The Price of Entry

Bridgid is a people & culture expert. Her career has led her to become a leader both within the HR industry and within incredibly complex and high stakes organisations. She is incredibly skilled at Cultural change, industrial relations, employee engagement, organisational capability building. She is also a morning person, something that is almost as impressive as her resume. Enjoy.

Jak served in the Australian Army as an Infantry Captain in Afghanistan. During his service he lead young men and women in and out of a number of hostile situations. When it comes to “the price of entry” for a role like this, unfortunately human lives are attached. Enjoy.

Welcome to the wildly wonderful world of a Midwife aka baby catcher. This week we talk with Steph Donker, a Midwife and Nurse who has spent the past few years in the deep end of Midwife life. This is one very special and wonderful job that takes an equally suited person. This is Steph’s story. Enjoy.

So you call your mum to tell her you landed your dream job but before you get a word in she tells you that she is about to sign a lease on a shop in Boronia. What do you do? you convince her to not start a Chinese takeaway as she intended but open a burger restaurant instead. Yep this is a small part of Esthers story. Enjoy.

What is it like to study for years at University to only get to the end of your degree and realise you no longer want to pursue that career? How do you navigate a pivot like that? This week I speak with Josiah Choi who did exactly that and after some more study was offered a grad job at one of the big four accounting firms. This is his story. Enjoy.

So you’ve studied Sports Journalism and you get a gig working for a national sporting agency… and they ask you to “look after” their Facebook page because, to be honest this is pre Instagram days and nobody knows what to do with this new fangled social media thing. Fast forward a few years and you are now running your own social media coaching business after working for a start up then a big corporate media agency running the socials for small time TV shows like Survivor, Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and the smallest of all, the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. This is Edwins story. Enjoy.

After years of study, training, specialist study, further specialist training, more residency time you would think you would be considered a senior member of the team right? or at least not a junior? Think again, Cheryl has maintained an impressively sunny disposition throughout this epic journey towards becoming a fully fledged Obstetrician/Gynaecologist Specialist. Along the way she has encountered, agesism, racism, workplace bullying and just to make it interesting a personal run in with cancer. Despite all this she says it’s not all doom and gloom and loves what she does. Enjoy.

A brief reflection on my journey so far and whats coming up in 2022. Enjoy.

Imagine starting out making surfboards in your parents garage as a teenager to creating a brand that spans dozens of countries only to be taken to court by an international corporate monster. In this David and Goliath battle Cam manages to fight through chronic health issues and emerge to start a new brand all before he is 30. Enjoy.