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Adam Smith is joined by former world champion boxer and former rugby league player Anthony Mundine. As a young child with visions of greatness, and with the support of his father, Anthony shares his journey going from strength, from a rugby league star, to world boxing champion, to finding his faith.

Fred Schebesta joins Adam Smith and talks about the early success of Finder.com.au, a services comparison tool ranging from insurance, credit cards and phone plans. Fred talks about using extreme SEO techniques to boost Finder’s online presence, which resulted in a search penalty from Google, resulting in an 80% loss of revenue overnight as a result. Using this adversity as a learning experience, Fred made plans to steady the ship and continue to move the company forward.

Allen Gannett, founder of marketing analytics software Trackmaven, is no stranger to success, going from win after win. From creating Trackmaven in his early-20s, to meeting Harry Weller which included an embarrassing moment with Taylor Swift’s music blasting from Allen’s computer, to Weller becoming a lead investor for Gannett’s Trackmaven. The successes started flowing in, with Allen often appearing on Forbes and Inc’s 30 Under 30 lists.

Christie Whitehill, CEO and Founder of Tech Ready Women talks to Adam Smith, from the early days of entrepreneurship, founding dating startup “Fancy My Friend” and the learning experiences that came with it, including a rogue developer from her second startup “Fancied”.  Christie used the experience from both of these create Tech Ready Women, a platform to teach female entrepreneurs to create successful businesses.

Growth, marketing and SEO guru Eli Schwartz joins Adam Smith and talks about the early days grinding and dreading the Wall Street grind as a minimum wage runner. Eli began soul searching in the finance world before everything changed following the events of September 11. These events sparked a return to the University of Maryland, studying Marketing and setting the course to where he is today.