What a woman! Michelle Redfern is an absolute champion of women in business and her interview will totally inspire you. As she herself says, she 'gets shit done'. Coming from a country town, she started her career in the corporate sector when she was given the opportunity to work for Telstra and even though it was initially just supposed to be a short stint, she loved it, and they offered her so many opportunities she stayed for years. This was followed by some roles in other big blue-chip companies before she headed to the banks where she stayed for another decent stint. All this experience at leadership and management was interesting, but Michelle really wanted to go out on her own and have the opportunity to make an impact on women's lives.

After a big discussion with her wife, Michelle decided to make the leap, giving herself one year to make it work. It did. Her business, Advancing Women in Business and Sport is doing really well and Michelle is also on a huge number of boards and advisory committees including being a judge for the Telstra Business Awards, She also started the popular Facebook group, Women Who Get It and has a fantastic podcast and business initiative called A Career that Soars. Michelle works on a gazillion other initiatives to advance women. The sports thing? She's a mad AFL fan. Watch this episode and I defy you not to want to clap out loud!

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Cass Spies has pivoted (to use the favourite word for 2021!) brilliantly as she has built her frozen yoghurt business, Twisted Healthy Treats up. Starting in 2009 as an idea that came to her when she couldn't find healthy snacks for her own children, up until that point Cass had been firmly entrenched in a corporate role as a Project Manager within the financial services sector. But she had always wanted to own a company since she was a child.

Twisted Healthy Treats started out with her supplying homemade frozen yoghurts to her children's primary school. They sold like hot cakes and so she made more and more, until she was providing frozen yoghurt treats to most of the primary schools in Sydney, and then Australia. These days 2 million Aussie kids enjoy Twisted Healthy Treats in their lunch break. And then she grew. And grew. And now her products are sold nationally through Costco, Woolworths and Coles. America is next! Listen to her story of how she has grown this business to the behemoth it is today!

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Angela Priestly is a journalist through and through! She has always loved current affairs, politics, and writing and in her early years, she was a freelance journalist writing for a number of custom and niche publications across a variety of topics. After a stint writing for Private Media where she launched an investigative journalism title, The Power Index for Crikey.com, she identified a huge gap in the market. Quality journalism for women in business. And so The Women's Agenda was created. This publication is at the top of the tree when it comes to politics, business, leadership, and more.

When it first came out, in 2011, it was a breath of fresh air for the Australian media landscape and it still is! These days The Women's Agenda runs events, maintains an annual Leadership awards program, and lots more. In 2018 Angela co-founded Agenda Media which recently launched Women's Health News and other new titles covering women's sport, STEM, climate leadership, and more. If there was only one publication you should follow in Australia as a woman in business, this would be it! Angela is amazing and you are bound to be inspired by her story and her purpose.

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Casey Burgess, who recently released her first solo album, is an amazing actress, musician and television presenter with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry. Having grown up in a musical family, Casey's first role was in Annie while she was still at school, and on the back of that, she was mercilessly bullied by her schoolmates. As a result of her breakout stage role in the musical, she was offered a role as the presenter of Girl TV on Channel 7. What a great way to show her bullies that she wasn't going to let them get her down!

Following on from Girl TV, Casey auditioned for the children's group Hi-5 and was chosen to replace Charli. She stayed with Hi-5 for 4 years, travelling the world but also working incredibly hard. Finding it hard to be taken seriously after her stint in a children's group, Casey eventually got acting roles and then the Pandemic hit, and the time at homemade her want to realise her dream of a solo album. That album is now out, fully funded by Casey and is called Space to Breathe.

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Sue Fennessy has been an entrepreneur since she left school, and is one of the most successful, and nicest female founders out there! Sue's story started with a fax machine in her bedroom when she started her first business, MM Communications, a marketing and PR agency in Melbourne. This was followed by a move to Shanghai where she started the Chinese arm of Frontier Entertainment and brought international acts. such as Andrew Lloyd Webber productions to China for the first time. Then she came back to Australia and started the Standard media Index (SMI) to bring transparency to where brands were spending their marketing dollars.

As SMI grew, Sue moved to New York to expand the business into the USA. This was followed by a lightbulb moment where Sue realised that the $550 billion dollars that social media platforms like Facebook were earning from advertising, and the data that was being mined, should be handed back to the people. So she created WeAre8, bringing brands and people together to change the world.

Sue still lives in New York and has spent the last 10 years building WeAre8. She explains how, at one stage she realised the model was wrong and had to pare back to a tiny team, reassess the situation and rebuild. It's now taking off around the world. Sue is an absolute hero of Jules' (they have known each other for years) and this interview will definitely inspire anyone who has plans for global disruption!

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Sheree Rubinstein is such an inspiration! She created One Roof as a co-working space for female entrepreneurs and it has everything a business woman would want, from childcare to courses to social events and business support.

Starting out as a lawyer, it didn't take Sheree long to realise it really wasn't for her. She wanted to build something herself. The concept of One Roof took off fast and Sheree was lucky to be given access to a space in Southbank, Melbourne that was ideal. She invested time and resources to make it perfect, including an event space. After 4 years, she was given notice and had to find a new space. In order to do that she needed money and Sheree describes what it was like to capital raise (her experience with her female investors sounds like the ideal scenario!) and then COVID hit.

Where many women would have curled up in a ball as co-working spaces became unworkable, Sheree pivoted to online and created One Line, making the community and support services available to women around the country (and overseas). You'll love this story from a woman who is determined to support Australian female founders. Get inspired!

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Noga Edelstein is my latest guest on the She’s The Boss show. What a woman!

She started her career as a lawyer and talks about why she left the law to set up UrbanYou, a cleaning and housekeeping marketplace.

She raised capital a couple of times before negotiating a successful exit to a multinational company. Their strategy of acquisition was fascinating and it worked!

Noga is now looking at becoming an investor herself, and is involved with a number of initiatives, including being on the board of Springboard Enterprises (SBE Australia).

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Ariane Barker is the CEO of Scale Investors, an angel investor group for female founders. Of course, I was delighted to have a chat with her about the 2% of VC funding that is available to female founders and how Scale is able to make a big difference here in Australia.

Ariane talks about her long and illustrious career in finance in New York, London, Asia and Australia and how she loves working with female founders. The ROI opportunities from female-founded companies are huge and we covered off the effect of COVID on the investment community (it's good news!) and what Scale Investments are looking for in terms of companies to invest in. So watch this episode ladies, and get inspired to think big!!

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Lisa Andrews is, as she says, 'actively working on solving the global grand challenges' by using technology and innovation to make the world a better place. She has not had your average career. With a deep love of numbers, she went down the accounting route for many years, resulting in her creating a firm with 82 employees before she chose a completely different path and started to explore working with entrepreneurs and visionary disrupters.

Lisa has also experienced two kidney transplants, both times with kidneys donated by family members, and to a certain extent, it is her experience of having an 'invisible disability that has shaped her dramatic change and exciting future!

Lisa has really had an extraordinary career, including spending hours, one-on-one with Richard Branson on Necker Island, and going to Davos in Switzerland. By the time you get to the end of this interview, you should be all fired up and ready to take on the world!

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Lisa Cox wants to change the way disabled people are featured in the media. By the end of this episode, you will feel the same way. Lisa's story is quite shocking as she had a stroke and then got sepsis in her 20's whilst in the midst of her career trajectory in advertising.

After the initial 3 years of rehabilitation (which included two years learning to type again), she optimistically went out to reclaim her career, with the same resume and awards, but rather than being embraced back into the fold, she was basically patted on the head, told she was 'brave' but no one offered her a job. Lisa knows first hand what it is like to be affected physically but to be treated as if she is mentally impaired. She also knows that there are very few disabled role models that are 'normal' people - not Paralympians or genius's - and she wants to change that. This is a super inspiring episode.

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