culture, and what it is that it takes not only to get the best out of ourselves, but the best out of the people that we're working with and the people we're leading. I hope you really enjoy it.
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Our guest Karen Palmer merges film, storytelling, technology and neuroscience to create emotionally responsive cognitive film experiences. What does that mean? It means when you watch Karen's film you wear a virtual reality headset and the film responds to how you react, so if you react to a particular saying with fear versus calm versus aggression the narratives going to take a completely different turn. It's a phenomenally interesting application of creativity and neuroscience, and I think you're really going to enjoy Karen's insights onto how technology and storytelling are being applied in new and innovative ways.
She's an award winning international artist and public speaker and her immerse films have been shown all around the world and have won numerous awards including the digital dozen breakthrough and story telling, which was an acknowledgement for the most innovative approaches to narrative in the worlds of art, entertainment, journalism and marketing.
Website - www.karenpalmer.uk
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For the first time ever we have taken Coffee Pods live on stage to record an interview with Barbara Hyman the CEO of PredictiveHire, a company that is seeking to bring data and algorithms to application in how we hire talent and make the right people choices.
Barbara's career is a really interesting one and we delve into her experience in traditional corporate life leading a really significant transformation and change project at REA. Now, into startup world as a first time CEO in a rapidly growing business. And what we talk and focus on is really the contrast and the expectations, and the leadership demands of both those different worlds.
Website: https://www.predictivehire.com/about/
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Jason Ball, the 2017 Young Australian of the year for Victoria. Jason's an LGBTI and mental health advocate and is the current candidate for the State of Higgins in the federal election.
In 2012 Jason came out as being gay. But coming and doing so only the second male Aussie Royals football player at any level to publicly come out in the national media. What snowballed from there was a movement that Jason has been in pursuit of ever since. A desire to want to transform both grass root sporting organizations in Australia and national sporting bodies into more inclusive environments for LGBTI Australians. Commodating in an organization Jason now runs called Pride Cup.
In this conversation we're gonna talk about the importance of creating inclusive and welcoming environments. The power of people's reactions when they hear information when people share their stories. And the significance of personal stories in changing hearts, minds and attitudes. If you're anything like me, they'll be multiple parts of this conversation that leave you reflecting for some time after you listen to it. I hope you really enjoy it.
Website: https://pridecup.org.au/
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His story is incredible and he has such an important message to share. So who's Rob? Rob was a combat engineer in the US Army when an IED blew up under his feet in Afghanistan and took both of his legs. He became a double above the knee amputee and he's gone on an incredible recovery journey that has seen him do everything from ride across America in the middle of winter to winning a bronze medal at the Paralympics, competing in the Invictus games which we recently hosted in Australia and running 31 marathons in 31 days, all to challenge the perception of what both returned service men and women and of what people with disabilities are capable of doing.
He has quite an incredible personal philosophy. I think you'll find his mantra and outlook on life really uplifting. And his approach to resiliency and how you, as he calls it, "use the weight," really inspiring and useful for things that you might be going through in your life.
Website: http://www.robjonesjourney.com/
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Ron has developed a reputation as a dynamic and inspirational transformation and business growth specialist having taken on some of the most difficult commercial and brand reputational challenges.
His ability to identify growth potential, re-energise culture and build profitable businesses has led to several high-profile turnarounds that have cemented this reputation. During a diverse executive career, he has assisted organisations to grow by adapting to change and disruptive competition across multiple industries and sectors. He works with organisations to identify their assets and leads them through a process of leveraging and monetising those assets resulting in significant revenue growth.
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Student of leadership and organizational design, former nuclear submarine commander, Author of Amazon #1 Best Seller: Turn the Ship Around! And The Turn the Ship Around! Workbook, and one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers for 2018.
David Marquet imagines a work place where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity, a place where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work–a place where everyone is a leader.
Website: www.davidmarquet.com
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Dr Beau Lotto is a globally renowned Neuroscientist who studies the art of human perception. The Founder and CEO of Lab of Misfits, the world’s first Neuro Design studio. Misfits is a team of scientists, designers and producers who discover the essential questions about the nature of uncertainty.
In this conversation we get into a whole ray of fascinating Neuroscientist topics, we talk bias, perception, the power of play, the notion of being wired for wonder and how everything begins from not knowing.
Website: http://www.labofmisfits.com/
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Catherine Robson is an accomplished entrepreneur and award winning financial adviser. She is the founder of successful financial service business Affinity Private and has over 20 years of experience advising sophisticated high net worth individuals and family groups. Catherine’s commitment to quality advice and strong alignment of interests with clients by eschewing all commissions, has earned her numerous awards including the Financial Planning Association’s Victorian CFP professional of the Year, AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award, Money Management Magazine Adviser of the Year and the Australian Private Banking Council’s Outstanding Investment Advisor of the Year.
Today we are talking all things Wealth, Money and Financial Advise. If you are someone that tends to shy away from money or wealth related conversations this is one to lean into but for all of you out there a really great refresher for whatever point you are coming to this conversation on.
Website: https://www.smh.com.au/by/catherine-robson-gjpqbt
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Annabelle Chauncy OAM is the CEO and Founding Director of School for Life Foundation.
Annabelle is a dynamic leader and social entrepreneur who started a multi-national NGO at the age of 21, with operations in both Australia and Uganda.
Annabelle has overcome huge barriers including running two high performing businesses in different continents on exceptionally tight budgets, cultural and gender biases, shifting mindsets, driving change and innovation, engaging staff, building teams and raising capital. She now moves her business forward to focus on sustainability, driving innovative strategies to create businesses to underpin her charity's growing operational budget, and ensure the foundation isn't reliant solely on donations.
One of the youngest recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia at just 27 years old, she is an inspiring and energetic speaker who can relate to audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
Annabelle will inspire and enlighten your team with her story and experiences of being a young social entrepreneur and businesswoman making huge change in the developing world.
Website: www.schoolforlife.org.au
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Dr Kirstin Ferguson is a leading company director, author and sought after commentator on leadership, gender diversity and inclusion. Dr Ferguson is also the creator of the widely acclaimed global #CelebratingWomen campaign and author of Women Kind.
Dr Ferguson began her career after joining the military aged 17 and went on to become the Dux of her Air Force graduating class at the Australian Defence Force Academy. After being posted to an F-111 Squadron, she studied law and spent almost a decade in leadership roles in a corporate law firm. Dr Ferguson then went on to become CEO of a global consulting organisation before commencing her professional company director career.
In this chat we talk about all about how to raise your voice and advocate for what you believe in, how to build resilience, how it is that you can become a more inclusive leader that celebrates diversity and lives it in the way that you set up your team culture and structure and we are also going to follow the story of the lessons learnt from the incredibly powerful celebrating women campaign which turned into a global phenomenon.
Website: https://www.kirstinferguson.com/
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Introducing Frances Valintine. Frances is an educational futurist from New Zealand. Now, she's won a stack of awards for her education program. Notably, best startup in Asia Pacific as judged by Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak in 2014. She also won excellence in social innovation and a variety of influence and innovation awards.
In this conversation. We talk about how the notion of what it even means to be skilled in shifting. We talk about the realities of the modern day workplace and the challenges, but also the opportunity for leaders managing millennials to think about the way they shift their approach and the way that they transform their culture.
Website: http://themindlab.com/
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Meet Brett King. Brett King is a futurist, an Amazon bestselling author, an award winning speaker and CEO of disruptive mobile bank Moven. Brett also hosts the world's most popular fintech podcast 'Breaking Banks'. In this podcast we chat disruptive future trends leaders need to be preparing themselves for, the challenge of transforming legacy systems and how to kickstart innovation.
Website: http://brettking.com/
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Website: www.eatmylunch.nz
Facebook/Instagram: @eatmylunch.nz
This week, we're heading to the land of the long white cloud. That's right, New Zealand, and our guest is the incredible social entrepreneur, Lisa King. Now, Lisa had a background for about 15 years in high-level marketing roles in fast-moving consumer goods type companies before she stumbled upon the statistics she just wasn't prepared to walk past, and that was data around how many young New Zealanders go to school each day without food in their stomach.
She decided that she was the person to do something about it, so she set up Eat My Lunch NZ, a social enterprise built on a one for one model where you buying your lunch as an individual or a corporation not only gives you your lunch, but it provides a lunch to someone from a low income school. It's gone gangbusters. Lisa's been named Person of the Influence in Business in 2016, in the community in 2017, one of the most prominent social entrepreneurs in the whole of New Zealand, and the scale with which this business is growing is extraordinary.
We're going to touch on not only how Lisa saw the need, but how they've built and responded to that extraordinary demand because that's been one of the biggest challenges they've faced. It's an amazing story and a truly remarkable woman telling it. Without further ado, here's Lisa King.
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Website: http://www.vickisaunders.com/
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Twitter: @Vickis
Meet Vicki Saunders. She is a Canadian powerhouse. She's an entrepreneur. She's an award-winning mentor. She's an advisor to the next generation of change makers, and a leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world.
As we'll touch on at length in the podcast, she's the founder of SheEO, a movement of radical generosity, this extraordinary global initiative that's aiming to radically transform how we support, finance and celebrate female entrepreneurs. We're going to delve into the extraordinary journey of how Vicki and her team arrived at this concept, how they've built momentum behind it, and the extraordinary impact they're achieving in the world at this moment.
Vicki's been named one of 30 world changing women in conscious business. She's been named by the World Economic Forum as a global leader of tomorrow, and is continually called out the extraordinary impact that she's having through business and empowering women worldwide. There are so many brilliant takeaways in this conversation, but it's also just such an inspiring concept and initiative, one of those people who saw the need and decided to continually and persistently chip away at it. Without further ado, here's Vicki.
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Twitter: @LisaMessenger
Instagram: @lisamessenger
Joining me this week is Lisa Messenger. The vibrant and game changing CEO of the Messenger Group and the Founder and Editor in Chief of Collective Hub magazine which was an entrepreneurial lifestyle magazine distributed into over 37 countries.
Lisa's authored and coauthored 16 books and become a real go-to in the startup scene. One of the things I love about this podcast is how vulnerable, real and raw Lisa is. Not only about her own life and the journey to build Collective Hub but also some of the more recent challenges she's found herself in.
It's a really great set of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs, for people who are thinking about taking risks, for people who've got an idea that they're working on and also anyone who's interested in the journey of self discovery, for that matter. It's packed with a lot of honest reflection and I think you'll really thoroughly enjoy it. Without further ado, here's Lisa Messenger.
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Twitter: @KellieRiordan
Kellie Riordan is a manager at the ABC and was one of the original trailblazers behind the podcast medium in Australia. She designed and developed some of the earliest content in this whole platform in Australia and now leads a lot of the product development in that space for the ABC working on content ideas, audio storytelling, digital strategy, you name it. Her story and experiences that she shares around how to drive change within a large organization, the art of influence, her reflections on the period of journalism she's been involved in and how communications fundamentally changed, let alone all the other tidbits that are thrown in, I can't tell you how much pragmatic advice is packed into this podcast. So, let's take it away. Here's Kellie Riordan
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Website: http://luxgroup.com/
Twitter: @LuxGroup_CEO
Our guest this week is bringing an entrepreneurial flavour to the conversation, meet Adam Schwab. Adam is a Best-Selling Author and an Award Winning Entrepreneur and has built one of the most profitable E-commerce businesses in Australia. We are going to talk about how he managed in just 5 years with zero funding to grow a business to more than $350million turn over with more than 400 employees he has been top of the BRW rich list many times over, he has been on the BRW young rich list since 2014 and he has got a really pragmatic and reflective, considered opinion on how to do business and a critical lens to the world around him. You will learn a lot from this podcast and this is a really brilliant one particularly for anyone who is thinking about how to move from an idea to a concept to scaling something.
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We're taking a social enterprise turn this week, and our guest is Rinku Razdan. Now, Rinku is quite a remarkable woman. She arrived in Australia with very few dollars next to her name, and as a single mother, but with a burning passion to make sure that her son had a world of opportunity before him. She's risen up the ranks of the Australian banking sector, become a very successful technology consultant, and has recently launched Connections Australia, which is a mobile application designed to connect migrants into logistic information that can help them successfully transition to life in Australia, connect them to community and help them really feel a sense of belonging and inclusion, and significantly provide them with access to work.
Rinku's got a really remarkable personal story, and she's a great example of a social change maker who's chosen to use their own experience to create and design a solution that can add value to an enormous number of people in society. I hope you really enjoy the conversation. Here's Rinku.
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Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-bodman-4411191b/
Website: http://alexbodman.com/
Alex Bodman Creative Director at Spotify. Spotify is an extremely extraordinary company when you look at how quickly it is growing, with over 150 million users and Alex is in charge of creating the tool-kit for the brand globally allowing the vision of Spotify to scale across the globe. Since he joined the company in 2015 he has built an in-house creative team with over 30 people. Recognised by Ad Age A-list in 2018 as the in-house creative agency of the year. It has a really interesting background throughout advertising and a number of creative agency roles. We talk about the change in the way that we Communicate and Market, how’s that shifted and what does that mean we need to be aware of as Leaders and as Influences trying to reach audiences with our own message, how is it that we can be mindful in managing our own energy and what does it take to foster creativity both in ourselves and in the teams of people we lead.
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Twitter: @MandyRennehan
Instagram: @Freshco_Inc
Our guest is Mandy Rennehan. Mandy is known as the blue- collar CEO. She's an incredible Canadian who is entirely self-made. She left home towards the tiny town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia at 18 with just a dirty hockey bag and an audacious dream. A passion as well, I should add, for woodworking. By 19, she founded, Freshco which is now Canada's number one full service reconstruction and retail maintenance provider working for some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies: Nike, Apple, The Gap, you name it and Mandy's worked for them or is working for them right now.
At 24, she signed her first $5 million deal and she's just gone up and up and up since then. She won a range of awards including the 2017 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. She's also been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and I could go on and on. She describes herself as a fun-long adventurer and a rule breaker and I think you're going to love her wicked sense of humour too. Here's Mandy Rennehan.
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Twitter: @CoachLisaA
I'm really excited to introduce you to today's guest. Someone I'm personally an enormous fan of. We've got a sporting Coffee Pod for you today, and our guest is Lisa Alexander, the head coach of the Australian Diamonds. Now Lisa's taken the Diamonds to Commonwealth Games Championships, World Championships, the trophy cabinet is chockablock. She's got a reputation for her professionalism, drive, and innovative approach to coaching. So much so, that in 2015 she was awarded the Australian Coach of the Year title. Lisa is a much sought after thought leader in what it takes to create and to sustain a culture of high performance, and that's what we're going to delve into in this podcast. What does it take to make an extraordinary team culture? How is it that you deal with setback, and the weight and pressure of expectation? How do you give feedback that allows someone to transform their performance? That and so much more. I loved this conversation and I hope you do too. Here's Lisa.
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Contact: @rozsavage
Website: Rozsavage.com
Here at Coffee Pods we love an adventurous spirit. This week, we have a true adventurer for you. I'm really excited to introduce you to Roz Savage. She's the first, and so far only woman to row solo across the world's big three oceans. The Atlantic, the Pacific, and Indian. I'm talking single-scull rowing, as in stroke by stroke, across the three big oceans of the world. She holds four Guinness World Records, and was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire for services to fundraising and the environment.
Roz has so many environmental roles, but notably, she's a UN climate hero. Now all this is quite an extraordinary achievement for a former management consultant who doesn't particularly enjoy exercise. This is a really interesting conversation. We talk about energy management, we talk about taking on audacious goals, how it is that you push outside of your comfort zone, and battle the talk in your head that says you can't do it. You name it, it's in this conversation. It's utterly inspiring, and there's so many pragmatic take-aways to walk away with.
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Contact: @hollyatthefarm
This week's guest is Holly Kramer. Holly Kramer is a prominent non-executive director. On the boards of organizations like Woolworth's, 2XU, and Australia Post. But she's also got a really interesting corporate history. She cut her teeth in roles such as executive level at Pacific Brands, Telstra, and the Ford Motor Company, across both Australia and the USA, before she found herself at the helm of Best&Less. A retail company with four thousand employees, and two hundred stores, that was not in a great place when Holly found it. Or when Holly took over as CEO.
What we're going to focus on in this podcast is what it takes to drive transformational change in a business. How is it that you can lean in to the customer experience, understand their needs, and transform the way that you deliver products and service? What does it take to shift the culture and really engage your people? And how is it you can inject innovation and agility in thinking and operating back into the way that you work? I hope you enjoy this weeks podcast.
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Contact: @eastvanbrand
Website: www.markbrandinc.com
I'm fired up to introduce you to this week's guest. I left this conversation feeling 10 feet tall, I was so inspired and full of energy, by virtue of the sheer passion this individual emits when they talk about what they do, and the impact they're looking to create in the world.
I'm talking about Mark Brand. Mark is a restaurateur and social entrepreneur. In fact, he's one of North America's foremost social entrepreneurs. He runs a stack of businesses, social enterprises, and charities. And he's intentionally chose to start them in the poorest post code in America, which is also the largest drug market in North America. So he works in really impoverished, struggling, and disjointed communities, and the impact he's had will blow your mind.
Mark's also a Stanford Fellow, Professor of Innovation at USC, Executive Chef for Pope Francis's Laudato Si Challenge, and an advisor to corporations working to make real change. Get ready to get fired up.
WARNING: This episode contains language that may offend.
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Contact: @SifuSingh
Website: https://www.sifusingh.com/
Our guest today is Sifu Singh a Speaker, Author and a High-Performance Coach. He is a teacher of Military, Special Forces, Secret Service, SWAT Teams & over 100 Law Enforcement Agencies across the globe. He is a 23rd generation Tai Chi Master and he is responsible for spreading Bruce Lee's martial arts and philosophical legacy. He is a master and a teacher of more Martial Arts than I know how to name and half of which I know how to pronounce. It's quite extraordinary the degree to which he is pursued his craft in this regard. Sifu is really a World Leader in Martial Arts, Functional Fitness & Mindset Development. Today's conversation is going to really delve into these core building blocks that he applies so successfully not only in his own life but in the work that he does in high pressure zero margin for error situations. It's going to be a real practical toolkit kind of podcast where you will walk away with things to add to your to do list, habits to put into your daily routine that can help you perform under pressure cope with stress and get the job done.
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CEO of Roborace the Worlds first competition for Humans and Artificial Intelligence racing. Making autonomous technology exciting and inspirational for a new generation of spectators, I’m talking about Lucas di Grassi. Lucas is also a racing driver who has competed in Formula 1 Formula E and World Endurance Championships and is the current World Formula E Champion. He is now bringing his business experience and extensive knowledge of racing into Roborace helping grow it into an established competition and co-operation of human and artificial intelligence. I think you will be fascinated to hear about the technology that Lucas and his team at Roborace are pioneering but also hear from this World Champion about what it takes to be at the top of your game and to sustain performance at that level to operate in those low margin for error situations it’s a fantastic chat.
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Welcome to part three of our instalment in partnership with IWF, International Women's Forum. This week's guest is Janet Ang, a phenomenal STEM leader. Janet started as a systems engineer in IBM, and has been at IBM for life. Rising to become the first female to lead the company as Director for Singapore, and nowadays she's Vice President of Industry Solutions, Systems of Engagement, and Smarter Cities for IBM Asia-Pacific, covering Australia, New Zealand, India, ASEAN, and Korea.
In this conversation we're going to get straight into the tech. We're going to be talking about the key trends that you as a leader need to have on your radar.
We're going to talk about cross-cultural business, the role of faith in a business leader's life, and Janet will suggest a totally different way of thinking about that work/life balance idea.
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Website: IWForum
Welcome to the second instalment of our special podcast series with IWF, the International Women's Forum. Our guest this week is Ann Medina, an Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist, in fact one of the world's most highly respected and renowned journalists, and an expert advisor in communications and technology. She began her TV career in Chicago, becoming a network producer at NBC, before moving to Canada, where she worked for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. She then joined The Journal, and became its senior foreign correspondent, focusing on stories in the Middle East in particular. She was actually the Beirut Bureau's chief for CBC's The National during that really critical period in '83 and '84. She's moderated election debates, she was President of the Canadian TV and Film Academy. The list goes on and on. This is a really insightful and engaging podcast, and a challenging one at times too. We're going to pick up the Me Too and Time's Up conversation. We're going to focus on the lessons learned from time on the ground in war zones covering significant conflict. We're going to unpack the art of effective communication. We're going to talk about the importance of being open and not thinking that you know. Enjoy.
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This is the first in a special four-part Coffee Pods series, partnering with the International Women's Forum (IWF). Our first guest is IWF International President Teresa Weintraub. Born in Havana, Teresa moved to the US as a small child and has gone on to forge a diverse career involving roles ranging from tax attorney and university fundraiser, right the way through to an extensive career in wealth management. She is currently the Managing Director of Merrill Lynch. Renowned for her philanthropy, Teresa is committed to empowering the next generation of women. In this conversation we explore how to give philanthropic impact, navigating challenges moments and the importance of being focused and staying open. I hope you really enjoy this conversation, proudly brought to you in partnership with IWF.
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Contact: @Vote1SallyCapp
Sally Capp is the Executive Director of the Property Council of Victoria and an independent candidate to be Lord Mayor of the world's most liveable city- Melbourne. A lawyer by training, Sally is a seasoned businesswoman whose career spans both large corporates and her own entrepreneurial endeavours, including launching a funds management business she later listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Notably, she was the first woman to hold the post of Agent General for Victoria in London and is perhaps most well known for being the first female member of the Collingwood Football Club board.
In this podcast we talk risk-taking, leadership, how to make difficult decisions and the art of influencing. I think you're going to garner an enormous amount from this podcast.
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Alisa Camplin OAM won Australia's first Olympic skiing gold medal ever at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics- an incredible result given she hadn't picked up skis until her late teens! Alisa also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Olympics before transitioning into a phenomenal post-sport career. Alisa's been a senior international executive at IBM and a director of the Collingwood Football Club- amongst many other things. Nowadays, Alisa is running her own business (focused around resilience, mindset and high performance) and is Deputy Chair of the Australian Sports Commission. There is so much food for thought in this podcast- Enjoy!
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Dr. Tia Kansara is a sustainability expert who hates the term sustainability. She completed her PhD at University College in London on the theme of sustainable cities, and is an advisor to governments, companies, and individuals, on the concept of 'Replenish', which is a new way of evaluating our economy, that transcends the simple GDP per capita. She's got a bestselling book by the same name, "Replenish" and she's traveled more than 80 countries, sharing the World Replenish Index, and has actually created a Replenish business canvas at the MIT Media Labs.
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Contact: @intersticia
Website: http://intersticia.com.au/
Welcome to the latest podcast. Her name is Anni Rowland-Campbell. Now Anni has a ridiculous number of degrees, too many for me to even list, all around the world, ranging from philosophy and science to theatre and business and technology. But she's fundamentally an observer and practitioner of Web Science and a passionate advocate for digital literacy.
I think particularly fascinating with the time and the world that we're in, what Anni talks about is analog leadership in a digital world and we're gonna unpack that in our conversation. She's been a massive leader in bringing technology into government and social policy, developing innovation hubs, and pioneering this work at the intersection of creativity and technology. So a really interesting conversation, one particularly as we're starting to ask big questions of ourselves, technology and the way things are developing that I think will give you a lot of food for thought. Enjoy this weeks Coffee Pod.
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Contact: @ceoRoumeliotis
Website: https://www.ssi.org.au/about-us/leadership-team
Violet Roumeliotis is the 2017 Telstra Business Women of the Year and as you will see over the course of this chat she is an unbelievably deserving recipient of that title. Violet is the CEO of a non-for-profit organisation called SSI which she has turned into a company and a social business. SSI helps settle newly arrived refugees into Australia. Violet has built it into an extraordinary business, 3 years ago they only had 70 staff they now have nearly 600 staff and their revenue in the last 4 years has grown from $9million to $110million. This is a business that is doing all sorts of good for the fabric of our community and Violet's story and her approach to Leadership is truly an inspiring one.
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Jamie Engel spent 15 years in the movie industry as a 3D Animator and a special effects artist with films like Mars Attacks, Contact and Storm Troopers as credits next to his name. Nowadays he is an educational disruptor- lecturing at UTS Business School and with General Assembly in Sydney. He has co-founded two education companies, 'Neutopia' and 'The Future World Challenge', both of which challenge the way we approach learning. In this podcast we tap into the future world of work, how learning and education are changing and how to harness creativity. We also tap into Jamie's creative industry background to talk about what makes a good story and how do we position messaging in a way that engages people.
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Contact: @watsonjessica
Jessica Watson (OAM) navigated some of the world’s most remote oceans and survived seven knockdowns and 210 days alone at sea to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop around the world, aged 16. An extraordinary feat that saw Jess be described as a ‘hero’ by the Prime Minister of the day, made a Member of the Order of Australia and be named the 2011 Young Australian of the Year. Since then Jess, who battled severe dyslexia as a kid, has become a two-time best selling author, completed two university degrees and worked across a variety of commercial and charitable projects. In this conversation we delve into having the audacity to set big goals, managing risk and building courage, overcoming doubters and the lessons she learnt from 210 days at sea.
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Contact: @LizBroderick
Elizabeth Broderick AO has brought together captains of industry, Governments and Defence Force Chiefs to address gender inequality in Australia and throughout the globe. As Australia's longest serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner, she has led sweeping cultural reforms for the Australian Defence Force and established 'Males Champions of Change.' This incredible strategy to get the 'who's who' of powerful men involved in tackling work place gender inequality. On the 29th September 2017 she was appointed by the UN Human rights council as a Special Rapporteur and independent expert on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practise. She is a member of the AFPs advisory board and in 2016 was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia. Our conversation looks at what it takes to change social norms, shift behaviour and ultimately see systemic change.
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Stephen Moore, former captain of the Wallabies, is the 14th most capped Australian rugby union player of all time and has the second most test appearances for Australia. He is also the most capped Australian Super Rugby player of all time and is one of only two players in Australian rugby history to have achieved 100 tests at 150 super rugby appearances. He is also regarded as one of Australia's best captains with the way that he drove really positive culture created a tight-knit unified group and he is deeply considered in his perspectives on leadership, culture and what it takes to unlock excellence. There is so much in this conversation for leaders, for people who are driving cultural change and also for those who are seeking to unlock the benefits of high performance, I can't recommend this coffee pod more highly to you.
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Russel Howcroft an Australian business man and media personality best known as a panellist on ABC's The Greun Transfer. He is a former National CEO of advertising agency George Patterson, served as an Executive General Manager of Network Ten and currently heads up PWC's Chief Marketing Office. Russel features regularly on all sorts of television and radio programmes, is a former Melbourne Demons board member and currently chairs the Australian Film and Televisionschool. In this Coffee Pod we really get to the heart of what makes a good idea, how is it that you communicate effectively in a really noisey world and what can we do to cultivate creativity.
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David Thodey the Chair of CSIRO and JobsNSW. David is probably best known for his role of Chief Executive Officer of Telstra where he lead an extraordinary transformation throughout Australia's Leading telecommunication Company. Prior to joining Telstra David was CEO for IBM across Australia and NZ. He has an honorary Doctorate in Science from Deakin University and in 2017 was recognised for his service to business and ethical business leadership with an order of Australia. In this Coffee pod David and I discuss at length what it takes to drive large scale organisational change how do you keep momentum and get motivation up, how you effectively communicate your message through your organisation and ultimately what does it take to make change stick.
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Sam Mostyn has enjoyed a diverse career across business, politics, science and the arts, international development, not-for-profit sector, indigenous reconciliation and sport. Sam now serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Virgin Australia, Transurban, Mirvac, and chairs Citibank Australia. She is Deputy Chair of the Diversity Council of Australia and for the past 4 years, Sam has been the President of the Australian Council for International Development. In 2005, Sam became the AFL’s first ever female Commissioner. In this talk we discuss the key pillar for driving change, the role of sport in society and breaking free from ‘binary’ world views. Contact: @sammostyn
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Connect: @PFitzpatrickTD Engage: www.braverytrust.org.au
Peter Fitzpatrick AM is a natural leader who encourages people to reach their full potential. Peter began his career in the military, serving 20 years, before becoming Executive Director of the Law Society of Western Australia and CEO of the WA Motor Trade Association. A strategic advisor to Prime Minister John Howard, Peter was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 1984 and was the WA state finalist for Senior Australian of the Year in 2008-09. A committed social change agent, seasoned company director and mentor to the nation's top CEOs- this podcast with Peter is packed with pragmatic leadership tips for handling crises, engaging your people and living out your full potential.
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Connect: @PerthSymphony Engage: www.perthsymphony.com
Bourby Webster's career spanned life as a professional musician (and founding member of multi-platinum group Bond), an elite athlete on the cusp of two Olympics, and a corporate exec before she decided to put it all on the line and start an orchestra intent on disrupting perceptions of classical music. Six years on, the WAAPA lecturer and Telstra Business Woman of the Year Finalist manages 13 administrators, over 150 musicians, and the orchestra has played to 200,000+- most of whom have never heard an orchestra before. This is a high-energy chat on bringing a vision to life, the interrelationship between the arts and business, and challenging pre-conceptions.
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Sam Walsh was Rio Tinto chief executive from January 2013 to July 2016, the culmination of a 25-year career with the international mining group. Sam was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2010 and was awarded a Gold Medal by the Australian Institute of Company Director in 2012 . A strong supporter of the arts, Sam serves on the Board of the Arts Council of Australia and is patron of the Western Australian State Theatre. This podcast focuses on driving change in large organisations, the role of business in the community and the challenge of leading 66,000 employees across 40 countries.
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Connect: @jancowen Engage: www.fya.org.au
Jan Owen AM is a highly regarded, dynamic social entrepreneur, innovator, influencer and author who has spent the past 25 years growing Australia's youth, social enterprise and innovation sectors. In 2012 she was named Australia's inaugural AFR and Westpac Woman of Influence; in 2014 she received the Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from Sydney University; and Jan was awarded membership to the Order of Australia in 2000. Prior to FYA, Jan was Executive Director of Social Ventures Australia & founded the CREATE Foundation, the national consumer body for children and young people out of home care. In this coffee pod we talk about education, leading progress and how to achieve change that matters.
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Connect: @farahpmohamed Engage: www.malala.org
Farah Mohamed M.S.M. knows the power of making an impact at a national and international level and in this coffee pod she shares how to start a movement on a global scale; change the narrative, ensure you have the skills, then drive change in terms of real actions and impact. Of Indian heritage, Farah was born and raised in Uganda before her family was uprooted and sought refuge in Canada. This experience instilled a strong passion for civic participation, and Farah spent 10 years working at the highest levels of Canadian politics before stepping into the social profit sector. Farah is CEO of the Malala Fund, inspired by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai, and previously was Founder and CEO of G(irls)20- an organisation aimed at giving women and girls a voice at the G20 table. This is a pragmatic, passionate and powerful coffee pod about how to drive change and make your mark.
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Dr. Andy Walshe is a globally recognized leader in elite human performance. For over 20 years Andy has been “de-mystifying talent” by researching and training high-performing individuals and teams. Andy headed up Red Bull’s High Performance program and was the Performance Manager for Red Bull Stratos- Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking jump to Earth from the stratosphere in 2012. Prior to joining Red Bull, Dr. Walshe designed a highly successful performance program for the U.S Olympic sky and snowboard teams, and for the AIS. If you want to learn how to take your performance to the next level, this is the podcast for you!
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Naomi Simson is an award-winning entrepreneur, best selling author, judge on Channel Ten's 'Shark Tank' and the most followed Australian on Linkedin. She began Red Balloon in the front room of her house with $25,000... nowadays it has 3.6 million customers and is one of six business subsidiaries of The Big Red Group that Naomi co-founded. She's won awards from Telstra Businesswoman of the Year to EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Australia, and this chat is packed with advice on starting and building businesses, social influence and more!
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Dan Flynn is the CO-Founder and CEO of Thank You- a social enterprise whose >50 product range has provided over $5.5 million to people in need & given 545,000 people access to water. Dan has been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Southern Region) and listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs. but as you’ll discover it’s not been an easy ride. Dan and Thank You’s story is one of resilience, persistence, incredible out-of-the-box thinking and cultivating and leveraging an engaged community.
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Forbes has called her a 'Hero of Philanthropy' and the World Economic Forum named her a 'Leader of Tomorrow'... meet Audette Exel AO: a pioneer, an innovator, a passionate advocate, a savvy businesswoman and a true rebel with a cause. As CEO of Adara Group, she has trailblazed one of the first examples of business for purpose: with the business arm of Adara generating more than $30 million since 1998 that's been deployed on Adara Development projects in some of the world's most impoverished communities. This chat is all about finding your calling, being bold and pioneering a new way, and driving a lasting impact.
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Emma Sinclair MBE has been described by Tattler magazine as an ‘entrepreneur who’ll run the universe some day’… as you listen to this coffee pod you’ll understand why! Emma is a serial entrepreneur who remains the youngest person to float a company on the London Stock Exchange, doing so at just 29. She is currently a full-time techie having co-founded Enterprise Jungle voted the most innovative enterprise new software company in 2014. Emma is also proud to have been UNICEF’s first business mentor and is currently in the midst of the #helpemmahelpunicef campaign, raising £150,000 pounds to build innovation labs in refugee camps. You can read more or donate here. This coffee pod is packed with tips on how to start, the role of mentors, getting comfortable being uncomfortable and paying it forward.
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You’ll have to hear this coffee pod to believe it! Rabia Siddique, a Perth-born lawyer, joined the British army as a legal officer and found herself being called in as a hostage negotiator during insurgent conflict in Iraq.
Next thing, she’s taken hostage herself. Listen to the remarkable story of how Rabia survived and has gone on to inspire and empower thousands as a leading motivational speaker and business woman.A recipient of a Queen’s commendation for human rights, and an Australian of the Year Finalist, Rabia is a grounded, resilient and passionate leader, with some incredible takeaways for how to get-through and go beyond.
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Dom Price is a world-leading guru on high performance teams and getting things done in the digital age. As Head of R&D and ‘Work Futurist’ at Atlassian, Australia’s most successful tech company, Dom is a refreshingly practical, no-BS leader with insights and tools that will accelerate your performance to another level. A must-listen for current and emerging leaders alike, and for anyone wanting to know (from the bleeding edge of the tech industry) what the future of work might actually have in store for us, Dom’s Coffee Pod is packed with the practical toolkit to help you get ahead.
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Against the odds, Layne Beachley emerged from humble beginnings to become a 7-time world champion surfer. Now one of the world’s most highly regarded motivational speakers, she’s devoted her life post sport to helping others unlock their potential. In this raw, inspiring and powerful coffee pod, Layne reveals what it took to become (and remain) a world champion: framing success, traversing challenges, setting powerful goals and managing expectations and pressure on the journey to the top.
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