People, Purpose, Position: Insights from BGL RegTech Live

We’re back for a brand-new season, baby! This time, we’re bringing you exclusive insights straight from BGL RegTech Live in Melbourne, where we dive deep into all things people, purpose, and position. 

Join Andrew and Aly as they chat with the brilliant Lielette Calleja from Business Depot and BGL’s own CEO, Daniel Tramontana, for a fun-filled episode packed with RegTech wisdom and a side of karaoke—because why not?

Ready to level up? Hop on this latest accounting adventure all about being better… whatever that means to you. 

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War for Talent

Speaker 1 0:00

Hey, Ali, yes.

Speaker 2 0:01

Andrew.

Speaker 1 0:02

You know, like the other day we were talking and you told me that, like back in your day, when you were a young girl, you used to be able to walk into a grocery store with a couple of dollars in your pocket and you'd walk out with a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs and a little bit of butter. It's actually true. Yeah, yeah, you said that. But then you also said afterwards you can't do it these days because there's just too many damn cameras. Shop shoplifter from way back.

Speaker 2 0:27

Shoplifter that was. That was both an ageist joke and ethics, moral kind of joke I can't believe. You knew what I was doing as a child. You told me. You told me, you did that too, did you not? Never, really never so tell me, andrew, how is that related to anything about what we're talking about today? I I love how you connect these things.

Speaker 1 0:43

Well, today we are at BGL RegTech. Live in Melbourne, we are. Yeah, this is the final stop of a tour, that's gone through, I think, six or seven different locations.

Speaker 2 0:52

It has six locations.

Speaker 1 0:54

And Ellie, you've been speaking at these locations and you've been speaking about like talent and people and those kind of stuff, and during your presentation I found an interesting slide where you talked about the different generations.

Speaker 2 1:05

How are you getting this in the intro.

Speaker 1 1:07

Well, the joke was connected to generations. And age is a joke based off you, because you were the one on stage that talked about your age, that is such a stretch.

Speaker 2 1:16

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1 1:17

And that is it, and we're going to go to the theme song and we're going to come back and I'm going to get Ali to talk to us a little bit about what she's been talking about at RegTech as well, as we'll have a bit of an expansion and we're going to have a couple of special guests join us today as well, we are Awesome, let's do this.

Speaker 1 1:33

Let's go. Theme song All right, ali. Yes, thank you. Title of your keynote People and teams. It was pretty simple People and teams. Yes, thank you. Title of your keynote.

Speaker 2 1:46

People and teams. It was pretty simple.

Speaker 1 1:48

People and teams. That's very basic. That could have gone anywhere, right?

Speaker 2 1:50

I don't think I really did, but I took it, can you believe? To the Hunger Games, the war for talent, Okay.

Speaker 1 1:57

Right, so at the moment there is Would you make it the end if you were on Hunger Games?

Speaker 2 2:02

No, I wouldn't. Would you fail early? I would, but you work out every day, so surely you have like. I would hope that I would make it to at least three quarters of the way through Yep, but I don't reckon I could kill that many people to get to the end.

Speaker 1 2:16

To be honest, do you reckon you could kill someone.

Speaker 2 2:18

Yeah, it'd be a few early.

Speaker 1 2:20

Depending on what type of people they are and whatnot.

Speaker 3 2:22

You know what that one can go.

Speaker 2 2:23

It'd be a few early. Yeah, no one's going to miss them.

Speaker 1 2:25

But when you get down it's like you and the six-year-old girl and you're like oh no.

Speaker 2 2:29

I couldn't do that, and so I couldn't do it for the people that I liked. So I'd most probably protect them and make sure that I would sacrifice myself so that they could get to the end. But how does Talk to?

Speaker 1 2:38

me about people Well it's more about.

Speaker 2 2:42

I feel like sometimes we are in the Hunger Games because there's such a war for talent, and so I really focused on how we can plan our attack. How can we attract, retain and keep our team members now and into the future, and we looked into all different types of things. We even landed on some branding for a bit. We landed on what the future of people might look like. We landed on some drivers and skills.

Speaker 2 3:07

I focused on Simon Sinek and the why it was just all over the place it was, it was good. What was your takeaway, though, andrew?

Speaker 1 3:15

I think there was a real handful of different elements. I liked how there's a recognition of everybody's a little bit different and so we can't be treating people the same we have to be mindful of those kind of stuff, and I like that, that blend of that, so it's good. What were you hoping people to walk away with today, like if you think of change or action or or or just thought process, what were you hoping?

Speaker 2 3:37

I wanted them to be more intentional about how they look at attracting and retaining their people, instead of just doing what they'd always done. I wanted them to actually put, I guess, a process in place and be extra thoughtful, and I did focus a lot on the retention factors of care and connection. And that, for me, is something that I think that we lack.

Speaker 1 3:56

Well, there's a beautiful story of your team member caring for your daughter when she was young and falling asleep in her arms and showing that that's like when you have a team that loves, supports and cares for each other.

Speaker 2 4:06

Go the extra mile.

Speaker 1 4:07

But it's not even going the extra mile for them.

Speaker 2 4:10

Yeah, it's just innate, that's just what you do.

Speaker 1 4:11

So a child needs a hug. I will look after them. A desk needs to be cleaned. I'll do that. That's right.

Speaker 2 4:17

A client needs to be looked after I'll do that. But Bonds of connection. Those bonds of connection are so incredibly powerful and I don't think it's something that we focus on enough and something that I think, if we can just be intentionally conscious about and to create moments like that, to create lollipop moments, Lollipops yes.

Speaker 1 4:33

Ali, also covered all of the seats through the entire auditorium with lollipops with the All Aussie Accounting Adventures logo on it.

Speaker 2 4:41

Thank, you very much, absolutely. So I'm hoping that we'll get some more listeners and maybe some subscribers.

Speaker 1 4:44

Sure, if you're listening to this, episode simply because Ali gave you a lollipop firstly, thank you for doing so. Secondly, let us know what you thought of her presentation.

Speaker 2 4:52

I'd be intrigued, yeah absolutely, and so I discussed lollipop moments which we could give lollipop moments to our teams, and how easy it is to build that culture of care and connection that sometimes we just take for granted, or if it's not there, we think, oh, this sucks, I'm going to leave. But sometimes it's things that we can do to actually create those environments around us.

Speaker 1 5:20

And is a lollipop moment. A big, massive, gigantic thing. Is it a tiny little small? What do you mean by that? It's a tiny little small thing.

Speaker 2 5:25

Sometimes you can do a tiny little action that will impact somebody for a positive.

Speaker 1 5:31

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:31

Okay, and sometimes it's the smallest things, but sometimes those small things can actually infinitely change how you view things.

Speaker 1 5:37

So here's a tiny little lollipop moment that I've noticed through my life. So Shane, who works with us at Illuminate, one thing that I figured out after a period of time is if people were working late and he was leaving, he would make sure the front door was locked on his way out. Yeah, so just in case a random decided to walk up the stairs. It was this tiny little thing and I realised it one day because I went to go out. I'm like, oh, the front door. He's like, yeah.

Speaker 3 6:02

I do that, I'm like, thank you, yeah, that's super lovely.

Speaker 1 6:04

That's a little thing that people wouldn't ordinarily think about, and I think it's now become a thing that our team generally do now.

Speaker 2 6:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1 6:10

If they leave and it's like after five o'clock and there's people still inside, they'll just lock the front door. Yeah, just because, like we don't want someone just walk up to try and sell CDs to us.

Speaker 2 6:22

Oh, wow, of course you do. And just found their way through, walked in what a hawker. And it was all of a sudden like oh, did you not have one of those signs that says no hawkers here, please?

Speaker 1 6:27

Oh, I don't think they. They don't listen, they're an artist. They don't even think they're hawkers, they don't even know what they are.

Speaker 2 6:39

I don cake. I'll obviously make more and I'll bring some in. Like sometimes it's just the most little things that you can do. But it's being thoughtful, I think, and although it's such a simple concept to care, sometimes I think you actually have to give those overtly obvious moments of care and say I'm caring about you.

Speaker 2 6:57

But it does develop the culture You're not waiting to receive, you're looking to give, and as a result of that it becomes a cultural kind of approach and the whole roadshow today has really been around BGL and how they care about their people and how they retain their people and they've had people for a long, long time and it really is built around this culture of care and connection and that is something that if we can actually instill that in our workplaces, we'll be able to retain our team members so we won't have to go and find new ones all the time right, that's good.

Speaker 1 7:23

So you've obviously been cruising around the country, yeah, what has been some highlights when it comes to this BGR RegTech Roadshow?

Power of Positioning in RegTech

Speaker 2 7:31

Well, do you know what? I think there's been some amazing chats. There was a fireside chat with Ron and Daniel where they talk around the story of BGL and. I love listening to Ron and he's made an incredible business. You know, pulled it from desktop to cloud and where it is today and such an incredible product. So they talk a lot about their team. They talk a lot about their people. They talk a lot about just being authentic and who they are and owning that space.

Speaker 2 7:53

I've loved Lillette's talk on positioning. I really enjoyed that too. Yeah, what did you like about that?

Speaker 1 7:58

one. I just loved she had this chart she put on of like what I used to do and what I now do and you could see you read left one and then right one and they're just polar opposites they're polar opposites, but in a positive, in a really positive way so to some extent, stuff on left wasn't necessarily negative, unless it was done with a lack of purpose but, I loved that.

Speaker 1 8:17

Like you could see that and you can go, I can see the kind of person that you're going to become when you take these kind of actions. Yeah, and I really loved it was a really good example of probably stuff that everybody in the room does yeah on the left side and and what?

Speaker 2 8:29

maybe what they should be doing on the right, yeah, like as simple as I sleep in and I'm like on the left side, on the right hand side, was I'm going to get up and go to the gym or you know I'm on the left side, it wasn't. You know I'm not. I don't care enough about people on the right side. It was like I'm going to use ChatGPT to be nice.

Speaker 2 8:43

So it was some really simple things and she also did the four L's, which is the love, the loathe, the learn. And I can't remember what the fourth L was, but we can get Lillette on maybe to talk about that Love loathe.

Speaker 1 8:56

learn, lillette.

Speaker 2 8:58

Yeah, I don't think that was the fourth L Could our bar Could be. Should we get Lilith on to talk about it? We'll get her on to chat about it. It'll be good.

Speaker 1 9:05

It'll be good. Yeah, yeah, so it's good. And now, obviously, we're also sitting right now in the exhibition hall. I think is what you call it with all the apps around, and all the different people that are there and I love it Some of our sponsors. Some of our sponsors are here around, which is good.

Speaker 2 9:27

few signs over there. Who else can we see? Bgl is obviously. Bgl is hanging around here, and um and toa global is also. Yeah, they're hiding here. So fyi is another one aren't you really good people?

Speaker 1 9:33

and? And, um, I like it because you know it's still a space and you and I have been using accounting technology, cloud technology, for ages, so the majority of apps, if not all of the apps in the room or service providers we would know either intimately or well enough.

Speaker 1 9:49

And still, I love still seeing people walk in who go, oh wow, I don't even know who any of these people are and still recognizing, I think, to some extent respecting the fact that everyone's journey is different, and I think what RegTech does is it puts itself in a position to allow people to experience that journey. Some other exhibitions and conferences expect you to be at a certain level or have a certain experience, it's like, no, this is safe.

Speaker 2 10:11

Do you know, what I love about RegTech is, every time I walk into the RegTech community, it's people that you never see. It's not the people that you would maybe see at a zero event, like it's a completely different community.

Speaker 1 10:20

It's a different community and it's usually they're one event a year.

Speaker 2 10:23

Yeah, could be, and so that's what I love is about meeting new people, people that I've never seen before, that are incredibly successful and just do things differently.

Speaker 1 10:31

But you also pop in like there was an older gentleman and I say older gentleman, he might have been a little bit older than you. He grabbed me. I was walking and he grabbed me by the arm and said, hey, andrew, I'm like. Oh. So he's like years ago we met. He's like you probably don't remember, but you came and spoke at a thing with CINZ and I've just been following you ever since and I really love what you do. Obviously he's talked about a bit of his journey from his firm and where it is and where it is now and what they're looking to do, and he just really resonated with and appreciate it. I was like man, that's the stuff that I love about communities that BGL creates is it's where where people are open and listening and learning. They want to share that feedback and be positive and encouraging, and so, yeah, it's a real family environment, right Tapping back into care and connection.

Speaker 1 11:18

Totally Absolutely. Now, normally we'd go to sponsors at this point, but we're at RegTech, we're at BGL, so you know all about BGL. If you don't know anything about BGL, you should go hang out with them. You should check them out. Jump on their website, learn about them.

Speaker 2 11:29

We use them all in for corporate compliance, for our Superfund products and for the BGL ID. There's also invest, which is also like um all investments seriously check it out.

Speaker 1 11:38

It's super, super good and the ai in that product is the bomb it does some crazy, so you love ai.

Speaker 2 11:42

Obviously yes and I did actually weave that into the presentation, did I not?

Speaker 1 11:47

even though it was about people. I was so happy when I got that. So then see, you came in there, yeah well that's where it's gonna end all right. Well, that's amazing. That's good. Um, uh, in a moment we're gonna have a chat with l Lillette and I reckon we might try and get Tramma to come and join us too.

Speaker 2 12:00

Yeah, we should. I love Tramma. Yes, absolutely. Hopefully his head doesn't get too big, but yes, we should do that.

Speaker 1 12:05

Well, hold tight friends. You'll hear us chatting to a couple of our mates in a moment. Yeah, just to do the sound check. You're going to Happy birthday to you.

Speaker 3 12:19

You're not recording, oh no.

Speaker 1 12:23

Well, david, if you happen to catch that, you just got done, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 12:27

Please put that in, David. I was trying to do a Marilyn Monroe. You did a good.

Speaker 2 12:31

Marilyn, it was earthy, it was airy. That's what I was trying to do. It was breathy, oh it was so good.

Speaker 3 12:36

Well, I figured I may as well go with the theme you know. Yeah, you're doing good, I like it, I like it Well.

Speaker 1 12:41

yes, thank you, lillette, for joining us. Lillette Collegia Business Depot, great human.

Speaker 2 12:49

Wonderful human. I love her.

Speaker 1 12:51

You spent some time chatting today to the community about.

Speaker 3 12:55

Positioning, the power of positioning.

Speaker 1 12:57

And I loved it. We already had a quick little chat beforehand.

Speaker 2 12:59

Yeah, we did our summation you didn't hear it, but we loved it.

Speaker 1 13:02

We're going to spend two, three minutes just having a real quick chat with you around. I guess your experience of Red Check, but also probably more particularly about what you've talked about and why that's important to you.

Speaker 2 13:11

Take your 30-minute keynote, chuck it into three dot points. That's what we need.

Framework for Personal and Professional Growth

Speaker 3 13:15

Impossible, ali because you know I've gone over time on every single session. All right, let's start with you.

Speaker 1 13:20

The best question, then, is like what were you hoping people if they could walk away with one thing out of it? What were you hoping that they would walk away with, and why?

Speaker 3 13:28

Inspiring them to do better, because I do shine a light on our industry. As to compliance, you know the things we do, the things we get paid to do. While it's very, very important, we've got to go over and above to help our clients. So how do you do that and how do you position yourself as the expert to help people? And I think that's been powerful, and I've had a lot of people come up to me and say thank you, you've inspired us that we're actually, we're all the same, we're normal. We know we've got to do more, but we don't know how to, and you've helped us unlock that. You've actually give us a framework to ask us some serious questions.

Speaker 2 14:10

And that framework is around. The four L's which I got was love, loathe, Learn and long for.

Speaker 1 14:21

There we go, we had love, love learn and lalette.

Speaker 3 14:22

That could be the next one, why not?

Speaker 2 14:24

Well, it could be the five Ls, just lalette just on there. So yeah, I'm glad you filled that little blank spot for me.

Speaker 3 14:29

I can't take credit for it, because it is something that has come out of Business Depot. Yeah, okay, yeah, so it's something we do as a management team once a year, individually and collectively. We come together because we need to make sure that we're all making sure that our cup is full. Individually but, also that, as a group, we don't deviate from our vision and our values.

Speaker 2 14:53

And it helps to give that clarity, doesn't?

Speaker 3 14:55

it.

Speaker 2 14:56

It's really a decision-making process, because every decision you make can go through the four L's and if it aligns with that, I'm going to do it, but if it doesn't, it's on the side.

Speaker 3 15:04

It does, and the power of this is not just in business. I've said on stage that I've used it with my son, who is going into year 12 next year, and helping him give him some clarity as to what to do, what his aspirations are and being able to understand what he loves and what he loathes and what he thinks he'll like actually helps him as an individual. So if you've got children who are very lost, go through this exercise with them.

Speaker 2 15:33

It gets it out of the head it certainly does, and gets it into like a really actionable format, which is amazing.

Speaker 1 15:38

What I liked as well is that when you had that table and I'd spoken with Ali before you had that table of like what I used to do and what I choose to do now- and you love that one, just really good examples where, like not everyone would resonate to everything, but I guarantee that everyone would look at at least one thing there and be like yeah, and then you look at the second one and you go I can see the person, see the person, I'll be calm if I do that.

Speaker 1 16:01

I can see that that is I.

Speaker 2 16:01

there is no way that I could sit and say oh nah, but there's no way you could. And that was such a great connection tool. I felt so connected to you when you were working through that of man. That's how I think and feel. Oh god, that's really helpful. I could do that. I love that connection tool.

Speaker 3 16:13

It is very personal and it's when Daniel asked me to be part of reg tech and talk about positioning. It's not something we do as a numbers person.

Speaker 2 16:21

No, you don't think about it.

Speaker 3 16:22

No. So I had to dig deep and I had to kind of go well, what is it? How did I position myself? Apart from the story that I shared about my family and family business, it's the things that I stopped doing. But I noticed that for everything I stopped, I started doing something else. Now sometimes I was talking to a lady after the event today and she said that is so helpful. I'm going to start doing that, I'm going to start keeping track of it. I said people tell you to journal and keep a journal. That's, that's hard work. Yeah, I said, but just think about it on a daily basis. What did you do today? And then, in you know a month or so, if so, if you've noticed that you haven't started anything else, then go back to the four L's because clearly you're not working towards those goals. And she said absolutely. She said I want to do what you do, I want to get on stage and I want to talk. I said great.

Speaker 1 17:15

Did you say no, no, no, don't, don't, don't, don't do it, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 17:18

She said but I can't do that, I don't know where to start. I said start getting on panels, that's easy Panels are easy. Podcast.

Speaker 1 17:26

Well, I just gave her some ideas and she said, yeah, so I love that I can inspire people to want to do stuff outside of their comfort zone Amazing, that's so good, Lily and I like what you just shared there as well is don't make it complicated, don't make this whole change and this kind of thing, like our season that we're about to enter into is going to be about being how do we be better, and it's like you don't have to make it convoluted and complicated. It's just like just be mindful of the actions you're taking and just take some time every now and then to be like am I doing anything to create change and if I'm not okay, just figure that out and try and be a bit better at that space.

Speaker 3 17:57

Simplicity is key. You give someone a whole book and say, oh, you need to start journaling and all these things. It's like, no, just keep simple.

Speaker 1 18:05

Well, lillette, thank you so much for sharing. Mate. You're an absolute rock star. We love you, love your guts, and we look forward to hearing and learning more about what you get up to. But also I look forward to hearing, in like a year or two, of all the stuff that we never knew about you, that you've done thank you, and can I just finish off to say that ali garrett has been the amazing my like.

Speaker 3 18:25

She's like a sister.

Speaker 2 18:25

Now we've been traveling together and I have loved, loved, I've loved hanging out with you, so thank you, ali, and let's do this again, I know.

Speaker 1 18:39

Just to test the mic. Can you just give me a couple of bars of your favourite song quickly to sing?

Speaker 4 18:46

You're always on my mind and I did it in my way.

Speaker 1 18:54

Excellent, fantastic. Did you notice that we were recording? We're recording that one I've had a few. Oh, he's still singing.

Speaker 3 19:01

Oh wow. No, no, this isn't karaoke hour.

Speaker 1 19:05

This is.

Speaker 2 19:05

BGL reg tech.

Speaker 1 19:07

If you're wondering who the dulcet tones of that is, that is Mr Daniel Tramitana. Ceo of BGL.

Speaker 2 19:13

I know who I've had the wonderful experience of doing a bit of a road show with over the last couple of weeks and it's been absolutely amazing and I'm sad that it's over.

Speaker 1 19:24

Why are you looking at Andrew and not me? Because I told him before look at me, mate, Look at me.

Speaker 2 19:26

I told him to look at him.

Speaker 1 19:27

Totally look at me, just look at me.

Speaker 2 19:29

Now he doesn't know who to look at. You've confused him like a little puppy, Tremor affectionately known as Tremor Tremor.

Speaker 1 19:34

both Ali and I have been a part years in various different capacities, whether it's hosting, speaking, podcasting or generally just crashing the dinner the night before.

Speaker 2 19:46

Great dinner by the way.

Speaker 1 19:47

Why on earth do you do this, buddy?

Speaker 4 19:49

Mate, for us, the main reason is to give back to our community, to give back to our clients. We know we have a very unique and beautiful community and it's made up of so many individuals, whether they be small, medium, large accounting firms, and we use it as an opportunity, one to engage, but then two to give back and connect and just to instill in them a sense of worth and belief and empowerment, and that's something that I just love doing. And then connecting our sponsors to our community is a really important part of why we do this.

Speaker 1 20:22

That's good, and the theme this year is People Ellie and Leigh.

Speaker 4 20:30

Yes, it is correct.

Speaker 2 20:32

No, it was people purpose passion the theme for this year people purpose.

Speaker 1 20:36

I know what the theme is You're?

Speaker 4 20:38

confusing me. He knows People.

Speaker 2 20:40

Purpose position Purple people Pippa pipp People purpose position Purple people peanut.

Speaker 1 20:46

What's been your highlight mate? Obviously, we've had Ali, we've had Lillette yourself, ron Don't say yourself Well, naturally, I consider my no, I don't. You do consider yourself so.

Speaker 4 21:02

I'll tell you what the highlight for me is when we travel. It's like, seriously I know people don't like to talk about it I'm sure you use the word family, but I actually feel like that the people we travel with in this case was Ali and Olet, like they were part of who we are it was like they've got the same DNA, the same values, the same belief, and that was a huge highlight.

Speaker 4 21:20

Same belief and um, that was a huge highlight. A big highlight for me was the way that look and I gauge the success of the event. Yes, around the sponsors and the engagement and the feedback we get. But what I love is when people go up to our speakers, ali and the let um and they, they connect with them at a heart-to-heart level they have a conversation with them.

Speaker 4 21:40

They ask for direction, they ask for guidance and they ask for support or whatever it may be. But I love the fact that they take the time to impart, I love the fact that they take the time to to empower them and I love the fact that these people walk away from these conversations as bigger people, as better people, and it's so impactful and you just don't know the how deep and how wide the impact is that you have on these people.

Speaker 1 22:02

I love. Did you hear what he just said?

Speaker 2 22:04

Yeah, I did.

Speaker 1 22:04

Better. You don't even know the theme of the season we're coming up with which starts after. This is about being better.

Speaker 2 22:11

How to be better, Just be better. So you've just tried.

Speaker 4 22:14

You've tried Just be a better human Be better and look and the other highlight and you're going to laugh. Right, I'm ready. But there was a moment it was regtech sydney where ron was talking to a trustee client and he sat at the front of the building and he's talking to them for probably 15, 20 minutes and for me it was such a grounding moment of the reminder to always be connected, to be real, to be human and to take the time for the people, regardless of where they stand in society or within your business or what, how much they contribute to your revenue model. It's not about that. It's about creating real connections that leave people walking away feeling like they've been felt, seen, heard, loved and regarded. That, for me, was an incredible moment. I got it on photo.

Speaker 1 22:55

It's amazing, beautiful um, speaking of ron and sharing his wisdom and I know you're a big fan, as a lot of us are, of Ron Ali, you might remember so last night we went out for dinner with a bunch of us and Ali's son, who's in year 9, 15, 16? Year 9. Yeah, 14. Was with us and was sitting on the table next to Ron and there was a point where a few of us were chatting. We kind of looked over and Ron was having a great chat with this young man, oh deep yeah.

Speaker 1 23:24

And he was asking questions and Ron was sharing. I think this is like a beautiful example of what you've just shared around what BGL looks to do. Ron wasn't sitting there going oh, I need to talk to Ali or Andrew or Lillette or Tram or anyone else on the table. He's like here's someone that I can have a conversation with and I can impart and I can support, and I was. It was magic.

Speaker 2 23:42

My heart exploded when I saw that I was just like oh, ron, you are a wonderful man to have that time to speak to my 14 year old. Please convince him to be an accountant.

Speaker 4 23:52

There's two things I loved about it right is the fact that there was someone from such a younger generation willing to interact with someone such as a good boy and that that is beautiful in itself, but I love the fact that Ron pays full attention.

Speaker 2 24:06

Yeah, he was so engaged and he had some sage advice.

Speaker 4 24:09

I love that right. And he'll give you undivided attention, no matter who it is, no matter what you think, no matter how far your differences may be apart, it's irrelevant.

Speaker 2 24:19

He sees the human. It's beautiful, and that's what I love about BGL.

Speaker 1 24:23

I do. One thing I don't love about you at the moment, tramma, is your beard is way too short.

Speaker 3 24:26

Are we going to grow it?

Speaker 1 24:27

back out, mate. You've had some monsters in the past.

Speaker 2 24:31

I like it short.

Speaker 4 24:32

Yeah, I prefer it short. I used to have some possums breeding in there one stage, but you know I'm actually not allowed to actually get rid of it because my kids think that I look scary.

Speaker 2 24:43

I did see a photo of you without it and I didn't like it.

Speaker 4 24:45

Yeah, so my kids don't like it. But look, it's a little something I'll carry forever. But, andrew, I could never get to your status.

Speaker 2 24:52

It is magnificent. Your beard is looking magnificent, Andrew.

Speaker 1 24:54

Mate, you sneeze and you grow like half an inch, that is one tremendous bush mate.

Speaker 2 25:00

Wow, gutter, let's move up, let's lift up the eyes On that note. It's the wrong colour. Please don't leave it. Please don't leave it.

Speaker 1 25:09

on that note, daniel, thank you for continuing the tradition of RegTech this year. Yeah, love it, we look forward to next year what that might look like. You know who's going to share, what it's going to be about. I love coming to this event. Um, over years I've really grown very fond of, of the family that comes here, the people that are the bgl people, the people that might share, and then and everybody else that's around. It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 25:32

So thanks, mate, really appreciate it and thank you both for coming along and for believing in us, because, uh, it means a lot well thank you for sponsoring us.

Speaker 2 25:40

That's why I mean we?

Speaker 1 25:42

every time, ali, ali, we, we weren't, we weren't paid to be here no, no, no, you are right.

Speaker 2 25:48

From ali, it's like we weren't. We weren't. No, you're right, we didn't. Whenever I get an email from ali, they're all sponsored. Am I allowed to say work no, yes, whenever I get an email from ali, I always ask myself what's this going to cost me?

Speaker 4 26:00

and just the same as adriana, every time she comes into my office and says I've got to talk to you, how much do you want? About every time you say yes, but you know what you two keep being impactful, keep being insightful and keep doing your good work. You may not see the fruits of what you do, but I can tell you now. You're planting lots of seeds and trees thanks my man.

Speaker 1 26:16

Thank you, peace out bro. Much love, cheers Well Ellie the day the day has been, I wouldn't say long, it's just after lunch.

Speaker 2 26:29

No, it's actually been quite short, and compact it has.

Speaker 1 26:31

People are finishing their food, they're having some final chats with apps and what not, and they're trying to get selfies with Daniel. Literally, there are two people getting selfies with.

Speaker 2 26:41

Daniel. He asks for people to have selfies with them, so I'm not sure that they asked him.

Speaker 1 26:44

So it's the other way around. Okay. He spots people and says yeah, yeah, Do you?

Speaker 2 26:47

want a selfie with me.

Speaker 1 26:48

Yeah, so RegTech 2024 is effectively coming to a close within the next 30, 40, 50 minutes.

Speaker 2 26:55

I'm so sad about it. It's been good.

Speaker 1 26:57

I loved every minute of from Lillette and from Daniel, and I love the fact that they literally are saying the theme of what we're going to be talking about, for the next bunch of episodes.

Speaker 2 27:06

It's meant to be. We didn't tell them, they didn't know it is fortuitous, just that little bit better. Yep, just that little bit better. And today because of this event, I'm just that little bit better. You feel that little bit better. I feel like I'm a little bit better.

Speaker 1 27:18

That's great. I do as well. I am looking forward to hearing from a couple of my team that came along.

Speaker 2 27:25

Yeah, get the feedback In terms of what they got there. Yep.

Speaker 1 27:27

As well as, yeah, just the general community and the vibe of people, and you know what they've picked up, what they've enjoyed. I know it's always a really, you know, appreciated event, an impactful event.

Speaker 2 27:36

Yep.

Speaker 1 27:37

And, who knows, next year.

Speaker 2 27:39

Who? Maybe it could be something different, who knows? I think they might be looking at something, but I don't know, I'm sure it would be a good time regardless. Well, thank you listeners for hanging out whilst we've been here at RegTech. Thanks for joining us on this adventure and we will see you on the next one.

Speaker 1 28:01

Right on. Wasn't that a fun adventure, friends. Thank you so much, so incredibly much, for hanging out with us today. Ali, you've been amazing. Andrew, you've been all right. How good is it to be able to have adventures together it so is, and you know what.

Speaker 2 28:18

Keep following us. We are all over the socials at accounting adventures. Check us out on the website. Give us a bit of a like. You know how much we love that stuff.

Speaker 1 28:28

The best thing about the adventure is the people that we do it with. So thank you so much for listening, thank you so much for hanging out with us, and please bring all the ideas, keep them coming. We can't wait to share more cool adventures with you.

Speaker 2 28:40

We love you guys.