IQ Meets EQ Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jacqui Brauman and Ush Dhanak
The podcast is presented by Legally Wise Women. Being ‘legally wise’ is having the wisdom to navigate daily life, having more power over outcomes, and having knowledge about how things work in our system (whether that system is financial, legal, employment, political, social, etc). Wisdom also includes emotional intelligence. This refers to a person’s ability to perceive, control, evaluate and express emotions. The podcast advocates that learning and increasing emotional intelligence is an important determinate of life success. Women will feel comfortable in our community; they will learn, they will get answers, and they will be empowered through knowledge. We have frank discussions in plain English, so that everyday women don’t feel intimidated or silly by legal, financial and political issues.
Applied Wisdom is for women dealing with practical difficulties of life, or a major legal batter, who want poise under pressure. we want to stay in our integrity throughout a challenge and live by the saying: Do no harm, but take no shit!
In this podcast, you’ll learn how to apply skills, your power, support, and wisdom in useful ways for day-to-day life, as well as times when you’re under acute stress.
Because it’s the challenges in our lives that often create the biggest transformations in us, and we want to navigate them with grace and integrity.
Check out the first episode:
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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/support-with-ush-dhanak/id1696569322?i=1000620503543
Since Fran Pratt was a child, she has always been interested in people and how relationships work. This has translated into her specialisation on the company-client relationship and specifically the art of selling. Selling has been part of Fran’s life for over 25 years and in every industry, in small or large businesses, she has been successful. Fran loves sales! She also knows that for many people, “sales” is a dirty word because it’s been disconnected from this key relationship that you have with your customers.
Fran has completed a Graduate Certificate in Change Management and an MBA from Melbourne Business School. Coupled with my hands-on sales and business experience, she has a toolbox of techniques that she draws on to help businesses better understand themselves and their customers.
Fran Pratt created Metisan to bridge that gap, to demystify the sales process and sales people so that anyone can improve their sales performance. Her vision is a world where business owners both understand and respect their clients, understand how to foster this relationship through the art of sales.
She has a young family and bonus kids from her husband, and so also knows what it is to juggle personal and business priorities – always open and curious to learn how to try new things and do life differently.
Connect with Frances!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franpratt/
Website: www.metisan.com.au
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
Helen Kartika is a business and career coach. She has helped her clients launch businesses, get clarity on their career next steps, navigate anxiety & Imposter Syndrome in the workplace, work towards the promotions they deserve and show up in their business more confidently, authentically and intentionally.
https://www.helenkartika.com
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
Jacqui and Ush both agree that this career has been amazing. Jane Vandermeer is a stylist who helps women find the right clothes, to love the size they are right now. She is a highly intuitive, gentle and innovative thought leader. She has had a 30-year career in the fashion industry, and has created a number of multi-award winning businesses. Jane has an innate ability to connect with her clients often when they can’t always articular their own needs. She is in tune with trends but a confident individualist when it comes to style. Not to mention her natural perfumes and deodorants.
www.finessebusinessandstyle.com
https://intuitivewhispers.com.au
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
This is a powerhouse episode! Kate Osborne Owner Leisure Seekers travelled to over 50 countries meeting with both women and men to question them on a quest to achieve success in her lifetime. As a Flight Centre share owner she understood business for success and mentored over 75 teams in five years to follow the systems of success. Poached by the world’s #1 Business Coaching Franchise, Kate was one of 3 women in over 620 Franchisees across the world and trebled the numbers of women year on year in her business.
She is now striving to create a legacy where Queensland women can become interdependent on each other and fast track success, by celebrating each other’s uniqueness and potential. Kate believes that success is defined individually, and coaches women leaders with non-judgement and compassion to provide the tools to authentically balance health, wealth and family.
https://kokomatrix.com/about/
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
In this solo episode, Jacqui explores her blossoming leadership style with a mentor. Midja Fisher has spent the last two decades years in the corporate world as a legal partner of an ASX listed national law firm and a learning and development specialist. She is considered an expert in leadership and building career confidence.
During her career she has mentored and coached leaders and facilitated hundreds of corporate workshops, from webinar series and induction programs to 6-day residential leadership programs
Midja understands the challenges clients face in building leadership capability within their organisations. She works with leaders to leverage their strengths to gain the skills and self-belief they need to inspire top performance.
https://www.midja.com.au
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
Facing more new topics, boldly, Jacqui and Ush reveal more about themselves after discussing a topic that still seems to be unnecessarily taboo in our culture: disordered eating. Joni Seeto is a former binge-eater turned therapist who specialises in helping women to stop self-sabotaging with food. Her unique Weightless™ method helps women make peace with food, reclaim their worth and feel good in their own skin again. With qualifications in Rapid Transformational Therapy, Eating Psychology and 10+ years of corporate leadership and development experience, Joni combines hypnotherapy and coaching to help women get to the root of their lifelong struggle with food and achieve long-lasting results.
If you want to find out why you keep turning to food (even when you’re determined not to!) take Joni’s free Decode Your Cravings quiz here: https://www.joniseeto.com/quiz or get in touch with Joni on Instagram @joniseeto
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert
Very different topic this episode - or a similar theme, but from a different source! Ioanna Serpanos is a recognised and well-respected Psychic Medium and Mentor who comes from a long linage of Psychic Mediums and has been reading for over 20 years. She is renowned for her accuracy, honesty and integrity and delivers messages from Spirit with compassion, humility and down to earth practicality.
Ioanna was originally trained as an engineer and finished her corporate career as a General Manager of an international automotive company. She knows the corporate world of business intimately and can draw on her experience and her intuition to advise on outcomes of a business nature.
As a well as healings and readings for others, she also mentors people to tap into their intuition, and to learn to trust and use it in daily life.
https://ioannaserpanos.com
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
Transcripts: https://www.elasticpod.com/pod/iq-meets-eq-podcast-by-jacqui-brauman
Starting 2022 with the big topics - Ush Dhanak and Jacqui Brauman talk about fear, performance, preparation, and embodiment in this episode!
Shawnee is a two-time Olympian as the former Assistant Coach for the Canadian Women’s Basketball Team, and is one of the most highly certified basketball coaches in Canada. She has 26 years of elite coaching and leadership experience including the Olympic Games, World Championships, FIBA Americas, and World University Games.
Her purpose and passion are devoted to helping athletes of all ages gain a competitive edge, get selected to their dream team, earn a scholarship, and compete with courage and confidence when it matters most. And because it takes a village, she also works with their parents.
Shawnee holds a Master’s Degree in Coaching Studies, and she is a Master Coach Developer and Master Learning Facilitator for the National Coaching Certification Program, where she trains and mentors both advanced and novice coaches from all sports.
Since winning matters not only in sport but also in business, Shawnee has become a sought-after corporate coach, leadership coach, life coach, and motivational speaker. Her vast experience in the elite world of sport transfers directly to the boardroom where success is talent oriented, and people driven. Teams and leaders are raising the bar after taking her sessions: Build a Winning Team, Transform Managers to Leaders, and Ignite the Leader Within.
https://www.shawneeharle.com/fear-to-fierce
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-brauman/
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://eq.academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqexpert/
Transcripts: https://www.elasticpod.com/pod/iq-meets-eq-podcast-by-jacqui-brauman
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/iq-meets-eq-podcast/id1462121467
A reflection on 2021 - our personal, mental, spiritual and business journeys - including a review of our learnings from our guests.
https://eq.academy
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
In the last interview style episode for 2021, Ush and Jacqui have their pets making lots of noise! But they persist with the great conversation about trust, self-confidence, resilience, transition and lifestyle design inspired by Genine Howard. Genine is best known as a business coach who has created, bought and sold numerous high-end magazine titles in both print and digital including Profile Magazine.
With a swag of accolades, Genine is also an author, public speaker, lifestyle strategist and is dedicated to helping other female entrepreneurs live their most extraordinary lives teaching them how to build impactful high-end business empires.
https://geninehoward.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/femmpire
Jacqui Brauman from Legally Wise Women gives you some more insight into your decision making when facing a conflict, by using the conflict resolution model to describe the initial emotional response we get when under threat, and then moving into more rational phases to be able to make better decisions.
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/groups/legallywise
This one is a great episode that brings together a lot of the topics that Jacqui and Ush have been discussing with various guests over the last 6 months. Linda Emslie lived for many years as the poster girl for “Rushing Woman’s Syndrome”. Leaving her secure career over a decade ago, to follow her soul calling, Linda transformed from Marketing Manager to massage therapist, to Reiki Master to Soul Connection Mentor.
Linda empowers conscious business leaders with chronic illness to uncover their soul-aligned solutions for healing and business growth. She’s an international best-selling author, an industry leader in doing business with the sacred feminine, a mother of 4 girls, and knows from first-hand experience the challenge of living with fibromyalgia.
With a background of 20 years in Marketing and Communication, over 10 years as a Natural Therapies practitioner, and a life-long learner in life’s deeper mysteries, Linda’s medicine is a potent mix of divinely channeled guidance and practical, actionable strategies.
Mindfulness meditation. Runs for approx 10 mins.
Goddess Breath. Runs for approx 4mins.
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Jacqui Brauman from Legally Wise Women approaches the topic of having a hard conversation. She provides some tips for getting over your fear of conflict - that it’s just your brain being triggered by a social threat, and how to trick your brain. And how to start a difficult conversation to deal with something upfront, instead of letting it go and spiral into something bigger.
www.legallywisewomen.com.au
Jacqui and Ush reflect after another woman who has navigated a successful career, through masculine workplaces, towards working for herself in a truly impactful way. Melissa has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, working previously as a financial planner, stockbroker and seminar delivery specialist. With a passion for finance and making a difference in people’s lives, Melissa was naturally drawn into financial planning. But while working in the industry she realised there was a strong need to educate and coach people around managing their money.
Melissa consolidated all her knowledge around finances and her love of working with people and created her own Money Mindset and Success Coaching business called Talking Money.
Talking Money is about changing people’s lives; by providing the tools, support and framework to empower them to have clarity, awareness and efficiency around their money.
Melissa creates a safe space to have a real conversation about money and is passionate about uncovering how our relationship with money impacts our motivations and behaviour every…single…day!
https://melissameagher.com.au
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In this episode, Jacqui Brauman, Founder and CEO of Legally Wise Women, gives a summary of a training that she has available, covering the three main mistakes that women make when facing a personal legal problem, and what they can do to avoid it.
Found out more at https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
An interview with a woman whose incredible energy puts Ush and Jacqui to shame, this episode we feature Caralee Fontenele. Caralee has been in business since she was in her early twenties. At the age of 30, she went to University to become a family lawyer. She opened her family law practice Collective Family Law on the Gold Coast in 2012 and have expanded across three locations since then, with the view to keep scaling.
Being the director of Collective Family Law, Caralee has cultivated a strong culture of excellence in the service her business provides to clients, balanced with fun and innovation within the team.
Her love of business and the law has lead her to create a platform for professional service firm owners called The Scalable Business Lounge. Caralee has recognised that there is a lack of support for law firm owners to grow their businesses and to create law firms that help them to create a life that they dream of. As the leader of the Scalable Business Lounge, she helps law firm owners to get their law firms running like a well-oiled machine so that it doesn't need them anymore.
Amoung other things, Caralee also hosts the 'Being Unstoppable' podcast, and has authored a number of Gluten Free, Sugar Free cookbooks.
https://caraleefontenele.com
Ush challenges us to imagine our lives if we had control over your emotions. She reviews the concepts of the “Frankenstein” brain and the “Einstein” brain.
https://eq.academy
A conversation deep in the agri-sector gives cause for a broader conversation than Ush and Jacqui have had before about sustainability, supply chain, and climate change. Emma Coath is the Managing Director of Rocket Seeder Limited in Australia and a Co-Founder and Director of GROW Agrifood Tech Accelerator in Singapore. She has a passion for building a sustainable food and agriculture sector through supporting innovative entrepreneurs.
Emma has worked in the food and agriculture sector for the past 25 years, in both public and private organisations. Emma has completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Deakin University), a Master of eBusiness (RMIT University) and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
https://www.rocketseeder.com
In this episode, Jacqui Brauman gives a legally wise mini bite to dispel 3 myths that people hold about lawyers, which may help make them a bit more human, and help to make it a bit easier if you need to find a lawyer.
https://legallywisewomen.com.au
Louise Bedford is a best-selling author of five books on the sharemarket. She is one of Australia's most compelling speakers on the sharemarket, has been trading the markets since 1990, and has trained thousands of people to maximise their own trading potential.
Louise is a behavioural finance expert and has degrees in both Psychology and Business. She has done the hard yards in the sharemarket so you can shortcut your way to success by following her methods.
She's been running the 6-month repeat-for-free Trading Game Mentor Program since 2000, and she's also the founder and co-host of Talking Trading, a free weekly trading podcast.
Louise's presentations are not about vague concepts that don't work in the real world — she highlights incredibly practical, time-saving strategies that you need to implement in order to become an extremely successful trader. Her key areas of focus are using candlestick charts, trading psychology, pattern detection, the impact of neuro-psychology on trading decisions and trading crisis management. Officially crowned as Australia's "Candlestick Queen", she's known as the trader that brought this fascinating technique to Australia.
When she's not hanging out with her traders, Louise is spending time with her two children and husband, lifting weights at the gym, enjoying yoga, and trying to get a glimpse of her own reflection on the back of her business partner Chris Tate's bald head.
You're going to want to listen to absolutely every word she has to say!
tradinggame.com.au
In this episode, Ush Dhanak follows her last mini bite with an explanation of the Frankenstein brain, and the impacts this part of your brain can have. She introduces the ‘doom loop’ and starts introducing ideas about how to break it, and leave your Frankenstein brain behind.
For more, find Ush at http://eq.academy
Originally trained as a lawyer, and currently practising as a registered psychologist, Emily Knowles has a deep interest and investment at the intersection of these two fields. Lawyer wellbeing, and the issue of wellbeing amongst the profession more generally, is a cause to which she is deeply committed. After spending time in her early career clerking in both criminal and civil jurisdictions, she worked as a Judge's Associate in the Supreme Court before discovering and deciding that while her head was in the law, her heart was very much aligned with the human-side of the job. In time she finessed that passion to support the human at work : pursuing specialism in Organisational Psychology. She now devotes a considerable amount of her professional time and effort supporting an occupational approach towards wellbeing, amongst other solutions in the world of work. Her areas of subject matter expertise include wellbeing, leadership, leader wellbeing, individual differences (eg values and personality), culture and performance. Solutions are sometimes 'wellbeing specific', and other times the wellbeing lens is more embedded and integrated into other leadership/performance/culture work.
Emily currently consults with The Human Link (www.humanlink.co )
The poem Ush refers to: https://simpleandpractical.com/stages-change-poem/
Chapter I
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost… I am hopeless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter II
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in this same place.
But it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
Chapter III
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in… it’s a habit… but,
my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
Chapter IV
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
Chapter V
I walk down another street.
How do you resolve conflict? What is the style you default to when faced with a difficult conversation? Knowing your default conflict style, and what the other styles are and when to apply them, can help you work out when you need to adopt a different style to what you default to. For more: https://legallywisewomen.com.au/how-do-you-resolve-conflict/
Jacqui interviews Kate Dillon, after having bought one of her locally made jumpers, and it generates a great conversation with Ush. Kate Dillon is the founding director and CEO of She Lion bags: www.SheLion.com.au. She is a dual qualified lawyer (Australia and New York, USA), holding an LLB (Hons) / BA (distinction), and an MLM Commercial Law (IP). Kate has completed various innovation strategy and design thinking executive courses, including training with Inventium Pty Ltd, Echos School of Design Thinking, Stanford d.school and IDEO. Kate is a graduate and member of the AICD, and a certified Agile Practitioner (DSDM). Kate was selected to complete the Executive Program in Women’s Leadership at Stanford in 2019. She also holds an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT in Boston.
Watch the video here.
Get a shirt: https://www.shelion.com.au
In this episode, Ush Dhanak introduces a great EQ concept - thinking about your ‘doom and gloom/fear and angry’ brain as Frankenstein (“Frankie”) v your best brain - “Einstein” brain.
http://eq.academy
In this episode, Jacqui turns the tables and interviews an interviewer - Faye Waterman is generally known as The Conversation Curator. She helps SME business owners to Build Their Profiles and Brand Awareness, building their credibility and visibility through conversation on radio, video, and social media.
She is a mother of 2 children and 3 grandchildren
She has been involved in business most of her adult life
She has owned her own business and been an (RTO)Registered Training Organisation as a sole trader in the Health and Fitness Industry running nationally accredited training courses in the health and fitness industry training many people to work in the industry including herself.
Now she has her own radio show ‘A Conversation with Faye’ Live on Air Radio on 88.3 Southern FM Community radio
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fayewaterman/?originalSubdomain=au
In this Mini Bite, Jacqui Brauman provides a short summary of some key alternative dispute resolution methods that you could access, including the benefits of resolving a dispute as early as possible.
With a focus on financial wellbeing with another financial planner as a guest, Jacqui and Ush again check on their money blocks after listening to Natallia Smith and her passion. Natallia’s wish is for all women to have the financial security, independence and confidence that they deserve. Everything she does is driven by her knowledge that can help women navigate their financial lives.
Migrating to Australia in 2001, Natallia learned that starting over in a new country involved dealing with significant financial repercussions. Her desire to create financial security for herself, her family and her future ignited an interest in this field and turned her new-found love into a fulfilling career as a Financial Adviser.
Combining her previous education in psychology with her training and knowledge of the financial industry, Natallia now works closely with her financial advice clients to develop strategies to build confidence, motivate, educate and provide security throughout their lives.
With a proven strong capability in the management of complex financial strategies, her added life experience as a mother, wife and daughter of retired parents has given her a deep understanding of the reason we all need financial security. It is never too early to be prepared and protected for the uncertainties of family life and events such as separation, divorce, retirement and death.
Our financial futures matter. I specialize in helping and educating pre-retiree single women (never married / widowed / separated / divorced) to manage their financial affairs and achieve financial independence and security. Rest assured, you will receive exceptional quality financial advice that will always be in your best interests.
https://www.truwealthadvice.com.au
The final lesson in Ush’s first 5-part series is about mind power! Ush Dhanak, Australia’s leading EQ expert talks about thoughts, words and actions - forming habits that dominate your life. You can feed positive thoughts to change your life.
https://eq.academy
Serial entrepreneur Jess Jones knows burnout. She launched her first business 2nd Avenue Events in 2013, 37 weeks pregnant with her son. Jess sought out other business owners to network with and couldn’t find a group that resonated with her. Her second business Soar Collective was created in 2014, to create the perfect space for connection and collaboration between regional businesswomen. Jess ran both until she sold 2nd Avenue Events in October 2015 to focus on growing Soar Collective.
She hit her first burnout in 2017 while managing her business, a part time job and 2 young children. She hit burnout again in May 2019 and took huge life changes to recover and ensure it didn’t return. During lockdown in 2020, Jess realised her experience, knowledge, and skills that had been honed throughout her own journey needed to be shared. So many people were going through burnout and looking for ways to navigate it to find their own way back. Jess knew it was her mission to help and The Burnout Club was born.
*Jess Jones is the Founder of The Burnout Club, helping business owners navigate burnout and build resilience on their road to recovery.*
Website https://www.theburnoutclub.com
Podcast https://www.theburnoutclub.com/podcast
Burnout Kit https://bit.ly/tbcburnoutkit
Breaking up with Burnout Mini-Course http://bit.ly/burnoutminicourse
In this fifth Legally Wise Mini Bite, solicitor and founder of Legally Wise Women Jacqui Brauman gives some simple alternative dispute resolution advice - providing some services to utilise to resolve your legal issue without ‘going legal’ and needing a solicitor.
In this episode, Jacqui explores a very different level of emotional intelligence with Zenith Virago. Zenith is the EO and founding member of the NSW Charity, the Natural Death Care Centre. Co-author of the book The Intimacy of Death and Dying, and subject of the international independent documentary, Zen & the Art of Dying, and patron of the Good funeral guide, UK.
Zenith is at the forefront and a leading pioneer of dying well, family led body care, meaningful and appropriate ceremony, and informing and educating communities to reclaim and be empowered before, during and after death.
Often seen as a maverick she offers a hybrid of truly traditional ways blended with a more contemporary understanding, encouraging people to take their dying, death, after death care and ceremony back into their own hands and hearts, even in cases of sudden death and trauma.
With a legal and community background, she is a seen as a community resource, assisting people to know and reclaim their legal rights, and co-create their own social rites of passage. She has been working towards more holistic cultural change in approaches to better and continual end of life and after death care for well over 25 years.
Known as a Deathwalker, an educator and a celebrant, she shares the subtle and obvious layers involved, offering guidance, support and care to inform, enable and empower people to be as informed, open and courageous as they can, and to experience their dying and their loss in the best way they can. Simply, she accompanies and guides people in their losses.
https://www.naturaldeathcarecentre.org
In the fourth EQ Academy mini bite, Ush discusses creativity as an aspect of emotional intelligence, including the state of ‘flow’.
Following on from the last couple of episodes with Jacqui close to burnout, and Ush making hard decisions herself, this guest had just what they both needed to hear. Brigette Sigley was the ultimate superwoman juggling a successful business and family. Like many she didn’t see the warning signs. First came a brain tumour then breast cancer. She felt totally responsible for bringing in an income and providing for the needs of her family. Living by the hormones of stress had become her “normal”. Brigette realised she needed to find a way to live so she could be there for her family.
Brigette went on a transformational journey. Over a 4 year period, she trained with some of the world’s best health practitioners from both Eastern and Western Medicine. She researched the science behind stress and studied to become an Integrated Health Coach out of the Institute of Integrated Nutrition in New York. She also studied with many of the Masters in India.
Ten years later she now has that elusive life balance without having to sacrifice anything. Her passion is inspiring women to get off the hamster wheel and to reignite their life so they can experience more peace and fulfilment and to avoid a stress related crisis like the one she went through.
Saying No script: https://brigettesigley.com/free-saying-no-with-kindness-script/
https://brigettesigley.com/book-a-strategy-call-with-brigette/
In her Legally Wise Mini Bite, Jacqui gives advice about how lawyers charge, and how to talk to a lawyer about their fees.
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
In this episode, Jacqui and Ush debrief after Jacqui interviews a woman who is truly contributing to moving the needle for women, both in business and in tech. Peace Mitchell is an international keynote speaker, author, CEO and co-founder of the Women's Business School & AusMumpreneur Awards, Australian Ambassador of Women in Tech and Forbes.com business expert.
Peace is passionate about supporting women to reach their full potential and create the life they want to live. She has helped thousands of women achieve their dream of running a successful and profitable business and believes that investing in women is the best way to change the world. Peace Mitchell co-founded AusMumpreneur in 2009 creating Australia’s #1 community for mothers in business and co-founded the Women's Business School in 2016 to provide entrepreneurial education for women globally. She has a community of 50,000 women and is surrounded by women who inspire her to dream bigger and follow her calling everyday. Today, her commitment is stronger than ever, to invest in the power of women to change the world.
https://www.thewomensbusinessschool.com
Ush Dhanak, founder of EQ Academy and Australia’s leading EQ coach builds on her previous two mini bites, and talks about the importance of self awareness as an EQ skill, and requirement for success in life.
eq.academy
Speaking with an elite sportswoman, Jacqui and Ush find fascinating parallels to talk about. Jodie is originally from Toowoomba, Queensland and has spent a large part of her journey pursuing her elite sport playing goals and sport administration career. She was the Australian Women's Cricket Captain for five years from 2009-2014 and led the Australian Women's Cricket Team to double World Cup victories in 2012 in Sri Lanka and 2013 in India. She played elite cricket for 17 years and since her retirement in 2016 has continued her involvement in the game. She is passionate about advocating for the rise and elevation of women's sport more broadly and understands the importance of education and pursuing a balanced life for all athletes. In post playing roles, Jodie has contributed as a coach, player's union representative, selector, mentor and volunteer. Jodie has a passion for all things leadership and a central theme in her life has been the power to overcome adversity and keep moving forward with a positive mindset towards her goals and dreams. One of her greatest achievements was completing her University degrees in Human Movement Science and Master of Business Administration where she learnt and developed herself personally and professionally. Her passion is her family and helping others to achieve happiness and success that is unique to them.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodie-p-94285550/
In this Legally Wise Mini Bite, Jacqui discussed how to assess the skill level of a lawyer, when trying to choose a lawyer to work with. Also, skill will v skill level is an important factor when choosing a lawyer to work with.
In this episode, Jacqui interviews one of the most resilient and persistent guests yet, giving her and Ush plenty to reflect on. Judith can be described in many ways and one of her strong qualities is resilience. Her resilience in business leadership and management over the years reflects an innovative mindset, driven character, and humanitarian spirit.
Being an accomplished businesswoman has proven her commitment, determination, and passion. The mother of two teenage children has drawn an inspiring journey as a budding entrepreneur when she started dreaming until her current success in helping others. She has received several awards in recognition of her notable achievements in the business category.
Together with her husband, they have founded and established Nutricraft Cookware in Australia. Since the inception of Nutricraft, the couple has envisioned a business that cares about the nutrition, health, and wellness of consumers. Thus, the advocacy for safe, smart, and healthy cooking has been integrated with their business philosophy.
She believes in self-empowerment through continuous learning that has motivated her to join the Cardone training and workshops. As a proud member of Grant Cardone Training Technologies, Judith is optimistic about cultivating ideas, practices, and results in the realism of business and entrepreneurship.
https://nutricraftcookware.com
Our host Ush Dhanak shares the second of a 5-part series she has recorded for you on the Power of the Mind, as Australia’s EQ expert, and the CEO and Founder of the EQ Academy. To hear part one, go back to episode 53: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/iq-meets-eq-podcast/id1462121467?i=1000515107561
https://eq.academy
This episode features another special, emotionally intelligent man, with Jacqui interviewing Rugare Gomo. Rugare Gomo is a High Performance Leadership coach who exists to empower you to live a life of purpose and wonder. Originally from Zimbabwe, Rugare’s name means God’s Peace. Just as he was named intentionally, Rugare’s life is lived intentionally to honour it.
At 16, Rugare made a bold request and asked a family friend to support his life’s vision and support his desire to move to Australia for his education and opportunity to bring his dreams to life. With his grandmother who was denied an education as his inspiration, he completed his secondary education then graduated, with honours, from an Arts and Law degree at Monash University.
After spending a number of years working in some of Australia’s most elite law firms and being the General Council of a high performing international business, where he regularly negotiated multi-million dollar cross-border contracts, Rugare fulfilled his life-long dream and ran his own commercial law firm.
Rugare lives to empower people to be leaders in their life, and experience living a fulfilling life.
Rugare has spent many years turning himself inside out through intensive mentorships, leadership and coaching trainings so to liberate himself from his limiting beliefs and live a life of his creation.
https://www.rugaregomo.com
Our host Jacqui Brauman gives us a legally wise tip about where to start when getting some initial professional advice for your legal problem.
https://wise.legallywisewomen.com.au
For our second feature male on the podcast, Jacqui speaks with Matt Gaffney. Prior to establishing Enindico in 2010, Matt had over 20 years of international professional services firm experience working with high-achieving colleagues, clients and other advisers. Most recently, this was with EY (including five years as a Partner in the Transaction Advisory Services division) and, early in his career, in the Business Services team of Price Waterhouse (a predecessor firm to PwC). Matt was a Commercial Manager in industry between those roles with EY and Price Waterhouse.
Currently, working for himself, Matt is one of two formal Ambassadors for Fitted for Work (see the ‘Giving back’ page) as part of his community to gender equality and real inclusion. Past roles have included being a Director of Fitted for Work and a member of the Finance and Human Resources Committee of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. Matt was also Co-Founder of the Chances Melbourne Tertiary Mentoring Program established in 2006 for Chances for Children of Mildura, and Melbourne-based Patron of annual Programs between 2006 and 2015
https://www.enindico.com.au/about/matt-gaffney/
Our host Ush Dhanak shares the first of a 5-part series she has recorded for you on the Power of the Mind, as Australia’s EQ expert, and the CEO and Founder of the EQ Academy.
https://eq.academy
Our first male guest is featured with Ush interviewing the founder of Enterprise Lab in the UK, Ket Makwana. Business strategist and all-round disruptor Ketan Makwana has been working on business growth, strategic management and talent development for over 20 years.
Ketan has extensive expertise in Tech, Electronics and Healthcare, with a passion for people and processes Ketan has worked across all business levels within enterprise eco-systems including economic policy advisory to governments and ministries across the globe.
As CEO of Enterprise Lab, Ketan is the visionary behind the company’s mission to develop better people and better businesses for better economic outcomes.
Ketan is also an energising and inspirational international speaker on the subjects of mindset, growth, innovation and the power of disruption; he has engaged audiences across 5 continents and 42 cities.
https://enterpriselab.co.uk/our-story/
https://www.ketanmakwana.com
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Jacqui Brauman presents a mini bite from Legally Wise Women about where to start when you’re facing a personal legal problem and researching online.
For self love month in February, Jacqui speaks with the author of The Art of Self Love, and the host of the Self Love podcast - Kim Morrison! There is so much more to Kim Morrison than meets the eye (or ear).
Tenacity is probably the first word that comes to mind. Her journey and all she has accomplished to date has all stemmed from her unwavering self-belief and her deep understanding that you must also take care of yourself first and foremost.
Kim set a world record as the youngest female to run 100miles in less than 24 hours in 1983. Cliff Young was her mentor throughout and still to this day lives by his ethos that success is 90% mental and 10% physical. She has used her running story as a direct metaphor for life – riding the highs, hitting the walls, pushing through the pain barriers, crossing the line and never, ever giving up!
Kim wholeheartedly believes that it’s about visualising your dream and going for it – regardless of the feedback you receive or the challenges you face.
In 2008 Kim founded Twenty8 Essentials, an organic chemical-free skincare and aromatherapy company with inspiring, online education programs around the fundamentals of self-care. She is a five times best-selling author, facilitator, Health and Lifestyle Educator.
https://twenty8.com/kim-morrison/
https://kimmorrison.com
Celebrating self-love month this February (instead of Valentine’s Day), Jacqui interviews Tina Bruce to talk about learning to love thyself. Tina Bruce is an Author, Intuitive Mentor, Yoga Teacher, Retreat Leader and Rebirthing Breathwork Therapist. Her career spans twenty years working in the health industry including ten years as a trained clinical cardiac technician in medical devices. Her experience of burnout, shingles and the development of an opioid addiction to manage the subsequent chronic pain condition prompted a new path which enabled her to recover and start her own business. Tina is a teacher at The Institute of Intuitive Intelligence and runs courses online as well as supporting women in person and running ‘Breathe Us Awake’ retreats. Tina is also passionate about including cultural awareness and ancient Indigenous wellness practices into her services. Tina's purpose is to empower women to trust their Intuition and guide them through transformation.
https://www.tinabruce.com.au
Speaking with a fellow country-girl, Jacqui welcomes forensic accountant Kellie Badge for a chat and then debriefs with Ush. Kellie Badge is a Director of Forensic Solutions Litigation Support and specialises in providing expert accounting reports to assist in settling disputes. Kellie is often preparing valuations of businesses operated by Husbands and Wives that are divorcing so that they have an independent opinion of the value of the business when determining the worth of their assets that need to be divided between them. Business valuations also help directors and shareholders that are arguing so that they can negotiate the value of the shares or interest of the exiting shareholder. Where businesses or individuals suffer a loss due to an event such as a fire in the kitchen of a restaurant business or a person contracting an asbestos related disease, Kellie is engaged to quantify the value of the loss suffered by the business or individual.
Kellie moved to Melbourne from country Victoria to complete her bachelor of commerce degree and has taken a journey through various disciplines of accounting in mid tier, Big 4 and boutique accounting firms, with a short detour into commonwealth proceeds of crime matters. After furthering her studies with a Masters of Forensic Accounting, Kellie entered the forensic accounting field 14 years ago and during the COVID lock down period established a new firm Forensic Solutions Litigation Support with her business partner David.
www.forensicsolutions.com.au
Speaking with another powerful female leader and successful business owner, Jacqui is particularly intrigued by Bianca’s lasting business partnerships and her diverse interests. Bianca Dowdell-Munro has enjoyed a successful business career that has spanned the last 20 years. With a range of diverse roles across a multitude of different industries, Bianca has owned businesses in the wealth management/accounting, legal technology, medical and hospitality industries. With a passion for building networks and adding value to all that surround her, Bianca remains very grounded with her greatest blessing – daughter Alice, who continually reminds her what life is all about.
Changing it up a bit, Jacqui and Ush reflect on 2020. They talk about the changes that this year has brought and forced on each of them, their routines, their health and family life, their leadership and their businesses.
If you want to #joinjacqui for January fitness classes with all proceeds going to Cancer Council: https://www.facebook.com/tbalaw/?view_public_for=844518822259288
In this episode, Jacqui interviews another pioneering lawyer, Zinta Harris. 25 years ago, Zinta’s very first case was a bitter estate battle that ended in court.
She saw first-hand how fighting over money completely destroyed a family and left a hard earned inheritance in tatters, after paying huge legal bills. That set her on a path to find a better way to help grieving families deal with the fallout after the loss of a loved one.
Zinta is a Brisbane-based Accredited Succession Law & Business Law Specialist, Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator and owner of boutique firm, Resolve Estate Law.
In contrast to traditionally run litigation, Zinta takes a collaborative approach where possible. Which means she prefers to work with lawyers representing the other parties to resolve estate disputes without going to court. This way clients and their families are empowered to reach their own settlements in a holistic and lasting way.
https://resolveestatelaw.com.au
Catching the Curve Ball Blog: https://zintaharris.com
This episode, Jacqui speaks with Emma Heuston from The Remote Expert. In 2011 Emma Heuston was on the traditional lawyer corporate path with an office job in a boutique law firm on the North Shore of Sydney.
In late 2013, Emma and her young family had a sea change to far northern New South Wales. After the sea change, Emma worked remotely at partner level in a law firm for a number of years but it didn’t light that fire in my belly. The fire I had to help other women see what they could do. To help them build their own empire and let them know it was okay, they didn’t have to buy into the 9 to 5 corporate life while trying to raise a family.
In 2018, Emma wrote the work-from-home bible, "The Tracksuit Economy: how to work productively and effectively from home”, and was also named as “Thought leader of the Year” in Lawyers Weekly at the Women in Law Awards.
In 2019 Emma started The Remote Expert to achieve the purpose of helping women succeed in business and won a gold Ausmumpreneur Award in the Women’s Business School Excellence Award (Ignite)
mailto:emma@thetracksuiteconomy.com
In this episode, Jacqui turns her mind to leadership again when interviewing guest Jenna Yeats. Jenna is a Group Manager for Metro Trains, Melbourne. She is a focussed and results-driven team player with relevant tertiary qualifications (an MBA) and demonstrated experience applying leadership practices to optimise individual and team performance.
Jenna is passionate about ensuring the successful completion of key milestones and tasks within strict timeframes and budgets to deliver first class results, enhance client satisfaction and increase company reputation.
This episode features another woman who has created her own business, and in this case her own unique product as well. Like many women her age Suzanne Carroll came from humble beginnings and started out at secretarial school. She completed a business diploma and worked for various corporations, selling advertising for big brands. After many years (she won't say how long exactly) working in the corporate world Suzanne experienced severe bullying which resulted in a breakdown. She took mental health leave and wondered what she was going to do as she knew she couldn't return to such a toxic workplace.
Suzanne was reaching an age where it would not be easy to gain new employment, and found herself unemployed, but too young, with too much to offer to retire. Searching for a business venture she noticed that no one was marketing cooler bags for women. No matter how much she searched. she could not find anything anywhere in the world that she felt was stylish enough to carry her wine in. She decided to create a handbag for her wine, and came up with the idea of Cool Clutch, a handbag with a removable cooler pocket.
When the first Cool Clutch was taken to market Suzanne quickly realised that although her main focus had been wine, women were embracing Cool Clutch for its ability to keep food, makeup and medications cool. Finally there was a stylish cooler bag, and more excitingly it was combined with a fashionable handbag.
With her products patented in Australia, and patent pending in 38 other countries, Suzanne Carroll is determined that Cool Clutch becomes a household name in the new fashion category of the Ladies Cooler Handbag.
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with a woman who is having a baby and starting a business! Kate Fairley is a general insurance broker based in regional Victoria who recently gave birth to her second child while launching her new business, Macedon Ranges Insurance. Kate has a gift for breaking down complex insurance issues and giving clear and concise answers to help her clients make informed decisions when it comes to purchasing insurance products. She is passionate about supporting small business owners with tailored advice, as well as helping property owners navigate the insurance requirements for lifestyle properties. But no matter what needs to be insured, Kate's aim is to make the process as easy as possible.
In this episode, the discussion turns to creativity and the benefit of using the whole brain. Dr Cathryn Lloyd Founded Maverick Minds after experimenting with the intersection of creative, academic and business principles at one of London’s leading art and design universities. She realised that creativity and art could be used as a central methodology to solve complex business problems and inspire innovation within teams.
She has spent much of the COVID-19 lockdown period engaged in several online business collaborations, preparing to write the second instalment of The Story Cookbook, and embracing her artistic creativity.
She was named as a Finalist in the 2020 Letheridge Small Scale Art Award for her submission “There was a sense of peace”.
Cathryn’s fervent hope is that business does not ‘snap back’ into the previous incarnation of itself, and that collectively we embrace and embed the positive changes in the way we work and live, which have been fostered in response to the global pandemic, to create a better future.
In this episode, we explore leadership deeply. Karissa has embarked on a mining career spanning 15 years that started as a geologist and ended as a Mining Manager, taking Karissa to Victoria, Queensland and the NT.
Seeing first-hand what delivering leadership development training to people in frontline leadership roles can do led Karissa to find and fulfill her own purpose. Karissa is passionate about sharing her own experiences to ensure that people who are put
into roles where they are leading others are given the skills that they need to succeed, and has started her own business, Lead with Purpose, to enable her to develop others in this area.
Karissa understands the importance of investing in frontline leaders to ensure individuals can reach their full potential.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karissa-cameron-57ab83175/
Courtney is the founder and principal lawyer at Her Lawyer, a virtual law firm for ambitious women in business. With over a decade of experience in legal and consulting, Courtney brings her commercial mindsight and legal expertise to provide clients with high value, strategic advice. Courtney is passionate about helping women in business and achieving gender equality.
Her Lawyer’s team of friendly female lawyers help clients to build, grow and protect amazing businesses. Her Lawyer offer contracts, employment law, leasing, intellectual property and related legal services – anything legal you need for your business, Her Lawyer are here to help.
https://www.herlawyer.com.au
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Tara puts the human back into the way we work!…She has built an extensive career around building life-long learning, application of knowledge, human capital development and building collaborative communities. She is a passionate advocate for building regional economic sustainability by developing grassroots business skills and finding ways to connect business owners across our vast land.
With over 20 years experience in business growth education and strategy, her skills and experience in supporting adult learning and knowledge application has been developed by being one of the key team members that established the Executive Programs for QUTs Graduate School of Business and working with Monash, La Trobe and other global educators (vocational, workplace and tertiary). In that time she has founded three training organisations in Safety Leadership (Registered Training Organisation) , Neuroscience Leadership and now Business Growth Education.
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Importance of Being Human podcast
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In this episode, Ush interviews her copywriter BFF who is helping develop the EQ Academy website. Rashida Tayabali is a copywriter for female entrepreneurs. She specialises in helping women entrepreneurs say what they do, how they do it and why they do it best using the right words. So if you have a powerful story you want to share or are making a real difference in the world with your product or service, let her help you tell it in words that work.
https://www.rashidatayabali.com.au
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Kerry Ashbrook from Life You Choose, and then Ush and Jacqui debrief. Kerry Ashbrook is the founder of Life You Choose and is leading the Financial Movement for women. Kerry wants all women to understand the systemic issues we face and the financial reality for women in Australia. Kerry built her corporate career leading organisational transformations and developing people and teams, but her true passion is supporting women to achieve financial independence, so they can live the life they would truly choose.
Kerry grew up travelling around Australia, living in caravan parks and construction camps. Leaving school and living on her own in a caravan park at sixteen, Kerry went on to buy ten houses as a single woman and was the first in her family to achieve a Masters degree. Kerry has started a series of Financial Movement free events, to educate women on the stark financial realities that women still face. For Kerry it is not about money, it’s about the choices you get to make when you need it the most.
Life You Choose.
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Karen Finch from Legally Yours, and then Ush and Jacqui debrief. Karen is a non-practising lawyer, entrepreneur and legal tech founder. Karen qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia in 2003. Since this time, Karen has gained experience within the legal industry across a variety of different roles, including as a practicing solicitor in Melbourne and an in-house legal recruitment consultant for an international recruitment firm based in the UK. In 2015, Karen became a co-founder of Legally Yours and in 2017, Karen was appointed CEO. Since this time, Karen has scaled Legally Yours significantly, taking it from a bespoke matching service based primarily in Victoria, to a national, automated online service that connects community with fixed-fee and value based pricing lawyers Australia wide. Karen also sits on the Board of the Australian Legal Tech Association (ALTA) and is a passionate ambassador of the ’newlaw’ movement in Australia.
In this episode, Jacqui interviews a lawyer who has changed her career direction, to be more fulfilled by what she does, and create better results for the people she works with. Anne-Marie Cade is a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner / Nationally Accredited Mediator, Certified Divorce Coach, High Conflict Coach, Lawyer and founder of Divorce Right.
As a coach she works with clients to help them build better relationships by improving their communication skills, so they can resolve the conflict in their lives and thrive in their relationships.
Anne-Marie also works as a Mediator with couples going through separation to help them reach a peaceful, amicable separation, so they can co-parent peacefully together. She incorporates mindfulness practices into her coaching and mediation sessions so her clients are able to get more centered and grounded and become more mindful about the decisions they make.
In this episode, Jacqui and Ush debrief after Jacqui speaks with Tanya Camilleri. Tanya is an experienced corporate facilitator, neuroscience coach and keynote speaker with a clear passion for people development.
Tanya is a trained and qualified Neuroscience Coach and has her Associate Certified Coach accreditation through the International Coach Federation. She has current coaching clients at a senior executive and middle management level. As the Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Vault Mastermind, Tanya also enjoys working with Australian business owners to empower growth, help shift their mindset and maintain a healthy balance in life.
With a Bachelor Degree in Business, majoring in Human Resources and Marketing, Tanya has successfully performed a variety of roles across large organisations. Tanya’s corporate experience includes roles in sales, retail management, project management and business transformation; including Asia Pacific responsibilities, working with global teams to implement systems and capability programs across the South Pacific.
As a neuroscience coach, Tanya approaches coaching in a well-structured manner, ensuring her clients have a clear vision, strategies to achieve their goals and the right mindset to stay focused and of course, celebrate success.
This episode features a wonderful conversation with Maree McPherson, and then a rewarding debrief between Jacqui and Ush. Seeing you and your teams create your own opportunities is Maree McPherson’s objective. She is passionate about people creating possibility in regional and rural areas.
Having felt on her own skin the challenges and joys that you describe is the thing that sets Mareea part. She lives what she preaches.
Working with corporates, non-profits and individuals, Maree’s primary work is with organisations that invest in and support regional Australia. With a portfolio of clients across the eastern seaboard, Maree is an experienced leadership coach, facilitator, and professional mentor.
If you’re seeking to work with an experienced non-profit, government and community leader who creates strong relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, Maree is the person you need.
In November 2017, Maree published her first book, Cutting Through the Grass
Ceiling – Women Creating Possibility in Regional Australia. It’s available here. A second book is planned for release in 2020.
https://www.mareemcpherson.com.au
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with a woman that completes our STEM goal. WE’ve spoken with a couple of engineers, a scientist, a mathematician, and NOW also with a woman in the tech industry.
Raine Gaisford is the Founder and CEO of LimeHub, a niche B2B marketing agency, and the Co-founder of SieMo, a pre-launch strategic marketing software startup. Raine is an innovative and driven marketer, working primarily in the tech industry, and entrepreneur with a strong social and environmental conscience.
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Lutfiye Tahseen, and then Ush and Jacqui debrief. Having completed a Bachelor of Science- Biomedical Science, a Grad. Dip. Science- Psychology (Neuroscience) Lutfiye felt like she was a square peg in a round hole. While the area was interesting, the industry itself wasn't the right fit for her. When her husband suddenly became ill and dependent on her, Lutfiye found herself reflecting on her life and taking stock of where she was and where it was going. Remembering her childhood love for writing, dreams of becoming an author and going into advertising, Lutfiye found herself re-enrolling in university for her third degree: a Bachelor of Business- Marketing.
With the benefit of her extensive background in psychology, Lutfiye found Marketing to be second nature. Earning an Academic Achievement Award for Marketing Concepts and then topping her class and earning an Academic Excellence Award from Swinburne University, Lutfiye knew she had finally found "home" in her career.
While studying and working part-time, Lutfiye experienced some workplace bullying that was a turning point for her. She decided she would never work for a "boss" again and would start up her own marketing agency to help other women build their own successful business and achieve financial independence, so they never had to work somewhere that treated them poorly.
Lutfiye soon realised that differentiating her clients' businesses and creating memorable experiences was key, which lead her to specialise in luxury marketing and customer experience design.
Lutfiye is the Founder of Astara Creative and the Co-Founder of The Vault Mastermind.
www.astaracreative.com.au
www.thevaultmastermind.com.au
Link to The Vault Lockdown Business Support Hub: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheVaultLockdownSupport/?ref=share
This episode, Jacqui speaks with Deb Smith, and Ush and Jacqui debrief. We take the conversation somewhere we haven’t talked about on the podcast before - The Law of Attraction.
Deb Smith is an award winning mortgage broker. Her focus is on helping her clients to “get smart” about their mortgage so they can not only comfortably manage their home loan, but potentially have the opportunity to become a property investor.
Her passion for providing exemplary service, coupled with her extensive real estate and finance knowledge, means using Deb’s services makes the home loan process an easy and seamless transaction.
https://www.smartline.com.au/mortgage-broker/deb-smith/
In this episode, we have a great mathematician, to get our ‘M’ in STEM women. Nahid Banihashemi has a growth mindset - she takes responsibility for building up a better version of herself in order to contribute more and reach a full potential. Nahid have realized that mathematics comes naturally to her - it’s like playing a game . So she ended up completing all her degrees -Bachelor , Master and Ph.D- in Applied Mathematics. Nahid has worked on solving a wide range of real life problems through mathematical and statistical approaches ,and been fortunate to work with great scientists and engineers from well-known universities and organizations like the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Sydney and University of South Australia. She has also achieved great teaching experiences by helping students in these universities. After years of working with fresh high school graduates at different universities, Nahid came up with the conclusion that most students struggle with the basic mathematical knowledge required to have before entering universities. This has made her initiate her own company, Bungee Pi , to help children acquire core skills and knowledge for having a bright future. Bungee Pi has a vision to empower students with problem solving skills and critical thinking using applied mathematics.
This episode Usb speaks with Rebecca Saunders, and then she and Jacqui debrief. It’s a really practical episode about some video marketing strategies. With a background in journalism and digital marketing, Rebecca spread her wings into video when she founded Deli Agency in 2012. This allowed her to master the filming and editing process, research best practices and become a key partner in growing other's businesses through video. She has first-hand experience in:
- utilising video for businesses and brands,
- maximising both time + budget in production,
- crafting successful video strategies for business growth, and
- building agile and professional video production teams.
Rebecca is passionate about working with individuals, agencies, corporations and not-for-profits as they venture on their video pathway to significant business growth through strategic, visual impact.
You may have noticed from pictures of Rebecca on her website that her hair colour changes a lot… well since the age of 7 she has had alopecia universalis. Having this condition impacts only one thing – her hair – and it means she doesn’t have any hair anywhere!
It took decades for her to build the courage to be openly public about it both professionally and personally. Being confident in her own skin has been life-changing, and she has a personal mission to support and build confidence in young women with alopecia. If you know one, please connect us or Rebecca.
https://rebeccasaunders.com/about/
This fortnight, Jacqui speaks with Fiona Redding who is the Happiness Hunter. Fiona is a mindset coach, a speaker, facilitator, podcaster and author.
Nearly seven years ago nothing was working in any area of her life. She was at home with two tiny kids, drinking everyday, unfit and unhealthy. She had issues with our finances and she was unable to get to work. Fiona woke up one morning thinking, “How has this become my life?”
Fiona was so deeply unhappy and at that point, she did not know the way out. She knew that it was time to look inside of herself to find out how she had gotten here. Fiona had to own it, to take responsibility, and if she wanted things to change, then it was her that had to change.
Fiona decided to focus on one thing, happiness. She just wanted happiness for my life.
The seed of The Happiness Hunter was planted.
This week, Ush speaks with Catherine Ngo, and then she and Jacqui debriefs. Catherine Ngo is the Founder & CEO of Keynoteworthy, a platform connecting event organisers with diverse speakers. She started this after being fed up with the lack of representation at events and conferences — and she wasn’t the only one who shared this sentiment. Cathy believes we should all be the change we wish to see and to stay silent is to agree with the status quo.
Cathy is also a writer and presenter. She writes on thought leadership analysis pieces on the world of work. She’s passionate about ensuring a balanced representation at work and beyond.
Before founding Keynoteworthy, she spent the majority of her corporate HR career, rolling out change programs for top ASX listed companies such as Westpac and IAG.
Outside of work, Cathy loves to do open-mics, stand-up comedy, collect indoor plants and think about her next project to change the world.
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Stacey Head, the owner and founder of She Wear, Australian PPE shoe retailer for women.
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Shalini from Legally Shaini. Drawing on more than 15 years’ experience as a lawyer and a woman in business Shalini
Nandan-Singh helps Australian service-based entrepreneurs protect their businesses and their bottom lines with empowered legal advice and contracts.
Her keen insight into the nuances and practicalities of law as a tool for protecting and empowering women in business have seen her engaged as a speaker for digital and live events presenting to both Australian and international audiences.
Encouraging listeners to #loveyourlegals . Shalini is a regular guest and mentor in a number of high-profile masterminds. She believes that business legals should be an authentic extension of any business. Her goal is to educate audiences that rather than confusing legalese business legals should be designed to create positive business boundaries that drive client relationships founded on compassion and understanding.
In this episode, we have a female scientist - the S from STEM - as Ush talks to Jacqui’s sister. Alana’s research interests include the comparative anatomy and function of vertebrates to understand the relationships between form, function and evolution of the musculoskeletal system in extinct and extant taxa. Specifically, cranial biomechanics, and the morphology, function and development of cranial sinuses.
Alana completed a BSc in Zoology (Monash University, Australia) followed by a PhD in December 2014 at Monash University, Australia, on the cranial morphology and biomechanics of Diprotodon and other related extinct and extant marsupials. She used methods such as computed tomography (CT) based 3D biomechanical modelling, finite element analysis and virtual reconstruction to analyse the biomechanical function of the skull and cranial sinuses. She started a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of New England, Australia, in 2015 where she also lectured in human anatomy, and then moved to London in 2017 to work as a research associate at University College London on a BBSRC project with Prof. Susan Evans on the role of soft tissues in cranial biomechanics.
In September 2018, Alana joined the University of Liverpool as a Lecturer in human anatomy.
www.alanacsharp.com
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Kerryn Powell, and then she and Ush debrief. For thirty years Kerryn has been working as a catalyst for change. Kerryn believes relationships are the key to achieving growth, and relationships grow from conversations that build mutual understanding and trust.
Kerryn is the founder of Your Time Matters and recently launched her website Kerryn Powell- The Network Catalyst. Focussed on transforming and enriching lives, Kerryn provides opportunities for individuals and organisations to forge connections that amplify and inspire people in business and life to experience the power and endless potential of networking .
As a speaker, mentor and Network Catalyst Kerryn provides 1:1 mentoring, group workshops and event facilitation that boost confidence, take conversations from ”awkward” to “awesome” and help you to develop strategies and realise that anything is possible with a supportive network
Kerryn is the author of a book - “ Two Ears, One Mouth and a Big Heart” where she shares stories that illustrate the power of relationships to provide support, knowledge, learning and growth. She outlines lines various strategies that she has incorporated into her life that will help the reader make every conversation count.
Kerryn has no doubt that knows that networking is a lifeskill that we all need both personally and professionally. She says “ Relationships are key, and conversations open doors.”
In this episode, our guest is Jacqui Alder. Jacqui Alder is an internationally experienced human resources executive, consultant, and coach, with over 30 years’
experience in global businesses. She has worked in Australia, Europe, and Asia across multiple industry sectors.
She is founder at Clarity Simplicity Success for Women and author of a self-coaching journal of the same name. The
purpose of this business is to empower women to define their own meaning of success. Through her HR Consulting
practice, Jacqui provides outsourced executive HR and HR project management support to organisations.
Jacqui enjoys being of service to women in the community. She has done this as a member, and advisory board member
of several organisations working to advance the status of women.
Jacqui’s qualifications include a Master of Commerce (majoring in Human Resources Management), plus accreditations
in Change Management, Executive Coaching, and Project Management. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors.
Clarity Simplicity Success Journal
Jacqui Alder Consulting
In this episode, Jacqui and Usb debrief from an interview withe Melanie McCarthy. Melanie McCarthy is the Founder of Leading for Success, a firm that develops people from technical backgrounds into exceptional leaders.
Leadership development is integral to developing EQ. Contrary to popular opinion innovation using “big data” and “automation” will require a greater investment in human capital for companies, not less. Melanie is committed to helping technical people elevate their leadership capability to benefit business, community and society at large.
Growth is only possible if you get out of your comfort zone. This often feels like failure! Melanie has multiple experiences of taking risks to achieve her goals, and in the process has gone through periods of FAILURE only to find in hindsight that those experiences have been GOLD. Melanie will share her story of failing and how it has created incredible SUCCESS in her life.
In this episode, Usb speaks to Jacqui’s junior solicitor Sarah Coombs about her recent admission to the Supreme Court at the completion of her journey to be a fully qualified lawyer.
In this episode, Jacqui and Ush chat with and debrief after interviewing Rosa Raco. Rosa Raco, is the principal of WR Law in Bendigo, a dedicated employment law practice in regional Victoria, has been working in Human Resources, Employee Relations and Employment Law for over 25 years. Rosa has advised clients across a diversity of industries – from mining, manufacturing and banking, to government departments, universities, schools, not-for-profits and small businesses. Commencing her legal career in a top tier firm in Canberra and Sydney, most recently she was worked as a Special Counsel for a national firm in Melbourne. Now returning to her hometown of Bendigo to raise her young family, Rosa is well placed to support employers with all their employment law needs and share her extensive expertise.
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Row Murray and then Ush and Jacqui discuss that conversation. Row Murray is a native of Melbourne, Australia and is a copywriter and digital creative with over 20 years experience.
She is a writer and researcher who has worked with subject matter experts, including a GP and Pharmacist, peak bodies, Federal and State Government departments, and undertaken interviews and focus groups, to develop For Foxes’ Sake.
Professionally, Row has worked at some of Australia’s best PR and ad agencies like GREY, Weber Shandwick, Paper Stone Scissors & The Creative Works and in digital marketing at some of Australia’s biggest financial services and retail brands (someone get the girl a Slurpee!). She’s a Swinburne marketing graduate, has undertaken post-graduate studies in UX Design, finance and economics and held the Presidency of the Melbourne Junior Chamber of Commerce in 2002.
Row sits on the board of Vic ICT for Women, working to encourage young women to create careers in the IT and digital spaces.
Row is a music geek, a passionate writer and loves zipping about on her motorbike. For Foxes’ Sake is her first book.
Amanda started WIP Network in 2018 having spent 20 years in the property industry, starting as a residential sales cadet, then working at a commercial agency and later starting her own tenant representation business - selling her share of the company in early 2019. She is passionate about sharing her experience in the industry with those starting out, bringing together women across all streams of real estate to learn from one another.
In this episode, Ush and Jacqui talk with Danielle Price.
With over 10 years small business experience, Danielle Price has created an Australia-wide network of professional female business owners.
Danielle left the corporate world in search of flexibility. Upon starting a home-based business with an almost exclusive client base of women, she soon realised the importance of connection and support in sharing common objectives in business and life.
In 2014 she founded She Will Shine, a community to support and connect women in small business.
Based in Melbourne, Danielle has grown She Will Shine Australia-wide, ranging from women working in professional service based businesses through to products and online stores.
An expert networker and elevator of female business owners, Danielle facilitates connection and support between like-minded women in working towards a common goal of creating a successful business around personal responsibilities and life.
Danielle’s passion is sharing and giving a voice to the real stories of Australian women in small business.
Join She Will Shine here: https://shewillshine.com.au
A passionate entrepreneur, Rebel started her first business at age 22 and is now the CEO and Founder of THE Rural Woman, her fourth multi-award winning business. She was raised on a farm, runs a successful global company from an office on the opal fields in outback NSW and loves growing, harvesting, talking about and eating fresh, healthy, local food. Her career and businesses have spanned tourism, community development, retail, hospitality, journalism, marketing and sales, energy healing & coaching.
www.theruralwoman.com.au
@THERuralWoman
This episode, Ush and Jacqui discuss The Final Quarter documentary, and a Life Course Centre newsletter, as well as have a discussion with Susan Wareham.
Susan Wareham is the Principal of susanwareham.com, a career consultancy established in 2005 and focused on positioning, coaching and partnering with business leaders, executives and aspiring executives looking to build or grow their careers to achieve their full potential.
She also assists clients interested in getting onto their first board, transitioning to a board career, or growing their already established board career.
Susan has over 25 years’ leadership and management experience in the government, private, business and not-for profit sectors and was a board member of the 30,000 strong Australian Businesswomen’s Network for over eight years, during which she led its advocacy, governance and recruitment functions.
She has also served on and advised many business and community-based boards, including Chambers of Commerce, education and immigration-related entities.
Susan holds tertiary qualifications in psychology, human resource management and training; a Bachelor of Psychology, an Advanced Diploma in Business and a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Policy Development.
Outside work Susan is the proud mother of an amazing son, her favourite cities are Paris and Rome and she is a semi-vegetarian (yes, there is such a thing). Susan is an animal lover, hot weather hater, an avid meal planner and couldn’t get by without her lists and highlighter pens to stay organised.
www.susanwareham.com
In this episode, Jacqui speaks with Natasha Janssens, who is the author of Wonder Woman’s Guide to Money and is an award-winning finance expert. After arriving in Australia as an 18-year-old refugee without her family, Natasha learned firsthand the complexities of navigating the Australian financial system and the challenges faced by Australian women.
Her passion for education and helping others led her to start Women with Cents – an online community dedicated to empowering Australian women through education.
Natasha is on a mission to ensure that all Australian women have access to professional financial advice, regardless of their age, income or circumstances.
https://womenwithcents.com.au
In this episode, Ush celebrates getting her licence back after having lost it from demerit points. Jacqui has watched Dirty John on Netflix, and read Michelle Obama’s book ‘Becoming’. Then Ush takes Jacqui though a values exercise, which you can all follow along.
The interview this episode is with Amanda MacLean. Amanda believes in women. Women can make a significant difference in senior management, the boardroom and beyond. Throughout a career in the C-Suite, on advisory boards and heading up global programs Amanda has frequently been the only woman ‘at the table.’ Leading with impact, focus and confidence Amanda knows how women can be heard at a senior level.
As founder of The Gravitas Project for women who lead, Amanda is passionate about guiding women to unlock their unique potential for professional growth. Sharing her insights as to the complex and opaque structures that limit people in their quest to advance in their careers, Amanda’s approach is to support women to make significant changes to the work they do and how they do it; building their ‘gravitas’ along the way.
Amanda’s passion for learning has led her full-circle to share her expertise to help organisations prepare high potential women for successful promotion through educating, mentoring and advising.
Amanda looks forward to working with the next generation of women who lead, and sitting with them ‘at the table’.
Find out more about The Gravitas Project: https://www.gravitasproject.com
Connect with Amanda on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-maclean-gaicd/
This is a more relaxed episode with Ush and Jacqui considering how the podcast is going so far, and looking forward in July, and the plans in their business. Get to know your hosts even more!
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This episode, Jacqui and Ush discuss women’s groups again, and values. Ush promises to give us her values exercise next episode, but gives us a 21-day emotional awareness exercise to try, and then the ladies interview Julie Hyde.
Julie Hyde is a leader of leaders. She’s a disruptor and a powerful people enabler who helps leaders make big things happen.
She enjoyed a successful 21-year corporate career where she led teams large and small to deliver strong results in a very competitive industry. Julie has transformed poor performance and toxic cultures to be some of the best in the business, ran businesses generating over $20m in profit and received numerous awards.
Ten years ago Julie decided to start her own business taking everything she knew from her corporate days to work with SME’s and entrepreneurs. Two years ago she wrote her first book called 'Busy?' and has been speaking and training intensively on the back of that.
Julie also runs women’s networking dinners in Melbourne called ‘Disruption, Women and Wine’ and is a Telstra Business Women’s Award nominee.
When she’s not working, Julie can be found enjoying a quiet glass of red over a meal with her husband and friends, or watching a not-so-quiet game of footy with her beloved Richmond Tigers. They’ve sure taught her a lot about resilience, and are proof that with hard work, grit and determination, anyone can triumph.
Connect with Julie here: www.juliehyde.com.au
On LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julie-hyde/
And instagram: www.instagram.com/juliehydeleads/
Also discussed in this episode was the book Miracle Morning.
Here's the women's community She Will Shine.
And here is the emotion wheel:
Jacqui and Ush talk about domestic violence, and speak to domestic violence survivor Anita Bentata, author of Wolf in A Suit.
Anita Bentata transforms the uncomfortable into living from our essence.
She is a speaker, author, events and online presenter.
After a traumatic childhood and then escaping relationship abuse with two young children, Anita searched for a therapy which could get to the essence so this never happened again.
Anita became a psychotherapist specialising in trauma and the unconscious and has been working in the field nearly 25 years.
Through Activating Artemis, Anita mentors women, and is the founder of Big Hearted Women communities, to reclaim emotional muscle and engage and live from our healthy, fierce, wise, loving, feminine energy. Anita teaches how to develop the inner marriage between feminine and masculine principles within each of us, so we have the capacity to speak about the uncomfortable, take right action, through the attunement to our body, feelings, unconscious and instinct. So we can engage in the world freely and confidently, creating a healthy relationship with yourself and others.
Activating Artemis provides ground breaking solutions, addressing the gaps through: speaking, books, online training courses, a membership site for women and retreats for professionals, survivors and the general public: for prevention, intervention and recovery.
Anita's website: http://www.anitabentata.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-bentata/
Anita's online course: anita-bentata.teachable.com
Anita's womens membership site is www.anitabentata.com/activatingselfove
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewolfinasuit
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This episode, our guest is Michelle Redfern, founder of Advancing Women and Women Who Get It. Michelle is determined to contribute to achieving global gender equality in her lifetime, especially through her work in sport.
During our conversation, we explore imposter syndrome, women in leadership, the concept of the tall poppy, and Michelle’s way of sharing and being authentic with her team.
You can find out more about Michelle and Advancing Women at the following links or by contacting her directly:
michelle@michelleredfern.com
www.michelleredfern.com
Twitter: @redfernmichelle
Facebook: @AdvancingWomeninBizandSport
Instagram: @advancewithmichelle
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Jacqui and Ush talk about Anzac Day, and also about business groups for women. Then Jacqui interviews Rebecca Huntley, the author of the most recent Quarterly Essay: Australia Fair, about democracy and what Australians want from their country.
Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australians foremost researchers on social trends.
She has a background in publishing, academia and politics.
She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in Gender Studies.
For nearly 9 years Rebecca was the Director of The Mind & Mood Report, Australia's longest running social trends report.
She currently heads Vox Populi research, as part of the CIRCA research group.
She is the author of numerous books including Still Lucky: why you should feel optimistic about Australia and its people (Penguin 2017).
Rebecca is a broadcaster with the ABC and presents The History Listen each week on RN. She was a presenter of RN Drive on a Friday.
In addition to books, Rebecca has written extensively for essay collections, magazines, newspapers and online publications. She was a feature writer for Australian Vogue and a columnist for BRW and writes a column twice a month for ABC Life.
Rebecca co-hosts with Sarah Macdonald a comedy storytelling night and podcast called The Full Catastrophe. The Full Catastrophe is also a book (Hardie Grant, May 2019).
She is on the Board of The Bell Shakespeare Company and the Whitlam Institute.
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This week our guest is Dianna Jacobsen, business strategist and founder of Shine at Business. Dianna helps people to SHINE in their business and personal lives.
Dianna is a proactive and innovative business professional, focused on creating long-lasting relationships with her clients. She recognises the need to deliver personal, timely, quality advice to her clients and provide cost-effective strategies and solutions.
During our conversation with Dianna we explore the gifts challenges give, the physiological differences between men and women and how personality impacts life balance. You can find out more about Dianna and Shine at Business at the following links or by contacting her directly: dianna@shineatbusiness.com.au
http://www.shineatbusiness.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/ShineAtBusiness/
Jacqui also spoke about her new puppies in this episode: Terra and Scout. They look quiet here, but don't let the sleeping angels fool you!
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This week our guest is Tracey Sofra, a financial planner for a stronger, more empowered generation of women.
Tracey has over 25 years’ experience as an Accountant and Financial Planner. She is an expert in the areas of wealth creation, leadership, achievement and fulfilment. As a mum and business leader she has walked a successful path for over two decades, and has proven methods - knowing what it takes to be successful at work and in life.
She is the founder and CEO of WOW Women. A group of like-minded business, professional and entrepreneurial women in regional Victoria working collectively to inspire, empower and create change.
During our conversation with Tracey we explore the impact that others can have on us and our achievements, and the subtle affect we can have on others around us, as well as the importance of asking questions.
You can find out more about Tracey and WOW Women at the following links or by contacting her directly: www.traceysofra.com.au or tracey@traceysofra.com.au or www.sofcorp.com.au or www.wowwomengroup.com.au
Also talked about in this episode:
National Gallery of Australia, Fortitude painting: https://nga.gov.au/lovedesire/works.cfm?wrkirn=320897
Women’s Agenda piece discussed: https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/gender-parity-107-years-off-if-trends-persist-warns-un-general-assembly-president/
Slight Edge book: https://www.booktopia.com.au/slight-edge-olsen-jeff/prod9781626340466.html?zsrc=dsa-feed&gclid=CjwKCAjwqfDlBRBDEiwAigXUaKkjLshC7IwGIoO48_jDvwGlwTDqDMnBCRnze5UJ_jFXoG-SsD70HRoCT8IQAvD_BwE
Afterwards, Jacqui dived a bit deeper into what the Gender Inequality Index is and did a short blog post here.
Welcome to the IQ meets EQ podcast - in this episode the hosts introduce themselves and answer some of the questions that they will later have guests answer, so that you get to know Jacqui and Ush a bit, and about why they want to bring this podcast to you.
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