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  • ‘I owe you nothing’: Two unlikely partners and a $20b housing empire

    August 11, 2026 · 36 min

    When Craig Carracher first met his business partner, Stephen Gaitanos, he was somewhat reluctant to team up.“He was only a young fellow. He's 15 years younger than me, and he put his hand up and said, ‘I'd like to come across as your…

  • How this 26-year-old built a $100m robotics company

    August 2, 2026 · 35 min

    Grace Brown had always enjoyed maths, science and music. Teamed with a “wild imagination”, her interest in patterns meant she was obsessed with all things magic.When she took on an engineering design subject in high school, everything…

  • Alex Vynokur bet the house to start Betashares. It now manages $75b

    July 28, 2026 · 34 min

    The former lawyer walked away from a top-tier legal career to risk his house on an ETF venture. It’s now the country’s second-largest exchange-traded funds provider. "I was just totally convinced that you know I should just do it," says…

  • Trailer: How I Made It returns July 29

    July 22, 2026 · 1 min

    How I Made It is back with host Lauren Sams.  Don’t miss season six as we uncover how Australia’s top entrepreneurs built their fortunes and what they learnt along the way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • What working on David Bowie’s yacht taught Boost founder Janine Allis

    November 23, 2025 · 29 min

    Growing up, Janine Allis never thought about starting her own business. “I didn’t even know what an entrepreneur was,” she says. But after spotting a gap in the market, there was no stopping the founder of a now-global smoothie company…

  • ‘It's the Mount Everest of careers’: How Fleet’s CEO built an $800m company

    November 16, 2025 · 33 min

    Since she was a little girl, Flavia Tata Nardini was obsessed with space. The Italian-born rocket scientist began her career at the European Space Agency but moved to Adelaide in her 20s, where she found herself confronted with a lack of…

  • A scam set WA’s fertiliser king on a path to a $5b fortune

    November 9, 2025 · 29 min

    Vikas Rambal came to Australia from India on a prospective business trip in 2000. But the project he was looking into was not what it seemed. It was a moment on his five-day trip that would prove to be pivotal. On this week’s episode of…

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How I Made It is back with new hosts Lauren Sams & Yolanda Redrup. Join us to learn how Australia’s top entrepreneurs built their fortunes and what they learnt along the way.