She's The Boss Chats

Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats

Belinda Jennings is the Founder of Mum Central, a community with over 800,000 Australian Mums. How she started the business and grew the community is a fascinating story. Belinda started off her entrepreneurial career by jumping into her parents' luxury houseboat business to take on the marketing, build a website (back when the internet was a baby) and handle the growth of the business from one to a fleet of boats! After her first baby was born, she decided to put her secondhand baby stuff up for sale online, and so her journey began.

These days Mum Central is a busy site for Mums of all ages covering off products, services, a community forum and lots more. Listening to how Belinda took part in an Accelerator program, how that made her look at her business differently, and that she raised funding to grow is fascinating and really inspiring. She also talks about her relationship with her team and how they all work together to be flexible but also get shit done which will leave you thinking you wish you worked there!

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Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke.

Jenn is an absolute sweetheart! After growing up, and living in rural Australia for most of her life, she has had a very entrepreneurial career culminating in the ridiculously fast growth of her Facebook Group, Buy From a Bush Business, which at the time of our interview had over 272,000 followers after just 8 months! But it all started with a law degree and a conveyancing business in her 20's. Then, one late night after a few too many drinks with her bestie, she and Jenn decided to open a shop. Best friends since they were 14, they had always said they would find a way to work together, and this was it!

Their little shop became bigger and bigger, morphed into a foodie destination and then, after seven years they decided they wanted to pull the plug. It was time for something new. So Jenn partnered with a marketing specialist and spent the next 18 months travelling all over and learning about social media and marketing. Wanting to give back to her rural community, this was followed by establishing her social media and marketing coaching business, her Small Business Made Simple podcast, and then she got on the speaker circuit. So her Facebook group has been a huge surprise but she has learned a lot of good lessons she shares with us. This is a very inspiring story!

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My latest She's The Boss Chats episode is with the amazing Amy Bastow (Jorgensen), composer and the Founder of the Virtual Piano Academy.

It's not often you come across a creative musician who also has a huge entrepreneurial appetite. Amy is a fabulous surprise! After being brought up by her incredibly supportive mum and Grandmother in a tiny outback NSW town, Amy was inspired to get into music, and in fact spent her teenage years in her family's band, playing on weekends. The piano was her first love and she learned as much as she possibly could from the local piano player which her Mum organized for her in exchange for cleaning her house. A sacrifice that has totally paid off!

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Jane Mara’s career as an intuitive intelligence expert, speaker and author of two books on the subject, started in advertising land. After an illustrious start, working as a media buyer for some of the biggest ad agencies in Australia (and the world), she went to the ‘client-side’ and continued to run marketing departments for some of the big banks. It was only when she mentioned the importance of ‘gut instinct’ and that people should be paying attention to it in business, and her suggestion was responded to with derision and lack of understanding, that she decided it was time to go out on her own.

She talks about her adventures along the way, and how using intuition and gut instinct has helped her, and her clients, in their lives.

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Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Cate Peterson. Subscribe at: https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats

Cate Peterson is the most amazing woman and you definitely feel a better person after you have spent time with her. She truly wants to make a difference in the world and she is doing it with Yoga as the core. She has created Yoga Hive, which brings together hundreds of yoga practitioners from all over the country and thousands of classes, so that we all have access to them and book in a type of yoga, and a time that suits you for classes.

She has also created Get Off Your Asana, a fabulous initiative to help educate yoga-virgins about what it can do for your mind, body, and spirit. They target non-yoga (and even no-exercise) people to encourage them to explore and hopefully fall in love with yoga. She also has another business called Off The Mat, where she creates sustainable yoga mats (most are plastic) to be more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Cate is one-in-a-million! She is so kind, non-judgemental and peaceful, you will love her!

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Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Kylee Stone. https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats

Kylee is a woman on a mission. After a long career in marketing strategy with large media organizations, Kylee inadvertently started working with other women in corporate who wanted support and help. This slowly evolved into the launch of Team Women Australia. Kylee's stories about how this came about are inspiring.

After her work affected her health, she decided to go out on her own and offer guidance, leadership advice, and coaching for corporate women who want to take their career to the next level. She also focuses on health as one of the pillars of success. These days Kylee is CEO and Founder of The Performance Code, she's also the host of The Uncharted Leader Podcast - Ignite Your Passion, Purpose, and Potential.

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Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Pinky McKay. Subscribe at: https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats

Pinky McKay is Australia's greatest asset when it comes to breastfeeding Mums! From starting her career as a nurse, she quickly became fascinated with breastfeeding and after qualifying as a lactation nurse, she set out on her own. Starting with consultations, she built her practice until she was the go-to person for anyone having breastfeeding, or sleeping problems with their new baby. She's so kind and compassionate that no mother is left feeling unable to cope. "It's normal," says Pinky.

But it's the last ten years that have really established Pinky, both financially and in a business sense. Although she was a published author, had received stacks of publicity, and created parenting videos, it was when she created Boobie Bikkies that things really took off. Now, as the CEO of Boobie Foods, and turning over seven figures, Pinky's foray into products has changed her life and will be an inspiration for any woman who wants to expand. It's never too late.

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Susan is the founder of an energy company in Belize. Her story is amazing! As an Irish woman, and a geologist, she explains how she just 'knew' there was oil under the surface, even though all the big oil companies had drilled 50 wells with no success. And she struck oil on her first go!

Susan explains how she persevered when others had given up, her great partner and inspiration, Mike Usher, and how going to Educo changed the course of her life for the better. Her company is now the biggest revenue generator in Belize and they have created a model that benefits the people of Belize, her employees, her investors, and mother nature. We'd call that a win-win-win-win and so does Susan.

Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Susan Morrice. Subscribe at: https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats

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Another great She's the BOSS Chats episode with Jules Brooke and Georgina McEncroe. Subscribe at: https://www.shestheboss.com.au/chats

Georgina McEncroe, Founder of Shebah, the female rideshare service, is one of the most successful businesswomen in Australia. She's also super-nice and lots of fun to chat to. She has done soooo much! From starting out as a teacher to traveling, creating an award-winning Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, or collecting testimonies for the War Crimes Tribunal, George has done it all.

She has been divorced and been fired from her job on the radio, but the culmination of all this experience let her to go for it when she first identified the gap in the market for a safer type of taxi service, where people could trust that their children would be driven safely, that had baby seats and where a woman can hire another woman to take her home, if she has had too many drinks on a night out! Shebah's crowdfunding capital raising was once of the highest in Victoria, raising over $3 million from 3000 small investors. Watch this space as Shebah becomes a household name.

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