The Reinventor's Mindset Podcast

CEO Rob Samuels is 8th generation at Maker's Mark. His grandparents walked away from 160 years of family whiskey to start fresh - then didn't profit for 25 years. Now Rob is pioneering regenerative agriculture, rebuilding soil health while making bourbon. A conversation about legacy, purposeful inefficiency, and why nature is the real maker.

Monty Hamilton co-founded UBank inside NAB, Australia’s first digital bank, then built Belong inside Telstra in just eight weeks, from brief to launch. He has spent his career launching new ventures from inside large organisations and has since led digital transformation at PwC and TELUS Digital across 30+ countries. A conversation about creating space for change, corporate innovation and why progress beats perfection.

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Dr Kellie Nuttall holds a PhD in psychology and nudge - the science of how people actually make decisions. She spent thirteen years at Deloitte building the AI Institute and becoming one of Australia's most recognised voices on AI. Then she resigned with nothing to go to. She signed a contract to build a house. No job. And she refused to job-hunt until she knew what she was running toward. "Don't run from something. Run to something." A conversation about AI coworkers, the authenticity researcher who feels like a fraud, and what it actually takes to commit before you're capable.

Gareth Jones built a talent consulting firm, sold it to Mercer, and spun it back out as Revolve Partners. A talented golfer, he treats business like a season: you can't play at 100% every round and expect to be sharp for championship moments. A conversation about growth through subtraction and managing energy for when it counts.

Corinna Galliano is a researcher at the University of Sydney Business School whose work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, paradox theory, and how founders experience the tensions most business schools teach as strategy problems. Born in Italy, trained as a structural civil engineer, then a management consultant - she left everything behind at 35 and started over in Australia. A Vedic meditation teacher trained under Thom Knoles, including three months in the Himalayas. Corinna has an unusual range. A conversation about transformation you can't see while it's happening, the identity paradox hiding inside every startup, and the childhood belief that worry keeps you safe.

Nicholle Lindner has built a portfolio career across CBA, NAB, Westpac, AT Kearney, Capgemini, Gartner and Unisys. She completed a Master's in AI before it was fashionable and her innovation philosophy is grounded in giving people "room to roam" - think Western Plains, not Taronga. A conversation about portfolio careers, the GFC as a teacher, and why success is a journey, not a ladder.

Mat Keeley grew up on a fifth-generation sheep and wheat farm in rural New South Wales. He didn't finish his exams. He tried to be a professional footballer. Then he spent a decade as a financial planner before co-founding a fintech startup that ended up inside one of the world's largest fund managers. An encounter in Florida left him with a question: would you keep reading a book that keeps telling the same story? A conversation about discovering that anything can be learned, identity after achievement and backing yourself in a world you weren't born into.