Episodes

  • Succeeding as a Mother in Leadership with Natasha Hannah
    Oct 17 2022

    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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    43 mins
  • Launching an angel syndicate network and a top-rated podcast with Rohit Bhargava
    Oct 4 2022

    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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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Lessons from a growth hacker: taking your startup from 0 to 300k clients with Tom Willis
    Sep 28 2022

    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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    47 mins
  • How to grow your TikTok and work with big brands with Adrian Widjonarko
    Sep 20 2022

    Are you looking to grow your Instagram or TikTok? Or perhaps you're already a content creator and would love to work with big brands. If so, you will love today's guest because he has done exactly that.

    His name is Adrian Widjonarko. Adrian is a digital creator best known for the catchphrase Places in Sydney You Must Visit. By day, he is an Account Manager at Sanofi. By night, he is a foodie trying out the latest and greatest restaurants and foodie spots around Sydney, sharing his findings and experiences on social media.

    Since starting content creation, Adrian has amassed over 107k followers on Instagram, while growing his TikTok to over 178k followers. His Tiktoks have amassed close to 12m likes collectively and he is constantly featured in News.com.au, Daily Mail and Good Food for his unique finds and food hacks. Adrian has also worked with top brands like AMEX, Pinterest and Ben & Jerry’s.

    So if you're a content creator, stay tuned as Adrian shares about his journey online and how he's growing his influence.

    What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

    1. How Adrian started his content creation journey as a food influencer and what inspires him to continue sharing and growing.

    2. Adrian's creative process from ideation to post-production, including how he has systemised and streamlined the process.

    3. Adrian's experience working with big brands like AMEX, Woolworths and Ben & Jerry's, including what it's like working with them, what they're looking for and how you can work with them too.

    4. How Adrian is continuously been featured in media outlets, such as News.com.au, The Daily Mail and Good Food for his unique finds and food hacks, and how these features have helped him to grow his personal brand partnerships.

    5. Adrian's general advice to entrepreneurs and aspiring content creators.

    If you want to keep in touch with Adrian, you can reach him on Instagram (@adrianwidjy) or on TikTok (@adrianwidjy).

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • How to raise $10+ million for your startup with Dominic Woolrych
    Sep 13 2022

    Are you looking to raise capital for your startup? Or perhaps you aren't actively looking to raise capital but are curious on how you can build a reputation and stay relevant amongst venture capitalists and investors. If so, you will love this episode and today's guest.

    His name is Dominic Woolrych and he is the co-founder of Lawpath — Australia's number one online legal platform that has helped over 300,000 small businesses across Australia. In 2022, Dom became the finalist at SmallBiz Young Hero Awards in the Young Innovator category and was voted as one of the top 20 University of Technology Sydney Alumni.

    As a young entrepreneur, Dom first cut his teeth as a commercial lawyer at MinsterEllison, Australia's largest law firm, where he realised that only a select handful of businesses could afford top legal advice. Together with his co-founder, he witnessed how other industries moved their services online and applied this principle to the legal sector.

    Dom's vision for Lawpath is to build the digital platform and help small businesses globally to access legal support at a fraction of the traditional system's time, cost, and complexity.

    Today Lawpath is recognised as one of the top 10 legal start-ups in Australia and the top 50 globally. It has also been recognised as one of the AFR’s top 50 fastest growing business in Australia, while also having been nominated for a slew of awards including the 2022 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies and a finalist in the Australian Financial Review’s Best Places to Work in 2022.

    What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

    1. What inspired Dominic to embark on revolutionising the legal industry and pioneer legal technology in Australia.

    2. How Dominic leverages working with the competition and industry players to create synergistic outcomes and partnerships, and where he sees Lawpath in the next 5-10 years.

    3. How entrepreneurs can start and navigate the capital raising process, whether or not they are actively looking to raise capital, as well as how Lawpath has attracted 

    4. How startups can attract big strategic investors, family offices and VCs to their board, in addition to how startups can deal with board members and corporate governance effectively.

    5. How Dominic is navigating Lawpath's next capital raising process as a venture backed startup with valuations down, and how he sees growth over the next 12-18 months.

    6. How he has approached building a high performance team and strong company culture, including being a finalist in the Australian Financial Review's Best Places to Work 2022. As well as how he's planning to attract and retain talent, in addition to activating intellectual property within the business.

    If you want to keep in touch with Dominic, 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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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Self-love, vulnerability & having an empowered relationship with ourself with Ambra Liew
    May 6 2021

    Ambra Liew is a trained and certified CHEK holistic life coach that helps millennial women be unapologetic about who they are, learn how to love themselves, discover their purpose and manifest their dream careers.

    What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

    1. Ambra's backstory, including what inspired her to become a wholistic empowerment coach working with millennial women, her experience with eating disorders previously, and how she overcame them through fostering a healthier relationship with herself.

    2. How can we harbour a healthy relationship with ourselves through self-love, dissolve charges associated with self-doubt and low worthiness, in addition to the power of opening up and expressing vulnerability in the presence of a safe space (and how we can do that).

    3. How we can move on from relationships that no longer serve us, ending them with love & gratitude. Ambra also shared how we can open ourselves up to not only giving love, but also adequately receiving it,

    Listen to the full episode to learn more about these topics.
     
    Ambra shares lots of content around these topics on Instagram. You can catch her @ambraliew. She also offers 1-on-1 personalised coaching. You can DM her on Instagram for a free consultation.

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    59 mins
  • Transmuting sexual energy, strategic courtship & building an empowered generational family legacy with Nakada Brown
    Mar 23 2021

    Nakada Brown is an entrepreneur, author, coach & an avid student of esoteric and metaphysical sciences. Nakada refers to himself as America's premier expert on helping men to find their purpose before looking for love or engaging in relationships.

    He is on a mission to help 100,000 men in North America find and follow their life's purpose. Through his work, Nakada proves why it's detrimental for a man to pursue love before pursuing his purpose. More recently, he's branched out into Human Design, incorporating it into his coaching practice.

    Nakada is the author of Heart on Break, a book advocating men to take a break from relationships to become a better man through finding, and pursuing, their life's purpose. Some of the topics in this interview refer to concepts in the book.

    What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

    1. Nakada's backstory and what has inspired him to pursue his current mission of helping men to find their purpose and embrace healthy masculinity.

    2. How Nakada recommends men to start the process of finding their eulerian destiny and executing on their life's purpose. He also spoke about channeling sexual energy and why this is important for men.

    3. How to know when you should date vs. when you should be single, and what stage should a man be at before he starts to pursue family building. And when he's ready, how a man can navigate the selection and courtship process to find a great partner who will support him on his mission and their family dynamic.

    Listen to the full episode to learn more about these topics.
     
    Nakada shares lots of detailed content around these topics on:
     - Instagram: @iamnakada
     - Website: https://www.heartonbreak.com

    Nakada has a number of books, 1-on-1 cosmology coaching calls, and herbs, which can be found on his website.

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Using astrology as a self-empowering tool & breaking intergenerational trauma patterns with Jeremy Tan
    Mar 5 2021

    Jeremy is a trauma-informed astrologer who works with his clients - helping them to release self-doubt, heal emotional trauma, transmute emotional suffering & break out of intergenerational trauma patterns so that they can live their unique purpose & awaken their personal power. 

    He has co-founded an astrological and tarot reading consultancy, Sacred Saturn, and has been featured in the New York Times Style Magazine, exploring modern astrology as a tool for deeper contemplation among millennials.

    What You’ll Learn From This Interview:

    1. Jeremy’s journey towards astrology, including the powerful catalysts that motivated him to become one (focused on family trauma). Listen out for the powerful conversation that Jeremy had with his father that completely changed the destiny of his career and relationships.

    2. How he uses astrology with his clients, and how we can use it as a self-empowerment tool in decoding our own trauma response patterns. Jeremy also touched on Human Design and how he uses this in conjunction with astrology to have powerful breakthroughs.

    3. How one can use astrology as part of their own inner work journey towards having fantastic & fulfilling relationships with themselves & a significant other. Jeremy also touched on re-parenting, and how we can begin the process for ourselves, in addition to how we can recognise & heal from intergenerational trauma. You don’t want to miss this part!


    Listen to the full episode to learn more about these topics.
     
    Jeremy shares lots of detailed content around these topics on:
     - Instagram: @sacred_saturn & @etheral_spaces
     - Website: https://sacredsaturn.com/

    Jeremy also offers personalised natal chart readings, as well as a 6 Week Trauma to Purpose Coaching Program. Check out his website or shoot him a DM on Instagram.

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    58 mins