Reimagining Masculinity with Daniel Principe, Educator & Youth Advocate
In the same week the Brittany Higgins’ revelations was challenging the Federal Parliament’s culture, Daniel Principe, Educator & Youth Advocate at Collective Shout, posed a question to a group of Year 9 girls at Kambala School, in Rose Bay, Sydney – the same school making headlines because of a viral petition on sexual assault initiated by a former student..
“What does today’s society and culture value young girls for?”
It was the beginning of a day of workshops with his colleague Melinda Tankard Reist at Collective Shout, on sexualisation, objectification, and the harms of pornography.
As it turns out, there are countless young women who are desperate for a way out of the toxic impact of sexualisation on social media; and countless young men who are yearning for a new vision of manhood that’s worth aspiring to.
“They want to unshackle the constraints of toxic expressions of masculinity centred on control and dominance. My purpose is to help men reimagine healthy visions of masculinity” - Daniel Principe
Daniel’s mission is to help young men navigate the modern sexed-up world of social media and address the elephant in the room leading to an increased number of child predators online, to challenge the social and cultural messages that embody sexual entitlement and to end the normalisation of sexual harrassment in schools.
Hearing the heartbreaking stories of thousands of young people across the country he is determined to address the elephant in the room and for us all to be part of creating the positive cultural change we all hope for by inviting us to have the difficult conversations about body image, suicide and sexual assault.
Daniel is a health-professional with a background in PR, marketing and media, He’s worked as an adviser in the non-profit health sector, is the host of the Collective Shout’s podcast ‘Reimagining Masculinity’ and is a regular guest on community radio.
“A leader is someone who influences, lives virtuously, acts courageously, embodies integrity and leaves a legacy” - Daniel Principe
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Reducing Inequalities as a Purpose Driven Business and Equality in Leadership with Sandra D’Souza, Ellect Founder and CEO
Why, after all these years are we still talking about reducing inequalities and the imbalance of women in leadership?
Well, as it turns out, the issues of inequality run deep. In recent years, the benefits of economic growth have disproportionately favoured the rich while, in OECD countries, income inequality has hit its highest level in the past hundred years.
Many groups, such as women, racial minorities and indigenous populations, still do not have equal access to opportunities - facing exclusion from business ownership and corporate decision making and discrimination related to wages, employment, and access to financial services.
While equality is fundamental to a stable, just, prosperous and peaceful society, reducing inequalities benefits businesses as it helps create a stable and predictable business environment.
Founder and CEO of Ellect Stars Sandra D’Souza is on a mission to have women be equally represented in Boards and Senior Leadership Teams. Sandra’s been an advocate for women’s rights since she was a teenager. Over the last 20 years she’s combined her advocacy for gender equality with her passion for social entrepreneurship to advance women in business.
Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Gender Equality and Reduce Inequalities as a purpose driven business, Sandra’s mission is to help businesses achieve their Environment, Social and Governance Goals in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
The company is taking action to publicly award companies that have achieved at least three of the following accomplishments:
Have at least 1 woman CEO or CFO
Have 1 woman Board Chair
Have at least 25% women on Board of Directors
Have at least 25% women on Senior Leadership Team
In 2021 Sandra was the only Australian selected to participate in Nasdaq’s Spring Milestone Makers Program, appearing on the NASDAQ Tower in Time Square, New York City alongside 12 other outstanding entrepreneurs focused on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #10, Reduced Inequalities.
Why is Sandra so passionate about reducing inequality?
Evidence shows that reduced inequality fosters stronger and more sustainable economic growth because it helps unlock the population’s working potential, increases diversity of thought, and creates a more stable environment for businesses.
Join me on this week’s episode of The Uncharted Leader with Sandra D’Souza as we probe on this issue of gender inequality and her mission to reduce inequalities as a purpose driven business.
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Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters with Kara Goldin, Founder and CEO of Hint
Innovation is messy and building a business is even messier! Failures, mistakes, disappointments, heartaches, is it any wonder the failure statistics for startups is so high with 20% of businesses in Australia failing in their first year and 60% going bust in the first three years.
What does it take to build a purpose-driven business when the odds are against you?
Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, a company on a mission to help the world live a healthy lifestyle by making products people love. While experimenting with alternatives to overcome her own addiction with Diet Coke, Kara created the world's first unsweetened fruit-flavoured water.
Despite no beverage experience and plenty of doubts, Kara persisted.
“What’s the worse thing that can happen?” is a common narrative in Kara’s journey in building what has become the most successful beverage company of our time. Eighteen years later and Hint, employing 256 people and worth $150million, is still finding new ways of growing and breaking into other categories.
Since her success, Kara’s been listed alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg as one six disruptors in business by The Huffington Post’s These Six Companies Broke the Rules of Business and Succeeded. She’s been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California.
Her book Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters is an engaging story on Kara’s journey out of college and kick-starting her career with Time Magazine to working in the tech industry alongside a bunch of talented people who became her greatest ally’s and raising four children while pursuing a relentless passion for solving problems no-one is solving.
We all have doubts. We’re all confronted with uncertainty. The question isn’t whether doubt, our doubters, exist. The question is, “What are you doing about it?”
While it’s a simple question, asking yourself “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” is the first step in revealing the actions needed to overcome doubt and create something miraculous.
Join me as I talk with Kara about creating your own opportunities, launching the business when she was about to give birth to her fourth child, a simple approach to taking risk, building a brand on purpose and the stories and lessons she learnt along the way.
A taste of what to expect!
What’s more important than experience when it comes to your career and business?
Great entrepreneurs are masterful at bringing people on the journey.
Know who you are and focus on the one thing you do well. Trust yourself. Belief is everything.
Invest in crazy ideas. What starts out as crazy may, just in fact, be history in the making.
It’s never too late to start something new. Initiative and Persistence pays off.
Stop keeping your ideas to yourself. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s the people who can execute that make your ideas valuable.
What's the one thing that keeps you in the game when you’re weathering the sleepless nights and relentless thundering storms
Kids need great role models. Bring them along for the ride and engage them in the journey.
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint hearted. What are the critical pieces to starting a business that survives?
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In Silence Comes Wisdom with Shaun Sargent, CoFounder and CEO of Stait
In today’s fast-paced, adrenaline-driven society, hormone optimization Is under attack. Whether it’s diet, environment, work or family, our bodies are like the frog in a pan of hot water, being slowly boiled.
Unfortunately most of us, men and women, have no idea just how much damage it’s doing. We have little awareness about what our hormones are doing, what they aren’t doing, what we need them to be doing and the benefits they bring to living our best life.
Shaun Sargent is the Founder of Stait - a supplement brand that is carefully created to provide ‘everything you need and nothing you don’t. His mission is to educate people on the benefits of having their hormones balanced and to ultimately be happier with less illness.
As a CEO, chartered accountant and company secretary in his mid-50s, Shaun’s taking a selfish, but very necessary step to create a life that will help him be the best he can be - mentally, physically and spiritually. While his target is to improve himself, not because there is something wrong, but because he found it to be the best way forward, his passion is far beyond selfish.
“Life is not a dress rehearsal. It’s about showing up fully, competently and capably for yourself in every moment”
Why do you do what you do?
First and foremost, I do what I do, to make sure I show up as my best self. There’s a reason why, before taking off on a flight, the airlines say “in the unlikely event of an emergency, put on your oxygen mask before helping others’.
How can we possibly help others if we have no oxygen ourselves?
I’m certainly not perfect. I’m more of a work in progress. I’ve learnt that authenticity and integrity come from our own personal, and perhaps selfish, experience. I want to be the best I can so the information I share is not only credible but it’s easily accessible, free from bias and with as few barriers as possible.
My focus is on getting the best information on how to live a great life each day and, from my own journey, I realised it stems from optimising our hormones. If our hormones are out of balance, our life is out of balance and our day doesn’t flow as it should.
What’s one of the biggest challenges you’ve experienced and what were the most valuable lesson(s) you learnt?
My mother died when I was 17. It threw me into a deep deep depression – booze, fighting and pure anger at the world. It followed with being thrown out of home by my dad, for not accepting his new relationship.
It wasn’t easy. It was hell. Looking back, I now see it was a huge gift and I am grateful. It had me step out of a small, and somewhat limited, circle and move into a much bigger, wider world.
With help from a partner, I realised I had to stop being a victim. At the end of the day no-one else really gave a shit. It was up to me to build the life I wanted. That’s not how I was living my life. I built my life around what I thought my partner wanted only later to realise that while I wanted something similar, it wasn’t a match.
I learnt that we have to be willing to let go of what we have and what we think we want before anything new can surface. We have to learn how to trust ourselves, to not let blind faith or desperation determine our direction. We have to trust ourselves to follow our heart, listen to our inner wisdom and create what we really want.
Without the death of my mum, who I loved dearly, I wouldn’t have had the need, or opportunity at such a young age, to fend for myself. The life I now have is unlikely to have been what it is, if it wasn’t for those lessons. For that I am grateful.
The lesson for me is that grief is temporary, or at least it should be, and that if you can move through and acknowledge the grief, and transform that energy, the best way to honour the grief is to use the energy to create the life you want. The best way to honour a loved one, is to create magic.
Being a victim serves no one, most of all yourself – it took me time to see this, but it’s certainly been my greatest lesson.
What’s one of your greatest accomplishments to date and what impact did it have on you, others, society or the world?
Marrying my wife Samantha. The balance, comradery, strength and grit she shows in the face of adversity, gives me the space to grow and be my own best self.
A strong foundation allows me to step out into daily life and create what I wish and in doing so, I hope inspires others to do the same.
A leader is someone who?
A leader is someone who sees joy in the group creating and attaining far more than the stated objective, through common bonds, supportive interactions, and solid work principles.
They are a person that leads by example, builds trust through their actions and integrity, and overall, is known for always being by the side of the team members when the going is toughest.
“A leader is someone who will take on any role necessary to get the best outcome for the collective unit”
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Building A Culture That Aligns with People’s Values with Marnie Jones, Director at Talent X
The path out of COVID is well and truly here. Australian job vacancies at an all-time high and candidate numbers at an all-time low. According to the laws of supply and demand, this is great for employees and not-so-great for employers.
Today’s employees want to know they’re making a difference. They have high expectations beyond a pay check. In fact, a recent survey by LinkedIn found that people would rather put up with lower pay (65%) and forego a fancy title (26%) than deal with a bad workplace environment.
While cultures are unique to every organisation, the foundation of what enables a culture to thrive is the extent to which employees are empowered to be engaged, feel valued, and be heard. This is where leadership comes in.
Although leaders admit an unhealthy company culture can impact engagement, a disconnect remains. While leaders believe they’re putting in the work to build culture, employees don’t agree. A survey by the National Bureau of Economic Research found 45% of employees say leadership is minimally or not at all committed to improving culture.
Does the company you work for, align with your values? Is there a gap between what people say they're going to do and what they actually do?
Whether it’s exaggerating how much we exercise or expressing an intention which is never fulfilled, like giving up alcohol, quitting sugar or going on a luxury holiday, it’s a phenomenon we can all relate to in some way, the gap between what we say and do is widening.
In business, the difference between what a leader says and what a leader does can be catastrophic. It not only destroys trust, it can infect the entire organisation and eventually lead to an erosion of the businesses reputation and brand’s value. The discrepancy can lead to harrowing business repercussions, such as voluntary turnover that can cost organisations up to two times an employee’s annual salary.
What’s one thing you can do to create a winning culture?
“Culture is an accumulation of individual relationships, it’s about the connections we have with each other” - Marnie
Marnie Jones is the Director of Talent X, a people agency that transforms companies through the hiring, organising and management of teams. She’s an expert in helping business owners build their dream team to impact profitability and growth.
Beginning her career at 19, Marnie spent the first 10 years as a management consultant helping companies from $200k to $130m turnover get the most out of their businesses. At 23 she was the Head Consultant for a small boutique firm in Sydney where she managed a team of consultants.
Join me on The Uncharted Leader as I get into some straight talk with Marnie Jones about the gap between what we say and do, doing work that aligns with our values, focussing on individual connections to impact culture and the one thing you can do to create a winning culture.
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Anyone Can Be Their Best Everyday with Sam Sargent CoFounder of Stait and Founder of BeGenki
We live in an era of information overload. Our fast-paced lifestyles, modern diets, contraceptive pills, electronic addictions, personal challenges and world events are not only causing significant stress, it’s contributing a plethora of issues like sleep deprivation, mood swings, adrenal fatigue, menopause challenges for women and declining testosterone for men.
Samantha Sargent is an advocate for holistic natural health, beauty and wellbeing. She’s the Founder of Be Genki for women and Co-founder of Stait - a supplement brand that helps people elevate how they feel and perform in their everyday life.
Sam’s story is one of courage, determination and vulnerability. Her early challenges with mental health shaped her passion for something that is seemingly insignificant, yet profoundly impactful - daily habits and self-care rituals.
Drawing on her diverse background of Holistic Nutrition, MakeUp Artistry, Skin Care and Image Training, Physical Education (Fitness), Aromatherapy, Access Consciousness, Vipassana Meditation, Psych-K and Aura-Soma, Sam is helping her customers live a healthier and happier life.
We create our own heaven as much as we create our own hell. When we hit our darkest days, when it feels like we don’t have a choice, there is always a choice”
Coupled with a common sense approach to making healthier choices is a deep commitment to research and practical solutions that embrace all aspects of relationships, work, nutrition, ‘me’ time, exercise, education, inspiration and relaxation.
Sam has over 20 years in the wellbeing industry with various accreditations and regular appearances in Australian, American and British magazines, websites, blogs and radio, including Vogue, Marie Claire, InStyle, Russh, Women’s Health, Nature & Health, Women’s Health & Fitness, Australian Women’s Weekly, Cleo, Famous, Peppermint, Better Health, Your Fitness, EcoLuxe and Real Living to name a few.
Join me on The Uncharted Leader as Sam shares her personal story and the single life-changing practice that helped her design and live her best life.
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Indigenous Wisdom with Aunty Munya Andrews and Ally Carla Rogers
Aunty Munya Andrews (right) with Ally Carla Rogers, Co-Directors of Evolves Communities
Nungamaladi - – that's 'hello' in Bardi language.
As the oldest living culture in the world, we know that we have a lot to learn from Australian Aboriginal wisdom and Dreamtime. It’s this wisdom that has informed the way Aunty Munya Andrews and Ally Carla Rogers, Co-Directors of Evolve Communities and Co-Authors of Practical Reconciliation - Strengthening Relationships for All Australians in 7 Easy Steps - approach their mission to inspire 10 million Allies, creating a kinder, more inclusive Australia.
Aboriginal Elder, Aunty Munya Andrews is a Bardi woman originally from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She has wide-ranging experience in Indigenous matters, community empowerment and the law.
Steeped in Aboriginal cultural laws and traditions, she is a strong advocate of culturally appropriate ways of working with Aboriginal people and their communities. Despite growing up socially disadvantaged, Aunty Munya holds a degree in anthropology, a degree in law and is an accomplished author, educator and sought after speaker.
Renowned for her intellectual prowess and sharp mind, Aunty Munya is forwarded by Melbourne University as a ‘leading Australian thinker’.
Carla Rogers is an award-winning program designer, facilitator and community engagement specialist. Despite being non-Indigenous, she grew up with a strong connection to Country and longing to get closer to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and culture.
Together they bring a wealth of wisdom, lived experience, authentic cultural knowledge and successful black and white partnership on practical reconciliation, allyship and strengthening relationships, belonging and connection for all Australians.
Together they share a vision and values of a kinder, more inclusive Australia.
Evolve Communities in Business
Evolve specialise in training that increases cultural competence, achieves Reconciliation goals, nspires Allyship, and ultimately makes for a stronger, more inclusive and productive workplace. They are Indigenous owned and Supply Nation certified.
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of organisations have already participated and are more culturally aware through Evolve's programs. They are providers for the Australian Government, a range of NGOs and corporate clients including well known brands, and some of Australia’s largest employers, Nestle, IBM, Atlassian and the Woolworths Group. Large or small, Evolve Communities place their clients at the heart of what they do.
Carla is one of the most experienced providers of facilitation, stakeholder and community engagement services in Australia and has developed unique and award winning approaches to both engagement and facilitation.
Both Aunty Munya and Carla have held senior executive positions in government, have won significant awards and have had their work cited as best practice (e.g. Guidelines for Australian Indigenous Protected Area Management Plans, CSIRO.) Awards include a Churchill Fellowship, International Award for Innovation in Public Participation (IAP2) and National Planning Excellence Award (Planning Institute of Australia).
Evolve Communities are constantly creating innovative new activities, frameworks and resources that apply our non-judgmental, practical approach to difficult issues like unconscious bias, privilege and racism. This includes their trademarked Seven Steps approach, recently published book, Practical Reconciliation, one of Australia’s first online Cultural Competency courses, and the first Ally Accreditation Program for professionals.
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Forgiveness, Compassion and the Capacity to Put Yourself First to Authentically Serve Others with Sue McDonnell, Executive & Team Leadership Coach
Life is messy and despite the enthusiasm, excitement and energy we generate to get up and show up, living an authentic, courageous and compassionate life is not easy.
Sue McDonnell is an Executive and Team Leadership coach who helps senior executives to transform themselves through coaching, team development, energetic alignment and psychotherapy. She’s a generous, compassionate and transparent leader who is passionate removing judgement to be kinder with ourselves (and each other) and having the courage to be vulnerable in the way we live, work and lead.
Join me for a deeply authentic conversation about what it takes to be real in a world where wearing a mask is the norm, forgiveness in the face of the unforgivable, the relationship between trust and forgiveness, compassion in action, having a sense of humour and removing the significance out of the challenges and trauma in life, being perfectly imperfect and responsible for our own transformation and having the courage to be curious.
Sue’s humble and truth telling view on life is refreshing and as she so eloquently points out “you can’t lead transformation if you’re not being transformation, transformation takes having a real, raw and honest look within ourselves and having the courage to ask questions about ‘why am I here’, ‘how am I really feeling’, ‘what is going on in my life right now’, ‘am I living the life I want to be living’ and how does all of that play out in the world around me.
“A lot of people aren’t as self-aware as they could be and guiding them as they dive deep into this journey has been a privilege for me. Awareness is the first step in any journey, then of course, as a leader understanding your authentic self and how you impact others is very important, the leadership shadow you cast is far and wide”
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