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Tania Stacey had a successful background in sales management before entering the tea industry in 2013. Since then, she's built her knowledge working along side tea farmers, tea scientists and professionals in Taiwan, the USA and Australia. She joined forces with Kym Cooper in 2017 to build a crafted RTD (Ready to Drink) tea industry with an innovative modern tea beverage startup focusing on cold brew nitro iced tea.  East Forged launched in 2020 and has been a successful participant in the Woolworths funded accelerator Seedlab Cultivate. In this episode, Tania shares her journey to becoming a founder, the process of developing a co-founder relationship, and the challenges and the successes of the East Forged experience to date. Learn more about East Forged at https://eastforged.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dom Woolrych is the co-founder of Lawpath — Australia's number one online legal platform that has helped over 300,000 small businesses across Australia. His mission is to transform and digitalise the legal industry to make it accessible to all small businesses and show lawyers that there are many non-traditional opportunities in the legal sector. Dom is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology and the Australian Legal Technology Association (ALTA) board member. In 2022, Dom became a finalist at SmallBiz Week Young Hero Awards in the Young Innovator category and was voted the top 20 University of Technology Alumni. In this episode, Dom shares his own journey as an entrepreneur and we discuss the way he dealt with early setbacks in achieving his career goals, the vision that became Lawpath, and more. You can follow Dom on LinkedIn, and learn more about Lawpath at https://lawpath.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hear a quick note from host Scotty Allen about our plans for 2022, new ways to interact with us, and a call for founders with interestingly imperfect stories to tell on new episodes of Starting Line! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Co-Founder and CEO of Paper Moose Nick Hunter is incredibly passionate about building teams and purpose driven brands. Having built Paper Moose from the ground up from first principles he cares deeply about creating an environment where creativity and people thrive. Coming from an entertainment background Nick delivers creative work that either entertains or adds value to the end customer and loves working with businesses that are working towards a better future. Paper Moose is on a mission to spark positive change through creativity, this year saw the company’s 10th anniversary and to mark the milestone they shifted their positioning to the change makers and launched a buy on give one initiative in which creative resources are donated to organisations that are helping decarbonise the planet. You can learn more about Paper Moose at http://papermoose.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Kwok - Co-founder of Zilio, shares his journey from a bullied kid to professional martial artist to startup co-founder, and how his 3D Virtual Fit technology came to be. It's a raw and honest chat about the challenges of childhood, identity, and the hurdles involved with being a non-technical founder.  You can learn more about Zilio at https://www.zilio.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lisa Reiner was frustrated by the lack of size options in designer clothing, and so she decided to do something about it. This episode tells the story of Lisa's journey from social worker and young mum in Alice Springs, Australia to owner and creator of her own inclusively sized slow fashion label, Curvature Clothing.  As well as the story of Lisa learning design, ecommerce, and general business management, we also discuss her approach to social media, and how going viral on TikTok helped connect her with local customers.  Learn more about Curvature Clothing at https://www.curvatureclothing.com.au/ or find Curvature Clothing on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Nudge Group is a disruptive force within the recruitment industry, offering a system known as “the nudge experience” aimed at fast-growth businesses, the start-up space (in particular after series A, B or C funding), and transforming businesses resulting in accelerated hiring and change management. Nudge is Steve Grace's third business. His honest, raw, and funnt retelling of his pathway through two businesses prior to founding Nudge has something for everyone on the founder journey. You can learn more about The Nudge Group at https://thenudgegroup.com/ - or check out "Give it a Nudge" on YouTube. In this episode Scotty mentions the Osterwalder Value Proposition Canvas  - you can download this great free resource at https://www.strategyzer.com/canvas/value-proposition-canvas  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With a computer science degree and background, Emeka joined the Royal Australian Air Force with dreams of flight, but these were soon grounded, and he began to seek his true calling. After a failed tech startup and a decision not to pursue commercial piloting, Emeka and his wife founded Neta Care, an NDIS registered allied health service provider, at the beginning of Covid, and have turned it from a single client to a service employing 100 people servicing hundreds of clients. The story of the Neta Care journey is a story about resilience and the importance of being governed by clear values. You can learn more about Neta Care at http://https://netacare.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Starting a new business is equal parts exciting and terrifying, and it can be quite lonely at the start. In this episode, we talk with Paz Pisarski, Community Manager at Startup Victoria, about the ways to find connection and create accountability for yourself when you’re building on your own. Paz also shares her own journey as founder of Paz Sounds and Co-Founder of The Community Collective, and some fantastic advice for emerging founders. You can learn more about Startup Victoria at https://startupvictoria.com.au/You can find out about The Community Collective at https://thecommunitycollective.co/And you can listen to the incredible music of Paz Sounds at https://www.pazsounds.com/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Organise.Curate.Design is a lifestyle management company founded in 2017. The service-based business supports busy people and professionals, helping them alleviate their mental load and streamline their businesses, lives, and daily tasks so they can focus on what matters to them most. Founder Caroline Brunne wasn’t looking to start a new business - she was already running an existing one and was looking for solutions to manage everyday tasks more efficiently. But you know what they say - if you want something done, ask a busy person! And so it was that the person looking for solutions to deal with being too busy took more on her plate and decided to design the solution. Caroline shares the process of leaving one business to start another, the strategies she used to test and validate her business idea, and much more. You can learn more about Organise.Curate.Design at https://www.organisecuratedesign.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New from Swivol Media, Starting Line: The New Founders Podcast highlights stories from emerging and established founders and industry experts, and we start from the beginning.  In 2015, Jeremy and Tabitha Fleming founded Stagekings, combining Jeremy's extensive background in carpentry and construction for large events with Tabitha's years of experience in sales and marketing for music labels including EMI, Sony Music, and Universal Music. The business quickly took off, and within a very short time, Stagekings were creating and building some of the largest custom stages and event structures in the country.  The shutdown of the live events industry at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic brought all of this to a halt. Faced with standing down their staff and an uncertain financial future, Jeremy and Head of Production Mick Jessop put their minds to a solution, and in a matter of weeks, an entirely new business was born. IsoKing became one of the feel-good stories of the early months of the pandemic. Jeremy joins us to share the experience, and as we listen we can learn much about resilience, risk-taking, and creating a culture of openness and creativity. You can learn more about Stagekings and IsoKing at https://www.stagekings.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.