May 2019 - Don't Stop Us Now

Mia Freedman – Is the Real Deal

May 21, 2019
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We don’t think we’ve ever had a guest who is prepared to be as open and honest about her life and career as Mia Freedman is. Whether it’s in our conversation for this episode, or her Insta posts or in the 3 books she’s written, Mia is determined to show her life, warts and all, because she really cares about shattering the ‘women should look and be perfect’ myth. She’s all about making women feel better about themselves.

Mia is a household name in Australia. She’s the co founder and creative director of MamaMia, one of the largest female-focussed digital media businesses in the world. Mia became the world’s youngest editor of Cosmopolitan magazine at just 24 years of age.

In this episode you’ll hear:

How Mia advises young women to think about their career
How she was persuaded to stick out a nightmare job for months while negotiating her own redundancy
How she and her husband manage working together, and …
How Mia realised she didn’t want, nor was she the right person, to be CEO of her own company.

Enjoy this frank conversation with the amazing Mia Freedman.

Photo Credits: Supplied or from Mia’s social channels

Links

Mia on Instagram

Mia’s own website

MamaMia Women’s Network website

MamaMia Podcasts – Apple Link

Mia’s Books:

Work Strife Balance – her most recent book and a great read

Mama Mia – A Memoir of Mistakes, Magazines and Motherhood

Mia Culpa

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Interview

Katie Vanneck-Smith – Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History

May 7, 2019
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This week’s guest has serious grit.

Katie Vanneck-Smith is a media industry veteran and for anyone who’s not familiar with that industry, let’s just say it’s a pretty male dominated and blokey world. Katie has spent more than 20 years in the commercial side of publishing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Katie’s grit really came to the fore when she spent nine years – yes nine years – trying to persuade her bosses at The Times newspaper in London to get readers to pay for online news content.

Her determination and patience paid off and in 2010 The Times became the first mainstream newspaper globally to charge for access to its digital content. This changed the future of how we all read newspapers online and Katie’s motto: ‘Work hard, have fun, make history’ really came to life.

Fast forward nine years and Katie is attempting to make history again.

Last year she left her high-powered role as President of Dow Jones (which includes the Wall Street Journal) to co-found a new online media start-up called ‘Tortoise’ which is reporting news in a completely different way – they’re focused not on churning out breaking news but on what’s driving the news.

In today’s episode you’ll hear:

How Katie didn’t realise her family was relatively poor until she was 14 years old
What she did over nine years to persuade her bosses at The Times to make a transformative decision for the business
How she managed to double her salary, twice, in three years
And how she thinks about money and failure.

So sit back, pop those earphones in and enjoy this episode with the determined and passionate, Katie Vanneck-Smith

Katie and her two Co-Founders James Hardy & Matthew Barzun; Greta and Claire with Katie at the Tortoise London offices (yes, we got the white sneaker memo!)

Links

Katie on Linkedin

Katie on Twitter

Tortoise Website

Tortoise on Twitter

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