Episode 54: Fiona Kesby on Ethical Leadership, Global Growth, AI, & Building a Life Without Regret

What happens when a single mother says yes to a bold opportunity, moves her daughters across the world, helps scale a company from 20 employees to more than 1,200, and refuses to sacrifice ethics for profit? In this inspiring episode of Stories from Everywhere, Jill L. Ferguson sits down with Fiona Kesby, Australian-born entrepreneur, global business leader, and co-founder of GoTeam in the Philippines, or a conversation that spans continents, leadership, love, reinvention, and the courage to challenge conventional wisdom. Fiona shares how what was supposed to be a short-term move to Southeast Asia became an extraordinary life journey: raising her daughters abroad, helping transform the outsourcing industry through transparency and human-centered values, and leading through crisis after losing half her business overnight during COVID only to rebuild stronger than before. Together, Jill and Fiona explore: • How ethical outsourcing can empower workers instead of exploiting them • Why AI should amplify human potential, not replace it • Fiona’s powerful ACE framework for thriving in the age of AI: agility, articulation, critical thinking, creativity, and empathy • Building a workplace culture rooted in love, abundance, and dignity • The mindset shift that helped Fiona create success not only in business, but in love later in life • Why “If you can dream it, you can create it” applies to relationships just as much as entrepreneurship This is a deeply honest conversation about leadership, motherhood, reinvention, global citizenship, and refusing to let fear—or outdated social expectations—dictate your life. If you’ve ever wondered whether you can build a meaningful career, create a life on your own terms, or find love without shrinking yourself, Fiona’s story is proof that you can.