This week’s mini episode focuses on staying current with your skills in the fast changing world of work. Something that’s relevant for all of us given the pace of technology change! 

In this episode, we hear from drone and tech expert, Dr Catherine Ball, whom we featured on the show about a year and a half ago. She’s a real dynamo and a passionate believer in accessible lifelong learning. 

Cath is a strong believer in how important it is for corporates and individuals to think about re-training in order to keep up with where technology is taking us all. Plus she shares some great resources as well and you can see links to those below. 

Our take is this: don’t get overwhelmed with the full spectrum of change that’s happening in technology, take it one SMALL chunk at a time. Think about what one new skill or piece of knowledge would be most useful for you right now in your current role to help you to continue to grow and progress? Then find a short course or expert you can learn from - it might be as simple as a free 2 hour course. 

Cath also shares great advice on how networking and linking in with industry associations to help you learn and make your next career step. 

So what are you waiting for? Enjoy this mini episode.

Useful Links

Dr Cath Ball’s website

Dr Cath Ball Linkedin

Kaggle (free cyber security and coding courses online) 

Harvard University’s Introduction to Computer Science, EdX

Learn to Code by Dash, General Assembly

Email Marketing Crash Course, Hubspot

How to Start a StartUp with Sam Altman at Stanford University

Product Design by Google, Udacity

Competitive Strategy, Coursera - uses game theory

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We’re excited to bring you this week’s important conversation with psychologist, burnout expert, author and leadership coach, Dr Jacinta Jiménez.

We’ve actually known Jacinta for some years and followed her great work on leadership, coaching and high performance with keen interest. We were really excited when she told us about her new book, The Burnout Fix.

Jacinta has broken new ground with this book deconstructing and presenting burnout in an actionable way we’d never seen before, and all of it is science backed. 

Jacinta studied and obtained her doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University where she focused on peak performance, motivation and behaviour change.  

What makes her so interesting to speak to and learn from is that she has also more recently spent several years in the tech startup world helping to build a coaching-at-scale business called BetterUp, in San Francisco. 

In this episode and in her new book, Jacinta deconstructs burnout and you’ll hear how: 

• Her own 2 burnout experiences changed and shaped her career
• The telltale signs of burnout may not be what you think they are
• How the focus of her work has been influenced by being one of the few Latina women in her field; and 
• You’ll learn about a model you can use to help prevent burnout happening to you.

So without further ado enjoy this episode with the passionate and learned Dr Jacinta Jiménez ...

Useful Links

Jainta’s new book: The Burnout Fix

Amazon Kindle link

Amazon Hardcover link

Jacinta’s website

Jacinta on LinkedIn

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This week’s mini episode is in honour of International Women’s Day. 

We don’t know about you but this feels like a bit of a watershed year in terms of gender equality and sexual harassment issues rising to almost boiling point in multiple places around the world. 

Now is the time to call out inequality, injustice and gendered violence when we see them in action. 

In this episode we reflect on:

• Why we still need to keep gender equality on the agenda and why IWD is important
• How the pandemic created a triple whammy for women
• Great advice on how you can call out bias when you encounter it at work, and
• How virtual meetings haven’t necessarily improved things for women’s voices being heard. 

You’ll get to hear some advice from us and from one of our favourite guests, NASA’s Trudy Kortes, so enjoy this Future Proof Me episode. 

Useful Links

Womens March 4 Justice website

Petition to Australia’s Prime Minister on Gendered Violence

Trudy Kortes episode

NASA website

Trudy’s website

Trudy Linkedin

Trudy Instagram

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Have you ever felt totally blindsided or cheated? 

That’s exactly what happened to our guest this week who spent more than ten years building a startup into a huge success, only to find the company sold by the other investors without receiving a cent. Just two years later the business was valued at over 11 billion dollars!

There’s no doubt that serial Scottish entrepreneur Lesley Eccles has ridden the startup rollercoaster on a grand scale. What we find so incredible and inspiring is how she’s bounced back from the devastating loss of her and her co-founders’ first business hit, FanDuel, to focus on starting a business all over again.

Lesley says she felt she had no alternative but to start from scratch again - but this time she’s brought her knowledge of running and scaling a technology business to build the number one relationship and self care app, Relish.

As Lesley shares her fascinating journey you’ll learn how:

• Lesley, her husband and their 3 other co-founders weren’t sure if their start up would be successful until they were 7 years in
• How their team, headquartered in Scotland, managed to become successful in the US market of fantasy sports building a team of 500 employees with 6million users
• What lessons Lesley learnt as a result of the gut-wrenching sale of FanDuel
• And why Relish is all about making the world a happier place.

Lesley’s story and lessons really are remarkable so don’t miss this episode with the resilient and gutsy Lesley Eccles. 

Useful Links

Relish in the Apple App Store

Relish website

Lesley Eccles on LinkedIn

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Hello and welcome to this week’s Future Proof Me mini-episode. 

Valentine’s Day was only a week or two prior to us recording this episode and it really brought home how we’re often primed to make our self worth dependent on being loved or valued by others. 

Whereas what really counts, is what we think and say to ourselves! 

This brings us to the wisdom of the amazing 92 year old June Dally Watkins, whom we were lucky enough to feature on the show some time ago but still in her 90’s. Very sadly, she passed away early last year leaving an incredible legacy as a pioneering businesswoman and total inspiration.  

In the first part of this week’s mini episode, you hear June talk, in her own inimitable way, about just how important it is to like and love yourself. 

Then we explore the labels we can unconsciously (or consciously) give ourselves and how these can really make a BIG difference. And they’re really influenced by how much we have self-worth, love and respect. 

We hear an inspiring story of how Barcelona-based innovator and futurist Cecilia (‘Ce Ce’) Tham, suddenly realised how negative the labels she was giving herself were. She changed them and her prospects changed completely with them. 

What labels do you give yourself? Do you truly like and love yourself? 

Enjoy this week’s mini episode to hear from two super wise, fabulous and diverse women. 

Useful Links

June Dally Watkins

June Dally Watkins Full Interview - Redefining What’s Possible for Women Even at 92!

JDW Website

Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend Article on June Dally Watkins: 

Cecelia Tham

Cecelia Tham Full Interview - Predicting the Future

Cecilia’s website 

Cecelia’s business Futurity

Makers of Barcelona (MOB)  

allwomen AI Training School

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Hello and welcome to another special episode of the show. 

For those of you listening in the past few weeks, you’ll know that we have finally relented to the many requests over time to share our own stories.

Claire’s been overwhelmed with the responses to her episode that we aired two weeks ago and this week it’s Greta’s turn to be interviewed by Claire! 

Claire loved chatting with Greta about her innovative and fascinating career journey to date. 

Tune in now to hear: 

• How Greta spent the very first part of her working career as a professional ballet dancer
• How she hasn’t finished high school and doesn’t have an undergrad degree but managed to get an MBA and work at prestigious management consultancy, McKinsey & Company 
• How, against all odds, she managed to secure her dream job working for an overseas organisation founded by Bono 
• And, what she learnt from her time on the executive teams at eBay and Sydney Opera House. 

Without further ado, enjoy this episode with our inventive and strategic co-host, Greta Thomas.

Useful Links

Greta on LinkedIn

Greta on Twitter

Don’t Stop Us Now! Website

Full Potential Labs Website

The Lazarus Effect Documentary co-produced by Greta

RED.org

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This week’s mini ‘Future Proof Me’ episode is all about the power of dreaming big. One person who’s a passionate believer in the power of the dreams we make for ourselves is stationery and Swedish design entrepreneur, Kristina Karlsson - the founder of kikki.K. 

We had Kristina on the show around the time her business went into voluntary administration last year. It was a perfect storm and COVID was the last straw. 

However, the great news is that in August last year they found an investor and the brand and business lives on, still with Kristina and her husband Paul continuing to run the business.

Kristina makes a big distinction between goal setting and dreaming. Goal setting is a rational process where you take reality into account, while dreaming, she says, is where you let go of reality and really think about what you would most love to happen - to create your dream life.  

We also love how Kristina stresses you don’t have to be special to achieve great things…. 

Win One of Kristina’s ‘Your Dream Life’ books 

We’re thrilled to say we have three copies of Kristina’s book ‘Your Dream Life Starts Here’ to give away to listeners keen to follow the seven steps Kristina mentions in this mini episode.

Simply email us at [email protected] and tell us in less than 50 words why it’s important to you to be able to think and dream bigger. 

Entries close COB Wednesday, 24 February 2021. Winners will be notified by email. 

Useful Links

Kristina’s Dream Life website

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By popular demand, we’re excited to share a unique episode with you today. We’re pretty excited because we’ve been asked to do this since we launched the podcast nearly 3 years ago. 

If you haven’t already guessed, we’ve finally relented and will be sharing our own career stories and journeys with you. Today you get to hear all about Claire’s extraordinary career and journey. 

Whilst normally you’d hear both of us asking questions, of course today, only Greta is asking the questions. Claire, of course, will be answering them. (Yippee!) 

Greta was blown away by Claire’s remarkable career to date. In this episode you’ll learn how Claire: 

• Received an award from the UK Prime Minister as one of Britain's People of the Year at the age of 26
• How a tragedy changed the course of her life 
• What it was like working at Google and why they’re so innovative
• And finally, why she left her plum job on the Google Australian leadership team 

Without further ado please enjoy this episode getting to know our co-host, the amazing Claire Hatton. 

Useful Links

Claire on Linkedin

Don’t Stop Us Now! Website

Full Potential Labs Website

3P Learning Website

APT Travel Group

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We’re excited to share our first mini episode for 2021!

It’s a topical one for many people, particularly those whose careers may have been affected in some way by COVID in the past year. 

We were blown away by the career story of Dr Emma Camp, a coral scientist, a UN Young Leader and a National Geographic Explorer, amongst numerous other accolades she’s earnt along the way. 

When you look at Emma’s LinkedIn profile now you would think she’s always been seen as a superstar but in fact, this is far from the truth. 

At the very beginning of her career, Emma really struggled to get her foot in the door of any kind of scientific research and she had to get both creative and very resilient to continue her dream of becoming a marine scientist. 

Don’t miss her story of the incredibly creative way she got her foot in the door and hear her advice on going after what you really want in your career. 

Enjoy this mini episode ....

Useful Links

Link to Emma's full interview on Don't Stop Us Now!

Emma’s website

Twitter 

LinkedIn

Instagram

UN Young Leaders Website

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Hello, Happy New Year and welcome to our first episode for 2021!

We couldn’t think of a better guest to start the year with than social entrepreneur Ronni Kahn, the Founder and CEO of OzHarvest. 

Ronni is a South African who’s lived in Australia for many years. The story of how she founded and then grew OzHarvest is really quite something. 

If you’re not familiar with OzHarvest, it’s Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, ensuring that quality, untouched food from supermarkets and big events gets delivered to provide meals for those in need and saving good food going to landfill. 

Incredibly OzHarvest has delivered 160 million meals in Australia to date. Plus, it’s expanded overseas as well. 

Ronni recently released her memoir, called A Repurposed Life and we explore her fascinating life and career journey in this episode including: 

• How Ronni’s early life, from growing up in South Africa, to living on a kibbutz in Israel helped shape her ultimate purpose to end food waste 
• How her earlier entrepreneurial endeavours with florist shops, pyramid-selling skin care, and a flourishing events business, helped her build her self confidence and enabled her to think bigger
• How OzHarvest has had to pivot and adapt through COVID, and
• Why Ronni advises you not to wait to give more than you get

If you’re looking to find your purpose, get some inspiration or hear how someone else has made career transitions then don’t miss this episode with the focused and impressive Ronni Kahn. 

Useful Links

Ronni’s Book - A Repurposed Life

OzHarvest website

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