She's The Boss Chats
by Jules Brooke
She’s THE Boss Chats is a regular program featuring in-depth interviews with amazing, inspiring female founders and women doing extraordinary things in business. There is one woman per episode and all of them are amazing! In each episode, Jules Brooke chats with these businesswomen about their entrepreneurial journey; from when they left school to where they are now (often a very wiggly path!), what their ‘lightbulb’ moment was, the women that have inspired them along the way and what they have learned from their experiences. You'll love the She's The Boss program if you enjoy listening to interviews filled with lots of laughs, great stories and oodles of advice and lessons learned from life's journeys.
Episodes
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Marissa Mascaro - CEO, The Candy Buffet Company
Marissa is a classic! She loved the company she worke for so much that she bought it! Growing up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Marissa's parents were great role models for her. Her Mum was a hard working hair dresser, and her Dad invented central locking keys for cars (I know!), so she had...
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Julie O’Donohue - Founder, Next Address
Julie O’Donohue is re-imagining real estate with her online platform, Next Address, which matches and connects property buyers and sellers. With an eclectic background in marketing, not-for-profit and a stint as a real estate agent, Julie’s focus is to maximise smart prop-tech tools, streamline...
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Renata Sguario - Founder, Maxme
Renata is extraordinary! As the founder of MaxMe, she is passionate about teaching so-called 'soft skills', those associated with EQ, to younger people. I have no doubt she will realise her vision and MaxMe will go global. Born in Ukraine (when it was part of Russia), she moved to Australia with...
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Katie Freeman - Investor, Advisor & Advocate for Women Entrepreneurs
Kate is an absolute firecracker but with all the smarts! After growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, Kate didn't really like school, or try hard, until she hit year 11 when one of her teachers told her to shape up, or she wouldn't pass, and so she tried, and ended up winning an academic award!...
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Eloise Tomkins - Founder, Get Over Yourself, Psychologist and Executive Coach
Eloise is so honest and transparent, that many women will relate to her story. Growing up in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne, as the youngest (by 18 years!) in her family, Eloise had a difficult childhood with parents who didn't really get along. At the age of 14, her Mum found a new partner...
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Cherry Wills - Metabolic Balance Australia/NZ
Cherry's story is bound to inspire you. Born in a little town just outside of Birmingham, Cherry's parents were very supportive, but the private girls school she went to, had identified her as an introvert from a young age and she felt, as she reached her teens, that they had 'pigeon-holed' her,...
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Nat Tucker - Founder, Make It Look Easy
Nat has an extraordinary story and an endless amount of enthusiasm and confidence to boot! Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Nat's Mum was instrumental in helping her with school as she is severely dyslexic. After leaving school at 15, Nat got into fashion retail where she quickly…
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Jodie Atkinson - Grief Recovery Specialist, Author, Cabaret Creator
Jodie's story will probably make you cry, as I did, but it is filled with hope and positivity too. Jodie grew up in Victoria on a farm and had a great childhood. When she left school she wanted to be a performer or a police officer, but despite trying out for both, she was considered too young so...
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Ildi Racz-Prosser - Co-founder, The Time Fix
Ildi's story is super interesting and we found it hard to stop chatting! Born in Transylvania (truly!), Ildi grew up with two parents who were in construction in Romania, a younger sister and a despot running the country. Not an easy childhood. Ildi enjoyed school, where she studied in Hungarian,...
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Peta-Gai McLaughlin - Founder, Iridis Cosmetics
PG is such an inspiration! From growing up in Penrith with two older sisters and a violent household, PG and her Mum then moved to Tassie, where she completed her high school and uni years. From an early age she had wanted to be an actor (why isn't that surprising?!) but her Mum was keen for her…
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Anna-Clare Longford - Lecturer in Construction & Founder of Master and Apprentice
Anna is such a trailblazer when it comes to women in trades. She was South Australia's first female tradie in the construction industry and her story is so positive and uplifting, it will have you wanting to get into a trade too! Anna had an idyllic childhood, growing up as one of 6 kids in the...
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Rachel Pietsch - Voice Coach and Founder, Now Your Talking
Rachel's story is fascinating! After growing up in Albury/Wodonga as a musical child - especially piano - and then going on to study music and teaching at Melbourne Uni, Rachel had found her passion. She married very young, at around 20, after falling madly in love with her husband, almost at…
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Yvonne Kelly - Co-Founder, Glow Up Careers
You MUST listen to this episode as Yvonne is truly making a difference in the world and you will definitely be inspired. After growing up in Ireland, Yvonne headed to Australia after uni, with a group of friends, and while she was here, she started using her HR qualifications and got a job in a…
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Kylie James - Founder, Kylie James Coaching
Kylie is such a warm and generous woman, you will really enjoy this interview. Kylie was born and bred in Cairns and stayed there til she was 17. She had a pretty horrible time at school with bullying, so when the opportunity arose to go to uni and then to Canberra for their Graduate Program, she...
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Christine Williams - Founder, Smarter Property Investing
If you love a struggle-to-success story, then you will love this episode with Christine. She is so inspiring! Having grown up with two brothers in a very working-class family, Christine went to 7 primary schools and 4 high schools, mainly because her parents had to move for financial reasons.…
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Louise Williams - Photographer and Psychologist
Louise's story is so interesting! Growing up in a tiny town in North Queensland, Louise was bullied at school and couldn't wait to leave. As soon as she graduated she headed for uni, where she loved it and chose to study teaching, which was the 'norm' for women where she grew up. After a short...
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Jessie Sadler - Founder, Christina Stephens Adaptive Clothing
OMG, you are going to be so inspired by this woman! Born and raised in a little town in the Gulf of Carpentaria (northern Australia), she had a great childhood at a primary school with only 30-40 kids, and then she went to high school in Cairns - a bit of a shock but she enjoyed herself. This was...
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Julie Hyde - Coach, Author & Speaker
Julie is such a lovely, knowledgeable and inspirational woman. You will love her story! Growing up in suburban Melbourne with one sister, she says her childhood was pretty standard. She didn't enjoy school though (other than sport!) and so when she left year 12 she wasn't interested in Uni, so…
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Christina Joy - Business mentor & Author
Christina's story will resonate with so many women! After growing up in a traditional Greek family in Brissie, Christina never really had much confidence or self-belief, so to a large extent she did what was expected of her by her father first, and then her husband of 29 years. Then she had a bit...
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Faye Browne - Co-Founder, Motto Fashions
In this episode of She's the Boss Chats, features an incredible woman: Faye Brown is a total inspiration. She is the creative director and designer of Motto Fashions. Faye shares the journey of her business, which she started with her husband over 35 years ago. She talks about the online and...
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Nicole Hatherly - Founder, Brand True North
Nicole is one of those women you just want to know! Born and bred in Canberra, Nicole and a friend drove to Sydney for a holiday when she was 17, and decided to stay! Within about two days, she and her friend found work and then a flat and they were off! Nic started off in hospitality but soon...
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Hacia Atherton - Founder, Empowered Women in Trades (EWIT)
This is just the BEST interview, because Hacia is extraordinary. Having grown up in a family of plumbers she is the 5th generation), Hacia grew up in rural Victoria and primary school was tiny with about 20 kids. During this time she was a complete tomboy climbing trees, playing footy and having...
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Belinda Bradford - Founder and CEO, Surf Getaways
Belinda is extraordinary and is an incredible entrepreneur and inspiration. Born in Sydney, Belinda and her family moved around a lot as her father was an engineer and her early childhood was spent in Papua New Guinea. By secondary school she lived back in Australia and in about year 9 she became…
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Lindsay Nicholas - Founder, Lindsay Nicholas New York fashion label
Lindsay is a totally inspirational businesswoman who started her business at 49, and has plans to grow it in Australia and the USA over the next few years! Having grown up in Wellesley, Massachusetts with a sister born 12 months and 9 days apart from her, and a brother born on the same day, 14...
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Karine O'Donnell - Founder, Projecting with People
Karine has a lovely calm voice and manner that just makes you know that she would be great at managing teams. Having grown up in Mauritius until the age of 7, Karine, her brother, and her parents then moved to Australia for a better life. Only it didn't quite work out the way her parents had…
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Jess McDonald - Founder, High Tees
I absolutely adore Jess and you will too! After growing up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne with a lawyer Dad and a fashion designer Mum, she and her sister had a great childhood in a close-knit, creative family. after finishing school, Jess got a job at Bakers Delight where she soon became a...
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Geraldine Cox - Founder of Sunrise Cambodia
Geraldine's story is truly remarkable. You will adore this woman! Born and bred in Adelaide, Geraldine left school at the end of year 9 and went straight to secretarial college, as many girls did back in the 60's. After a few years of doing general secretarial work, she applied for the Foreign...
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Therese Tarlinton - Partnerships Expert
Therese is amazing! Brought up in Brissie by a single Mum, as her Dad died when she was 5 months old, Therese had a wonderful childhood. She begged her Mum to let her go to a Catholic High School with her friends, and while she was there she did really well. It was a conversation with one of her...
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Natalie Dawes - Founder, Aliferous Leadership
Nat's story is incredibly inspirational. Nat grew up in the Illawarra region with parents who both worked in the steel works, and her father was a narcissist whom she could never seem to please. Despite the fact that she was an ideal student (getting 99.9 for her HSC), her Dad never really 'got'...
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Santosh Kaur - Founder of SmartHeal
Santosh is such an inspiration! After growing up in Punjab in India, the daughter of a businessman and an academic mother, Santosh had loads of female role models who were doctors and academics on her maternal side, making medicine an easy choice for her when she finished school. From there she...
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Lauren French - Co-owner, Motto Fashions
Lauren grew up with both parents in the fashion industry. In this interview, which was also live streamed into the Motto Fashions Facebook group, Lauren talks about how she grew to 'hate' Motto as a young woman after years of having to hang around in the factory while her Mum and Dad finished…
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Junie Baptiste - Poitevien, Founder, Propel Innovations
Junie is such an inspiration. Wait til you hear her adventurous life story! Born in Canada to Haitian parents, Junie was a competitive ice skater as a child (from the age of 4!) and she had an inherent curiosity and wanderlust that has taken her on a lot of adventures in her life. After being...
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Elizabeth Williamson - Conflict Resolution and Relationship Expert
Elizabeth's story is totally captivating. Having grown up in the outer suburbs of Adelaide as an only child with an older mother and a distant father, Elizabeth was always out exploring the neighborhood. She felt a bit of an 'outsider' due to her background and the sterile, racist, and…
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Simone Roche MBE - Founder, Northern Power Women in the UK
Simone is just such a wonderful, wonderful woman that you will absolutely love her story. As an only child growing up in Liverpool, Simone left school and immediately joined the British Navy. This was at a time when women were not allowed to go to sea, so she started off in the office and moved…
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Brenda Keane - Founder, Be Keane Fit & Healthy
Brenda is just so lovely that you will adore her! As the founder of Be Keane leggings and T-shirts, Brenda is focused on making cool, well-made leggings for women from size 6-38, which makes it the biggest range of leggings available in Australia. And it all started at a wellness retreat when...
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Shraddha Varma - Co-Founder, Fuzia (India)
Shraddha and her co-founder Riya Sinha are extraordinary! In 2017 they created Fuzia to bring together women of all ages for support and networking. Within months they had a million followers, and to date, they have five million women in the group. Howzat! Shraddha knew from an early age that…
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Kate Christie - Author, Speaker, Time and Productivity Expert
Kate is just such a delight to talk to! Having grown up in Melbourne as the middle girl in a family of five, with parents as teachers, she was always a great learner. Her Father had a couple of secondments overseas so she had the opportunity to go to school in England, and travel a bit of Europe…
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Cassandra Cadorin - Founder CanTicket and Candid Marketing
Cassie is amazing! Based in Griffith, outback NSW, which is where she grew up, Cassie has done so much, not least of which is her latest side hustle (on top of running a successful digital agency), she has created CanTicket. CanTicket is software for designers and people who work in teams and…
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Greta Haywood - Founder, Haywood Solicitors
Greta's story is so empowering. You will love her! After growing up in Melbourne as the youngest of five, with an artist mother who is a strong, bohemian role model, and a German father who was a journalist. Greta tells the story of how she got expelled from her first day of primary school - an...
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Jo Stanley - Founder, Broad Radio
Wow! Jo is, as you would expect, an incredibly easy person to talk to, and an absolute inspiration! Ever since she started Broad Radio (by women, for women), I have watched her grow the business and I'm excited to see what she does next as they do a capital raise and turn it into an app and...
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Jody Euler - CEO and Founder, redhotblue Creative Agency
Jody is a very stylish and clever woman who has been running her creative agency for over 25 years now. Not a lot of women can make a claim like that! Born and bred in Mackay in a very close family, Jody and her sister grew up exploring the rainforest and the beaches around the Whitsundays. Her…
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Vicki Stirling - CEO of Startup Victoria
As CEO of Startup Victoria, Vicki is such a huge supporter of founders, and women in business generally and it was an absolute delight to hear her story. Born and bred in a tiny village in Yorkshire, Vicki's first job out of college was to work for Nike in Amsterdam. She describes her time there…
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Sukey Xu - Co-founder & CEO of UMAMYA & CHEFIN
Wow! Sukey has a fantastic history of entrepreneurship and I was blown away by her businesses. Having grown up in a small province in China as an only child, Sukey only arrived in Australia as a young adult. After finishing year 12, she went on to study Advertising but soon realised her heart...
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Lea Boyce - Director, Boyce Family Office
Lea is such a warm and friendly woman, she is a delight to interview. Lea is the co-founder of Boyce Family Office, along with her husband. The two of them manage the investments, philanthropy, and initiatives that are generated by their own family and they also help other family-run business...
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Nikki Cali - Founder, Wisdome
Nikki is amazing! As a woman who likes to make things, and create solutions for people, she is now about to launch a platform for online learning, libraries of content and memberships, which she is calling Wisdome. Nikki grew up in a close family with lots of relatives and laughter! She first...
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Linda Fisk - CEO & Founder, LeadHERship Global
Linda is one of my favorite women and has values that I am 100% aligned with, so this interview was very special. Linda's group, based in Texas in the US, is about lifting women up, supporting successful women, and doing whatever is possible to accelerate their path to success. Her background is...
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Cynthia Peretz - CEO and Founder, Metrolinx
Cynthia is a Property Advisor and Buyers Advocate through her business, Metrolinx, but she has a twist! She only works with one client at a time which means she gives them her undivided attention until they have the house of their dreams and then she takes the next client. Howzat?! She also loves...
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Olivia Orchowski - Founder, FemTek
Olivia is the founder of FemTek, a smart ring, and app that has been designed to measure hormone and menstrual fluctuations in women, for use by personal trainers as well as for women to improve their body literacy. Growing up in Poland,Olivia has never really fit into a mould. She was always…
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Melissa Edyvean - Founder, Bondi Chai
What a story! Melissa is the co-founder of Bondi Chai, the first powdered chai product available in Australia and she and her partner Martin started it after discovering chai in New York when they were there for the beginning of the millennium. Melissa is so warm and engaging, and clearly, she…
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Christine Burns - Co-Founder, WALT Institute
Christine is an absolute firecracker! Having grown up in North Palmie in NZ, Christine loved sport, particularly hockey. Once she discovered hockey, she became totally focused on it and it informed many of her early career decisions, as she wanted whatever she was doing to fit in with the sport!...
About this show
She’s THE Boss Chats is a regular program featuring in-depth interviews with amazing, inspiring female founders and women doing extraordinary things in business. There is one woman per episode and all of them are amazing!
In each episode, Jules Brooke chats with these businesswomen about their entrepreneurial journey; from when they left school to where they are now (often a very wiggly path!), what their ‘lightbulb’ moment was, the women that have inspired them along the way and what they have learned from their experiences. You'll love the She's The Boss program if you enjoy listening to interviews filled with lots of laughs, great stories and oodles of advice and lessons learned from life's journeys.
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