When everyone’s working from home, who needs clothes for events and work? Australian fashion royalty Ginger & Smart faced a crisis this year as its reason for existence, well, ceased to exist! So what did owner Alexandra Smart do? What all great business owners know is necessary: she let go of the past and adapted accordingly, creating a new offering for working from home, doubling down on digital, and noticing that her long-running sustainability work was now being valued by customers.

Author, journalist, speaker and all-around media personality Felicity Harley barely knew how prescient she was with the release of her book, Balance Is BS. It was released in April, just as its theme of overwhelm was playing out right across the globe.

Paul Scott, transformation expert and author, has advised governments and corporates all around the world and has been frustrated by the lack of understanding of what true innovation is. Happily, he believes that a crisis drives innovation and he brings a lifetime of experience as his evidence base.

Self-disruption might be the mother of business success in times of crisis. CEO of professional women’s network Future Women, Helen McCabe is an expert in self-disruption. And thank goodness: when it turned out this year that networking was no longer a thing, she knew it could be her ruin.

What’s the secret to the continual rise of Australia’s largest independent bookseller – Berkeleow Books – against all odds? Margot Faraci speaks with Dave Berkeleow to find out in this episode of Heart & Hustle.

In this episode of Heart & Hustle, Margot Faraci talks with Irene Deutsch about her career trajectory and what makes her shine in times of a crisis.

How do you sell when you’ve got no product? CEO of GWS Giants Dave Matthews faced that question in 2020, as the whole AFL competition stopped. In this episode of Heart & Hustle, Margot Faraci talks with Dave about finding a way to thrive in a crisis.

AO, Global human rights advocate Elizabeth Broderick has a background as a successful businesswoman, and her leadership then is the same as it is now: a blend of courage, kindness and a singular ability to listen to the other side in order to drive transformation.

How can a pandemic create Da Vinci-style inspiration at work? Margot Faraci talks with Soren Trampedach about how he led his thriving business, Work Club Global, through 2020.

It was all going extremely well for Jacqueline Mooney until disaster struck in 2020: her magazine closed, and not only did she have to make her whole team redundant over Zoom, she got the same treatment! After 27 years of devotion to work, she now had none. She learned a lot about herself and shares some incredible insights with Margot Faraci in this episode of Heart & Hustle.

Can you “use a crisis well”? Dr Lloyd Vogelman thinks so. He says – wait for it – it is now easier than ever, via Zoom, not in person, to build intimate relationships with your clients, and with your team, and be a better leader. And he would know.

In business, we distance ourselves from competitors. And in a crisis, we retract, rather than expand. In the hardest ask of her already-formidable career, Jane did the opposite. And won. Find out how in this episode of Heart & Hustle.

In this interview with Benjamin Lucas, Owner and Director of Flow Athletic, Ben describes the disaster of owning a gym during the lockdown and the bright, shining opportunity for an online business – launched in 2020 - that came next.

Must our response to the crisis be all about panic and negativity? Or can a crisis be an opportunity to transform, take risks and liberate ourselves from fear of failure? Superstar radio boss Gemma Fordham thinks so.

In a crisis, it’s hard to stay focused on performance. But Richard Facioni has managed to do just that, making some big, controversial calls at the same time as keeping his staff safe and engaged. Margot Faraci speaks with Richard in this episode, as part of the podcast series Heart & Hustle: How To Thrive In a Crisis.

In the third episode in my podcast series – Heart and Hustle: How to Thrive in a Crisis – I interview Sarah Wilson to work through the themes of her forthcoming book, This One Wild and Precious Life.

In this interview, Margot Faraci interviews Simon Corah, owner of Growth Mantra, a firm renowned for its ability to develop practical, commercial strategy with unique insight.

In the first podcast in this series Heart & Hustle, my guest is Rob Caslick, founder of Two Good Co. Two Good donates a meal to women’s safe houses with each meal sold and employs women from safe houses as a pathway out of homelessness.