Creating Australia

There are a number of interesting and exceptional people in the Queensland property and development industry. My guest today, Claire O’Rourke is one of them.

Claire is one half of Bluebird Property Partners, in this episode we discuss her career, building a project team for optimal results and her advice to developers drawing on her wealth of experience.

This is episode 18 of the Creating Queensland Podcast, I am your host Jessica Reynolds. My day job is director of Urban Planners Queensland, a private town planning consultancy based in Brisbane.

This podcast is about getting to know the people behind the projects and is a platform to share ideas, expert advice and opinions.

Thank you for listening to the Creating Queensland podcast. Please leave a review and you can find out more by visiting upqld.com.au.

There are a number of interesting and exceptional people in the Queensland property and development industry. My guest today, Kieron Gait is one of them.

This is episode 17 of the Creating Queensland Podcast, I am your host Jessica Reynolds. My day job is director of Urban Planners Queensland, a private town planning consultancy based in Brisbane.

This podcast is about getting to know the people behind the projects and is a platform to share ideas, expert advice and opinions.

I always enjoy my conversations with Kieron as he is deeply passionate about architecture and good design. In this episode, Kieron and I discuss his career, from working in larger corporations to niching down into small residential Brisbane based projects and why he thinks Architecture can make people happy.

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There are a number of interesting and exceptional people in the Queensland property and development industry. My guest today, Eric Trieu of Holden Capital is one of them.

This is episode 16 of the Creating Queensland Podcast, I am your host Jessica Reynolds. My day job is director of Urban Planners Queensland, a private town planning consultancy based in Brisbane.

This podcast is about getting to know the people behind the projects and is a platform to share ideas, expert advice and opinions.

In this episode, Eric and I discuss the property market and financing developments. There is some great advice in the next 20 minutes for those new and old in the development game, Eric is passionate talker so if you miss something the beauty of a podcast is that you can replay a sentence.

If you enjoy this episode please leave us a review or you can contact me directly through linkedIn.  

This is the creating Queensland podcast, today I speak with Clinton Sippel, CEO of Couture Realty.

I am Jessica Reynolds, host of this podcast and director of Urban Planners Queensland, a private town planning consultancy based in Brisbane.

I love working with people, but being in the property and development industry I find the human element

is sometimes lost.

So I created this podcast, as a platform to share the career stories and ideas of interesting people I have come across in the Queensland

Each episode is a casual chat of around 20 minutes where a range of topics are discussed.

If you know someone that has a great story or ideas to share, you can find me on linkedIn. Jessica Reynolds, urban planner.  

This is episode 15

Clinton started Couture Realty 4 years ago and has built the company up from working in his apartment to the successful business it is today.

I wanted to interview Clinton because when he first started contacting me for planning advice, he would have a bouquet of flowers delivered to me if it wasn’t to become a new project. I really appreciated that, because being a young business owner myself, I was at the time, often used and abused by agents shopping around for free advice. It’s something small but I appreciated the difference.

In this episode Clinton takes us through his career, thoughts on the real estate industry and advice for negotiating with sellers and agents.

This is Episode 15! Don’t forget to leave a review when you finish. Please Enjoy!

This is episode 13! The first episode for 2019. In this episode I speak with Monika Obrist who is a director of Refresh Design.

I have been following Refresh design’s work for a number of years and had a few coffee meetings with Monika prior to recording this episode.

Apart from being a lovely and interesting person Monika has formed opinions on city planning, property development and architecture which is PERFECT For this podcast.

This is Episode 13! Don’t forget to leave a review when you finish. Please Enjoy!

If you know someone that has a great story or ideas to share, you can find me on LinkedIn. Jessica Reynolds, urban planner. 

This is episode 12! In this episode I speak with Michael Shekell who is one half of Builder Brokers, a company only founded a couple of years ago which is seeing massive growth not only in Queensland but nation wide. 

This is not one of my normal interviews where we talk about career and ideas as such, it is more of a business podcast about what Builder Brokers do and where they are going. I am fascinated by this company and as Michael explains to me what they are trying to achieve is the “Uber of the construction industry”

Put it this way, when we ended our interview a nearby property professional handed Michel a business card. I expect many more to reach out after listening.

Don’t forget to leave a review on iTunes. 

This is Episode 12,  enjoy!

In this episode I speak with one of Brisbane’s most respected female architects, Elizabeth Watson Brown.

For 21 years Elizabeth headed her own private practice, Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects. She then merged Architectus.

Among her many accomplishments Elizabeth just recently collaborated with the world famous firm WOHA on Brisbane tower 443 Queen Street.

In this interview we discuss her career, being a working mum, her thoughts on the industry and where to from here.. 

This is Episode 11,  enjoy!

If you know someone that has a great story or ideas to share, you can find me on linkedIn. Jessica Reynolds, urban planner.

In episode 9 I speak with Marco Zietsman, an architect who has extensive experience in South Africa having worked with some pretty amazing institutions and notable people. She migrated to Australia 5 years ago and has set up a private architectural practice with her son. We discuss working with family, her career in architecture and explore the differences between working with SA developments to those in Australia.  A really interesting interview, marco is articulate and brings a lot of value. I hope you enjoy episode 9! - Jess

Dr Natalie Osbourne is a lecturer at Griffith University and describes herself as a radical planner. 

In episode 8 we discuss topics such as tactical planning and Natalie's thoughts on how we could approach the creation of the city to improve our communities. 

In this episode we speak with Althea Papinczak and Erin Oxley, the National Directors of Women in Design and Construction.

Both ladies work full time jobs, but after realising that networking opportunities were limited and not always effective they have created a monthly event for women (and select men) to gather, support and grow.

From a simple networking event in a pub with only a couple of people, the events have grown into something much bigger and now include mentorship programs and scholarships. 

In this 20 minute episode learn how, why and where the WIDAC team are changing 'networking'.