#33 - Elaine Stead - Tall poppies and mediocrity

Real People, With Jason Dunstone - Consumer Insights, Market Research, Customers, Design Thinking and More

Today we are joined by Elaine Stead from Blue Sky Alternative Investments. We go way back to Elaine's childhood as a young girl who loved homework, learning and ever eager to please. We talk about Elaine's academic pursuit of science, then pivoting into the world of venture capital, start up advisory and multiple board directorships. Elaine and I discuss all things success and failure, and how Australia's tall poppy syndrome just breeds mediocrity. I sat down with Elaine on a day, week, month, year that was pretty challenging personally and professionally. On the day of this interview, Elaine was in the media, and she felt horrible about letting investors and others down. Life can be very hard sometimes, when no matter how hard you try things go bad. Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player. Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave. Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en Send Jason an email - [e-mail] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/ Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/ Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/