Adelaide Entrepreneur Club

Amberley was born in California as the second to six children. Amberley fell in love with horses at a young age and began barrel racing when her family moved to Utah at her age of 7. She competed in junior rodeos and up into high school, winning multiple titles and awards.

Her senior year she finished as the National Little Britches World All Around Cowgirl. Amberley was also serving as the Utah FFA State President in 2009.

In January of 2010, Amberley was involved in a rollover truck accident, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Eighteen months after that day, with a seatbelt on her saddle, she returned to competing in rodeo. She now competes in the Women's Professional Rodeo Association in the barrel racing.

Amberley has earned her place competing amongst professional barrel racers and has won multiple awards with the Cowboy and Cowgirl Hall of Fames. In 2018, Netflix released a movie based on her life titled Walk Ride Rodeo where Amberley was able to be her own stunt double for the film. Amberley shares her story of triumph over tragedy hoping she can motivate others to believe in themselves and get back on the horse.

Amberley Snyder
https://amberleysnyder.org/
https://www.instagram.com/amberleysnyder/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberley-snyder-2abb8550/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever.

He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages.

His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning.

Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by organizations like Thinkers50, Global Gurus, and LeadersHum.

As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy.

Author, Leading From Anywhere

Author, Pick A Fight

Author, Friend Of A Friend

Author, Under New Management

Author, The Myths Of Creativity

David Burkus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidburkus/
https://davidburkus.com/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

Jindou Lee is the CEO & Founder of HappyCo (Happy Inspector). Jindou lives in San Diego but is originally from Adelaide and was currently in Adelaide for this Podcast.

HappyCo is the leading real-time operations platform for property management. 

The Happy Inspector product is used by thousands of companies and has captured more than 100 million items inspected worldwide. 

Founded in 2011, their mission is to deliver delightful mobile and cloud business software that makes work happier.

Article Financial Review Jan 19 2022:

Build-to-rent property tech company HappyCo raises $72m.

Australia-founded residential rental technology player HappyCo has closed its first major funding round, banking $US52 million ($72.4 million) from US real estate tech venture capital firm Camber Creek.

The company, which is headquartered outside of San Diego but has about half of its 115-person workforce in Adelaide, services the growing build-to-rent industry, having created technology to support real-time data on the condition and utilisation of rental properties.

Jindou Lee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jindou/
https://happy.co/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

In the early hours of Christmas Eve 2007, Royal Marines Commando Mark Ormrod was out on a routine foot patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan when he stepped on and triggered an Improvised Explosive Device. 

Thanks to the swift action of the men around him and the intervention of the Medical Emergency Response Team he was airlifted via helicopter to an emergency field hospital in a desperate attempt to try and save his life. 

An innovative and dangerous procedure carried out onboard a Chinook helicopter en route to the hospital did save his life. 

He woke up three days later in the UK in Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham: Both legs amputated above the knee and his right arm amputated above the elbow. 

He was the UK’s first triple amputee to survive the Afghanistan conflict.

During his recovery the doctors told him that he’d never walk again and that he should prepare himself for the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

Now it would have been understandable for Mark to bitterly withdraw in a state of anger and depression and to resign himself to live life on the sidelines. 

It would have been easy for him to cash in his disability pension and whittle away the days, forever regretting the decision to join the Marines and to deploy to Afghanistan, but he didn’t. 

To the contrary he used his set back as a springboard for growth and reinvention.

Today, Mark Ormrod is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, a peak performance coach, and the author of the award winning auto-biography Man Down. He is a source of daily inspiration for the thousands of people who follow him on Social Media. 

He has three children, a beautiful wife and an insatiable lust for life. He is a relentless charitable fund-raiser and a daredevil who has performed stunts that many able bodied athletes would find daunting. 

He has not used a wheel chair since June 9th 2009 and he jokes about the fact that children call him Iron-Man because of his high-tech prosthetics legs. 

As well as a peak performance coach he is a mentor and a role model to other amputees and an ambassador for the Royal Marines Association. 

His sense of humour is only equalled by his sense of wonder, love for learning and love for life.

Mark Ormrod turned his personal tragedy into an on going story of personal success and he is now committed to helping others who may have suffered setbacks or feel they are not yet achieving their maximum potential to take charge of their lives, unleash their personal power and live a life with #NoLimits

Mark Ormrod MBE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-ormrod-mbe-44609121/
https://www.markormrod.com/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

Great discussion on Thought Leadership with Scott J. Miller who as part of the FranklinCovey Company spent time with Stephen R. Covey the author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". One of the best-selling nonfiction business books in history.

Hi. I'm Scott.

I am an unfiltered leader thriving in a highly filtered corporate culture. I am journeying to own my story (and moving from Mess to Success) and inspiring others to uncover and own theirs. I am a husband, father, friend, and leader.

I am entering my 24th year with the FranklinCovey Company. For just shy of the past decade, I have served as the Chief Marketing Officer and a member of our executive team. I have recently transitioned in the firm to become our Executive Vice President of Thought Leadership. In this role, I focus on growing the reach and impact of our renowned authors and speakers including Stephen M.R. Covey, Chris McChesney, Kory Kogon, Todd Davis and others. I am also responsible for our speakers bureau, book and media publishing, public relations and other strategic initiatives.

I am honored to host FranklinCovey’s On Leadership interview series; the industry’s fastest growing weekly digital newsletter dedicated to improving our leadership capabilities. Each week we feature renowned experts and authors including such luminaries as Susan Cain, Seth Godin, Dan Pink, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Carly Fiorina,, Liz Wiseman, Rachel Hollis, Geoffrey Moore, General Stanley McChrystal, and numerous others. Subscribe to On Leadership: http://www.franklincovey.com/on

Additionally, I am a #1 best-selling author of my first book, Management Mess to Leadership Success, and a WSJ best-selling author of my second book, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager.

Before joining FranklinCovey, I spent four years with the Disney Development Company in Orlando, FL and had served on numerous congressional, senate and presidential campaigns.

Above all, I am honest, hard-working, and truly and sincerely believe in the work I’m doing to help people own their mess.

Connect with me on Instagram: scottmillerj1
Connect with me on Twitter: ScottMillerFC
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Subscribe to my YouTube channel: Scott Miller (The Power of Knowing Your Story)

Scott J. Miller
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmillerj1/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

Just finished reading the book Becoming The 0.1%. The biggest takeaway for me was the Figure on Page 70. The small (relative to life) sacrifice it will take to achieve a significant, life-changing goal.

Crazy how I came across this book but so glad I followed through with the thought and purchased a copy. Apart from the interesting insight into a world that is beyond what I could ever imagine, the way Gareth relates this back to how everyone could apply what he learnt is amazing.

I found his Lessons and Key points at the end of each chapter full of so much wisdom.

This is an incredible read for budding entrepreneurs as it is not all sunshine and roses, and you need to take the hits and keep moving forward which was an overarching message for me from this book.

All I can say is thank you Gareth for persevering back in 2005 and keeping a diary so today we can have that insight into your learnings.

From Gareth's website "This book documents the uncertain journey towards achieving a 1/1000 goal, intricately unpicks how it was done and offers transferrable insight and advice that can be applied to other things in life, so the reader can achieve large and often intimidating goals. The strong message that comes through is one of self-agency – the author demonstrates how with focus & determination and living in the present, anyone can achieve dramatic life transformation and have the future they desire.

Becoming the 0.1%, therefore, systematically documents what can be learnt from elite military training and explains with experience and academic insights how it can be applied to all walks of life."

Gareth Timmins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/garethtimmins/
https://www.noughtpointone.co.uk/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

London trained actor Dale Stevens used her creativity to develop vastly different characters such as an assassin in Mission Impossible or a detective in Blue Heelers.  

Today, she prefers to use her creativity to develop the speaker potential in the people she coaches.  Dale uses her extensive experience in theatre, film and television to inform her unique approach to coaching, where she emphasizes the importance of 'Presence' in creating powerful messaging.

Dale has worked with a wide range of clients, from solo entrepreneurs to top company executives. In each case, she uses her unique creativity to grow the influence of each and every individual.

Dale Stevens
https://www.linkedin.com/in/communicationauthority/
https://presentwithpresence.com.au/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

Donna and I first met Tom Hendrick as a recommendation from a friend of his, Lachlan Mullen, who we met on our Journey of meeting people every day.

Tom was a tax lawyer with Adelaide's largest law firm, until he left to start Adelaide Speaking Training.  

Tom helps businesses and individuals achieve outcomes when they speak, with less preparation time, and with more confidence.

At the age of 15, Tom delivered a one-hour stand-up comedy show in front of his whole school.  He won a series of auditions and competed at the Australian Public Service Great Debate, hosted by author and radio host Adam Spencer.  Tom also has a growing number of speaking awards from various associations. 

Adelaide Speaking Training provides personal and group speaking training using a method inspired by personal fitness trainers.  If going to the gym can affordably transform your health, where are the gyms for changing how we communicate? 

Tom's aspiration for Adelaide Speaking Training is to get people running towards the microphone, not away from it.

Tom Hendrick
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hendrick-77968a9a/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

Donna and I met Dr Sean Richardson on our journey of meeting people every day. Joe Roberts The Skid Row CEO suggested we connect.  

From Dr Sean Richardson's Energy Health Inc website:

Within his PhD in performance psychology, Sean examined burnout and energy health management in elite performers, leading to an intuitive understanding of the mental and physical factors that start and stop you from succeeding. Throughout his journey, Sean has integrated his understanding of brain science and function with his expertise in energy health to develop high performance applications, creating a track record of delivering successful high performance solutions, culture and leadership development programs to small and large organisations.

Sean has 2 decades experience in mentoring professional sports coaches, athletes, and corporate executives to achieve excellence, which has guided his clients to take #1 position in their industries (including 2 pro football teams that have gone to #1).

Sean facilitates high performance development in your life to get you to optimum energy health and wellbeing, communicating and collaborating effectively, adhering to the highest standards, executing with maximum accountability, and achieving your biggest individual and organisational goals.

As a former elite athlete, National Champion, and Olympic level competitor, who has personal experience with overtraining and burnout, Sean can also relate intimately to your experiences with juggling high performance and energy health. As a registered psychologist, Sean brings a distinctly human, compassionate side to his work, helping you, when you are in need, to navigate the more challenging personal and emotional roadblocks that arise in managing stress, burnout and mental health.

Dr Sean Richardson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drseanr/
https://www.energyhealthinc.com/

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/

Donna and I met Joe Torrillo on our journey of meeting people every day. I first saw Joe doing a talk about his experience as a firefighter on the event of 9/11 and his story was so amazing I reached out to him for a catchup.

Joe went to College after high school and did a degree in Architecture and Engineering. As part of his studies he learnt about the construction of the Twin Towers.

After College, Joe made a decision to become a firefighter, and served in the NYC Fire Department for 25 years.

On the day of the attack, Joe attended the scene and was trapped under the first tower when it fell, incurring terrible injuries. After being rescued, Joe was put on a boat to go across the river when the second tower fell on the boat, trapping him a second time.

After a long recovery, Joe worked in the Fire Department for a few more years before retiring and becoming an inspirational speaker. Joe is also a tour guide at ground zero.

Joe Torrillo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-torrillo-388b891a/
http://joetorrillo.com/

goal.cast 
The 9/11 Firefighter Who Never Gave Up
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CTrjlt2ou4y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Stephen Fry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-fry-19b64614/
https://www.instagram.com/thestephenfry/