In The Company, Insights on Humanising Work with Kylie Lewis

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business.

Today we’re in the company of Julie Anne and Glen Mayer, founders of Subo, the reusable food bottle designed and made in Australia.

As active parents of young children, Julie Anne and Glen would often find themselves on the move, and wanting to feed their kids nutritious , homemade food that was also easy to handle and minimized the potential for being worn instead of eaten.

In 2012, sparked by an idea under she had under the shower, Julie Anne challenged Glen to make a prototype food bottle from a toothpaste pump dispenser. Held together with duct tape the prototype worked and was enough for encourage the Mayers to develop the idea further.

Between their fulltime jobs and parenting roles, Julie Anne and Glen launched the product in October 2016, and this month sees Glen leave his jobs in sales to leap into Subo fulltime.

Today the Mayer family have their sights firmly set on changing the way we eat on the go.

For more information visit suboproducts.com.au

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business.

Today we’re in the company of Anna Ross, founder of Kester Black (kesterblack.com), an ethical and sustainable nail polish and skincare company launched in 2012 and which has quickly become one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most innovative beauty brands.

Anna’s products are vegan, sustainable, cruelty-free and B Corp certified. Made in Australia, Kester Black now sells to Asia, America, Europe and also the Middle East, where its water-permeable products appeal to Muslim women, and in 2016 Anna was awarded the Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year.

Anna is on a mission to initiate global change in the beauty industry by setting new standards for cosmetics with a positive social and environmental impact.

Here we talk with Anna about going beyond the leap, and how to take a small business to the next level.

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business.

Today we’re in the company of Sheree Rubenstein, a former corporate lawyer who made the leap to found One Roof, Australia’s Leading Co-working space for women-led businesses.

Sheree is an expert in curating spaces, programs and communities that nurture and inspire female entrepreneurs to thrive. One Roof has established a presence in 4 cities across Australia and the USA and built a global community of over 10,000 women. In 2015 Sheree was nominated as one of Australia's top young innovators by the Foundation for Young Australians and in 2016 she was awarded the Victorian Young Achievers Leadership Award.

For more information check out: http://melbourne.oneroofwomen.com/

This episode is bought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business.

Today we’re in the company of Nick Arvanitis, Head of Workplace Research and Development at Australian mental health organisation beyondblue.org.au. Nick leads projects that support workforces to create and maintain mentally healthy workplaces, including HeadsUp.org.au

“One in five Australians will experience a mental health condition during their lifetime. Over one million Australians live with depression, and over two million have anxiety. As one of the largest employment sectors in Australia, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are highly likely to face a mental health related issue in their workplace at some point.

(http://learn.beyondblue-elearning.org.au/businessinmind/#/managing-mental-health-in-the-workplace/s2_1a)

• 1 in 5 employees are likely to be experiencing a mental health condition

• Untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers $10.9 billion EVERY YEAR

• PWC research shows: $2:30 is the average return on investment for every $1 invested in creating a mentally healthy workplace.

For more information, and to access the mentally healthy checklist check out:

https://www.headsup.org.au/

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

Today we’re in the company of Bernadette Jiwa, a recognised global authority on the role of story in business, innovation and marketing. She’s a Business Advisor, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author of five #1 Amazon Bestsellers., including “Marketing: A Love Story” and “Meaningful: The story of ideas that fly”.

Bernadette works with Fortune 500 companies, startups, entrepreneurs and business leaders from around the world, helping them to build their brands and become meaningful to their customers.

In June 2017 Bernadette published her sixth book Hunch: how to turn your everyday insights into the next big thing.

For more information visit: http://thestoryoftelling.com/

Today we’re in the company of Clare Desira. Clare is a writer, coach, speaker and founder of the Top Five Movement – her side gig from her full-time corporate role. In December 2006 Clare started a daily practice of journaling her top five moments from the day, and has done so every day since. She now has over 2000 top five lists totalling more than 10,000 memories. The impact of her daily gratitude practice has been so profound that she created the Top Five Movement as a way of encouraging people to foster greater happiness, confidence and energy in their lives. Earlier this year, Clare’s Positive Thought Starter cards won product of the year.

For more information visit: topfivemovement.com

Kemi Nekvapil is a coach, speaker and author. From starting her career as an actor on British TV, Kemi leapt to becoming a yogi and baker in Indonesia, to pioneering the raw food movement in Australia. She now coaches women to nourish themselves beyond the food they eat, to live empowered, fulfilling lives by embracing more than their dress, their age and their appearance.

Kemi is the author of Raw Beauty, and her latest book is The Gift of Asking.

Find out more about Kemi at keminekvapil.com.au

Today we are in the company of Rachel Service. Rachel is the Founder of Happiness Concierge: a kick ass training company that helps people ace their work and lives.

After suffering anxiety, depression and burnout in her 20's, she realised work was killing her and created Happiness Concierge to help other people be more impactful at work.

Her training helps individuals in organisations learn tactical ways to make a bigger impact at work.

To download Rachel's free resources check out http://www.happinessconcierge.com.au/

Today we're in the company of Carolyn Tate, founder of Carolyn Tate and Co, The Slow School of Business, Talk on Purpose and The Purpose Project. We talk with Carolyn about her new book (her sixth!) The Purpose Project, the imperative to work with purpose.

You can find out more about Carolyn, and download a free chapter from her book here: http://carolyntate.co/

In a season of every second person you meet saying ‘I have a podcast’, you may be asking yourself why did Kylie, founder of ofkin.com and author of The Leap Stories, feel compelled to start one too?

As a writer/blogger I wanted to have deeper, more spontaneous conversations that could reach an audience on the move, specifically, driving or travelling from one point to another. As a parent driving home from dropping their kids at school, or a mobile worker between locations or wandering vacationer on route, I wanted to lift words off the page and have them land with tone and texture not accessible on a digital screen while on the go.

On average, we will spend around 46 years of our life ‘working’. I’m interested in who we are when we’re at work, when we’re engaged in work and how work shapes us. I’m interested in the humanity of work, how it’s celebrated and how it’s shuttered.

For the last three years I’ve written about taking a leap in your working life. This podcast is an extension of that idea, and designed to go behind the work and humanise the lived experience of designing our careers. I’m keen to explore the vulnerability of showing up in our working lives and putting ourselves out there to be seen, to have impact and to be brave.

I want a chance to ask deeper questions and go behind the scenes of narratives that emerge through dialogue. Mostly, I want listeners to not feel alone when they’re working, especially when they’re having days that aren’t filled with glitter crusted unicorns showering down praise and good fortune.

I have days that are filled with confusion, frustration, chronic self doubt, overwhelm, procrastination and anxiety. I also have days where I crack open a new idea, make a stellar connection, contribute helpfully and turn on light bulbs for people. I want to talk about the light and dark, and how we each find our way through.

Leadership expert Simon Sinek said that if you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business. And social scientist Dr Brené Brown has pointed out that:

‘The biggest barrier to effective teams is not professional development – it’s personal development. People are not doing their own work on what it is that gets in the way of them fully showing up as the kind of people we need in teams, and leaders we need. It is what makes or breaks a team, a culture or leaders.’

This podcast is a result of the conversations I’ve been having with myself about who I am in my working life, how that spills out into my whole life (or maybe visa versa). And I want to talk about these things with other humans like you.

So hence, I’m one of those people starting a podcast too. Thanks for listening.

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