She's The Boss Chats

Kristy's story is not your average one so hold on tight for this woman's amazing journey. Kristy was born into one of the 'rougher' suburbs of Melbourne, to a father who was a career criminal, constantly in and out of jail, and a drug dealing mother. Kristy was super talented at running and was working with Debbie Flintoff-King towards the 2000 Olympics, when at the age of 15 she was told that she would never be able to run professionally again. This had been her goal and focus for so many years, so when it was taken away halfway through year 10, she dropped out of school and took to drugs and alcohol with her best friend. What was the point of going on if her dreams had been snatched away?

Then, after 18 months she suf=ddenly 'came to' and went back to school, funding her school years herself. She ended up at a selective school (for bright students) and finished year 12 determined to become a travel agent, which she now is.

Kristy's story is filled with obstacles (eight miscarriages, cancer, Crohns Disease) but she continues to pick herself up and keep going. She is now Australia's only certified Autism-friendly travel agent, she has won a host of awards (and is a finalist for many more) and she is such a positive woman, you wouldn't believe what she has gone through to get here. You will LOVE Kristy!

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Jodie Harrison is an extraordinary woman! Growing up in Australia, she headed off to America at a young age. She met her first husband Peter Carrette in Sydney who was a photographer and the two of them set up Icon Images. Prior to the paparazzi phenomenon, Jodie and Peter supplied stories and images to media globally. Jodie mentions that it was actually her and Peter who introduced Angelina Jolie to Cambodia, where she adopted her first child, Maddox. Jodie spent many, many years taking celebrities to third-world countries and highlighting situations around the world where people needed help.

After Peter died, Jodie started to work with brands to help them with PR and, marketing, and because she had such a fabulous network she was brilliant at it! These days she is a partner at The Shannon Company, an agency that works with purpose-driven brands to affect behavioural change and during the Pandemic she led COVID communications for the Victorian Government. These days she is working with Julian Assange's team to raise awareness of his situation and hopefully get him out of jail. Freedom of speech is just one of the causes Jodie is passionate about. This is a fascinating insight into an amazing woman. You won't want to miss it!

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Emma is extraordinary. Coming from a family that thrived on innovation and entrepreneurship, she grew up helping her parents with their magazines, with the expectation that she would continue. But Emma wanted to go out on her own. In this interview, she takes us through the various incarnations of her career before the pandemic - which includes running a directory and an events company. While many people didn't do much during the lockdowns, Emma isn't one of those people! She and her husband, as foster parents themselves, realised there was a huge gap when it comes to preserving memories for foster children, many of whom can move around up to 20 times before they are 18.

The launch of CaringLife has gone incredibly well and they have now launched in the UK and the USA as well as Australia. Emma also launched Plezed.com which is a digital platform that is addressing the fact that from next year, no one will be able to use cookies on their websites, therefore they won't get the same insights into their customers' behaviour. Plezed will allow organisations to speak directly with their customers to ask them for their preferences. It is a game-changer! This woman is totally inspiring and you will love this episode!

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Trenna Probert is amazing! After a career that culminated in her being Head of Strategy APAC for Macquarie Group, and the same role at Blue Chilli, Trenna struck out on her own. As an experienced entrepreneur, she has started multiple businesses, and her passion stems from a rich tapestry of personal experience. Her greatest passion currently is Super Fierce, a business Treena founded. Super Fierce is a social enterprise Fin Tech that was built to help close the $30 Trillion gender wealth gap. Superannuation, for younger Australian women, is their largest financial asset.

Trenna wants women to be able to fund the retirement that they deserve and The Super Fierce platform is one that enables women to do this, as well as saving them $3,000 - $4,500 that they would normally pay if they were to seek the help of a financial advisor. Trenna wants to make appropriate, affordable advice is accessible to every single woman in this country. She wants to empower women to age with dignity, self-confidence and have the ability to become financially resilient. Her life experience has taught Treena how vital it is for women to stand on their own two feet.

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Hazel Herrington is one of the world's leading marketing and personal branding experts. She is a celebrity interviewer who has worked with and met with a list of celebrities, global leaders, politicians and billionaires. She has interviewed celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen and Quincy Jones. Hazel is also the founder of Herrington Publications Worldwide. Herrington Publications empower women to build powerful global brands. Hazel had a desire and a purpose to help women, after seeing them struggle financially, whilst growing up in Zimbabwe.

She decided she was going to do something about it, in order to make them economically independent. Hazel has experienced many life struggles and these struggles have motivated her to become a leader. She's had wealth, travelled the world and has met numerous celebrities but this doesn't drive or define Hazel. She has a purpose, she has a destiny and she just wants to be happy, have loving people around her and earn an honest living. Hazel is the definition of integrity!

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Jasmine Batra founded the award-winning digital growth agency Arrow Digital in 2007 and is working with a range of businesses, from small to mid-size to corporates. Arrow Digital has gone through two evolutions and currently, Jasmine is working on an exciting project with tech startups, who are looking to scale and expand internationally, specifically in India. This program is called the 'Big Leap'. Jasmine is helping businesses to think beyond their borders.

She came to Australia, from India, 18 years ago and as she struggled to find a job suited to her experience and education, Jasmine's first job in Australia was working in a call centre, where she handled sales calls. Here, she became a top salesperson. Within a few years, she was running her own business. Jasmine's claim to fame came about in India where she once was a TV news presenter, for a local news channel. Her love for TV didn't end there. Jasmine has a special skill and she's brilliant at tongue twisters. So she entered a TV reality show and almost won herself a car!

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The fabulous Judith Rizzio is a style activist, an LGBTQIA activist, and her mission in life is to empower 50+ women in order to make fashion accessible to everyone. She has a very fun business called Out Of Our Closet. Judith has a real love for fashion but she discovered a long time ago that fashion is focused on youth and it's becoming less and less part of her life, but this isn't by choice. Judith's love affair with fashion started in the Bowery in New York. At the Salvation Army, she would dig through bins to find vintage clothes that she could tear apart to create something new. She's spent more than 40 years collecting, creating, and styling. Judith has run non-profit thrift stores and costumed high school theatre shows.

She learned to sew when she was in fifth grade and her love for stylish clothes came from her father and grandmother. Judith famously patched a pair of jeans for JFK Junior after he admired a pair of patched jeans she was wearing. She lived in a commune in the 70s and has even had a mini-documentary made about her through Vice Media. For 26 years Judith was involved in community relations on management teams for two of Portland's largest HIV agencies and this helped shape her life. She saw over 400 predominantly gay men die from the disease. She was also hired by HNM to be Iris Apfel's body and stunt double for a commercial. In Judith's words, "It's a damn right to look good in your clothes, in your body and in the world!"

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Lauren Ryan is the BDM-Investments for ThinkTank Commercial Finance. She joined Thinktank in 2018 to create brand awareness in the investment market. Lauren is passionate about helping investors achieve their income goals. Lauren is also passionate about sports. S

he's always played high-level sports and has a love for theatre. Lauren began studying Creative Arts at university but decided she didn't want to be a struggling artist so chose finance instead. Her first job was at MLC. Lauren is a young successful, ambitious and competitive woman, In 2019 she did about 80 flights for work, played semi-pro football and was running a business chamber for a sporting club. She did all this under the age of thirty!

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Christina Ryan established the Disability Leadership Institute in 2016 as a professional hub for disabled leaders to build and support disability leaders. It is the first organisation of its kind globally, run by and for disability leaders. Christina advocates for the single largest minority group in the world and the UN reported that 15% of disabled people make up the global population, but Christina believes that it's closer to 25%. In Australia, only four out of 900 parliamentarians have a disability, and only one is a woman.

Frighteningly, violence in the disability sector is endemic. About 90% of women with a cognitive disability will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, most of these women more than once. People with disabilities are often on the receiving end of discrimination and vilification. Christina has been a feminist since the age of eight and the women in her family have always been active in the women's movement, including her grandmother. Christina grew up knowing she could change things and make a difference. She did her apprenticeship at home!

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Stephanie Odell is disrupting the ageing process by changing the face of ageing, for women. Six years ago she started a blog and four years ago, Stephanie created Celebrate The Gray, a modelling and consulting agency for 50-plus women. Stephanie empowers women! She works with brands to help them understand everything about the 50-plus woman and is so successful that more and more brands are reaching out to her for models. Stephanie re-discovered her love for fashion in her forties and she is motivated to change the narrative.

She has styled more than 6,000 women throughout her career as a stylist. Stephanie started the Agency when she discovered no one was employing fifty-plus models, especially when she researched the spending power of these women ($15 trillion). These women will spend more than two and a half times other consumers. Celebrate The Gray has over 100 grey-haired models and 300 strong influencers as well as a database of approximately 2,000 women who have reached out to Stephanie.

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