Think Big Act Small
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHi, I'm Tristan White - welcome to the Think Big, Act Small Podcast.
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This podcast exists to inspire bigger thinking in service-based businesses.
After being in business for more than 20 years, I've discovered that many of us who work in small, service-based businesses are all too often stuck in our own heads.
Every day, we're thinking about our businesses and have recurring, often self-limiting thoughts.
This podcast will bring you a short and inspiring break from those thinking patterns that can limit your growth.
Ideas, encouragement and inspiration are part of the mix that you'll hear on this podcast to fill your heart, challenge your mind and inspire bigger thinking.
The crew that listens to this podcast are mostly owners and leaders of businesses with 5-50 team members.
They enjoy being surrounded by stories of positivity and success - including the impressive ideas that can emerge from times of stress and struggle in business.
If that sounds like you, then I think you'll like it around here: Welcome to the Think Big Act Small podcast!
Love your work,
Tristan
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Episodes
016: Verne Harnish - 'Scaling Up'
March 05, 2019 06:45 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBVerne Harnish is an leader, entrepreneur, community builder, and the author of 'Scaling Up' and 'Mastering The Rockefeller Habits'. In this episode we discuss how routine can set you free, the interaction between empathy and assertiveness for leaders, the importance of 'keeping it real', and Verne's 'care more' approach.
015: David Meerman Scott - Speaker, Blogger & Author of 10 books
February 20, 2019 00:31 - 31 minutes - 28 MBDavid Meerman Scott is an author, speaker, content creator and a mentor of mine. He’s the author of 10 books, the most famous being ‘The New Rules of Marketing and PR’. He travels the globe teaching leaders and entrepreneurs how to publish content online. In this interview we discuss how online content creation can help businesses grow. We also explore how ideas develop over time and can be connected together to develop careers, ideas, theories... and get new words in the dictionary. Dav...
014: Chris Ducker - Founder, and Author of 'Rise of the Youpreneur'
February 06, 2019 09:10 - 28 minutes - 25.5 MBChris Ducker is the founder of a large-scale services business and an online education business that serves leaders and entrepreneurs. He's authored two books: 'Virtual Freedom' and 'Rise of the Youpreneur'. He also hosts an annual 'Youpreneur' summit in the UK. In this interview, we discuss the value of having a team around you that are empowered to call you out when your weaknesses may be exposed. Chris also shares a story about leaders being lifelong learners, and the power of being in...
013: Season one highlights - "Biggest leadership lessons"
December 17, 2018 04:13 - 44 minutes - 38.1 MB"What's the biggest lesson you've learned from being a leader?" This is the question I ask all my guests on Think Big, Act Small and it features throughout our season finale of the podcast. This is a Season 1 wrap up episode, loaded with highlights from our first 11 guests: Dr Glen Richards (Shark Tank Australia) Jack Delosa (founder, The Entourage) Ben Hosking (my longtime mentor) Emma Isaacs (founder, Business Chicks) Cameron Schwab (founder/speaker/mentor at designCEO) Pa...
012: Janine Allis - Boost Juice
December 05, 2018 00:08 - 21 minutes - 32.8 MBJanine Allis is best known as the founder of Boost Juice, which came from an idea after a research trip to the US. Starting with one store in Adelaide in 2000, Boost Juice now has over 400 stores in 15 countries. In this episode, Janine shares her leadership and entrepreneurial insights on many topics including: life requiring balance over the long term; that most stress is self-created; and her take on dealing with millennials and other generations in the workplace.
011: Jay Baer - Founder, Convince And Convert
November 21, 2018 05:25 - 33 minutes - 29.2 MBJay Baer is a 7th generation entrepreneur, a New York Times best-selling author of six books and the founder of five multi-million dollar companies. He is the founder of Convince & Convert, a consulting firm that provides social media strategy and content marketing strategy to "the world's most interesting brands". Virtually located across the US from New York to Los Angeles, the Convince & Convert team comprises senior digital strategists with deep experience in content marketing, soci...
010: Carolyn Creswell - Founder, Carman’s Kitchen
November 01, 2018 06:54 - 27 minutes - 24.4 MBCarolyn Creswell was an 18-year-old first-year uni student when she bought a small inner-Melbourne muesli manufacturer in 1992. Fast forward 25 years and Carman’s gourmet range of muesli bars, protein bars and muesli is distributed around Australia and internationally. In this interview Carolyn shares her secrets for building a strong team and culture, including a 10:15 am daily huddle. She also provides great insights into being assertive and honest when communicating. Learn more abou...
009: Cameron Herold - Entrepreneur coach
October 23, 2018 23:47 - 24 minutes - 23.2 MBCameron Herold is an entrepreneur, coach, speaker and author. He has built and advised many high-growth franchise businesses including 1800 Got Junk, which operates in Australia, the US and Canada. Today Cameron coaches leaders and entrepreneurs to help them build the skills and knowledge to create purposeful, sustainable businesses. This interview covers everything from ‘grandmother-isms’ to how to 'push life into work'.
008: Shayne Elliott - Group CEO, ANZ Bank
October 10, 2018 00:30 - 22 minutes - 18.3 MBShayne Elliott is the Group CEO of the ANZ Bank, which has over 50,000 team members across 33 countries. In this episode we go deep into communication. With such a widespread team, communication is critical in Shayne’s role. Shayne also discusses the importance of having the right people in your team, and of taking responsibility for your career development by finding a good boss or coach to learn from.
007: Paul Roos - AFL legend
September 26, 2018 02:23 - 36 minutes - 31.6 MBPaul Roos has had an incredible career in the AFL as a player, coach and media commentator. In 2005, after playing 356 games with Fitzroy and Sydney, he coached Sydney to their first premiership in 72 years. Paul's book ‘Here It Is’ details his coaching and leadership philosophy, and he hosts a podcast called ‘The Coach’ to help leaders learn and grow. In this wide-ranging interview, Paul shares his thoughts on business, life and becoming the best leader you can be.
006: Cameron Schwab - Founder, designCEO
September 12, 2018 01:11 - 22 minutes - 18.3 MBCameron Schwab started his leadership journey in the elite sporting environment of the Australian Football League (AFL), the largest and most professional code in the country. At age 24, Cameron was appointed CEO of the famous Richmond Football Club, becoming the youngest CEO in the 160 year history of the AFL. He spent 25 years in CEO roles at three AFL clubs. He now heads up designCEO, which he founded to share his experiences and to help other leaders to grow. In this interview we d...
005: Emma Isaacs - Founder, Business Chicks
August 29, 2018 05:22 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MBEmma Isaacs is the founder and global CEO of Business Chicks and author of the new book, Winging It. She was just 18 years old she began her own recruitment business, which she successfully ran for seven years before founding Business Chicks and growing it into Australia's largest and most influential community for women. Emma is passionate about encouraging women to be bold, courageous and to take risks. And she practices what she preaches: in 2016 Emma packed up her young family of 5 k...
004: Ben Hosking - Mentor
August 15, 2018 06:21 - 24 minutes - 19.3 MBBen Hosking is an accountant with tremendous business and life experience. More importantly, he's been a mentor to me on the journey of building The Physio Co since 2004. Almost 15 years on, Ben continues to support my learning and challenge my thinking to help me to grow and become the best leader I can be.
003: Jack Delosa - The Entourage
July 27, 2018 03:54 - 22 minutes - 25.9 MBThis episode features the inspiring Australian leader, entrepreneur and author, Jack Delosa. Jack is the founder of Australia’s largest education institution for entrepreneurs, The Entourage. It has a community of over 300,000 members, and exists to educate people to build the life and business of their dreams. Jack’s vision for The Entourage is to improve traditional education through a style of learning that puts the individual first. Jack hosts the Sky Business series ‘Entrepreneurs’...
001: Introduction by Tristan White
July 23, 2018 05:04 - 5 minutes - 9.28 MBWelcome to The Think Big Act Small Podcast. Learn about the show's host, Tristan White, and get a feel for the leaders and entrepreneurs who will feature in coming episodes.
002: Dr Glen Richards, Shark Tank Australia
July 23, 2018 00:12 - 21 minutes - 27.6 MBYou may know Dr Glen Richards as the 'growth guy' from Shark Tank Australia. He's also a successful leader and entrepreneur in his own right, having built a successful veterinary practice which grew to a number of practices, before 'thinking big' and bringing together other practices under the banner of Greencross. As co-founder and CEO, Glen oversaw incredible growth which culminated in Greencross being listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Today, Greencross owns and operates Aus...