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Hosted by Helen Souness · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 17 episodes
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When I have felt stuck in my career, I have been lucky to have the advice of some incredible founders and leaders. I want to share some scale up lessons learned, through this series called “Defying Gravity”. Each month or so, I’ll sit down with the entrepreneurial heads behind some of Australia’s leading scale ups. This is for founders who feel they could learn from people who’ve gone before them. But more than that, it’s for anyone who might feel they need to learn, or grow, or change, to remain successful. For those who are curious about what works and what doesn’t at different stages of company growth, and what they might need to do differently. And who best to hear it from, than some of the most incredible founders, who lead the unicorns and scale ups I have had the privilege to know over the years.
Helen Souness hosts Defying Gravity with Helen Souness, a business show with 17 episodes published.
In this episode, we sit down with Julian Elliott, infectious disease physician turned founder of the global evidence platform Covidence, to unpack how the world makes sense of science in an era overflowing with informati
Dr Angela Lim shares her journey from medicine to entrepreneurship, driven by a determination to fix a mental health system struggling with long wait times, rising youth need, and inefficiencies that left too many people
Campbell Brown didn't just build a company - he build a whole new category. In this episode, he shares the journey behind PredictHQ, a company that's redefining how businesses anticipate demand. Originally from New Zeala
Kai Van Lieshout, founder of Lyrebird, knows what it really takes to build one of Australia’s fastest growing health tech companies. In this episode, Kai shares the unexpected challenges of innovating in an industry wher
In this episode, I sit down with one of New Zealand’s favourite entrepreneurs, Claudia Batten - trailblazer, startup builder, and global champion for Kiwi businesses. With multiple successful US ventures behind her, she
When you’re building a company that blends maggots, robotics, and waste management… how do you explain that to investors? Olympia Yarger, founder of GOTERRA, shares what it takes to define a whole new category, and raise
Every startup needs a garage, and for iiNet, that garage was Michael Malone’s mother’s. iiNet is one hell of a scale up story to 3,500 staff and $1bn in revenue. What began as a tiny internet provider in Perth, blossomed
In this episode of Defying Gravity, how scale up leaders overcome, Renece Brewster, founder of Visual Domain, touched on lessons like the power of networks, the importance of defining your values and aligning the busines
Sam Riley, CEO and Co-Founder of Ansarada, with Helen Souness
Rob Newman, multi time entrepreneur and scale up CEO of Perth based deep tech SaaS company Nearmap when I met him, covers two topics in this interview that so many Aussie start ups struggle to achieve. This is a mastercl
Natalie’s journey has been a whirlwind of experiences, starting at SEEK, where she left her mark on almost every facet of the company’s growth. Following SEEK’s ex-CMO Katie May, who founded Kidspot, Natalie played a piv
The ability to build a resilient team and reimagine yourself is critical for sustained growth in any business – a sentiment felt wholeheartedly by a travel industry upended by pandemic disruption. During our conversation
The full Defying Gravity interview with the wonderful Tessa Herd Court, founder and CEO of IntelligenceBank, global SaaS company founded in Melbourne. Her reflections on growing her company from some Powerpoint slide ide
You can’t orchestrate a $1.6b acquisition with Oracle without learning a few lessons along the way. Leigh Jasper, Co-Founder of Aconex and Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Firmable is the absolute definition of defying gravity.
SEEK is one of Australia's most valuable companies, with a valuation of around $9bn and operations and investments all over the world. But behind the numbers and accolades lies a narrative of personal growth and strategi
Another Defying Gravity Gravity conversation, this time with the founder of Aussie unicorn Envato, Collis Ta'eed. Collis dialled in from Darwin so I could pick his brains about how you grow a company from 0 to 600 staff
The full interview with Didier where he shares the Cultureamp story, and his own journey from start up founder to CEO of a 1000+ person global unicorn company. How he thinks about being the CEO the company needs each yea
Julian Elliott
Covidence
1 appearance on this show
Campbell Brown
PredictHQ
1 appearance on this show
Kai Van Lieshout
Lyrebird
1 appearance on this show
Olympia Yarger
GOTERRA
1 appearance on this show
Michael Malone
iiNet
1 appearance on this show
Renece Brewster
Visual Domain
1 appearance on this show
Rob Newman
Nearmap
1 appearance on this show
Natalie Mactier
Vivi
1 appearance on this show
Tessa Herd Court
IntelligenceBank
1 appearance on this show
Leigh Jasper
Firmable
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Bassat
SEEK
1 appearance on this show
Collis Ta'eed
Envato
1 appearance on this show
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