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Business In Colour

Div Pillay & Sadhana Smiles

Business In Colour is a podcast that inspires, empowers and mobilises leaders and allies to understand and act for greater diversity. Hear our stories so that you understand our journey, our experiences and our wants. We bring to you leaders who are doing incredible work in this space. We know this work is not easy, we know the challenges leaders face. Our hope is that by listening to the leaders on the Business In Colour podcast, you make a commitment to act for positive change. Our businesses must

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EP. 137 Perinatal Mental Health Priority/Frances Bilbao

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2026/10/08

In this episode of Business in Colour, Sadhana and I speak with Frances Bilbao, the founder of Mum’s Matter Psychology — a clinical psychologist and business leader who is transforming access to perinatal mental health care for mothers across Australia. Frances brings a rare combination of strengths and lived wisdom. She began her career in corporate project management and consulting, but over time she realised her purpose was elsewhere — and returned to university to complete her

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EP 136 The Menopause Gap/ Grace Molloy

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2026/09/16

In this episode we speak with Grace Molloy, CEO and Founder of Menopause Friendly Australia.Grace is an Australian Registered Nurse with a Big 4 background in financial audit, business development and commercial partnership and is a Telstra Best of Business Award Winner. In this episode, we unpack why Grace started the business in Australia, why it is so very much needed from a productivity and psychological safety perspective, why men need to tune into and get comfortable talking about menopause

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EP 135 Making People Visible/ Betty Exintaris

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2026/08/20

In this episode of Business in Colour, Sadhana and I sit down with Associate Professor Betty Exintaris — an award-winning educator, curriculum innovator, with more than 25 years of experience shaping how students don't just learn, but belong. Betty is also the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, and Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University. A first-generation Greek Australian, Betty brings her own lived

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EP. 134 Identity at Work/Charmaine Panickar and...

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2026/08/01

In this episode, Sadhana and I talk to two remarkable women — Charmaine Panickar and Krystin Low — the worthy winners of the Business in Colour 2025 Collective Impact Award, on behalf of AGL Cultures. Charmaine and Krystin are both Melbourne-based in-house lawyers at AGL, and the Co-Leads of AGL Cultures, one of the company’s employee-led inclusion networks, championing cultural awareness, anti-racism and belonging across the organisation. Charmaine was born in Singapore to Indian

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EP 133 Freedom Lends a Hand/Azadeh Dastyari

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2026/07/14

In this episode of business in colour, I had the absolute privilege of introducing a woman whose name alone tells you who she is. Azadeh means freedom. Dastyari means those who lend a helping hand. Born during the Iranian Revolution, raised in Blacktown, Western Sydney — she embodies her name. Azadeh will tell you she’s an accidental academic. But there is nothing accidental about what she has built. Professor Azadeh Dastyari is the Director of the Centre for Western Sydney and a

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EP 132 Ripples of Change/Malini Raj

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2026/05/26

In this episode, Sadhana and I sit down with someone who has been in this fight long before diversity and inclusion became a corporate buzzword — and who is very much still in it. Malini Raj grew up as one of the only culturally diverse kids in her school, she longed for swapping her curry for a veggie-mite sandwhich and she watched her father change his name just to get a job in Australia. Malini went onto spend two decades in financial services — often the only woman of colour in the

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EP 131 Allyship & Impact/Dr Chischona Schmidt

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2026/04/10

In this episode of Business in Colour, I talk with Dr. Chrischona Schmidt — an arts professional, researcher, and fierce advocate for First Nations cultural expression, who has spent more than 18 years working alongside community to elevate First nations arts and storytelling. Chrischona is the Manager of Ikuntji Artists, an Aboriginal-owned art centre based in Haasts Bluff, 230 kilometres west of Alice Springs — and one of the most socially conscious, community-driven organisations

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EP 130 Finding Home & Healing/Nyachan Nyak

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2026/03/06

In this episode of Business in Colour, I talk with Nyachan Nyak — the visionary founder and CEO of the Nas Recovery Centre, and a purpose-led leader transforming mental health and substance use support for African communities through culturally tailored care and lived experience leadership. Nyachan holds a Master’s degree in mental health and a bachelor’s degree in Community Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs. She’s also a certified suicide prevention and intervention

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EP 129 Creating Health Equity in Systems/Dr Ashna Basu

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2025/11/09

In this episode of Business in Colour we talk to Dr Ashna Basu who is a psychiatry advanced trainee in Sydney. She sits on the Board of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and is the Chair of the Young branch of the Medical Women’s International Association. Ashna has previous experience in management consulting and governance, and advocates for equity in health and society nationally and overseas. In 2024 she was invited by the President of the United Nations General

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EP 128 Purpose-led Leadership/Donna de Zwart

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2025/09/16

In this episode of Business in Colour I talk to Donna DeZWart who is an accomplished leader with over 30 years of experience in consulting and the education sector, including 10 years as a CEO in the for-purpose sector. Donna leads Fitted for Work that specifically focusses on the employability of women through its range of programs and welcomes into their safe spaces nationally all women, non-binary, and gender-diverse jobseekers. Under Donna’s leadership, Fitted for Work has built two

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EP 127 Inclusive by Design/Sonia Sarangi

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2025/08/03

Sonia Sarangi is a registered Architect – the first Architect on Business in Colour – Sonia is the co-founder of Andever, a Board Member at ArchiTeam and Ausdance Victoria…a mentor to many and a Mum of two. She is the daughter of South Asian immigrants to the Middle East who then undertook her own migration journeys to Singapore and finally Naarm /Melbourne. The duality of being an insider-outsider as a result of these multiple journeys is one that has deeply shaped her and her

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EP. 126 Young People as Knowledge Brokers/Kano Ravalji

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2025/06/18

In this episode of business in colour we interview Krushnadevsinh Ravalji [Kano as he is popularly known] who is the founder of Third Culture Australia and Youth Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission. As a passionate advocate for D&I, Kano works to empower young people and multicultural communities nationwide. His dedication to equity has earned him accolades such as the VicHealth Future Changemaker Award and Wyndham City’s Young Citizen of the Year. In this episode, Kano

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EP. 125 Elevating Safety at Work/Prabha Nandagopal

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2025/05/08

In this episode, we connect with Prabha Nandagopal who is an award-winning human rights, discrimination lawyer and advocate, having worked for over 18 years in a variety of areas from business and human rights to asylum seeker and refugee policy. She is the founder of Elevate Consulting Partners and SafeSpace@elevate, which she established to support and strengthen the work of organisations committed to positive social change. In this episode, Sadhana and I talk to Prabha about her growing up years,

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EP. 124 Career and Culture Ceilings/Suji Sanjeevan

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2025/04/02

In this episode of Business in Colour, Sadhana and I talk with Dr. Suji Sanjeevan, a Melbourne-based doctor turned ambiance innovator, who masterfully blends science, artistry, and creativity. She is a graduate of King’s College London, beginning her career in policy development and research at leading institutions, including the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. In 2015, her career took a transformative leap, when she co-founded Light & Glo Designs alongside her husband, Dr

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EP 123 Racism & Mateship in Australia/Sisonke Msimang

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2025/03/06

In this episode, Sadhana and I speak with Sisonke Msimang who is a renowned writer, speaker and facilitator. Her work is focused on race, gender and power. She’s been a columnist with the Guardian, written for a range of international publications and served as program director at the Centre for Stories. She is also the author two books - Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile; and Home and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. In this episode, Sisonke generously shares her upbringing,

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EP. 122 Adversity to Advocacy/Peter Malley

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2025/02/13

In this episode, we talk to Peter Malley who generously shares his journey to becoming a disability advocate, drawing from his own lived experience. Peter has been a consulting traffic engineer for 20 years with a passion for master planning and lending his transport engineering expertise to large-scale developments. He has contributed expert advice to a range of significant projects including town centres, residential subdivisions, mixed-use developments, healthcare, and educational facilities

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EP 121 The Power of Positive Psychology - Empowering...

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2024/11/21

In this episode, we speak with Hacia Atherton, founder and CEO of Empowered Women in Trades (EWIT), is a pioneering advocate for gender equality and psychological wellbeing in Australia's skilled trades. Under her leadership, EWIT aims to boost female representation in the trades from 3% to 30% by 2030. Hacia is well recognised, being a celebrated winner of the Victorian Telstra Business Award for Accelerating Women. Hacia gives us so much in this interview, her personal journey of knowing and

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EP 120 Unlocking Your Personal Power/Rugare Gomo

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2024/10/24

In this episode I speak with Rugare Gomo who is a high performance life and business coach, speaker, author, lawyer, podcaster, Zimbabwean Australian who lights up this episode and the world with his infectious zest for life. Rugare has such positive mental models that he generously shares all throughout this episode…He can and has navigated barriers and hurdles because he is clear about living his dream and creating his own path. In fact he has generously written a book about this life and it has

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EP 119 A Beginner's Mindset in Entrepreneurship - A...

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2024/09/07

In this episode, we speak with Rachel Castelino who is the founder of Blume Prebiotic Tonic), a company dedicated to promoting gut health through delicious prebiotic beverages packed with natural ingredients and plant fibre. Rachel educates us in this episode about the difference between probiotics and prebiotics and unsung hero of our body – the gut – how gut health is linked to mental health, skin health, and more. What we learn is that Australians don’t get enough plant fibre and we just don’t

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EP 118 Lead DE&I from you Stand/Michelle Lim

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2024/08/14

In this episode, we speak with Min-Shi Michelle Lim, a former professionally trained ballet dancer, who uses her behavioural psychology and neuroscience background in the diversity, equity, inclusion and ethics space. She is well regarded for her advocacy and practitioner experience, named as one of the 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian Australians. In this episode, Michelle shares openly and generously about her health journey and the impacts it has had on her as a young person and well into

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