How I Made It

How I Made It episodes:

• 04.21.2024

  The homeschooled billionaire who built a fortune before turning 40

  In this week's episode, Precision Group founder Shaun Bonétt chats to Julie-anne Sprague about becoming one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs. A journey that went from home schooling to buying his first shopping centre at just 24 years of...

  
• 04.07.2024

  Coming soon: How I Made It season 4

  How I Made It is back for a 4th season and this time we're giving you can chance to ask a Rich Lister a question yourself.  Are you building a company and want to scale up, do you want advice on...

  
• 02.11.2024

  Summer Series: From golf balls to 1c TVs - how Ruslan Kogan built a $300m empire from $0

  His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan Kogan honed his selling skills, making a buck selling golf balls and washing cars....

  
• 01.28.2024

  Summer Series: How Simon Beard went from 'toolie' to Culture King worth $600m

  The How I Made it team is on a summer break but have curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes.  In this third episode, Simon Beard joined Julie-anne Sprague in 2022 to chat how he and his...

  
• 01.14.2024

  Summer Series: How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from $400

  The How I Made it team is on a summer break but we’ve curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes.  Our second episode in this summer series features Tammy Hembrow who joined the Julie-anne Sprague in August...

  
• 12.31.2023

  Summer Series: How Jack Cowin brought KFC and Hungry Jacks to Australia

  Happy New Year! The How I Made it team is on summer break but for your listening enjoyment they have compiled a collection of some of their favourite episodes from our rich catalogue of interviews with the nation’s Rich Listers. The...

  
• 12.17.2023

  How Sam Kennard built a $2.6b empire storing other people's stuff

  Sam Kennard always had ambition to work and grow the family company. But he never expected his dad to give him total control when he was just 24 years of age.  This podcast is sponsored by Superloop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

  
• 12.03.2023

  The sliding doors moment that led typist Cathie Reid to build a $550m fortune

  In this week's episode How I Made It podcast, Icon Group founder Cathie Reid chats to Julie-anne Sprague about wanting to be a typist. Instead she became a pharmacist before spotting a gap in the market and becoming an entrepreneur...

  
• 11.19.2023

  How online gamer Kevin Gosschalk made $173m stopping internet bad guys

  This week on How I Made It, Julie-anne Sprague chats to Young Rich Lister Kevin Gosschalk, the co-founder Arkose Labs on the challenges of going head to head with Google in offering companies solutions to thwart cyber criminals. This podcast is...

  
• 11.05.2023

  How Mark Carnegie 'thumb-sucked' his way off the Rich List

  In this week's episode, Julie-anne Sprague chats to investor and corporate adviser Mark Carnegie on how being born with a silver spoon and having a chip on his shoulder has  motivated him to succeed in business.  This podcast is sponsored by...

  
• 10.22.2023

  How school dropout Nigel Satterley built a $500 million property empire

  This week, Nigel Satterley joins Julie-anne Sprague to chat about his journey from Levi's salesman to becoming Australia’s biggest private land developer whose company, Satterley, is worth more than $500 million. This podcast is sponsored by Superloop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

  
• 10.18.2023

  Introducing: 15 Minutes with the Boss (episode preview)

  Follow The Australian Financial Review’s newest podcast offering called 15 Minutes with the Boss. It’s a weekly podcast, in which AFR’s Boss Editor Sally Patten sits down with one of the country's top CEOs and asks them to share all the...

  
• 10.08.2023

  Sam Hupert: From wine tasting meeting to a $9 billion medical software giant

  In 1983, Sam Hupert and IT specialist Anthony Hall joined forces after meeting at a wine tasting. Their brainchild, Pro Medicus is now worth $9 billion with shares recently hitting an all-time high of $83, marking a spectacular return for...

  
• 09.24.2023

  How Kim Kardashian is helping Gen Z-er Alex Tomic make $1 billion

  Alex Tomic quit university after just six months, to create a company to sell teeth whitening kits with his childhood friend Alex Mirkovic. Almost a decade later, the pair are closing in on $1b in sales, cementing their place on...

  
• 09.10.2023

  How Carolyn Creswell went from check-out chick to $170m muesli empire

  Carolyn Creswell’s company Carmen's dominates the supermarket shelves. But it didn’t start that way. In the early days, she had to come up clever ways to get ahead. This podcast is sponsored by Superloop   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 09.03.2023

  Coming soon: How I Made It season three

  How I Made It is back for a third season. From the Australian Financial Review, How I Made It takes you inside the world of the country’s top entrepreneurs. They'll share insights on what makes them tick, their business advice and...

  
• 06.25.2023

  Female Founders: Trenna Probert: From concierge to fintech start-up founder

  Super Fierce founder Trenna Probert chats to Julie-anne Sprague about her bold mission to close the wealth gap between men and women. This podcast is sponsored by Cartier Women's Initiative. To learn more, go to: https://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/awards  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 06.11.2023

  Female Founders: Hannah Drury: From blow-up mattress to a fragrance empire

  From an initial $50,000 investment and regularly sleeping on a blowup mattress on the factory floor, Hannah Drury is now looking to expand her fragrance empire with her own perfumery. This podcast is sponsored by Cartier Women's Initiative. To learn more,...

  
• 05.28.2023

  Female Founders: Gab Manning and Manning Cartell

  Gabrielle Manning chats with Julie-anne Sprague about quitting her job in her 30s to set up her own business alongside her two sisters. But a decade later it nearly collapsed as they got distracted by the critics. This podcast is sponsored...

  
• 05.14.2023

  Female Founders: Ava Matthews, Bec Jefferd and Ultra Violette

  In 2014 Bec Jefferd and Ava Matthews met in a carpark. Fast forward to today, their skinscreen line Ultra Violette has completely changed the way we view sunscreens.  This podcast is sponsored by Charter Hall, to learn more visit www.charterhall.com.au/investments/new-to-investing/getting-started-in-commercial-property-investment See...

  
• 04.30.2023

  Female Founders: Priscilla Hajiantoni and Bangn Body

  Priscilla Hajiantoni suffered from skin breakouts. She’d tried everything and nothing seemed to work. So she set out to make her own. Priscilla now runs a multi-million dollar skincare business that's on the cusp of going global. This podcast is sponsored...

  
• 04.16.2023

  Female Founders: Jo Horgan and Mecca

  This week, entrepreneur Jo Horgan invites Julie-anne Sprague into the nerve centre of Mecca to reveal how her love for English literature led to her founding the international cosmetics giant. This podcast is sponsored by Charter Hall, to learn more visit...

  
• 04.02.2023

  Female Founders: Tania Austin and Decjuba

  In 2008, Tania Austin took a risk buying five retail stores under the Decjuba banner. 15 years on Decjuba is now a women's fashion powerhouse with more than 140 stores across Australia and New Zealand. This podcast is sponsored by Charter...

  
• 03.19.2023

  Female Founders: Kristy Chong and Modibodi

  Kristy Chong revolutionised personal care products for women all over the world by creating an underwear range that absorbs leaks. The company she founded in 2013, ModiBodi, sold for $140 million last year and now Chong is turning from entrepreneur...

  
• 03.05.2023

  Coming soon: Female Founders

  Starting March 20, you’ll hear stories from women who’ve faced down enormous challenges to take a simple idea and build a business. Some would go global.   They’re changing the face of Australian business and paving the way for a new generation of...

  
• 10.19.2022

  Introducing: The Fin

  A weekly podcast from The Australian Financial Review that examines the biggest stories in business, markets and politics, and why they matter, explained by the best financial journalists in the country. Search The Fin and follow us wherever you get your...

  
• 09.16.2022

  Introducing Chanticleer

  Australia’s most prestigious business column is now a podcast. Chanticleer is a weekly news breakdown of all things business, finance and markets. Every Friday, Australian Financial Review columnists Tony Boyd and James Thomson go behind the doors of corporate Australia to...

  
• 09.04.2022

  How selling TVs for 1c led Ruslan Kogan to owning an online empire

  His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan Kogan honed his selling skills, making a buck selling golf balls and washing cars....

  
• 08.28.2022

  Aaron Hornlimann quit uni after 12wks, now he's worth $42m

  Aaron Hornlimann bred guinea pigs to earn a buck as a kid. By his early 20s he was developing a text messaging system for Jetstar and now, at 35, the Young Rich Lister worth an estimated $34 million, is growing...

  
• 08.21.2022

  How Gold Coast 'toolie' Simon Beard made $600m

  Simon Beard and his wife Tah-nee started Culture Kings as a market stall at the Carrara Markets on the Gold Coast. Last year they cut a deal to sell their company for more than $600 million. Here’s how they did...

  
• 08.14.2022

  How Robbie Ferguson became the youngest Rich Lister

  At 25, Robbie Ferguson is the youngest person to make the list since it began in 1983. He and his brother James have a combined wealth of $1billion thanks to the success of their crypto business Immutable.  Background reading: The Rich Lister...

  
• 08.07.2022

  Sarina Russo's success may lie in how many times she's been fired

  Sarina Russo failed high school English classes and was fired from her job as a legal secretary. She’s proof that determination and perseverance can triumph after joining the Financial Review Rich Women List earlier this year with an estimated $267...

  
• 07.31.2022

  How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from just $400

  After dropping out of uni and with starting out with $400, Tammy Hembrow has built online fitness app Tammy Fit and clothing brand Saksi Collection into businesses that's given her an estimated $38 million fortune. Background reading: 13 lessons to turn $400...

  
• 07.24.2022

  Why quitting his job at a bank was the best thing David Tudehope did

  David Tudehope quit working for CBA at 25 to start a company with big ambitions. Macquarie Telecom would take on Telstra. It’s been so successful he’s found his way onto the Financial Review Rich List. Tudehope shares his secrets for...

  
• 07.17.2022

  $78 'rort' that's turned Blackmagic's Grant Petty into a billionaire

  When Grant Petty was growing up in Shepparton in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley, his family didn't have much money so he took to 'rorting' the system to fund his early education in electronics. Petty went on to start Blackmagic Design, a...

  
• 07.10.2022

  Coming soon: How I Made It season two

  Australian Financial Review's Julie-anne Sprague takes you inside the world of the country’s top entrepreneurs. They'll share insights on what makes them tick, their business advice and how they overcame the odds to grace one of the AFR's Rich Lists. If...

  
• 11.27.2021

  Episode 8. Michael and Matt Heine

  Michael Heine, 72 and his son Matt, 42, together run Netwealth, one of Australia’s fastest growing wealth management businesses. They come from a long line of entrepreneurs, never finished university and the family is now worth around $2.8 billion. They talk...

  
• 11.20.2021

  Episode 7. Jessica Sepel

  Jessica Sepel, 32, went from working at Priceline after school to creating one of their fastest growing brands JS Health Vitamins. She’s a nutritionist and wellness blogger who quit her day job and is now worth an estimated $426 million....

  
• 11.13.2021

  Episode 6. Wes Maas

  Wes Maas, 41, was doing “okay” playing in the NRL for the South Sydney Rabbitohs but knew he was never going to be in the top 20 per cent. So the “workaholic” from Dubbo went home and bought a bobcat...

  
• 11.06.2021

  Episode 5. Graham Turner

  Graham Turner, 72, grew up on an apple farm in Queensland and attended a one-teacher primary school where he had to make up numbers on the netball team. He’s a trained vet who went from driving double decker tour buses...

  
• 10.30.2021

  Episode 4. What does it take to make the Rich List?

  The Australian Financial Review started tracking Australia’s 200 richest people in 1983. Back then, they were worth a combined $4.7 billion. Fast forward to this year and the total value of Australia’s 200 richest people sits at $479.6 billion. In this...

  
• 10.23.2021

  Episode 3. Tony Walls

  Tony Walls, 57, is a Wollongong boy who went straight to work from Port Kembla High School, attended university at night and spent all his spare time programming computers.  He started his own business right before the early ‘90’s recession from...

  
• 10.16.2021

  Episode 2. Jane Lu

  Jane Lu, 35, started fashion retailer Showpo in 2010 after scoring her dream job at a big consulting firm and realising she would "never be a good accountant". Showpo now sells 6000 styles, employs over 100 people and Jane -...

  
• 10.09.2021

  Episode 1. Jack Cowin

  Jack Cowin, 79, is the fast food billionaire who brought KFC and Hungry Jacks to Australia and then turned $400,000 into more than $2.6 billion by investing in a pizza business called Domino's. But he also had a failed career...

  
• 09.21.2021

  Coming Soon: How I Made It

  Stories of building wealth from the ground up and business advice from members of the Australian Financial Review Rich List. How I Made It premieres October 10th 2021. Subscribe to the Australian Financial Review here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.