The Lazy CEO Podcast with Jane Lu

This week's episode is a very special one! Jane is marking a big milestone, her 40th birthday, with a tell-all letter to her younger self: the anxious version, the ambitious version, the broke version, the one who cared way too much about what people thought.

Joining her is her best friend Jude Batrac, a workplace culture and employee experience leader with experience across Coca-Cola, Google and News Corp. Jude has coached hundred...

In this episode of Help My Small Business, Jane is joined by Natassia Nicolao, founder of Conserving Beauty, the science-backed skincare brand she scaled to eight figures. With her experience building and growing a brand from the ground up, Natassia brings that hands-on expertise to review Amelia's business, Dulese, a natural refillable deodorant brought over from New Zealand to launch into the Australian market.

By the end of this...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane is back with Linda Hammond, co-founder of Quay Australia and founder of OTRA Eyewear, for part two of their conversation. If you haven't listened to PART 1 yet, start there - it's a MUST LISTEN.

In this episode, they get into the chapters most founders never talk about. Linda opens up about what it actually felt like to sell a nine-figure business to private equity, why the exit wasn't...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Linda Hammond, co-founder of Quay Australia and founder of OTRA Eyewear - the woman who quietly built one of the most recognisable eyewear brands in the world, sold it for nine figures, and is now doing it all over again.

Linda left school at 14 with no plan and no industry experience. What she built instead started with a market stall and a music festival in 1999, and g...

In this episode, Jane challenges the idea that stress is something to eliminate entirely, and calls out the rise and grind culture that has a lot of founders quietly exhausted. This one is for anyone who has ever felt guilty for sleeping in. In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why not all stress is bad, and how to tell the difference between pressure that sharpens you and pressure that is just noise
• Why the 5am club and hustle aest...

In this episode of Help My Small Business, Jane is joined by Hannah Vasicek, founder of Francesca Jewellery, to review Sylvie's business Unicorn Cart - a Shopify app that boosts average order value through personalised upsells, free gifts, and cart rewards.

By the end of this episode, you'll learn:

• Why doing one acquisition channel really well will always beat spreading yourself across five and how to figure out which one is y...

ICYMI: This week, Jane sits down with Eugene Healey, brand strategist, educator, and creator who has helped the likes of Google, Spotify, and Red Bull cut through the noise and actually stick in people's minds.

If you're still running the old influencer playbook, throwing product at lifestyle stars and hoping for the best, it's not going to cut it anymore. Eugene breaks down exactly why everything has changed, how to find an...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Natassia Nicolao, founder of Conserving Beauty, the Australian skincare brand she built on a Bachelor of Science, a proprietary dissolving technology, and a refusal to take no for an answer. Natassia identified a genuine gap in the market: people with acne-prone and sensitive skin being failed by traditional beauty. She built clinically proven, water-free solutions around them,...

In this episode of Help My Small Business, Jane is joined by Michael Porter, founder of Skin Control, Australia's No.1 Acne Care Brand, which sold over 4.8 million pimple patch packets in 2025. With his experience scaling a small, niche skincare brand into a national success, Michael is bringing that hands-on expertise to review Melanie's business, Youth Skin - a safe, effective deodorant brand made for kids and teens.

By th...

In this Ask Me Anything episode Jane pulls back the curtain on the reality of being married to your business partner, and the AI tool that's completely changed how her team operates. Plus what actually keeps her up at night running a nine figure fashion brand, and the apps and hacks she swears by.

Nothing is off limits.

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In this episode, Jane gets honest about what stress really looked like behind the scenes of building Showpo.
This one is for anyone who is in the thick of it right now.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why ignoring stress does not make it go away, and what actually helped instead
• The storytime of Jane's lowest moment building Showpo
• Why letting go is not just a systems problem, it is an emotional one
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This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Hannah Vasicek, CEO and co-founder of Francesca Jewellery, the Australian jewellery brand she built alongside her sister Rachel. Hannah started making jewellery at 12, was selling at markets by 16, and somehow grew the business while completing a double degree in science and law. She's since led Francesca from a weekend market stall to one of Australia's most recognised jewelle...

In this episode of Help My Small Business, Jane is joined by Brittney Saunders, founder of Fayt The Label, who built one of Australia's most engaged fashion communities from the ground up and scaled it into a multi-million-dollar retail brand with stores across the country. Now she's bringing that brand-building firepower to review Monika's business, IQM Store, an Australian online retailer of curated educational toys, games, and g...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Michael Porter, Founder of Skin Control, the Aussie pimple patch brand that became Australia's number one acne care brand, selling over 4.8 million packets in 2025 alone.

Growing up around his family's Four Seasons Condoms empire, Michael had entrepreneurship in his DNA. But nothing could prepare him for what it actually took to get Skin Control off the ground.

In...

After 15 years of building Showpo, Jane’s learned a lot about hiring, scaling, and leadership but nothing really prepares you for people leaving. In this solo episode, she unpacks one of the hardest truths of building a business: no matter how experienced you get, resignations never really get easier.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why resignations feel exactly like breakups and the different exits every fou...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Dr. Philip Mathen, founder of Veritas Executive Health, Australia’s leading clinic for high-performing founders, executives, and athletes.

With 38 years of hands-on medical experience, including years in Intensive Care, Dr. Mathen shifted his focus to preventative medicine over 16 years ago. Today, he helps high performers optimise their health, extend their longev...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with sibling co-founders Maddy and Dylan Jarvis, the duo behind Candy Claws, one of Australia’s fastest-growing beauty brands.

With zero background in beauty or e-commerce, they launched salon-quality press-on nails from Maddy’s living room in 2023. What started as packing orders themselves quickly turned into a breakout success, scaling to $20M in annual revenue ...

In this episode of Help My Small Business, Jane is joined by Jeremy Cabral, co-founder of Finder and a seasoned entrepreneur who has scaled a bootstrapped startup into a globally trusted brand. Jeremy brings his expertise in growth strategy and marketing to review Stacey Jane The Label, a luxury fragrance brand for homes and businesses.

By the end of the episode, you’ll learn:

• How to choose between organic...

This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Australian entrepreneur, content creator, and founder of Fayt The Label, Brittney Saunders.

Brittney has built one of the most engaged communities in Australian fashion, turning her personal platform into a multi-million-dollar retail brand with both online and physical stores across the country.

In this episode, they dive into:

• How Brittney built Fayt The La...