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Welcome to The Kismet Podcast - honest conversations about careers, growth, and the unexpected paths that shape our lives.Hosted by Carina Waye, each episode shares real stories from the people behind Kismet; exploring career pivots, ambition, personal goals, and the moments…
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I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Irish (opens the original)
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Rex Validakis-Betar grew up in a housing commission house in Tweed Heads. He was the first in his family to graduate high school, was told by his careers counsellor not to aim too high, went to UNSW anyway, then Belfast and Galway for a Masters in Human Rights Law, then Oxford for an MBA after getting rejected twice. He hated being a lawyer. He was convinced he was moving to Ireland forever. He had a 250-person farewell party, then he met the love of his life the next day. Rex is now the Executi
Kellie Puxty | Be Your Authentic Self (opens the original)
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Kellie Puxty went to uni with no plan beyond loving sport. She ended up on placement at Wheelchair Sports NSW, loved it so much she ditched A-grade tennis to drive an hour west to play wheelchair basketball once a week, then spent five years driving a station wagon full of wheelchairs around New South Wales getting kids and adults with disabilities into sport for the first time. From there: Paralympics Australia, where she built the national talent search program for the Games. Sydney 2000, wher
Jaylea | Roll With It (opens the original)
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Jaylea left school at 17 for a pharmacy job in Castlemaine, quit four years later to travel, came back and worked through banking and COVID relief, stumbled into NDIS with zero knowledge, and signed her Kismet contract on her five-year anniversary in the sector. She is now the Escalations Lead at Kismet, just bought her third property in Bendigo on her own, and has very strong feelings about never washing her own hair again. Warm, funny and completely Jaylea from start to finish. Plus a live Tim
Lauren Grimes | A Little Bit Of Magic (opens the original)
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Lauren Grimes is the co-founder and Experience Manager at Kismet. Mark came up with an idea one day and she said sure, let's go. That is still, she says, essentially how it works. Lauren talks about a decade in mobile development, what it means to build technology that is genuinely inclusive rather than just saying it is, and why she thinks AI is the most exciting thing to happen for women in tech in her lifetime. She also played the bassoon in the Queensland Youth Orchestra, almost failed uni b
Mariesa Ferraro | London Calling (opens the original)
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Mariesa Ferraro went to London for a six-month working holiday. She stayed for nearly twenty years. In between: a Kensington salon full of Aussies, London Fashion Week, a global beauty education role, an O-1 visa that required six months of paperwork, a 3am green room with Kris Kardashian, a one-bedroom apartment two streets behind Oxford Circus, a Facebook comment that led to meeting her now-husband Lee, a New Year's Eve wedding, a daughter born on Christmas Eve, and COVID making the decision t
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