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  • BV36: Nexus Lurie - Knives By Nexus

    BV36: Nexus Lurie - Knives By Nexus 

     

    • The beginning of Knives by Nexus and it’s end goal. 

      • The process and resources involved in knife making. 

        • The process of collection in the early days. 

          • YouTube as a resource. 

            • Trollski: How to make a knife. 

              • Stock removal & forging. 

                • Places you can source free steel for knives. 

                  • The dangers involved. 

                    • Basic equipment and hours involved in each Knife. 

                      • The importance of carbon content. 

                        • Tangs and handle making. 

                          • The colours of metal to look for in the forging process. 

                            • The discovery of steel. 

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                                31 min
                              • BV35: Chris Edden: Drift cars, Team Josie and building mutually beneficial relationships with your community.

                                BV35: Chris Edden: Drift cars, Team Josie and building mutually beneficial relationships with your community. 

                                 

                                • Chris’ passion for drifting and how he was instantly captured on the wet pan. 

                                • His progression of drift cars through the years. 

                                • The 1987AE86 Corolla: The last ever rear wheel Corolla. 

                                • Japanese drifting subculture. 

                                • Chris’ Current car: A pink LEXUS IS200 with a 700HP 2JZ engine covered in Japanese Josie style branding. 

                                • The evolution of Team Josie. 

                                  • Turning your drift car into a simulation drifter. 

                                  • @teamjosiedrift 

                                  • Working with not-for-profit ‘Talk To Me Bro.’  

                                  • Talk2mebro.org.au 

                                  • Working with charity, managing sponsorship. 

                                  • The need for mutual benefit in Sponsorship and collaboration. 

                                  • The merger of two passions. 

                                  • Coffee and cars at Josie Coffee. 

                                  • How Chris tries to help others: Getting to know people, creating comfortable community spaces, being a good role model, maintaining integrity and being friendly and welcoming. 

                                  • Who Chris looks up to: Scott Reo James Hoffman, Cat and Cloud 

                                  • “Turn up, be good, do the best you can”  

                                  • “You don’t know what doors are going to open up if you do your best work” 

                                  • “No bad will ever come from being good at your job” 

                                  • Chris’ question: What do you do to inspire people? 

                                  • Feel free to reach out to Chris @chriseddendrift. 

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                                  • 29 min
                                  • BV34: Chris Edden: The process of coffee from seed to cup.

                                    BV34: Chris Edden: The process of coffee from seed to cup & the secrets of successful business. 

                                     

                                    • Chris’ top varieties of coffee. Riverdale India Geisha, Colombian Geisha, Ethiopian varieties. 

                                    • Keeping coffee frozen to keep it at its peak, amplifying uniformity in grind size and also allowing the wine list style cafe. 

                                    • Avoiding the “Death before decaf” mentality. 

                                      • The process of coffee from seed to cup. 

                                      • Switching to the Loring coffee roaster. 

                                      • The roasting process. 

                                      • What Chris wish he knew. 

                                      • “You don’t know what you don’t know.” 

                                      • “You have to look after the business side of things, that’s important and if you don’t, you’ll get eaten alive.” 

                                      • How Chris stays organized. 

                                      • “If you look after your staff, they’ll look after you.” 

                                      • “If they’re doing a good job, I try to tell them as much as possible.” 

                                      • Making sure the work is done but keeping a casual workplace once it is. 

                                      • What Chris learned from working with the police. 

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                                        27 min
                                      • BV33: Chris Edden: The birth of Josie Coffee

                                        BV33: Chris Edden: The birth of Josie Coffee 

                                         

                                        • How Josie Coffee came to be. 

                                        • The slow growth of an exceptional business with exceptional coffee. 

                                        • The combination of tragedy, passion and opportunity. 

                                        • The sequence of roasters Chris has used in his career. 

                                        • The realities of buying a roaster from Germany. 

                                        • Why farmers markets are a great place to start a business. 

                                        • A chance meeting with an exceptional roaster: Greg. 

                                        • “Mise en place” - Everything has its place. A work methodology at Josie. 

                                        • The Mod Bar: a unique coffee shop set up. 

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                                        • 35 min
                                        • BV32: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch: Uncle Bills Gross Liss tomatoes: an inspirational crop.

                                          BV32: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch: Uncle Bills Gross Liss tomatoes: an inspirational crop.


                                          Being able to grow something and share it with people.


                                          Past experiences and how they set Wayne up for success.


                                          The environmental risks of running a property.


                                          How sustainability reporting generated an interest in shaping environments and social impacts.


                                          “What can we do to continually improve what we do?” - a question worth asking.


                                          What advice would you give your own sons when starting business?


                                          “It really comes down to the opportunities that present themselves.”


                                          “Look at where you are and what stage of life you’re in and always be open to opportunities. Explore them, go into it with your eyes open and try before you buy.”


                                          What are the costs, timing and earning potential of business opportunities?


                                          “Everyone thinks they’ve got a unique product.”


                                          Don’t be afraid to ask the big fish and see if you can collaborate.


                                          “If you don’t think you can get on from day one, it’s unlikely that ship will turn around.”


                                          “There has got to be a level of mutual respect and ability to think like and work with these people.”


                                          “It’s ok to ask someone what they can help you with. Try to always explore that.”


                                          Wayne’s answer to Owens question: The dawn.


                                          Wayne’s question: I love the whole idea of paying it forward so If you were to think of your best mentoring moment, what would it be?


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                                          31 min
                                        • BV31: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch: Making partnerships with the right people

                                          BV31: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch: Making partnerships with the right people:


                                          Making partnerships with the right people.


                                          The people involved in upper business: Accountants, marketing, HR, Finance, Management.


                                          “You can’t ask for a vertical farmer to work. People just say what’s that?”


                                          Making partnerships with universities.


                                          The effort involved in internship.


                                          How do you find the right partner in business?


                                          What you learn meeting at industry events.


                                          “We’ve generally found through the industry that people are generally keen to help out.”


                                          “A big part of farming is: You’ve got to diversify. You’ve got to be thinking, how can I diversify.”


                                          How farming changes over time.


                                          “One of the biggest problems in farming is energy”


                                          Building extra energy sources for farms.


                                          Make sure you connect others too.


                                          “Give back is one of the major morals in partnership.”


                                          “It’s important to network and connect with people who can do the jobs that either A: Your knowledge is lacking in or B: You just simply don’t have the time for.


                                          Industry partnerships.


                                          Can you grow hemp in a hydroponic set up?


                                          Broad acre farming of hemp in clothing.


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                                          26 min
                                        • BV30: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch – Hydroponics, Robotics and unit economics in vertical farming.

                                          BV30: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch – Hydroponics, Robotics and unit economics in vertical farming.


                                          Verticalpatch.com.au


                                          What is hydroponics?


                                          Controlled environment agriculture.


                                          Monitoring plants with photo imagery.


                                          Collaborating with universities to fuel growth.


                                          Using 96% less water to grow crops.


                                          Downsides to vertical farming.


                                          Robotics in vertical farming.


                                          Unit economics making a return on investment.


                                          Which are the best vegetables to grow in vertical farms.


                                          Using hemp as a plant medium and other suitable mediums.


                                          Growing rare plants in protected environments.


                                          Making international partnerships.


                                          Where vertical patch began.


                                          The mechanism of isolation in business causing the push for partnership.


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                                          26 min
                                        • BV29: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch- The future of urban farming.

                                          BV29: C.E.O Wayne Ford: Vertical Patch- The future of urban farming.


                                          What is vertical farming and how is it useful in urban environments?


                                          Verticalpatch.com.au


                                          Reducing travel time and lowering energy costs for fresh produce.


                                          Avoiding impactful weather conditions.


                                          “Vertical farming is to supplement regular farming not to replace it.”


                                          How one amazing tomato inspired a business and life course.


                                          What vertical farms look like.


                                          How Vertical Patch grows more in less space.


                                          Unlikely symbiotic collaborations with cryptocurrency data centres.


                                          Carbon credits and how farms might get them.


                                          Unidirectional membranes.


                                          The power of opportunistic introductions.


                                          Why indoor farming requires less chemicals.


                                          Why vertical farming isn’t perfectly organic but close. (You need to grow in soil)


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                                          39 min
                                        • BV28: Owen Hancock – Art, philosophy and a massive cock that fights crime.
                                          BV28: Owen Hancock – Art, philosophy and a massive cock that fights crime.
                                          A love for art.
                                          Owens own comic books: The Urinator – A massive cock that fights crime.
                                          How Graphic design and sketching influenced Owens work.
                                          “Art is where I go to escape making sense.”
                                          The third eye: “It’s just electricity flowing through a meat lump in your skull.”
                                          Ikigai
                                          The value of patience, sharing knowledge, giving and trying to make where you’re at a better space.
                                          “I’ll always take my time to show someone how I've done something.”
                                          Vegetable gardening.
                                          Finding value in a make it work philosophy
                                          The answer to Nash’s question: What advice would you give to your past self. Don’t expect to make a lot of money straight away. It’s going to suck for a bit and it has to suck for a bit. Things take time and it’s going to take time.”
                                          “It takes 10 years to make an overnight success. Spend 10 years sucking.”
                                          “Take time, don’t rush, plan it properly, start from the start and make sure every step along the way is right.”
                                          “The first solution isn’t always the best solution.”
                                          “The grower is the dusk. It’s not the shower”
                                          If you were a time of day which would you be?
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                                          34 min
                                        • BV27: Owen Hancock - The Booger Bullet in depth and it's creators inspirations.

                                          BV27: Owen Hancock: Booger Bullet in depth and Owen’s inspirations.

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                                          -How you can work with Owen in the design of your own board.

                                          -How an addiction to chickens inspires art.

                                          -The dimensional reasoning of the Booger Bullet. And the real inspiration for it’s dimensions.

                                          -The materials of the Booger Bullet and why they work.

                                          -The paradoxical value of simplicity in complicated works.

                                          -Discovering new waves through board sales.

                                          -Denmark, Israel and other unknown surf locations.

                                          -The worlds most travelled and stamped postal box.

                                          -Taxed, identifiable, flying objects: TIFO’s

                                          -Entering surf communities through product.

                                          -The parasitic nature of the bullet: “Once it goes somewhere it’s like a parasite. It finds a suitable host and just festers until it can duplicate.”

                                          -Why The Booger Bullet has a 3 month wait list.

                                          -Production rates and quality of boards and their change over time.

                                          -Dave Kelly: “You won’t get it on the next one. Don’t let it go until you’re 100% on it.”

                                          -“Be creative but to a time constraint.”

                                          -“Being creatives good and all but if you never finish anything then it’s not worth shit”

                                          -“A lot of creatives never finish shit because it’s hard to let go of things.”

                                          -“If I did half of what he (Dave Kelly) was doing I'd be like ah look at me”

                                          -“You start admiring people and then years down the track you realise you’re just like them.

                                          -A teacher taught Owen that “There’s always a better way of doing it”

                                          -“No one like not knowing what to do so the first time you see a resolution for the problem you jump on it.”

                                          -John Prior: Owen’s tafe teacher.

                                          -“It’s not until you take a step back or take a deep breath or go for a walk that you realize that there is a completely different way to do something.”

                                          -Putting things down and sinking into the power of the subconscious mind.

                                          35 min

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