Natasha is the head of operations and part of the executive team that plays a critical role in driving the growth and success of Lawpath - Australia's number one online legal platform that has helped over 300,000 small businesses across Australia. 

As a strong female leader, Natasha gets to champion the voice of women whilst also helping people fulfil their dreams of starting their businesses, something she is very passionate about after working in a startup that assisted both migrants and refugees in starting their businesses.

When Natasha first started at Lawpath, the team was very small but growing rapidly. Armed with a commercial law degree, she was employee number 7 and saw that the challenges and opportunities ahead of her were huge. Her initial role was in sales and customer support, setting processes, and building the foundations of the product, which has now evolved to focus more on operations and strategy development, and today she is the Chief of Staff at Lawpath.

As a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, it was due to her efforts that the company rolled out an inclusive parental leave policy that gave all parents the flexibility to adjust to their new family life. Today, with the platform's explosive growth, her leadership is constantly focused on building trust, loyalty, transparency, and results-oriented objectives in the team.

Natasha has been awarded as a finalist in the Lawyer's Weekly Women for Legal Operations Professional of The Year and is often featured in the media. She is also a speaker for Salesforce Live - The Small Business Show.

What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

1. Lawpath's early systems and processes and how they've systemised as the company as grown to serve beyond 300,000 businesses.

2. How Lawpath has built a strong company culture that has led the business to being nominated as a Top 4 finalist in the AFR's Best Places to Work in 2022. Natasha also shares how the business has managed to stay consistent as the business has scaled and grown headcount from a few employees to over 70 today.

3. How Natasha champions women in the workplace and has embraced diversity and inclusion initiatives at Lawpath.

4. How Natasha balances motherhood with leadership, and her advice to aspiring female leaders who are looking to develop their career and/or business.

If you want to keep in touch with Natasha, you can reach her on LinkedIn. If you'd like to learn more about Lawpath, you can do so on their website: https://lawpath.com.au/

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Are you looking to build a world class network and make an impact along the way? Or perhaps you're contemplating launching a podcast and are looking for inspiration. If so, this week's guest will inspire you as he has done just that.

His name is Rohit Bhargava. Rohit is the host of the Startup Playbook Podcast, a top ranking podcast which has seen him interview hundreds of successful founders, investors and operators globally in sharing their journey and lessons to help the next generation of startup founders.

Rohit is also the Founder and Partner of Playbook Angel Network, a new syndicate investment fund that invests deal by deal into startups. More recently, Rohit has just launched One Future Football.

What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

1. How Rohit launched a podcast which #3 on iTunes within days of launching and has gone onto becoming a leading startup podcast in Australia which has interviewed guests like Malcolm Turnbull (Former Prime Minister & Investor) and Cal Henderson (Co-Founder & CTO of Slack).

2. How Rohit leveraged his podcast to build a world class network within the startup and venture capital space, and how this has led to numerous personal and professional opportunities.

3. Rohit's new angel syndicate network - the vision, team, criteria they're using to assess startups, mandate and how they're looking at opportunities in current market climate.

If you want to keep in touch with Rohit, you can reach him on LinkedIn. The Startup Playbook Podcast is available to listen on iTunes and Spotify. If you'd like to learn more about Playbook Ventures, you can do so on their website: https://www.playbookventures.com.au/

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Are you looking to accelerate the growth of your business? Or perhaps you're looking to implement some growth hacks to turbocharge your product and/or service? If the answer is yes, you will love this week's episode.

His name is Tom Willis. Tom is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Lawpath — Australia's number one online legal platform that has helped over 250,000 small businesses across Australia.

After working at group buying business Spreets, he saw the power of combining marketing with tech to create explosive growth. This jet fuelled his interest in the tech space, and he went on to launch an online music tuition company as well as a Facebook community of over 250,000 followers.

Since then, he has won a slew of awards for his marketing genius, including being named finalist for the ADMA, Young Marketer of the Year, 2020 and Marketing Leader to watch in CMO 2020 and was the B&T 30 Under 30 marketing finalist. Tom also runs the online publication Marketing Trends, focused on what drives Australia's top marketers.

To add to his many accomplishments, Tom is also the marketing whiz at General Assembly. He has taught over 50 digital marketing courses and has provided bespoke workshops for leading national and global companies including Uber and the Commonwealth Bank.

In 2014, he met other aspiring entrepreneurs trying to solve a similar problem when together they founded Lawpath and today the business is responsible for starting 5 percent of all companies in Australia. His ultimate mission is to see small businesses succeed and break down the barriers to working for themselves and creating a livelihood. 

What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

1. How you can nurture relationships with other founders as a founder yourself, as well as how Tom met the current founders of Lawpath.

2. How Tom thinks of growth and has utilised growth hacks at Lawpath over the last 8 years to serve over 300,000 Australian businesses, and how is he is continuing to think about it over the next 18 months with current market conditions.

3. How you can intimately understand the different components (levers) of your business in order to successfully utilise growth hacking, as well as understanding which levers you can pull for maximum effect.

4. Some of the marketing challenges that startups are facing and Tom's advice on how they can overcome them.

5. How you can leverage all the data within an organisation to drive marketing efforts, including which metrics to look out for.

6. What Tom sees as the biggest marketing opportunity for Lawpath right now.

If you want to keep in touch with Tom, you can reach him on LinkedIn. If you'd like to learn more about Lawpath, you can do so on their website: https://lawpath.com.au/

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