Podcast Episode Show Notes

Ashlee Hadden, founder and director of The Girl Who Lifts Landscaping on the Mornington Peninsula, shares practical leadership for tradies from her journey through KFC and Aldi management, a mature-age apprenticeship at 32 and running her own majority-female landscaping crew. She talks about teaching new starters the why, backing your team when mistakes happen, running daily huddles, and letting go of tasks to avoid burnout.

Matt Wyatt has spent over 30 years in the heavy vehicle industry, starting as an apprentice and working through operational and national leadership roles before spending the last 15 years developing people. Here, Matt shares 5 leadership lessons for tradies in manufacturing: setting standards, why a title doesn't earn respect, relationships over authority, fixing systems instead of firefighting, and empowering your team to bring solutions.