In this new episode Josh talks with Richard A Harris. Richard is a dreamer with many talents. He is best known as one of Australia’s top Vascular Surgeons and for spearheading the rebuild of a major metropolitan public hospital. Richard believes in equal access to the best possible healthcare, quality care delivered not only in Australia but around the world. Apart from surgery, Richard has been a musician, a backpacker, a poet, and a painter. He loves to travel and has ventured to over 80 countries so far. It has been a hard couple of years for many. Richard lost his wonderful partner and mother of his 2 gorgeous children in early 2020 to breast cancer. Lockdown has not allowed for travel so Richard has found comfort in one of his other passions - writing. He is a writer who fell in love with words a long time ago. He has always had a yearning to set some dreams, adventures, and love down on paper. His first book Imagine: A Novel does just that. Richard’s dreams for what a truly compassionate world could look like are woven into a beautiful love story and journey around the world which has been inspired by Lennon’s iconic song Imagine. Richard lives in Sydney Australia and is extremely grateful for all of the love that surrounds him. Like Lennon, he is a dreamer but he’s not the only one. He hopes you will join him envisioning a world of connection, love, and peace.

In this episode josh talks to Hans Kullberg. Hans is an Author, specializing in Children’s Books and Parenting Books. Also an serial entrepreneur, Hans is a loving father of 4 wonderful children and prides himself on being a father first and foremost, cherishing every moment of his fatherhood journey. Making up silly, fantastical tales of dragons, race cars, flying unicorns and laughing llamas at bedtime every night is just part of his parenthood duties. Due to the unexpected tragedy of losing his daughter Aviva at 10 months old, Hans is motivated to share her fearless character, fun-loving spirit and vivacious personality embodied through an orangutan in Baby Aviva Orangutan Diva. Even though she is no longer here to meet friends, Aviva can still change lives and create positive impact through the messages of this book including overcoming adversity by using your inner strengths, never judging a book by its cover and staying true to yourself. That is her Dad's ultimate hope and motivation for writing – to bring smiles to children all over the world while sharing his daughter’s beautiful story and turning sorrow into a wonderful legacy. Knowing intimately how precious life truly is, his mission is to help other parents embrace the wonderful experience of parenthood to the fullest, always cherishing our children by leading with love. In addition, through sharing his story about the most difficult tragedy a parent can imagine, he hopes to bring attention to the often-overlooked grieving journey and how supporters of bereaved parents can provide comfort simply by showing up. Grief is a process that society in generally doesn’t necessarily embrace well and, through an upcoming book on the grief journey, Hans hopes other bereaved parents will be adequately supported during the time they need it most.

In this Episode Josh Talks with Gramps Jeffrey. Gramps has 4 kids and 6 grandchildren and looks at how the kids are growing up as a baby boomer trying to understand how the world has evolved since he was 3 years old. As the author of the acclaimed business book “The Secrets of Retailing…How to Beat Walmart” and a contributor to The Huffington Post of over 100 articles on how to help the nonprofit world and also help grow small businesses, Gramps’ commentary is quite timely in the challenging world we live in.

In this episode of the Parenting Plus Business Podcast, we are joined with Curt Storring, the Founder of Dad.Work that helps fathers suffer less, love more, and parent confidently. Curt talks about dad.work, the issue of dads not being happy, the in-person men’s group, things he learned as a father that he wishes he knew before and, people who want to meditate. He also shares some insights on building a better relationship with your partner. Tune in to learn more about being a better father and a loving husband.

In this episode, Josh talks with Amanda Hill Ryall. Amanda is the creator of The Mood Muncher Series. These books allow children to meet the Mood Munchers as emotions that come and go as they visit us. Being characters this allows children to understand they are not their emotions and thoughts. Emotions just come and go like a roommate. 

In the 50th episode, Josh talks about things he has learned in the first 49 episodes of parenting + Business =  

Josh had the privilege to sit down (in person) and chat with Bekki Ashton. Who better to talk to about Juggling business and parenting. Bekki is from Australias first circus family "The Ashtons" Circus family. The Ashtons have been entertaining Australian audiences for 171 years, stopping only for the World Wars, after James Henry Ashton founded the circus dynasty in Hobart, Tasmania in 1850. In this podcast they chat about, Life in the circus, parenting while travelling and entertaining, How the circus has changed and also about the effect of covid on the circus.     

In this episode, Josh chats with Morgan Coleman. Morgan is a Torres Strait Islander, Husband, Dad, and the Founder and CEO of the tech business Vets on Call. Vets on Call delivers the full range of clinical services in the client's home. After completing a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne Morgan went straight into a position with a large property developer. Following four years working across Melbourne and Sydney on different projects and in different positions. Morgan launched Vets on Call in May 2018 after a trip to the vet was the catalyst for a more convenient, less stressful veterinary service.

In this episode, Josh talks with Jeannie Doherty. Jeannie runs a Strategic Bookkeeping practice on the beautiful Gold Coast, Australia. Jeannie has a unique business background, having been raised by high-profile, successful retail entrepreneurs she was privileged to attend the “school of hard knocks” and learn from the ground up what it takes to truly scale a business. Jeannie’s niche is “working dads”, primarily trades and services and because of this, she’s passionate about the impact her work can have on families. Helping families thrive is what gets her out of bed in the morning. Jeannie is also a proud mum, lover of Latin Dance & an advocate for putting your health first.

In this Episode, Josh talks with Mick White. Mick has been through some “stuff” in life. While building a fast growth company in the financial services industry and a month after he got engaged in 2011, his Mom died from an accidental overdose of aspirin at age 58. This led him down the path of building the 100 Year Manifesto, a company built on living intentionally and with a deliberate framework on who you are and why your life is important 100 years from now.