Success: The Podcast

We talk to Lily Dempster, founder and CEO of The Neighbourhood Effect, a new Canberra based social enterprise.The Neighbourhood Effect builds digital products that use behavioural science to make it easy and social for Australians to reduce their environmental impact.So, how can one climate activist use tech to make a global impact?Lily’s going to take us through how she’s used the environmental thinking that’s already happened, and add her unique insight to make it something really powerful and accessible.

Danielle Owen Whitford is the CEO of Pioneera, an app which uses artificial intelligence to predict employee stress in organisations.Danielle channeled the leadership skills she developed in her successful corporate career into becoming an entrepreneurShe’s going to talk to us about her own experiences with corporate burnout, and how they led to her creating a program that helps prevent burnout in others.

Today we’re talking to Dr. Claire Jenkins, founder and CEO of VetChat, a tele-health platform for pets.What’s tele-health? Well, more about that later.In the meantime, Claire’s going to take us through the ups-and-downs of her startup and share some great advice along the way.

The superannuation shortfall is a hot topic in Australia, with some reports telling us that over sixty percent of Australians are worried they won’t have enough super.And of those that do have super, it’s estimated that women retire with roughly half the amount of super that men do.Dr. Carla Harris coupled her expertise in research and analytics with her experience in workplace gender equality to address this superannuation gap.She created Longevity App, which helps people save a little extra for retirement every time they spend.

They say necessity is the mother of all invention, but Dr. Annie McAuley takes that one step further.She’s combined the benefits of her research background with her drive to help her daughter Grace, to create Talkiplay, which helps kids overcome talking delays.Annie talks us through how her love of taking things apart to see how they work, was instrumental in creating a fun working environment for grace.So did Talkiplay help? Let’s find out.

GPS tools are great, but they have two main drawbacks – number one, they don’t really canvas indoor areas and number two, if you’re vision impaired then they’re hit and miss to say the least.Dr Anna Wright, founder and CEO of BindiMaps, decided to do something about it.BindiMaps is a navigation tool that empowers vision-impaired people to safely and confidently move through indoor spaces.In this episode, Anna tells us how what could have been a personal crisis led her to spearheading an innovation that’s opening up a whole new world of independence for vision impaired people.

Most people get into business to make money, but where does that leave you at the end of the day? How do you define success when your aim is to change the world?In this episode, we talk to Thank You Group’s Jarryd Burns – a member of a new generation of business people and entrepreneurs who are getting into business to make a difference.

What’s the point of achieving great things if you miss out on your child’s first steps?More and more people are designing businesses to help them spend as much time with their family as possible, and Business Jump’s Natasha Stewart is helping them do it.In this episode, we talk to Natasha about her journey and how she found success by helping others achieve the most holy of grails: work-life balance.

How does an artist know when a painting is done? Isn’t there just one more brushstroke that will make it just that little bit more perfect?Perfection is something people obsess over, but it’s poorly defined.In this episode, we talk to Starwood Whisky’s David Vitale about the quest for perfection in the artisanal world of bespoke whisky production.

Why are Australian startups so coy about taking on the world and becoming the biggest they can be?Success stories like Atlassian and Canva help, but most companies are thinking about their path to the ASX rather than the NASDAQ.In this episode, we talk to Startup Victoria’s Georgia Beattie and ELEVACAO’s Marisa Warren about the lack of ambition in Australia’s tech startup space, and what can be done to set their sights much, much higher.

While there are many that are happy to go to work, do their job, and go home, others want more out of life.In this episode, we talk to the inspirational Penny Locaso, founder of disruptive global education company BKindred, about her decision to upend her life as a highly paid executive to help others  future proof their happiness in work and life.

How would you like to go to work one day and discover an entirely new species of dinosaur?In this episode, we talk to world-renowned paleontologist Dr Patricia Vickers-Rich, who has been following this quest for decades, and describes the thrill of the quest for scientific discovery.She also talks to us about the subject Jurassic Park doesn’t even touch: paperwork.

Most people have great ideas about how to rock the foundations of business – but getting the cash to do that is one of the main hurdles small businesses face.In this episode, we talk to OnDeck Australia CEO Cameron Poolman about the challenge small businesses face when trying to get cash to expand – and about the company’s own challenges in the competitive fintech space.We also find out why fridge magnets may be the smartest investment a business can make…

Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, right? What if what you love to do is mess around and crack jokes?In this episode, we talk to comedy duo Luke Goodall and Marc Gallagher who have managed to carve out a living doing just that – by being part of the YouTube generation.We ask them how they actually make money, how they managed to get into the game and how they deal with relying on platforms that are constantly shifting and evolving.

We tend to define success in terms of money, job satisfaction or meaning – but what if your definition was to simply come home alive?In this episode, we talk to ex-Commando Ewan Williams about the mental and physical hurdles he needed to overcome just to make it to the battlefield – and about the time he stared death in the face in the back of a patrol vehicle.

If you’re not disrupting something then you’re just waiting around to be taken over, right?‘Disruption’ is the buzzword of the day, but what does it actually mean?In this episode, we talk to CEO of Spaceship Paul Bennetts about making the incumbents tremble and rattling a few cages.

We all strive for success, but nobody can actually define what it means. It means different things to different people after all, so if nobody knows what it actually is then why are we obsessed with achieving it?In this 10-part series presented by MYOB, we pull, prod, and poke at the concept by asking seemingly successful people one simple question: are you successful?Available from 9 October wherever you get your podcasts.