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Fluent in music

By |2024-04-22T08:26:00+10:00April 21st, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

Back in 2016, Jacqui Carias, a professional violinist, was upgraded to first class on an international flight and seated near a high-profile couple. The man, noticing Jacqui’s violin, covertly explained that he was planning to pop the question to his girlfriend during the flight and asked if Jacqui would perform during the proposal. Jacqui said yes [...]

Follow the plan

By |2024-04-20T10:23:41+10:00April 19th, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

Alvin Rajakumar, the 383rd person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, has a revealing insight into business, which is that most companies – even mature ones with seven-figure revenues – don’t have a marketing plan. Alvin is the owner of a full-service digital marketing agency, Your Business Live, so this is [...]

A sense of purpose

By |2024-04-18T13:58:58+10:00April 17th, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

While I’m having lunches with strangers, Antonia Ruffell is having coffees with tech start-up founders. Antonia, the 382nd person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is CEO of StartGiving, a not-for-profit that encourages and supports successful tech founders to establish their own charitable foundations. Antonia is an active networker partly because [...]

Marketing, management and media

By |2024-04-12T12:46:37+10:00April 11th, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

Rachel Waterhouse, the 381st person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is a go-to expert for journalists who want quotes about stock market-related matters. Rachel, who is CEO of the Australian Shareholders'​ Association, is regularly asked to comment on regulatory policy, corporate governance and the actions of individual companies. That puts [...]

New people, new experiences, new ideas

By |2024-04-08T08:13:39+10:00April 5th, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

Richard Telleria, the 379th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, asked me for three big lessons I'd learnt from my previous 378 lunches. One of them, I told Rich, was that most people are reluctant to lead, because they're worried about other people's judgements; it feels safer to be positioned [...]

Protecting women and children

By |2024-03-30T11:36:45+11:00March 29th, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

Gabrielle Morrissey, the 378th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is invigorated by her work, which gives her the chance to help vulnerable people and put her lived experience to use. Gabrielle is the CEO of Women & Children First, which offers specialised support for women and children experiencing domestic [...]

Cold and spicy

By |2024-03-07T10:40:22+11:00March 6th, 2024|Categories: Lunches|

Jordan Knight, the 376th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, has a cool business with a cool name. Spicy Pineapple Marketing specialises in using LinkedIn outreach to help businesses attract clients and referrers. Jordan's clients lack either the time or the nerve to contact strangers on LinkedIn. So Spicy Pineapple [...]

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