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Entrepreneurship podcast: Andrew Maciver, founder of Party Pants and Bondi Productions.
Yas! Podcasting in Bondi Beach and there’s a party in my pants!
I rocked up to Bondi Beach Public Bar to record Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! weekly entrepreneurship podcast with this week’s feature guest Andrew Maciver, creator and founder of Party Pants and Bondi Productions, and he had a gift for me. My very own pair of his signature ALOHA Party Pants.
A community of business owners, innovators and game-changers who make their own luck is one of the key reasons that I moved to Bondi Beach from Coogee Beach, when I first arrived in Sydney 3.5 years ago – I describe it as a local global suburb, not because of the volume of tourists and backpackers on holiday visas, but because of the number of locals or residents that have their eyes on the prize and are striving to achieve greatness. This place is a beehive and hub of energy. And Andrew Maciver is one of those!
On today’s show we dive into the Party Pants origin story, Andrew’s ambitions and next steps to scale up the business, his desire to evolve Party Pants into a social enterprise, the process and challenges pulling together a team of creative producers and writers based in Sydney and Los Angeles developing film and television projects to take to market, brand new TV show ideas for Bondi Productions and much, more more.
I’m not surprised at how quickly and easily the conversation flowed given that we have over 30 mutual friends (and inspiring minds) in common from our time in Los Angeles and Australia (Sydney/Melbourne). And I’m not kidding, I wore the most awesome ALOHA Party Pants out for drinks for the first time the next afternoon and night at a Can Cava pintxos & wine, Mamasan Bondi, BBPB and more in Bondi Beach and I lost count of the high volume of attractive women and men, who approached us with “Love the pants! Where can I get them?”.
Wanna get into our pants? Get into our minds first. Download the podcast!
DOWNLOAD Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast via iTunes – #229 Andrew Maciver, founder of Party Pants and Bondi Productions.
New music podcast feature: Evol Walks lead singer Leah Martin-Brown joins us LIVE from LA!
LA-based Evol Walks lead singer & songwriter Leah Martin-Brown joins the show again this week LIVE from LA!
2nd time around on the Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast, Leah drops the down low on the latest Evol Walks jams being launched Down Under, their upcoming shows in Las Vegas and LA, she dives deep into the motivations, triggers and joy of her journey to becoming alcohol-free, working on cannabis brands in the advertising industry and much, much more.
This self-powered rockstar, who grew up on the Gold Coast and Melbourne in Australia, built a life in LA and is now 6 years in in the USA, in is an absolute inspiration to me. Let’s get into the show!
DOWNLOAD Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast via iTunes – #228 Leah Martin-Brown (LA-based Evol Walks lead singer & songwriter).
Rad new music podcast feature: OK Moon x Hayden Calnin.
OK Moon. Australia’s new supergroup have over 250 Million+ streams on Spotify and 157K MONTHLY LISTENERS! Pumped to launch this week’s double podcast feature with my home-boy, OK Moon’s Hayden Calnin!
We dive into OK Moon’s Taylor Swift connection, the project management tools Hayden uses to manage his time, how he carves out time for himself as a prolific artist and music producer for some of Australia’s top independent artists and the family that are Nettwerk Music, the Canadian record label Hayden recently signed to, his brand new solo EP and ‘A Life You Would Choose’ tour, which drops in November, and much, much more.
Over the next 2 weeks, OK Moon launch their album Down Under and I can’t wait! Get this in your ears!
DOWNLOAD Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast via iTunes – #226 OK Moon debut album launch x Hayden Calnin EP launch.
Startup podcast feature: SoL Cups founder Bec Veksler.
SoL Cups founder and Bondi Beach entrepreneur Rebecca Veksler is a dead-set legend and an inspiration!
Her brainchild SoL Cups create reusable, plastic free hand-blown glass cups and on episode 220 of the Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! weekly entrepreneurship podcast, we deep dive into the life of this Bondi Beach-born Russian-Australian businesswoman. Bec shares with us the meaning of SoL Cups, how to build a team and scale a business by hiring the right people, her pinch-me moments, creative, philosophical and business influences, creating business values that you live by and much, much more.
If you’ve ever wanted to launch and scale a business, then your journey starts right here!
DOWNLOAD Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast via iTunes – #220 SoL Cups founder Bec Veksler feature.
Rad new Hot & Delicious podcast feature: Jaguar Jonze!
Raaaaaad chats with one of my favourite new Australian triple threat creative, Deena Jonze!
Living out her creativity through music @jaguarjonze, black & white photography @duskyjonze and illustration @spectatorjonze (focused on the mental health space) , Deena Jonze is kickin’ ass and taking names!
Jaguar Jonze joins me on the Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! entrepreneurship podcast this week and we feature her brand new single ‘Beijing Baby’, dive into how her & I met serendipitously in Bondi Beach through One Wave and Fluro Fridays, her earliest ever memory as a kid in Japan, the traps of materialism, living through and growing from PTSD and teaching herself the ropes working in the music industry before jumping headlong into her own Jaguar Jonze music project.
Mad love to Deena and the team at Comes With Fries for making this happen and yep, you can listen to the brand new ‘Beijing Baby’ single at the end of the podcast.
“I’ve got this big ball of fire in my belly”. Yes, you do. Go get ‘em, tiger! 🐯 ✨
Connect with Jaguar Jonze online:
https://www.instagram.com/deenajonze/
Stream ‘Beijing Baby’ https://smarturl.it/JJonze_BeijingBaby
DOWNLOAD Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast via iTunes – #225 Jaguar Jonze ‘Beijing Baby’ feature.
Music Industry Podcast: Wagons x Hot & Delicious. Get in!
DOWNLOAD the PODCAST via iTunes – #223 Wagons ‘Songs from the Aftermath’ feature.
Wagons. Songs from the Aftermath. Psychedelic, space cowboy Henry Wagons and his 6-piece band of misfit entertainers are BACK with a dark, sweaty, bludgeoning country rock LP.
3.5 years ago Henry and I shared a couple of cheeky India Pale Ale craft beers in a Holiday Inn Hotel in Hermosa Beach, California, and together we recorded 2 hours of one of my favourite podcast episodes ever.
Our second time around, we wax lyrical on overseas adventures, Vietnam Vespa iPhone thieves, Scrabble dates versus Netflix & Chill, the evolution from writing solo to collaboration in the deepest form from the stages of embryo, his love of Nashville, 5-year old daughter Casper’s 3RRR artist debut and much, much more.
Podcasting and hanging out with Henry Wagons is an absolute joy! Get it in your ears!
National Australian Album Release Tour September 2019 – Wagons ‘Songs from the Aftermath’:
Entrepreneurship Podcast: Nigella Love Bites!
DOWNLOAD the PODCAST via iTunes – 221 Nigella Love Bites (Raelene Isbester)
When life throws you lemons, you make a lemon tart.
Nigella Lawson has been tantalising our taste buds for years. Single-handedly bringing sexy back into the kitchen with her smooth rich English accent, voluptuous physique and addiction to alliteration. Women want to be her and men want to be with her. Her life has been filled with the bitter and the sweet.
This week we feature hilarious comedy and cabaret performer Raelene Isbester and her show Nigella Loves Bites on the Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! weekly entrepreneurship podcast ahead of her shows in Sydney this weekend as part of Bondi Feast and Bondi Winter Magic!
Rae and I explore the sugar highs and front page lows of Nigella’s career that are the plot of the show and after successful sellout seasons at Perth Fringe World, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Fringe and a stand out Christmas Special, Nigella – Love Bites is on its way to the iconic Bondi Pavillon for three deliciously decadent evenings during Bondi Feast!
I can’t WAIT to see it again this weekend! Let’s get into the podcast!
DOWNLOAD the PODCAST via iTunes – #221 Nigella Love Bites (Raelene Isbester).
