Best Sadhana Smiles Podcasts (2024)

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Active Followership & Humanistic Leadership/Lee Goddard 49:39

4d ago49:39

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In this episode of Business in Colour Sadhana and I talk to Lee Goddard who was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director and CEO of the Australian Missile Corporation. He is also a Non-Executive Director of AUSTAL and the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, and an Advisor to the Minderoo Foundation. Prior to assuming his current industry …

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EP 113 "Act on Values, Kindness, Wise Optimism & a Very Clear Vision" /Colin Mackey 42:07

2h ago42:07

42:07

In this episode of Business in Colour, Sadhana and I talk with Colin Mackey, a mining engineer and procurement executive who has recently returned to Australia from living and working in Serbia. Colin shares the influence of his upbringing in the UK and his time working on major construction projects. We are lucky enough to have Colin walk us throu…

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EP 112 Youth-led Impact in Business /Rosie Thyer 44:39

1M ago44:39

44:39

In this episode of Business in Colour Sadhana and I chat to the inspiring Rosie Thyer Rosie is the chairperson of Culture Spring, a youth-led social agency that aims to transform organisations, institutions, and workplaces to make them more inclusive and culturally safe for Australia’s young multicultural community. Rosie taught me the distinction …

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EP 111 Ask What I CAN Do - Disability & Gender Advocacy/Tricia Malowney 33:23

26d ago33:23

33:23

Tricia Malowney is a disability and gender advocate. She calls herself an accidental advocate and credits her mother for her can-do attitude and confidence. We talk about the slow progress for disability in Australia, compared to the UK. Some of the reasons Tricia cites are: the flaw in the ABS data, low funding, the low or emerging understanding o…

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EP. 110 Believe in the Twenty Percent - Disability Inclusion/Emma Olivier 46:46

1M ago46:46

46:46

Emma Olivier is the founder and CEO of Twenty Percent, a Disability Advisory working with Corporate Australia. With over 30 years of consulting experience and born without a left hand, she understands from her own lived experience the challenges and opportunities of having a disability in the corporate world. This episode is packed with practical g…

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EP 109 Solutions for Advancing Women in STEMM 50:52

2M ago50:52

50:52

Dr. Morley Muse is a Chemical, Environmental and Renewable Energy Engineer with expertise in waste-to-energy generation, wastewater treatment, renewable hydrogen generation, biofuels production and energy transition including storage, transmission and waste heat reuse. She has worked across academia, government, and industry including in consulting…

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EP. 108 Use Your Hypervisibility/Lisa Martello 50:02

2M ago50:02

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Lisa Martello is a construction project Director with a depth of experience leading high-profile rail, engineering, demolition, and construction projects in the UK and Australia. Think…bridge upgrades, tunnel ventilation projects, stations, and structures. She is also a Board Director and Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Portfolio for the Nationa…

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EP 107 The Personal is Political with Gender Equity/Angela Pippos 47:55

2M ago47:55

47:55

Angela Pippos is a Journalist, TV Presenter, Radio Personality, Documentary-maker, Author and more. In this episode, Angela shares her early love of sport, being a middle child, her parent’s influence growing up in a Greek-Australian family in Adelaide. She reflects on her father’s start - cleaning the floors and being a Props Boy at Channel 7 to a…

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EP 105 Invoke Empathy, Incite Action/Samantha Payne 43:31

7M ago43:31

43:31

Sam Payne is the CEO and Founder of The Pink Elephants Support Network. After experiencing her own pregnancy losses she identified a gap in terms of emotional support for couples experiencing early pregnancy loss & fertility challenges. Did you know that 100 - 150,000 women and their partners in Australia experience the heartbreak of losing a baby …

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EP 104 Pay The Power Forward/Meggie Palmer 35:52

7M ago35:52

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Meggie Palmer who is the Founder of PepTalkHer, an app that empowers women to track their achievements. Meggie and her team work with ASX and Fortune 500 companies to close the gender pay gap. She is a Queenslander based in New York. She is also an accomplished as she calls it, Recovering Journalist, with a career spanning, Channel 10, CNBC, Dateli…

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EP 103 Embodied Leadership/Saru Gupta 39:24

7M ago39:24

39:24

Embodied leadership is a powerful approach that sits at the intersection of body awareness, emotional intelligence, and nervous system regulation. Today, we’re so driven by our heads, that we’ve forgotten how to listen to our bodies, which is where our power comes from. This disconnect is underpinning our mental health woes, stress, burnout and exh…

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EP. 102 The Evidence Behind the Voice Referendum/Dr Shireen Morris 48:15

8M ago48:15

48:15

Dr Shireen Morris is a lawyer and an expert in constitutional reform and Indigenous constitutional recognition with Academic publications on constitutional law, racial discrimination and native title. She is also an actress, singer, songwriter and lyricist. Shireen is of Indian Fijian heritage, born in Melbourne to migrant parents. This episode is …

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EP 101 "I get knocked down but I get back up again" - YES/Rachelle Towart 43:10

8M ago43:10

43:10

Rachelle Towart OAM, is the Managing Director of Australia’s First Indigenous Executive Search Company, Pipeline Talent. https://www.pipelinetalent.com.au/ As a 100% Indigenous-owned business certified by Supply Nation, Pipeline Talent understands not only the importance of implementing a rigorous process to source and select candidates with the ca…

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EP 100 Embrace Your Story Fearlessly/ Yasmin Poole 49:29

9M ago49:29

49:29

Our 100th episode of Business in Colour is with Yasmin Poole, a public figure in Australia and globally known for her youth advocacy and activism. Through this episode, we get a window into Yasmin the person and where this advocacy was born. She recounts being a busker at the age of 8; the GFC’s impact on their family business; her mother's story s…

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EP 99 Transforming Trauma Powerfully / Yemi Penn 43:11

9M ago43:11

43:11

Yemi Penn is a Nigerian, British-Australian leader who has a portfolio career – she is an author, TedX speaker, Mechanical Engineer, PhD candidate, Consultant, business owner and serial entrepreneur. She talks about being okay with failure and really giving herself the permission to dream and execute ideas – something interestingly - we both found …

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EP 98 The Power of Bla(c)k and Women of Colour in Business/Priyanka Ashraf 47:34

9M ago47:34

47:34

Priyanka Ashraf is an ex-lawyer turned technologist building an anti-racism tool called Maya Cares (launched 2023) supporting the mental health & wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Black and Women of Colour (WoC). She is also the Founder and Director of the Creative Co-operative working closely with the startup community through th…

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EP 97 Health from the Inside Out/Jenifer Lee 47:07

10M ago47:07

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Jenifer Lee is the Founder of Wildly Strong, and winner of the Telstra Best of Business Awards for ACT, 2023. Jenifer is an industry-leader in women’s body transformation and lifestyle coaching and in this interview you will know why her approach is so different. She is on a mission to educate, empower and equip women with everything we need to kno…

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EP 96 Fahm - Understanding/Dr Fariba Behnia Willison 48:24

10M ago48:24

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Dr Fariba Behnia-Willison is an endo-gynaecologist, pelvic floor and reconstructive specialist. Fariba and her practice, FBW Gynaecology Plus was named the 2023 Telstra Best of Business Awards National; Accelerating Women and Championing Health Winner. Fariba also founded Desert Flower South Australia, which supports survivors of female genital mut…

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EP 95 Creating Inclusion in the Space Economy/Mani Thiru 52:03

10M ago52:03

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Mani Thiru blends her love for space and satellites with poetry, writing, bharathanatym and more. She is a fierce advocate for women and indigenous peoples to participate in STEM. She is the winner of the Women’s Agenda, Emerging Leader Award and Stevie Awards, Female Entrepreneur of the year. In this episode, Mani takes us on a journey through her…

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EP 94 The Path Less Trodden/ Mona Shindy 47:48

10M ago47:48

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Captain Mona Shindy was born in Egypt in 1968 and migrated to Australia with her family at the age of three. Her 32 year Royal Australian Navy career saw her serve on a number of the nation’s most technologically advanced warships which took her to all corners of the world. She saw active service at the commencement of the IRAQ conflict in 2003. Ut…

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EP 93 "No is a FULL sentence"/Natassia Nicolao 48:22

10M ago48:22

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Natassia Nicolao is the CEO and Founder of Conserving Beauty. Div first met Natassia as the Victorian State Winner, Telstra Best of Business Awards in the Accelerating Women Category. Div judged her at the Nationals and she wowed as judges. Here is an under 30, biochemist who leveraged the technology from water soluble bandages for burn victims to …

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EP 92 Valuing Lived & Living Experiences/Emily Unity 50:46

11M ago50:46

50:46

Emily Unity is a well-known mental health advocate, a software engineer and a creative designer. Emily has won a range of awards and we are so proud to be in conversation with them: to name a few of those Awards: 25 Under 25 Winner, named by the Future Minds Network; Multicultural Honour Roll, 2022; Mental Health Advocate of the Year, 2021. Check o…

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EP 91 Don't Erase Yourself, Occupy Space/Tigist Kebede 43:35

11M ago43:35

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Tigist is an Ethiopian who was born in Sudan and came to Australia as a child under the humanitarian program. Her parents named her Tigist which means patience, after a family friend shared that Tigist is the patience her parent’s needed to have hope for the future. You will hear Tigist’s heartfelt recount of her Mum’s strength and determination fr…

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EP 90 'No one is coming to save us, we have to save ourselves'/Nasalifya Namwinga 52:46

11M ago52:46

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Nasalifya Namwinga was born in Zambia, she left at the age of 11 with her family and lived in the UK and then New Zealand. She completed her schooling and tertiary education in New Zealand and is a senior clinical psychologist. She worked across a number of clinical and non-clinical settings before founding Pola Practice in 2018. In this episode, N…

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EP 89 The Power of AND - A Message from a Solo Dad/Michael Ray 47:14

12M ago47:14

47:14

Michael Ray is an advocate for Equality and Change, an Author and Speaker, well known for his contribution to the gender equity conversation from a Solo Dad’s perspective. In this episode, Michael shares his journey into fatherhood later in life, becoming a solo dad while his daughter was still young and being her sole parent ever since. Michael sh…

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EP 88 "2 ears, 1 mouth: As a CEO Transmit Less, Receive More/Graeme Beardsell 43:33

12M ago43:33

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Graeme Beardsell, CEO of Fujitsu, Asia Pacific, a global technology, digital transformation business. Graeme takes us through his growing up years, the influence of his parents, leaving school in 6th form, turning down a job in IT, his start in IBM and move to Asia, where he spent 20 years living and working. Graeme has some keen insights that you …

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EP. 87 Commitment to Community/Vincent Nair 41:31

1y ago41:31

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Vincent Nair is the Executive Chair & CEO of Smartech Business Systems. Born in Fiji his parents migrated to Canada. He shares with us his journey to Australia and the commitment Smartech has to people around diversity and inclusion See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Div Pillay & Sadhana Smiles

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EP 86 Open your Heart & Mind in Business/Helen Brown 42:26

1y ago42:26

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Our guest in this episode is Helen Brown who is the founder of Bisnis Asia and the Communications Lead for the Australia-Indonesia Centre. Helen is the former Indonesia foreign correspondent for the ABC and has a stellar 25 career in journalism, covering heart wrenching stories like the Bali 9. In this episode, Helen shares being the first in her f…

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EP 85 See the Opportunity & Seize It/Sharmini Wainwright 55:55

1y ago55:55

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Our guest today on Business in Colour is Sharmini Wainwright who is an experienced Managing Director with over 20 years in the talent space, leading the Michael Page and Page Group brands across Australia and Hong Kong. A former Chartered Accountant, Sharmini is currently the, Co-Head of the Page Group business in Australia. In this episode Sharmin…

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EP 84 Turning Plastic into Budgie Smugglers Jason Hoeung 44:51

1y ago44:51

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Jason is the founder of Supawear and 2Eros. He is a designer, diversity champion and entrepreneur. 11 years after he founded the business Jason started to produce sustainable swimwear made from plastic bottles. Yes you heard it right, it takes about 10 plastic bottles to make 1 budgie smuggler and they have repurposed over two hundred and forty tho…

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EP. 83 Servant Heart Leadership/Zii Nzira 50:22

1y ago50:22

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Our guest in this episode is Zii Nzira, who is currently the Co-CEO of Multicultural Arts Victoria. Having migrated to Australia from Zimbabwe in pursuit of an education in I.T, Zii has been able to evolve and establish a creative practice, under the name ZIIMUSIC. Through this he has not only managed to launch a multidisciplinary practice, but has…

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EP. 82 You are Enough, Don't Shrink or Expand to Fit/Sarah Ibrahim 44:56

1y ago44:56

44:56

Our guest in this episode, is Sarah Ibrahim, who is a mother of two, Principal Solicitor of Central Lawyers assisting small to medium businesses, with commercial law, Founder and Executive Director of The Racial Justice Centre, and Workplace Facilitator and Speaker. In this episode we learn about Sarah Ibrahim’s background, born in Cairo, migrating…

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EP. 81 Feel the Fear, Prepare & Do It Anyway/Nassim Khadem 50:36

1y ago50:36

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Our guest today on Business in Colour is Nassim Khadem, who is an award-winning journalist, reporting on business news across online, radio and TV for the ABC. Nassim began working as a journalist with The Age in 2003, including being the newspaper's economics correspondent. Before joining the ABC, she worked in various business reporting and editi…

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EP. 80 Recognise the Red Flags / Simone OBrien 48:06

1y ago48:06

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As we celebrate International Women's Day and head off to our various events, consider the theme for this year. #Embraceequity. I see equity not as something we need to embrace as a nice to have, but as a fundamental human right. We shouldn’t have to fight for equity, or justify it, it should be a given. Equity is about the financial, emotional, an…

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EP. 79: Changing the world one project at a time/Aseel Tayah 49:56

1y ago49:56

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This episode features Aseel Tayah who is a leading practitioner, creative producer and the founder and CEO of Bukjeh. Her work is deeply committed to making social change through the arts, culture and education. This Melbourne Based-Palestinian artist is, the eldest of 5 children and was taught by her father – a Professor in science to ask why and …

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EP. 78: Modelling a Change Movement/Anyier Yuol 49:56

1+ y ago49:56

49:56

Anyier Yuol is a human rights and diversity, equity & inclusion activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Anyier Model Management and the Founder and Chair of Lead Beyond Education & Miss Sahara. Her numerous awards include; a Young woman of the West 2020 (highly commended); PhD scholarship at Western Sydney University 2019; Zonta International Distr…

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EP. 77: 'You are your Ancestor's Wildest Dreams"/Ilanit Bard 41:10

1+ y ago41:10

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Our guest in this episode is Ilanit Bard who is an outstanding leader and innovator in the food service and fine dining industry. Born in France to a North African Mother and a Middle Eastern Father, she says, fitting in, has always been her priority growing up. In this episode we talk to Ilanit about her career transitions from developing corporat…

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EP 76: Every Dish Tells A Story Wanitha Tanasingam 54:39

1+ y ago54:39

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Wanitha Tanasingam has a unique ability to help people expand perception beyond preconceived notions using 'FoodPrints'. Cross-cultural connections between peoples, cultures and history. Through food and cooking, she builds mindfulness around nourishing oneself, one’s community and world - drawing out analogies to broader social, environmental, and…

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Top pick from 2022: Jahin Tanvir: How to value your Identity as Your Superpower 48:04

1+ y ago48:04

48:04

Sadhana and I are reflecting on 2022 and have chosen 5 top picks from the year to re-air across December. This episode is with the magnetic Jahin Tanvir, CEO of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, 3-time TEDx Speaker, a Keynote Speaker & MC, UNICEF Young Ambassador, Young Australian of the Year, Finalist 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Au…

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Top pick from 2022: Zoe Daniel: How to Find Your Voice 52:53

1+ y ago52:53

52:53

Sadhana and I are reflecting on 2022 and have chosen 5 top picks from the year to re-air across December. This episode is a standout and feels a little, like our contribution to recording history. We interviewed Zoe Daniel a Teal Independent candidate in March 2022 this year ahead of the May 2022 election and it is so wonderful to see her use your …

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Top pick from 2022: Kemi Nekvapil/How to Unlock Your Power 1:01:29

1+ y ago1:01:29

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Sadhana and I have picked 5 episodes as our topic picks for 2022 that will re-air through December. They capture our core messages to the business community and people everywhere about valuing and including difference. This episode with Kemi Nekvapil talks about Power - how we give it up, how we lose it, how it is taken from us, how we reclaim it. …

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EP 75 Paula Kruger/ Why Diversity Shouldn't be a Problem to Solve 44:50

1+ y ago44:50

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Soak up the amazing Paula Kruger, she is warm, funny, smart and vivacious. She is currently the Talent Manager at the ABC. We learn about her Fijian, German, Australian background and how she has embraced all parts of her being and belonging. Throughout this conversation, we hear Paula’s self-leadership, how she feels the fear and runs towards it a…

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EP. 74 Dianne McGrath/ How to Design for Diversity & Inclusion 56:47

1+ y ago56:47

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Dianne McGrath is one of Australia’s leading sustainability experts, holds three degrees in sustainability including a PhD, and is a member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals. She has lived her life challenging what others thought impossible, whether that was to live a year with no single-use plastics, prepare for a fully-…

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EP 73 Ashara Wills/How to lead yourself to Create Impact 39:16

1+ y ago39:16

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Ashara Wills is a multicultural professional who has worked through the ups and downs, curves and corners of being queer from a young age. She has established a strong foundation of support through her family, friends and networks whilst also surrounding herself in the community services sector. Ashara has always been an advocate of the LGBTIQA+ co…

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EP 72 Michelle Loader/ How 'Partnership' is the New Leadership 51:18

1+ y ago51:18

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In this episode we interview Michelle Loader, Managing Director of Fisher Leadership who cares as much as about the individual's diversity as she cares about the organisation as a whole, including the Board. We ask her the tough questions about why leaders are so slow in making progress on gender, culture and other diversities; and what she is doin…

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EP 71 Amna Karra Hassan/How to Mobilise Allies to Make Change 58:41

1+ y ago58:41

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Imagine starting an AFL team with no funding, no coach and no experience. It takes a strong woman who’s not afraid to break all the rules to tackle a task this insurmountable. It takes Amna Karra-Hassan. The Founder and President of the Auburn Giants Australian Football Club, Amna Karra-Hassan has pioneered programs for women of minority communitie…

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EP 70 Manjula O'Connor - Daughters of Durga 55:41

1+ y ago55:41

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Professor Manjula O’Connor is a psychiatrist with special interest in migrant women’s mental health, complex trauma and family violence. She is Hon Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne. She was conferred Adjunct Professor University of New South Wales Department of Social Sciences in 2021. Manjula Cha…

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EP 69 Ariel Weindling/ #Notme - Less Words More Action 44:10

1+ y ago44:10

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In this episode we interview Ariel Weindling who is an employment lawyer and Founder of NotMe Solutions – a practical and empowering tech solution to prevent and address negative behaviours at work, bringing transformational change to the old way of reporting and complaints handling. With the rate of whistleblowing in the Australian media of miscon…

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EP 68 Shivani Gupta - Branson, Bridgerton & Ms Marvel 54:17

1+ y ago54:17

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What do Branson, Bridgeton & Ms Marvel have in common, well you will have to tune into our conversation with the fabulous Shivani Gupta to find out. Shivani is a Mental Wellness Expert, Speaker, Author and Mentor and is obsessed with everyone having tips and strategies to manage their mental wellness. Shivani has suffered sexual abuse, racial abuse…

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Ep 67 Michelle Gibbings - Influence Up 43:20

1+ y ago43:20

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Michelle Gibbings is an author of 3 books, Dare to Lead coach, Global Keynote Speaker, and is on a mission to help leaders, teams and organisations create successful workplaces. Comfortable with getting uncomfortable, Michelle is at the forefront of creating workplace success by helping people embrace the unknown and fall in love with change. We ta…

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