Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Grant Aldrich.  Grant founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience. He has been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies including Wiley Education, and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics.

Learn more at onlinedegree.com

Our special guest today is Rachel Ellner Lebensohn, founder of seyopa.com .  Rachel grew up as a professional actress from the age of five to eighteen in both Israel and the United States. She then served in the Film Production Unit of the IDF Air Force before going on to graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television. Rachel also holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and practiced Entertainment Law in NY for several years.

After moving with her family to Florida, and taking a few years off to raise her children, Rachel initially re-engaged with her career as part of an in-house legal team in the real estate industry. That led to an opportunity to take part in a well known real estate tv show, which in turn reignited Rachel’s true passions and ultimately led her to create and found Seyopa.com, dedicated to inspiring and empowering people to go after their dreams, become their best self and seize their own passions!

Converging and leveraging her life experiences, legal and entertainment backgrounds, and her own passions and purpose, Rachel’s mission and vision through Seyopa (#SeizeYourPassion!) is to help inspire, empower and promote self-actualization and personal growth in people yearning to realize their dreams, engage their passions, connect with who they were meant to be, become their best self, and attain meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in their lives.

Rachel is passionate, tenacious, disciplined, and extremely driven. She is a dreamer and a doer, committed to excellence and growth, and will stop at nothing to make her vision of living a life full of passion, purpose, meaning, and fulfillment accessible and attainable by everyone!

Rachel is a proud co-author of the newly released best-selling book, Crash and Learn: Lessons in Business Featuring 10 Inspiring Business Leaders.

www.amazon.com/author/rachelellnerlebensohn

Learn more at Seyopa.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Isabella Liu.  Isabella is the Founder of Invincible Co., a positivity movement which focuses on building positivity and validation from within to create your own purpose-led business and live as an entity for yourself, rather than an entity for other people.

Learn more at - invincible-co.com

In a special Rising Tide Startups episode from New Zealand, we catch up with Anthony Baxter, founder of Firefly Digital. Anthony is not only founder and CEO, he is also a salesman, digital marketer and life enthusiast.

Learn more at fireflydigital.co.nz

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Albert Jing.  Albert Jing is the Founder and CEO of OneFriends. He founded OneFriends in late 2018. Since then, Albert has led an eight member team of specialist contracted app developers, engineers, QA testers and app designer in the development of the OneFriends app. OneFriends is now live on the Apple App Store after a long beta period and rounds of intensive testing in 2019 and early 2020. Prior to committing himself fully to OneFriends, Albert was a corporate and litigation lawyer in Australia, representing ASX-listed companies, successful startups and investors.

Embodying the polymath, Albert is also an elite swimmer now working towards qualifying for and performing at the Tokyo Olympic Games.He may even, in the more distant future, establish a new Australian political party.

Learn more at - onefriendsapp.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Duco Van Breemen.  Duco is the founding general manager of Australia’s first innovation hub, Haymarket HQ,  supporting technology companies and exporters to grow into the Asia-Pacific.

To date, they have supported over 550 companies from 30+ countries to grow and expand their operations via our mentoring, coworking and digital programming services.

Learn more at - haymarkethq.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Amy Smith, founder of Aligned Tribe.  Amy Smith started her first business at the young age of 12 and by age 22 was working across the globe helping organisations of all sizes from start-ups to large enterprises, such as HSBC and the YMCA to optimize their Human Resource strategies.

Amy has worked within one of the largest executive networks of 16,000+ executives across 16 countries; supporting CEO’s and Non-Executive Directors of companies (circa $5 million to $100 million) ‘behind the scenes’ to build their personal brands and effectively launch and grow their own executive coaching businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Currently, Amy is one of the youngest members of the Directors Institute Next Generation Board of Directors.

With her diverse corporate experience that spans across Human Resources, Executive Recruitment, Marketing and Business Development domains, Amy is the ‘go to’ consultant, board advisor, speaker and coach in Australia for organisations who wish to effectively attract, engage and retain the next generation leaders (Millennials and GenZ). Amy is passionate about helping enterprises to ‘bridge the generation gap,’ build exceptional employer brands, facilitate a high performance and harmonious workplace culture and adapt to the new ways of working in order to gain a competitive advantage for talent in the rapidly changing future of work.

Amy is an avid user of LinkedIn; having recruited hundreds of professionals from graduate level to c-suite roles through the platform over the last several years. She has also grown her own LinkedIn profile to over 20,000 connections in less than 24 weeks when launching her own coaching and consulting business.

Learn more at alignedtribe.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jethro Marks.  Jethro is co-founder of the arch-enemy of Amazon called TheNile.com.au. The Nile launched in 2003 and has since become one of the largest sellers on eBay Australia. The eBay store is home to millions of unique listings across 11 categories, including Books, DVDs, Baby Products, Toys and more. The Nile has been built on over a decade of experience in international online retail and ships thousands of deliveries to over 60 countries each month.

 

Lear more at thenile.comau

Our special guest today is Suzanne Mercier, founder of Purpose to Profit."  Suzanne has a strong background in marketing & advertising.  She was also the first woman on Board of George Patterson Advertising.

Her skills set includes:

Serial entrepreneur

Advertising Agency (Creative Campaigns)

Small Business Educational Network (Bite Size Skills)

Mindset Transformation business (Imposterhood)

Business supporting other founders to align their mindset, find their Purpose and commercialize their ideas (Purpose to Profit).

Make sure and check out Suzanne's 28 day Challenge - https://bit.ly/Success-by-Design-28-Day-Imposter-Syndrome-Challenge

Learn more at : purposetoprofit.com.au

Cover image - Lord Howe Island (Pixabay)

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Caroline LePron. Caroline, originally from Southern France, moved to Australia 12 years ago for a 6-month internship and never left (except for a short stint in the San Francisco bay area)! She is a serial Entrepreneur, Mom of a little girl and married to another startup founder named Jacques. After a soft launch, she just launched Skoutli.com in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic!

Skoutli helps content creators (photographers /producers /influencers) find locations for their next photo shoot.  The way Skoutli is different from its competitors is that it offers location rentals by the room, by the hour, and not normally the entire house or office.

An adventurous and passionate person, Caroline is a highly motivated and driven individual. Learn more at Skoutli.com