Inspiring Greatness

Show Notes & Links   Jane Anderson is a personal branding expert, author & executive career coach and key note speaker with over 20 year’s experience. Jane is one of Australia’s leading thought leaders on Influence using personal branding and author of IMPACT: How to Build Your Personal Brand for the Connection Economy.   She is obsessed with helping people survive through the “noise” in business, in particular for service professionals, women, teams, leaders and executives. Jane’s clients include Virgin Australia, IKEA, Lego, Mercedes Benz, Cisco, Australian Medical Association and University of Australia.   Jane also host a Podcast called the “Brand You Show” and is a mentor on the Thought Leaders Business School, Australia’s leading program for experts in their industry.

Janine Allis is an entrepreneur that needs little introduction. 

During a trip to the US in 1999, Janine noticed the juice and smoothie category was booming. And yet there was hardly a juice bar to be found in Australia. Janine returned to Australia and founded Boost which is now operating in 17 countries - more than any other juice bar in the world. Janine and her husband Jeff expanded their retail empire and acquired Salsas Fresh Mex Grill and CIBO Espresso, under the holding company Retail Zoo. There are over 7000 staff between the four businesses.

Janine’s success earned her a spot as a shark on Shark Tank Australia where aspiring entrepreneur contestants pitch their businesses to a panel of "shark" investors. 

An adventurer at heart, travelling the world as a young Aussie backpacker in the 80s, working from a camp counselor in San Francisco to a Stewardess of David Bowie’s yacht.

Mandi is the Founder and Managing Editor of Babyology, Australia's largest digital media company for parents. With a social media following of almost one million Facebook fans, Babyology knows how to reach their audience of 20-45 year-old women. An entrepreneur who just happens to be a mum-of-three, Mandi launched the business alone in her living room nine years ago and now heads a team of almost 30, all of whom also happen to be mums working remotely from their own homes.

Babyology is now considered the online market leader in native editorial content for Australian parents and has many other areas of reach including events, subscription boxes and video content. 

Mandi is an expert on juggling work and family life and the pressures faced by working mums, the modern myth of having it all and the fine line that exists between maintaining a professional career and achieving job satisfaction while still finding flexibility to raise a family.

This week's Golden Nugget Friday's episode we'll be discussing the top Tech tips from our 50 interviews!   www.wix.com www.shopify.com www.employmenthero.com www.xero.com www.bluehost.com

Susannah George is an experienced marketer and a fifth generation entrepreneur with a passion for fine food and design. Susannah founded “The Urban List” in 2011 and established one of Australia’s and New Zealand’s most influential and fastest growing lifestyle platforms. “The Urban List” now attracts an audience of more than 2 million readers each month.

She has locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast as well as Auckland. “The Urban List” introduces them to the top tier restaurants, retailers and brands in their local cities.

In 2015, Susannah was named “Woman of the Year” in the B&T Women in Media Awards, and won the digital category two consecutive years in a row. They were a finalist for the “Website of the Year” and “Editor of the Year” in published awards, and also Media Brand of the Year in the B&T Awards. And that’s not all, 2013 she named a finalist in the Lord Mayor’s Business Awards for Digital Strategy and Young Businessperson of the Year. Susannah was also listed among Queensland’s 50 Best and Brightest.

Before I begin with GNF I would like to highlight our line-up for the month of October. We are celebrating successful Australian women who kick ass in business. Last week was Andrea Culligan who has grown 7 different businesses. Andrea shared her unique approach of working abroad as she pleases, focused on family, health, life experiences to further her entrepreneurial endeavours. Coming up next week is Susanna George from The Urban List one of my fav interviews so check don’t miss it subscribe to Inspiring Greatness on iTunes or stitcher. Coming on episode 49 is Mandi Gunsberger (Babyology) who shares a story about juggling family and business and having to distract her kids with cheesalls to take a call from a corporate client. It was golden! Helping us celebrate Episode 50 is a Shark well a judge on shark tank here in Australia - Janine Allis talks about growing up in the suburbs in Melbourne to traveling the world landing a job on David Bowie’s yacht and lessons learned from growing Boost Juice the largest juice franchise in the world.

With 17 years in the entrepreneur business, Andrea Culligan has grown 7 different businesses. Her achievements earnt her the Young Businesswoman of the Year Award along with making it to the Fast 100 list.

With her unique approach of working abroad as she pleases, Culligan focuses on family, health, life experiences and the people around her to draw from and further her entrepreneurial endeavours.

This Golden Nugget Friday episode was inspired not only by this weeks guest Donovan Reese but also my guest from a few weeks ago Jeff Gayle. Both Donovan and Jeff recommended Salesforce and spoke about how this cloud based software has helped streamline their business functions and enhanced the sales processes.   Salesforce has become the worlds largest CRM Software company. It began with the vision of reinventing CRM, however the end result have evolved the way enterprise software is delivered and used in an unprecedented way.

Since 2009, Donovan has been the designated broker with Renters Warehouse Arizona, holding his broker's license from Arizona School of Real Estate and Business. Having rented more than $1 Billion worth of residential real estate and currently managing more than $200 million worth of property across the United States, Donovan is dedicated to continually improving the company's service offering and creating the best client experience in the industry. In fact, he was named one of Arizona Republic's "Top 35 Entrepreneurs Under 35" in 2012. Under his leadership, Renters Warehouse Arizona is one of the fastest growing companies in the country, making its debut at the 957th spot on the Inc. 5000 list this year.

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