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Building wealth from the ground up: How I Made It is a fortnightly podcast featuring stories from inside the Australian Financial Review's Rich List.

How I Made It Financial Review

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    • 4.7 • 260 Ratings

Building wealth from the ground up: How I Made It is a fortnightly podcast featuring stories from inside the Australian Financial Review's Rich List.

    Summer Series: From golf balls to 1c TVs - how Ruslan Kogan built a $300m empire from $0

    Summer Series: From golf balls to 1c TVs - how Ruslan Kogan built a $300m empire from $0

    His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan Kogan honed his selling skills, making a buck selling golf balls and washing cars. He’s now worth about $300 million after creating online retailer Kogan.com.
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    • 34 min
    Summer Series: How Simon Beard went from 'toolie' to Culture King worth $600m

    Summer Series: How Simon Beard went from 'toolie' to Culture King worth $600m

    The How I Made it team is on a summer break but have curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes. 

    In this third episode, Simon Beard joined Julie-anne Sprague in 2022 to chat how he and his wife Tah-nee started Culture Kings as a market stall on the Gold Coast. They’d go on to cut a deal that valued their retailer at $600 million. In this episode, Simon shares his routine - from getting up at 4am to taking ice baths. 


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    • 33 min
    Summer Series: How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from $400

    Summer Series: How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from $400

    The How I Made it team is on a summer break but we’ve curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes. 

    Our second episode in this summer series features Tammy Hembrow who joined the Julie-anne Sprague in August 2022 where she shares her story of being told her life was ruined when she unexpectedly fell pregnant at 19. She’d go on to develop a fitness app and clothing brand that put her on the Young Rich List with an estimated $38 million fortune. 
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    • 33 min
    Summer Series: How Jack Cowin brought KFC and Hungry Jacks to Australia

    Summer Series: How Jack Cowin brought KFC and Hungry Jacks to Australia

    Happy New Year! The How I Made it team is on summer break but for your listening enjoyment they have compiled a collection of some of their favourite episodes from our rich catalogue of interviews with the nation’s Rich Listers.

    The first episode in this summer series features Jack Cowin, the Canadian door-to-door salesman who left of Australia and opened fast food chains KFC and Hungry Jack’s. He’d go on to invest and grow pizza group Domino’s. In this episode, he shares the extraordinary story of taking on a global giant in a legal bun fight and all the lessons he’s learnt in becoming the nation’s 22nd richest person.
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    • 34 min
    How Sam Kennard built a $2.6b empire storing other people's stuff

    How Sam Kennard built a $2.6b empire storing other people's stuff

    Sam Kennard always had ambition to work and grow the family company. But he never expected his dad to give him total control when he was just 24 years of age. 

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    • 42 min
    The sliding doors moment that led typist Cathie Reid to build a $550m fortune

    The sliding doors moment that led typist Cathie Reid to build a $550m fortune

    In this week's episode How I Made It podcast, Icon Group founder Cathie Reid chats to Julie-anne Sprague about wanting to be a typist. Instead she became a pharmacist before spotting a gap in the market and becoming an entrepreneur alongside husband Stuart Giles.

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    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
260 Ratings

260 Ratings

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Absolute gainer for newbies to become advance in finance by the help of sharks on top

I regret not listening to these podcast or following financial review Australia earlier, it is no inspiring and knowledgeable for people in finance industry.

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Cathie Reid ✅✅

Just listened to Cathie’s interview, what a breath of fresh air and a terrific entrepreneurial story. Great series and more women next season please!

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Authentic Australian Business Insights

Love this show. Great guests telling their genuine stories about success and failure in building Australian business’.

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