When Amy was 17, she really disappointed her parents. Actually, her dad was pissed. At that moment, she decided to prove them wrong and would show them that she could be successful without going to university straight out of school. After climbing the corporate ladder and earning a "university-qualified" equivalent income, Amy felt like she had absolutely smashed her parents' doubts and fears and more importantly, proved them wrong.

One month after Amy achieved her final measure of success of an executive-level title and pay packet, she handed in her resignation and notice period.

Amy started to come back to her core fascination with the mind. Attending conferences and workshops, hearing speakers, gaining qualifications, being a speaker and trainer herself, and working with people each and every day as a leader, it started to become clear...it was time. 

She had found her ‘y’ and it was time for me to listen to herself and act on the advice she was sharing with so many others. 

This is Amy's story of evolution...

ABOUT:

Amy Jacobson is an experienced Emotional Intelligence specialist, passionate speaker, inspirational leadership trainer and highly sought after Coach. She works with businesses and career-minded people to achieve outstanding results, ignite passion, and develop strengths. Furthermore, Amy guides her clients on how to use Emotional Intelligence to create a clear career path to high performance and success. Amy has a burning passion and drive to see people reach their full potential, embrace their strengths and find their ‘y’. Whether it’s running a business, creating inspiring leaders and mentors or working one on one, everyone needs a ‘y’.

People often describe Amy as:

A dynamic and passionate speaker delivering practical tools to implement

Insightful and inspirational

Having a rare quality to balance IQ, AI and EI

A leader that challenges others to think completely differently

Amy is an Internationally recognised Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis and a Certified Level 2 Advanced Coach. In addition to this, she also holds an Associate Diploma in Management and Financial Services (Financial Planning), to name a few. With over 20 years of experience in the Corporate world with 15 of those spent in Senior positions. Her roles included transforming teams and the performance of businesses across Service Delivery, New Business/Sales, Project Management, Product, and Technical.

Traveling with her husband and gorgeous children is Amy’s second love. She loves meeting people all around the world and thus experiencing their way of life and truly appreciating their ‘y’.

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Dawn shares her journey of evolution from learning to play the violin in a band, to her time in track and field and basketball all the way through to becoming a leadership author, speaker and coach.

She has created BestU4Life to help corporate executives and their organizations take a People-First approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution.

Dawn believes that people are the heartbeat of every business, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved through people.

ABOUT

Dawn lives with her husband of twenty-six years, Tony Kirk, and their two teenage sons, Kendall and Kristopher, near Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively involved in her church and contributes as a member of the church board.

Dawn S. Kirk has coached, trained, and developed more than 10,000 associates in Fortune 100 companies using her Heartbeat Leadership method.

She has spent over 26 years working with #1 Consumer Packaged Goods companies across sales, finance, marketing, operations, national accounts, and commercial sectors.

For sixteen of those years, she held senior executive positions with Frito-Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) and The Coca-Cola Company, leading teams as large as 5,000 employees through organizational growth, transformations, and transitions.

She has earned numerous awards, including Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women, and was inducted into the VIP Woman of the Year Circle by the National Association of Professional Women.

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Shil wasn't always a sought after speaker coach, speaker and the Chatterchief at Chatterbox Public Speaking. After choosing to use public speaking as a way to deal with his stutter and fears, he turned this challenge into a business to help other people face their fears and obstacles to become amazing speakers and presenters. He is now a thought leader in the speaking industry. He is changing the speaker training game.

Shil is the first speaker coach in Perth to introduce Virtual Reality as a groundbreaking tool to face the fear of public speaking.

Public Speaking has always been Shil's greatest fear - so he knows exactly what it feels like when your body goes numb, your heart starts racing and your mind goes into overdrive! Despite living with a stutter, Shil has trained himself to become a professional speaker and developed an intimate understanding of how to harness and control the fear of speaking. Combining two decades of creative speaking techniques, Shil works with his clients to become confident presenters, guiding them to discover innate hidden strengths to find their own speaking style.

He has developed models and techniques which show you how to control your emotions and use your experiences to craft stories, so you can deliver memorable presentations anytime, anywhere to any audience.

Shil works with entrepreneurs, start up ventures, SME and ASX listed companies in Australia and Internationally and has presented or coached across most industries.

Renowned for teaching intuitive public speaking skills, Shil's workshops and coaching methods teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of presenting and speaking with impact to engage and influence audiences.

Shil is a Board Member for Guerrilla Establishment, an Industry Expert for WA Leaders, a presentation mentor for Impact100 WA and a speaker coach for TEDxPerth.

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A Violist, Entrepreneur, Educator, Presenter and Producer Who Decided to Break The Rules.

Bourby Webster, Founder & CEO of Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has broken the rules in her industry because her mission is "Music for everyone."

The PSO was founded in 2011 with a massive ambition to reach a new audience; retain talent in West Australia; create jobs and; showcase talent. Since 2011, the PSO has performed to over 350,000 people from Karratha through to Kwinana in West Australia. Playing Vivaldi to Nirvana. They've paid over $2 million in fees to over 150 musicians and created pathways into careers.

Bourby supports community engagement programs. In 2019 she was West Australian of the Year in Arts & Culture. A winner of the 40 under 40 Entreprenuers and a Finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award.

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What Happens When You Cross a Psychologist, Technologist and a Publican Together?

You get Col Levander. Col takes us on a journey through all his careers and how he ended up starting a tech company in the recruitment industry space. Col is a legend in the recruiting world in Australia. A lovable and personable character that lives by the motto "If you don't know, then ask."

ABOUT

Col has worked in the recruitment industry for nearly 30 years with 8 years specifically in technology consulting. 

He has worked with boutique, national and global organisations gaining invaluable experience and life lessons to share and enable clients with these unique insights. He well known and well-loved in recruitment circles, fondly regarded for his approachability and down to earth attitude.

He has successfully set up 4 staffing agencies, lived in 5 cities, 3 states and travelled extensively across the Asia Pacific region, delivering recruitment and technology solutions.

Col is a subject matter expert on compliance, awards, pay rates and assisting clients to achieve speed to market & efficiencies to protect their businesses. Col now lives on the Sunshine Coast with his family and manages a global team of specialists.

In most recent years, with his team, Col has he developed an Australian made, world-class, multi-award-winning application -Ratescalc.com -Which is a unique software like no other. It's an application which is a quoting engine, rates management tool and payroll compliance and governance platform which has the ability to guide businesses to gain maximum profitability from its services. Soon to be launching in New Zealand, Asia and the UK.

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Lisa launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential.

Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt.

ABOUT

Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing CEO of The Messenger Group, as well as founder and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub – a multi-platform entrepreneurial lifestyle destination with a mandate to disrupt, challenge and inspire.

Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.

With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.

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| The Consciously Incompetent, Probably Wrong and Roughly Right CEO & Chairman of WD-40: Garry Ridge |

In 1953, a fledgling #company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of 3 set out to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for use in the aerospace industry. Working in a small lab in San Diego, California, it took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out. But they must have been really good because the original secret formula for WD40® was perfected on the 40th try is still in use today.

We are kicking off Season Two of the Evolution of Business Show in style with this LIVE #podcast.

We are going to unlock many secrets...perhaps all except one...the over 60-year-old formulation of WD-40® remains a secret today, and still will after this podcast.

Garry Ridge, Chairman, and CEO of WD-40 Company is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company.

I am looking forward to launching season two with fellow native Australian, Garry Ridge.

ABOUT

Garry O. Ridge, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Garry joined WD-40 Company in 1987 and held various leadership positions in the company before being appointed to CEO in 1997.

He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego where he teaches leadership development, talent management, and succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program.

He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work:

A native of Australia and holds a certificate in Modern Retailing and wholesale distribution and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego.

As CEO of WD-40 Company since 1997, Garry has helped re-ignite excitement and create cultures that foster break-through innovation in companies and workplaces in over 62 countries.

His first-hand experiences in transforming a global brand with a market cap of $2.3 billion, as well as his deep, profound commitment to creating workplace cultures that support the individual passions of all who work there, have attracted the recognition of today’s most influential thought leaders.

In 2016, he was named Igniter of the Year by Simon Sinek.

Inc.com placed him in the fourth position in its list of Top 10 Global CEOs in 2017.

Garry has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Freedom at Work from WorldBlu.

Most recently, he is a contributor in the Marshall Goldsmith/Frances Hesselbein book, Work is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose From the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders.

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Grounded among some of the biggest corporations in both Australia and the World, Santo has developed a taste for helping small businesses succeed by applying big business strategy. Utilising the resources allocated to him by some of Australia’s largest employers, Santo has proven his disciplines work effectively by achieving the goals and objectives cascaded down from his C level colleagues.

Culture and strategy are among some of the area’s Santo delves deep into and provides a service that focuses on mindset around these two facets.

ABOUT

Santo Arabia is a father of three children and he and his lovely wife live in Adelaide SA. He is a Mentor at MentorCo. and has a passion for helping Small Business Think Big! Santo is also the Director of Convertd, a business that helps you generate more leads, sales and customers using digital advertising

Owner Driver at Team Arabia he uses racing as a way to improve #mindhealth

A volunteer for Little Heroes Foundation, who Proudly supporting seriously ill children and their families, ensuring they have access to the very best care.

As an Ambassador for Lifeback Tracker, which is an Early Intervention Tool to assist when confronted with Anxiety, Stress or early signs of Depression.

Santo is spreading the word that there is a better way to live.

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This is the story of how one of life's "sliding door" moments created an accidental entrepreneur. When a sales pitch turned into a business pitch because of one simple question, Jo Burston ended up becoming an entrepreneur. 6 weeks after the failed sales pitch, she had an investor, business partner and a mentor...and that was just the beginning. In five years she had a business that turned over $40 million dollars.

You don't get to stay on Australia's Top 30 Female Entrepreneur list for seven years running without having something special. Jo has a gift for business and some powerful life philosophies that she shares with us in this episode.

ABOUT

Jo Burston is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs. She has launched six businesses, the standout being Job Capital which went from $0 to $40-million turnover in five years and has kept her on the list of Australia’s top 30 female entrepreneurs since 2013. Jo has worked in partnership with the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and Office For Women (OFW) as well as global brands such as Microsoft, Google, EY, PwC and XERO.

Her most recent launch is startup.business, which runs entrepreneurial Learning in Action programs for school-aged children in curriculum in every state in Australia.

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When the universe gives you a tap on the shoulder, you should listen. Thankfully Steve Rodgers, today's guest did just that and led to a soul change.

After leading one of the largest real estate agencies in America and working with Warren Buffet, Steve was riding high on the life of a C-Suite Executive. Unfortunately it was having a toll on his relationships and health. Something had to change. Steve had to change.

Thanks to being coached by a monk, Steve has shifted from EGO (Edging good out) to IGI (Inviting good in).

Sit back and get ready for an epic journey with best selling author, business consultant and executive zen master, Steve Rodgers

ABOUT:

Steve lives near San Diego with his beautiful wife Mary Lou and trusted golden retriever.

When not coaching and consulting, he enjoys bike riding, yoga, meditation, and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Steve Rodgers, Author of Amazon #1 Best-selling book “Lead to Gold,” soon to launch book “The IGI Principles,” and creator of Alchemy Advisors coaching and consulting firm

He is a former Warren Buffet CEO who experienced a radical spiritual transformation that has evolved into a new mission as a purpose-driven consultant and entrepreneur coach, in demand international keynote speaker, and bestselling author.

Steve specializes in helping business owners and leaders increase profits while bringing spiritual intelligence into every aspect of their personal and professional lives to invite in success, fulfillment, and abundance beyond their wildest dreams.

He recognizes himself as a spiritual being having a human experience whose purpose is to help individuals discover their purpose and maximize their highest good in life and business. 

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