High Agency Women
Welcome to High Agency Women, featuring weekly conversations with inspiring leaders about what they’re building, how they’re building it, and their unique approaches to commerce and creativity. Hosted by journalist, product manager and media strategist Natasha Gillezeau, brought to you by Missing Perspectives.
Episodes
12 episodes
Letting go and levelling up: Lauren Meisner on the realities of scaling a media company
When Centennial World founder Lauren Meisner saw traditional media dismissing internet culture and the creator economy, she didn’t just tweet about it – she quit her job, put in $5K of her own money, and launched a world-first Gen Z–focused int...
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The Leap Dilemma: How Founders Know When to Go All In
Welcome back to High Agency Women - and today, we’re diving into another Yeah, But How? episode, this time exploring what we’re calling the leap dilemma.We’re joined by two powerhouse founders who know exactly ...
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In conversation with Stripe's Head of Design Katie Dill
To thrive career-wise, great designers must also become excellent translators.That – amongst other gems – is one of the main lessons from today’s special episode of High Agency Women, where we had the pleasure of catching up with Stripe’...
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52:48
Beyond the Money: Chenelle Tanglao on Finding Investors Who Share Your Vision
In this week’s episode of our new mini-series Yeah, But How?, we're delighted to welcome the incredible Chenelle Tanglao to High Agency Women.Chenelle Tanglao started her career in data analytics, before clocking the unique energy and dy...
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Yeah, But How? Michelle Battersby on Building, Selling & Starting Again
In this week's episode of our new mini-series Yeah, But How?, Tash sits down with everyone's favourite founder, Michelle Battersby, for an unfiltered deep dive into the full Sunroom journey - from the spark of an idea, through...
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Stuck on success: How Annabel and Lucy Hay reinvented fashion tape
In this episode of High Agency Women, we sit down with sisters Annabel and Lucy Hay - the powerhouse duo behind Clutch, the startup redefining what it means to feel secure, and supported, in your clothes. What's not to love?Frus...
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Robyn Denholm on bringing her business acumen to the WNBL
"I've always had this motto: you can't complain about something more than twice unless you're prepared to do something about it," Robyn Denholm tells Missing Perspectives, on her decision to purchase the Women's National Basketball League, as s...
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Stripe’s Chief Revenue Officer Eileen O’Mara on how to thrive as an introverted leader in tech
Eileen O’Mara has a knack for picking winners - now the Chief Revenue Officer at fintech company Stripe, the Irish-American tech leader has forged a career working at some of the most dynamic, founder-led tech companies in the game including Or...
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Diana Reid on taking the publishing world by storm, and her new novel Signs of Damage
This week's guest is the incredible author Diana Reid, whose new novel Signs of Damage is coming out on March 4th 2025.Signs of Damage is Diana’s third novel published by Ultimo Press, and comes off the back of the succ...
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50:18
Di Challenor on raising Australia's largest ever seed round
In the heart of Haymarket in Sydney’s CBD, a group of 110 engineers and bankers are building a new company that simplifies how banks operate.At the helm of this operation, which is called Constantinople after the Roman Empire, is a formi...
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Kic co-founder Laura Henshaw on what it takes to build a generational health and fitness company
Ten years into building health and fitness company Kic, Laura Henshaw and her co-founder Steph Miller (née Steph Claire Smith) have survived the initial years of startup life. Now, she’s ready to set the company up for success well into the fut...
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