The Australian Business Show

What F1 Teams Know About Performance That Most CEOs Don't – with Olly Bridge If you're building a business, you don't need more motivation. You need better inputs. This week I sit down with Olly Bridge, one of Australia's leading experts in sustainable human performance. Olly started as a sports scientist working with Formula One drivers and Olympic gymnasts. He went on to lead high-performing teams at BMW and Medibank and served as COO of an ASX and NASDAQ-listed health tech company. Today ...

How to Build a Business Empire Through Acquisitions - with Adam Coffey What does it take to buy 58 companies, engineer $2.5 billion in CEO exits, and turn small founder-led businesses into 9-figure sales? Adam Coffey has done it - and on this episode of the Australian Business Show, he hands over the playbook. Host Nick Stehr sits down with Adam Coffey: former US Army sergeant, GE turnaround leader in the Jack Welch era, four-time number-one bestselling author (The Private Equity Playbook, T...

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 of The Australian Business Show. Change fails when it gets forced from the outside. In this episode, we sit down with Billy Ray Taylor (LinkedXL) to unpack a leadership principle every entrepreneur needs when standards are high, the pace is fast, and your team has to come with you: Be hard on the standard so you can lead easy on the people. Billy shares the story and meaning behind his unforgettable analogy: “When an egg cracks from the inside, life begins. Whe...

Could we be looking at dementia all wrong? Join Liz Ferentinos and Wah Chin Boon on The Australian Business Show as they discuss a groundbreaking discovery that reframes dementia — not as an irreversible disease, but as a deficiency that may start years before symptoms appear. This episode dives into the science, the accidental discovery, and how it challenges decades of conventional thinking. Explore the links with childhood dementia and autism research, the hurdles of funding breakthroug...

How do you build, scale, and sell billion-dollar startups — and survive the failures along the way? 💡 In this episode of The Australian Business Show, Nick Stehr sits down with Andrew Nash — serial entrepreneur, venture partner, and co-founder of multiple startups — to unpack decades of real-world entrepreneurship from bare-knuckle startups and billion-dollar exits to hard-earned lessons on failure, risk, and resilience. This conversation explores: • The realities of build...