#28 Red Balloons, Shark Tanks and Abstract Art - Naomi Simson

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Naomi Simson is an award-winning Australian entrepreneur and business leader who founded Red Balloon in 2001. She started the business with $25,000 of her own money and a unique idea to build a marketplace for experiences. Naomi and her team have since expanded to several businesses under the Big red Group umbrella, delivering over 6,500,000 experiences for customers. Naomi is a blogger, a best-selling author, a highly sought-after speaker, a philanthropist, Governor of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Director of the University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics, and an investor on Australia’s Shark Tank. There are few people in this country who have done more to support small business Sign up for Naomi's newsletter: https://naomisimson.com/newsletter/Or browse her art store: https://www.naomisimsonart.com/Visit the Red Balloon website: https://www.redballoon.com.au/ Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

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Naomi Simson is an award-winning Australian entrepreneur and business leader who founded Red Balloon in 2001. She started the business with $25,000 of her own money and a unique idea to build a marketplace for experiences. Naomi and her team have since expanded to several businesses under the Big red Group umbrella, delivering over 6,500,000 experiences for customers. Naomi is a blogger, a best-selling author, a highly sought-after speaker, a philanthropist, Governor of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Director of the University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics, and an investor on Australia’s Shark Tank. There are few people in this country who have done more to support small business Sign up for Naomi's newsletter: https://naomisimson.com/newsletter/ Or browse her art store: https://www.naomisimsonart.com/ Visit the Red Balloon website: https://www.redballoon.com.au/ Find out more about the Performance Intelligence Masterclass: https://rb.gy/xexsz Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://www.andrewmay.com/keynotes/ Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/ Follow StriveStronger: https://www.instagram.com/strive.stronger/ If you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

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