My lunch with Tsui Lin Lian was so engrossing that we literally got locked in the venue. Tsui Lin Lian, the 287th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is a very impressive person and wonderful conversationalist. We had so much to talk about that, without realising it, almost two and [...]
Many of us talk wistfully about how the world would be a better place if only this or that was different – and then do nothing to bring about the change we seek. Yatha Jain, by contrast, is one of a small minority who actually takes action. Yatha, the 286th person I've met on my quest [...]
Wendy Tee, the 285th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, believes that the older we get, the more tempted we are to settle for the familiar. The same career, the same social circle, the same hobbies. But Wendy feels that’s a trap. So she’s made a conscious decision to not [...]
Tara Hannon, the 284th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is a force of nature. Tara is a big-picture thinker with an incredible ability to generate ideas and connect dots. At the same time, she’s wonderfully ebullient and irreverent – the only thing she does more enthusiastically than brainstorming is [...]
Have you ever gone on a date and wondered why the other person hasn’t contacted you? Or been in a relationship and wondered why your partner would be so hurtful? These sorts of scenarios fascinate Carol Yan, the 283rd person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers. Carol is a relationship coach [...]
If you ever hurt yourself on holiday, do yourself a favour and call Victoria Roy. Victoria, the 282nd person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, specialises in a niche area of the law – the intersection of personal injury and travel. She represents travellers bringing injury compensation claims following cruise ship [...]
Mondays and Fridays are all the same for Michael Haynes, the 281st person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers. That’s because Michael has built a thriving consulting business, which means he gets to choose his projects and control his schedule. So work is a pleasure rather than a chore. Michael had [...]
Dr Olga Oleinikova, the 280th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is an extraordinary woman who has excelled in both business and academia. The key is her achiever mindset. Olga grew up in Ukraine, studied sociology and began her career in market research. But she wanted to do more than [...]
Michele Gennoe, the 279th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, has an inspiring approach to life. After 20 years in North Sydney, Michele is preparing to move – to her, the world is her playground and with technology changes, she can now work anywhere, anytime. Michele doesn’t know if her [...]
Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson says there’s nothing she wouldn’t give to prevent the accident that happened to her in 1994. Rosemary, the 277th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, had spent months complaining about a wobbly, overloaded shelf in her office. She’d asked many times for it to be fixed and had [...]
