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Inspiring Greatness

Inspiring Greatness podcast shares real-world experiences from successful entrepreneurs around the globe who’ve had success and failure on their journey. Hear their stories and be inspired. Add some extra motivation to your life every week, with Shelley Rogers’ Podcast Series Inspiring Greatness.
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Aug 29, 2016

In 2008 Anneke Van Den Broek began the extraordinary journey of founding the pet care brand, “Rufus & Coco”. The journey has since instilled here into the Australian Businesswoman Hall of fame and earnt here the award of Australia’s Fastest Growing Pet Brand.

With her eyes set on growth and ambition, Rufus & Coco now exports to 6 different countries with the incredible market of North America being the company’s most recent target.

Anneke’s brand also support’s over 70 charities with money raised from their brand, bringing a whole new definition to the term “pet care”.

Aug 25, 2016
Welcome to GNF Episode 34 but before I begin I wanted to quickly give a brief teaser for next week guest. I had the pleasure of interviewing the CEO of Rufus & Coco Annke Van Den Broek who was recently inducted into the prestigious Australian Businesswomen hall of fame! Her Australian pet brand offers original, trusted and
inspired products to ensure that pets worldwide look good and feel great. She is an amazing woman with an amazing business so make sure you don’t miss her episode next week.
 
Now onto today’s Golden Nugget Friday episode the importance entrepreneurs diversify company assets from personal wealth.
Aug 22, 2016
Starting his entrepreneurial journey in 1985, Steve Kearley became an account executive for Bruce-Benson Insurance Brokers, which he eventually bought in 1991. Kearley has completed the Birthing of Giants program at MIT Boston in 2004, which he also then became a facilitator for for the renamed program. Winning Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012, this was not the only remarkable award Kearley has won. He has also won the fastest growing company in Canada with Bruce-Benson for three consecutive years 2013 to 2015. With a mindset that looks after people and his employees, Kearley believes that business should always cater for a balance in all aspects of one’s entrepreneurial adventure.
Aug 18, 2016

Welcome to GNF Episode 32 where we will be talking about the globalisation of people talent and the growth opportunities available for businesses of all sizes. I’ve partnered with Beepo to offer the Inspiring Greatness Podcast community a fantastic free consultation that will highlight which areas of your business will benefit best from offshoring. Plus you’ll also receive 250 leads to boost your business. 

Aug 15, 2016

Aimee Engelmann has established herself in Australia, but has refused to restrict her business’ growth by expanding operations to the Philippines. She is the CEO and founder of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) which had a biblical 3849% revenue increase within its first year.

Engelmann is also the winner of the 2015 Young Entrepreneur Trail Blazer Award and her efforts and success has made it into many media streams such as the Business News Australia, Courier Mail and Microsoft.com just to name a few.

Also guest-writing for Blue Wire Media Blog and the Entrepreneurs Organisation, Engelmann does not show any signs of slowing down, with having just sold her marketing company to a private equity firm.

Aug 11, 2016
Welcome to GNF Episode 30 but before I begin I wanted to quickly give a brief teaser for next week guest. I had the pleasure of interviewing Aimee Englemann from Beepo
an offshore company in the Philippians. Once upon a time, offshoring was associated with large corporations moving departments overseas in a cost-saving measure, however today the industry has evolved into a sophisticated pool of people talent, accessible to business all around the world at a low cost.
Aug 8, 2016

Scott Macdonald is the president of both Noise Solutions Inc., a world leader in innovative environmental and occupational noise and emission control, and BOSS Buildings & structure, a single source contracting solution for all of your structural needs. In 1997 Scott co-founded Noise Solutions, setting out to revolutionise the way that industrial noise analysis and noise suppression was done. In 2002 Scott took over the management of a manufacturing facility that was and facing financial difficulties. Now “BOSS Buildings & Structure”, Scott’s management helped the company to increase revenues by over 100%, with the company showing profits for the first time in 8 years.  Scott has been recognised for his entrepreneurial achievements as: A Western finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2003); Alberta Winner for the BDC Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2005); Calgary Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2006); and Regional Finalist – Deloitte 50 Best Managed Companies (2008). Scott has also been the Canadian Regional Learning Director of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, as well as the Calgary Chapter President.

Aug 4, 2016

Today episode where we will talk about the importance of focus and getting everyone moving towards the same vivid vision or painted picture. We will share Cameron Herold’s tips and examples of some really cool vivid visions to help you create one for your company.
Creating a visual display of what you want actually does bring it to life. It is proven what we focus on develops. When you create a vision board and place it in a space where you see it often, you end up doing short visualization exercises several times a day.

Aug 1, 2016

As well as being part of the Global Entrepreneurs Organisation, Sue Hrib became the CEO and founder of Signum Group in 1994. Since then the company leads in the integration of Oracle applications, namely Oracle EAM. Her efforts have landed her in the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America three times since 2008.

20+ years experience has shaped an expertise surrounding effective enterprise resource planning, deployment and strategy. Sue also partakes in executive consulting in implementing, managing and integrating maintenance and asset managing applications.

She is on the board of the Carter Centre as well as an advisory board member of the Women’s Leadership Exchange. Sue serves on the committee board too with Usher’s New Look, and is also a mentor to some of the many students that are involved with the program.

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