How I Made It

By The Australian Financial Review

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What's How I Made It about?

Building wealth from the ground up: How I Made It is a fortnightly podcast featuring stories from inside the Australian Financial Review's Rich List.

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12.03.2023

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 ...

How I Made It episodes:

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.

How I Made It

What's How I Made It about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

How I Made It episodes:

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

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

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

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

Introducing: 15 Minutes with the Boss (episode preview)

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

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

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

Coming soon: How I Made It season three

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

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

Female Founders: Gab Manning and Manning Cartell

Female Founders: Ava Matthews, Bec Jefferd and Ultra Violette

Female Founders: Priscilla Hajiantoni and Bangn Body

Female Founders: Jo Horgan and Mecca

Female Founders: Tania Austin and Decjuba

Female Founders: Kristy Chong and Modibodi

Coming soon: Female Founders

Introducing: The Fin

Introducing Chanticleer

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

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

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

How Robbie Ferguson became the youngest Rich Lister

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

How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from just $400

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

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

Coming soon: How I Made It season two

Episode 8. Michael and Matt Heine

Episode 7. Jessica Sepel

Episode 6. Wes Maas

Episode 5. Graham Turner

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

Episode 3. Tony Walls

Episode 2. Jane Lu

Episode 1. Jack Cowin

Coming Soon: How I Made It