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The end of the year is always a good time to look back and take one action.
Look back at :
Your gut! What project was your heart signing to this year?Your surrounding. Who's around you? Do they get it? Do they support you? Do they detract you?Time to shift towards these who lift you up.
Your Patchwork: what makes YOU you? What's your special lens?Forget about your age. It does not matter.Get immune to detractors. Hear them then ignore them.Act this month - What is one thing you can take a shot at ?In this episode, we review practical real life examples.
01:02 The Importance of Community
01:50 Facing Detractors and Naysayers
02:58 Finding Support in Startup Communities
06:06 Real-Life Examples of Overcoming Detractors
13:37 Embracing Your Unique Path
17:17 The Value of Taking Risks
21:58 Age is Just a Number
25:38 Conclusion and Call to Action
Featured stories from:
- Melina Georgousakis (Franklin Women)
- Heather Catchpole (Refraction Media)
- Annabel Zhou and Vivian Shen (Toastie)
- Dr. Loz (SciencePlaykids)
- Dr. Dharmica Mistry ( Medtech, breast cancer diagnostics)
- Dr. Maryam Parviz (Medtech, SDIP Innovations)
### The Importance of Community
### Breaking Entrepreneur Stereotypes
- Challenging the "tech bro" stereotype
- Different paths to entrepreneurship
- How researchers can transition to business
- Corporate founders' unique challenges
### Success Stories at Any Age
- Young founders: Canva co-founders, Alinta, Viv and Annabel
- Mid-career transitions: Heather Catchpole, Natalie Chapman, Melina Georgousakis
- Later-stage entrepreneurs: Dr. Sarah Cru (OOxii Global)
## Featured Quotes
> "There isn't one way, one personality." - Angelique Greco
> "Learn not to be perfect, even when it comes to motherhood. Being good enough is enough." - Dr. Maryam Parviz
## Call to Action
- Take a shot at something new before Christmas
- Share your goals with the host or keep them as your secret
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- Website: angeliquegreco.com.au
- LinkedIn & Instagram: @Angelique Greco
- Share feedback and guest suggestions
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Imagine puzzling with the pain of a chronic illness and your only help is a giant xls spreadsheet where you try to figure out what makes you sick and what help you staying afloat.
That's what Annabel Zhou and Vivian Shen had to do, just like the millions of people trying to live a healthier life despite their chronic illness.
These two women however decided to turn the situation around and leverage their technical skills as software engineers to create a tool that could do better than a spreadsheet.
A tool that would be easy to track symptoms, meals, body functions and else and turn it into real insights that you can bring and discuss with your doctor.
No more obvious observation but actual correlations of multiple parameters to investigate.
How do two fresh grads get to change the fate of health insights on their second go to entrepreneurship all while having a full time job as software engineer at Google?
You're in for their stories.
Try to guess why they call it Toastie while you're at it!
You can sign up to the Toastie App pre-release that Annabelle and Viv are building live!
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Embark on this series with UNSW founders special accelerator programs and hear from UNSW program managers and founders.
wether you have already started or just have an entreprenarial itch, this is sure to show you what's possible when you dare to give it go.
it is packed with founders stories, near explosions, realisation that there must be a better way as well as the incredible involvement of the program manager who can make this entore community of support possible.
Lots of insights on the steps required from itch to realisation.
Don't forget to reach out to me if you want to hear more! and of course, check out UNSW founders program.
UNSW founders:
https://unswfounders.com/
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Breaking Barriers: Championing Women Entrepreneurs with UNSW's New Wave Program
22% of startups are founded by women only and they receive only 0.7% of the private capital.
Do the numbers line up to you? Not to me!
We need more female entrepreneurs and more funding for them.
UNSW Founders' New Wave program is breaking barriers right at the beginning for female entrepreneurs.
Victoria Rose Tucker, New Waves program manager covers the inception, structure, and impact of New Wave, which provides a low-barrier entry to entrepreneurship for women affiliated with UNSW.
Visit New Waves website https://unswfounders.com/new-wave
Exploring UNSW Founders Entrepreneurial Programs
03:15 Interview with Victoria Ross Tucker
05:13 Eligibility and Program Details
06:07 Program Structure and Participant Experience
07:15 Challenges and Support for Female Entrepreneurs
09:45 Future Goals and Success Stories
16:46 Debunking Myths and Building Confidence
32:22 An example of an early idea for a discreet solution
32:37 AI-Powered Chronic Illness Management - Team toastie, Alumni and cohort winners
34:05 Addressing the Gender Data Gap in Health
34:53 Mentorship and Support
37:01 Building Teams with Purpose
39:02 Showcase and Awards: Celebrating Success
42:35 Victoria's Journey into Entrepreneurship
48:21 Momentum Month: Sustaining Startup Progress
53:22 Future of Female Entrepreneurship
54:39 Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs
59:48 Conclusion and Call to Action
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It all started with a 15 year old visiting in a biotech lab. Bam, the next generation of innovator was shaped and not so long down the track, Alinta Furnell, would become the CEO and co-founder of Synbiote, a company focusing on creating high-grade industrial bioplastics.
Alinta's journey, from an unexpected email halting can production for their non-alcoholic beer to transforming waste into innovative bioplastics.
Alinta shares her unique perspective on biotech, viewing it as harmonizing natural processes with modern applications, contrary to the common belief of its synthetic nature. The episode also covers the team's rapid achievement of taking a non-alcoholic beer from concept to market in 150 days, highlighting the efficient process and unexpected challenges faced, such as nearly exploding a brewery.
And if you like diversification in early career, you're in for a treat, with Alinta's numerous roles and experiences that contributed to her holistic understanding of biotech commercialization, and her success in various accelerator and fellowship programs, emphasizing the importance of community and personal branding in her career.
00:00 The Unexpected Trademark Hurdle
00:37 Welcome to Multiple Hats
01:05 Meet Alinta Furno: CEO of Symbiote
01:22 From Non-Alcoholic Beer to Bioplastics
01:50 Understanding Biotech and Sustainability
03:03 Challenges and Misconceptions in Biotech
04:37 Symbiote's Innovative Bioplastics
07:13 The Journey from Beer to Bioplastics
14:44 Alinta's Early Career and Inspirations
33:03 Starting the Brewing Journey
34:00 Sales Strategy and Rapid Innovation
38:29 Overcoming Trademark Challenges
41:09 Scaling Up Production
48:02 Community and Support Systems
54:53 Navigating PR and Personal Branding
59:52 Reflecting on Privileges and Barriers
01:01:31 Conclusion and Key Takeaways
You can learn more at https://www.synbiote.com/
And for more info on bioplastic in general you can read these two papers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-021-00407-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10905720/
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Imagine what it would be like to struggle with poor vision every day and not be able to afford a pair of glasses. That's the reality for many people in remote communities across the globe.
Dr. Sarah Crowe recalls an ambulance driver in Papua New Guinea who found himself in dangerous situations due to his poor vision.
Stuck by the astonishing reality that so may people do not function properly, when all they would need is a pair of simple glasses, she founded OOXii Global and the 4eyesVision Foundation —a change in paradigm in making glasses accessible to all, taping in the healthcare workers on the ground.
With over 20 years of experience as an ophthalmologist, Sarah is adventurous and determined.
Tune in for her early career as a junior doctor during Apartheid in South Africa, how she then set up her own ophthalmology practice while having her kids and to her entrepreneurial ventures.
Great insights on leveraging accelerators like UNSW founders, partnering with other foundations, getting grants and the ever challenging investor landscape where ROI is the reigning metrics, beyond the social impact.
00:00 Meeting the Ambulance Driver
00:27 Introduction to Multiple Hats
00:45 Interview with Dr. Sarah Crow
02:26 The Mission of OOXii Global
02:58 Challenges in Remote Areas
05:36 Sarah's Academic Journey
08:19 Experiences in South Africa
13:00 Starting a Family and Career
17:18 Launching an Ophthalmology Practice
23:24 The Birth of OOXii Global
34:51 Deploying Existing Solutions for Impact
35:16 Simple Innovations Saving Lives
36:48 Community Involvement and Local Empowerment
39:36 Challenges and Reactions to Vision Kits
40:30 Funding and Business Model
46:01 Tech Development and Prototyping
57:37 Cultural Sensitivity in Healthcare
01:03:35 Naming and Structuring the Organization
01:07:29 Lessons Learned and Final Thoughts
Lear more about Sarah
https://www.4eyesvision.org/author/sarah-crowe/
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A Deep Dive into the UNSW Founders Program - one of the most acclaimed accelerator in Australia.
Community is everything! If you are a founder trying to reinvent the wheel, you are going to have a hard time but if you can find the right community for where you are in your journey, it is a fast track for your start-up.
A fast track in motivation, in network, in knowledge and know how and in funding access.
In this episode of 'Multiple Hats,' we take a deep dive on the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Australia with Dina Titkova, UNSW program managers who overview a range of programs at the University of New South Whales (UNSW).
Dina Tiktova shares insights into the comprehensive entrepreneurship ecosystem at UNSW and on the various programs from ideation to global scaling, including accelerators such as Founders 10X and Health 10X, and supportive events like the Peter Farrell Cup.
We talk about the importance of strategic partnerships, systemic challenges in the startup landscape, and the essential characteristics of resilient entrepreneurs.
Real-life examples, pivot stories, founders archetype, Listen up about UNSW programs and how these can foster innovation and prepares founders to tackle industry-specific challenges.
And hold your breath for UNSW alumni interviews like Dr. Dorsa Rad CellSync Biosciences), Dr. Sarah Crowe (OOXI), Alinta Furnell (Synbiote).
Don’t wait any further and engage with the community!
You can learn more:
https://unswfounders.com/peter-farrell-cup
https://www.heospace.com/
https://www.cardiobionic.com/
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00:00 Introduction to Multiple Hats
01:42 Meet Dina Tiktova: UNSW Founder Program Manager
02:59 UNSW Founders Program Overview
04:06 Supporting Startups: From Ideation to Global Scaling
07:55 Success Stories: From Space Tech to Health Innovations
11:38 Dina's Journey: From Engineering to Bioentrepreneurship
13:21 Comparing Startup Ecosystems: Sweden vs. Australia
17:34 The Role of Accelerators and Incubators
22:40 Becoming a Founder: From Idea to MVP
26:52 Strategic Partnerships in Health Tech
32:13 Investor Myths and Barriers in Australia
34:00 Direct Investments and Syndicates
36:36 Accelerator Program Structure and Support
38:50 Navigating the Remote Era
42:47 Founder Archetypes and Mindset Shifts
47:38 Pivoting and Learning from Failure
52:22 Collaboration and Systemic Barriers
57:40 Increasing Diversity in Startups
59:59 Conclusion and Future Episodes
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You want to make an impact but you're not up to shooting rocket to Mars?
No worries. You can use your skills to make a difference without being born a billionaire, without having gone through a life traumatising event or having a genius idea.
Tom Jacobs is an engineer from Australia and he did just that with Bokan Tseo, his corporate buddy, and local to Lesotho - better the lives of thousands of people by applying is engineering skills to building water infrastructure in places where people don’t have access to water - like Lesotho, in the South of Africa- a place he fell in love with and got struck by the realisation that people don’t have toilets or drinking water and decided to do this - one tap at the time.
Tune in for the full story, promising great insight on social impact, heart-warming moment, humbling stories and a great tale of building communities!
You can donate to support their cause at https://globaldevelopmentgroup.org/Projects/Details?id=421&projectName=LOKISA%20Water%20Project%20Lesotho&projectNum=J1167N&FromShortUrl=False&source=pweb
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Or Facebook or TikTok!
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Ideation and invention is the start of the journey but there is so much more going into bringing a business and a medtech to life. Where you start matters but Maryam stories is a tell tale about how to be at the right place at the right time and engage with the right stakeholders.
Tune in for dr. Maryam Parviz is the co-founder and CEO of SDIP innovations, a medtech company which technology is a bioresorbable implant which promises to prevent multiple surgeries for patients, cut down on theatre time for surgeons and all that for a fraction of the cost of existing products.
She tells us all about the technology, the process and the challenges in the sector and especially in Australia and her and her team got to reinvent the tech, get into prestigious incubators in the US, build a world class team and got back up by some of the best serial entrepreneurs and investors.
And my favourite part - how to be confident despite your detractors and the societal norms and the systemic issues.
Check out Dr. Maryam Parviz on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryam-parviz/?originalSubdomain=au
You can learn more about SDIP innovations at https://www.sdipinnovations.com/
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Like any kids, Cassie Leonard wanted to go into space and so she studied aerospace engineering ( at UCLA, mind you)
What if you turned up on your first day and was the only woman in a room of 35 engineers? Maybe quite daunting.
But it did not stop Cassie from spending 16 years at Boeing!
And You know what's great in accumulating 16 years of corporate experience in the biggest aerospace company in the world? You get to explore a lot of possibilities and growth to your own pace!
After a lot of technical jumps, she started her leadership journey and led very large complex teams.
She now leverages all of her experience to help other mid career STEM professionals and especially parents navigate how to build a career that fits within their life and not the other way around.
She took the leap a little more than a year ago and released her first book STEM moms and is now in full swing of her coaching business.
Tune in for lots of career advice!
And her book ? Well it is amazon best sellers Number 1!
https://www.elmmcoaching.com/
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This time, we are talking neurodivergence with Dr. Lorien Parker, aka Dr. Loz.
Lorien is the founder of SciencePlay Kids, a company she founded 9 years ago for ALL BRAINS and ALL learners type to engage with Science and learn. And she did so with zero prior experience in business or education but she jumped right in the deep end and followed her passion for science to help neurodivergent learners and she knows all about it because she has ADHD and is autistic herself and the mother of neurodivergent kids.
Lorien is the one of many women who left academia after having kids because academia just is not designed to accommodate for parents and she did not want to choose being her work and her family. No one should really!
Anyway, she takes us through her first step, the business model she thought she would follow which turned out to be her unicorn model but not sustainable but listen up for Lorien as she nailed the business pivot! Best pivot ever which now allow Lorien to be her best self, empower students and schools with a Win Win model funded by corporates!
Tune in for Lorien's founder story which come with the blessing of embracing her way of working, surrounding herself with the people who can bridge her gaps. Great lessons on tweaking your business model as hers really evolved to an offering she could not have thought of before being buried into delivery of her initial model first.
you can learn more about Lorien and SciencePlay kids on her website and social medias
https://www.scienceplaykids.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorien-parker-ba7b6a36/
https://www.facebook.com/SciencePlayKids/
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That's a wrap up for Multiple Hats and 2023!
What a great ride we had with our amazing founders sharing their journey and what it takes to be an entrepreneur, call it success and sometimes, call it quit!
Thank you for lending me your ears and coming along with me on this journey of entrepreneurship!
Let's make Multiple Hats a conversation and tell me what you think or what you want for next year.
This episode is a word of me, your host, Angelique, and what prompted me to launch Multiple Hats.
it is an episode to connect with you and hear from you.
Multiple Hats is all about you and how it can help you finding your own script and taking your very first step!
Tune in for this kudos and reflection episode.
For now, I will leave you with some thoughts on making the first move, experiment with a portfolio career, get into the mindset of these who act with purpose, armed with grit and letting go of perfectionism.
For more insights,, I suggest a few good reads:
- Find your why, Simon Sinek
- The power of perseverance and grit, Angela Duckworth
-The power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant
- This working life, Lisa Leong
- There has to be more, Rachel Service
Have a good end of the year 2023
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Alison Gartner, the co-founder of Evidently, an Australian Start-up whose technology can analyse complex health care data to guide clinicians in their practice.
This is a holy grail in healthcare data because we are now generating more data than ever, and we don’t tap into the full potential of these so called "data lakes" due to the difficulty of standardising, cleaning and linking different data sets to produce actual actionable insights.
And then who owns the data? With Evidentli, there is no exchange of data, the medical centre will use their own data and question it in their own way.
There are companies doing some of this out there, but there is a big need for a fast reliable and robust technology, that can be used by the clinicians themselves, with adaptable parameters to tweak questions to reflect real clinical scenario.
Alison has unique perspective because she has both experience as a co-founder and has an investment manager! So she has seen it all before and now it is unravelling for her. Awesome Multiple Hats insights there.
She recounts the investment landscape 10-15 years ago and tells us about the in and out of building a product that people want to use, including finding your early adopters.
I also loved her insight on how a double degree in science and finance paved the way for her unique career!
Listen up for a truly insightful journey
You can learn more about Alison and Evidentli
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-gartner-51408459/
https://www.evidentli.com/
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Have you ever thought of a brilliant idea as a rough gemstone?
That's a what Natalie Chapman, the founder of Gemaker, thinks researchers and inventors have, a rough gem that needs a great deal of polishing before becoming an actual Gem.
With a bachelor in chemistry, an MBA and a decade of marketing, communication and tech transfer experience, she decided that there was a better way to accelerate this process and founded Gemaker ! A successful commercialization agency, helping researchers and innovative businesses take their tech ideas to the people they can help.
Gemaker has been in the business for over 12 years and employs around 20 people with many different expertise.
The team won multiple awards including the Telstra Business award for microbusiness, and winning this award was definitely a great boost in credibility and associated business.
Hear the genesis of Gemaker from Natalie Chapman.
You can visit Gemaker website https://gemaker.com.au/
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Deep Tech aspiring founders, this one is for you!
Some people fall into their PhD, following the next logical step after their Honours or Masters.
Some people fall into it because they are not sure what job to go after yet.
Not Dharmica Mistry, she wanted to go into nutrition but didn't get in the course so instead of ruminating she picked subjects which were close to what it would have looked like in the nutrition degree and fell in love with microbiology in the process. After graduating she was not keen on a PhD either because she felt she could not see the impact of such work in a near future.
But her first job at a biotech changed her mind when she did a discovery which had such a great potential to change the odds of aggressive breast cancer in women under 50 with a simple blood test.
With this mission in mind, she co-founded BCAL diagnostics, a diagnostic company looking to detect breast cancer early with a blood test.
If you have heard of the valley of death, you would know that deep tech has many of these because proving the science and making it robust is a really challenging task. It can't "just" work, it has to work in a clinical setting, which means at scale and speed for a diagnostic lab to work with it. It needs a great amount of fundings and so her PhD was a great way to get to validate the science and make this further fundable.
Dharmica takes us through the journey of a deep tech founders and the crucial steps that make you or brake your start-up.
Happy listening!
You can learn more about Dharmica and her current role as a Director Diagnostics Industry Engagement at MTP connect and about BCAL diagnostics.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharmica-mistry-2468a148/
https://www.mtpconnect.org.au/Story?Action=View&Story_id=485
https://www.bcaldiagnostics.com/
If you like the show share it with your community! Or leave me a review.
I would love to hear from you, just leave me a message on LinkedIn or on my website
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If you had many jobs in your field but somehow can't land on a single definition of yourself, you're not alone.
You probably belong to the people who could thrive with a "portfolio career", that is a career which is not limited to one job or one stream of income but rather made of multiple pieces of yourself and all the hats that you can wear.
That's definitely what Sue Pillans realised when after 10 years of employment, something did not feel quite right but then she went back to her roots and was able to combine the multiple pieces of her character puzzle into just the perfect career path - one she designed herself, one that could mirror of her strengths and values.
That's how she decided to be a graphic recorder, running her own business, and has now worked with over 60 organisation across Asia Pacific to capture very important messages about the marine ecosystem and how she created Dr. Suzie Starfish, a book writer and illustrator of children book educating young audience and their parents about climate change and marine pollution.
I love her motto - "Make the complex simple and the simple compelling" !
Tune in for life changing events and courageous acts.
You call follow Sue and find out more about her work here:
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Welcome to multiple hats. A show about STEMM professionals who have gone off script and carved their own path beyond the tracks that were set for them. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine. How they found their why and what it takes to make it happen.
Did you ever consider that mothers represent 30% of the global population? And yet there isn't many specific services to support them. That's what Oriane Junker could not believe and so Oriane pivoted from medical advisor in the pharmaceutical industry to create Spotz, a social business aiming to empower mothers to earn on their own terms through an mum to mum marketplace and a wholistic community where mothers can support each other's.
Oriane take us through how she always had many business ideas and drafted many business plans but never had a strong motivation to execute any of them until she found her why when she experienced a strong discrimination at work after returning from maternity leave. We get to hear so many practical aspects of her founding journey, from business plan, feasibility, growing the customer base to 28,000 members and 170,000 visitors 2 years in and finally pitching for capital.
Lear more about Oriane and Spotz, visit https://spotz.com.au/
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Social entreprise, Business with purpose! What do you do when your sector does not have any powerful supporting community? well, you start you own! #Be the change you want to be!
Melina Georgousakis founded the Franklin Women, a social enterprise aiming to break the silos in the health and medical sector as well address the terrible brain drain, that sees women in STEMM leaving the sector within 5 years. Following the standard academic pathway, Melina experienced first hands a male dominated workplace, highly hierarchical, which ultimately saw many women stagnate, then leave the sector to pursue more sustainable careers.
This is her story of brewing this big ideal and dream about a health medical sector where women can thrive and how she started a social enterprise, which now supports so thousands of women in the health and medical sector in Australia, with a myriad of events and workshops and an award winning mentoring program.
She takes us through her transition from academic research in vaccines to corporate in health policies and how she found a glaring hole when it comes to career development and support community for women in the health medical sector- and how she decided that she could fix this! Hear it from Melina on what it took to bring the Franklin Women to life and grow it to the vibrant community it is now - all while having a family and a corporate job!
Lear more about Melina and the Franklin Women , visit https://franklinwomen.com.au/
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Overthinkers Beware!
Have you ever fallen into the rabbit hole? Thinking and thinking, stuck into analysis paralysis?
Lison Mage is a quick thinker and she believes that there are many paths to success but only in action as inaction always leads to stagnation.
Lison started in STEMM, as an engineer, worked for corporate giants like Salesforce then decided to turn her career around and carve her own path. Nowadays Lison delivers corporate workshops all across Australia to help people becoming more effective leaders by making their decision process more effective. She Immersed herself into the mind of overthinkers, chronic perfectionists and wrote a book about how to overcome this unhelpful common habit, "Act before your overthink".
Hear from Lison on what it takes to leave your corporate life behind and carve your very own path!
Lear more about Lison at https://lisonmage.com/ and order her book at https://lisonmage.com/act-before-you-overthink-book/
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Dream Big, Think Big.
Have you ever been told that you should start small? Well, Heather Catchpole and her co-founder Karen Taylor Brown, went past that advice and were rather "Unapologetically ambitious" to quote Shellye Archambeau, former IBM CEO would say in her leadership book.
They had this big vision for Refraction Media to be delivering globally and so they went on and founded Refraction Media, a super popular Australian science media company. It is now distributing 2M magazines globally, with 75,000 digital users per month and they are working with over 200 clients including giants like Google.
Heather shares how her and her co-founder Karen brainstormed that idea in a pub, as one does, and used their decade long experience in media to pulled off a successful profitable business, and achieve global distribution within 2 years!
Hear it from Heather Catchpole
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