Thriving Business
THRIVING BUSINESS
Business Insights to Help You Grow Your Business with Ease
We’re two seasoned business owners — Sam Morris and Kate De Jong — sharing our nearly thirty-year combined experience of starting and growing service-based businesses from the ground up. We so many small businesses struggling or falling prey to expensive promises of quick fixes or silver bullets. Both of us know what it REALLY takes to start and grow a business, we've done it many times over and we've got the blisters to prove it! We’ve joined forces to share our knowledge and experience so you can find the easiest path to success, doing it your way, and most importantly — staying true to yourself.
Podcasting since 2023 • 44 episodes
Thriving Business
Latest Episodes
Good vs Bad Marketing: Breaking Down the US Election Results through a Marketing Lens
In this episode of the Thriving Business Podcast, Sam and Kate dive into the world of marketing through the lens of the recent US election. While politics is at the forefront of many conversations, this episode discusses how successful politica...
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Episode 44
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What it Really Takes to Attract Funding for a Start-Up Venture, with Daniel O'Connor
In our most recent episode of the Thriving Business Podcast, we were honoured to sit down with innovation and commercialisation expert Daniel O'Connor. Daniel is on the UN Task Force for Innovation and Competitiveness and has been helping inven...
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Episode 43
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Surprising New Advances in AI: How to Know What’s Real and Not Real?
Episode Overview:In this episode, Kate and Sam dive into a discussion of how they’re using AI in business as a tool for organisation, strategy, and even as a coaching assistant. They discuss some of the most recent AI developm...
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Episode 42
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1:00:38
Escaping the Owner's Trap: Making Time to Work ON Your Business, Not IN It
In this episode, Kate and Sam discuss the enduring challenge of finding time to juggle all the balls as a business owner and specifically, how to make time to work ON your business, not IN it. It's not an easy task to balance client-focused wor...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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47:49
Behind the Curtain with Jessica Gough, The Sugar Duchess: Business, Burlesque and Balancing Acts
This week we were privileged to be joined by the fabulous entrepreneur-extraordinaire Jessica Gough, a.k.a The Sugar Duchess, founder and owner of Tease Industries Pty Ltd., a company dedicated to providing empowerment platforms...
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Episode 40
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51:56