Nicole Velik is a leading speaker, facilitator, and trainer in innovation and creativity. As the founder of The Ideas Bodega and the host of the podcast Creativity Unpacked, as well as CreativeMornings Sydney, she has dedicated herself to demystifying creativity and making it accessible to everyone. With a background in advertising, including stints at Saatchi & Saatchi and KBP, Nicole has trained organizations worldwide, including big names like The United Nations, Nike, and Google. Her podcast, which soared to number one on the Apple Marketing charts upon launch, features interviews with creatives, highlighting that creativity is a skill achievable by everyone. Nicole is also a sought-after speaker at events like SXSW Sydney and Vivid Ideas, and she nurtures her own creativity through music, playing percussion in a samba band, guitar, songwriting, and learning Portuguese.

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Unlocking Creativity: Discussing the universality of creativity and methods for helping individuals and teams recognize their creative potential.

• Generating New Ideas: Including the innovation techniques she’s used to train Google, the United Nations and LEGO.

• Leading Creative Teams: Providing insights into fostering a culture that nurtures creativity, giving constructive feedback, rewarding creativity, and maintaining creative flow.

• Overcoming Creative Barriers: Identifying common obstacles that hinder creativity and exploring strategies to overcome them.

• Living a Creative Life: Delving into the importance of pursuing diverse creative outlets and the role they play in sustaining creativity and courage.

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Jane Marx is a social entrepreneur committed to empowering marginalized women through meaningful employment. Amidst the pandemic, she founded The Beautiful Bunch, focusing on supporting young women from refugee backgrounds facing barriers to work. Join us for an honest discussion on the challenges and triumphs of launching and running a social enterprise, driven by passion and hustle rather than financial backing. Discover how Jane's journey exemplifies the power of using business for inclusive and sustainable change, proving that each of us holds the capacity to create opportunities for others.

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Navigating the hurdles to launching and sustaining a social enterprise 
• Leaning into the unique challenges young women refugees encounter in accessing and maintaining meaningful employment.
• Embracing the transformative power of kindness in business
• Building inclusive workplaces that provide a safe space for diversity and empowerment.
• Navigating the dynamic economic landscape as a woman in business

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Scale your product-based business with our 8-week program. An online course designed and created by Pru Chapman and Brooke Franklin - get industry insights from top-level operators on how to grow, manage, and scale a highly successful product-based brand. 

Grow your reach. Expand your range. Streamline your Systems. Sell more products.

Brooke is a powerhouse in the product industry. She spent six years helping scale lululemon, where she managed stores, led operations, and eventually oversaw $100 million in retail stores as the Australia/NZ Area Director. She went on to become the Country Manager of Cotton On managing over 200 stores and more than $250M in sales.  From there she moved to General Manager at TOM Co, where she radically expanded their range and led the business to a successful sale. Brooke loves both big and small business, coaching startups and demonstrating her strategic scaling prowess. She's not just a leader; she's a legend in the industry, and is passionate about good business.

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Strategies that led the growth of lululemon, Cotton On & TOM Organic
• The ONE piece of advice she gives to product-based businesses looking to scale
• Key differences in growing startups and big business (and what you can learn from each)
• The 8-step framework to scaling a successful product-based brands
• Her unique take on managing work/life balance with 2 young kids

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Kylie is a Leadership Developer and Founder of Of Kin, a training organisation specialising in building brave leaders and courageous cultures. She is a certified executive coach, psychological safety practitioner and facilitator of Dr Brené Brown’s curricula on courage, vulnerability, shame and resilience (The Daring Way™ & Dare To Lead™), and currently delivers Dare To Lead™ programs for organisational teams and individual professionals. She is part of the Homeward Bound visibility faculty championing the success of women in STEMM from around the world.

Her vision is to build the capacity for brave conversations in boardrooms, classrooms and lounge rooms across the world. 

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Courageous Leadership: The 4 skills that are critical to brave and conscious leadership.

• The Power of Vulnerability: why we armour ourselves to protect against being exposed and how to lean into the discomfort for growth and evolution.

• Self Compassion: the often undervalued experience that is key to rising strong when we slip and fall - that we all do as part of the human experience.

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Dr Marion Piper believes that life’s challenges and traumas are actually an invitation to get creative, a way to turn our pain into Art and kick-start the process of post-traumatic growth. This is what fuelled her PhD research and informs the work she does today inspiring ambitious Creatives to find their voice and embrace creativity as a form of self-care. With a colourful career spanning gigs in art galleries, creative summer camps and creative agencies both here and abroad, Marion is here to share her answer to a question many of us ask: “what does it mean to lead a truly creative life?”

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Unlocking Creativity: Dr Marion shares the top 5 creative barriers—and how to get past them.  We also explore how mental health can be both a hurdle and a dynamic force for unlocking your creative genius.

• Thriving After Trauma: Exploring the science of post-traumatic growth, unveiling 5 transformative dimensions, from spiritual shifts to new possibilities. Dr Marion delivers a roadmap to not just survive, but thrive beyond adversity.

• Tools for Self-Expression: Experience a unique journaling approach focused on self-expression, not just self-improvement. Dr Marion shares her unique approach to journaling through introspection and creativity to unleashing the power of your thoughts and emotions.  Best part? It's free!

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Kaylene Langford, a proud Guringai woman, passionate entrepreneur, coach, writer and speaker, and the founder and owner of StartUp Creative, a hugely popular online platform, podcast, and print magazine that educates, inspires, and supports creative entrepreneurs and future innovators. She has over a decade of experience coaching, educating and supporting individuals to identify and achieve their goals. 

Mentioned in Conversation:

• How to Build an Authentic Brand - it's easy to follow trends and keep up with what you think you should be doing but that won't last the test of time.⁠
• Mindset - a deep dive into the grit, self-belief, and determination to keep going when it gets tough and build something that will last.⁠
• Meditation - Kaylene's personal experience on the journey and benefits of deep meditation practices.⁠
• 'Just Start' - one of Kaylene's favourite sayings that is not only the best motivator, but also one of the most challenging parts of actually making things happen.
• Writing a Book - the practices and rituals Kaylene put in place to write her first book 'How To Start A Side Hustle'⁠

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Justine Curtis is the founder of Inspired Adventures, the original and leading charity challenge agency in Australasia with over 19 years experience organising life-changing adventures. 

To date, the B Corp certified, female-founded company has raised $45 million through more than 715 completed challenges in partnership with 339 leading Australian and New Zealand charities. 

The challenges that Inspired Adventures has organised have funded projects including medical research, human rights advocacy, environmental preservation and social mobility, through challenges completed by over 7,000 people. Inspired Adventures currently offers 60 national itineraries, 30 international itineraries and fundraising opportunities with 80 charities – all of which are carbon neutral through a partnership with Carbon Neutral. 

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Justine’s entrepreneurial journey from start-up to leading Australia's number one charity adventure company with a team of 30+ people including staff, travel guides and doctors.

• The profound impact purpose-led travel can have on your life and why. 

• Why responsible, carbon-neutral travel has been a core part of the company's values. 

• The opportunity for sustainable travel to improve company’s ESG while offering their employees a unique and one-in-a-lifetime experience.

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James Perrin is a Sustainability & Impact Specialist, B Corp Consultant, Founding Director of the Ingrained Foundation, and Podcast Host. He works with individuals, businesses, and not-for-profits to deepen their impact, and I specialises in developing strategies and implementing projects that are relevant and meaningful for a more beautiful world.  At the time of this podcast recording James was the Sustainability Manager for Stone & Wood. 

You can find this conversation in full at Episode 9 of the One Wild Ride Podcast. 

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Brooke Franklin is an exceptional Leader and Growth Strategist with a passion for building empowered teams. Her accolades include Senior management roles at lululemon, Cotton On, and TOM Organic. In this Sample Brooke gives insight into why and how to attract and retain the best talent with a flexible workplace, while managing performance outcomes with a ‘perform at your best model’.  This approach has seen Brooke build incredible teams throughout her career and is now a much sought after thought leader. 

You can find this conversation in full at Episode 16 of the One Wild Ride Podcast. 

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Caroline Kell is a proud Aboriginal woman, TEDX Speaker, and founder of Blak Wattle Coaching and Consulting. A former Counsellor with over 7 years’ experience working alongside Victorian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities to drive outcomes in truth telling, treaty, health, and mental health reforms at a state government level.

She is deeply passionate about the social emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and in addition to mentoring First Nations leaders and business owners, she delivers thought provoking workshops and addresses that include the power of stories and narrative approaches to build empathetic teams, Aboriginal social emotional wellbeing principles, and understanding Burnout from a First Nations perspective.

Mentioned in Conversation:

• Caroline's personal story that delves into her Matriarchal lineage, showcasing both its strength and setbacks, which have shaped her identity and resilience.

• Burnout, and its prevalence within Aboriginal communities, due to the complexities of modern life while honoring cultural roots.

• A holistic approach addressing mental, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects, leading to personal transformation and healing.

• Empowering others, through her business Blak Wattle Coaching & Consulting combining traditional wisdom with contemporary practices to create safe, healthy, and connected communities.

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Odette Barry is a publicist, PR mentor, and founder of Odette & Co. She knows that every business has a story to tell, and she’s here to help empower business owners to tell those stories through the power of PR. She has designed and teaches the Hack Your Own PR program made for business owners, and hosts the Hack Your Own PR podcast, full of tips from some of Australia’s best journalists and producers. In this episode Odette gives us her best advice to hack your own purpose-led PR.

You can find this conversation in full at Episode 61 of the One Wild Ride Podcast. 

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