The Jonny Boyle Show

Alex Hormozi is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He owns a portfolio of companies under his umbrella company Acquisition.com. As of 2021 Acquisition.com companies generate upwards of $85,000,000 per year in cumulative sales across four different industries (software, service, e-commerce, and brick & mortar). His companies serve 4500+ businesses and 100,000+ consumers. He is widely considered an acquisition and monetisation expert.

In this conversation, we discuss how he built a $100M dollar business, and his current perspective on personal wealth and happiness.

Father Chris Middleton is a Jesuit priest, the rector at Xavier College in Melbourne, and the former principal of St Aloysius' College in Sydney. He has left a remarkable legacy on both the school and church community in Australia (which I know first-hand, as he was in fact my principal while I was at St Aloysius), and continues to lead a life of service and inspiration. During this episode, we speak about compassionate leadership and how to build a sense of community, but also contemporary issues such as the present state of the Catholic Church, declining religious adherence, political correctness, gender, sources of morality, and much more. 

In this episode, I speak with YouTube sensation and cultural icon, Paddy Jenkins. Paddy runs the very popular YouTube channel, 'Thai Talk with Paddy', which recently hit 100,000 subscribers. Thai Talk is all about bridging the gap between Australian and Thai culture, and features some very entertaining discussions between Paddy and the Thai community.

Paddy and I discuss a huge range of topics surrounding his journey as a YouTuber: why and how he began the channel, what he has learned about making an engaging YouTube video, the hours he puts into each video (which will shock you), the money he makes from the channel (and how to make money from YouTube), work-life balance, the challenges of isolation and loneliness, and much more.

After realising that the corporate world wasn't for him, James Johnson took a leap of faith when he was just 23 years of age and bought a pizza store. That store, Luigi's, has since grown into a highly reputable business, attracting customers from all over Sydney to try its carefully crafted Italian pizzas.

In this conversation, James and I discuss how he ended up becoming the owner of Luigi's, the challenges he faced when first starting the business, how to create an effective team of staff, the power of social media, and much more.

Henry Hutchison is a soon-to-be dual-Olympian and professional Mens Sevens Rugby player. Henry joined the Australian Sevens program in August 2015 after an impressive run with his local club Randwick in Sydney’s Shute Shield competition, and quickly went on to make a name for himself on the world stage by being named Rookie of the Year in the 2015/16 World Rugby Sevens Series.

In this candid conversation, Henry shares the ups and downs of his journey so far, including some of his crazy adventures abroad, his transition between Super Rugby and Sevens, and the biggest lessons he has learned about resilience and the need to constantly adapt to new environments.

In 2011, Sebastian Robertson founded the social enterprise Batyr, a preventative mental health charity, and was its founding CEO for 5 years, establishing batyr as a national leader in innovative programs for young people in mental health. Batyr has trained over 850 young people with lived mental ill health experiences to share their story, reached 250,000+ young people face-to-face and comprises a team of over 200 people.

While he remains Chairman of Batyr, Seb is now the co-founder and CEO of BIRDI, a technology platform that enables businesses to integrate drones into their operations by providing an 'end to end' drone management platform. 

In this conversation, Seb and I chat about his own lived experiences with mental health, the origins of Batyr and its development into a successful social enterprise, as well as public speaking, entrepeneurship and his latest venture in Drone technology. 

If you need to speak to someone regarding your own mental health: https://www.beyondblue.org.au 

Batyr: https://www.batyr.com.au 

BIRDI: https://www.birdi.com.au 

Luke Spano is the managing director and co-founder of Avid Collective, a network of digital media brands (for example, 'Where To') that use a unique short-form video format to promote other brands on social media. These brands include eBay, Krispy Kreme and Costco. Their content reaches 6 million Australians each month.

Luke and I discuss the challenges of starting a business, how to expand a business, how to build culture and create incentives for employees, and the rewards that come from entrepreneurship more generally. 

Susan Warda is a team leader and partner in the Sydney family law practice at Mills Oakley. Susan is an accredited specialist in family law, who was named 2013 Woman Lawyer of the Year in Private Practice by the Women Lawyers Association of NSW.

In this episode, we cover 'prenups', de facto relationships, asset splitting, custody arrangements, COVID-19 impacts, and leadership.

Please see the link attached for more information on family law:

https://www.millsoakley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Family-Law-Plain-English-Guide-on-Property-Settlement-under-the-Family-Law.pdf 

Jamie Glister is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. His field of expertise lies in the law of equity and trusts, and since 2001, he has taught these subjects at some of the world's leading educational institutions, including the University of Cambridge. I was fortunate enough to be personally taught by Jamie in my time at university, and his ability to engage is second to none. 

In this podcast, Jamie and I discuss the strategies he uses to create memorable lectures, the role of legal academia, and the law of equity and trusts (including a number of practical examples such as superannuation and charitable donations). Also, if you want to know why 'trust fund babies' are a thing, then this episode has the answer. 

Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, whose recent work for the stage includes “Carry Me”, “Unfinished Works”, “The Worst Kept Secrets”, and “Jack killed Jack”. Thomas is the artistic director of Bontom, a theatre company that produces original Australian work for the stage. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Arts and Law, he attended NIDA in 2015 to study a Master Of Fine Arts (Writing For Performance). In 2017, Thomas was awarded the ATYP Rebel Wilson Scholarship, and developed “Come On! The Lleyton Hewitt Musical” as part of his residency. He is the co-creator and dramaturg for an original site-specific opera, “Chamber Pot Opera”, which toured to the Adelaide Fringe Festival (2017), and then internationally to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2017). In 2018, Chamber Pot Opera toured to St Petersburg, Russia as part of The International Summer Festival Of The Arts. In 2019, Chamber Pot Opera completed its last ever production in the Playhouse Ladies Bathroom at The Sydney Opera House. Since 2018, Thomas has lectured in Australian Film and Theatre at The University of Sydney. Tom has written and independently produced his own plays, including Jack Killed Jack, which was performed as part of the 2012 Sydney Fringe Festival, and The Worst Kept Secrets, which played at the Seymour Centre’s Reginald Theatre in 2014.

In our conversation, Tom and I discuss the value of theatre in today’s society, how he embraced this creative art form from a young age, and how he continues to grow as a writer notwithstanding the ever-increasing challenges facing the industry. We talk about the threat to live productions presented by on-screen competitors such as Netflix, not to the mention the impact of the COVID pandemic. Importantly, we also discuss potential solutions to keeping theatre alive in today’s society. Tom then unpacks his creative writing process and the strategies that he adopts to generate creative ideas and sustain a flow state throughout his writing.