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Today's guest Grace Brennan has been described by others as 'the best person they have ever met' we were thrilled to spend an hour with her to learn of her campaign BUY FROM THE BUSH which has helped thousands & thousands of people in rural Australia get back on their feet after the severe drought which left them unable to work on their farms. This interview will prove to you how quickly and organically a movement can grow when it is fuelled by the need to help, and will also show you that niggling idea you might have, that pops into your mind one day, might just be worth taking action on.

Grace Brennan grew up in Sydney and now lives on a sheep and cropping farm in Warren, NSW with her husband Jack and their four children. She is the Co-Founder of AgDraft, an employment platform for agriculture & has a background in community development.

In October 2019 Grace founded the #buyfromthebush social media campaign to support rural communities facing drought. Within 3 weeks she had 80,000 people supporting the campaign, and now 8 months in 237,000 people have joined her movement and are supporting rural businesses when they need it the most.

But Grace didn't stop there, in June 2020, Grace launched stayinthebush.com.au, an online directory for accommodation in rural Australia.

These campaigns celebrate the beauty, creativity and innovation of rural communities and call on people in the city to invest in bush business as a means of ensuring the survival of rural communities in to the future.

Grace was named by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of the nine most influential women entrepreneurs for 2019. In January 2020, Grace was invited by the Australia Day Council of NSW to give the Australia Day Address to the nation. She is passionate about story-telling and community-driven change and believes in the power of investment over charity.

On this episode we discuss conscious leadership & creating business around impact with the wonderful Radek Sali - most well known for his leadership within Swisse Wellness group.

Radek started his career at Village Roadshow, within an organisation making a global impact, which he says, taught him a real sense of the foundations around big business process, management and leadership skills.

As a 28 year old decided to test his skills elsewhere and joined the Swisse Wellness Group. When he came on board the company was Turning over 13 mill - 12 years later under his leadership they sold for 1.7 billion dollars.

Radek then successfully exited Swisse and used the proceeds to set up a company called Light Warrior, an investment group committed to creating shared value by investing in businesses that are socially responsible and environmentally conscious. He is now also Chairman on numerous company boards for both businesses and not for profits, and is spoken about by his colleagues to have been the strongest conscious leader of his time.

A wonderful look into the mind of one of Australia's most conscious entrepreneurs.
https://lightwarrior.com
https://bteam.org

Do you want to elevate your money game; seek financial independence and create more awareness about MONEY? In this special episode we share a live event via Conscious Conversations with our expert panel, Sarah Reigelhuth and Zoe Lamont. Money can be a taboo topic, but it is important to start the conversation on a deeper level, because it is healthy for us to talk about money and build our knowledge and confidence around it. Are our limited beliefs affecting out financial abundance? Were we raised with a limited mindset around money? How do we even start being more independent financially?

About our speakers:

Zoe Lamont, along with her co-founders, is responsible for launching Verve Super, Australia's ethical superannuation fund for women, by women. Zoe is driven by a passion for women's financial wellbeing and equality.. As a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, in 2009 she founded the 10thousandgirl Campaign and over the next eight years ran financial wellbeing programs for over 10,000 women, across metropolitan and regional Australia.

Sarah Riegelhuth is a serial entrepreneur and investor in startups, having founded 8 companies since 2009. She is currently the CEO of Grow My Team (global recruitment), co-founder of League of Extraordinary Women, and author of Get Rich Slow. Sarah holds board positions on several not-for-profit organisations and is Recognised as the IFA Thought Leader of the Year....she was also named as one of Melbourne's Top 100 most influential, inspiring, and creative citizens by The Age, and listed in the Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs under 40 by Shoestring.

Find out more at www.consciousconversations.live & watch via YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfKtoCXg1UKRN7TW5ER-wFw/

Extra resources - https://vervesuper.com.au/verve-academy/blogs/verve/
Get Rich Slow Book by Sarah Reigelhuth

Today's guest is a person that once you meet, you never forget - The Fear Hunter, Mark Kluwer, shares his story of living from the heart v's the head, allowing men to open up completely to show authenticity and emotion without judgement; and how we can be the masters of own FEAR, to take the drivers seat of our lives.

Mark has been passionate about health and wellbeing his whole life, and one day decided last minute to attend a Wim Hof retreat back in 2016, which changed the trajectory of his life. The messages and lessons shared at that retreat of Strength, Health and Happiness lit un umdimmable fire in Mark, and now he is on a mission to do the same for others.

An intriguing, emotional and inspiring listen.

Find Mark: https://www.instagram.com/mark.tiger.kluwer/?hl=en

An open discussion around awareness of mental health with the use of tools such as mindfulness and meditation, and how they are becoming more mainstream in today's society.

Addie Wooten joins us on this conversation. She is a clinical psychologist and CEO of Smiling Mind, a non-for profit organisation, whose mission is to provide accessible, life-long tools to support healthy minds.
They have huge presence in schools and companies and are being used daily by countless teachers and employers globally. Addie joins the team at Smiling Mind after spending most of her career as a clinical psychologist primarily focussing on supporting people with cancer. Throughout her clinical career has seen first hand the benefits that mindfulness can provide and has used it in her work for many years. She is also an experienced researcher and fundraiser and passionate about leaving a large and beneficial impact in the world. www.smilingmind.com.au

On this episode we invited exceptional business & leadership coach - Emma McQueen on the show. After spending over 20 years coaching in a large international organisation, Emma took the plunge to pursue her dream of running her own leadership development business - and now is showing people the way forward with their own careers and lifestyle.

With a great passion in helping women in business, whether it be female entrepreneurs in new start-ups, lady founders, mums at home with bustling small businesses or executives in senior leadership roles, she provides real, tangible and easy to implement LIFE CHANGING advice on Business Coaching, Corporate Success, Chaos to Clarity Strategy and more. www.emmamcqueen.com.au