Best Mia Mackinnon Podcasts (2024)

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Season 3 - Coming May 14 1:11

7d ago1:11

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Unconventional Business is back, with season 3 coming May 14th. Follow the show and get ready to hear from some of our best homegrown challenger brands, including Airwallex, Tracksuit, me&u, HotDoc, Gelato Messina and more.By HubSpot

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More Plastic Than Fish: ZeroCo’s solution to the single-use plastic crisis, why the future of business is purpose-driven and how to crack a Kickstarter campaign. 47:34

2+ y ago47:34

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Every minute, a garbage truck worth of rubbish goes into our ocean. If we don’t make drastic changes as a global community, there’ll be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050. Despite what we've all been taught, recycling is not the solution. In Australia, just 15% of plastic that we send to recycling is actually recycled. The other 85%? It e…

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'We're in the Customer Service Business': How Prioritising Customer Happiness is Enabling Cars24 to Disrupt the $55B Used Car Sales Industry 46:44

2+ y ago46:44

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Australia's used car industry's worth $55 billion and about 1 million cars are sold every year, some are new, some are used. Despite the huge market for car sales and our reliance as a country on personal vehicles, the process of buying and selling used cars is fraught with risk and hasn't evolved a great deal over the years. Whether you're buying …

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That's Personal: How a Marketplace Model is Challenging the Norm for the Aged and Disability Care Industry 25:40

2+ y ago25:40

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Ever wondered just how the aged care and disability services industry actually works? Well, this episode's for you! Like many developed countries, Australia has an ageing population. Today, there are around 3 million Aussies who are aged 70 and older, and just under half a million people living with a disability who access support services through …

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Power to the People: How Good Empire's Empowering You to 'Save the F**king World' 50:44

2+ y ago50:44

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It’s been described as ‘TikTok for doing good’, a global impact loyalty program, and an app that empowers and challenges people to take action on some of the world’s biggest problems like hunger, poverty and climate change. Founder Andre Eikmeier joins us to share where his inspiration came from, how he realised that he didn’t need to figure out ho…

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Australia's Billion Dollar Problem: Clinical Trials, The Impact on Human Life and How HealthMatch is Changing the Future of Medicine 35:51

2+ y ago35:51

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Manuri Gunawardena was 24 and in her final years of medical school, working on a brain cancer drug trial, when she witnessed the inequities in the clinical trial industry and the impact on human life. One patient in the trial was able to navigate the complex system and access a clinical trial and drug that was successful in curing their disease, an…

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The Pet Ownership Boom: From Start-Up to IPO, the Qantas Partnership and What One Million New Dogs in Australia Means for Mad Paws 31:11

2+ y ago31:11

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From pet-sitting a Labrador named Honey for a friend, to establishing a game-changing partnership with Qantas, going public in the middle of a global pandemic and the acquisition of Waggly Club - Mad Paws' co-founder, Alexis Soulopoulos, joins us on Unconventional Business this week. How did Mad Paws, a business founded on pet-sitting services, inc…

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Bonus Episode: Unconventional Business live at GROW ANZ with Sweat's Tobi Pearce 29:52

2+ y ago29:52

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Tobi Pearce and co-founder Kayla Itsines grew Sweat, now a globally recognised fitness brand and one of Apple’s most downloaded health apps, from what was, in 2015, an e-book called the ‘Bikini Body Guide’' (or 'BBG', for those in the know). Tobi joins us in a bonus episode of Unconventional Business, live from GROW, to talk about the brand’s explo…

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Unrivaled Impact: Humanitix’s Adam McCurdie on Scaling a Profit-For-Purpose Business to Solve the World's Biggest Problems 46:09

2+ y ago46:09

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Back in 2015, co-founders and best mates Adam and Josh were looking for ways to give back to the world through business. They asked themselves: is there a way for us to break into an industry and set up our own social enterprise where we have 100% of our profits go towards closing the global education gap? Starting out with no equity and sharing Ad…

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Bonus Episode: Unconventional Business live at GROW ANZ with She's on the Money's Victoria Devine 30:04

2+ y ago30:04

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Building an online community is tough. It’s something many organisations try, and often fail, to do. So how did She’s on the Money’s Victoria Devine build such a large and engaged community in such a short space of time? How did she think about community building? And how much of the brand’s success does Victoria attribute to their community? Join …

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The Rise of Femtech: Modibodi’s Kristy Chong on Leading Social Change, Competition and Breaking Down Taboos. 37:35

2+ y ago37:35

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A decade into Modibodi’s impressive journey, founder and CEO Kristy Chong joins us to talk about where her big idea came from, how she's harnessed the intersection between technology and sustainability, and the mountainous challenge of launching a new product when your category is as taboo as periods and incontinence. We talk about competition and …

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Something's Brewing: How Four Blokes Are Making Booze-Free Beer Heaps Normal 45:21

3+ y ago45:21

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Ben Holdstock and Pete Brennan, co-founders of Heaps Normal, are part of a movement to disrupt an entire category and have set out to change cultural norms around drinking and destigmatise non-alcoholic beers. They’re part of a movement to disrupt an entire category and have set out to change cultural norms around drinking and destigmatise non-alco…

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Mission Critical: How v2food Are Changing the Hearts and Minds of Aussie Meat Eaters 53:46

3+ y ago53:46

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Australia’s one of the biggest meat-eating countries in the world. And demand-supply is a very real issue. If we keep eating meat at the rate we do today, we’re not going to be able to sustain it.Creating an alternative is all well and good, but as a brand, how do you change the hearts and minds of Aussie meat eaters? What does the future of altern…

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Playing By Their Own Rules: How Xero Changed the Bookkeeping Game 51:45

3+ y ago51:45

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Xero has changed how people think about accounting, challenging the status quo of dry & dull by going far beyond being a software provider, to impacting communities & the lives of small business owners. Today, they’re a rapidly growing global brand. But how did they do it & what does it take to reach this level of success? Xero’s Chief Customer Off…

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Doing Things Differently: How Tech is Changing the Property Management Game 53:23

3+ y ago53:23

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Owner or renter, we all have our property horror stories. Tenants late paying the rent, waiting weeks to have your shower fixed, no response from your property manager. Property management’s an old school industry with rigid processes and a pricing model that makes little sense. Co-founder of Different, Mina Radhakrishnan joins us to talk about the…

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Digging in: How iSeekplant pulled this industry into the modern age. 52:36

3+ y ago52:36

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You probably don’t spend much time thinking about heavy construction machinery or how that industry works. It’s not exactly sexy or ‘cool’. But it’s often those very traditional industries that are ripe for disruption and ready for scale. CEO of iSeekplant, now Australia’s largest plant hire marketplace, Sally McPherson, joins us on the show to ans…

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Vino for the People: How This Aussie Company Took the Snobbery out of Wine 53:28

3+ y ago53:28

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Standing in the aisle of the bottle shop looking baffled, being guided by an ‘anything but the chardy Aunty Jan drinks’ rule. We’ve all been there. Wine snobbery belongs in the past, according to this online wine retailer. Their dream is to democratise wine by taking out the bullsh*t, simplifying the decision making process and talking to customers…

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You Snooze, You Lose: Koala's Journey to Household Name 1:15:45

3+ y ago1:15:45

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From one of Australia’s first ‘bed-in-a-box’ brands, to exporting their products, & exceptional service, overseas. Koala’s CMO, Peter Sloterdyk, shares why the brands that do it differently are the ones that win, the dangers of choice paralysis & the lessons learned when they exported Aussie sarcasmLearn how Koala are thinking about localisation as…

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That Will Never Work: Tiles and Errors of Building a Challenger Brand 55:46

3+ y ago55:46

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In an era where almost everything can be sold online, selling tiles online doesn’t sound so far-fetched. But despite consumer demand & an untapped market, Drew and Floss were repeatedly told ‘that’ll never work’ when they set out to build Australia’s online tile store. We chat about transforming a traditional industry & the questions they had to an…

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The Postal Wars: How Sendle Took On Australia Post 43:01

3+ y ago43:01

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When we talk about parcel delivery, the likelihood is that we think about our personal mail, those new shoes you ordered, how long they took to arrive. But what does it feel like when you’re that business trying to delight your customer through a great delivery experience?We chat with Sendle's CMO, Eva Ross, on how you hit the trifecta of affordabi…

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For the Love of Toilet Paper: Meet the Aussie Toilet Paper Brand That's Making the World a Better Place 51:23

3+ y ago51:23

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Meet the Aussie brand that’s made toilet paper cool. We talk with Who Gives A Crap’s founder and CEO, Simon Griffiths, on all things toilets and toilet paper. Tune in and hear Simon talk about building the brand and their mission, how he crowd-funded their launch (including sitting on a toilet, on live stream, for two days), why they chose not to s…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Mia Mackinnon Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Unconventional Business

HubSpot

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Season 3 - Coming May 14 1:11

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More Plastic Than Fish: ZeroCo’s solution to the single-use plastic crisis, why the future of business is purpose-driven and how to crack a Kickstarter campaign. 47:34

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'We're in the Customer Service Business': How Prioritising Customer Happiness is Enabling Cars24 to Disrupt the $55B Used Car Sales Industry 46:44

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That's Personal: How a Marketplace Model is Challenging the Norm for the Aged and Disability Care Industry 25:40

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Power to the People: How Good Empire's Empowering You to 'Save the F**king World' 50:44

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Australia's Billion Dollar Problem: Clinical Trials, The Impact on Human Life and How HealthMatch is Changing the Future of Medicine 35:51

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The Pet Ownership Boom: From Start-Up to IPO, the Qantas Partnership and What One Million New Dogs in Australia Means for Mad Paws 31:11

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Bonus Episode: Unconventional Business live at GROW ANZ with Sweat's Tobi Pearce 29:52

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Unrivaled Impact: Humanitix’s Adam McCurdie on Scaling a Profit-For-Purpose Business to Solve the World's Biggest Problems 46:09

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Bonus Episode: Unconventional Business live at GROW ANZ with She's on the Money's Victoria Devine 30:04

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The Rise of Femtech: Modibodi’s Kristy Chong on Leading Social Change, Competition and Breaking Down Taboos. 37:35

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Something's Brewing: How Four Blokes Are Making Booze-Free Beer Heaps Normal 45:21

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Mission Critical: How v2food Are Changing the Hearts and Minds of Aussie Meat Eaters 53:46

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Playing By Their Own Rules: How Xero Changed the Bookkeeping Game 51:45

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Doing Things Differently: How Tech is Changing the Property Management Game 53:23

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Digging in: How iSeekplant pulled this industry into the modern age. 52:36

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Vino for the People: How This Aussie Company Took the Snobbery out of Wine 53:28

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You Snooze, You Lose: Koala's Journey to Household Name 1:15:45

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That Will Never Work: Tiles and Errors of Building a Challenger Brand 55:46

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The Postal Wars: How Sendle Took On Australia Post 43:01

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For the Love of Toilet Paper: Meet the Aussie Toilet Paper Brand That's Making the World a Better Place 51:23

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