Climbing With Scars

This week’s podcast is inspired by the business trip I recently made to Toronto, Canada, where I was lucky enough to meet Peter Diamandis, someone that I have admired for a while now. Peter often speaks about the rapid pace at which technology is growing at and the importance of longevity and adaptability. Today I give my piece on how I have learnt through my entrepreneurial journey that embracing and not fearing this change is the key to a successful business and future. Have you ever wondered how you can beat the change before it happens?? Join me on this one where I reveal my secrets on how to prepare your business for the future.

This week on Climbing With Scars I’m talking about Sharing The Experience. Why is it leaders sometimes hide and withhold our failures from our people? Is it that we feel embarrassed or ashamed? This week I share my learnings from my entrepreneurial journey and how restraining the truth of your experiences is a big opportunity missed by leaders, compared to the wins you gain when sharing the experience along with all the flow in effects that happen with your people around you. Join in on this one to hear my share.

This week I’m joined by former AFL player James Podsiadly and current founder of AFL Max. Loved this time with James as he was so honest, warm and real in sharing his story on so many levels. James reveals the truth behind how he finally made it to the AFL as a 28 year old rookie along with the struggles and realities of entering into the business world. Lots of gems where we dive deep into how the parallels of business and sport intertwine. We talk openly about the internal battles of starting and growing a business, with the transition from pro athlete to budding entrepreneur. If you want something bad enough, you’ll find a way through – join me on this week’s Climbing With Scars episode to hear James Podsiadly lay down the truth to this.

Too often entrepreneurs find themselves explaining and justifying their decisions and choices to others, but have you ever wondered why? The best seem to just get on with it while others need to explain what they are doing and thinking. Having been guilty of this in the past I learned after many years why I thought this way, realising how anchoring these thoughts were in my entrepreneurial pursuits and the draining effects they had on me. In this week’s podcast I go deep and wide on why we get caught into the trap of justifying what we do and how to avoid falling into this mindset. Join me this week to hear how I’ve climbed out of this negative mindset and how you can too. 

Today I’m discussing the most fundamental skill in both business and everyday life, selling. There are many different stereotypes around people working in sales; the most obvious one being the second hard car salesman, the person always giving the hard sell. But I’ve learned too often entrepreneurs forget that what they ultimately do is SELL. In this week’s episode I discuss how my journey in entrepreneurship has shaped the way I think about the selling process, revealing my truths and secrets that anyone in business can focus on, as ultimately selling is an everyday process that we all engage in. Enjoy this one.

Often the best outcomes and learnings come from not having a Plan B and instead, forcing yourself into a place where you don’t have any other option but to work through the situation. Too often we dwell on what could go wrong and ensuring we have a backup plan in case things don’t go to plan, but this often leads businesses into creating the undesired outcome. In this episode, I dive deep into my learnings and experiences on how playing it safe in entrepreneurship is not always the objective, and the fall out of what really happens when you learn the Art of Not Playing It Safe. Enjoy.

On this week’s Climbing With Scars podcast I give you a live unscripted recording of our Brewing With Spirit event, where you hear firsthand two inspiring stories from entrepreneurs who turned their passions into a business. And these are not just any businesses, but competing against some of the corporate Goliaths in their markets. Great gems for any entrepreneur to hear the real struggles, fears, doubts and challenges that these businesses overcome along the way to making it happen. Enjoy this treat.

When something doesn’t go as planned or when the proverbial really hits the fan, are you playing the blame game or looking for someone else to take responsibility? This happens often in business and stifles entrepreneurs from progressing, anchoring them to the ground that holds them back with future endeavours. On this week’s episode of Climbing With Scars I go deep into my experiences of the blame game and share how when I learned to flip the blame something extraordinary was found that I realised is a common trait amongst successful entrepreneurs.

Building trust within your workplace is one of those key pillars in developing a successful business. Where people trust they take risks and when they take risks they grow.  In this episode, I share my personal experiences on how to build trust within your company along with the harshest lessons of when trust is broken and how leaders make all the difference in strengthening the bonds of trust, both inside and outside the workplace. Enjoy this episode of Climbing With Scars, I look forward to hearing your comments.

Which voice do we listen to? Are we listening to the internal voice inside our head or the external voice that we allow to enter our heads? Sometimes we can have a positive influence from outside voices to move us forward, but how do we know the external voice that propels us forward VS the outside voice that holds us back? From firsthand experience I share how I’ve listened to both internal and external voices and the difference it has made for me. Ultimately what we listen to either drive us towards where we want to go or place doubt in our minds. Join me this week to hear about those voices we allow into our head.