The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
Described by our listeners as “meticulously researched biographies" and "I learnt more about the guest from your episode even after 10+ years of knowing the guest" -- excerpts of the podcast have been featured in Forbes, AFR, Daily Telegraph, and showcased at SXSW.
Since 2020, more than 60% of our guests have done their *first-ever* public interview—or their *first in years*—on The High Flyers Podcast, including:
➝ Malcolm Turnbull: Prime Minister of Australia
➝ Michael Schneider: CEO, Bunnings
➝ Anil Sabharwal: Built/Led Google Photos, Chrome, Drive
➝ Elena Verna: Head of Growth, Lovable
➝ Mark Suster: Co-Founder & Partner, Upfront Ventures
➝ Brad Banducci: CEO, Woolworths
➝ Craig Tiley: CEO, Tennis Australia & Australian Open
➝ Jean-Michel Limieux: CTO, Shopify and Atlassian
➝ Gillian Findlay: COO, Immutable & SafetyCulture
➝ Holly Kramer: Board Director, Woolworths & ANZ Bank
➝ Sam Sicilia: Chief Investment Officer, Hostplus
➝ Ahmed Fahour: CEO, NAB & Australia Post
➝ Piruze Sabunci: Partner, Squarepeg; Stripe's first Asia hire
➝ Andrey Khusid: CEO & Co-Founder, Miro
➝ Bill Bartee: Co-Founder Blackbird + Main Sequence
➝ Rod Hamilton: Co-Founder & CPO, Culture Amp
➝ Larry Marshall: CEO, CSIRO
➝ Brendan Hargreaves: CFO, Officeworks
Contact us via:
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://highflyerspodcast.com/
Vidit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidags10
Vidit's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viditag/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehighflyerspodcast/
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 222
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Hunter Johnson: 27 detentions and 6 injuries by age 21 to how he built the national charity teaching emotional intelligence to teenage boys, Man Cave + working w Prince Harry
Welcome to episode #63 with Hunter Johnson! Here are 5 key takeaways that I think you will learn from this episode today:
- How rebelling against family values and society growing up shaped his characte…
Investment memo: "Mainak Dhar", the process behind publishing 26 books (many becoming best sellers)
Hear from Mainak Dhar, Best selling author and leader of India & South Asia at Kimberly Clark; and welcome to episode 2 of Curiosity Center.
Please enjoy exploring your curiosity as I did mine through…
Steve Solomon: Unpacking the journey, mindset and habits to becoming 2x Olympic athlete + critical painful learning from missing 2016 olympics by 4/100th of a second!
Welcome to episode #61 with Steve Solomon! Here are 5 key takeaways that I think you will learn from this episode today:
- Steve's advice to parents with kids showing athletic potential (context: Steve …
Josh Ismin: Journey from New York to Sydney, creating a new last name, unpacking angel investing, why he's building Psylo: psychedelic-inspired medicine to treat mental illness
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Article 2 of my curiosity centre newsletter i…
Investment memo: "Arrive & Thrive", the social enterprise supporting 12,000 students in 53 schools to achieve career goals
Hear from Tyson Day, co-founder of Arrive & Thrive and welcome to episode 1 of Curiosity Center.
Arrive & Thrive is a career education social enterprise, helping students set and achieve career goals …
Michelle Hu: Drive to suceed from immigrant parents, banking analyst turned beauty startup founder with operations in Melbourne and recently New York & social media marketing tricks!
Inspiring and raw conversation with Michelle Hu, founder of founder of Etoile Collective, online beauty accessories store with operations in Melbourne and recently New York.
Hear Michelle share her su…
Michael Batko: Feeling lost in 2018 unsure of himself to becoming CEO of Australia's largest startup accelerator: startmate, habits and rhytms to increase his 'surface area for luck to strike', and influences from polish heritage
Knowledge packed episode with the one and only Michael Batko!
Batko was born in Vienna, Austria to polish parents and had quite a humble sunrise. His explorer love took him to Australia, where he’s b…
Ed Cowan: Inside the journey of playing professional cricket for Australia, 1% habits of best athletes, successful transitions out of sport, founding tripod coffee & the cake recipe!
You only need to google Ed Cowan to find out about his accomplishments on the sporting field, transitioning to becoming an investor at TDM Growth Partners which meant working with his older brother, …
Michael Fox: Countryside sunrise, optimise for rate of learning in career, closing fashion biz, now building meat free movement + worrying stats about our diets!
The brilliant and inspiring Michael Fox and I chat about his sunrise in broken hill NSW with dad being a mining engineer and mum a part time accountant who went back to uni later on to do a masters …
Introducing Curiosity Center: Specific episodes w founders & leaders in every industry, showcasing what they do, why and how to help you thrive at work and achieve your potential!
Introducing Curiosity Center!
Listen in to find out:
- Show highlights of 2021
- Why, How and where for Curiosity Center
Subscribe to the curiosity center newsletter here to receive every article directly i…
Crossover Special: Vidit joins Chloe Temple on the Leadership Confidence series - "What I'm learning from 50+ episodes re-imagining the traditional high flyer"
Thanks to Chloe Temple for inviting the host of this show, Vidit Agarwal on the Leadership Confidence series!
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Points covered/ timestamps:
02:10 - celebrating 50 episodes of The High Flyers Podcast
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Tom Kelly: Italian influences, how to build a start up and raise funding whilst being a doctor with no direct business experience, surgical registrar turned start up founder building the next step in clinical training + secrets for a long life!
Take flight into Tom's journey - Sunrise in Melbourne, with Italian influences including how his parents meeting at an Italian restaurant, his dad being a chef, and early memories of working in his f…
Andy Miller: Free range childhood, travelling the world in pyjamas, story of launching Heaps Normal: the non alcholic beer movement during a pandemic & 3 years living in China!
Take flight into Andy's journey -- sunrise in Brisbane, Australia with inspector gadget as his childhood hero, and a desire to be a doctor that ultimately turned into a career in the creative industr…
Shane Hatton: How he turned an idea into reality into a leadership and coaching practise, author, podcast host & renowned speaker!
Take flight into Shane's journey - sunrise in Bundaberg, a smallish town in QLD, Australia having varied interests as Shane describes it following themes rather than a specific path whether that be t…
#48 Blackbird's Nick Crocker: Dealing with loss early on, discovering startups via journalism, selling to Under Amour, Behind the scenes of Venture Capital
Take flight into Nick's journey -- You know those conversations, we all have them where you have so many questions but the discussion actually covers a lot of ground? That’s how this episode went.
BONUS! Building disability support agency Buttons w David Bookman - How it started, economics behind a service provider, NDIS Government scheme structure, painful learnings & success in next 2 years!
A bonus episode, the second in this series! The first we had Matt Dwyer from Tennis Australia take us behind the scenes of the Australian Open tennis grand slam, being the first sporting event held i…
Chloe Temple - Overcoming challenges at uni in the UK to helping spark change to be our true selves, Building POPP coaching business
Take flight into Chloe's journey - growing up in the UK in a small tight knit family, looking up to her parents with dad being a business owner and mum as marketing director for a large corporate. Ch…
Minal Mehta - Pan Asia upbringing, scaling next billion users for YouTube, tech in the early 2000's vs now, career coach at Harvard & Founding TakeTwo!
Take flight into Minal's journey -- growing up in India, learning ambition and owning yourself from her mother and the drive to be better from her father; and then going to Singapore to finish her l…
Holly Ransom - Inspiring path from Perth to interviewing & engaging with powerhouse leaders including Obama, Richard Branson, Dalai Lama & more!
Holly's favourite quote is “Never doubt that a group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world, its the only thing that ever has” - Margaret Meed
Take flight into Holly's journey - gro…
Maddy Buchner OAM - Doing her life's work by creating Little Dreamers, Australia's leading young carer organisation and recognised by the Queen!!
“The whole program culminated with an award ceremony at Buckingham Palace, and thorough the whole program I guess we were at this big point of Little Dreamers where we had to decide whether to go all…