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Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by 21-year-old law student Kate Danilova.

Kate is a 21-year-old student at the University of Canberra, in her fourth year of law. Currently working as a clerk at Blumers Lawyers, she has been lucky enough to be exposed to a variety of work experiences that complement her bachelor's degree. Over the last 4 years, she has committed to trying everything that this crazy world offers by traveling to over 20 countries, participating in 2 half marathons, and coaching a young synchronized swimming team.

Kate reached out to me,...

Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today we are talking real estate and property. Is it possible for young people to get into the market? And why should we?

To discuss this I am joined by Andrew Bodnar, co-founder of Kingdom Development. With over 16 years of experience, Andrew is a veteran of property investment. His ability to spot new market opportunities lead him to start (and sell) his own real estate company and financial consulting firm, before applying his expertise to property development.

Last year alone, Andrew and his team purchased over 111 properties, they now have...

Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by Martin La.

Martin reached out to me sharing a bit about his story, he is just an everyday guy like you or I who has overcome a lot and I thought his story would be very relatable to you guys.

In this episode, we talk about how Martin

Had suicidal thoughts after getting a 34.4 atar.

Taught himself how to read and write

Got a Scholarship in Plumbing. Never Touched a tool in life.

Got the Encouragement award of the year in plumbing

Ran a Marathon and...

Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today I am joined by Matt Caruana.

Now.... In this episode I am interviewing Matt Caruana. As you will hear in the episode, at 16 years old Matt attempted suicide, 2 weeks later he woke up from a coma to realise that he was still alive. Today he speaks at schools to share his message and works with young people to help prevent anyone else going through what he did.

So if you are sensitive to this stuff I wanted to preframe that before you listened, however, he doesn't go into too...

Taylor is a passionate entrepreneur with a focus on social impact, innovation, and inclusion. Taylor is Founder & Strategy Director for Future Frontiers Group, a consultancy with the mission to support and grow purpose-led businesses, and serves as Managing Director of Foundations for Tomorrow.

She is also the Curator of the Sydney Global Shapers Hub, a director of the Board of the Global Shapers Community Australia, A FYA Young Social Pioneers program alumni, and a Climate Reality Leader.

So she does A LOT. And in this conversation, we talk about:

Importance of failing

What she did right after high school...

Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today I am joined by a really good friend of mine, Pace Randolph.

Pace is a super talented musician and artist who has build a following over 100,000 followers online. Even though we only met about 5 months ago, he has become a really close friend of mine and I am so excited for this episode.

This is a really interesting episode, to date it is my longest episode and the majority of it is Pace sharing his story. He shares his story of becoming a musician, moving to Europe, learning a...

Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today I am joined by 19-year-old Ryleigh Geddes.

I mention her age because it is crazy what she has been able to achieve, all before her 20th birthday.

Having left school at 15 Ryleigh got a job in radio and has been moving her way up to the point where she is managing one of Sydney's most popular breakfast shows. She is super driven and has a crazy work ethic, she very much embodies what I talk about on this show which is why I am so excited to have her on...

Welcome back to the Driven Young Podcast and today we are discussing a very serious topic.

In this episode, I am joined by Maddie Heather, a sexual assault survivor, and host of the Reclaim me podcast. In this episode, Maddie and I discuss all things around sexual crimes relating it to young people in an easy-to-understand way.

This is a topic I am passionate about covering, so much so I actually have an entirely new podcast dedicated to sexual assault education with Brent Sanders. He was also episode 43 of the Driven Young podcast so feel free to check that...

Jess is a female empowerment coach and qualified personal trainer who works one on one with women to help them build up their self-confidence and remove self-doubt. Before COVID she lived in Bali working from her laptop running her business but now she joins me in Sydney to share her story and advice with you guys.

Today we discuss:

Grappling with what to do after school

How HECS debt is good and bad

Struggling with the impostor monster

Living in Bali

How to find your passion

Being true to yourself

dealing with grief

And so much more.

As per usual,...

Welcome back to the Driven Young podcast and today we are talking all things romantic relationships, specifically for the younger generation.

Today I am joined, again by Alisdair Barrie. He has built a following as the relationships dude who has over 750,000 followers online where he shares his opinions, stories and advice on relationships among other topics.

This is actually my second episode with Alisdair, we did one a while back, episode 56 on personal development and right after that we decided to do another one on relationships so here we are.

In this episode we cover:

Alisdair's relationship history...