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    Welcome to Retail Therapy - a podcast proudly brought to you by American Express. Each episode ARA CEO Paul Zahra speaks to a leader in Australia’s retail industry, including the CEOs of some of Australia’s biggest retailers. We’ll be finding out what makes them tick… What defines their leadership style… And how they got to the top of their game. Join us as we ask these questions and more - and navigate our way through the retail industry - Australia’s largest private sector employer.

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    Episode 9: Alla Buinowicz

    Friday 20 May 2022
    Meet Alla Buinowicz, Managing Director of the plus-size women’s fashion juggernaut Taking Shape. For 17 years, Alla has dedicated herself to creating amazing customer experiences. With a wonderful team and her dedication to celebrating women with curves, she’s not one to avoid feedback from customers or staff alike, using that critical information to keep growing the business.
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    Episode 8: Rowan Hodge

    Friday 6 May 2022
    You’ll love this episode with Rowan Hodge, CEO of Andersens. His career has taken him around the world and if anyone gets what it takes to make a franchise a success, it’s him.
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    Episode 7: Alexi Boyd

    Friday 22 April 2022
    With over 4.7 million people, representing 41% of the total business workforce, SMBs are a big driver of Australia’s economic success – a fact Alexi Boyd is very familiar with given her 20+ years of experience working with small and family businesses. And now in her role as CEO at COSBOA – the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia – Alexi works tirelessly to advocate and support small businesses across Australia.
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    Best of Season One: Work/Life Balance

    Friday 14 January 2022

    Let's continue our look back at the 'Best of Season One' of the ARA Retail Therapy podcast.  

    To round out our ‘best of’ episodes we’re taking a look back at the insights we learned about the work/life balance of the top retail CEOs in Australia

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    Best of Season One: DE&I

    Friday 31 December 2021

    The topic of Diversity, Equality & Inclusion was a common conversation thread throughout series one of Retail Therapy and we are delighted to share with you some snippets from Australia’s top retail CEOs and leaders. 

     

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    Best of Season One: Sustainability

    Sunday 4 December 2021

     We're focusing on our discussions about sustainability, where our guests shared what they believe the role of retailers is in driving better sustainability outcomes for our planet, as well as what their organisations are doing now and into the future to tackle climate change.   

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    Episode 10: Erica Berchtold

    Friday 24 September 2021

    In the last episode of Season 1 of Retail Therapy, Paul Zahra speaks with Erica Berchtold, CEO of THE ICONIC. THE ICONIC is part of Global Fashion Group, one of the world's largest fashion retail businesses, connecting over 10,000 global and local fashion brands to a market of more than one billion customers. 

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    Episode 9: Jane McNally

    Friday 10 September 2021

    Joining Paul Zahra for some Retail Therapy this week in the Amex Lounge is Camilla CEO, Jane McNally. Jane is responsible for bring the artistic vision of designer Camilla Franks to life.

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    Episode 8: Richard Murray

    Friday 27 August 2021

    Richard has been the CEO of JB Hi-Fi since 2014 and in April this year announced that he would be leaving to join Premier Investments – which includes the brands of Just Jeans, Portmans and Peter Alexander.

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