She's Taking Over - with Jenna Davies

Can you build a business, raise a family and still have a life you love in Sydney?

If you have ever looked at the cost of housing, childcare, growing a business and a full calendar and wondered how women manage to hold all of it, this conversation is for you.

In this episode of She's Taking Over, I sit down with Sarah Dixson, Mayor of Woollahra, family lawyer, business owner and new mum, to talk about what actually makes an ambitious life sustainable.

Sarah has a six-month-old baby, a legal practice, a role leading her local council and a deep connection to the community around her. Her answer is refreshingly human: build your village, communicate clearly, ask for help and let people show up for you.

This is a conversation for the woman building her career, contemplating family, or trying to create a beautiful life in a city she loves.

We talk about:

⚡ How to build a real support system around your ambition
🤝 Why asking for help and accepting it expands what is possible
👩‍⚖️ Running a business while carrying meaningful responsibility
🗣️ The role communication, reputation and community play in building a career
🏡 Creating a life you want to stay in as Sydney changes
📚 Why being the most prepared person in the room matters
🙏 Faith, resilience and trusting that you can handle what comes next

Sarah also shares the “grit and glamour” she inherited from the powerful women in her family, and the lesson she is carrying forward: you can do it, and you do not have to do it alone.

📊 DOWNLOAD JENNA’S STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT

Want to go deeper into what’s changing for business owners?

Read The Great Restructuring: What’s Really Happening to Your Business (2026–2030), Jenna’s Strategic Intelligence Report exploring the economic, cultural and technological shifts changing how we work, build businesses and create wealth.

Inside:

⚡ The shift from employment to individual enterprise
🤖 How AI is changing the value of skills and labour
🧠 Why expertise, judgement and perspective are becoming more valuable
🏗️ The rise of Creative Units and AI-enabled businesses
📣 Why brand, reputation and community matter in an AI-saturated world
📈 The opportunities emerging between now and 2030

If this episode made you think differently about the business, family and life you want to build, start here.

👉 READ THE FREE REPORT: The Great Restructuring: What’s Really Happening to Your Business (2026–2030) (https://app.biguppetite.com/Strategic%20Intelligence%20Report%20by%20Jenna%20Davies.pdf?utm_source=report&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_great_restructuring&utm_id=001&utm_content=pdf)

✨ CONNECT WITH SARAH DIXON

📲 Instagram: @mayor.sarah.dixson (https://www.instagram.com/mayor.sarah.dixson/)

The traditional career is shifting.

What's replacing it is the career portfolio: A mix of skills, personal brand and side projects that you own, no matter what happens to your job. 🚀 AI just made building one faster than ever.

In this episode of She's Taking Over, I sit down with Georgie Healy, host of In the Blink of AI, writer of Substack, Attention Is All I Need, former lead of Google's AI accelerator, and founder of Possum Playtime, to talk about what it actually takes to build leverage in this window of AI.

Georgie has walked down almost every road of the "non-traditional" career path. She built and exited a tech business pre-AI, led innovation at one of the biggest companies in the world, and then walked away from the stability of Google to bet on her own personal brand, launching a monetised newsletter from week one to test whether she could commoditise her voice.

Most importantly, we talk about what you can actually do now:

⚡ Audit what you're known for.
💻 Test if people will pay before you build.
📣 Build your reputation.
🧠 Use AI to remove barriers that used to require a team.
🗣️ Have an opinion, let it evolve.
🤝 Sell your skills back into your own network.
📈 Create leverage while the cost of experimenting is low.

Because building a career portfolio isn't about protecting yourself from AI. It's about using this moment to build something that's undeniably yours.

📊 DOWNLOAD JENNA’S STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT

Want to go deeper into what we discussed in this episode?

Read The Great Restructuring: What’s Really Happening to Your Business (2026–2030) — Jenna’s Strategic Intelligence Report exploring the economic, cultural and technological shifts changing how we work, build businesses and create wealth.

Inside:
⚡ The shift from employment to individual enterprise
🤖 How AI is changing the value of skills and labour
🧠 Why expertise, judgement and perspective are becoming more valuable
🏗️ The rise of Creative Units and AI-enabled businesses
📣 Why brand, reputation and community matter in an AI-saturated world
📈 The opportunities emerging between now and 2030

If this episode made you think differently about your next move, start here.

👉 READ THE FREE REPORT:
https://app.biguppetite.com/Strategic...

🦋 BUILD YOUR AI DEFENCE

Understanding what’s changing is step one. Building for it is step two.
Book a call with Jenna and her team to create your very own AI-powered marketing dream team. Save the cost of a $150,000 hire. Scale as if you hired them anyway. We build the systems your next hire would have built — across customer success, operations, marketing, sales, project management, administration, AI and automation.

👉 BUILD YOUR MARKETING DREAM TEAM:
https://maxxing.biguppetite.com/

✨ CONNECT WITH GEORGIE HEALY

Follow Georgie for more conversations around AI, technology and business shaping our future.

📲 Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/georgiehealytech/

💼 LinkedIn:
/https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

🎤In the Blink of AI:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5K4NkKXa8Cqxuoed1jBGwO

The old ways of creating security are changing. AI gives us a small window to build skills, businesses, brands, networks and leverage before the next version of work fully arrives.
Invest in yourself. Get digitised. Build your network. Have a voice. 🚀
In this episode of She’s Taking Over, I sit down with lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and former parliamentary legal adviser Steph Hunt to talk about what the AI shift actually means for Australians, our jobs, businesses, wealth and future.
We’re already seeing the workforce restructure. Jobs are moving offshore. AI is changing what businesses need from employees. The traditional pathways to building wealth feel harder, while the cost of living keeps climbing.
But there is another side to this story.
For people who are prepared to move early, AI is creating an extraordinary amount of leverage.
We talk about why your expertise can become a business, why your personal brand and reputation may become some of your most valuable assets, and why skilled professionals have an opportunity to turn what they know into consulting businesses, Creative Units, services and intellectual property.
We also unpack what Australia needs to get right. 🇦🇺
How do we protect Australian jobs without stifling innovation? How do we make it easier for small businesses to hire locally? What happens when highly skilled professionals leave traditional employment? And how do ordinary Australians have more of a voice in the policies shaping the next decade?
This isn’t a conversation about left versus right.
It’s a conversation about being awake to what is changing, understanding the game you’re playing and making deliberate moves while the window is still open.
We cover AI, entrepreneurship, consulting, offshoring, Australian small business, tax, wealth creation, personal brand, reputation, community and the future of work.
Most importantly, we talk about what you can actually do now.
⚡ Build your skills.
💻 Get digitised.
📣 Build your reputation.
🤝 Strengthen your network.
🧠 Learn to use AI properly.
📈 Create leverage.
🇦🇺 Have a voice in the future we’re building.
Because this isn’t just about protecting yourself from AI.
It’s about using it to create a more free future.
📊 DOWNLOAD JENNA’S STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Want to go deeper into what we discussed in this episode?
Read The Great Restructuring: What’s Really Happening to Your Business (2026–2030) — Jenna’s Strategic Intelligence Report exploring the economic, cultural and technological shifts changing how we work, build businesses and create wealth.
Inside:
⚡ The shift from employment to individual enterprise
🤖 How AI is changing the value of skills and labour
🧠 Why expertise, judgement and perspective are becoming more valuable
🏗️ The rise of Creative Units and AI-enabled businesses
📣 Why brand, reputation and community matter in an AI-saturated world
📈 The opportunities emerging between now and 2030
If this episode made you think differently about your next move, start here.
👉 READ THE FREE REPORT:
https://app.biguppetite.com/Strategic%20Intelligence%20Report%20by%20Jenna%20Davies.pdf?utm_source=report&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_great_restructuring&utm_id=001&utm_content=pdf
🦋 BUILD YOUR AI DEFENCE
Understanding what’s changing is step one. Building for it is step two.
Book a call with Jenna and her team to create your very own AI-powered marketing dream team.
Save the cost of a $150,000 hire. Scale as if you hired them anyway.
We build the systems your next hire would have built — across customer success, operations, marketing, sales, project management, administration, AI and automation.
👉 BUILD YOUR MARKETING DREAM TEAM:
https://maxxing.biguppetite.com/
✨ CONNECT WITH STEPH HUNT
Follow Steph for more conversations around Australian policy, business, law and the issues shaping our future.
📲 Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/stephanie.hunt/
💼 LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniejenniferhunt/
🌐 Website:
https://stephhunt.com/

He worked 92-hour weeks in construction to fund his dream.
DM’d 1,000 strangers and raised €60k in 7 days.
Launched a beauty app with no tech background.
Lost it all. Rebuilt. And now?
He's raised again and GlamUare is live, funded, and shipping features every 2 weeks.
Sean MacAdams is not your typical tech founder and GlamUare is not your typical beauty platform.
In this episode, we go deep on Sean’s wild journey: from almost dropping out of high school to pitching investors in Saudi Arabia, managing a 30,000+ women’s community in Bondi, and building a beauty-tech platform that’s making real impact.
He didn’t come from money.
He didn’t have a cofounder.
He didn’t even code.
But what he did have was a relentless work ethic, a community-first vision, and the nerve to keep showing up.
What You’ll Learn:
How Sean raised €60k in a week by DMing strangers with no pitch deck
What happened when his first launch fell apart 24 hours before go-live
The painful lessons from giving away equity too early and how he bought it back
How he worked 92-hour weeks in construction to keep the dream alive
Why he turned down Saudi investment (and what misaligned money almost cost him)
What makes GlamUare different from every other booking app in beauty
How he’s scaling now: fresh funding, bi-weekly feature drops, and go-to-market underway
The community monetisation playbook behind Bondi Beach Babes, no ads, 30K+ members
This Episode Is For:
Founders building from scratch with no fancy background
Non-technical tech founders who’ve hit brick walls with dev teams
Creators and coaches trying to monetise community the right way
Anyone who's ready to hear what building really takes
Follow Sean + Explore GlamUare:
GlamUare App: glamuare.com
Sean on Instagram: @sean_mac_adams
If you believe in grit over degrees, vision over validation, and community over hype, this episode is for you.
Share it. Tag @sean_mac_adams. Let people know what’s coming.
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What does it take to build a category-leading company, exit, and then choose to do it all again… but on a bigger stage?
In this episode, I sit down with Frank Greeff, co-founder of Realbase (acquired by Domain) and now building Kinso, to unpack how he thinks, hires, communicates and builds momentum. This is a candid look at the systems, standards and decisions behind scaling companies, attracting exceptional talent and using personal brand as a genuine growth engine.
We talk through:
Why he interviewed 110 engineers to hire five
How founder-led content generated 11,000+ waitlist sign-ups
What actually creates culture (and what kills it instantly)
How to attract A-players without diluting standards
Why teams only perform when they’re energised, not micromanaged
Designing a life that supports ambition: family, fitness and focus
The skills his kids will need in an AI-dominant world
Core ideas:
Hiring is a benchmark game, not a box-ticking exercise
Standards shape culture and they slip fast if you let them
Personal brand multiplies distribution, trust and talent flow
Presence matters more than pace
Implementation beats information
People stay when they feel they’re becoming someone better
Documenting the build creates belief and momentum
Human energy becomes the advantage as AI scales
Key timestamps:
3:00 Scaling Realbase to 400 staff
4:06 Why Frank chose to build again
5:28 The 110-interview hiring philosophy
9:12 What actually builds culture
28:33 The content engine behind Kinso
31:52 Why Kinso hires people who want to be on camera
40:35 Personal brand as leverage
42:25 Documenting the build
52:08 Skills the next generation will need
I’m on a mission to bring that global, collaborative founder energy to Australia. If something in this episode hit home, pass it on to a founder who’ll appreciate it, and share it on your socials @jennadaviesmarketing.
Connect with Frank:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frankgreeff_/
Kinso Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kinso.app/
Kinso: kinso.ai
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