My Business Podcast
The My Business Podcast is Australia’s leading podcast for anyone who owns and operates their own business. Each week, we speak with real-life business owners about their successes and struggles, finances and fears, as well as what inspires them and how they continue to make ends meet. Raw, honest and unscripted, the My Business Podcast is the ultimate source of inspiring stories and practical advice for every business leader.
Recognised as a trusted advisor to SME owners for 24 years, My Business provides innovative business strategies, practical tips and expert advice that Australia’s two million SME owners can use in their day-to-day operations.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 109
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2020
SMEs missing out on tenfold efficiency gains: Gary Elphick, Disrupt Sports
Entrepreneur Gary Elphick, co-founder of Disrupt Sports, reveals the manufacturing efficiencies most Aussie SMEs overlook, why not all feedback is useful, and the limitations of customer choice on pr…
00:27:20 |
Mon 30 Oct 2017
Exclusive peek at 3-time Olympian’s budding business empire: Eamon Sullivan, restauranteur
Well-known former Olympic swimmer Eamon Sullivan has become a restauranteur in his native Perth, and as he candidly admits, the challenges of running a business outweigh those of elite sports. From n…
00:33:55 |
Mon 23 Oct 2017
InStitchu’s brazen approach to growing market share: Robin McGowan
The co-founder of high-profile custom fashion retailer InStitchu shares his experiences on competing against the big boys and developing a new form of retailing. As Robin explains, consumers have nev…
00:21:51 |
Mon 16 Oct 2017
14yo entrepreneur proves age no barrier to success
Funding, supplying and marketing a business is never an easy prospect, but as EduKits founder Michael Nixon reveals, doing so while under the legal age is infinitely harder still — but by no means im…
00:24:37 |
Mon 09 Oct 2017
"At death's door, I still thought about work."
We are all familiar with the phrase "worked to death", but for Rand Leeb-du Toit, an entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, those words carry with them a vivid memory from a first-hand experienc…
00:29:08 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
Business leaders share their most hard-learnt lessons
Admitting failure can be a difficult thing, yet as these 10 business owners reveal, mistakes have helped to strengthen their business – and others can do the same without taking the hard route. In th…
00:21:02 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
**Special podcast** The workplace issues every employer needs to action
In this special edition of the My Business Podcast, Andrew Conway, head of the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA), joins My Business owner Phil Tarrant to share his insights on the ‘evolving’ cond…
00:32:46 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
A blind man’s vision for a video production company
A blind video producer – “tell him he’s dreamin’!” Yet for gough of Beernuts Productions, dreams do come true, and his inspiring story has plenty of valuable insights for other business owners. Joini…
00:25:32 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
Mistakes and wins over 20 years in business: Nick Mastro and Antonio Galati, Adore Coffee
Owner of Adore Estate Coffee and the Killer Coffee Co, Nick Mastro, reveals first-hand the highs and lows of operating a multichannel business, and what lessons other brands can take from his experie…
00:23:45 |
Mon 04 Sep 2017
How to beat competitors at their own game: Lachy Rowston and Raph Freedman, CrossFit Creature
Many business owners are afraid of competition. Others, such as Lachy Rowston and Raph Freedman of CrossFit Creature, say competition is a tool to hone your product or service offering. “The competit…
00:28:23 |
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Don’t scale your business out of existence: Marty Halphen, The Fruit Box
He’s not the biggest fish in the pond, but Marty Halphen from The Fruit Box says that if he wants to be number one, he’s got to train like he’s number two. “We don’t want that way of thinking to go a…
00:25:14 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Exclusive: How Red Rooster is tackling brand nostalgia
Delivering new growth options for a long-established business is no easy feat. Red Rooster’s CEO Chris Green reveals exactly how he is tackling this challenge head-on. Established businesses often fi…
00:29:28 |
Fri 11 Aug 2017
Coming back from the brink of failure: Lachy Rowston and Raph Freedman, Crossfit Creature
Gym owners Lachy Rowston and Raph Freedman came frighteningly close to becoming another business failure statistic. Now, they have three gyms and an active social following in excess of 100,000. Desp…
00:28:23 |
Mon 07 Aug 2017
The $150m Aussie brand that Australia rejected: Sean Ashby, aussieBum
After literally being laughed at here in Australia, aussieBum founder Sean Ashby took his apparel ideas overseas, securing none other than luxury London department store Selfridges as his first stock…
00:30:00 |
Fri 28 Jul 2017
Secrets to building a thriving export business: Anton Pemmer, Bottles of Australia
Anton Pemmer of Bottles of Australia imparts some key advice for SMEs on exporting, learnt from his own experience building a sales network across 22 countries around the globe. “It’s one thing to sa…
00:23:52 |
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Driving sales volumes through best-practice SEO: Tim Barnett, 2BInteractive
With 90-plus per cent of web traffic to a site coming from SEO, can your business afford to do without this valuable marketing tool? Tim Barnett of digital agency 2BInteractive explains how to get SE…
00:21:37 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Driving higher conversions from your marketing spend: Jules & Amajjika, Lily Jackson Hair & Makeup
“We would get more than 95 per cent of our customers from our online marketing strategy,” says Amajjika Kumara of Lily Jackson Hair & Makeup, who explains exactly how they achieved this feat. Amajjik…
00:28:05 |
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Busting the biggest legal problems for SMEs: Mark Gardiner and Nicole Billett, Teddington Legal
Mark Gardiner and Nicole Billett from Teddington Legal return to the My Business studio to give listeners the inside track on a number of hot-button legal issues facing business owners. Speaking on t…
00:24:32 |
Mon 03 Jul 2017
Simple trick to boost growth, reduce costs: Murray Warner, Concur
Businesses don’t know employee expenses are coming in until the claim hits the finance desk, as Concur’s Murray Warner explains. However, there are ways to make the expenses process more transparent …
00:23:39 |
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Mister Minit Australia’s do or die approach to disruption
Mark Rusbatch, CEO of Mister Minit Australia, reveals how a business dependent on foot traffic is embracing technology to overcome the general retail malaise and how turning franchisee is unlocking p…
00:26:45 |
Mon 19 Jun 2017
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