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Disciplinn by Tony Simmons
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Why do some entrepreneurs succeed? How do they think? If you only listen to one podcast about business success, this is the one. This is entrepreneurs speaking with entrepreneurs with practical insights and advice for entrepreneurs. Have you got the discipline, to listen to Disciplinn?
Episodes
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E50 | Gabby Leibovich | Retail Legend | E-Commerce | Online Sales | Entrepreneur | Investor
Gabby Leibovich came to Australia as an immigrant child and worked hard. He worked hard at school, he and his brother worked hard at the markets to make some money and he worked hard to build one of Australia's best known and loved online retail brands; Catch of The Day. Gabby is a great…
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E49 | Jim Penman | Entrepreneur | Franchising | Customer Service | Sustained Growth | Jim's Mowing
Jim Penman started a part-time gardening business while earning his PhD in history at Latrobe University. He launched a full-time mowing business in 1982 with a $24 investment. He originally aimed only at taking on subcontractors, but his business grew and he gradually began to specialise in the...
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E48 | Laura Keily | Mediation | Advocacy | Start-Ups | Law | Barrister | Transformation
Throughout her career as a successful lawyer, Laura Keily felt a great need to address a common problem many people on the opposite end of the table were experiencing. She wanted to relieve her clients from the usual financial roadblocks that prevented them from getting what they deserved. In her...
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E47 | Chloë McCardel | World Record Holder | Determination | Mental Strength | Marathon Swimmer
Marathon swimming champion Chloë McCardel believes that we all have the potential to be great at one thing, but may not know what that is. For most of her early life, Chloe identified herself as the best in her class, desiring to swim her way to the Olympics. When things turned out to disappoint,...
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E46 | Larah Loutati | Entrepreneur | Customer Engagement | Product First
Many of us start off on the “wrong foot” or wind up in a seemingly dead-end job. The kind of place where our growth and need for creativity are limited. While a few of us stay, there are those who decided to take the plunge for little soul searching until we strike gold. Today’s guest, Larah...
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E45 | Brendon Gale | Richmond Football Club | Vision | Values | Team | Leadership | Success | AFL
Navigating the pathway to success isn't a smooth ride. With the bumps and reroutes you may experience along the way, how can you achieve the goals you have in mind? Brendon Gale has had an amazing career. He is the current CEO of the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)....
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E44 | David Prior | Entrepreneur | Brands | Self-Belief | Family Business | Values
Where does one start to describe Dave Prior? You can start with strong-foundations; his vision, commitment and self-belief. What about his history? Simply track the incredible story of his family, his understanding of the power of brands, the dedication he has to himself, his craft and his team....
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E43 | Ben Ross | Product Management | Go To Market Expert | Customer First | Tech Entrepreneur
Everything Ben Ross has done in his working life is clearly top-shelf. And throughout his career, Ben has been in complete control of his own destiny, stepping into different roles and guises in different countries and levelling up his career every single step. Ben is self aware, well-rounded and...
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E42 | Gavin Appel | Tech Start-Ups | Global Exit | Venture Capital | Scale Ups | Entrepreneur
Gavin Appel has the trifecta for any tech entrepreneur: - Global Exit - Partner at preeminent Venture Capital firm - Scale up and tech advisor to scale ups and large corporates It really is a journey to marvel at. Gavin believes businesses need to be close to their customers, and solving real,...
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E41 | Lahra Carey | Public Relations | PR | Corporate Communications | Storytelling | Authenticity
PR (Public Relations) is, for many of us in business, a black box, a dark art of achieving editorial over advertorial, of earned vs paid, of authenticity vs concoction; or as some call it, "SPIN". Lahra Carey is an ex-ABC journalist who was one of the forerunners in crossing over from media to...
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E40 | Kate Save | Entrepreneur | Shark Tank | Dietician | Food | Product Distribution
Kate Save CEO and Founder Be Fit Food shows us the science behind the weight loss problems that they are solving. This is a great interview to get yourself firing - health body, healthy mind. We also get into Kate’s entrepreneurial journey including obtaining investment from the Shark Tank. But...
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E39 | Barbara Hyman | Culture | AI | Hiring for Behaviours | Software | Team
Culture? What is it? How do you create a good one - how do you measure it and what do you do if you have a bad company culture? In this episode of Disciplinn, we chat with Barbara Hyman, CEO of AI software company, Predictive Hire. Barb has decades of understanding of what culture is and how to...
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E38 | Ryan Trainor | Serial Entrepreneur | Education | Esports | Generosity
There's a bit of Richard Branson in Ryan Trainor; a cheekiness, a realist, self-deprecating, humble, yet energetic, inspirational and a very successful serial entrepreneur with several gold-standard exits under his belt. Ryan is self-aware, really knows his skill set and has a storytelling…
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E37 | Justin Dry | Wine Lover | Entrepreneur | Online Retail | Niches | Buy-Back | Vinomofo
Justin Dry’s business career is very much like a good bottle of wine. The culmination of years of meticulously mastering a craft, and blending that knowledge into something that improves with age. In this episode of Disciplinn, Justin covers the highs, and numerous lows of getting to where he is...
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E36 | Lee Simon | Hall of Fame | Radio Pioneer | Company Longevity | Disc Jockey
This week on Disciplinn, we release a "pre-covid" interview (from early March 2020) with the living legend Lee Simon. Lee is an absolute character, pioneer and much loved and vaunted figure of the radio industry. He has been inducted into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, interviewed musical...
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E35 | Diony McPherson | SaaS Entrepreneur | Customers | Feedback Loop | Software | Google Culture
The life of Diony McPherson appears to be a rounded life of positive, perpetual, energy in motion. Far from being content having landed the dream job at Google, her and her husband Dean started Paperform. They've since met Google, and a range of industry giants, head on and have stood out above…
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E34 | Mike Rhodes | Search Engine Marketing | SEM | Author | Entrepreneur | Google Marketing
It’s no surprise that Mike Rhodes has built a Search Engine Marketing business of significant repute. If you looked at the timeline and events of Mike’s journey, you could possible argue that one couldn’t map things out better. He didn’t want to be an electrical engineer, so he moved into...
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E33 | Dr. Michelle Perugini | AI | Artificial Intelligence | MedTech | The Life Whisperer | IVF
Dr Michelle Perugini is not just a brilliant, she is a brilliant person. Michelle is a sharp academic, generous giver of time and dedicated and focussed business woman. With Presagen and The Life Whisperer Michelle is changing, sorry, making lives. With Artificial Intelligence, AI, The Life...
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E32 | Damien Mair | Design & Technology Experiences | Customers | Fusion | Marketing | Entrepreneur
For over 30 years Damien Mair has worked at the intersection and overlap of technology and design. Straight out of university he set up Fusion and landed his first client when he asked Apple Computers to use some of their computers - it was a massive sliding doors moment and a Lesson in “don’t…
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E31 | Radek Sali | Swisse Vitamins | Entrepreneur | Marketer | Investor | Culture Champion
Radek Sali always wanted to be an entrepreneur, and he personifies this crazy journey. In the mould of Sir Richard Branson, he has put himself "out there", been the spokesman and front-man of his company, gone high-profile, surrounded himself with brilliant and famous people, and taken all the...
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E30 | Gerard Holland | Entrepreneur | International Students | Internships
Looking to find your next talented staff member? Want to help students get a leg up in their chosen industry? Did you realise you could try before you buy for 12 weeks? It's not as onerous as you think and it doesn’t matter whether you get domestic and international students. Gerard Holland…
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E29 | Matthew Toms | Art Series Hotels | Deague Group | Irvine Club | Leader | Business Builder
Matthew Toms is one of the most focussed, most honest, most decent, hardest working people you will find. As you will hear, if his brain was a machine, it would be a spaceship travelling mach 100. He moves with a serious pace and with his work with the Deague Group, creating the incredible…
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E28 | Dr. Qusai Hussain | Mental Health Expert | Psychologist | Lawyer | Tech Entrepreneur
Dr Qusai Hussain is a Lawyer, Psychologist and now a tech entrepreneur founding online Telehealth platform Cyber Clinic. Receiving his Law Degree from the National Law School of India after which he practiced as a criminal defence lawyer, Dr Hussain then pursued postgraduate studies in New York,...
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E27 | Glenn Cooper, AM | Brewery | Marketing Guru | Sales | Family Business | Fringe Festival
Glenn Cooper AM is indirectly responsible for some of my biggest hangovers and there have been many. Coopers is an iconic Australian Brand and not just an incredible Australian business, it is an incredible family business. Glenn is the embodiment of the The Coopers story. A self-made…
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E26 | Lance Picioane | AFL Footballer | Charity | Foundation | Mental Health | CEO
Lance Picioane was a first round draft pick in the AFL - Australian Football League - with incredibly high expectations. But, playing Australian rules, where battle is done in gladiatorial like stadiums, was masking a private battle that Lance was facing. We all now know that athletes have human...
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E25 | Phoebe Yu | Global Entrepreneur | Online Retail | Organic | Product Sustainability | Ettitude
Phoebe Yu has created a global business (and brand) based on an innovative product that puts sustainability, environment and ecological benefits first. Ettitude makes organic, bamboo bedding, which is a completely new product that ensures that those who believe organic products aren’t penalised...
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E24 | Alison Hardacre | Tech Entrepreneur | Global SaaS | Healthcare | Halaxy
Alison Hardacre is an outstanding entrepreneur. She will be up there with other great Australian tech entrepreneurs. Alison Hardacre sought to build a global business, with global ambitions. and global scale from day 1. She wanted to fix the whole of the health care sector, all over the whole of...
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E23 | Dan Bennett | Crowd Equity Funding | OurCrowd | Investing | Technology | Israeli
Ever wanted to invest alongside Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg or even Elon Musk? Ever wanted to invest in the next Facebook, Oracle, Tesla, Cisco but though they were out of reach? Dan Bennett, Managing Partner of Our Crowd Australia joins me and he gets down and dirty explaining both crowd and...
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E22 | Supratim Adhikari | Editor | Journalist | Technology | Agenda Setting | The Australian
Supratim Adhikari is the technology editor for the Australian Newspaper. Prior to setting agenda's on technology and business discourse nationwide, he had lived in India and Trinidad. When he came to Australia he found himself as a chef at Attica, considered to be Australia’s best restaurant. Far...
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E21 | Rael Ross | Transactional Funder | Entrepreneur | FinTech | Finance
Rael Ross is a dynamic entrepreneur who has a resolute mantra: "stick to your niche, own your niche, own the market." It seems to have worked out extremely well for him. From having the CarSales of the Philippines, Chikot, to being the original charity consultants on retail product to now a finch...
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E20 | Mick Byrne | App Builder | Software Developer | Application Engineer | Entrepreneur
Ever wanted to build an app, or a piece of software? No matter whether you are a start-up, scale up, or enterprise, then you can’t miss listening to Mick Byrne, co founder and owner of We Make Apps. Mick is a developer who has spent over a decade running his business we make apps and they have...
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E19 | Sheree Rubinstein | Female Leadership | Women Entrepreneurs | One Roof | Gender Gap
Sheree has a passion that is pure and unfettered; supporting women in business, and at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey and removing the barriers for women in business. For some, these barriers may seem intangible, unrealistic even made-up. But, the barriers that females face in the...
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E18 | Will Irving | Leader | Super Executive | Telecommunications | Telstra | NBN
Recorded 9th September 2019 I'm fascinated by what allows some people to ascend the corporate ladder whilst leaving others in their wake. When you listen to my interview with Will Irving, you will start to have a much clearer picture of leadership traits and qualities. Will is one of the most...
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E17 | Cressida Wall | Policy Advisor | Leader | Impact | The Property Council
Many people want to make a big positive change. Cressida Wall is one of these unique people who takes on incredibly demanding and complex jobs so that she can bring about positive change and have positive impact in peoples lives. How many people go into politics thinking that they can impose…
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E16 | Steve Hui | The Points Whisperer | Entrepreneur | Frequent Flyer Points | Business Class
Steves Hui’s journey is a journey of many parts. From working class suburbs to a guru of using frequent flyer points to fly flat in business and first class. From small business accountant to the millionaires factory of Macquarie bank. From banking and finance at Macquarie Bank to start up...
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E15 | Jacyl Shaw | Innovation Leader | Digital Transformation | Hubs | Intrapreneur
Jacyl Shaw is a free thinker, a tempered radical and a boundary spanner. Innovation is part of Jacyl’s DNA she believes that innovation happens when you "...put people together, then get out of the way". Jacyl has advised Governments, Universities and Corporations about the creation of innovation...
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E14 | Heidi Holmes | Lucy Lloyd | SaaS Mentoring | Startups | Entrepreneurs | Founders
How do you turn a side-hustle into B2B SaaS platform for mentoring? Start a business with one of your old school friends, make sure you have complimentary skills, build an MVP, raise some capital, get some clients, get several VC's to invest - how hard can it be? Why mentoring? Mentoring can be a...
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E13 | David Shein | Unicorn | Tech Entrepreneur | Inspirational | Leader
David Shein is truly, one of a kind. David moves to Australia with no real networks or cash, starts a business in his next year, it makes a profit each and every year (WITH NO DEBT EVER) and sells for a $1BN enterprise value 14 years later - WOW! Along the way, this company, Com Tech, was thrice...
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E12 | Adir Shiffman | Doctor | Entrepreneur | Catapult Sports
Adir Shiffman was a Medical Doctor that couldn't stand the mundane. At medical school he started businesses, and he's had enormous success with almost everything he's touched. He's Executive Chair of global business Catapult Sports and he knows a few things about scale, growth and strategy. His...
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E11 | Evan Widmonte | R&D | Grants | Advisory | Spiritual
There is nothing better than getting money back for growing your business. It's a no brainer. Evan Widmonte is a specialist in R&D and other Government grants, helping businesses grow by massively improving cash flow - especially for startups. As an actuarial scientist and accountant, Evan found...
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E10 | Tim Fung | Airtasker | Founder & CEO | Disruption | Gig Economy
If you fancy yourself as an entrepreneur, then you will love this episode. Tim Fung has taken a non-linear career path that had him successfully co-founding and scaling one of Australia's most disruptive, successful, gig-economy marketplaces, Airtasker. Tim has grown Airtasker with his diligent…
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E09 | Darren Heveren | Accounting | Finance | Tax | Xero
“Every successful business needs a good accountant and good lawyer”, and it is 100% true. If you are a start-up and want some free accounting advice, listen up. Darren Heveren is making accountancy and tax sexy and on this episode of Disciplinn, Darren discusses business structure and tax. Whilst...
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E08 | Alan Kohler | Digital Media & Broadcast Legend | Consistency
Alan Kohler, a hugely respected icon of business journalism joins me on Disciplinn this week, allowing me to turn the tables and ask him all the questions. Alan is an incredible journalists, story teller, newspaper editor, TV presenter who has continued to drive into, and thrive in, incredible...
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E07 | Paul Naphtali | VC | Tech Venture Capital | Early Stage Investing
This week on Disciplinn Paul and I sit down and unpack the mysterious world of Venture Capital. We look at what makes VCs invest in founder, and certain businesses. We talk valuations, founder mentors, pricing, escape velocity, why failure is a nuanced word and what Seed, Series A and all these...
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E06 | Zandy Fell | Workplace Conflict Resolution | Zalt Group
This week I speak to Zandy Fell about her journey from the boardrooms of Toyota as their Diversity and Equal opportunity manager Employee relations Manager and National recruitment Manager To running her own business, The Zalt Group. Zandy says there is nothing soft and fluffy about workplace...
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E05 | Graham Hawkins | Transformative Sales Mindset | SalesTribe
Have a business that sells a product or service, or are a sales person yourself, then you must listen to this weeks episode. I speak with Graham Hawkins about Sales Tribe and his incredible journey from facing displacement as a sales person in a rapidly evolving digital world, to how he founded a...
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E04 | Jamal Khan | Start-ups | Global Executive Search
Hiring, firing and looking for great people - especially start-ups - this weeks episode of Disciplinn is a must. I speak with Jamal Khan, Managing Partner of Amrop Carmichael Fisher. Jamal has spent his working life in recruitment, building recruitment start-ups throughout the world, and now…
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An introduction to Disciplinn and Tony Simmons
Disciplinn has already had incredible feedback and listeners want to know who I am, what qualifies me to sit in the interviewers chair and why am I doing these interviews. If you have six minutes, all will be revealed.
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E03 | Paul Breen | The Bull | Retail Business Builder
This week on Disciplinn I speak with Paul Breen, AKA the Bull. Paul is one of the most down to earth people you will ever meet - he’s had spectacular business success, but as you will hear he’s also seen the other side and embraces failure whole heartedly. Paul is universally admired for his...
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E02 | Jason Ellenport | Mergers & Acquisitions
This week, I speak with Jason Ellenport, Principal at Edison Partners and Member board or directors for EO (Entrepreneurs Organisation). For any entrepreneur, Disciplinn is a vital listen as we delve into key tips for business leaders and entrepreneurs and what makes entrepreneurs tick. This week...
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Why do some entrepreneurs succeed? How do they think? If you only listen to one podcast about business success, this is the one. This is entrepreneurs speaking with entrepreneurs with practical insights and advice for entrepreneurs. Have you got the discipline, to listen to Disciplinn?
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