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Reality Check – Isar Meitis

  • May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
  • by Claire

This week we share a thought-provoking episode of Don’t Stop Us Now AI Edition, where we tackle head-on some of the most challenging realities of the AI revolution.

Our guest, Isar Meitis, Founder of Multiplai AI, gives us a reality check, without the sugarcoating, explaining the potential disruption heading our way. As an entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and AI strategist who’s deeply embedded in this space, Isar brings a refreshingly frank perspective about what’s coming, perhaps sooner than many of us expect.

In this compelling conversation, Isar shares his predictions about the dramatic workforce changes we’re likely to see in the next 2-3 years. While many experts talk about gradual transitions, Isar believes we’re approaching a tipping point where AI’s capabilities may create significant employment challenges across numerous industries.

We explore:

  • Why AI’s impact on jobs could be more sudden and widespread than most people realise
  • How staggeringly capable autonomous Agents will become in the next few years
  • How to think about creating a comprehensive and winning AI strategy for your organisation, and 
  • Specific AI tools Isar loves and uses in his own business. 

Isar also shares practical strategies for listeners looking to remain relevant and valuable in an increasingly AI-enhanced workplace. 

This is an ‘edge of your seat’, fascinating and somewhat controversial conversation which, as you’ll discover, runs a little longer than our usual episodes. We think you’ll know why once you hear for yourself.  

Enjoy this unmissable episode with the knowledgeable and straight-talking Isar Meitis. 

 

Links mentioned:

  • Isar Meitis LinkedIn
  • Multiplai AI website 
  • Isar’s AI Business Transformation Course (starts May 12 2025) **Listeners get a discount for this or future sessions of this course using the code: LEVERAGINGAI100

* Don’t forget to share this episode with any friends, family or colleagues who may be interested in this reality check on what’s coming with AI

Interview

Connie Mckeage – Resilience and Perspective

  • May 25, 2021May 25, 2021
  • by Claire

This week, we’re really thrilled to be able to share our conversation with experienced founder, CEO and all round impressive operator, Connie Mckeage.

Connie recently sold OneVue, the listed fintech business she ran in Sydney for 14 years. It was a dramatic journey at times, particularly when OneVue was left being owed $31 million dollars by another company which had collapsed. 

Connie is Canadian and has spent most of her career in financial services. With OneVue she and her 200 employees were looking to disrupt the funds management market by creating a new digital model that aimed to cut out the middleman and reduce fees for end investors. 

Connie has an impressive list of awards to her name including being awarded the Centenary Medal for contribution to Australian business leadership; as well as twice being named CEO of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards, including last year at the same time she was fighting to keep her business afloat when it was owed $31 million. 

In this episode you’ll hear: 

  • How Connie started her career in financial services by accident 
  • How she dealt with her husband’s vehement opposition to her business for years on end
  • What she learnt from the hardest 18 months of her career; and   
  • Her advice if you’re looking to disrupt an industry. 

So get comfy and listen now because Connie has such wise and thoughtful insights on so many topics …

Useful Link

Connie on LinkedIn

Future Proof Me Mini Episode

Future Proof Me – How to Ponder the Future…

  • April 29, 2020April 29, 2020
  • by Claire

Welcome to our first Future Proof Me mini episode! 

These episodes, will share a ‘nugget’ of an idea, advice or a thought-provoking insight to help us all thrive and adapt in future. 

Our environment’s changing so fast right now, this seems more important than ever … 

In these mini episodes we’ll feature the best from previous and future guests including brand new content. Plus, we’ll share ideas and great tools to try that we’ve put into action or experimented with ourselves. 

This week’s ‘nugget’ comes from investment banker Lindley Edwards who we had on the show about a year ago. Her episode was very popular and you could really tell from that, that Lindley is a deep thinker. 

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 these insights from Lindley because:

1) They seem so relevant now in these strange times of coronavirus and;

2) Lindley shares some really helpful ways to think about the future… and that’s by building on the ideas and insights from the past;

3) Plus, she talks about how to move forward and create change in new ways that will get traction and maybe even disrupt an industry.  

 

If you’re keen to hear more from Lindley, hear our full interview here.

We hope you enjoy this first Future Proof Me episode… 

 

Useful Links

Our full interview with Lindley Edwards on Don’t Stop Us Now!

Lindley on Linkedin

Philosophers mentioned by Lindley:

Hafiz

Book of poems by Hafiz

Rumi

Book of poems by Rumi

 

 

Interview

Lindley Edwards – Wisdom to Live & Work By

  • July 3, 2018April 25, 2020
  • by admin

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
Linkedin
Peter Drucker interview
Joseph Campbell Wiki

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