So You Want To Start A Business

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup BroomeTown B&B was established in 2006 by Toni and her husband Richard. Together they painstakingly designed every last detail, hand built and developed the business in a short 12 month timeframe.  This award winning, business has provided the perfect lifestyle for this ambitious couple who are empty nesters in their 50’s. Fortunately they enjoy working together and are not afraid of hard work, arguing about who is the BOSS is the only negative!  Toni’s philosophy for running a small business has been a commitment to; excellent customer service, attention to detail, solid financial planning and having fun along the way. Toni is very house proud, loves meeting new people and with a passion for photography and travel her small business is a perfect combination of everything she loves. At every opportunity Toni

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Kayla has been working as a skin therapist for the last 5 years and knows the skincare industry inside out. The latest trends are anti-ageing and 'active' skincare, which is great for some skin, but leaves others with reactions and sensitivity. With more and more clients suffering with sensitive skin and symptoms like redness and eczema, Kayla created a natural skincare solution with anti-inflammatories, that repairs and hydrates your skin. Since 2017, Tribe Skincare has helped thousands of Aussie women get their skin in its best health - reducing facial redness, minimising breakouts and saying goodbye to dry patches and eczema.  www.tribeskincare.com.au www.instagram.com/tribeskincare www.facebook.com/tribeskincareau   This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to cr

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup By the time Kamala Chambers was 18, she had hitch-hiked across three provinces, 12 countries, and 20 states. Travel formed her insatiable drive for freedom, and so she started her first business at 19. For over 10 years, she has mentored entrepreneurs and businesses all over the world; specializing in product launches, creating passive income, and podcast production. Her online business success allows her the freedom to travel the world and vacation at her self-built eco-home on the beautiful San Juan Islands. Kamala is known as a speaker, best-selling author, launch strategist, passive income consultant, podcast host, and the CEO of Thriving Launch. Learn more and stay in the know at https://www.thrivinglaunch.com Social Media:  https://www.facebook.com/kamalachambers/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamalachambers

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Mostafa is an accomplished marketing and start-up growth strategist with 9 years experience in accelerating revenue growth and expanding brands' footprints. He is also a curious, enterprising, and very caring guy.  During his interview, you will start to wonder if he doesn't care more about his client's organisation then his own. This interview is meaningful and honest.  I recommend everyone in business, startup or otherwise, listen to this one. This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to create, start and grow your own business" This is the only advertising on this podcast! My guess is that you are here because you are curious about what it might be like to start a business? Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you have what it takes? If your idea will work or even how

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Following a career in the marketing and design industry in London and Sydney, Robert made the leap to his own business in the mid 1990s. Seeing a niche in the area of support and resources aimed at the ‘one-person business’, Robert launched the Flying Solo community in 2005. With a small team, he grew the business to a member base ofover 100,000 Australian freelancers and entrepreneurs, before selling to Pinstripe Media at the end of last year. Back working solo, today Robert pops up regularly at conferences and events; supports individuals in the development of their ventures, and hosts a series of podcasts including: “The Business of Bookkeeping”(for First Class Accounts), “The Flying Solo Podcast”and his own “Mellow Brick Road”a new show that explores creative approaches to business. His first book, “Flying So

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup In 2016 Dayana Brooke reached a turning point where she felt travel could no longer be treated as an endless commodity without any thought of the consequences to the environment. It no longer aligned with her own personal views and beliefs of caring for the environment, animals and being a passionate vegetarian for 18 years. She saw a need to change the way people travel and so she set up The Sustainable Traveller, to help people become more aware of the environment by offering only eco friendly travel options.    It has been a slow and steady start creating a change in the travel market and it’s been liberating to finally raise awareness on issues she feels passionate about and to align her personal views and beliefs with a love for travel.   Dayana has received amazing feedback from people, businesses and withi

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup For the last fifteen years, Jules has been teaching small business owners and entrepreneurs how to grow their sales and get the phone ringing by getting featured for free in the media. She has owned and operated a number of small businesses herself and ran a PR agency specialising in small business clients, start-ups and entrepreneurs for well over a decade. She has worked in most disciplines in marketing, both in Australia and overseas, and loves to share her knowledge and experience with her customers. HYOPR has helped over a thousand small business owners to make millions of dollars’ worth of media exposure by running their own PR campaigns. Using her online boot camps, coaching and PR tools, Jules’ students have been on TV, radio and been featured in magazines and newspapers nationally. Many have gone on to

Zion is co-founder of Alyka (alyka.com.au) - Western Australia's largest in-house digital marketing agency.  Zion started the business from his home and grew it 854% over a 5 year period. Alyka is now a multimillion dollar business with 42 in-house staff, 2 offices worldwide and has been recognised as a 3 times AFR Fast 100 Starter and Telstra business winner. Zion is also a Western Australia 40 under 40 winner. Zion loves 3 things - business, marketing and technology; And he even has his own podcast (AskAlyka) in which talks about these 3 loves.     My guess is that you are here because you are curious about what it might be like to start a business? Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you have what it takes? If your idea will work or even how much it actually costs to build a successful business? I’ve written a book that can answer pretty much all your questions “So You Want to Start a Business” and you can download the first 20 pages at www.thestartupsteps.com My 15 years of experience working with start up a

The original interview with Emmanuel Chaveroux has been removed at his request. He is taking a pause in his business. We wish him all the very best and trust that things will work out for the best. I am also personally grateful for the time Emmanual spent being involved with this podcast.   Website: https://discovermyfrance.com.au/   My guess is that you are here because you are curious about what it might be like to start a business? Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you have what it takes? If your idea will work or even how much it actually costs to build a successful business? I’ve written a book that can answer pretty much all your questions “So You Want to Start a Business” and you can download the first 20 pages at www.thestartupsteps.com My 15 years of experience working with start up and small businesses are condensed into this book. It’s your step by step guide to launch your business smarter and faster and I’m so excited to be sharing it with you and can’t wait to hear about your progress. Are you re

Jane is an award winning, passionate marketer dedicated to helping small businesses take advantage of the benefits that marketing has to offer. As the Founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing, Jane combines her experience as a qualified marketing professional and her huge passion for building relationships to help businesses navigate the ever-changing world of marketing. Driven by the success of her clients, she is strategic and creative in her thinking. She has the in-depth knowledge of the leading online and offline channels and can provide marketing advice that leads to results. She is a passionate advocate of the advantages and opportunities that marketing can offer individuals and businesses that are looking to make an impact in their industry. Her positive and energetic mindset is balanced with a realistic and authentic approach to devising marketing strategies that identify and leverage opportunities for her clients to consistently succeed. Jane is also a Certified Practicing Marketer with

Kindershare connects owners and renters of children's equipment. As founder, Vanouhi is responsible for all operational, growth and development opportunities.  Vanouhi is a passionate and self-motivated individual who is dedicated to the for-purpose sector Vanouhi uses her skills to create value that isn't measured only in dollars.   Website: https://kindershare.com FB: www.facebook.com/kindershare   This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to create, start and grow your own business" This is the only advertising on this podcast! My guess is that you are here because you are curious about what it might be like to start a business? Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you have what it takes? If your idea will work or even how much it actually costs to build a successful business? I’ve written a book that can answer pretty much all your questions “So You Want to Start a Business” and you can download the first 20 pages at www.thestartupsteps.com My 15 years of experien

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business. https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Stevie is an ex-lawyer turned social media marketer. She has spent the past ten years spent working with some of the biggest brands in Australia on marketing strategy and social media, most recently as the Head of Marketing at Place Estate Agents. Stevie is now the owner of Stevie Says Social, a social media consultancy which provides training, strategy and management services to service-based businesses looking to lift their social game. She write extensively on the topic of social media, and has had her work featured in the likes of Social Media Examiner, Smart Company and Business Chicks. Website: www.steviesayssocial.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/steviesayssocial   Insta: https://www.instagram.com/steviesayssocial/         This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 s

Danielle is the co-founder & CEO of Scrunch, a data-driven Influencer Marketing platform helping to connect brands, publishers and agencies to the right Influencers for their campaign.  Danielle has a background in fashion design, blogging and enterprise sales - but her heart really belongs to travel and coffee. 10 years ago she started the blog Brisbane Threads while pursuing a career in enterprise sales for Australia's largest telecommunications company. It was through this blog that the world of digital Influencers and their challenges would interest her so much that she threw-in a rising career to pursue the world of technology startups. 5 years later, Danielle has successfully raised over $3Million in capital, built a world-class team and launched a SaaS platform in Australia and the US. Next stop, Margaritas in Mexico.  You can find Danielle at scrunch.com This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to create, start and grow your own business" To buy your

What happens when you take a marketing and advertising background, add an English degree and then uncover a passion for entrepreneurship? Really cool stuff. That's Kate, and she's the implementer of awesome ideas over at EOFire. How did this come to be? Well, when she realized after all those years in marketing and advertising and the banking industry she didn't need Corporate America to determine her worth. Instead, Kate decided to determine her own worth by taking all of the knowledge and experience she'd gained and put it towards helping others recognize, create and build the business they've always dreamed of, but never thought possible. This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to create, start and grow your own business" This is the only advertising on this podcast! My guess is that you are here because you are curious about what it might be like to start a business? Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you have what it takes? If your idea will work or even h

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup The $100 MBA is an alternative and complete business education which teaches all the core business concepts for business in the real world. Through online video lessons, vital supportive community, live office hours and more they save people the 2 years and 100 grand Webinar Ninja helps entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their business and their audience. In this interview conversation Nicole talks about their business startup journey for both $100MBA and Webinar Ninja If you want more information you can head over to www.healthynumbers.com.au where there is a full transcript of our conversation. If you want to read an extract of my book www.thestartupsteps.com    

Come join us in this FB Group: Healthy Numbers Profit Lab This is the community for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to build and grow a profitable business.  https://bit.ly/HNProfitLabGroup Jenna Zaffino is amazing!! and this is a terrific interview conversation. Jenna is an expert Pilates teacher with over 15 years of experience in movement education.  Drawing from her background of professional dance, comprehensive Pilates trainings, movement studies and professional speaking, Jenna offers an experience that celebrates each individual while challenging them to expand the perceptions of what’s possible in the studio and beyond. You can find Jenna here: https://jennazaffino.com It's a terrific interview with Jenna and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please leave a review or email me ingrid@healthynumbers.com.au This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to create, start and grow your own business" and you can order your FREE copy right here: http://bit.l

Nicole Eckels, founder of Glasshouse Fragrances - one of Australia’s leading fragrance empires for the past ten years. I met Nicole recently when she was presenting at an event I attended. Her story is inspiring. Nicole Eckels moved to Australia in 2005 from New York, craving a sea change and new lifestyle for herself and her son. Searching Sydney Nicole was on the mission to find a new candle to replace a beloved candle she had previously purchased in New York City . She walked into David Jones – a high end department store with a reputation for the finer things in life What she didn’t plan on was walking out of David Jones unsatisfied. There was nothing that was good quality or locally made.  In this episode I describe Nicole's startup story so we can learn from her experience. As always there is a full transcript over on my website www.healthynumbers.com.au If you have any questions about getting started in your own business please email me directly at ingrid@healthynumbers.com.au What actions will you tak

Many people dream of taking what they know and creating a sustainable business, Jacq Hackett has done just that. Following an extensive career in public sector health agencies, Jacq Hackett made the move from employment to solo consultant in 2000 and has never looked back. Based in New South Wales, Australia, she has an extensive portfolio of consultancy projects under her belt, working across multiple agencies, services and program areas. Jacq is now on a mission to equip start-up solo consultants in the government and community services sector to build a thriving business. To find out more about Jacq Hackett Consulting click here As always you can find full transcript over at our blog www.healthynumbers.com.au/  If you have any questions about how to get started in your own business, please email me at ingrid@healthynumbers.com.au I answer all emails personally.

Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams launched Canva in 2013. It started with Fusion Books and after 5 years Melanie Perkins knew she had the right model for Canva. This is an audio white paper telling the startup story and the 5 lessons Melanie has learned along the way. Thanks for listening and if you are thinking about starting your own business I’ve written a book called “So You Want to start a business" and you can grab a generous excerpt over at www.SoYouWanttostartabusiness.com.au As always you can find full transcripts of all the podcasts over on my website healthynumbers.com.au with links and show notes Remember: Ideas without action…. Well they are just that … ideas Every time I think about how many rejections Melanie Perkins faced, I am inspired to keep taking action and I trust that listening to this you might be too What action are you inspired to take today?

Katherine Maslen is a naturopath, nutritionist, author and ambassador for amazing health.  After completing 2 bachelor degrees in health science, she has been helping people be achieve good health for over 9 years. Seven years ago she founded Brisbane Natural Health – a wellness center where she works with her team to help overcome her clients health issues. After seeing clients for 5 days a week Katherine decided it was time to send her message a little further, so she decided to write Get Well, Stay Well.    Katherine's offer to listeners: Katherine has offered listeners her free 10-day health challenge. The website is www.10dayhealthchallenge.com.au and that will give listeners access to a free 10-day health coaching program. Also check out Katherine at http://katherinemaslen.com/ and www.brisbanenaturalhealth.com.au   Thanks for listening and if you are thinking about starting your own business I’ve written a book called “So You Want to start a business and you can grab a generous excerpt over at www.SoYo