Biz
BIZ is a podcast about work and how to make it work for you. This season, we're promising new wisdom, fresh energy, and zero fluff. Co-hosts Em Vernem (ambitious but efficient) and Lisa Lie (founder of Learna) bring real talk, real hacks, and real experience. No vague inspo, no recycled advice—just smart, straight-up strategies that actually work. Because work is hard enough without having to figure it all out yourself. Because work is hard enough without having to figure it all out yourself.
Episodes
When Sandy Li-Truong and Justin Truong started PUSHAS in 2017, they were sneakerheads solving a problem inside a subculture they knew intimately: buying rare sneakers required immense trust, but the market was plagued by counterfeits and friction. Having walked away from a predictable path in corporate law, Justin teamed up with Sandy to build an infrastructure where trust - not just footwear - was the actu...
As a student midwife, Remy Tucker worked with vulnerable new mothers and saw women forced to make impossible choices around basic essentials, including period products. She was eventually told that if she wanted to survive in the profession, she might need to switch off the part of herself that cared so deeply. She couldn't. Years later, that same instinct helped spark ON THE HOUSE, a business built around a radical question: what ...
Annie Nguyen arrived in Australia with a background in finance and business, but couldn’t land a job as a barista. So she spent less than $200 setting up a tiny market stall selling Vietnamese iced coffee instead. That stall became ANNEES, now a beloved and growing chain of coffee shops popping up across Queensland. In this episode, Annie shares how she turned genuine human connection into an actual customer-service system, w...
Anaita Sarkar is the co-founder and CEO of Hero Packaging, author of How To Sell Anything Online and her authenticity shines through to her MASSIVE TikTok following.
But in this episode, she’s not here to give you the polished founder story. Anaita shares the mistakes that left Hero Packaging staring down a $600,000 inventory bill she didn’t know was coming, the moment...
We're constantly told to earn more, save more and somehow become better at money. But what if feeling financially secure isn't just about the numbers?
In this episode of Biz, Lisa Lie and Em Vernam sit down with financial educator Jess Brady to unpack the emotional side of money, and ...
Everyone loves the idea of being their own boss. But what happens when your side gig becomes a real business?
In this episode of Biz, Lisa Lie chats with Cherie Clonan, CEO of The Digital Picnic, about what it actually takes to make the le...
What does it actually take to spot the next big business before everyone else?
In this episode of Biz, Lisa Lie sits down with Phoebe Pincus, CEO of Startmate, who spends her days surrounded by founders, investors and a LOT of startup ideas.
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There aren't many certainties in life... but tax is one of them. And look, on the surface it doesn't come across as the sexiest of topics, but burying your head in the sand is a surefire way to create unnecessary stress in your life. The sooner you get your head around tax, the less you'll have to think about it.
In this episode of BIZ, Lisa and Em chat to the Managing Director of HNRY to...
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the "right" way to work.
Get a secure job.
Start a business.
Build a side hustle.
Work remotely.
Be your own boss.
But once you strip away the Instagram reels and LinkedIn success stories... which path actually leads to more freedom, more money and less stress?
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Asking for more money at work isn't everyone's idea of fun. But in most cases if you don't ask you'll stay exactly where you are - so it's an imperative skill if you want to be the one rewarded.
In this episode, hosts Lisa and Em discuss how to effectively negotiate a pay rise with your manager and share anecdotes on how they've successfully asked for more money at work. From starting your campaign months before your n...
Making your job your whole personality is risky business. Because what happens to your sense of self if you lose your job... or eventually decide to move on from it?
In this episode of BIZ, hosts Em and Lisa are joined by author, optimist and Junkee Media founder, Tim Duggan to help you figure out who you are without your job title.
Our BIZ hosts are Lisa Lie - a former Head of People & Culture and Organisationa...
Pivoting careers can seem like a daunting prospect. But changing course doesn't have to happen all at once. Sometimes professional pivots happen slowly over time. In this episode, Em and Lisa unpack their own career pivots, sharing the different approaches they took to change direction.
From applying for jobs you might not feel 100% qualified for, to identifying a market gap and building your own business, Em and Lisa share the cha...
What if changing careers didn't have to feel like jumping off a cliff while risking that sweet comfort you already enjoy? In this episode, career coach Kate Richardson shares a practical roadmap for making a career change with less fear and more confidence.
From working out whether your new passion could actually become a viable career, to navigating a change when you're already running on empty, Kate shares the questions, framewor...
Are you, or someone you work with, a perfectionist?
If you have perfectionist tendencies, it can be frustrating to work alongside people who don't because you feel like they don't care enough about the work. And if you don't identify as a perfectionist but have to work with someone who is? Well, it can be equally challenging because things can be overworked, delayed, or shared way too late for fear of things not being 'good enough'...
You know that feeling when someone joins a project and you instantly relax?
And then there are the people who somehow create more meetings, more emails, more confusion and more work for everyone around them.
In this episode, Em and Lisa unpack the small workplace habits that make people easy to work with, and the ones that quietly make things harder.
They share practical ways to reduce friction, improve collaboration and become the...
There's no denying AI is changing the way we work. So how can we stay up to date with the evolving workplace while retaining our critical thinking skills?
In this episode, Lisa and Em chat to Inventium's Amantha Imber about how we can use AI as tool without relying on it. From how to write good prompts to having voice-to-voice conversations with AI, this episode explores the ways AI can help with busy work and the impact AI i...
The World Economic Forum says the most valuable workplace skills over the next few years won't be technical expertise. They'll be human skills.
In this episode, Em and Lisa unpack three of the most important ones that AI CANNOT replace: curiosity, creative thinking and leadership.
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Being busy feels productive. It feels safe. It feels like proof that you're working hard.
But what if all that busyness is actually stopping you from creating real value at work?
In this episode, Lisa and Em unpack why so many of us default to being busy when work feels uncertain, overwhelming or unclear. From colour-coding documents and endlessly refining presentations to filling our days with low-stakes tasks, they explore the ps...
What if the people getting ahead at work aren’t working harder… they just understand the new rules first?
On Biz season 3, we’re unpacking the work skills that actually matter now, and tomorrow. With the latest AI tools to elevate your work and time, to becoming harder to replace in a changing workplace, to the unconventional career moves no one tells you about. Plus, insights from leading experts, founders and c...
Thought bullies would disappear after high school? Turns out, those people grow older, but don’t always grow up. Now they’re the ones causing trouble at work, in social circles, and even at events. Unfortunately, bullying in adulthood is far more common than many of us realise.
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