The Building Talks Podcast

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Talking with David Misson about what Business can learn from Elite Sport about Leadership, Culture, Developing people and Building Better Teams

2026-10-2601:20:31

Got a question about the show? Click here & Send us a text! Your best performer gets results, but makes life difficult for everyone else. Where do you draw the line? That’s one of the questions we get into with David Misson on The Building Talks Podcast. David’s career spans Australian cricket (with Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW), AFL (Sydney Swans, St Kilda, Melbourne Football Club), rugby league (Sydney Roosters) and other elite sporting environments. Through his business, Universa...

Talking with Mike Smith about Lobbying, Government Buy In and Getting Projects Heard

2026-10-1201:08:00

Got a question about the show? Click here & Send us a text! Ever wondered what actually happens between having a good idea and getting government to seriously listen to it? In this episode of The Building Talks Podcast, I sit down with Mike Smith, founder of Ethical Consulting and author of Mastering the Dark Art of Lobbying. Mike works in a space many people in construction, property and development deal with, but few really understand how to engage government effectively and build supp...

Talking with Jonathan O’Brien about Housing, Zoning Reform and the YIMBY Movement in Australia

2026-09-2801:26:48

Got a question about the show? Click here & Send us a text! Housing debates can get noisy pretty quickly, but this conversation brings something particularly useful to the table, data. Returning to The Building Talks Podcast for the second time is Jonathan O’Brien from YIMBY Melbourne. When Jonathan last joined the show a couple of years ago, we dug into Australia’s housing crisis and the planning restrictions making it harder to build more homes in the places people actually want to liv...

Talking with Simon Betteridge about Leadership, Productivity and Growing a Construction Business for the Long Term

2026-09-1401:26:43

Got a question about the show? Click here & Send us a text! What does it take to grow a construction business for more than two decades, build a team you can trust, and then lead it from another country? In this episode of The Building Talks Podcast, I sit down with Simon Betteridge, CEO of GVG Group, who has spent more than 20 years helping grow the business into one of South East Queensland’s leading builder-developers. We get into the Queensland construction market, leadership, produc...

Talking with Christian Schiemann about Smarter Buildings, Energy Performance and the Future of Property Technology

2026-08-3101:07:12

Got a question about the show? Click here & Send us a text! What if the biggest opportunity in construction is not just what we build next, but how we make the buildings we already have perform better? In this episode of The Building Talks Podcast, I sit down with Christian Schiemann, whose work sits at the intersection of technology and the built environment. What starts as a conversation about buildings quickly opens up into energy, innovation, retrofitting and how the assets we alread...

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