How I Made It
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How I Made It
How I Made It is back with new hosts Lauren Sams & Yolanda Redrup. Join us to learn how Australia’s top entrepreneurs built their fortunes and what they learnt along the way.
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From banker to fashion CEO: How the founder of MJ Bale took over menswear
Growing up on a sheep farm, Matt Jensen has long had an appreciation for natural fibres.
But it was during a stint in London working as a banker...
At 21 Bruce Keebaugh had $500. He made it into a global events company
When the co-founder and former chief executive of The Big Group was 21, he had just $500 in his pocket.
Not afraid of risk, Bruce Keebaugh and h...
How serial entrepreneur Rod Drury kick-started a $28b company
From the start of high school, Rod Drury was captivated by computing.
It was a fascination that would go on to create one of the largest ASX-li...
Jose Bryce Smith had one big idea. It became a global haircare empire
Jose Bryce Smith came to Australia on holiday. Seven years later, she founded what would become one of the country’s biggest haircare brands.
Wi...
Trailer: 'How I Made It' Returns September 22
How I Made It is back with new hosts Lauren Sams & Yolanda Redrup. Join us to learn how Australia’s top entrepreneurs built their fortunes and what th...
Sam Kroonenburg’s success is only possible because of his wife
Sam Kroonenburg built a company from his bedroom, with him and his brother Ryan both making about $500 million. But Sam, 40, is doing what he can to a...
How exquisite timing helped Kerry Harmanis forge a fortune
After deciding working at Legal Aid wasn’t the career for him, Kerry Harmanis applied to an art school. He was rejected and turned to prospecting in W...
Paul Blackburne: Why cars, boats and houses won’t make you happy
Paul Blackburne built a property company that in 2016 land him on the Financial Review Rich List with an estimated $536 million fortune. He’s also see...
Why Richard White avoids risk at all costs
Richard White wanted to be a rock and roll star. He ended up developing software for companies in the logistics industry. In 1994 he founded Wise Tech...
Steph Claire Smith’s top tips to building a social media empire
How a back of the napkin plan put fitness star Steph Claire Smith on the Young Rich List.
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Mark Woodland: From Maccas to building a $100m company with zero qualifications
Mark Woodland was expanding his education start-up before realising he’d overlooked a critical component for its success. He had to fix it, even if it...
Nick Bell's first business flopped, his next made him millions
Serial entrepreneur Nick Bell sits down with Julie-anne Sprague to chat about his latest business venture, which aims to help people live longer. He a...
Shaun Bonétt: The homeschooled billionaire who built a fortune before turning 40
In this week's episode, Precision Group founder Shaun Bonétt chats to Julie-anne Sprague about becoming one of the country's most successful entrepren...
Coming soon: How I Made It season 4
How I Made It is back for a 4th season and this time we're giving you can chance to ask a Rich Lister a question yourself.
Are you building a c...
Summer Series: From golf balls to 1c TVs - how Ruslan Kogan built a $300m empire from $0
His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan...
Summer Series: How Simon Beard went from 'toolie' to Culture King worth $600m
The How I Made it team is on a summer break but have curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes.
In this third ep...
Summer Series: How Tammy Hembrow built a fitness empire from $400
The How I Made it team is on a summer break but we’ve curated a special summer series featuring some of our favourite episodes.
Our second epis...
Summer Series: How Jack Cowin brought KFC and Hungry Jacks to Australia
Happy New Year! The How I Made it team is on summer break but for your listening enjoyment they have compiled a collection of some of their favourite...
How Sam Kennard built a $2.6b empire storing other people's stuff
Sam Kennard always had ambition to work and grow the family company. But he never expected his dad to give him total control when he was just 24 years...
The sliding doors moment that led typist Cathie Reid to build a $550m fortune
In this week's episode How I Made It podcast, Icon Group founder Cathie Reid chats to Julie-anne Sprague about wanting to be a typist. Instead she bec...
How online gamer Kevin Gosschalk made $173m stopping internet bad guys
This week on How I Made It, Julie-anne Sprague chats to Young Rich Lister Kevin Gosschalk, the co-founder Arkose Labs on the challenges of going head...
How Mark Carnegie 'thumb-sucked' his way off the Rich List
In this week's episode, Julie-anne Sprague chats to investor and corporate adviser Mark Carnegie on how being born with a silver spoon and having a ch...
How school dropout Nigel Satterley built a $500 million property empire
This week, Nigel Satterley joins Julie-anne Sprague to chat about his journey from Levi's salesman to becoming Australia’s biggest private land develo...
Introducing: 15 Minutes with the Boss (episode preview)
Follow The Australian Financial Review’s newest podcast offering called 15 Minutes with the Boss.
It’s a weekly podcast, in which AFR’s Boss Edi...
Sam Hupert: From wine tasting meeting to a $9 billion medical software giant
In 1983, Sam Hupert and IT specialist Anthony Hall joined forces after meeting at a wine tasting. Their brainchild, Pro Medicus is now worth $9 billio...
How Kim Kardashian is helping Gen Z-er Alex Tomic make $1 billion
Alex Tomic quit university after just six months, to create a company to sell teeth whitening kits with his childhood friend Alex Mirkovic. Almost a d...
How Carolyn Creswell went from check-out chick to $170m muesli empire
Carolyn Creswell’s company Carmen's dominates the supermarket shelves. But it didn’t start that way. In the early days, she had to come up clever ways...
Coming soon: How I Made It season three
How I Made It is back for a third season.
From the Australian Financial Review, How I Made It takes you inside the world of the country’s top en...
Female Founders: Trenna Probert: From concierge to fintech start-up founder
Super Fierce founder Trenna Probert chats to Julie-anne Sprague about her bold mission to close the wealth gap between men and women.
This podca...
Female Founders: Hannah Drury: From blow-up mattress to a fragrance empire
From an initial $50,000 investment and regularly sleeping on a blowup mattress on the factory floor, Hannah Drury is now looking to expand her fragran...
Female Founders: Gab Manning and Manning Cartell
Gabrielle Manning chats with Julie-anne Sprague about quitting her job in her 30s to set up her own business alongside her two sisters. But a decade l...
Female Founders: Ava Matthews, Bec Jefferd and Ultra Violette
In 2014 Bec Jefferd and Ava Matthews met in a carpark. Fast forward to today, their skinscreen line Ultra Violette has completely changed the way we v...
Female Founders: Priscilla Hajiantoni and Bangn Body
Priscilla Hajiantoni suffered from skin breakouts. She’d tried everything and nothing seemed to work. So she set out to make her own. Priscilla now ru...
Female Founders: Jo Horgan and Mecca
This week, entrepreneur Jo Horgan invites Julie-anne Sprague into the nerve centre of Mecca to reveal how her love for English literature led to her f...
Female Founders: Tania Austin and Decjuba
In 2008, Tania Austin took a risk buying five retail stores under the Decjuba banner. 15 years on Decjuba is now a women's fashion powerhouse with mor...
Female Founders: Kristy Chong and Modibodi
Kristy Chong revolutionised personal care products for women all over the world by creating an underwear range that absorbs leaks. The company she fou...
Coming soon: Female Founders
Starting March 20, you’ll hear stories from women who’ve faced down enormous challenges to take a simple idea and build a business.
Some would g...
Introducing: The Fin
A weekly podcast from The Australian Financial Review that examines the biggest stories in business, markets and politics, and why they matter, explai...
Introducing Chanticleer
Australia’s most prestigious business column is now a podcast. Chanticleer is a weekly news breakdown of all things business, finance and markets.
How selling TVs for 1c led Ruslan Kogan to owning an online empire
His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan...