Business Episodes

Belinda Agnew is a highly successful business owner, tech entrepreneur, and podcast host who shares her story about growing up with a single mother with alcohol addiction. Despite various challenges and leaving school in year 9, Belinda shares her journey and approach to how she has gone on to be successful. We also talk about mental health in the workplace and the damage that social media is currently doing. Huge thanks to Belinda for her time and openness. Belinda's Website - https://bel...

My guest is Dan Cahill, who has a remarkable story of hardship and growing up with a mentally ill parent. His father has BiPolar, and Dan shares some revealing stories about how much of an effect a parent with a mental illness can have on a child/young adult. Although Dan has endured great hardship, he hasn't allowed it to hold him back, and he has built an extremely successful business using his past trauma as his fuel to success. If you're a fan of David Goggins, you will enjoy this episode. ...

Ed Ross is the co-founder of TradeMutt which is a social impact workwear brand, by tradies for tradies. They make funky eye-catching workwear designed to start conversations about mental health among the blue-collar community, helping make an invisible issue impossible to ignore. Through the sale of Trademutt Workwear, they help fund free and unlimited professional mental health support for tradies, truckies and blue-collar workers through their own support service tiacs.org To date, they have f...

In this episode, I speak to Jonathon Gleeson who is a dairy farmer in South West Victoria and has achieved purchasing a dairy farm by age 30 with no assistance, which is a remarkable achievement. Jonathon goes into detail about how he exactly did this and also the mindset that is required to do this. He gives some great advice around long-term goal-setting and having a vision. I have always had an idea for a book called "Money Management with a Dairy Farmer" as they live on the edge and are gr...

In this episode, I talk to Haydar Hussein who is the founder of the Jim's Cleaning Group who turned his side-hustle into a multi-million dollar cleaning empire. He has over 860 franchisees in Australia and New Zealand is on target for 1000 franchisees by the end of 2020. He has achieved all of this in just under 20 years! It is a great story and Haydar tells us the journey from the start until the current day. You can learn more about Haydar and the Jim's Cleaning Group via www.jimscleaning.net...

Tim Beanland, who is the creator of the expert's blueprint and is also a podcasting expert. We talk about all things to do with podcasting, social media, marketing, video content, and how he has now created a business out of his podcast content. I have also been a guest on Tim's podcast to talk about my experiences related to growing up with a single mother with BiPolar disorder type 1. Click here to listen to his podcast