She’s The Boss Leaders

Angela Vithoulkas is perhaps the most entrepreneurial of all the women I have interviewed so far, having started and sold almost 30 businesses in her life. She is passionate about helping the small business sector (SMEs) have a voice, both politically and in the media. It's something she knows so well. having been brought up with parents who also ran businesses. So much so that she founded the SME Party that stood for the last Federal Election, she has also been elected twice as a City of Sydney Councillor, championing small business, and she has won numerous awards, including Telstra Businesswoman of The Year for NSW.

Moving on to the media, Angela founded her own radio station, Eagle Waves Radio in Western Sydney for years, again focusing on small business. These days Angela can be found hosting and producing her own TV channel, SME TV, twice a week. There's no doubt that she won't stop there! Watch this show if you want to be totally inspired.

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/

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Wendy Squires is one of Australia's top journalists and her story is truly inspirational. From a terrible start, being homeless in Year 12, she ended up getting a job as a copygirl at the Herald Sun. From there, and after two long years, she became a cadet and that is when her life took off! From spending years in New York working across most of the Australian magazines, she returned to Australia to start her stellar career with News Ltd and Channel 9.

She talks about the amazing women that were at the helm of the ACP magazine stable, like Lisa Wilkinson and Mia Freedman, at a time when magazines were hugely popular and there were exciting new titles being created all the time. Lachlan Murdoch asked Wendy to start Australian Style and then she went on to work on a variety of titles including Who Weekly and The Australian Woman's weekly. Her story is so exciting, this is one episode you will not want to miss!

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts, go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/

Christina's entrepreneurial spirit is inherited. So many members of her family, from her father to her uncles, invented and innovated. Choc tops, Violet Crumble and Talking Books were all a result of her family's fresh way of looking at things. And Christina is the same. As a young Greek girl, Christina felt she didn't really fit in at school, but she excelled at schoolwork. 

After killing it in her exams, she decided against studying law (much to her mother's dismay) and instead, went into The Arts. After studying Drama at uni, she then started her career in the television industry and there have been lots of interesting twists and turns since then. These days she is the Co-CEO of SingularityU Australia. These days she describes herself as an eternal optimist, idealist and seeker of opportunities, on a mission to inspire and empower leaders to find solutions to humanity’s grand challenges. She works with corporates, startups, scale-ups and universities and creates programs and retreats to activate innovation and growth.

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts, go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/

It’s hard to know where to start with the accolades for this incredible woman of many talents! An early adopter of digital technology and a huge fan of yoga and ‘being of service’, Polly’s interview is fascinating. On her website, she describes herself as an ‘All Purpose’ human but she is also an author, speaker, business strategist, yogi and good hustler,  As one of only 400 people worldwide to have attended Brene Brown’s master course and become a Certified Dare To Lead facilitator, these days she and her business partner, Zoe Coyle (who also did the course), are running workshops around the country through their company Pilot Light. 

Jules and Polly have known each other for a few years now so they discuss how they met and their combined love of startups, female founders and innovation in all its forms. They move on to Polly’s emergence from academia and her curiosity about the digital world. She has been at the forefront of innovation for decades now.  Polly’s lust for life, her certainty that she was put on this planet to be of service to others and her mixture of ‘woo woo’ and business savvy make this an interview not to be missed.

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts, go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/

Lucy Bloom is one in a million (and it's not just the luscious pink Mohawk!) and she’s a funny, generous, insightful guest. Her experience in advertising land and then morphing to work in an NFP, ultimately becoming CEO is so inspiring. The accident that nearly cost her a leg, her great advice around being ‘let go’ as a CEO and her brilliant tips and stories around being a speaker make this a great interview!

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts, go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/

The latest episode of She’s The Boss Leaders features the fabulous Zoe Coyle who is just wonderful to talk to and sounds a little bit like Joanna Lumley! Her start in the theater set her up well for her coaching and speaking career as the Founder of Pilot Light Consulting. She is also a voiceover artist, speaker, entrepreneur and the author of a new book, 'Where The Light Gets In' which came out in early 2022.

Zoe is also one of only 400 women worldwide who have been taught directly by Brene Brown and she now teaches the Certified Dare to Lead course. She is amazing!

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts, go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/

Sam White is the CEO and Founder of The Freedom Services Group in the UK and of Stella Insurance for women in Australia. During the interview, we talk about how Sam went from a naughty (she says not so!) school girl to a woman running insurance businesses that turned over £23 million last year! 

We have a great discussion talking about her career path, women in business, female founders, and funding and how we all need to make it change for the better.  

Stella is a new car insurance product especially for women, with lower premiums because statistically, women have fewer accidents! It was launched in Australia in July 2020. 

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/.

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/.

Louise Mahler is an absolute joy to chat with! An internationally renowned speaker and executive coach, she is also very funny and has loads of stories to tell. From growing up in the suburbs of Brisbane, Louise headed off to Europe and sang in operas from Vienna to Stuttgart and everywhere in between. And then she realized she had had enough and returned to Australia, a young divorcee with a small baby in tow. 

This led her to find a 'proper' job so she worked with a big mining company in 'Quality Control' for a few years before leaving to focus on helping leaders have a voice of influence and a charismatic presence. "It's all about communication," she says. Starting off with free talks and working her way up to being able to command a fee of $US25,000 for a one-hour talk in a stadium in the US, Louise has a career many Australians would envy. And yet she is still down-to-earth, generous, and humorous with her stories. One to listen to!

This episode is sponsored by Brand for Brands. Brand For Brands is a branding agency run by two sisters, located in Sydney. They specialise in building and refreshing brands that speak to the right people, the ones that will invest in your products and services. To find out more, go to https://brandforbrands.com/.

To find out more about She's The Boss Group, and our other podcasts go to https://shesthebossgroup.com/.