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Career Stories
by The Career Library
The podcast that shares other people's career stories, to help you with yours. Career Stories is a podcast for people who want a better working life. Hosted by Dr Luella Forbes - consultant, researcher and founder of The Career Library. Each episode features an honest conversation with a leader, entrepreneur or expert about the real story behind their career: the transitions, the setbacks, the decisions that didn't go to plan, and the lessons that shaped where they ended up.Every month, Luella is joined by Associate Professor Michelle Gander (Murdoch Business School), an experienced leader and specialist in career development and organisational careers, to unpack the themes from that month's episodes and offer practical, evidence-based advice.Whether you're navigating a career crossroads, leading through change, or simply trying to build a working life that fits — Career Stories gives you the real picture, from people who've been there.Topics include: leadership, organisational
Episodes
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Critical Thinking, Biases & AI Cognitive Offloading - Bethan Winn
"Hold your values tightly - but hold your beliefs lightly." - Bethan Winn We're drowning in information and starving for judgment. Every scroll, every AI-generated answer, every "trust me" from an institution that used to earn it - it's all pulling us toward outsourcing our thinking to someone…
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From Teacher Dreams to Running HR at Mission Australia - Mandy Cann
“On average, people have three to five careers in their life. And I’m certainly one of those people.” What does HR actually do, and why does it matter so much in organisations that change lives? Mandy Cann is General Manager of Partnering and Employee Relations at Mission Australia. She leads HR...
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The Career Nobody Grows Up Wanting - Glen Moloney
"You make your luck, take some risks, have a go." Did you know what you wanted to be when you left school? Most of us didn't, and plenty of the most interesting careers are ones nobody ever told us existed. Procurement is one of them. It's the work behind the poles, wires and contracts that keep...
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Pigeonholed at Work? How to Get Work Famous - Leanne Hughes
"It's about being famous for your ideas and for your contribution." Ever felt like you're doing great work but nobody's noticing? Or that people only see you as "the IT person" or "the change person" when you know you can do so much more? You're not alone, and the good news is you don't have to...
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Privilege in the Workplace and Comparing Yourself to Others
What does privilege in the workplace really look like? In this September Career Advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander unpack networks, money, time and access, why privilege is so hard to talk about, what you can do with it whether you have a lot of it or a…
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How to Get Noticed at Work: Leanne Hughes on Work Fame
How do you get noticed at work without waiting for luck? Speaker and author Leanne Hughes shares the mindset behind her new book, Work Fame, and the career that took her from Wicked Campers to running her own consulting business. Everyone tells you their big break was luck. It wasn't. It was a...
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What Is Corporate Affairs? From Law to the UN with Sally Richardson
Most people think corporate affairs means writing press releases. Sally Richardson's version of the job means coordinating with state governments during a live incident, running on what she calls the "no surprises doctrine," and keeping 3,500+ staff aligned when a transport network is in the...
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What Is Behavioural Science? Angela Bliss on Her Career at NAB
In this episode, Dr Luella Forbes talks to Angela Bliss, Head of Behavioural Science at NAB, about a career that's moved through art history, gallery direction, web design and freelance consulting before landing in a discipline built on one idea: it's easier to change someone's environment than…
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Read Your Own Leadership Habits Before Your Team Does at Work
"On their worst day, the shadow kind of looms over everybody and stops them being able to do what they need to." Ever walked into a meeting already flat, distracted, or just not yourself - and wondered afterwards why the room felt off? Turns out your team feels it too. And there's a name for it.…
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A C-Suite View on Adaptability Over Resilience with Janette O'Neill
"I think what I'm most proud of is the relationships that I've built along the way." - Janette O'Neill She built a global sustainability function from the ground up, led people and culture transformation across Australia, the UK and Ireland, and was named interim Chief HR Officer for North…
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Redefining Career Success on Your Terms - Asha Bhat
"Resilience is not that we don't have setbacks. Resilience is about coming back and showing up every day in spite of all the challenges that we have." She arrived in Australia with a husband, a master's degree, and no career plan of her own. Within two decades she was running one of Western...
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Inside McDonald's Crisis Comms Playbook - Ron Christianson
"Trust is very hard to build up, and it takes a long time - but it can be destroyed overnight." - Ron Christianson Most of us think of a crisis as something that happens to other people's companies. Then the media is outside the CEO's apartment, ringing the bell, and someone has to decide what…
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Your Job Isn't Disappearing (Yet)
"The bits that will never go away are the human interactions that go with it." - Dr Luella Forbes Everyone wants a straight answer on whether AI is coming for their job. Dr Luella Forbes didn't have one either - not until she'd spent a month talking to three different people who do. What she took...
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AI Job Fears & Future Skills - Matt Dunn
"I don't think anyone's job is going away." - Matt Dunn Everyone wants a straight answer on whether AI is coming for their job. Matt Dunn doesn't give one - because there isn't one. What he gives instead is sharper: the people who get replaced won't be replaced by AI, they'll be replaced by...
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Critical Thinking in the age of AI - Bethan Winn
"AI is like the smartest grad who's never left the library. They've got no life experience... you need to check what they're doing, particularly if you're going to put your name to it." Bethan Winn Bethan Winn is a critical thinking specialist, speaker and author of The Human Edge: Critical...
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Implementing AI is harder than you think - Matt Dunn
"Your gut is normally right, but you should back it up with some research as well." - Matt Dunn New AI tool, same old anxiety: am I using this properly, or badly, or barely at all? Matt Dunn has spent the past decade in the middle of exactly that problem. He started thinking seriously about...
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Leading AI at One of Australia's Biggest Super Funds - Mythili Baker
"Ultimately, humans are always going to be accountable - you can't put that on AI." - Mythili Baker Every few weeks, the AI conversation resets again - a new model, a new headline, a new reason to wonder whether the skills you've built still count. For people working inside large, regulated...
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Career Advice: Career Types, Portfolio Careers, and What Keeps People Engaged at Work
What does the FIFA World Cup tell us about leadership communication? And what kind of career do you actually have? In this June advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander explore how organisations communicate difficult news, how careers have changed, and why real...
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Simon Johnson: Customer Success, Leading Global Teams, Falling Into Tech
This week's guest is Simon Johnson, Senior Director of Customer Success for Asia Pacific and Japan at DocuSign. Simon leads a team of around 35 people across the region, but his career did not start with a clear plan. He missed the marks for the degree he wanted, fell into tech almost by…
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Claudine Besserer: Global Brand Leadership, Creating Your Own Path, Encouraging Challenge
This week's guest is Claudine Besserer, a global brand strategy leader who spent 32 years at Mars. She rose from a 21-year-old sensory analysis technician, training factory workers to taste-test chocolate and ice cream, to leading global brand strategy for Royal Canin, a brand she helped grow to...
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Anita Owen: Chief Delivery Officer, Putting Your Hand Up, Valuing Curiosity
This week's guest is Anita Owen, Chief Delivery Officer at Novigi, a 550-person tech and data firm serving Australia's superannuation industry. Anita leads a team of 350, but her path to the C-suite started in data entry at a life insurance company after she dropped out of university and…
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Career Advice: Identity Work, Grieving the Career You Thought You'd Have, Why Sensemaking Takes Time
In this month's Career Advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander reflect on May's guest conversations with Fadzi Whande, Charity Becker and Annette Brodie, and find a common thread: each of them took a long, non-linear path to land in the work she does now. Luella...
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Annette Brodie: Closing the Digital Divide, Social Enterprise and Backing Yourself
This week's guest is Annette Brodie, founder and CEO of The Reconnect Project, a Sydney-based social enterprise and charity on a mission to close Australia's digital divide. Annette spent more than two decades in the not-for-profit sector across Australia and the UK, with a career that moved from...
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Charity Becker: Organisational Coaching, Ethics at work, Work that makes your heart sing
This week's guest is Charity Becker, an organisational coach based in Melbourne with 20 years of experience spanning coaching, coaching supervision, and coach training. After an unconventional path through hospitality, nannying and psychotherapy, Charity was drawn into the world of coaching while...
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Fadzi Whande: Diversity and Inclusion, International Leadership, Redefining Success
This week's guest is: Creators & Guests Dr Luella Forbes - Host All opinions are the guest's own. New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month. We'd love to hear from you. Share your...
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Dinda Timperon: Burnout, the REST Framework and How to Recognise the Signs
Creators & Guests Dr Luella Forbes - Host Dinda Timperon - Guest In this bonus episode of Career Stories, Dr Luella Forbes is joined by Dinda Timperon - Head of Cybersecurity Engineering at a major Australian wealth management organisation, RAAF veteran, and founder of Perth Women's Circle, a...
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Career Advice: Growth Mindset, Learning and Finding Joy in Your Career
How do you keep growing in your career when you feel like you've hit a ceiling? In this episode of Career Stories, Michelle Gander and Luella Forbes explore the habits, mindset shifts, and everyday practices that help professionals stay curious, motivated, and engaged, no matter where they are in...
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Dr Annelen Schär: Luxury Cars, Marketing Architecture and Choosing Positivity
This week's guest is Dr Annelen Schär, Head of Omnichannel Portfolio Management at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart - a digital leader working at the intersection of e-commerce, customer experience and business architecture in one of the world's most iconic car brands. Annelen has spent almost 15 years...
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Elizabeth Shaw: Diversity and Inclusion, Knowing Your Worth, The Power of Sponsorship
This week's guest is Elizabeth Shaw, Partner responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion consulting at PwC Australia. Elizabeth has spent her career at the intersection of gender equality, workplace culture and social impact, from chairing UN Women Australia in her early thirties to advising...
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Jo Lindsay: Building a career at one organisation; Leading through change; The Opportunity Mindset
This week's guest is Jo Lindsay, Managing Director at Reed Talent Solutions, a part of Reed, the world's largest family-run recruitment business. Jo joined Reed on a graduate scheme in 1997 and has built her entire career there, moving through project management, sales, consultancy and leadership...
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Career Advice: Career Planning, Seizing Opportunities and Ambition
This month on Career Stories, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander reflect on the career stories of Steve Price, Dr Mia Carbon, and Dinda Timperon - three very different people with some surprisingly connected threads running through their careers. In this episode: Why the...
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Dinda Timperon: Cybersecurity, Proudly Ambitious, Community Building
This week's guest is Dinda Timperon, Head of Cybersecurity Engineering at one of Australia's largest wealth management organisations, and founder of Perth Women's Circle, a community of over 10,000 women focused on growth and development. Dinda's career spans the Royal Australian Air Force,...
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Dr Mia Carbon: Biosecurity, Career Transition, Adaptability
This week's guest is Dr Mia Carbon, Deputy Director General of Biosecurity and Emergency Management for Western Australia - or, as she describes it, part of the team responsible for protecting one of the world's most unique environments. From training as a vet and working in rural Victoria and…
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Steve Price: Payments, Principles, Innovation
This week's guest is Steve Price, General Manager of Financial Services at David Jones - the world's oldest department store. Having spent his career across banking, SaaS and retail in both the UK and Australia, Steve has specialised in building innovative products and customer experiences, from...
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Career Advice: Purpose & motivation, Imposter Syndrome & confidence
This week's episode is our first monthly career advice conversation, where Dr Luella Forbes and co-host Michelle Gander - Associate Professor and specialist in Career Development - reflect on the themes and insights from this month's guest interviews with Mehdi Langroudi and Kelly Shay. In this...
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Kelly Shay: Advocacy, Women's wealth, Doing work that matters
This week's guest is Kelly Shay, Retirement and Retention Leader at Mercer Australia - someone who has spent her career working to improve outcomes for people who can't always speak for themselves. From student politics at Murdoch University, to organising aged care and disability workers in...
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Mehdi Langroudi: Smart Freeways, Curious Leadership, Creating Impact
This week's guest is Mehdi Langroudi, Executive Director of Network Operations for Main Roads Western Australia - or, in his son's words, "the guy who fixes traffic"! With a global career spanning Scotland, London, Dubai, Qatar and now Perth, Mehdi shares how he accidentally fell into traffic...
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Introducing Career Stories
Introducing Career Stories, the podcast that shares other people's career stories to help you with yours. All opinions are the guest's own. New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month....
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Introducing Career Stories, the podcast that shares other people's career stories to help you with yours. All opinions are the guest's own. New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast that shares other people's career stories, to help you with yours. Career Stories is a podcast for people who want a better working life. Hosted by Dr Luella Forbes - consultant, researcher and founder of The Career Library. Each episode features an honest conversation with a leader, entrepreneur or expert about the real story behind their career: the transitions, the setbacks, the decisions that didn't go to plan, and the lessons that shaped where they ended up.Every month, Luella is joined by Associate Professor Michelle Gander (Murdoch Business School), an experienced leader and specialist in career development and organisational careers, to unpack the themes from that month's episodes and offer practical, evidence-based advice.Whether you're navigating a career crossroads, leading through change, or simply trying to build a working life that fits — Career Stories gives you the real picture, from people who've been there.Topics include: leadership, organisational
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