She's The Boss Chats

Laura Piccardi is the founder of Uppy which provides much-needed life and performance coaching. She is also a speaker, presenter, and the author of Unfaked. Having grown up in an enterprising family and running a number of businesses in Australia, Laura is now parlaying all of her experience to lift the lid on businesses in a fun and entertaining way. As a result of the time she gained over the isolation period of COVID-19, Laura has reassessed what she really wants to do - and from now on will be a small business satirist. How cool is that?! Being a native Brit and having moved to Australia 10 years ago, Laura is fearless in her approach to business, having tried a few adventures and businesses before landing on the one that’s right for her. Having experienced and overcome severe stress, Laura also comes from a place of authenticity in being able to help others in their own personal growth. Her idea of lifting the lid on business and creating business satire is brilliant, and her mission is to make businesses more relatable to people whilst providing meaningful entertainment from her platform.

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An industry veteran in graphic design, Lora Starling is the founder of Starling Design, a business spanning decades across Australia and the UK. Lora’s design philosophy is based on the emotional center, resulting in designs that resonate. She loves a bit of woo woo and has spent a lot of time exploring the influences on a brand. During the chat, Lora talks about how her experience at large design firms helped her shape her own business and her point of difference in creating brands and designs that actually mean something. With a positive mindset, Lora talks about how being an entrepreneur has taught her to learn from life crises, that perceived mistakes are actually learning opportunities to do better next time, and that it’s important to be one’s true self, have a back-up plan, and a stellar support network.

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Anne Miles is the founder of Suits & Sneakers, an international creative services company, but she has done so much more! As a female founder, she is constantly juggling clients, the work she needs to do on the business in terms of strategy, and implementation. Luckily she has a super-strong work ethic - which you will hear about in the interview.

In this interview, Anne explains that she felt moved to go out on her own after suffering from bullying, ageism, and sexism in the workplace for many years. As one of the brightest young women in the advertising and creative industries in her early career, she went on to hold very senior roles in a number of big-name agencies - and corporate businesses -  until she started being discriminated against.

Turning the negative into a positive, she decided to help other amazing creatives who were looking for projects to work on or even employment. She had a number of challenges in the process of setting up her business but has managed to get around all of them.

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Karina Bruce is an unstoppable force! As a curvy model, and the co-founder of Hear Us Roar, a marketplace for fashion designers who specialize in curvy women, she is determined to change things in the fashion industry - and no doubt she will!

In this episode, Karina and Jules discuss what it was like for Karina as a young woman who experienced bullying for her size at school, and how she eventually was persuaded by a friend to try out as a model. Her description of how she felt (sure of rejection) when she walked in the door of Vivian’s Model Agency is one many women will relate to. But she was booked immediately!

It was after Karina met her business partner, Blaize McCann, that the two like-minded women decided to set up Hear Us Roar. They were so fed up with the lack of fashion choices for women oversize 14 (by the way, size 16 is the average woman’s size in Australia) that they sourced the best designers and brought them all together in one place.

Karina and Blaize set out to find VC funding and Karina tells us what that was like. Unfortunately, their timing was a bit off as it was just before the Bushfires and COVID-19 isolation period but nothing will keep these women down!

Karina’s quirky fact is a classic too. Listen for it towards the end!

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