If your company has ever struggled to cope with an employee’s departure, you need to talk to Greg Gering. Greg, the 352nd person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is a handover specialist who helps companies document and systemise everything their employees do, so that new staff members can easily take [...]
As I was chatting with Michael Olivieri, the 351st person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, I was reminded of a quote from Tony Robbins. “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself,” Tony Robbins once said. When Michael was [...]
Zahrina Robertson, the 350th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is a force of nature with a vibrant personality and incredible creativity. When you meet Zahrina, you immediately recognise that she’s distinct. It’s fitting, then, that Zahrina is a multi-award-winning branding expert who teaches coaches, keynote speakers and entrepreneurs how [...]
Rena Liu, the 349th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is an action-taker, so her younger self was surprised to learn that many people just drift through life. Rena moved from China to Sydney when she was in her early twenties, which forced her to adapt to a new language [...]
Nathan Tripolone, who runs a marketing advisory practice called Realtime Results, has an insight into marketing that takes a lot of people by surprise. Nathan, the 348th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, regularly encounters clients that assume the only way to generate more leads is to spend more money. [...]
When Patrick Farmer AM, the 347th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, was 18 and working as a mechanic, a chance event changed his life forever. A famous ultra-marathon race, from Sydney to Melbourne, was passing by the workshop. Pat's boss called him out from under the car, pointed out [...]
Monica Rosenfeld, the 346th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is building an incredible movement that I'm convinced will go global. Last year, Monica launched an event series called Stories that Stir, where six people are each given 10 minutes to share their stories. These stories are not only fascinating, [...]
When Chrissy Trueman, the 345th person I’ve met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, was growing up in Hobart, she made the news for a strange reason. The family’s pet wombat had been loaned to a breeding program, run away, wandered off to the nearby casino, somehow made its way across the River [...]
Nick Donnelly, the 344th person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, is a financial adviser, so he knows you build wealth through long-term compounding rather than get-rich-quick schemes. The same rule applies in so many areas in life. Nick has a policy of meeting at least one potential business partner – [...]
Michelle Huntington, the 342nd person I've met on my quest to have lunch with 500 strangers, lives her life with an anti-fragile mindset. As Michelle explains, rather than responding to setbacks or challenges with resilience, which involves returning to a previous state, she prefers anti-fragility, which involves making yourself stronger and emerging in a better place [...]
