The After 30 Podcast

We chat with the founder of Embiria, Palak Loizides, who has the refreshing ambition to build a successful business SLOWLY. We discuss doing work that fulfils you, building a business that is financially successful but still allows you to maintain balance and not drain your time or energy piggy bank.

In our human interactions, we communicate specifically through our own contexts and perspectives. In this convo, we discuss the JoHari Window - a technique that helps people better understand their relationship with themselves and others.

Guest Serena Rogers, founder of Curata Beauty and aesthetics consulting firm Nika Consulting Inc., talks to us about her decade+ long journey to becoming self-employed.

In the first of our "What Do You Do?" series, we chat with founder of luxury performance label Michi NY, Michelle Watson. She tells us how she ditched her career in corporate finance and advertising to create a brand unlike anything else on the market, fashion-forward sophisticated women's athletic wear that's Canadian made, eco-friendly, sustainable and sexy.

Our Guest, Britt Kidd, is an Area Director for lululemon and recent graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. lululemon is known for their unique and incredibly effective approach to leadership, and they are self-described as being a people development organisation first and foremost. Britt is well seasoned in the art of leadership and she gives us the good good on how best to navigate this world of people management.

At this stage in our careers and as we've been receiving promotions, gaining experience, and realising successes, we've been moving up the ladder, making many elements of our jobs more macro, strategic, or high level. What comes with this is no longer having the time to follow every idea, task, or proverbial crumb to fruition like maybe we used to. So how do we back off? How do we choose what deserves our energy and what can wait or maybe not even get our energy at all anymore? When we have the ability to do many things well, how do we choose what to be really amazing at?

We chat with Dashen Naidoo, a sound creator with multiple award wins and nominations in 'The Shape of Water', 'The Breadwinner', 'The Expanse', 'The Pinkertons', and many others. We pick his brain on how he approaches work differently now, and what's unique about being in a creative industry.

We chat with Sarah Holloway, a Melbourne-based lawyer turned co-founder of green tea empire Matcha Maiden and Matcha Mylkbar, and host of the Seize the Yay Podcast. Not only do we want to pick her brain on how to turn a side hustle into a wildly successful full-time gig; we want to check-in on how she's feeling about turning 30!