In episode eight of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Molly Bernard, best known for playing Lauren Heller on the hit show Younger, and Australian fashion designer Michael Lo Sordo.

The two share their different perspectives on the topic of celebrity endorsements. Molly explains how she feels about using her platform to support brands and causes, as well as how she chooses which to promote. Michael, on the other side, outlines how he’s dressed the likes of Margot Robbie, Gigi Hadid and Kim Kardashian, and what those celebrity endorsements have done to help build his brand.

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

• The key to nailing celebrity endorsements and partnerships
• What those endorsements and partnerships can offer a brand
• How a celebrity chooses which brands to promote

Molly also spills on her career plans post-Younger and the one hurdle she’s now facing.

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In episode seven of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Katia Santilli and Vera Yan, co-founders of quietly successful brand Nimble Activewear.

The high school best friends launched Nimble Activewear in 2013 with a vision to make quality activewear that feels great. Together, they’ve followed their passion and instinct to build a successful brand, with a focus on using recycled materials and practicing its craft consciously. We wanted to talk to Katia and Vera about building a brand with your best friend, and advice they can share on managing their relationships.

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

• How to find the right people to work with 
• The relationship between co-founders 
• Managing different business relationships 

Alyce also shares her experience growing a business with co-founders.

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In episode six of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with The Honorable Julie Bishop, Chancellor of the Australian National University, 38th Australian Foriegn Minister and former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party.

A former politician, Julie Bishop has almost three decades of experience in leadership roles. The theme of this episode is all about leadership, and what makes a great leader. Sometimes the hardest part about running a business or a team is managing the people and helping deliver on their career goals and expectations. 

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

• Finding your passion as a leader 
• Dealing with criticism 
• The greatest strengths as a leader

Alyce also shares her experience leading teams, making unpopular decisions, and how she thinks about leadership.

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In episode five of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Elle Ferguson, founder of Elle Effect and one of Australia’s top content creators.

After over a decade of working in the fashion industry and creating content on Instagram, Elle Ferguson knows a thing or two about maintaining momentum and keeping an upwards trajectory. The theme of this episode is how to maintain momentum, and how to continue creating inspiring content when working in the consumer goods space.

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

• How to work with content creators
• How to keep your content fresh and your audience engaged
• How to grow your brand internationally and safeguard your business

Alyce also shares her experience building brands on social media and keeping content fresh, interesting and engaging.

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In episode four of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Rey Vakili, Managing Director at LTK (a platform that helps you shop looks by creators).

Rey’s experience spans publishing and business development, as well as content creation on her own Instagram platform. The theme of this episode is exploring opportunities as an employee or entrepreneur, and making business decisions when you’re faced with a crossroads. For context, Rey and Alyce work together at LTK on strategy, so if it sounds like you’re sitting in on a conversation with two close friends, that’s why! 

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

• The benefits of starting your own business, versus working for someone else
• Structure of being an employee, versus entrepreneur 
• Balancing a content creation side hustle with a full time job

Alyce also shares her experience balancing her different strategic roles, content creation, and running a business.

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In episode three of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Adrian Norris, CEO and co-founder at Aje, one of Australia’s fastest growing fashion brands.

The theme of this episode is all about physical retail — which feels like the opposite conversation to what everyone else seems to be having about e-commerce within the Metaverse. But we believe there’ll always be a space for shopping in a physical space.

 In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The lessons from first launching into physical retail
• Building store fit-outs
• Expanding physical retail footprint 
• The future of physical retail

Alyce also shares her own experiences around the process of launching retail stores with The Daily Edited, and the importance of finding the right location for your brand. She shares the journey of conceptualising a store fit-out, building teams and processes, and serving customers.

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In episode two of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Ana Piteira, Founder at Reliquia Collective and Sueno Communications. Ana is the mastermind behind some of Instagram’s most popular brands — Reliquia Jewellery, Blanca, Valet Studio, Aeyre Home and Respiro Studio. 

The theme of this episode is all about maintaining your creativity. So — how does Ana keep the creative juices flowing with fresh ideas to bring her brands to life? That’s exactly what host Alyce Tran tackles in this episode. With a product offering that spans jewellery to apparel and homewares, Ana’s well versed in the consumer goods space, managing distribution through her own channels as well as major retailers like David Jones, The Iconic, Liberty and Moda Operandi. 

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• How Ana has grown her brands across social, wholesale, direct-to-consumer and physical retail 
• Maintaining creativity 
• Managing multiple businesses
• Advice for founders launching a consumer goods brand 

Alyce also shares how she built The Daily Edited into a global brand organically, constantly coming up with new ways to market the brand’s core product offering.

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In episode one of Dinner For Two, host Alyce Tran sits down with Shelley Sullivan, CEO and Founder at ModelCO and MCoBeauty.

The theme of this episode is around starting and launching a business, and Shelley Sulilvan, who has built a global beauty business and become a household name over the past two decades, has the ultimate start-up story. Shelley created a first-to-market heated lash curler called Turbo Lash Wand, followed by Tan Airbrush In A Can (the world’s first airbrush self-tanning spray). With two global product hits, she then expanded the ModelCo range, launched brand collaborations, and finally, her second brand MCoBeauty in 2016.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The first steps to launching a business
• How businesses gain momentum
• Distribution strategies
• Determining a marketing strategy and brand collabroations

Alyce also shares her experience incubating and growing new businesses, and navigating that feeling of ‘starting again’ from scratch.

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