In The Company, Insights on Humanising Work with Kylie Lewis

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August 2018. Check out festival.business.vic.gov.au to access hundreds of free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. In The Company is a podcast about humanising work and designing better working lives. Each episode is curated to provoke you to think more deeply about the things that matter in your career and life and to build your toolkit for how to thrive as a human in business today. We explore how we work from the inside out. In this episode of In The Company we chat with Dr. Adaobi Udechuku and Dr. Lucinda Smith, co-founders of Glow, a multidisciplinary clinic in Berwick that supports the emotional health and wellbeing of women, infants and families from pre-conception to Kindergarten. We explore how Adaobi and Lucinda launched their business after seeing gaps in caring for women and their families as they transitioned into parenthood, and created a new mode of care that brings together a spectrum of perinatal healthcare providers under one roof in a unique business model. We also explore their perspectives in supporting women move in and out of the workforce during this time, and the issues that clients experience in managing careers and family. For more visit: http://glowclinic.com.au To read the full transcript visit: http://ofkin.com/company-21-adaobi-udechuku-lucinda-smith-create-village-new-parents/ To take the leap into your own business visit: ofkin.com/leap ofkin.com/leap

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August 2018. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au to access hundreds of free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. In The Company is a podcast about humanising work and designing better working lives. Each episode is curated to provoke you to think more deeply about the things that matter in your career and life and to build your toolkit for how to thrive as a human in business today. We explore how we work from the inside out. In this episode of in the company talk with Ally Watson, co-founder of Code Like A Girl, with a degree in computer science Ally has for the last seven years building websites and apps, and four years ago moved from her homeland of Airlie, Scotland, leaving behind her established professional networks to start over. It was in this transition she acutely felt the anxiety of not only being a newcomer but also often being the only woman in her team or at an industry networking event. This spurred her to create her own tech events for girls and to create a social enterprise to close the gender gap in a male-dominated industry. We talk about knowing when to pivot, making a side gig a full-time gig, going from an employee to a manager, and why it’s important to have more women and girls in tech. To read the full transcript visit: http://ofkin.com/company-20-ally-watson-coding-like-girl/ For more visit: https://codelikeagirl.org/ To read the full transcript visit: To take the leap into your own business visit: ofkin.com/leap ofkin.com/leap

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August 2018. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au to access hundreds of free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. In The Company is a podcast about humanising work and designing better working lives. Each episode is curated to provoke you to think more deeply about the things that matter in your career and life and to build your toolkit for how to thrive as a human in business today. We explore how we work from the inside out. In this episode of In The Company we speak with Charles Ng, a co-founder of international award-winning key organiser, Orbitkey. As an industrial designer, Charles saw a way to stop his keys from rattling while he was jogging and started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to get the product to market. The highly successful campaign raised over $200,000 and enabled Charles and co-founder Rex Kuo to bring Orbitkey to life. Five years later, Orbitkey won a gold award at the prestigious IF Global Design Awards in Germany. In this episode, we talk about what it takes to run a successful crowdfunding campaign, the importance of having a solid relationship with your manufacturers, how to build an engaged and loyal audience, and why focusing on your company culture matters. For more visit: http://orbitkey.com To read the full transcript visit: http://ofkin.com/company-19-charles-ng-keys-success/ To take the leap into your own business visit: ofkin.com/leap ofkin.com/leap

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August 2018. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au to access hundreds of free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. In The Company is a podcast about humanising work and designing better working lives. Each episode is curated to provoke you to think more deeply about the things that matter in your career and life and to build your toolkit for how to thrive as a human in business today. We explore how we work from the inside out. In this episode of in the company of Daniel Bolotin, social entrepreneur and co-founder of Free to Feed and Now to Launch. Free to Feed is a cooking school and catering company employing refugees, asylum seekers, and new migrants. And Now to Launch is an incubator for food-related business ideas. Together with wife Loretta, both ventures aim to nurture the entrepreneurialism of refugees and new migrants who face significant challenges in gaining employment and starting businesses despite possessing incredibly enterprising attitudes and skills. Daniel and Loretta have come to understand that the recipe for business success starts with overcoming the isolation that often accompanies starting something new. Over the past few years, they’ve built a community that has an appetite for connection, reciprocity, social justice and using capitalism for good, all the ingredients for prosperous businesses and societies. To read the full transcript visit: http://ofkin.com/company-18-daniel-bolotin-recipes-entrepreneurship/ To take the leap into your own business visit: ofkin.com/leap ofkin.com/leap

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August 2018. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au to access hundreds of free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. In The Company is a podcast about humanising work and designing better working lives. Each episode is curated to provoke you to think more deeply about the things that matter in your career and life and to build your toolkit for how to thrive as a human in business today. We explore how we work from the inside out. In this episode of in the company, we talk with Zione Walker, a former social justice lawyer, founder of Change Architects and co-founder of the Incubate Foundation. Zione is a global citizen having lived and studied in England, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Russia, Japan and Australia. Having worked as a lawyer for over 15 years and with deep experience in law and policy reform, her business focuses on empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds to thrive and helping organisations engage in positive social change. In this episode, we talk about building sustainable businesses, knowing your unique value proposition, how to co-design products and services and the importance of creating a culturally diverse and inclusive community as business owners. For more visit: changearchitects.com.au incubatefoundation.org.au To read the full transcript: http://ofkin.com/company-17-zione-walker-business-empathy-inclusion/ To take the leap into your own business visit: ofkin.com/leap

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August 2018. Check out festival.business.vic.gov.au to access hundreds of free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. In The Company is a podcast about humanising work and designing better working lives. Each episode is curated to provoke you to think more deeply about the things that matter in your career and life and to build your toolkit for how to thrive as a human in business today. We explore how we work from the inside out. In this episode of in the company, we talk with Dr. Fern White, dental surgeon, founder of an all-female dental practice Beacon Cove Dental, creator of the Practice Your Passion programme for female dentists, and a qualified yoga teacher. Fern came to Australia by boat as a Vietnamese refugee with her family when she was just two years old. Throughout her life her family strong work ethic pushed her and her siblings to succeed. In this episode, we talk about how Fern went from a panic attack in the first six months of running her business the way everyone told her she should, to tapping into her own beliefs and wisdom to create a highly successful practice combining her extensive dental training and personal development tools like mindfulness, breathing and reframing. The combination of modalities represents new ways of dental care for clients and practitioners alike and actually makes going to the dentist an almost pleasant experience. For more visit: beaconcovedental.com.au drfern.com To read the full transcript visit: http://ofkin.com/company-16-fern-white-built-dental-practice-heart/ To take the leap into your own business visit: ofkin.com/leap ofkin.com/leap

This special edition was recorded live at Donkey Wheel House in Melbourne on Tuesday 15 August 2017, in front of a live audience of 50 women as part of the women in business week of the Victorian Small Business Festival. Based on my book ‘The Leap Stories’, this event featured a panel of women who had taken the leap in their careers to start their own businesses who were keen to share their experiences and insights. MCed by Tess McCabe, publisher & founder of Creative Minds Publishing and hosted by Kylie Lewis, founder, Of Kin on the panel were Emma Kate Codrington of Emma Kate Co., Kate Vandermeer of The Super Cool and Madeleine Dore of Extraordinary Routines. This episode is great for anyone considering starting their own business, side gig or would like to be a bit braver in their working life. We give an insiders guide on what you need to consider, how to get yourself organised and put together the building blocks for moving forward. This is the full recording of the whole evening, and you may like to jump ahead. Around the 8 minute mark is the introduction of our guest speakers. Around the 11 minute mark is the start of the panel discussion. And around the 65 minute mark is the start of the audience Q & A. I hope you enjoy this special episode, and if you’d like to purchase your own copy of The Leap Stories book, please visit ofkin.com/leap

In this episode of In The Company we speak with Prue Gilbert, lawyer, diversity strategist and founder of Grace Papers – a human rights award-winning digital platform designed to empower working parents to navigate career and family. For more visit: gracepapers.com.au

Bronnie Ware is a former banker, palliative carer, singer and songwriter, international speaker and author of several books, including the best selling, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, and her latest book, Bloom: A Tale of Courage, Surrender and breaking through upper limits. Through Bronnie’s work as a palliative carer, she uncovered the number one regret of the dying was that people wished they’d had the courage to live a life true to themselves, not the life others expected of them. People also wished they hadn’t worked so hard, and that they’d had the courage to express their feelings. Her compiled list of the human condition in its final stages is a powerful call to show up in our lives fully, right now. The list also seems to give us the permission we have long denied ourselves which is to live our lives true to us. In this podcast we talk about how knowing these regrets shaped Bronnie’s own life, especially to take leaps, work as a creative entrepreneur living with chronic pain, and become a first time mum in her mid 40s, as explored in her new book, Bloom. For more information about Bronnie and her books, visit: bronnieware.com

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. Today, we’re in the company of Justin Dry, co-founder, online wine club Vinomofo.com. Justin, along with his brother-in-law Andre, originally started their business as Qwoff, an online wine community, where members rated and reviewed wines. They then produced a web series chronicling their wide road trip across Australia in a combi visiting some of the countries best winemakers. But after several years of trying to make it a viable business through community and content, Justin and Andre pivoted to become a wine deals site, adding commerce to their mix, and so Vinomofo was born. Here we talk with Justin about the journey, and the role innovation has played in taking an idea, executing it, learning, pivoting and the importance of evolving in small business.

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. Today we’re in the company of Julie Anne and Glen Mayer, founders of Subo, the reusable food bottle designed and made in Australia. As active parents of young children, Julie Anne and Glen would often find themselves on the move, and wanting to feed their kids nutritious , homemade food that was also easy to handle and minimized the potential for being worn instead of eaten. In 2012, sparked by an idea under she had under the shower, Julie Anne challenged Glen to make a prototype food bottle from a toothpaste pump dispenser. Held together with duct tape the prototype worked and was enough for encourage the Mayers to develop the idea further. Between their fulltime jobs and parenting roles, Julie Anne and Glen launched the product in October 2016, and this month sees Glen leave his jobs in sales to leap into Subo fulltime. Today the Mayer family have their sights firmly set on changing the way we eat on the go. For more information visit suboproducts.com.au

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. Today we’re in the company of Anna Ross, founder of Kester Black (kesterblack.com), an ethical and sustainable nail polish and skincare company launched in 2012 and which has quickly become one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most innovative beauty brands. Anna’s products are vegan, sustainable, cruelty-free and B Corp certified. Made in Australia, Kester Black now sells to Asia, America, Europe and also the Middle East, where its water-permeable products appeal to Muslim women, and in 2016 Anna was awarded the Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year. Anna is on a mission to initiate global change in the beauty industry by setting new standards for cosmetics with a positive social and environmental impact. Here we talk with Anna about going beyond the leap, and how to take a small business to the next level.

This episode is brought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. Today we’re in the company of Sheree Rubenstein, a former corporate lawyer who made the leap to found One Roof, Australia’s Leading Co-working space for women-led businesses. Sheree is an expert in curating spaces, programs and communities that nurture and inspire female entrepreneurs to thrive. One Roof has established a presence in 4 cities across Australia and the USA and built a global community of over 10,000 women. In 2015 Sheree was nominated as one of Australia's top young innovators by the Foundation for Young Australians and in 2016 she was awarded the Victorian Young Achievers Leadership Award. For more information check out: http://melbourne.oneroofwomen.com/

This episode is bought to you by Victoria's Small Business Festival, happening across the state from in August and early September 2017. Check out http://festival.business.vic.gov.au/ to access over 500 free and affordable events to elevate, support and inspire you and your business. Today we’re in the company of Nick Arvanitis, Head of Workplace Research and Development at Australian mental health organisation beyondblue.org.au. Nick leads projects that support workforces to create and maintain mentally healthy workplaces, including HeadsUp.org.au “One in five Australians will experience a mental health condition during their lifetime. Over one million Australians live with depression, and over two million have anxiety. As one of the largest employment sectors in Australia, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are highly likely to face a mental health related issue in their workplace at some point. (http://learn.beyondblue-elearning.org.au/businessinmind/#/managing-mental-health-in-the-workplace/s2_1a) • 1 in 5 employees are likely to be experiencing a mental health condition • Untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers $10.9 billion EVERY YEAR • PWC research shows: $2:30 is the average return on investment for every $1 invested in creating a mentally healthy workplace. For more information, and to access the mentally healthy checklist check out: https://www.headsup.org.au/ https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

Today we’re in the company of Bernadette Jiwa, a recognised global authority on the role of story in business, innovation and marketing. She’s a Business Advisor, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author of five #1 Amazon Bestsellers., including “Marketing: A Love Story” and “Meaningful: The story of ideas that fly”. Bernadette works with Fortune 500 companies, startups, entrepreneurs and business leaders from around the world, helping them to build their brands and become meaningful to their customers. In June 2017 Bernadette published her sixth book Hunch: how to turn your everyday insights into the next big thing. For more information visit: http://thestoryoftelling.com/

Today we’re in the company of Clare Desira. Clare is a writer, coach, speaker and founder of the Top Five Movement – her side gig from her full-time corporate role. In December 2006 Clare started a daily practice of journaling her top five moments from the day, and has done so every day since. She now has over 2000 top five lists totalling more than 10,000 memories. The impact of her daily gratitude practice has been so profound that she created the Top Five Movement as a way of encouraging people to foster greater happiness, confidence and energy in their lives. Earlier this year, Clare’s Positive Thought Starter cards won product of the year. For more information visit: topfivemovement.com

Kemi Nekvapil is a coach, speaker and author. From starting her career as an actor on British TV, Kemi leapt to becoming a yogi and baker in Indonesia, to pioneering the raw food movement in Australia. She now coaches women to nourish themselves beyond the food they eat, to live empowered, fulfilling lives by embracing more than their dress, their age and their appearance. Kemi is the author of Raw Beauty, and her latest book is The Gift of Asking. Find out more about Kemi at keminekvapil.com.au

Today we are in the company of Rachel Service. Rachel is the Founder of Happiness Concierge: a kick ass training company that helps people ace their work and lives. After suffering anxiety, depression and burnout in her 20's, she realised work was killing her and created Happiness Concierge to help other people be more impactful at work. Her training helps individuals in organisations learn tactical ways to make a bigger impact at work. To download Rachel's free resources check out http://www.happinessconcierge.com.au/

Today we're in the company of Carolyn Tate, founder of Carolyn Tate and Co, The Slow School of Business, Talk on Purpose and The Purpose Project. We talk with Carolyn about her new book (her sixth!) The Purpose Project, the imperative to work with purpose. You can find out more about Carolyn, and download a free chapter from her book here: http://carolyntate.co/

In a season of every second person you meet saying ‘I have a podcast’, you may be asking yourself why did Kylie, founder of ofkin.com and author of The Leap Stories, feel compelled to start one too? As a writer/blogger I wanted to have deeper, more spontaneous conversations that could reach an audience on the move, specifically, driving or travelling from one point to another. As a parent driving home from dropping their kids at school, or a mobile worker between locations or wandering vacationer on route, I wanted to lift words off the page and have them land with tone and texture not accessible on a digital screen while on the go. On average, we will spend around 46 years of our life ‘working’. I’m interested in who we are when we’re at work, when we’re engaged in work and how work shapes us. I’m interested in the humanity of work, how it’s celebrated and how it’s shuttered. For the last three years I’ve written about taking a leap in your working life. This podcast is an extension of that idea, and designed to go behind the work and humanise the lived experience of designing our careers. I’m keen to explore the vulnerability of showing up in our working lives and putting ourselves out there to be seen, to have impact and to be brave. I want a chance to ask deeper questions and go behind the scenes of narratives that emerge through dialogue. Mostly, I want listeners to not feel alone when they’re working, especially when they’re having days that aren’t filled with glitter crusted unicorns showering down praise and good fortune. I have days that are filled with confusion, frustration, chronic self doubt, overwhelm, procrastination and anxiety. I also have days where I crack open a new idea, make a stellar connection, contribute helpfully and turn on light bulbs for people. I want to talk about the light and dark, and how we each find our way through. Leadership expert Simon Sinek said that if you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business. And social scientist Dr Brené Brown has pointed out that: ‘The biggest barrier to effective teams is not professional development – it’s personal development. People are not doing their own work on what it is that gets in the way of them fully showing up as the kind of people we need in teams, and leaders we need. It is what makes or breaks a team, a culture or leaders.’ This podcast is a result of the conversations I’ve been having with myself about who I am in my working life, how that spills out into my whole life (or maybe visa versa). And I want to talk about these things with other humans like you. So hence, I’m one of those people starting a podcast too. Thanks for listening. For more visit ofkin.com, or follow along on Instagram at instagram.com/ofkin