Join us for an engaging conversation with Mr. Ugo Quaglino, an accomplished Italian entrepreneur born in Turin in 1966. Influenced by his family’s entrepreneurial spirit, Ugo developed a strong work ethic and a love for travel. At 16, after overcoming a brain tumor that took him to Paris for treatment, he joined his father’s textile business. By 19, he was expanding the company’s international markets and traveling globally.

Ugo’s career led him and his family to live in Paris and later New Jersey, where he worked in the textile and fashion industry. Always seeking new challenges, he eventually moved to Hong Kong to start a sourcing company. There, he met Anne, his life partner and now wife. They returned to southern France in 2016.

Following his father’s passing in 2019, Ugo inherited a large ranch in Argentina. In 2023, he and his son Francesco founded RIFORESTANDO, a reforestation and carbon sequestration project. By planting eucalyptus and pine trees on the ranch and using advanced tracking technologies, they offer European companies a transparent way to offset their carbon emissions.

Now at 58, Ugo combines his extensive professional experience with his passion for the environment, aiming to create a meaningful legacy that benefits the planet and future generations. This episode is special as it highlights entrepreneurship focused on sustainability—our first “green” episode. Sit back and enjoy this inspiring conversation with the delightful Ugo Quaglino from RIFORESTANDO.

CONTACT: 

ugo.quaglino@riforestando.com 

www.riforestando.com

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Here is my discussion with Anthony Moffit, aka Harry.  I call him Tony.

Tony is a mate from my time in the Australian Army. We were both posted to the SASR in the late 1980s; he went, I didn’t.

Tony served with distinction in several operational environments, including Iraq and Afghanistan.  He spent 25 years with the SAS as an operative and Team Commander.

Tony transitioned from the SASR in his late forties and is now a Psychologist and Managing Director at Stotan Group and the Mission Critical Teams Institute. He is a best-selling author who recently released his memoir Eleven Bats: combat, cricket, and the SAS and is currently writing his next book on human performance. He is also the lead singer and songwriter with the rock band The Externals, who are abo to return to the stage (Info is available on our website).

You would be right in asking what a SAS guy is doing on an entrepreneurship podcast and what this has to do with Entrepreneurship. Well, the answer is everything.  Like Special Forces work, entrepreneurship is about a clear mission, solving problems, and turning towards danger/risk when you would rather not.  It is about capability, teamwork, knowing who you can rely on, and what happens when things go south.   It’s also about novel and creative thinking and punching above your weight.

Please enjoy my conversation with Mr Anthony Moffit.

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I want to introduce you to this podcast, and to do that, it is important to clarify what I mean by entrepreneur and entrepreneurship.

The lens I look at entrepreneurship through includes inventive people building businesses, corporate venturing but ‘out of necessity’ innovative thinking, and the power dynamics, policy and programs and macroeconomic forces entrepreneurs need to navigate.

For me, the art of entrepreneurship is a meld of hard-core skills, wisdom blended with grit to deliver an alchemy of sorts, where lead (ideas) are turned into gold (sellable products and services solving real problems).  Of course, there is a material reward at stake, but we humans are motivated by intensives, and in general, these are to improve our station in wealth, power and influence.

This podcast is a forum for discussion and discourse in an attempt to reveal the truth in the world of entrepreneurial endeavour.  Not all is as it should be.  Sometimes, the market for ideas, innovations and capital is corrupted, and the best ideas and intentions are not always the beneficiaries.  There is a saying that “it’s the pioneers are the ones who take the arrows”,.. I’ve seen this again and again.  Nichola Tesla is an excellent example of that.

Sometimes, however, extraordinary ideas and businesses become incredible enterprises with bigger balance sheets than many countries.  This benefits the business, the community and the country they operate.

From the macro to the micro, I’m interested in stories that help to inform, shine a light on the good the bad and the ugly aspects of entrepreneurship, and connect us, as more and more people find themselves having to think entrepreneurial to succeed.

If you have a story, reach out at hello@enrepreneurship.au