On Building an Empire, Walking Away, and Finding What Really Matters | Lisa Messenger

Lisa Messenger is one of Australia's most recognisable entrepreneurs, best known for building The Collective Hub into a global media brand that inspired millions of people to think differently about business, creativity and taking risks.

But Lisa has never been someone to stand still. She has spent her career reinventing herself, and today that reinvention looks a little different. The Collective Hub has evolved into a digital community and app, she's become a passionate advocate for helping people embrace AI in practical ways, and she's continuing to challenge what modern entrepreneurship can look like. She's also, in her own words, living on a farm with 29 chickens, a three-year-old, and another baby on the way.

In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Jules and Lisa talk about reinvention, motherhood, identity, AI and what it really means to build a life that evolves as you do. Lisa opens up with remarkable honesty about the rise and the reality of The Collective Hub, growing too fast, losing control, and the brave decision to let go of the thing everyone knew her for. She and Jules go deep on the identity question that follows, who are you when the thing that defined you falls away, and how you learn to hold your achievements a little more loosely.

This is an uplifting, honest and inspiring conversation about the courage to keep becoming who you're meant to be. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

Connect with Lisa Messenger and The Collective Hub:

Website: https://collectivehub.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisamessenger/

The Collective Hub: https://www.instagram.com/collectivehub/

CHAPTERS00:00 — Introducing Lisa Messenger

01:14 — Setting the Intention: Anything Is Possible

01:33 — The Pinup Girl for Doing It Anyway

02:33 — Farm Life, 29 Chickens and a Baby on the Way