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The Owners Collective podcast is a show dedicated to helping you build a better business. Whether you’re just starting out, or you’re looking to grow your global empire, this is the place for you. Each week we deliver a series of short and sharp throw downs covering everything from entrepreneurial mindset and marketing right through to finances, growing your team, making sales, and automating your systems. One thing you should know is that this is a podcast for business owners that don’t do boring. We’re not interested in same-old cookie-cutter approaches. This is real-time, real-world strategies that we’ve learnt from mentoring over 15,000 businesses. Most importantly, we’ll help you build the business that's right for you. Hit subscribe now to be notified when new episodes go live. To download my free guide to starting and scaling your business, head to theownerscollective.com/startandscale
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In our Future-Thinkers Leaders spotlight this week is Sarah Thornton, co-Founder of the Finders Keepers, Australia’s largest community of designers and makers. Having now led Australia's largest design community and her rockstar team for nearly 15 years, please captaining her events business through 2-year pandemic, Sarah knows that her introverted nature is her absolute superpower in leadership. In this conversation, we chat about how it is through owning her introverted nature that Sa...
There are 3 things you should know if you want to stay relevant in the rapidly-changing consumer market. Firstly, Gen Z now makes up 40% of global consumers, and 9 in every 10 Gen Z consumers believe companies have a responsibility to address environmental and social issues. Not only that, but more than two-thirds of consumers worldwide say they would switch, avoid, or boycott brands based on their stance on controversial issues. Put simply, if you want to grow your audience and your bu...
Having hustled up investors Sheree had created one of the most vibrant female-led co-working spaces in Australia with a vision to expand across Australia and into the US. But throw in a pandemic and Sheree had to pivot her model quickly. Closing down her physical space, letting go of her team, and starting from ground zero, Sheree set out to take her community online. Fast forward to today and Sheree has a lean and mighty team that leads a fast-growing community of female en...
As business owners big and small we have a monumental role in creating the future we want to live in. Every single business creates an impact, from the way you treat your staff to the toilet paper you put in the bathroom. Big or small we need to be conscious about each of the touchpoints of our business and make future-thinking decisions based on people, planet and profit. It all begins with leadership. In today's podcast I'm covering: Why we need purpose-led leaders now m...
Andrew Van De Beek the founder of Illuminat8, where they’re known for pushing the boundaries in their cloud-based, advisory-lead accounting firm. If you're totally confused about your numbers or don't know what you don't know - this episode is a MUST! Andrew is a gun. Why? Because he believes that the days of just doing the books and filing tax returns are gone. Accountants of today and tomorrow need to be more and do more. With this approach, Illumin8 have won multiple accountin...
Bonnie Paterson is an entrepreneur, business owner and Instagram marketing specialist who founded Isla Social, a multi-service digital marketing agency to give women the tools to succeed online. If you're just starting out, or need some serious direction on social media, this episode is for you. Bonnie helps us break down what's involved in starting a business on social media and how to set up your Instagram for success. We dive in to: The social channels to focus on as a business when yo...
Looking to build a team, or make your first hire? This week we welcome Paula Maidens to teach us all about building the right team for our business. Paula's previous role as Director at a global recruitment firm in London saw her managing big clients with big dollars. Within this role, she experienced complex challenges and difficult transitions, with lots of those difficult conversations that no one likes to have. Paula realised that these hiring issues were not limited to big busine...
Rachel Mounsey is a lawyer, small business owner, entrepreneur and creative, who combines her skills and passions to help conscientious, creative businesses to legally protect ALL of their hard work, so they have the comfort, clarity and confidence to scale for long term success. In this podcast, we discuss the importance of legal at every stage of your business. We dive into the issues Rachel sees in start-up & scale-ups, and the things we can put in place today to mitigate our risk. Leg...
Mikeila Scheckenbach is the owner and creative director of Bandit, a boutique creative studio, based in Sydney, Australia. With 10 years of experience as a designer, her skills are grounded in crafting immersive brands. Her bread and butter is understanding people's visions, their target audiences and visualising unique creative solutions. She’s passionate about creating a studio that’s genuinely fun to be a part of, where clients reap the rewards and everyone is having a good time! We're fea...
Ok, so you’ve launched your digital course, now it’s time to start earning BIG money from it. On this week’s podcast, we call in the expertise of Tina Tower to teach us how to get our online courses to the 7 figure level. Tina is an author, podcast host, business coach who teaches women to make an impact through online courses, speaking and content. Tina has helped hundreds of people package their expertise into an online course and launch it to the world. In this episode we dive into:&...
In this week’s episode, we chat with Jackie Hanafie about the power of storytelling & PR to effect positive social change. Jackie is a media adviser and PR consultant. A trained journalist, she has spent the past 10 years working with entrepreneurs, startups, nonprofits and thought-leaders to help them craft and tell their stories, influence public opinion, and connect with their audiences through innovative and strategic storytelling. She now runs her own PR consultancy, HumanKind Adviso...
Phoebe Blamey is the founder of Clover Financial and the author of The Happy Money Journey. Across her career, she’s provided expert advice to individuals, couples and businesses to help inspire people to build their wealth and achieve their dreams. Phoebe has a passion for helping women make good money decisions - so much so that she’s just released a book on it - The Happy Money Journey, based on friendly, fearless personal finance advice. In this episode, we explore the avenues to change y...
Human Design is a cosmic tool that organizes people into five different types based on their birth chart. It is believed to identify aspects of the personality including strategies for success in relationships, work, and life as well as life purpose. My guest today Cat Skreiner has recently paired her love of Human Design with her 14+ years of experience in Digital Marketing to help heart-centered leaders & business owners embody their unique energetic design to achieve more ease, f...
Sally Kellett is a professional meditation teacher, certified sound meditation practitioner and founder of Mirosuna - a wellbeing hub and mindfulness studio created for busy professionals to truly recharge. After experiencing the real, tangible benefits of mindfulness herself without giving up hours of her day to meditate, along with studying mindfulness both in Australia and internationally, Sally now teaches others how to bring meditation and mindfulness into their own lives so they see t...
Anna Tillotson is a Shopify expert. She lives and breathes this rapidly growing platform, with over 5 years experience inside the Shopify ecosystem, and founded her agency House of Cart to specialise in shopify website builds. In this episode, we discuss what makes Shopify the best platform for ecomm businesses, how to improve user experience, key statistics you should be paying attention to, and the plugins every Shopify site should have. ….. Loving the poddy and hungry for more?...
Bumble has seen astronomical success during its four years in Australia, with the app having been downloaded millions of times. To give us the low down on this incredible growth, we dive into conversation with Bumble's APAC Communications Director, Lucille McCart. Lucille has a love for purpose-led brands & Bumble is just that. In just 4 short years, Bumble has gone from a tech startup to a mainstream brand that has a cult following that empowers women to make the ...
Today we’re taking you behind-the-scenes of our High-End Hustlers mentoring program. We walk through what we do, why we do it and most importantly why it works. This is a program that has been fine-tuned over 7 years of constant trialling better systems, better learnings and better outcomes for our members. In all honesty, we aim for this program not only to change businesses but to change lives. To facilitate our members into a deeper knowing of themselves, their vision, and the ...
What type of energy do you find yourself in in your business? The energy of doing, hustling and achieving? Or more in flow,creativity and connected to your intuition? Often we dance between masculine and feminine energies in our businesses, and knowing when to transition between the two is the key to a better business and happier relationships. For this week’s episode we have called back expert Blake Worrall-Thompson to chat about all this Masculine and Feminine energies in business. He helps...
As an entrepreneur, it’s super challenging to know where to put your focus to grow your gig. It can feel like you need to be doing *all the things* and wearing *all the hats* in order to move the needle. But, it might just be simpler than you think…. I’m a big fan of making the complex simple, so in this episode, she’s throwing down on the 5 Key Areas of Focus to Scale Your Business. I’m breaking it right down and walking through the systems and areas that are essential for growing yourself, ...
Andrew Van De Beek the founder of Illuminat8, an advisory-lead accounting firm, where they’re always pushing the boundaries. Andrew believes that the days of just doing the books and filing tax returns are gone. Accountants of today and tomorrow need to be more and do more. With this approach, Illumin8 have won multiple accounting industry awards and Andrew was named as Australia’s accounting industry Thought Leader of the Year. In this episode we discuss Andrew’s unique pro...



