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  • How I Made It

    Trailer: How I Made It returns July 29

    22/07/2026 | 0 mins.
    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.
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    What working on David Bowie’s yacht taught Boost founder Janine Allis

    23/11/2025 | 29 mins.
    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 that’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
    On the final episode of season five of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how the Boost Juice owner became one of Australia’s top business leaders.
    This episode was sponsored by Telstra.
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    ‘It's the Mount Everest of careers’: How Fleet’s CEO built an $800m company

    16/11/2025 | 33 mins.
    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 industry.
    Left with no other choice, she started her own business.
    On this week's episode of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how the CEO of Fleet Space Technologies reignited Australia’s space industry – and built an $800 million company.
    This podcast was sponsored by Telstra.
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    A scam set WA’s fertiliser king on a path to a $5b fortune

    09/11/2025 | 29 mins.
    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 How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how a scam and a chance encounter set about the Perdaman Group founder’s dream to build the country’s largest fertiliser plant.
    This podcast was sponsored by Telstra.
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    How a former IBM executive redefined Australia’s restaurant scene

    02/11/2025 | 22 mins.
    Chris Lucas grew up in the world of hospitality, often spending time in his dad’s pub in Geelong.
    But it wasn’t until his mid-30s that one of the country’s top restaurateurs entered the industry himself.
    On this week’s episode of How I Made It, host Lauren Sams finds out how working at IBM as a sales and marketing executive inspired Lucas to become one of the biggest figures in the hospitality industry.
    This podcast was sponsored by Telstra.
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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.
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