Janine Allis isn’t a copywriter, but if you run a copywriting business, or any kind of business, this conversation will resonate.

In this episode, Janine talks candidly about what underpins long-term entrepreneurial success: doing the right thing by the business, keeping out the wrong people, learning the hard things you don’t want to do, building a culture and asking the questions others are too afraid to ask.

This conversation digs into the realities most founders don’t talk about:

• the loneliness of leadership
• separating friendship from business
• making tough calls when you’ve hired the wrong person
• raising your public profile
• being taken advantage of and turning adversity into advantage
• why not everyone is cut out to run their own business
• why the person you marry will be the most important partner you’ll ever have
• how to move past ‘feelings’, and focus on responsibility
• the benefits of having a high profile and how to build a personal brand.

For copywriters and content creators building a new business or growing an established business, this episode is for you.

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Justin Kabbani is an AI strategist, educator, former agency leader and one of the smartest voices in Australia when it comes to making AI useful.

In this conversation, we dive into the real-world side of AI: the failures, the breakthroughs and the new techniques to make using it so much simpler.

We explore how to use AI to write better content, get found on ChatGPT, create better prompts and build agent-based systems that automate the jobs you don’t want to do.

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In this episode, Lucy Durack, star of Wicked and Legally Blonde, and Elise McCann, star of Mamma Mia and Matilda, talk about how Hey Lemonade grew from two friends swapping pep talks into a motivational app featuring scripts written by some of Australia’s greatest creatives.

This episode provides the inside story of how this app got built, funded, written and brought to life by two of Australia’s favourite actresses, each stepping out of their comfort zone to become tech entrepreneurs.

We cover:

• How a moment during COVID sparked the original idea for Hey Lemonade.
• The writing room process for creating the scripts.
• Why writing, not technology, sits at the heart of the app.
• How they found and briefed Australia’s top creatives to write the pep talks.
• The challenges of writing for an app.
• The role of humour, empathy, and clarity in mental health writing.
• Navigating funding, partnerships, and growth whilst retaining the purpose and friendship that underpinned it.

If you’re interested in writing purpose-driven content and building a tech product from scratch, this episode is for you.

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