Episodes

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Matt Johns, founder of Deliberat.com.au . Matt is incredibly passionate about deliberately designed experiences - for both customers and employees, placing significant value in understanding how people are feeling and thinking before designing targeted solutions. He believes the experience a brand creates for its customers should be viewed as a strategic decision to develop competitive advantage and win in the market - not to play catch up or ...

Laura Bell Greeno is a marketing strategist, startup coach and creative planner at WEBSCOUT. She helps startups grow and scale. She also mentors marketers into the next level of their careers and trains digital agencies through growing pains and efficient operational scaling: people, process, sales, integration and martech. Laura recently sold Ecomdash, her ecommerce SaaS startup, for $9.6 million in an early exit. Featured in American City Business Journals, Inc. Magazine, eRetailing, Web Marke...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Liam Austin. Liam is a virtual event strategist, having launched over 15 virtual summits and online business networking events, hosting over 400 speakers whilst educating 100,000+ business owners through his programs. As the co-founder of Entrepreneurs HQ, Liam is a specialist at making it easy for people to create their own virtual summits and online conferences to grow their email list, authority, impact, and revenue. Learn more at - entrepreneurshq...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Author, Speaker and Emcee, Steve Hughes. Steve is the President of Hit Your Stride, LLC, a consultancy that helps people look and sound smart when they talk. He’s also a sought-after speaker, the author of the book Captivate: Presentations That Engage and Inspire and has been featured on CBS, NPR, and BBC Radio. Learn more at hityourstride.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide is Petra Zink. Petra is a Certified Personal Branding & Digital Strategist, Career Coach, Speaker & Consultant - specialising in the Future of Work. Petra Zink is also the Founder of impaCCCt and The360Talent.Co. Both companies are designed to future-proof Careers and organisations through re-invention. She is known for her expertise in all things "Future of Work" through her unconventional approach of Talent & Leadership development. Petra specialises in future-...

In our episode today, we talked with Marketing and Branding expert, Mike Allton. Mike is an award-winning blogger, speaker, and author at The Social Media Hat, and Brand Evangelist at Agorapulse, where he strengthens relationships with social media educators, influencers and agencies. Learn more at bloggingbrute.com

"The Whole World is in Startup Mode due to COVID19." Glenn Tranter Our special guest today is Productivity Expert, Glenn Tranter. As the Founder of Glenn Tranter Consulting Pty Ltd, Glenn’s passion is to help people and the organisations they work for be more effective at what they do. By helping people become more intentional with their time, they're able to realise their potential and achieve targeted outcomes. With 30 years’ experience in consulting, business development and senior management...

In today's episode, we chat with the dynamic husband and wife duo, Bryan and and Shannon Miles, of Belay Solutions. Bryan is a successful entrepreneur, husband, father, backpacker, mountain climber, mentor, and writer. In addition, he’s the Co-Chair and Co-Founder of BELAY, a premium staffing company serving businesses all over the U.S. He and his wife, Shannon, are proud Co-Owners. They have enjoyed starting and running BELAY together as a team since the beginning in late 2010. Shannon is an ad...

In a special episode of Rising Tide Startups, we chat with Richard Voice, the Co-Founder of FinTech startup CryptoSpend. CryptoSpend is a company that will be facilitating crypto to AUD payments through the CryptoSpend App as well as being able to utilise then NPP with your crypto too! Exciting time for this bold new blockchain startup. Learn more at cryptospend.com.au.

In another great Rising Tide Episode, we chat with Dayne Shuda, founder of GhostBlogWriters.com - In his own words, "Ghost Blog Writers is my job, but I can’t call it work because I enjoy every aspect of what I do. In the past I’ve worked as a brand manager for a catalog and ecommerce firm. Today, I enjoy doing all I can to provide businesses with the blog content they need to achieve their goals." Learn more at GhostBlogWriters.com

Today we are speaking with a very timely guest for a time such as this. Our special guest is Bill Bice, Founder and CEO of Boomtime, Word of Mouth Marketing. Bill is a serial entrepreneur, and is passionate about helping small business grow. He started his first company at age 18, growing ProLaw Software into the largest law firm automation system for small and mid-size law firms. Joining the acquirer at Thomson Reuters, Bill joined the management team of the $2B West division, where he used the...

In another exciting Rising Tide Startups podcast episode, we chat with international business expert Peter Selby. Since 2008, Peter has been the CEO and Founder of Business Drivers, Ltd. He is also an Author, Speaker and Trusted Advisor to companies across the Asia Pacific Region and Europe. Their business services are delivered with international experience in best practice business optimisation, which in turn delivers a sustainable competitive advantage to organisations of all sizes. Peter is ...

Our guest expert on Rising Tide Startups is none other than, Davis Nguyen, founder of myconsultingoffer.org. Davis is a Harvard grad, TEDX Speaker and a former consultant at Bain. In 2017, he founded "My Consulting Offer" and has since helped 400+ people start a career in consulting at McKinsey, Bain, BCG and other major firms. Learn more at myconsultingoffer.org

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Heidi Dening. Heidi is an empowering keynote speaker whose elegant, yet powerful presence on stage leaves audiences wanting to do more, give more, have more and be more. She is the author of a best-selling self-leadership book called ‘Her Middle Name Is Courage’, and an experienced educator who believes that resilient, healthy self-leaders create profitable, impactful organisations. Learn more at heididening.com Resilience Bucket Quiz: https...

Our special guest on Rising Tide is the Chief Whaler himself, George Weiner, founder of Wholewhale.com. Whole Whale is a digital agency that leverages data and tech to increase the impact of nonprofits and for-benefit companies, and the co-founder of Power Poetry, the largest teen poetry platform in the U.S. George’s breaching moment in ideating Whole Whale came from his 7 years with DoSomething where, under his leadership as CTO, the organization became an innovator in social media, mobile tech...

Our special guest is Rosanna Iacono, co-Founder of Growth Hacker. Rosanna is a business leader with 25 years experience working with some of the world’s leading brands, including 16 years internationally with Nike and Levi’s, and C-suite roles in Australia delivering exits for Private Equity-owned businesses like Sheridan and Jurlique. Learn more at growthactivists.com

On the other side of the mic today on Rising Tide Startups, we have Stephen Hakami, founder of Wiza.co. Stephen, the Wizard behind Wiza, used to run a cold email agency, running cold email campaigns for his clients. He ands team first built out the technology for Wiza internally, but then realized this is software that everyone should be using. Now, Wiza is fully functional and able to create email lists from LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Learn more at wiza.co

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mita Bedi, CEO of Resonate Solutions. Mita worked her way up to the role of CEO, through her extensive experience, creativity, discipline and vision. Having played an instrumental role in driving business growth and creating new opportunities for Resonate, she also displays a wide set of skills and experience, including strategic planning, consulting and product development. These qualities provide her with a solid skillset to deliver on the ambitious...

Our very special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Aaron Walker, founder of "View From The Top." Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron T. Walker has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron sold his first business to a Fortune 500 company at 27 years old and continues to reach new heights and broade...

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Andrew Butow, founder of Earth2Mars - a Human-Centered, Client-Based Creative Agency. Andrew founded earth2mars because at the most basic level, he wants to help people and make a difference in the world. With over 15 years of personal, technological and organizational change experience, Andrew is able to bring together the best of business, consulting, design-thinking and behavioral science to any challenge, big, small or anywhere in between. L...

Our special guest on the podcast is Clarene Mitchell, LinkedIn Expert and founder of TCM Communications LLC. She is an accomplished communications professional with a solid reputation in the Greater Milwaukee area and nationally as a print journalist and public relations professional. My communications expertise is the foundation for my work as a LinkedIn Trainer. Learn more at tcmcommunicationsllc.com

In another great episode with our friends in Australia, we are chatting with Clayton Moulynox, founder of MXGrowth. Hi is a startup foundations builder who is also practical, pragmatic and logical. Clayton has held leadership roles in tech companies from managed services businesses to US$1B SaaS startup across Australia and US. He is an Ex-Microsoft small & mid-market partner channel leader who excels in ambiguity, living for the "messy middle" in growing companies. He is also proficient in sale...

In another exciting episode of Rising Tide Startups, we get to chat with a startup founder that is truly hard to nail down. Meet Jarryd Salem, co-founder of NOMADasaurus. Explorer and anthropologist. Writer and teacher. Musician and artist. Philosopher and travel guide. These are all professions that Jarryd has very little skills and attributes in, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. His co-founder is his wife Alesha, who runs the creative side of their travel endeavour. Born in Sydney, Austr...

Our special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Brit Boone. Founder of Meanderbug.com, Brit is developing a sustainable social enterprise that presents a new model for small business that opens up unique adventures for travelers while helping locals find their way in a rapidly changing environment. Learn more at Meanderbug.com iTunes link Youtube link - Full Episode Youtube link - Rising Tide Startup School