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Hosted by Carina Waye · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 28 episodes
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Welcome to The Kismet Podcast - honest conversations about careers, growth, and the unexpected paths that shape our lives.Hosted by Carina Waye, each episode shares real stories from the people behind Kismet; exploring career pivots, ambition, personal goals, and the moments of fate that quietly change everything.These conversations go beyond job titles, diving into the human side of work, values, and the lessons learned along the way.If you’re navigating your career, building something of your own, or curious about how great people think, grow, and take leaps, you’re in the right place.
Carina Waye hosts The Kismet Podcast, a business show with 28 episodes published.
Lauren Grimes is the co-founder and Experience Manager at Kismet. Mark came up with an idea one day and she said sure, let's go. That is still, she says, essentially how it works. Lauren talks about a decade in mobile de
Mariesa Ferraro went to London for a six-month working holiday. She stayed for nearly twenty years. In between: a Kensington salon full of Aussies, London Fashion Week, a global beauty education role, an O-1 visa that re
Jess Careless is the Community Engagement and Relationship Manager at Kismet, the person with the bell at the Ready Set Connect events, and a Sarah J Maas fan who got Carina deep into Throne of Glass and has been careful
Zoe Cluff was 23 when she walked into a job interview for a director role. The centre had cockroaches in the garage and bricks holding up the desk. She thought: we can do better than this. 15 years later she left with a
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Mat Ellis is the CTO and co-founder of Kismet. Mark called him with an idea. Mat said yes. That is still, he says, essentially how their relationship works. In this episode, Mat talks about his dream job at Lockheed Mart
Lachlan Smale is the Strategy and Investments Manager at Kismet. He is also, according to his colleagues, a mythical creature. Lachie has been quietly one of the most interesting people in the building since he arrived,
Sam Armstrong is the co-founder and Chief Ecosystems Officer at Kismet. He met Mark for the first time helping carry a very large tree up a lift in South Melbourne. He was the first person hired at Xplor. He was an elect
Adam Dicker has been at Kismet for three years - one of the OG's. He's the principal engineer and has the least internet presence of anyone who has sat in this studio. And he would like to keep it that way thank you very
Meet Dylan Verrier: Kismet's acquisitions specialist, serial community builder, and the person who sat outside his Bondi apartment with a handmade sign that said 'Here to Listen' the day after one of Australia's most dev
Meet Anna Latussek: software engineer at Kismet, freshly minted Australian citizen, and the person who accidentally ended up catering for orcs and hobbits on a mountain in New Zealand at 5:00 AM. Anna left Germany at 19
Seventeen episodes in, it's finally time for the CEO tosit down. Mark Woodland is the CEO and founder of Kismet, and thisconversation goes places most founder interviews don't. He talks about losing his brother Ben and a
The tables have turned. This week, our host Carina Waye takes the guest chair, and Kismet CEO Mark Woodland takes the mic. It turns out Carina has quite the story. Musical theatredegree, rejection from WAAPA at 18, Chann
Meet Simone Weston, Chief Performance Officer at Kismet,obsessed with the Navy SEALs, powered by a 5am ritual, and one of the most extraordinary people to sit down in the studio yet. Mon's episode covers a lot of ground.
In this episode of The Kismet Podcast, Carina sits down with Shanti Dhanaraj, who looks after Compliance and Systems at Kismet, for one of the most joyful, wide-ranging conversations the pod has had yet. Shanti is a thea
In this episode of The Kismet Podcast, Carina sits down with Nat Kramersh, Kismet's Chief Operating Officer and our first exec in the room. Nat's path to COO wasn't exactly direct. After five years at a high-performing c
Nadine Nasser-Eldin was 20 years old when she took on one of the worst performing stores in OPSM's national network, in the middle of a pandemic, and turned it around in ten months.In Episode 12 of The Kismet Podcast, Ca
Josh Coulson has worked at some of the biggest tech companies in the world. LinkedIn. Deloitte. Atlassian. And then a redundancy opened a door he didn't even know he was knocking on. In Episode 11 of The Kismet Podcast,
Jack Bennett did his job interview from a hostel bunk bed in Sydney. Three days later he got the call. In Episode 10 of The Kismet Podcast, Carina sits down with Jack Bennett, one of Kismet's earliest team members, for a
In this episode of The Kismet Podcast, Carina sits down with Ross Widdows — product designer at Kismet — for a conversation that wanders through art, craft and the kind of creative restlessness that leads someone to buil
Mark Woodland
CEO Kismet Health Care · Kismet
2 appearances on this show
Jack Bennett
1 appearance on this show
Jess Careless
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Simone Weston
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Shanti Dhanaraj
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Nat Kramersh
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Rebecca Abeysiri
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Nick Upton
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Vanessa Hyland
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
Justine Cabandong
Kismet
1 appearance on this show
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