Australian Business Podcast

Australian Business Podcast is Australia's top business podcast for growing and scaling your business from idea to a 7-figure exit.

Hosted by Owen Rask, founder of Rask, the Australian Business Podcast will teach you how to grow, manage and scale your business to more profit and better outcomes.

Owen will help you grow your business faster, take advantage of industry change and opportunities, and identify strategies to make you more profitable.

Take Owen's free business 101 course on Rask by following this link: https://bit.ly/3B9Xekp

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Disclaimer: This podcast contains general financial, tax and legal information only. Always consult a licensed professional before acting on the information.

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1
My 10 Rules of Business [10/10]
The final episode of the series: 10 hard-won business lessons on strategy, cash flow, systems, leadership and scaling a company.
17 min
2
Equity, founders & moats [9/10]
Bootstrapping vs raising capital, debt vs equity, valuations, ESOPs, strategic investors, dilution, moats and founder optionality explained.
23 min
3
Scaling. A masterclass. [8/10]
An honest, battle-tested masterclass on scaling a business without breaking your culture, cashflow or sanity.
32 min
4
High performance teams that aren’t sh*t [7/10]
How to build, lead and manage high performance teams without bureaucracy, burnout or bullshit.
28 min
5
The best marketing rules. Ever. [6/10]
A practical marketing playbook for business owners who want clarity, consistency and growth without gimmicks.
27 min
6
Operations – traction & beyond [5/10]
How to design scalable business operations with systems, automation, SOPs and data that compound.
30 min
7
Financials that humm [4/10]
A practical guide to understanding business financials, cash flow, tax obligations and the numbers that keep your business alive.
28 min
8
2026 stock game: Owen & Navarre's $100,000 stoc...
The Rask 2026 stock market game is live - it's called Stock Genius
42 min
9
Business strategy – execute this [3/10]
How to design, test and execute a practical business strategy using focus, data and real-world decision-making.
28 min
10
Start with why – better life, better business [...
Why clarity of purpose, lifestyle design and self-awareness determine whether your business becomes freedom or a trap.
26 min
11
The Rask journey until 2026: A $50m vision [Par...
A 2026 version of building Rask from scratch, surviving the hardest years of business, and designing an operating system for long-term scale.
16 min
12
Leadership, masculinity and stillness in chaos ...
Shane Horsburgh, coach and author of Fighting Blind, takes us on a journey of redefining leadership and masculinity through presence, inner stillness, quantum thinking and hard-won experience in high-pressure environments.
73 min
13
How do I invest in food? Investing in Farm & Ag...
Tenacious Ventures’ Sarah Nolet & Matthew Pryor unpack Australia’s agtech opportunity, their OCP framework, and plays across SwarmFarm, GoTerra, Orthodic, Jupiter Ionics & Embryo. Learn how VCs assess deep tech in food & fibre.
58 min
14
Australian unicorns: $1 billion startups you've...
Discover how Australia became a top hub for unicorn startups, the lean path to billion-dollar businesses, and why discipline, not dollars, is our secret edge.
41 min
15
Coffee catch up - November
In this Australian Business Podcast episode, Jordan Kidis and Danil Goloubev sit down to discuss what is going on in their business and trends that they are seeing as business owners.
32 min
16
The sibling startup story behind Blossom
Ali and Gaby Rosenberg are the sibling co-founders behind Blossom, the Australian fixed-income investing app that launched during COVID and grew into one of the fastest-rising fintechs in the country.
31 min
17
David Gardner, 6 traits to beat the market, rul...
Discover how David Gardner (The Motley Fool) beats the market, the six traits of rule-breaker stocks, why “lose to win” works, and how to hold for decades.
79 min
18
Bubba makes it better: Damian Hopper on marketi...
In this Australian Business Podcast episode, Bubba Pizza's Damian Hopper takes us on a journey to using social media to boost your business.
54 min
19
Shopify, YouTube, AI & Instagram: how to invest...
Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison explains how the world’s largest digital business marketplace works, why investors love Shopify and YouTube businesses, and how everyday people can buy and sell online assets.
42 min
20
Inside Euphemia’s family office: Backing women-...
Euphemia CEO Judy Anderson-Firth reveals how the family office backs fintech, climate tech, and women-led startups for purpose and profit.
61 min
21
Investing in startups, unit economics and AI in...
Discover how Seaplane Ventures’ Joe Magyer assesses unit economics, network effects and AI to find high-upside seed deals. Listen now and learn how to spot outliers.
55 min
22
The hidden costs (and gold) of writing a book
Drew and Gemma dive into the idea of writing a book as a business strategy.
41 min
23
Turning Honey Into Millions: The Story Behind F...
In this Australian Business Podcast episode, host Gemma Mitchell sits down with Cedar to explore how a simple shed experiment with his dad became a global movement
38 min
24
Micro cap private companies: it’s f#%king hard ...
Leigh Gant joins the Australian Business Podcast to share what it's really like to buy and operate a small business. In this episode, he breaks down the mechanics of private markets, vendor finance, risk management, and what he wishes he knew before becoming an acquirer.
57 min
25
How to scale without burning out – sustainable ...
In this Australian Business Podcast episode, Jordan Kidis and Danil Goloubev discuss sustainable business scaling and what to look out for as signs of burnout.
29 min