Today on the podcast, I speak with Sarah Meikle, founder of All India Permit Tours, a specialist travel business creating small group tours and tailor-made holidays to India.

After a long career in tourism and marketing, including 15 years with Wellington on a Plate, Sarah decided it was time for something new. With a long-standing love of India, she took the leap and turned that passion into a business of her own.

In this episode, we talk about:

✈️ Turning a lifelong passion into a viable business
💡 Knowing when it’s time for a new chapter in your career
📣 Finding customers and building trust and credibility
📱 Marketing a business when you’re the person behind everything
🙌 Going from a senior role to doing it all yourself

Sarah is a great example of someone who has taken her experience, backed herself and built a business around something she genuinely loves. And you can hear just how much she loves what she does.

Whether you’re thinking about turning a passion into a business or navigating your own next chapter, there’s plenty to take away from this conversation.

Sarah is currently in India, so it’s the perfect time to follow along at @allindiapermittours. And if India has been on your travel wish list, this episode might just be the nudge you need to start planning that trip!

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Eva Nash and Kate Rogan are the founders and directors of Rogan Nash, an award-winning residential architecture and interiors practice based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Eva and Kate met while studying architecture at the University of Auckland and founded Rogan Nash together in 2012. Fourteen years later, they have built a practice designing new homes, renovations, extensions and interiors throughout New Zealand.

In this episode, Eva and Kate take us through what it means to build a creative business with another person, from those early days of starting out together through to the practice they have built today.

We talk about:
🤝 Building a creative partnership that lasts 14 years
🏡 Deliberately keeping the practice small and hands-on
👂 Listening to clients and the value of working collaboratively
💡 Their creative process, including how they reset and trust their instincts
📐 Bringing architecture and interiors together as one process
❤️ Building long-term client relationships and staying connected to the wider design community

Eva and Kate are clever, thoughtful and very passionate about both design and the business they have built together. I really enjoyed this conversation and there are so many good insights here for anyone running a creative business.

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@rogannasharchitects

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Today on the podcast, I speak with Sasha McLeod, founder of DoseBuddy, a reusable medicine syringe for kids, with numbers that never rub off and a cap that stops the mess.

In this episode, Sasha takes us through the journey from that 2am frustration to a fully realised, regulated medical product.

We talk about:

🍼 How she validated her idea
💸 Using PledgeMe to fund the first manufacturing run
📢 Building a brand and community by sharing it all publicly, delays included
📱 Her approach to digital marketing and founder-led content
👶🏻 Juggling a full-time job, motherhood, and building a business on the side

Sasha is so open and honest about the process, and because digital marketing is her actual day job, this episode ends up being as much a masterclass in brand and social strategy as it is a founder story.

I know you'll love my korero with Sasha as much as I did.

After the episode, head to dosebuddy.co to check out this amazing new product for yourself (already a staple in my home), and follow @dosebuddy on Instagram to follow along the journey as Sasha grows her brand.

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