THE FLOG ENTREPRENEUR INTERVIEWS PODCAST SIETEL GILL

Today we speak to Brody Buckley, a trailblazing loner whose personal crusade has ignited a multi-million dollar industry around animal justice. You've heard of a hitman - well Brody is a HITANIMAL, but he's no basic contract killer or animal abuser. This might be the most important and rare interview opportunity we've had yet on FLOG. Why? Nature. Humans romanticize the good bits of it like dolphins making noises while they have sex for pleasure or a stick insect doing a great imitation of the Sixties model Twiggy. Nature can also be cruel, as natural selection sees predators killing prey for food. Prey do fight back, but what if animals defy the brutal rules of nature and cheat? If stone cold murder happens in the wild and a human isn’t involved, who metes out justice and champions those taken from life by sinister forces? 

Most human beings love to help those who are less fortunate. In this day and age, there are many worthy causes one can donate or share income with, everything from the remote and romantic. Increasingly people are setting budgets for donations and spending their allocated money early in a month, then face embarrassment when one of their friends asks for money to help their daughter pay bills from a car accident. That’s never a good feeling, either exceeding the budget, or losing social standing or upsetting friends by saying no at the worst time. Well, one generous entrepreneur has dedicated her time to helping solve this problem. Talulah Postlewaite has always been a good Samaritan but knew she could do more, which is why she’s set up Better Samaritan, a company that is using cutting edge technology to help us be the best philanthropists we can be, regardless of our income! Listen in for her wisdom, the gift that truly keeps on giving within a set limit.

Sex and the workplace. It’s not a TV sequel to Sex and the City, it’s a global pandemic that affects the groin area not the lungs and has been around since the dawn of employment. Inappropriate touching and commentary are one thing, rape and coercive sexual conduct are the fat horrible monster on the other side of this seesaw. The #metoo movement empowered women and trans workforce members to share their stories, but many are saying that’s still not enough to change inappropriate sexual behavior in the workforce. Now a new company stands to eliminate sexual desire entirely in work situations and thus minimize and eventually stamp out inappropriate sexual conduct. They’re taking gas-guzzling sex drive and its carbon cockprint and turning it into a no-gas sex neutral shadow that doesn’t give anyone the willies. 

Often at FLOG we’ll cover emerging and lesser known entrepreneurs and influential people, not influencers, as everyone knows that’s something to do with guns. Today I have a legend of mystery crime fiction. Cahal Doherty wrote his first book as a high school student in Galway, Ireland, about an alcoholic detective from his neighbourhood called Roddy O’Hagan, a detective with a sharp mind, a gruff persona, and a fascinating status as a functional alcoholic. That first book, Roddy’s War, launched a career that would take him to twenty further novels detailing Roddy’s cases and adventures through the underbelly of Galway. This rogue careered about the city, a champion for solving murders of the downtrodden, while himself spiralling out of control. The adventures of O’Hagan garnered Doherty critical praise and popular devotion not just because O’Hagan captured a gruff laconic masculinity that was equal parts swasivious and reprehensible, but because he seemed to sum up an archetypal antihero not just emblematic of Galway but Ireland in its entirety, and his win of the Booker Prize in 2004 for Murder is a Cruel Meatmaiden was considered not just a highlight for him but for crime fiction. In the past two years though, Doherty and O’Hagan have been met by a new readership that don’t have the same reverence and adoration that made him one of the highest selling authors in Ireland. How he adapted to his challenge may be the greatest mystery yet. Through his greatest personal and career challenge, a movement and company was born which redefines masculinity in the age of feminism.

To afford a place in Sydney to rent can suck up more than a weekly wage, and buying a home even as a young power couple with historically low interest rates can still be a daunting prospect, avocado toast or not. One thing we can count on is for young entrepreneurial minds to see a problem and find a unique way to fix it. We speak to an entrepreneur with a unique solution to this problem and see how his journey has forged a solution to home ownership in the best city in the Southern Hemisphere!

Plastic surgery. The first time you ever hear the words you think of a guy with cerebral palsy holding scalpels lording over a prone body, then you realise you haven’t been listening properly and misheard the word 'plastic.' For those of us who have listened, we know that it’s an industry designed to help people look as perfect as they (or a collectively unimaginative sexual consciousness) can imagine. Bodies are imperfect, and plastic surgery solves imperfection problems. Some believe enhancements and reconstructions produce a better result. Some believe they produce a new kind of horrible. Are plastic surgeons rockstars or Dr Frankensteins? What if a new business turned plastic surgery on its operated-on head. Is it nip, is it tuck, or merely what the f***? This interview will expand your mind and challenge your features as I ask the hard-hitting questions as to whether Shoperation is really a company the world needs right now.



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