The Pay Off with Sylvia Jeffreys
Money is a constant contradiction. You’ve got to spend money to enjoy life but save every cent for the future. It’s why Australians are caught between impossible expectations and an economic system that feels stacked against them.
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Will Interest Rates Rise Again? Inside the RBA With Chief Economist Sarah Hunter (opens the original)
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Australia is one week out from the RBA’s next interest rate decision — and the possibility of another rate hike is firmly in focus. So what is the Reserve Bank actually watching? RBA Chief Economist and Assistant Governor Sarah Hunter joins Sylvia Jeffreys to take us inside how the bank thinks about interest rates, inflation and the Australian economy — and bust some of the biggest economic myths along the way. In this episode: What the RBA is weighing up ahead of its next rates decision Why int
Reuben Williams Quit His Own Company. Then Bought It Back. (opens the original)
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SportsGrad founder Reuben Williams quit his own company — then figured out how to buy it back. But that’s only part of his story. Reuben has gone from landing his dream job at Cricket Australia, to redundancy, entrepreneurship and almost losing the business he built. He’s helped close to 850 people find jobs in sport, travelled the world chasing some of its biggest events, and rebuilt SportsGrad after a buyback deal left him under enormous financial pressure. At the same time, Reuben spent six y
Who Gets a Seat at the Table? Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks on Media and Power (opens the original)
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Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks has built her career around a question: who gets heard — and who gets a seat at the table? After working inside Parliament House, she founded Missing Perspectives to give young women a bigger voice in media. What started as a Squarespace blog has grown into a global media platform, backed by major brands and amplified by the likes of Reese Witherspoon. Now, her new book The Right Hand takes her inside another world of influence: the chiefs of staff behind some of the worl
How Sundae Body Reached 10,000 Stores — And Nearly Broke Along the Way (opens the original)
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Sundae Body sells a product every six seconds and is stocked in more than 10,000 stores across 14 countries. But behind the rapid growth of the colourful Australian beauty brand are some costly mistakes and hard-earned business lessons. Lizzie Binks went from working in a call centre and receiving a school score of 59 to building one of Australia’s fastest-growing beauty brands. The Sundae Body co-founder joins The Pay Off to explain how Sundae went from an idea to shake up the body care aisle t
What Does $100B Do to a Friendship? Inside the Atlassian Story (opens the original)
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Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar started Atlassian as two university friends with $10,000 in credit card debt. They went on to build a global software giant worth more than $100 billion — and become two of Australia’s richest people. But behind the extraordinary success, their friendship was beginning to fracture. Tech Bros authors and senior business journalists John Stensholt and Perry Williams join Sylvia Jeffreys to reveal what they uncovered about the relationship behind one of Austra
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