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True Business Stories

Mark and Bill

Fantastic stories and insights from business leaders

business management

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28:46

Claire Richards KPMG

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2025/05/09

Claire loves risk and has spent most of her career helping businesses identify risk and how to use that risk analysis to make better business decisions.

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33:08

Robert Bruce - Whitewater /

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2025/04/22

Robert Bruce has had an international career in building and creating better businesses and improving processes through the LEAN way. A great story about how the right advice and skills can create better businesses.

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36:05

Amanda Flynn - Smellies

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2025/04/11

Amanda wanted to be a journalist and then ended up working in the fabric and rag trade. A chat with her brother in law led to the establishment of her business selling cut flowers Smellies https://smellies.com.au/ - 30 years ago and still trading strongly.

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18:13

Bill and Mark Discuss the global issues

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2025/04/04

A group met to chat about the recent global issues especially the Trump tariffs. What should we do and what might change in Australia.

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31:50

Harvey Martin - CEO Coach at Vistage

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2025/03/28

Harvey has had a long career as a CEO across a wide range of company's. One of his earliest roles was with Jarvis Walker - the well known and loved fishing gear company. His journey as a CEO has now led to him being a coach with https://www.vistage.com.au/ an organisation that runs peer advisory groups to help CEO's grow and learn.

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32:57

Tony Costa - CEO Scaada

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2025/03/21

Tony had a great career spanning 19 years in education at Christian College in Geelong. Deciding he needed a change, a chat and a phone call led to a job offer and now he is CEO at Scaada https://scaada.com.au/ Tony loves his change as the company has the same values and ethics he follows in his life. A great story.

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30:19

Sarah Gross & Cass Mackenzie - Storyfolk

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2025/03/07

Sarah and Cass love design and making a difference in the world. A meeting at The Gordon TAFE while both were studying eventually led to them teaming up to create their business Storyfolk. A business founded on great values and one that keeps winning awards.

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31:43

Craig Kennedy - Kenstra

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2025/02/28

Craig started his career in banking and then moved into telecommunications. A change in the Telstra business model led Craig to start his own ICT company supporting medium to large businesses called Kenstra. Craig is also the Chair for the Committee for Wyndham supporting businesses across western Melbourne.

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33:19

Prof. dr. Srechko (Stretch) Kontelj OAM

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2025/02/21

Stretch Kontelj has had a fascinating career in law and business. Combined with a passion for community and politics. Stretch is now the Mayor of the City of Geelong.

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25:58

Lauren Hill - Pets Country Club

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2025/02/14

Lauren is the CEO of Pets Country Club a family business that has been operating in Lara, outside Geelong for over 30 years. Lauren has had a career in sporting events but has come back to run the family business. A great story.

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32:49

Marie-Claire Trotter: The Q Train

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2025/02/07

Marie-Claire (MC to friends) had a passion and still does for acting. The Q Train evolved from a family plan to create a dining experience. The business has grown over the years to win awards for tourism and recently the Geelong Business Excellence Awards for Inclusivity and Accessibility.

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17:06

Our last pod cast for 2024 - a look back at all the...

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2024/12/27

Bill and Mark chat about all the people they have met and some of the key take outs that they have gleaned from some amazing people.

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27:56

Donna Schneider - The Arborist

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2024/12/20

Donna started her career in fashion and worked for some major clothing companies and developed and sold her own label of kids clothes. Spotting a beautiful old warehouse Donna and her partner Beav decided to open a restaurant. They now have three - The Arborist, Meet me at Marys, Beav's Bar

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25:36

Michelle Visser - Harvest Experience

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2024/12/13

Michelle had a long career working in audit, mergers with one of the 'big 4'. A desire for a change led to the purchase of some acres on The Bellarine and the development of a sustainable cooking and growing demonstration business.

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24:09

Shannon Kennedy - The Kennedys Group

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2024/12/06

Shannon has had plumbing in his blood from an early age, helping with the family business while at school. Now he and his brother run the Kennedys Group with over 100 employees. A great story about a respected family business and the strength from having a good succession plan.

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27:46

Shannon Bowman - Create Balance

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2024/11/29

Shannon talks about his early childhood trauma and hurdles that in the long run has led him to developing his business helping people deal with stress and trauma. Shannon has a wonderful story to tell.

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28:05

John Sier - Safe Mate Anti-slip

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2024/11/22

John started his journey thinking about becoming a dentist. He then changed tack and went onto becoming a successful lawyer with a focus on the franchise industry. The family business that was started by his father then beckoned and John now heads up SafeMate Anti Slip Solutions. https://safemateantislip.com/Another great story.

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29:20

Elizabeth Bell - Elizabeth Bell Ceramics

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2024/11/15

Libby started off as a hairdresser but a 'tipping point' in her life was visiting Japan and taking a pottery class that inspired her to change direction. After lots of lessons and discovery of different styles Libby has now moved to an incredible studio based at the FyansPaper Mill complex.

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30:59

Shannan Gove - Rosterfy

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2024/11/08

Shannan Gove with partners Bennett Merriman and Chris Grant took their idea to create their own staffing company (Event Workforce) to help connect motivated university students with work experience opportunities throughout Australia. As Event Workforce grew, the founders realized that they needed to ditch the spreadsheets in order to support their growing database of volunteers and casual staff. The team then built an online platform that provided a technical end to end solution to volun...

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23:35

Tom Simic - Simic Financial

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2024/11/01

Tom is not only a financial expert but also a true advocate for his clients' success. Renowned for his innovative thinking and creative problem-solving, he goes above and beyond to drive business growth and prosperity.

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