You're in Charge

Sheree Sullivan went from a jazz piano degree to running one of Australia's leading Brie and Camembert makers. Her family's goat dairy, Udder Delights, came close to going under more than once, and she says pain has been her biggest teacher.

In this conversation with host Sav Perera, Sheree shares the costing wake-up call that changed how she ran the business, the HR lesson she learned after handing a hard conversation to someone e...

Sheree Sullivan didn't buy her first house until she was 40.

Before that she lived in a shed, then a shop, then a flat, and kept putting her money back into investments and the business. A friend called her the poster child for delayed gratification.

The hardest part wasn't the hours. When her dad and her husband both said they wanted out of Udder Delights, Sheree wasn't ready. She led the sale anyway. She says she was grieving whi...

Andrea names the financial jargon that makes business feel like a closed club to a lot of women, then talks about the Women in Business program she started in government to close that gap. From there the conversation turns personal: imposter syndrome, "fake it till you make it," and her own self-talk, "tough it up, princess," the thing she actually tells herself when it gets hard.

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Andrea moves from why nobody starts a business "perfect" into the part guests rarely say out loud: she's bad at fitness, feels like there's never enough hours in the day, and hasn't figured out work-life balance so much as learned to be present wherever she is. She talks through burnout, the things politics has taught her are simply out of her control, and closes with her message to young women in business, it's your baby, arm your...

Before Andrea Michaels held three state government portfolios, she was born to parents who fled Cyprus in 1974 with nothing and landed in Adelaide because it was as far from home as they could get. She grew up sandpapering cabinet doors in her dad's backyard workshop while her mum worked factory shifts, and that work ethic carried her through commercial law, a solo leap into her own firm as a single mum, and eventually into South A...

Poppy Nichaloff built an online audience before she had kids. Now she's raising two young children and running a business alongside her husband that reaches a lot further than their own feed.

That husband is Jacob Nichaloff, known as J-MILLA, a Mak Mak Marranunggu hip hop artist from Darwin and winner of the 2021 Archie Roach Foundation Award. Together they founded Generation Rise, bringing social media literacy and mental health w...

Poppy Nichaloff had an audience before she had kids. Now she has two young children, a business, and a husband she works with every day.

That husband is Jacob Nichaloff, known as J-MILLA, a Mak Mak Marranunggu hip hop artist and winner of the 2021 Archie Roach Foundation Award. Together they run Generation Rise, taking social media literacy and mental health workshops into remote First Nations communities across the country.

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Taryn Brumfitt posted one photograph and it travelled around the world. What followed was 7,000 messages from strangers, a book, a Kickstarter campaign nobody thought would work, and a documentary that beat Guardians of the Galaxy on opening night at the German box office.

In this episode of You're In Charge, Sav Perera sits down with the 2023 Australian of the Year, founder of the Body Image Movement and co-founder of The E...

"How hard could it be to make a film?"

Taryn Brumfitt was a photographer with three young kids and no film experience when she asked herself that question. She had posted one photograph, a before and after that ran the opposite way to every before and after you have seen, and it went around the world. Seven thousand messages landed in her inbox from strangers telling her how they felt about their bodies.

She wrote a book. It did we...

What does it really take to lead at the very highest levels - and do you ever stop questioning whether you're good enough?

In this episode, Sav sits down with Professor Nicola Phillips, Vice-Chancellor and President of Adelaide University - one of Australia's newest and most ambitious universities, formed by the merger of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. With 30 years of experience across the UK and...

“Not making a decision is just not an option.” That’s how Professor Nicola Phillips opened her conversation with Sav Perera - and it set the tone for everything that followed.

In Episode 1 of You’re In Charge Season 2, our Vice-Chancellor and President sits down to talk about the leadership lessons that don’t usually make it into a keynote: the impostor feeling that never fully goes away, why self-doub...