She's The Boss Chats

Our guest for this episode is an incredible woman, and someone Jules has known for many years. As one of Australia’s dearly loved funny women, Tania Lacy’s career sounds like a breathless jump from one fortuitous opportunity to another. As a student at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance, her hopes of being a classical ballerina were dashed by a cruel injury, but not so long after she was choreographing and dancing with Kylie Minogue – by the way, that’s her in the Locomotion clip.

Molly Meldrum spotted her dancing on Countdown and on a whim, had her open the show. A producer called asking her to audition for a new show. That show was The Factory and it made her a household name.

Then came Countdown Revolution, award-winning short films, stand-up, she’s an actor, written for film and television and has two novels on the shelves. Tania believes her rather unusual career trajectory has given her a unique view of the world and taught her anything is possible. She looks a little like Nana Mouskouri but she's much funnier!

Tania has recently moved back to Australia from Berlin with her husband and son. When you hear her story, you'll be inspired!

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Rany Moran is a Sydney-based resilience expert specialising in personal development, professional development and parenting strategies. She harnesses her multifaceted perspective as a global citizen, entrepreneur and mother of two to empower others to overcome limiting beliefs and prioritise wellbeing.

Originally hailing from Jakarta Indonesia, Rany is an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited life coach, trained counsellor, and speaker certified by The Virtues Project, a global grassroots initiative recognised by the UN. Rany is also the co-host of the Finding Peace in Parenting podcast, and co-founder of Love One Another with Faith (LOAF) - a non-profit organisation in Indonesia and Cambodia that has raised close to S$1 million for children’s healthcare and education.

Over the past decade, Rany has dedicated herself to entrepreneurship - building fully-integrated lifestyle entertainment centres for the entire family across Asia, as founder and chief executive of Amazonia in Singapore, Wowzonia in Jakarta, and F&B outlets in Bali.

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In this episode, and as the host of this podcast and the Founder of She's The Boss Group, I have the tables turned on me and I am interviewed by the amazing Fabian Dattner. The interview follows a windy path where we discuss everything from why I have pink hair, to my early career, how I started my Handle Your Own PR business, and some of the peaks and troughs along the way to why we both love Helen Mirren and my favourite pet!

Of course, we also talked about She's The Boss - how it started, and where I want to go with it. I have to say that the interview was a few months ago and things have already changed, including me finding a team to come on the journey with me (thank you Mia Maze and Antonia Grimard!) and a strategy in place! You'll understand when you listen to the episode.

I adored Fabian from the first time I met her and then interviewed her for the YouTube series. She is an extraordinary woman who has had a long and distinguished career and is a massive advocate for women leaders. I was thrilled to have her interview me and we had loads of laughs during the chat.

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Libby Moore is on of the nicest people you could meet! The people she has worked for, and with, in her career are household names, yet she remains so down to earth and lovely you will be totally captivated.

Libby was enthralled by television and the stage from an early age and studied radio and television at college. She was keen to get experience wherever she could so was delighted when she got the opportunity to work for Maury Povich, a famous talk show host. She talks about how supportive he was and how it felt like being part of the family to work for him. She eventually left to try her hand at comedy and standup before agreeing to become the EA to Jann Wenner, the Editor and founder of Rolling Stone magazine. Then finally, she was offered the opportunity to work for 'someone in Chicago', and that 'someone ended up being Oprah!

Libby spent 11 years working at Chief of Staff for Oprah - right the way through to when she finished the show and started the OWN network. She explains that Oprah is a kind, fair person and that she treats everyone the same - from the hotel cleaner to President, which is nice to hear!

These days Libby is a keynote speaker and motivational coach. She's also a huge supporter of women in business. You'll love her story!

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The fabulous Lynnaire Johnston is New Zealand's number one Linkedln expert and is ranked 11 out of 20 for the Asia Pacific. She's remarkable and brilliant and absolutely lives up to her reputation. Lynnaire works with small businesses and business professionals and helps them achieve online success through the Linkedln platform. She coaches, trains and is a marketing strategist and Linkedin is the thing Lynnaire loves to talk about the most. She loves to share her knowledge, and contributing to other people's success is what motivates Lynnaire. If that's not all, Lynnaire is also the author of two books. Her first book is called, Link. Ability, 4 powerful strategies to maximise your Linkedln success and her second book is called Business Gold.

Lynnaire is also known as the Word Wizard, having run a copywriting business under that name for more than two decades. She trained as a journalist and has worked as a radio announcer and newsreader, an editor and has written for a range of industries. Now Lynnaire is on the international stage, thanks to working with lots of Linkedln experts and thrives from learning from people better than herself. The other thing Lynnaire is doing this year is launching a Linkedln membership site which is all about helping more people learn how to use Linkedin more successfully for themselves. The site will also feature Lynnaire's podcast episodes.

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Doctor Laura Rusu is an entrepreneur, an adventurer and a stem advocate for women and she's absolutely incredible. She's also the founder and CEO of LENSELL, a global platform for corporate performance democratisation, that removes cost and complexity barriers and makes the corporate financial and non-financial performance information accessible to everyone. If that's not all, Laura also has six patents! Her vast corporate experience stretches back to more than 20 years and she has worked as a scientist, researcher, software developer and engineer and has also lectured.

During this time, Laura noticed that although companies could access financial information, regular people didn't have a platform to do this, in order to make correct investment decisions. So, she built an app to make it easier and from there, more ideas developed. Laura grew up in Romania and always loved mathematics. Her father was an engineer and her mother translated Russian to Romanian. This incredibly passionate woman was one of only three girls from her class to break away from societal expectations of females and studied information technology at university. She even did this without a computer at home!

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Meet the fierce and dignified Margie Hartley, the woman behind GRAM Consulting Group. Margie is one of Australia's leading executive coaches and the founder of GRAM Consulting Group, a community of experts who have deep relationships with organisations and businesses. These experts have backgrounds in psychology, social psychology and anthropology. In Margie's words, "We curate really great experiences for clients around their needs."

Having worked with 11 of the top 20 ASX listed companies, and three international organisations, Margie's strength is in managing relationships. Her podcast Fast Track: Career Conversations with Margie Hartley features weekly career insights from some of Australia's top CEOs and business leaders. Life wasn't always rosy for Margie. She overcame a divorce, financial hardship and a serious fall which left her with a broken jaw and smashed teeth. She literally hit rock bottom and from that moment, Margie chose who she wanted to be. She basically picked herself up and went out on her own. Margie said she wanted to be tall, elegant and dignified and that is exactly who Margie is!

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Marlie Jolanda is always on the go and has the ability to talk anybody under the table! Her official title is Meaningful Marketing Business Coach and she's all about helping Fempreneurs discover what is and isn't working for them. Marlie helps these women turn potential customers into paying clients through meaningful marketing and helps them understand who their client really is through working smarter and not harder. She is also the founder of Secret SisinBiz Society, a tribe of supportive sisters who specifically help women to close the gap between men and women in income and influence.

This came about after becoming the ambassador of the League of Extraordinary Women on the Gold Coast. It gave Marlie the inspiration and encouragement she needed to go out on her own. She was inspired to start SisinBiz and it was an opportunity to bring amazing women together. Marlie comes from a long line of workaholics and learnt her work ethic from her parents. She knew from an early age that she wanted to leave the Netherlands and see the world and open up her horizons. She had her first senior role in her career before the age of 25.

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Have you seen (or been part of) the trending hashtag #thislittlegirlisme? Are you curious about who set it up and why? In this interview with the founder of Inspiring Girls in the UK, and the brains behind the #thislittlegirlisme campaign, Miriam Gonzalez, you can hear all about it! Miriam is an extraordinary woman who grew up in a tiny, dusty village in Spain. With a father in politics and a mother who was the science teacher in the village, Miriam had some great role models, and as she says "this is why politics is in my blood'!

Miriam left the village to go to uni in Bruges, Brussels, where she met her husband and married. They both moved to the UK (her hubby Nick is an Englishman) where he became the Deputy Prime Minister from 2010-2015, and she went on to become a trade negotiator and advisor on trade law, and relations with the Middle East to both the European Union and the British Government. She is also a Member of the European Council of Foreign Relations. This woman is truly amazing!

When you hear how she set up Inspiring Girls International, raising funds by releasing a Spanish cookbook, and her passion for lifting women up, you too will become a fan. Her mission is to make female role models visible to young girls, as research tells us they feel that they have no role models to look up to. What's not to love! On top of that, she is just the nicest, warm and funny woman.

This is one episode not to miss!

To find out more about the campaign, and Inspiring Girls, go to www.inspiring-girls.com

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Kris Grant is the CEO of ASPL Group, a management consultancy, training and recruitment firm focused on aligning people, processes and systems. Kris is passionate about being different in the recruitment landscape and equality is her priority. She encourages flexibility with her people and embraces working mums, veterans and First Nations people and all kinds of diversity and inclusion. Kris started the equality journey quite early in life. She began her schooling at an all-girls school and was one of the first females to transfer to an all-boys school.

This is where her passion for diversity and inclusion was seeded. Kris was also one of the first female executives to work at BHP where she experienced systematic bullying. This turned Kris into a strong resilient woman! One of her biggest achievements was managing a workforce of 50,000 at Drake. This was a very senior and demanding role and here, Kris learnt all about effective leadership. Kris is successful because she's flexible and always willing to adapt. She's always asking herself how to get to the next level and surrounds herself with positive people.

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