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How To Negotiate Your Pay

October 9, 2018October 10, 2018
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Few of us enjoy the prospect of having to negotiate on behalf of ourselves. We typically find it much easier if we’re negotiating a business matter or something on behalf of others. When the time comes for us to speak up for ourselves it can feel a whole lot more confronting.

Add to that the fact that money and salary amounts are often taboo subjects, it’s no wonder many of us sell ourselves short at the negotiating table. And it’s not surprising that a number of you have been in touch asking us to cover this topic as well. (Thanks for your emails ☺).

So here at Don’t Stop us Now! we thought, what better subject for our next How To episode?

We think you’ll get lots of great inspiration from this episode to help ensure you do yourself justice in future.

In this super practical episode you’ll learn:

Reasons why we have the gender pay gap
How being underpaid early in her career taught Greta a lesson she never forgot
Why you shouldn’t think of negotiating a pay rise as a one-off conversation
Tried and tested advice for preparing yourself for a money conversation including a Chatbot set up specifically to advise women on negotiating their pay
Plus a whole host of practical and data-backed tips, tools and even phrases from us and some of our CEO guests to help you in your next negotiation conversation.

Even if you’re happy with your current situation, don’t miss this episode because we’re sure you’ll learn something new that will help you in future or be of service to your friends or family.

The better we all are at negotiating, the more we can collectively contribute to closing the gender pay gap that exists around the world.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and stories too, just email us.

Enjoy this episode!

Link

Ask Cindy Gallop ChatBot

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Interview

Cindy Gallop – Blowing Shit Up!

September 25, 2018
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This week’s guest describes herself as someone who likes to blow shit up. They are her words not ours. Cindy Gallop is a globe-trotting consultant, speaker and entrepreneur who was a former North American head of the famed advertising agency, Bartle Bogle & Hegarty (BBH).

As you’ll hear in this conversation, Cindy is a strong, edgy character with clear views about many topics including diversity and sex, to name just two. She’s not one of those people who just say things, she’s out there trying to change the world! And it hasn’t been easy.

Around 13 years ago, she decided it was time to leave advertising and do her own thing…

Her mission for the past nine years is to make it easier for everybody in the world to talk about normal sex vs pornography through her start up MakeLoveNotPorn. You’ll hear about how her now infamous TED talk led her to embark on this journey which would prove to be filled with unexpected challenges.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How Cindy’s life and career have always been a complete accident.
How asking about where her career was going led to her dream job starting and running the BBH US business
How her own experience of dating men in their 20’s led to MakeLoveNotPorn
Her powerful thoughts on why you should shamelessly self promote
Why she’d tell her younger self to “don’t give a damn about what other people think” and;
How she’s been turned into a chatbot that you can’t afford to ignore.

You really don’t want to miss this episode with the very unique Cindy Gallop!

Links of interest:

Check out the Cindy Gallop ChatBot on Facebook Messenger to get Cindy’s advice to negotiate your salary. You’ll need to use a US postcode (such as as 90210) as the bot was built using US salary data. The advice is still useful wherever you live in the world.

Ask Cindy Gallop ChatBot

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Interview

Aya Aso – The Savvy, Luxury Entrepreneur

September 11, 2018December 5, 2018
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Our guest this week is Japanese luxury hotel and hospitality entrepreneur, Aya Aso.

Until last year, Aya ran the hotel chain she founded a decade ago, the Agora Hotel Group, a multi award-winning chain of resort and luxury hotels in Japan.

Aya spent most of her childhood living in Brazil and in her 20’s studied to become a concert pianist in Los Angeles. However, that idea was put on the back burner when a part time job at the Sheraton led to the discovery that she loved the hospitality industry.

This set Aya on her career journey and led her back to Japan where she ultimately started her business.

In today’s episode, you’ll hear:

How growing up in Brazil has impacted her as a business woman
How one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Japan took her under his wing and helped her learn the most important thing about running a company
What it was like to be a woman starting a business in Japan
How she lost most of her business after an earthquake devastated the travel industry in 2011 and
What it felt like to build the company back up to 1,000 staff only to reach a point where she felt she had no other option but to walk away

We can’t wait to see her next business, the SAVVY Collective, a Luxury Hotel Concept Consulting business, go from strength to strength.

Click below to listen to this episode with Aya Aso.

Links of interest:

SAVVY Collective

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Interview

Margarita Herdocia – The Compassionate Capitalist

August 27, 2018December 5, 2018
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We have a truly international businesswoman and global citizen on the show today.

Margarita Herdocia, is Nicaraguan by birth, was educated in New York, and lives in Costa Rica. She owns and runs Renaissance Holdings which operates multiple businesses based in Central America, the Caribbean, Russia and Europe.

Incredibly, she’s using her businesses to further the cause of democracy in her dictator-run country of birth where she finds herself having to make decisions in the current civil unrest that have life or death implications for her staff.

Margarita began – with no experience – by taking over a failing, family owned fast food and casual dining business and totally blitzed it. She’s expanded her portfolio over the years to also include real estate development, some retail, and financial asset management interests as well.

In this episode you’ll hear:

How a comment in her living room saw her go overnight from no experience in business, to turning around a failing business in Nicaragua
Her philosophy as a leader, and how her purpose is to create what she calls ‘happy jobs’
How she takes advantage of the times when men in meetings won’t look at her – she’s often the only woman in the room
Her advice for women who want to negotiate a pay rise

Enjoy this episode!

Links of interest:

Margarita’s profile

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Interview

Rebekah Campbell – Serial Entrepreneur

August 14, 2018December 5, 2018
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We’re excited to feature our latest guest, serial entrepreneur Rebekah Campbell.

Rebekah has just founded and launched her third business, Zambesi, an online marketplace for career-related workshops.

Prior to Zambesi, she was co founder of a well-known cafe ordering app in Australia called Hey You!

Raised in New Zealand but now based in Australia, Rebekah started her career and first significant business in the music industry following a university summer holiday project she did that took off.

We love this interview because it is so jam-packed with honest stories, useful tips and advice.

In this episode you’ll hear Rebekah share her thoughts about:
How she figures out what business to start next and, related to that . . .
How she found her new purpose – one that would really last
Her fascinating experience working out how to ‘own the room’
The surprise in store when she shared how inadequate she felt compared with some of her peers.

Enjoy this episode with the entrepreneurial and insightful Rebekah Campbell

Links of interest:

Rebekah’s website including articles

Rebekah on Twitter

Zambesi

AFR Boss Monthly Column

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How To Episode

How to Breathe Easy About Your Purpose

July 30, 2018August 20, 2018
by admin

Welcome to our second ‘How To’ episode!

This is where we choose a common theme or challenge raised in previous episodes and unpeel the topic a little bit more to give you some really practical and actionable tips and tools to try out for yourself.

This week’s episode is all about Purpose, how to think about it (and how not to!) and how to go about finding your own authentic Purpose.

You’ll hear Claire and Greta and a number of our guests talk about purpose in their lives and the really different ways we can all go about finding our own Purpose.

Hear and learn:

Why you should never worry or feel inadequate about where you are at on your Purpose journey
The different ways Purpose can reveal itself and there’s not one ‘right’ way
The journey one guest went on to literally visualise her Purpose
Whether your Purpose can change or not
Plus, a number of tips and tools for you to try

Enjoy this episode! And don’t forget to check out all the cool resources below …

A video by Professor Jennifer Aaker from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, explaining how what makes us happy changes over time.

Question Journey

Via Character Strengths – free online self assessment taken by more than 6 million people

Books we love on this topic

Flourish by Martin Seligman

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M Christensen

The Element – How Finding your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

Find your Why by Simon Sinek

Start with Why by Simon Sinek (about leadership and organisational purpose)

Ikigai – The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Hector Garcia

Photo credit (top image): Samuel Scrimshaw, UnSplash

Here’s another video from Jennifer Aaker’s research on why Purpose is important

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Interview

Heidi Hackemer – Nothing To It But To Do…

July 16, 2018July 18, 2018
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Our guest today is the extraordinary Heidi Hackemer who is VP of Engagement at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative…that’s the billion dollar philanthropic foundation founded by Pediatrician and Education advocate Priscilla Chan and, her husband, Facebook’s co founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

We first heard about Heidi as a leading creative thinker and someone who had founded a unique and highly regarded brand strategy agency in New York. But then we realised how that was just the tip of the iceberg.

In today’s episode you’ll hear:

Why she walked away from her prestigious role in advertising to drop out and drive around America on her own for two years.
How differently she thought about her career when she was in her 20’s vs her 30s.
How she built a business from the ground up to optimise creativity
And her passionate reaction to the stereotypes women are expected to subscribe to, especially the assumption that every woman must want to be a mother. You’ll hear how Heidi has dealt with this big life question.

We really loved this conversation and know you will too.

So please enjoy this episode with the gutsy, creative and refreshingly frank Heidi Hackemer.

Here are a few links of interest:

Wolf & Wilhelmine website

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Interview

Lindley Edwards – Wisdom to Live & Work By

July 3, 2018April 25, 2020
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We’re super excited to share this conversation with Lindley Edwards with you.

Lindley started her career working for one of Australia’s most renowned investment banks, Macquarie Bank, and then found a love of Asia when she took on a VP role with Citibank.

Today, Lindley runs a corporate advisory business called AFG Venture Group which specialises in cross-border investments and transactions, particularly between Asia & Australia. She’s also Chairperson for two startups and a Non-Executive Director of a Think Tank called AsiaLink.

We love the fact that Lindley is definitely not your normal investment banker… we don’t know anyone else who uses philosophy, poetry, biology, and cross-cultural intelligence as their foundation for thinking about business and disruption.

In this episode you’ll hear Lindley share her wisdom about:

How she thinks – or doesn’t think – about planning her career
Why making mistakes can be so important
How to negotiate your next pay rise
How she learnt to push through fear

We really recommend you listen to this conversation with Lindley as she shares so many useful insights and great pieces of advice with us.

Enjoy!

Photo credit: Giammarco Boscaro, Upsplash

Keen to learn more about Lindley?

Books Lindley recommends:

What’s in the Way Is the Way: A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life by Mary O’Malley
The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks (Author, Translator), Jalal al-Din Rumi (Author), John Moyne (Translator)
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz by Hafiz (Author), Daniel Ladinsky (Translator)
Poem by David Whyte – Start Close In – hear it here on YouTube

Here are a few links of interest:

AFG Venture Group Website

Xinja Website

Umano Website

Mindhive Website

Peter Drucker interview

Joseph Campbell Wiki

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Interview

Siew Hoon Yeoh – Is Making Travel Better

June 27, 2018February 26, 2019
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Our guest this week is Singapore-based, travel entrepreneur Siew Hoon Yeoh.

Siew Hoon is one of the humblest people you’ll meet. She refutes the idea that she’s an innovator and a pioneer in her space. But ask anyone in the travel industry in Asia “who is the most innovative woman you know?” and Siew Hoon Yeoh is nearly always the answer.

Siew Hoon’s company Web in Travel (or WIT as you’ll hear her say in the interview) is a content and events company focused on online travel. Those in the know say Siew Hoon’s efforts to bring digital front and centre have been instrumental in helping the travel industry, particularly in Asia Pacific, move more quickly in the face of disruption. She sold WIT for an undisclosed sum four years ago but continues to run the business she loves.

In this episode you’ll hear Siew Hoon talk about:

– How her childhood as the daughter of a refugee in Penang, Malaysia shaped her views about the importance of community
– Why it’s a golden time for innovation in Asia right now
– How she thinks about building something new and innovative and;
– Why it’s so important to accept who you are and play to your strengths.

Enjoy this conversation with Siew Hoon Yeoh …

Want to find out more about Siew Hoon or Web in Travel (WIT)? Links of interest:

WIT Website

WIT Facebook

Twitter

TEDX video Siew Hoon refers to

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Interview

Sherilyn Shackell – Has Found Her Purpose!

June 19, 2018July 20, 2018
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This week’s guest is the uplifting Sherilyn Shackell.

Sherilyn spent the first part of her career, by accident she says, as a formidable headhunter in the UK. She borrowed millions to buy the company she worked for in her mid 30’s and grew the business to be hugely successful. As successful as it was she felt like she was on a treadmill …earning more money to spend more money. Her physical and emotional health suffered.

A near death experience in her early forties led Sherilyn on a journey to find her purpose.

Sherilyn is now the Founder & CEO of the Marketing Academy, an international not for profit organisation dedicated to inspiring and developing talented stars in the Marketing, Media & Communication industries to become the leaders and influencers of tomorrow. She says these sectors have unique power to shape our collective opinions as a society.

In this episode you’ll hear Sherilyn talk about:

– How she liberates her decision making with the question “what’s the worst thing that can happen?”
– How she has gone about finding her purpose
– Why spending time with the people who will come to your funeral is crucial
– And, how she lost 21kg in 2017 and used blogging to keep herself accountable

Sit back and listen to the human dynamo, Sherilyn Shackell!