Stories Behind the Grind

Stories Behind the Grind

Tactical tips for your business to help you simplify, strategise and scale up the impact you are having in this world. Building a community of like-minded founders to enable you to take back control of your business and your destiny.

Episodes

#80 Key Strategic Questions Every Business Owners Should Ask with Karan Anand

August 18, 2020 • 34 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, listen to my conversation with Karan, director of Monitor Deloitte. We discuss the 5 key strategic questions every business owners should ask, how to approach problem solving and finding the core problem and how to develop your own strategic thinking.
 
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How Karan's deeper understanding of identity led him to s...
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#79 The role of sales in how buyers make decisions with Darcy Smyth

July 20, 2020 • 24 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, you'll hear from Darcy Smyth, co-director of Why Bravo and the Sales Game. Learn how Sales has changed over the last 30 years, how your buyers make decisions and what role "Play" has in Business.
 
Topics
How Darcy got into psychology
What prompted Darcy to combine psychology and sales
Using selling to solve someone elses proble...
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#78 The Three Key Advertising Cycles and How To Stay Front of Mind with Kim Barrett

June 22, 2020 • 25 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, you'll hear from a Facebook marketer and best selling author Kim Barrett who is the CEO of Your Social Voice and has helped business grow to 7 figures.
 
We discuss where the opportunities are in the marketing world right now, the 3 key advertising cycles and which to focus on first and how not to fall into this common marketing mistake.
 
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#77 Breaking Through in the Social Media World with Mireille Ryan

June 8, 2020 • 31 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, you'll hear from Social Media marketing expert Mireille who is the CEO of the Social Media Marketing Institue.
 
We discuss how to break through to you ideal audience, how to resonate with your followers and what the future of Social Media looks like.
 
Also learn
 
How Mireille grew her fitness business interna...
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#76 How to Effectively Manage Accelerating Change in Your Business with Don Mackenzie

May 12, 2020 • 45 mins
On this episode of stories behind the grind, listen to my conversation with Don Mackenzie, managing director of Adizes. You'll learn how to effectively manage accelerating change in your business, the 4 key working styles that every business needs to harness and how to build mutual trust and respect  
 
How Don's entrepreneurial journey began
Lessons Don learned and carried through in his caree...
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#75 Diversifying Your Income Streams and Starting Your Side Hustles with Carrie Bohlig

April 20, 2020 • 26 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, listen to the conversation with Carrie co-founder of Tandem Consulting.
 
Carrie's lifestyle has afforded both her and her husband and to be full-time stay at home parents by choice & part-time entrepreneurs.  
 
What started out as side hustles, & an adventure into the world of entrepreneurship has enabled Carrie to speak to tens of...
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#74 How to Start Automating Your Business with Josh Lewis

April 6, 2020 • 45 mins
On this episode of stories behind the grind, listen to my conversation with Josh Lewis, founder of Dorks delivered, one of Australia's fastest growing IT companies.
 
We discuss how to stop trading time for money, whether to build your brand or build your business first and how to start automating your business whether you're well established, or just starting out. 
 
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#73 How To Make A Social Impact with Yasmin Grigaliunas

March 23, 2020 • 51 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind listen to my conversation with Yaz, founder of the World's Biggest Garage Sale who have diverted over 3.3 million kilograms of goods from Landfill.
 
We discuss why leading with authenticity builds stronger connections, the power of transparency in business and how you can get involved with the circular economy.
 
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#72 Future of Work Part 3

March 9, 2020 • 58 mins
This episode is the final installment of a 3-part special on the Future of Work. Once again, I was accompanied by Tim Walmsley of BenchOn,  Damian Walsh of Sidekicker and Justin Falk of TalentVine.
 
We discuss
 
How Benchon helps to bridge the peaks and troughs in business
 
How TalentVine allows businesses to leverage the time and cost of recruiters to fill po...

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#71 Future of Work - Part 2

February 24, 2020 • 55 mins
This episode is the second part of a special 3-part series on the future of work and I talked to Tim Walmsley of BenchOn and Damian Walsh of Sidekicker.
 
We focus on individuals and what they can do right now to make the most of the Future of Work
 
BenchOn and Sidekicker are both platforms that deal with the workforce of the future and enables individuals to harness their skillsets...
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#70 Future of Work - Part 1

February 10, 2020 • 39 mins
In this part 1 of a special 3-part series on the future of work, I talked to Tim Walmsley of BenchOn and Justin Falk of TalentVine. BenchOn and TalentVine are bot platforms designed for the workforce of the future. Both enable businesses (both large and small) to take advantage of future changes in the workforce.
 
BenchOn is an online platform that matches a business's idle staff to short-term contracts ...
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#69 Launching a product and going viral on Kickstarter with Tammy Rant

January 27, 2020 • 26 mins
Launching a product and going viral on Kickstarter with Tammy Rant
 
Tammy Rant - Founder of TushBaby
 
Topics:
 
Tammy's life growing up and the start of her entrepreneurial journey
What a TushBaby is
How Tammy got the idea to start TushBaby
On starting her Kickstarter campaign
On having a successful appearance on Sha...
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#68 How to Have Tough Conversations with David Wood

January 6, 2020 • 36 mins
After a full collapse of his paraglider 300 feet above the ocean, David sees life differently. He has been best described as “playful and deep,” and believes life is the best game there is.
 
David left life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies, to build the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and serving 150,000 coaches around the world.
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#67 Self-Awareness, Identity and Mental Health with Melissa Yu

December 23, 2019 • 42 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, listen to my conversation with Melissa Yu, founder of Australia's largest streetware and lifestyle expo.
 
We discuss how to develop self-awareness in yourself and your team, how to foster positivity as an entrepreneur and the importance of speaking up about mental health.
 
Also discover
 
How Melissa started her ent...
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#66 Overcoming Other People's Judgments and Expectations with Eleanor Carey

December 9, 2019 • 33 mins

On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, listen to my conversation with Eleanor Carey, a two times world record holder having rowed 5,000km across the Pacific Ocean and cycled over 3,000km across England.

We discuss overcoming other people's expectations and judgement, what to look for in a support network, how to keep going when you're physically depleted and lessons learnt from running her own startup hub.

What Eleanor ...
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#65 How to Overcome Shiny Object Syndrome with Aaron Birkby

November 25, 2019 • 33 mins

Aaron activates and enhances community ecosystems and organisations by developing the human capital and talent for high performance, enabling them to grow high-performing teams, who in-turn build high growth ventures.

Aaron’s background includes over two decades as a successful startup founder and ecosystem community leader, culminating as the 2016 Entrepreneur Of The Year, plus more ...

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#64 Micro Niching and Optimizing Your Time to Be Prominent on LinkedIn

November 11, 2019 • 23 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind the Grind, listen to my conversation with Adam Houlahan, founder of Prominence Global and a true leader when it comes to LinkedIn. We discuss what microniching and why it's so important, the fundamentals of creating high quality content, and how to optimise your time to build your prominence on LinkedIn
 
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Adam’s pivotal moments that ...

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#63 Developing Long-Term Customer Relationships Through Trust with Dr Karen Sutherland

October 28, 2019 • 29 mins
On this episode of Stories Behind The Grind, listen to my conversation with Dr. Karen Sutherland, who currently leads the social media and public relations disciplines at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and brings with her over 20 years marketing experience.
 
We discuss how to build trust and integrity in your business to develop long term customer relationships, how to best deal with negative feed...
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#62 Building Compounding Habits and Accelerating Personal Growth with Renat Gabitov

October 14, 2019 • 32 mins

On this episode of stories behind the grind listen to my conversation with Renat, founder of Prometheus and Lifestyle engineering, we discuss how to start building compounding habits, how to remain on top of your game and accelerating personal growth through the ADI method.

We discuss:

Renat's life mission of eradicating suffering and increasing quality of life
 
Dealing with higher order problems
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#61 Leading a People First Business with Daniel Gomez...

September 30, 2019 • 30 mins
Daniel is a Powerful John Maxwell Certified Speaker with 14 years experience in the arena of Leadership Development & Team Building, Sales Mastery, and Confidence Coaching.
 
He is the International Best Selling Author of "You Were Born to Fly", a book written to inspire and give people the high-performance habits and confidence needed to be the leaders of their own destiny.
 
Daniel...
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