25 INTRODUCE YOURSELF WITH A GREAT VERBAL PITCH

08/26/15 • 10 min

Your Career Podcast with Jane Jackson

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24 Sharon Swift International Relocation Expert

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Sharon Swift, Author, Entrepreneur and Seasoned Expat, has been on the move since birth. Sharon has lived across five continents, and has experienced life and cultures of 14 countries over her lifetime so far. Sharon’s move to Sydney in 2005 was her 18th international relocation.Sharon spent her 14 years corporate career working for multi-national organizations including Siemens USA, Abbott Laboratories Germany, Nielsen UK, and WPP’s Kantar Australia. Passionate about helping busy professionals, Sharon established her concierge business in 2011.Sharon is the founder of The Expat Concierge which helps expats with all aspects of their move from the UK to Australia. She works on an intimate basis with executives relocating to Australia, and helps many more via an online relocation tool, SETTLEto. As a veteran expat, Sharon has become a leading commentator on how expats and ‘wannabe’ expats. Sharon is an Official Huffington Post Blogger and contributor to The CEO Magazine, Human Resources Director Magazine and HR Monthly, Sharon has also been featured in Business Insider and now lives in Sydney with her husband Ian and chocolate Labrador, Dillon.We have a chat about her early days growing up the daughter of a British father and a Singaporean Chinese mother, finding her way in her corporate career across the globe after gaining a business degree at university. Her transitions have provided her with a strong grounding to venture into entrepreneurship with incredible success and we learn all about her international Expat Concierge business.We also discuss what it’s like to be a ‘third culture’ kid – calling everywhere and nowhere ‘home.’ Listen to Sharon’s fascinating journey and find her at www.theexpatconcierge.com

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26 Ronsley Vaz Bond Appetit Podcaster, We Are Podcast

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Ronsley Vaz is a rebel entrepreneur specializing in creating businesses that connect people and ideas through non-traditional mediums. He is the celebrated host of Australia’s #1 Food podcast, Bond Appetit and the host of Podcast Revolution and podcast teaching budding podcasters how to do it right. Ronsley is also a software technical expert and a personal chef. He specializes in creating connections between people using food as the social lubricant and operates a personal chef business called Bond Appetit that connects people with chefs in the comfort of their homes. Ronsley is also a serial ideas creator which is evident in his numerous successful businesses and charities and RONSLEY is the co-founder of a social enterprise called Eat For Two funded by the personal chef business where every meal they prepare in Australia feeds a child or a person in need in India. We talk about his amazing career journey from wanting to be Batman as a little boy to dreams of being a pilot, growing up to enjoy a number of ‘sensible’ careers before following his true passion and direction. Hear about how Ronsley travelled from Goa, and all around the world to Australia and how he gained his MBA, transitioned from being an IT software engineer to financial advisor to inspired chef opening his own restaurant offering delicious food featuring a fusion menu (and of course featuring amazing dishes from Goa!) Inspired by people like John Lee Dumas (Entrepreneur on Fire), Tim Reid (Small Business Big Marketing) and Michael O’Neal (The Solopreneur Hour) who host extremely successful podcasts, Ronsley created Bond Appetit – a podcast focusing on food that gets us healthy. Bond Appetit has reached #1 in many categories on iTunes and continues to grow with thousands of downloads every week! Ronsley is a man on a mission to change the way people eat.Ronsley is hosting We Are Podcast, the very 1st podcasting conference in the Southern Hemisphere on 7 & 8 November 2015 on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. This is one to watch out for as he has lined up some amazing podcast presenters so we are all in for a treat! Find out more at www.wearepodcast.com

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