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If you’re passionate about sustainability and our journey to lowering emissions, you’ve probably heard about batteries.In this episode we breakdown the dilemma facing our energy grids worldwide, as we try to move to 100% renewable energy, and why energy storage is critical to fixing the problem.Between us as co-hosts we have almost a decade of experience in one of the most unstable energy markets in the world. There are so many questions around how we are going to get from where we are, to wh...

Cam hikes, travels and inspires others for a living. He has hiked some of world’s most amazing treks, including the Te Aroha in New Zealand, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Lebuche East and Island Peak in the Himalayas. He has amassed a following of over a quarter million on Instagram and has become a fulltime content creator and hiker.He lives a unique life that sounds wild to most, yet Cam is one of the most down to Earth guys we know, and is a friend of the show. We couldn’t pass up th...

Dylan is a renewable energy engineer who left the Energy Industry to pursue entrepreneurship. He went to the Ignite Program at Stanford Graduate school of Business and has founded a sustainable equipment lending company called Lendecon. We unpack this journey into the unknown with Dylan and discover the key takeaways gained from his couple of months at Stanford. Dylan is a friend of the show and someone we've been patiently waiting to have on the show when he returned to Australia from S...

Part 2 of the chat with Blake Burton - delving into his investing journey. We discussed his personal investing philosophies, asset classes and how he differentiates opportunities, to best apply his time. We went deep on his experience in private equity - particularly the story of his investment into Intercast Australia, a local non-ferrous metals foundry, that he bought into, modernised and optimised.

Blake started his professional career with PwC in 2011. He went on to become the co-founder of Perth’s largest privately owned web hosting company, Netorigin in 2014, before he took the business to a successful trade sale to Ventra-IP in 2019. Since then, Blake has done a lot and, he’s only 31. His most active role is as the Managing Director for Adisyn or (AI1), an ASX-Listed Data Solutions business. He also holds a directorship with Fieldd, a fast growing SAAS business in the US, and c...

We delve into the world of speculative (speccy) investing with Dan Wimmer, an experienced investor known for his bold approach to the market. Dan shares his personal journey into speculative investing, reflecting on his first forays into this high-risk, high-reward realm. We explore the psychology behind investing in speculative stocks, uncovering Dan's strategies for managing risk, and navigating market volatility, staying the course and investing with conviction. We often say there is ...