Global leaders championing climate action

Sarah Wilson is an author, entrepreneur, change maker and most importantly a climate activist.  When describing who she is the first word that appeared was a nomad, but ultimately a woman striving to her most meaningful life’s work but with the knowing of never arriving. Now that is the art of living. But it wasn't all light and happiness, and recalls some of her darkest days, anxiety and the desire to commit suicide. She knew that the universe had another plan for her and offered her a violent shove of awakening, which she then made the decision to live and truly live. Sarah encourages us all to stay with a problem longer, get creative, spend time in stillness and follow those worth following.

In this engaging discussion, Lani Evans, Head of Foundation and Sustainability at Vodafone, shares her journey towards creating a more equitable society. She highlights the importance of self-reflection, deep listening, and vulnerability in driving meaningful change. Lani discusses the Vodafone Foundation's initiatives aimed at supporting youth through data insights and community projects. She emphasizes the significance of daily routines and outdoor activities for maintaining well-being, urging us all to engage generously and thoughtfully in our communities.

Lisa is an adventurer, a boundary pusher, challenging the status quo who founded an adventure travel company - Crooked Compass to share the world with fellow adventurers to get off the beaten track, connect through cultural exchanges and engage with diminishing tribes. The past 18 months has been a series of pivots, twists and turns but in true entrepreneurial spirit Lisa has been able to read between the lines to explore new opportunities and find solutions to creating a sustainable organisation. Through encouraging and stimulating curiosity, educating to broaden horizons, Lisa creates life altering travel experiences that open us up to a whole new world. Crooked Compass is in the rebuilding stage of their business cycle but now knowing that the core of this needs to be in sustainable ways as we've now had the opportunity to press RESET on the planet and to start again.

As a lover and supporter of small businesses, after many years at The Icehouse, Andy fell into building a platform during 2020 lockdown that would support small businesses with advice and support to get through challenging situations.  Today this wonderful organisation is known as Manaaki which brings together over 330 advisors and thousands of small businesses to support and have a positive impact.  Andy shares some of the trials and tribulations relating to their current capital raise to have even further impact and letting go of the rejection when investors say no.  With the knowing that “opportunities never shout, they whisper” he encourages us all to tune in, observe and take action.

Caroleen Moise was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and grew up fascinated by the creativity of writing poetry, watching films and acting to grow into a life as a filmmaker with some of her recent work Defying all Odds, Trouble and We love Paleo. She believes that creativity can be applied to so many things and not just the arts and really is the ability to think outside the square through creative thought. In filmmaking, Caroleen has faced criticism and not the constructive type and in launching her career felt like she needed a lot of bravery and courage to put herself out there to work through vulnerability knowing that living with the regrets of not stepping forward would be far too painful. Her mission is to make films that inspire, educate and are bound into her purpose which is to leave a lasting legacy. 

12 years ago, Sebastian Terry lost a great friend, had started a business, had begun navigating a university degree and decided to throw it all in and focus on his pursuit of living a happy life. What began as a list of 100things that Seb travelled the world experiencing including Delivering a Strangers baby, Living on a Deserted island for a week, Marrying a stranger has evolved 12 years on to a life of purpose, fuelled by passion to support millions of people across the globe to live happy, adventurous, fun filled lives that are the most meaningful to each person individually. Seb believes that the why are we here or what is your purpose is a question that is overly asked... and feels that the first question that we need to ask ourselves is Who are we? as the starting place to truly live a life of authenticity and truth. Seb spends his day activating the things that he loves and what make him the best version of himself with some of this weeks activities including daily French classes, learning classical piano, surfing and learning new breathe work all part of living true to bringing his 100things to life. Seb is full of character, soul, spirituality and humour and has a big call for action from our community - here's to writing a list!

Julie Demsey is a recovering people pleaser, living life on her own terms, ex Silicon Valley, life long learning woman who landed in Australia on a mission to work with individuals on their mindset to have a positive impact. Julie has a habit of saying YES to things that feel scary or are unknown and saying NO to things that no longer serve her. A potent potion to enabling a prosperous, full and meaningful life as the best version of ones self. With morning yoga, time in nature and continuous self reflection for growth, Julie sets her intention filled with purpose to activate the day. Check out her newly released book https://founddating.com which after 10 years, had the time and space to complete during Covid.

Phoebe jokes that her and her husband have been given the life sentence of being immersed into the world of fashion, knowing that there have been incredible highs, all time lows but ultimately through the lows have enabled new opportunities to see life through a different lens. Through this vulnerable, honest and humble interview, Phoebes pinpoints two pivotal moments of bravery and courage in being open to sharing more about the hardships of her life through being adopted as a child and the recent diagnosis of her husband with Parkinson's disease.  Phoebes highlights that through this vulnerability she has seen more respect, empathy and reciprocal love shown with the values aligned businesses and people she is surrounded by now in her life. In this podcast, Phoebes shares some key and fundamental learnings of life immersed in the fashion world that apply to any industry and working through challenging situations by looking within to get to the heart and truth to enable change. Phoebes has a powerful call for action that she asks us all to ponder and action.... we know it's something that all women will relate to.

Andi Lew is a best selling author & wellness expert presenter and has recently published a book, "Connected - a paradigm shift in how we view health". Andi has always been inspired to live a better quality of life and really does walk the talk to holistic health and from a place of love. Although Andi has been knocked down quite a few times she has always stood back up to fight, but from a place of love and empathy. Andi believes that through educating in prevention and looking after our human frame that the health of our nervous systems will ultimately give our bodies the optional time to function. As a morning person she rises with the sun and embraces the morning to look inward to have the greatest awakening of self.

Jo Burston describes herself as an accidental entrepreneur after waking up at 27 to realise that she needed a serious career as she had some audacious financial goals. Years later after winning an award, Jo returned to her junior and high schools in Sydney to connect and learn directly from students about what they envisioned as an "entrepreneur" which was a catalyst in activating her entrepreneurial ventures. Jo explores the idea of growth when we are in unknown and uncomfortable spaces and connects to her purpose knowing it's what she has been put here to do and create positive impact. Knowing that her health is her number 1 commodity, she is an early riser, a lover of healthy and nutritious food and values her sleep far more than she did in her younger years. Jo has a big call for action from our Entrepreneurial Women with Purpose community which we would love for you to take action on.