Welcome to High Agency Women, featuring weekly conversations with inspiring leaders about what they’re building, how they’re building it, and their unique approaches to commerce and creativity. Hosted by journalist, product manager and media strategist Natasha Gillezeau, brought to you by Missing Perspectives.
Lisa Nguyen on Building Astrid, Selling to Chemist Warehouse, and Redefining Resilience
Host Tash interviews Astrid founder Lisa Nguyen about building her medicinal cannabis business and its landmark sale to Chemist Warehouse, redefining resilience in a frontier industry.
15 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Clutch Part II: In conversation with Annabel and Lucy Hay
Annabel Hay and Lucy Hay, co-founders of Clutch, discuss Annabel leading Clutch's $2 million pre-seed capital raise with Blackbird in this interview episode.
19 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
The founder balancing act: Ambition, boundaries, and burnout
New year, new goals - but how do you sustain them without burning out?! In this episode of High Agency Women (our first for the year!) host Natasha Gillezeau sits down with psychologist Rashida Dungarwalla and founders Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks and Alicia Vrajlal for an honest conversation about ambition, boundaries, and wellbeing in the startup world. From vision boards and New Year’s resolutions to the pressure to always say yes, the trio unpack how being a founder can blur the line bet...
8 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Letting go and levelling up: Lauren Meisner on the realities of scaling a media company
When Centennial World founder Lauren Meisner saw traditional media dismissing internet culture and the creator economy, she didn’t just tweet about it – she quit her job, put in $5K of her own money, and launched a world-first Gen Z–focused internet culture brand… three months later. In this Yeah, But How mini-series episode of High Agency Women, host Natasha Gillezeau sits down with Lauren to unpack the very un-glam and real side of building a new media company from scratch: bootstrapping vs...
10 Nov 2025
The Leap Dilemma: How Founders Know When to Go All In
Welcome back to High Agency Women - and today, we’re diving into another Yeah, But How? episode, this time exploring what we’re calling the leap dilemma. We’re joined by two powerhouse founders who know exactly what it means to take the plunge: Camille Goldstone-Henry, Founder and CEO of Xylo Systems, and Grace Toombs, Founder of June Health. Together, they unpack the question every aspiring entrepreneur faces - how do you know when it’s the right time to take the leap and work on your startu...
29 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
In conversation with Stripe's Head of Design Katie Dill
To thrive career-wise, great designers must also become excellent translators. That – amongst other gems – is one of the main lessons from today’s special episode of High Agency Women, where we had the pleasure of catching up with Stripe’s dynamic head of design Katie Dill at Stripe Tour in Sydney. Katie’s journey into the design world began growing up in New York with frequent family visits upstate to a small town called Speculator – where a young Katie would find herself solving problems ar...
8 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
Beyond the Money: Chenelle Tanglao on Finding Investors Who Share Your Vision
In this week’s episode of our new mini-series Yeah, But How?, we're delighted to welcome the incredible Chenelle Tanglao to High Agency Women. Chenelle Tanglao started her career in data analytics, before clocking the unique energy and dynamism of the Australian startup ecosystem in 2018. She felt the vibe, and wanted to spread her career wings in the tech sector. Becoming an investor wasn’t initially on her career bingo card, but after immersing herself in Startmate’s investor programs, and ...
27 Aug 2025
Yeah, But How? Michelle Battersby on Building, Selling & Starting Again
In this week's episode of our new mini-series Yeah, But How?, Tash sits down with everyone's favourite founder, Michelle Battersby, for an unfiltered deep dive into the full Sunroom journey - from the spark of an idea, through raising investment, all the way to acquisition. Michelle shares why she and her co-founder Lucy Mort made the call to pursue an M&A path with their startup, what the process actually looked like behind the scenes, and the biggest roadblocks she and her team faced al...
4 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
Stuck on success: How Annabel and Lucy Hay reinvented fashion tape
Sisters Annabel Hay and Lucy Hay discuss reinventing fashion tape with their company Clutch, which focuses on creating a reliable adhesive, in this interview episode.
19 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
Robyn Denholm on bringing her business acumen to the WNBL
Robyn Denholm discusses her decision to purchase the Women's National Basketball League, driven by a desire to improve it, in an interview with Missing Perspectives.
14 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT
Stripe’s Chief Revenue Officer Eileen O’Mara on how to thrive as an introverted leader in tech
Host interviews Eileen O'Mara, Chief Revenue Officer at Stripe, who shares how introverted leaders can thrive in the fast-paced tech industry
13 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT
Diana Reid on taking the publishing world by storm, and her new novel Signs of Damage
Author Diana Reid discusses her new novel, Signs of Damage, inspired by the concept of "terrible things happening in beautiful places," in an interview about summer noir.
5 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT
Di Challenor on raising Australia's largest ever seed round
Di Challenor, CEO of Constantinople, recounts raising Australia's largest seed round, offering insights into securing substantial funding and scaling a fintech startup in an interview.
8 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
Kic co-founder Laura Henshaw on what it takes to build a generational health and fitness company
Kic co-founder Laura Henshaw shares actionable insights on scaling a health and fitness company, navigating co-founder dynamics, and preserving its core values for long-term success.
8 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT
Stripe’s Emily Glassberg Sands on what it takes to break into data science
Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe shares her data science journey, highlighting opportunities for women in technology in an interview with the High Agency Women podcast.
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Lisa Nguyen on Building Astrid, Selling to Chemist Warehouse, and Redefining Resilience
Published 15 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I really wanted Astrid to feel like not a pharmacy. I wanted to feel like you're walking into an ESOP or a day spa. Like I wanted texture and I wanted the elements of nature to really feel be prominent when you walk into a store. So when you walk into any asteroid, you should feel really calm because the walls are always green. There's plants that line the entire building. All the finishes are always with a natural touch as well, like wood or a little bit of stone. And I wanted the patients to feel safe and in a place where they didn't feel stigmatised. And also I think coming from a, as a pharmacist coming from, you know, regular pharmacy, I didn't want them to feel like they're in a pharmacy and just waiting for a prescription. […]
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