The Politics of Everything Amber Daines

++ Trigger warning – this episode discusses addiction and alcohol and may not be suitable for all listeners. Should this show raise issues for you please reach out to someone. In Australia that maybe by calling 13 11 14 (Lifeline).

We live in a culture surrounded by reasons to drink alcohol – when cerebrate, when we are sad, and even just because its Friday night.

My guest Sarah Rusbatch is a certified Women's Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach and a Key-Note speaker sharing her journey to Sobriety and impact of alcohol on mental health to global audiences. She is also the face behind Perth's growing Alcohol-Free Movement.

After developing what she describes as 'a dysfunctional relationship with alcohol', Sarah made the decision to remove alcohol from her life in early 2019 and has never looked back. She now works with women across the globe, guiding them from feeling lost, stuck and out of control (something she fully understands herself), to a healthier and happier way of living.

She's the host of a thriving, global online community (The Women's Wellbeing Collective) which offers a safe space where women feel seen and understood. Sarah meets her clients where they're at and her programs are designed for real life. She equips women with the tools they need to break the cycle of unhealthy habits and coping mechanisms. Her experience, knowledge and passion has transformed lives.
Each client is uniquely supported on their journey - one day, one event and one step at a time.

Her story and her work may help any one of us who is looking to change our relationship with the bottle so to speak!

Hear from Sarah on:

1. How do you define" grey drinking" and how do you know if that's something you are partaking in this?

2. Briefly tell us your story of alcohol use and what made you stop drinking.

3. What worked for you may not work for others – have you done some research into different types of alcohol dependency and what does that mean for the work you do now?

4. You advocate for women and especially those over 40 in your programs and coaching – what makes that demographic different when it comes to alcohol use and stopping drinking?

5. What broader changes would you like to see happen to change our ingrained "drinking culture" and make it easier, more acceptable to not drink regularly or at all?

6. Hardest thing about giving up alcohol and why?

7. Takeaway: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Sobriety?

CONTACT INFO:

Web: Sobriety and Grey Area Drinking Coach, Sarah Rusbatch | Perth, Western Australia [https://sarahrusbatch.com/]

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Greenwashing is a term most of us have come to learn because it's become part of the modern vernacular. Also known as green sheen, it is the false or overstated claims to deceive stakeholders into believing a company's products or services are environmentally safer or sustainable when they may not be. Companies are responding to a world in climate change stress and consumers who want to do their bit to save the planet or at the very least not make it less inhabitable! Floods, fires and famines raging across the planet are nobody's idea of a sustainable future.

My guest today is John Pabon, who has spent two decades in the business of saving our Earth. After leaving his role at the United Nations, John travelled the world studying the impacts of sustainability first-hand in factories, on fields, and at Fortune 500s.  His mission is to move sustainability from theory to practical strategies that help people and businesses confidentially make real impact.

Over his 20-year career, he's had the privilege of working with the United Nations, McKinsey, A.C. Nielsen, and as a consultant with BSR, the world's largest sustainability-focused business network. He is the founder of Fulcrum Strategic Advisors, Programme Director for The Conference Board's Asia Sustainability Leaders Council, and serves on the board of advisors to the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce.

John is also the author of "Sustainability for the Rest of Us: Your No-B******t, Five-Point Plan for Saving the Planet." His upcoming book, "The Great Greenwashing," will be out in June 2023.

We cover off:

1. How do you define greenwashing and how does it define an organisation in your view?

2. What does sustainability at its best and worst look like to you.

3. How can this desire to "be good and look good" in a greener way be done more ethically and competitively?

4. How can we all become more educated to understand greenwashing BS and not be swayed by things like "carbon offsets" and "replacing energy, from coal to say hydrogen, over the next 10 years" as the accepted metrics? Would a universal star rating system like we see on Australian whitegoods and appliances be helpful for everyday goods like food we eat or clothes we buy?

5. What future trends do you see as likely to become sustainable practices for everyday people and businesses in the next few years that we are not yet across?

6. Takeaway: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Greenwashing?

CONTACT INFO:

LinkedIn: (6) John Pabon (亚伯拉罕) | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpabon/]

Web: John Pabon | Sustainability Author and Speaker | Melbourne [https://www.johnpabon.com/]



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Digital communication is at a base online tools like email, social media messaging and texting to reach other individuals or a specific audience to share a message. Even something as simple as reading the text on a webpage like this can be considered digital communication. We all know this world very well!  My guest is Sharon Zeev Poole, the Founder and Director of highly regarded boutique PR and communications agency Agent99, [https://agent99pr.com/] has grown the company from a one-man show to a full service, award-winning agency located in the thriving creative hub of Surry Hills, Sydney. The agency specialises in launching or relaunching brands in the food, beverage and lifestyle spaces, as well as working with corporate clients, thought leaders and authors to raise their profile.

Sharon has worked all over the world on high profile brands such as Warner Bros. Pictures and Starbucks Coffee. Agent99 has been recognised for its work, winning several National PRIA Golden Target Awards including Boutique PR Agency of the Year (2022, 2021 & 2019), and Best Small Budget Campaign (2021).

We discuss:

1. How has digital communication changed in your professional experience?

2. A digital footprint is something most of us have these days – and like a credit score is personal yet public. What is the best way to protect ours?

3. Can we change our digital footprint through a campaign or other ways? Examples!

4. The core of any PR and comms campaign has a strategy – can we create one for our digital comms that sits beyond our corporate life and why/how?

5. How can digital comms evolve as we do?

6. Trends we can expect in 2023 for digital comms.

7. Take away: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Digital Communication?

CONTACT INFO:

LinkedIn: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-zeev-poole-00042a5?originalSubdomain=au]

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Regular listeners of this podcast know I rarely have two guests interviewed at once but for the topic at hand, The Politics of Family Business, this one had to have both co-CEOS here, to make sense.

Just over a year ago, sisters Belinda and Amie Lyone became Co-CEOs of COS [https://www.cos.net.au/], an Australian-owned private company offering products and solutions for the workplace.

COS was established by their father 45 years ago and has a strong Australian heritage. It was recently listed in 'The Australian's top 500 private businesses list, and they have an incredibly progressive approach to the workplace and diversity.

As female leaders, diversity is a priority, with 56% of its 60 leaders being female. Diversity at all levels is important. Aside from Australia, COS's employees come from more than 51 different parts of the world and speak over 60 different languages.

The family has built a phenomenally successful company that now turns over $300+ million, has more than 600 employees, and boasts warehouses in every state and territory whilst remaining fully family-run.

Belinda and Amie have come to their duo roles with different career experiences. In 2006, after spending five years in a Brand Manager role outside of the family business, Belinda joined COS bringing with her a passion for procurement, marketing, and sourcing, as well as a solid plan for growth, effective account management, and customer intimacy. With Amie, after spending five years in professional services Amie stepped into the family business in 2003. Quickly, her passion for people and process grew to include the COS culture, its importance in the growth of the company, and its ability to deliver service excellence to customers. She has sage advice on how to make diversity a priority in the workplace, especially one you are responsible for, given its legacy. Plus, they both are keen to make sustainability a priority in what they do.

Hear from this duo on:

1. The moment you decided and what made you jump on board the family business.

2. Sustainability is a shared goal for you both- and solar farms program and EV trials for example were implemented – how did that shift evolve for COS?

3. Are you doing anything differently to navigate these present times of new uncertainty?

4. How can you create a diverse and inclusive culture in a family business that by nature is run by people who are from the same family and therefore may have set views that make it harder to achieve?

5. Amie then Belinda Take away: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Family Business?

CONTACT INFO:

Website: COS [https://www.cos.net.au/]

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My guest today Naby Mariyam is an achiever.

She is a fintech pioneer, thought leader, advocate for greater diversity of ideas in fin services and tech, and a keynote speaker. Her accolades include:

* Host of #hustlechat podcast
* Finnies – for excellence in business insurtech finalist for 3 years in a row.
* Fintech leader of the year finalist 2021 and 2022
* Insuretch of the year 2021 and 2022 finalist
* Emerging insurtech of the year 2021
* International Speaker at big name events like Forbes, Insuretch insights, Insuretech Connect to name a few.

Naby says she loves salsa dancing, poetry and InsurTech (in that order). When not exploring my side hustles, she runs Coverhero an embedded insurtech start up focusing on evolutionary insurance services focusing on the needs of Millennials and GenZ. Coverhero Launched our First product Hustlecover.com, designed to fill the gap of financial insecurity for the growing Gig Economy and self-employed generation.

Coverhero was selected to the first cohort of Qantas AVRO accelerator program competing with 500 other start-ups. Coverhero was a finalist of the top 15 companies of TechCrunch Start-up Battlefield Australia and recently completed the Plug and Play Insurtech program (Batch 7) in Silicon Valley. Coverhero has been featured in Global Insurtech news, and a range of business and technology media as an emerging start-up in fintech.

Graduating with a Masters of Philosophy in Management at the age of 22, she has 18 years of experience in a wide range of industries across Senior level positions spanning across Academia, Management Consulting, Documentary production, Travel & Destination Marketing and Technology.

Naby's Research background is in social science where she deeply studied human behaviour in her Academic career. She has pressed pause on her PhD to focus on building technology-driven solutions that solve community problems. Prior to her current businesses, Naby has run a few other start-ups, and business ventures working closely with founders and catalysers of innovation in the Australian Start-up Ecosystem.

She has also advised the United Nations Development Project on building start-up ecosystems and designed accelerator programs to drive innovation in developing Nations. Naby was an Australian delegate at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs conference in Berlin in 2017.

In this podcast, Naby discusses:

1. Fintech is a term that didn't exist say 20 years ago. How do you define it and what examples have you to showcase what it does and for whom?

2. The gig economy is definitely the new way of work for many of us in 2023 – from food delivery to freelance writing. It has lots of risks and benefits too. What made you start your two insurtech platforms coverhero and hustlecover?

3. What are the 1-3 biggest challenges you faced starting these fintechs?

4. What is the main ways you were able to find your niche, and scale these businesses – surely finding it sometimes tough going against the major established insurance companies?

5. Some of the trends you anticipate for 2023 in the sector?

6. Take away: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Fintech?

CONTACT INFO:

LinkedIn (1) Naby Mariyam | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabymariyam/]

Websites

· coverhero.com  [http://www.coverhero.com/]

hustlecover.com  [http://www.hustlecover.com/]

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Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards. Self-awareness sometimes feels uncanny and a bit intangible. I feel like my own self-awareness, my moral compass and all its EQ friends have become stronger and louder in my late 40s.

My guest today Michael Bunting is a best-selling author and leadership expert who has worked with global brands such as Qantas, Novartis, HSBC, Kellogg's, OMG, Swarovski, Hilton Hotels, CSIRO and the big 4 accounting firms. He believes that less than 1% of the population is truly self-aware and would like to share his top insights for how people can grow vertically to cultivate more self-awareness in their lives. Michael has also recently written a book called Vertical Growth, published by Wiley.

He also has written other #1 bestselling books, The Mindful Leader and A Practical Guide to Mindful Meditation and co-authored Extraordinary Leadership in Australia & New Zealand with Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the world's premier researchers in the field of leadership. Michael is a global expert on the integration of transformational leadership development, mindfulness, adult development, mental health and culture change.

His latest book focuses a lot on self-awareness.  For Michael, the answer to improving how we work, and lead is called 'vertical growth'- growing beyond your self-sabotaging patterns like self-doubt, insecurities, fear of failure, or impostor syndrome, to reach your full potential and ultimately becoming the sort of person that leads others authentically and stays true to your core values no matter what life throws at you!

We chat about:

1. How do you define self-awareness and why does it matter?

2. What is vertical growth and how does self-awareness lead to this growth? A few examples please!

1. The issue with workplace image management and you say that 40% of the time we spend at work is focused on managing our image rather than on core tasks that add value to the company. If you're someone who struggles with perfectionism or imposter syndrome, this could be exactly the issue that's holding you back from achieving your career and life goals. How does that create issues for us and isn't that part of working with others in a company or organisation?
2. What are the best ways to kick aside imposter syndrome and make self-awareness a core part of our success story every day?

5. Takeaway: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Self-Awareness?

CONTACT INFO:

LinkedIn Connect with me on LinkedIn here. [http://linkedin.com/in/mabunting]

Book: Order my new book here. [https://themindfulleader.com/vertical-growth-book/]

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