In property, you need a great team of professionals around you. I call them your A-team. And one of the most important members of my A-team is a great quantity surveyor. They keep a keen eye on your project finances by creating tax depreciation...

Ian Ugarte is joined by architect Rebecca  Caldwell of Maytree Studios, who is designing the kind of world she wants to live in. Her design philosophy combines ethics and social responsibility w...

This episode of Small Talk Big Ideas takes a diversion from our usual hot topic - 'property investing', and into a realm that I find fascinating and personally transformative. Herbalist, healer, and plant medicine advocate, Rachel Gagen, looks ...

Top of the list of things that can cause a property investor to come unstuck is finance. Avoiding getting stopped in your tracks and being unable to grow your investment portfolio is about getting prepared. And it helps to have a 'creative' mor...

Rebecca Simon has been a business owner and entrepreneur for over 17 years, but only a few short years ago she and her husband moved into the online space and retired themselves in 5 months. They are now helping to change lives glo...

This episode of Small Talk Big Ideas podcast is with my Mum and Dad, Rosalie and Julian Ugarte, and as with all parents their influence in my life has been an incredible experience.It’s only in recent years that I have realised how the ...

What does a fitness studio have to do with a podcast for property people? Well, fitness (and fitness businesses in particular) require a certain mindset. It’s one of dogged determination, and a drive to succeed. But success doesn’t come without...

If you’ve done a property deal or two, you’ll know that your profit margin can be made or whittled away in the contract negotiation. My guest this week, is a master real estate negotiator, with a unique combination of professional and personal ...

It’s not very often that on a Facebook post, I get the outstanding support from the public.Glenys who knew nothing about us, in her practicality commented on how co-living was a fix to the housing affordability problem. Within the Facebook ...

This is a podcast I encourage you to listen to, because this amazing couple are paving their own courageous path. Bianca Brown and Joel Keefer joined me as students wanting to learn about...

There are many sports people that become after-dinner speakers and tell entertaining stories about their life as a sports person. What sets Billy Moore apart, is that his success in the sporting arena...

On today’s Small Talk, Big Ideas podcast, we have the great Terry Ryder, a property analyst who has been doing amazing work in the industry since the early ’80s. The story of how he started in property is fascinating with an interesting...

I’m excited to be chatting in this episode of Small Talk Big Ideas to someone who has truly embraced change in their life and works daily to help others do the same! We’ve all had that moment where we look around and wonder how the...

She’s the former salon owner who became a social media superstar and the founder of two programs designed for women entrepreneurs, but Keezia Leigh is so much more than that..Funny, irreverent, a...

My guest this week is a personal inspiration and one of the amazing professionals contributing to the success of Small Is The New Big and my personal brand. Bec Derrington is a serial entrepreneur, PR Queen, and influencer marketing guru. ...

One of the many things I have in common with my guest this week, Rob Flux, is a strong and real desire to use his decades of property knowledge to help people get ahead. And that’s because like me, Rob didn’t come from extraordinary means. ...

Of all of the conversations I’ve had on Small Talk Big Ideas, this is one of the most powerful. David Morrison like many of us, struggled to balance his work and family life, and ultimately started to question the 9 to 5 work model. 

The best people I know have had more than one career. But few have been as successful as my next guest. Join me this week as I chat with former Dancing With The Stars star, professional dancer, and choreographer, Mark Hodge, about how he pivote...

 My chat with property expert and educator Jane Slack-Smith is as fascinating as it is inspiring. Jane’s meagre beginnings growing up on the family farm and a career as a mining engineer ga...

I couldn’t be more excited to be officially launching my brand new podcast, ‘Small Talk, Big Ideas’. Launching this podcast has been a dream of mine for some time, and I always knew the first person on my list of ‘big thinkers’ that I wanted to...

Journalist and radio host, Matt Collins, was at all too familiar cross roads 4 years ago. At 37, he was was (in his eyes at least) at a low point of his life. With no partner, a hand-me-down car, and a career not where he thought it would be, h...

Property Entrepreneur, Keith Grisman, had by the age of 33, pulled off what most property people dream of. Retired, with a property portfolio of 50+ properties, the former cop come commercial agent and developer who had started investing at the...

What makes a great leader? It’s a question that I’ve been trying to get to the heart of for years as I built several businesses (27 in as many years in fact!). That’s why my chat this week with brand guru Glen Campbell was so fascinating. Glen ...

Nutritionist, author, and filmmaker Cyndi O’Meara is on a one-woman crusade to reveal the food industry’s deep dark secrets. In our chat, she explains how growing up without medicine, drugs, or doctors paved the path for her to overcome her mos...