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Today we are joined by Damian Scanlon, Director of the MBA program at the University of Adelaide, one of the top Australian MBA's according to the Financial Review's BOSS Magazine and other rankings. We go on a wonderful journey through Damian's most eclectic life and discuss his learnings on what makes a strong leader and business, and living interesting life.

Damian shares lessons from his career highlights, including builder's labourer, tuna fisherman, restaurant manager, graduate economist, CEO, Finance Director, COO and co-owner. Working in sectors as diverse as minerals processing, aquaculture and aviation. And, lessons as to what makes a good job and when to move on.

We discuss corporate culture and successful business, and how it is critical leaders know if they have the aptitude and appetite for growth or maintaining a business.

Damian shares his traveling adventures, including buying a one way ticket to London as a young lad, travelling through Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and nearly dying from Typhoid in India.

Thankfully Damian survived to live and share his story.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

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Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Today we are joined by Dr Jana Matthews, Director and Professor at the Australian Centre for Business Growth at the University of South Australia.

Since launching in 2014 the Centre has worked with more than 400 Australian companies to help accelerate their growth and improve performance, with impressive results.

Our story starts back at a young Jana growing up in small town USA loving reading and curious about the much, much wider world, then going on to study at the University of London and Yale University and completing her doctorate at Harvard.

Jana has written eight books, published in 17 languages. In 2018, Forbes listed her book Leading at the Speed of Growth at the top of the CEO reading list for technology entrepreneurs.

In Australia in 2018 Jana was listed in the Australian Financial Review as one of '100 women of influence' in Australia. Having served on seven boards and five companies of her own, she has much wisdom to share.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

If you love the idea of living an eclectic life of creativity, surf music, wine and fringe arts, well strap yourself in for David's story. His own wine brand 2 Mates, surf music label Bombora and much more.

Starting out as a kid with parents running a drive in and a home adjoining it, David's life was seeded early on with the importance of the Arts and living a life embedded with creativity.

On telling his typically cool and calm dad of his plans to quit uni and go into advertising the mood changed - "don't do it!" An interesting response considering David's father was ad adman. And, clearly advertising is in the family's DNA with David's son continuing the trade.

David has an impressively simple LinkedIn profile noting 'Independent Entertainment Professional' and one previous job 'General Ratbag - Young And Rubicam 1977-2003.'

Yes, there is much between the lines. David has held senior executive, leadership board and chair roles in advertising, many commercial enterprises and the Adelaide Fringe.

David has been the Chair of the Adelaide Fringe Festival since 2014, the world's second largest open access arts festival only to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The festival largely takes over Adelaide, and even some regional South Australia for 31 magical days and nights each year February to March.

A chat choker block with insight from the role of the arts in building a strong culture to living a life of creativity, imagination and grabbing opportunities and spotting a good idea.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Today, we are joined by Yarmila Alfonzetti.

How do you innovate and reinvigorate an opera company in the era of short attention spans, the Bachelor and everyone wants to be famous talent shows? That is just the burning deck and challenging situation Yarmila was faced with when she recently took on the role as Executive Director of State Opera South Australia.

If you think a podcast about opera sounds boring, then think again. Today's show is anything but boring, with insight flying a mile a minute. From Yarmila's youth playing six instruments and sneaking in to the opera house at intermission at her time at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. To insights into what makes a good culture, innovation and taking the opera to the people.

How the arts in Australia is quite different to many other parts of the world. And, has a long way to go to engage new audiences and become a habitual part of life. And, perhaps no matter how much things change they perhaps stay the same.

We discuss how to enjoy the Opera and hear about State Opera South Australia's latest show The Merry Widow directed by Graeme Murphy. And, Yarmila's focus on building a strong team to drive forward.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Geordie Brookman is Artistic Director at State Theatre Company South Australia, a role he has held since 2012. We talk with Geordie towards the end of his highly successful time at the company.

We go back to Geordie's childhood, with a love of reading and with the Arts in his DNA. We discuss his journey and the importance of theatre and the arts in our cultural fabric.

A fascinating exploration into themes from the role of risk taking and collaboration in theatre, to the significant economic return of the Arts.

Geordie is soon to be setting up a life in Berlin with his young family, a city that embraces the Arts. Following State Theatre's next play - a one man version of George Orwell's political classic Animal Farm in March 2019. It was wonderful to have this in-depth discussion with Georgie to share his story.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Elena is Resident Artist at State Theatre Company South Australia, NIDA Graduate and a highly accomplished actor and now playwright, including State Theatre's latest The Gods of Strangers.

A play set in 1947 Port Pirie in regional South Australia and is inspired by Elena's childhood growing up in the region, her own ancestory and oral histories of Greek, Cypriot and Italian migrants.

We go on a wonderful journey from Elena's childhood playing as cast and audience in the backyard in Port Pirie, and we discuss cultural diversity and respect, theatre and the arts, the importance of hard work to be successful and how young people simply driven by the desire to be famous is scary.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

We are joined by Teena Munn and Geoff Cobham to discuss all things not growing up boring, innovation, why the Arts matters so much to children and adults and a whole lot more.

Teena and Geoff recently joined Patch Theatre as Producer and Artistic Director. I have been a director on the Board of Patch Theatre for 10 years, so this interview is particularly close to my heart and passion.

Patch Theatre has been creating high quality theatre for 4-8 year olds since 1972, and in that time has presented to around 2 million children and their parents in Australia and across the world including US, Canada, Singapore, Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Patch is very much motivated by the transformational power of curiosity and imagination, in our children which hopefully remains into adulthood.

We go on a fabulous journey into what Teena and Geoff were like as children, to some tips and tricks to keep the child like mind alive well into adulthood.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

André and Jason softened into the couches upstairs at Square Holes HQ and pontificate about all things belonging, business for good and growing tribes. And, why some businesses do bad, often when they forget where it all began and the goodness in their DND.

André is Founder of Cult Tribal an agency he recently launched to help brands unite tribes. Go to culttribal.com for more. As it says on the website "By connecting with purpose, by standing for something, something that people want to be a part of. Because we all have a need to feel like we belong."

This is a wonderful discussion going way back to André's childhood of feeling uncomfortably different and how his entrepreneurial journey including co-founding and leading wine Tribe vinomofo inspired and epiphany at 2am a couple years ago to guide his next exciting phase.

We go deep into what it takes to find your personal and business purpose. And why some businesses go bad even with the best intentions, yet it is never too late to choose to be good.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Professor David Corkindale takes us back to the pioneering days of marketing. David is Emeritus Professor of Marketing Management at the University of South Australia.

We go back to David's boyhood in a small town in the UK, his early career when marketing was largely unknown. We hear about David's time working in advertising in London during the crazy and exciting 'Mad Men' era.

This is a wonderful journey through a very successful career, from UK to Australia. And, from the commercial world to universities, and how the landscape has changed so much for the better and sometimes for the worse. And, lessons for the future of marketing and beyond.

Such a pleasurable conversation, of a life very well spent, a journey through time of changing moods and minds, and David's current research focus on product placement in TV and film.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople

Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en

Send Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/

Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/

Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Professor David Corkindale takes us back to the pioneering days of marketing. David is Emeritus Professor of Marketing Management at the University of South Australia.

We go back to David's boyhood in a small town in the UK, his early career when marketing was largely unknown. We hear about David's time working in advertising in London during the crazy and exciting 'Mad Men' era.

This is a wonderful journey through a very successful career, from UK to Australia. And, from the commercial world to universities, and how the landscape has changed so much for the better and sometimes for the worse. And, lessons for the future of marketing and beyond.

Such a pleasurable conversation, of a life very well spent, a journey through time of changing moods and minds, and David's current research focus on product placement in TV and film.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeopleConnect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=enSend Jason an email - [email protected] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/