Women in Business Podcast with Chanelle Le Roux

About Women in Business Podcast with Chanelle Le Roux

Hi! I’m Chanelle. Agency owner. Marketing coach. Speaker. And your official human sunshine! I’ve been in marketing since 2009 and have run a successful strategy and content marketing agency since 2018. Jaded by my corporate life I quit my job to travel the world, and start my own business. I have learned SO much in my business journey and I want to share it with you. The Sunshine Podcast for Women in Business offers marketing advice from industry professionals and inspiring stories from women nailing business and life. If you love the podcast, please subscribe and share with someone who would enjoy it too.

Publisher

Chanelle Le Roux

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Feb 2023

Latest episode

5 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

45 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Make a Great Product, Be Profitable, Have Fun - Donna Gilbertson on Building Junie

   What does it really take to turn an everyday frustration into a viral e-commerce brand? In this episode of the Women in Business Podcast, Chanelle Le Roux sits down with Adelaide founder Donna Gilbertson, the chartered accountant behind Junie, the polka dot hair towel brand that’s taken over Instagram. Donna spent more than 20 years in senior corporate finance, and she’s never stopped building things on the side. Those have included a herbal tea subscription, a kids’ stage show, a bookkeeping business and a video game studio. She shares how she took Junie from idea to launch. She bought and tested every hair towel on the Australian market, sourced a better microfibre, vetted manufacturers overseas and spent seven full-time months refining samples before launch. Her family pitched in on photos, modelling and the website. We also dig into the marketing side. Donna explains why raw, unpolished videos beat her carefully planned posts, and how she beat camera shyness with a simple habit: three dot points on a post-it, recorded in the car before school pickup and posted without rewatching. She talks about why she built an email list from day one, how she uses UGC creators, and why the polka dots are there so you can spot a Junie towel without seeing the label. In this episode: Why purpose, not profit, keeps you going through the hard yards Donna’s three business goals: make a great product, be profitable, have fun The real cost and timeline of developing a custom product Building an Instagram audience while you’re still prototyping Founder content, content pillars and the power of spontaneous videos Habit stacking to get comfortable on camera Branding for instant recognition, and the story behind the Junie name Donna’s upcoming 1:1 e-commerce coaching About Donna GilbertsonDonna Gilbertson is a chartered accountant and serial founder based in Adelaide. She spent over 20 years in senior corporate finance roles while building a string of businesses on the side, before founding Junie, the viral hair towel brand known for its signature polka dots and custom microfibre. Donna knows exactly where the numbers and the marketing meet, and she’s known for being open about what it really takes to build a product brand. She’s now launching 1:1 coaching to help other business owners grow their e-commerce stores and social media. Connect with Donna Junie website: https://heyjunie.com.au/ Junie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hey___junie/ Donna’s website: https://www.donnagilbertson.com.au/ Donna’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donna_gilbertson_/

2. 

   2 Nov 2026

   Why money is emotional, not mathematical with Melissa Meagher

   Melissa Meagher is a Brisbane-based speaker, financial wellness coach and author, and a former Certified Financial Planner with more than 25 years in financial services, including roles at Sunsuper, Suncorp and Westpac. Over that time she has worked as a financial planner, a stockbroker during the tech boom, and a seminar specialist for a superannuation fund. She noticed the same pattern again and again: people don’t struggle with money because they’re bad with numbers. They struggle because money is emotional. She founded Talking Money to create a safe, judgement-free space for honest conversations about money, covering both the practical side and the beliefs and behaviours underneath it. Today she helps women build calm, confidence and control with money through 1:1 coaching, her signature program, a self-paced online course, retreats, and keynotes and workshops for organisations across Australia. Melissa is also the author of the number one Amazon bestseller Your Money Soul: Clearing Your Money Blocks and Other Stuff to Live Your Best Life. About the episode Why do so many smart, successful women feel quietly ashamed about money? In this episode, Chanelle sits down with financial wellness coach Melissa Meagher to talk about where that shame comes from, and how to move past it. Melissa explains why being good with money takes two things: understanding your numbers, and facing the limiting beliefs that no spreadsheet can fix. She shares how many of our adult money habits are shaped in childhood (often by a six-year-old version of ourselves), the red flags she sees in women in business, and why it’s common to know your business financials inside out while having no idea what’s happening with your own mortgage. In this episode: Why nobody teaches us about money, and the shame that creates Practical numbers vs limiting beliefs - why you need both How childhood experiences shape the way we handle money as adults Red flags for women in business: avoiding financial statements, overgiving, and confusing self-worth with net worth Simple ways to teach kids about money How Melissa wrote her bestselling book in just two weeks Why a regular bank account audit is worth doing (Chanelle found a $5,000 software subscription she didn’t need) Melissa is offering listeners a free discovery session - book yours here: [discovery link] Connect with Melissa Website: https://melissameagher.com.au/ Book: https://melissameagher.com.au/your-money-soul/ Signature Program: https://www.yourmoneysoul.com.au/signature-program Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourmoneysoul/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourmoneysoul/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourmoneysoul TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yourmoneysoul

3. 

   24 Aug 2026

   Becoming the CEO of your acting career with Madeleine Wighton

   Madeleine is an actor, filmmaker, and silly goose. She is a Psychology graduate and is a mindset, strategy and acting coach, helping actors level up their careers while prioritising their mental wellbeing. On screen, she is known for playing the vibrant Meadow in ABC's AACTA-nominated The PM's Daughter S2, breaking Superwog’s heart in their recent webseries, traversing universes as an alien in Sonny Jim (dir. Declan Arrighi), and bringing colourful creative chaos to the classroom in comedy series, The Detention Diaries. On stage credits include playing Judy Garland in Judy at The Hayes Theatre, in which she was “utterly captivating” (The 4th Wall Reviews, 2025), a hilarious “standout” (Theatre Thoughts, 2023) wing-defence in queer netball comedy Nails Must Be Kept Short (Fruit Box Theatre), Cosette u/s in Les Misérables (Packemin), and a convict in Forgotten (Lost Voices). Madeleine is an award-winning filmmaker and the head goose at Hopeful Goose Creative, creating comedic and hopeful female-led films including Bernice and Death of a People Pleaser. She was a producer on AACTA-nominated DIY starring Damon Herriman. Follow Mads on Instagram Visit Mads' website

Who has been a guest on Women in Business Podcast with Chanelle Le Roux

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Latrice Prater
• Tenille Hellier
• Alexis Guttridge
• Kelly Johnson
• Dr Hayley Quinn

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 9 / 100

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Quality

6

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32