Episodes
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Live Episode: In Conversation with Sharndré Kushor
In this interview, we are joined by Sharndré Kushor, a remarkable leader who has built a legacy of innovation and impact by the age of 30. From co-founding Crimson Education at just 18, to transforming access to global education for thousands of students, Sharndré 's journey exemplifies tenacity...
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Live Episode: In Conversation with Peri Drysdale
In this episode of She Started It, we’re thrilled to share our live conversation with Peri Drysdale, founder of Untouched World and a pioneer in sustainable fashion since 1981. Peri's journey from starting a knitwear business in her garage to building a globally recognized, purpose-driven brand…
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EP 1.7 Rachel Taulelei - Building Global Businesses Grounded in Tikanga Māori
Rachel Taulelei is an inspiring business leader and a strong advocate for the Maori economy, purpose-driven business models and Aotearoa’s food and beverage industry. She began her global career at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise in North America. Once returning home she set up sustainable seafood...
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1.6 Sophie Hallwright - Building an Award Winning Global Financial Education Community
Sophie Hallwright has had an incredible career as a producer for some of the biggest shows in Australasia. Her experiences have led her to now being a co-founder and producer for The Curve, an award winning investing and financial education platform for women. In this episode, Sophie candidly...
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1.5 Claudia Batten - What It Means to Live a Squiggly Life
Claudia has achieved global success. She left her promising career as a young lawyer at Russel Mcveigh to move to New York in 2002. She had ambitions to combine her love of technology, marketing and make up. While that didn’t go exactly to plan her optimism and work ethic opened up many more...
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1.4 Elise Hilliam - Feeling Fear, Doing it Anyway
Elise Hilliam is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Offer of Menu Aid - an online meal planning platform that is solving the "what's for dinner" dilemma for thousands of people with personalised recipes and smart shopping lists. In this episode Elise shares with us: Her journey from a small-town...
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1.3 Siân Simpson - Creating a Bountifull Life
Siân Simpson is the Founder and CEO of Public Rally, an agency dedicated to building world class communities and content strategies and has clients in the technology, music, AI, crime, legal and education sectors. Along with this, Siân has recently launched her latest venture Bountifull Media…
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1.2 Natalia Lopez - Leading the way in MedTech
Natalia Lopez is a Director and the Chief Operations Officer at Kitea Health, a medical technology company transforming healthcare for people living with chronic conditions. Natalia shares about the inspiring work she is leading in the medical technology space, and how her career journey has been...
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1.1 Lisa King - Business with Purpose
Lisa King is the formidable Entrepreneur behind Eat My Lunch and most recently, AF drinks. Her story proves that it is not only possible but also profitable, to create businesses that have a strong sense of purpose. In this episode of She Started It, Lisa King shares with us: --> About her recent...
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EP 28: Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone - A Conversation with Janine Grainger
Today I am joined by Janine Grainger. Janine is the Co-Founder and CEO at Easy Crypto. Janine first got involved in cryptocurrency in 2015 and saw massive opportunity. After founding Easy Crypto in 2017 with her brother, Janine has been a common name in the crypto scene in New Zealand. Easy…
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EP 27: Creating a Female Focused MedTech Company - A Conversation with Dr Jenny Kruger
In this episode we are joined by Dr Jenny Kruger. Jenny is the cofounder of JUNOFEM which is a start-up company with a product called Femfit, which aims to help women manage their journey to pelvic floor health. JUNOFEM ‘s technology originated from Auckland Bioengineering institute and is now...
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EP 26: Leading the way in Aviation Technology
In this Episode we are joined by Emily Blythe who is the founder and CEO of Pyper Vision. Pyper Vision is an aviation startup with a product that disperses fog to provide the visibility pilots and air traffic controllers require at every stage of their aerodrome operations. Emily’s company is...
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EP 25: Bold & Innovative - A Conversation with Veronica Stevenson
In this episode we are joined by Veronica Stevenson, who is the CEO, founder and executive director of Humble Bee Bio. Humble Bee Bio is on a mission to take plastic pollution out of the realm of individual responsibility and replace the materials that are used by industry when creating consumer...
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EP 24 - Young & Successful CEO - a Conversation with Amelia Gain
In this episode we are joined by Amelia Gain. Amelia is the co-founder and CEO of leading hotel management platform Preno. Amelia started her career in IT before operating a world-leading hotel in Queenstown. She became passionate about hotel operations and the guest experience, which led her to...
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EP 23: Changing the World with Deep Technology - a Conversation with Imche Fourie
In this episode we are joined by Imche Fourie. Imche is the co-founder and CEO of Outset Ventures. Outset is the home of deep technology, it is an early-stage investment fund and a physical space for technology incubation. As CEO of outset, Imche thrives at the intersection of deep technology...
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EP 22: Investing in Female Founders & Life as a Professional DJ - A Conversation with Lauren Fong
In this episode we are joined by Lauren Fong. Lauren is the network manager for ArcAngels, which is the female-led startup fund for Ice House Ventures. The purpose of ArcAngles is to increase investment in New Zealand businesses which are led by women. Arc Angles have raised and invested millions...
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EP 21: Leading the way in Biomedical Engineering - A Conversation with Dr Sandra Grau-Bartual
In this episode we are joined by Dr Sandra Grau-Bartual. Dr Sandra is a trained chemical engineer, she completed her PhD at AUT which led to developing a ground breaking innovation in respiratory humidification technology. Dr Sandra is now leading the commercialization of this technology as CEO…
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EP 20: The Power of Knowing Your 'Why' - A Conversation with Sarah Balle
In this episode we are joined by Sarah Balle, founder of Supie. Supie is on a mission to provide a better and fairer grocery alternative for Kiwis. Supie brings a new model of grocery shopping online, replacing in store habits with digital experiences for customers, while delivering game changing...
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EP 19: Determination & Success - A Conversation with Brittany Gribben
In this episode we are joined by Brittany Gribben, who is the COO and co-founder of ArchiPro, an online platform redefining the $30 billion dollar architecture and building industry in NZ and beyond. In this episode, Brittany shares about how her and her partner founded ArchiPro out of a spare…
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EP 18: Life as a Successful Entrepreneur - A Conversation with Cecilia Robinson
Cecilia Robinson is the founder and creator of one of New Zealand’s most successful ever start-ups My Food Bag – Cecilia is one of NZ’s leading entrepreneurs. A serial entrepreneur and innovator, Cecilia is now the founder and Co-CEO of Tend Health. Cecilia has won more awards than you can shake…
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EP 17: Building a Bold Beauty Brand - A Conversation with Monique Kaminski
Monique is the CEO & Founder of Jeuneora, a bold beauty brand that has seen exponential growth since Monique first launched it as a side hustle in 2016. Now as Moniques main hustle, she leads a team and heads the growth of the company. Jeunora specialise in premium supplements and skin care…
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EP 16: Life Well Designed - A Conversation with Shelley Ferguson
Shelley Ferguson is one of New Zealand’s leading woman when it comes to interior design and trends, Shelley is passionate about creating beautiful spaces and has had an incredible career as stylist and editor of leading interior design and fashion magazines. Shelley has been recognised for her...
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EP 16: Leading an Award Winning Social Media Agency - A Conversation with Wendy Thompson
Wendy Thompson has built an incredibly successful career as a global marketer and entrepreneur who has worked with some of New Zealand and Australia's most iconic companies. Wendy is the founder of Socialities Group, which is the largest social media agency in New Zealand. Wendy has been…
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EP 15: Financial Confidence - A Conversation with Catherine Emerson
Catherine Emerson is head of Marketing and Customer Strategy at Kernel Wealth, she is also the co-host of leading financial podcast "It's No Secret". Cat has built an exciting career that is motivated by ensuring millennials understand how to plan and design their finances to achieve their life...
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EP 14: Building a Fashion Tech Start-Up - A Conversation with Sarah Neill
Sarah Neil is the Founder and CEO of the latest Fashion Tech App "Mys Tyler", which is a venture-backed start-up disrupting the world of fashion. Sarah is on a mission to help women feel more confident in the clothes they wear. Mys Tyler is a Fashion App which is helping solve the $1 trillion…
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EP 13: Back Yourself! - A Conversation with Danielle Snell
Danielle is a leading litigation lawyer who after 15 years in private practice has established her own law firm, Elit Lawyers by McGirr & Snell. Danielle is a member of the Diversity Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria, Sexual Harassment Working Group (SHWG) and Women in Insurance.…
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EP 12: Goal Getter - A Conversation with Ana Meredith
Ana Meredith is an unapologetically ambitious woman who has set herself big goals, and is taking action to achieve them. Ana set herself a goal to own five houses in five years, she smashed this and is now working towards a new goal of owning 25 houses by 2025. Ana shares her journey through her...
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EP 11: Leading the Way in Data & Tech - A Conversation with Carmen Vicelich
Carmen Vicelich is a powerhouse entrepreneur who has built two multi-million-dollar, international data and technology business. Carmen’s businesses deliver game-changing value to a range of industries and are taking Kiwi technology and innovation to the world. Alongside being CEO of Velocity...
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EP 10: Legally Innovative - A Conversation with Anna Lozynski
Anna Lozynski is a pioneer of innovation, named one of APAC’s Top 10 Innovative Lawyers by the Financial Times. Anna is the former executive general counsel at L’Oreal AUS/NZ, a member of the board of advisors of the fashion tech start up Mys Tyler (amongst others) and also the author of a...
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EP 9: Confidently Thriving - A Conversation with Tash Pieterse
Tash Pieterse is a certified life and mindset coach for busy ambitious professionals. Tash runs an amazing coaching business, which helps people to overcome their self doubt, get direction in life, have more time and energy and overall create a thriving life. In this episode, Tash gives some...
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EP 8: Beauty & Brains - A Conversation with Emma Lewisham
Emma Lewisham is an inspiring woman, who is making a meaningful difference in the skincare industry. Emma and her team have developed a high performing range of skin care, that is changing the game by proving that great skin care does not have to compromise people's health or the planet. In this...
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EP 7: Level Up - A Conversation with Morgan McGregor
Morgan is a social media manager and the owner of HYPED which is a dedicated social media agency working with a number of kiwi brands. In this episode, Morgan gives us honest and inspiring insight into her career journey and we also discuss navigating social media and how to overcome the…
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EP 6: Just Go for it! Chase your dreams & change the world - A Conversation with Brianne West
Brianne West is the founder of Ethique, which is the world's first zero waste, full range, beauty and lifestyle brand. Brianne is a game changing entrepreneur, an inspiring business women and is not afraid to use her voice to speak up on important topics. Be inspired by this chat, to just go for…
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EP 5: Unlocking Your Purpose and Values - A Conversation with Catherine van Der Meulen
Catherine is a game-changing entrepreneur and business leader. Catherine now runs an incredible platform called "Entrepreneurial Women With Purpose". In this episode Catherine shares with us her lessons on how to create a career and life for ourselves that is filled with purpose.
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EP 4: Be a Life Enthusiast - A Conversation with Bridget Williams
In this episode Briget shares her inspiring story of following her passions to launch her own social enterprise business. Bridget also shares tips for overcoming our doubtful thoughts and living our lives as enthusiasts.
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EP 3: A POWER Mentoring Session with Rosey Nathan
Rosey is a successful career woman and also an executive ambassador and founding mentor of HerCareer. In this episode, Rosey shares her story, gives powerful mentoring tips and offers heartfelt support and encouragement to young women. @roseyhercareer http://www.hercareer.org/
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EP 1: Courage, Strength & Determination / A Conversation with Annah Stretton
In this episode Annah shares some incredible insights into her business success. Annah also encourages listeners to find the courage within their fear and look for the opportunities in every situation.
About this show
The Young Woman is a podcast for ambitious young women to be inspired, empowered and equipped with the personal development tools and game changing career advice needed to unlock their inner confidence and achieve, those big dreams!
Hosted by
Elise O'Halloran
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