Show Notes
Jeff specialises in connecting & engaging talented career-minded professionals across Australia.
Founder of Hex Talent, a business specialising in talent exchange, and career engagement. Hex Talent is not your average recruitment company, Jeff’s vision is to disrupt the industry, nourishing his talent while offering better opportunities for corporates.
Hex comm is his new company and wellbeing app, that connects talent in all stages of their career, supporting and nourishing them with access to a holistic wellness platform. His app gives his community access to content and specialists to optimise and elevate their mindset and performance.
“It's taken me 37 years to reach a point where I feel I'm well aligned to delivering my life's purpose! I've followed a non-linear career path to get here. Started out chasing a professional sporting career, then zigging and zagging through multiple roles and industry sectors.
I was always open to change. I even traveled the world as a professional singer for 10 years. It was through the insights, discoveries, and happy accidents that brought me to today.” says Jeff.
I think Jeff is so interesting. Jeff specialises in connecting and engaging talented career-minded professionals across Australia. His vision is to nourish his talent while offering better opportunities for corporates, which is how his second company Hex comm was birthed. A company and wellbeing app that connects talent in all stages of their career. His goal is to support and nourishing his community with access to a holistic wellness platform with access to content and specialists to optimise and elevate their mindset and performance.
Jeff says “My business is a modern, innovative, and quite a disruptive approach to traditional agency recruitment. I moved into the agency recruitment space probably four and a half years ago. In a traditional model, recruitment is a very client-driven business to make money. I wanted to really reshape that entire engagement process with clients but also with talent, to create a model that's a non-commissioned driven model. On the talent side, I've wanted to build a business where I could really focus on people, assisting them on their career journey, be it through coaching and mentoring, professional development, unlocking opportunities with exposure to organisations, and all of those things, wrap it up in a nice little bow and in a in a nice little ecosystem, that enables that positive exchange with people, enabling them to thrive in their career. Wellbeing is a big sector, and what we're trying to do, is really wrap it up and align it to what that means for your career.”
I asked Jeff, what does resilience mean to you?
“Resilience to me is about, how do you get out of bed every single day with that positive mindset, and how can you get into that positive mindset quickly? If you get out with a negative mindset, or you've had a rough night's sleep, whatever it may be, how do you shift that on a daily basis? And how do you look at each day as an opportunity? I think the key is how do we manage stress, and how do we become aware of it too?”
There was a really pivotal moment in my life, which I think there's one thing that we're going to probably touch on now where I had to make some drastic changes. I went overseas and I came back from overseas and I had a bit of an issue with my gut. Tests suggested that there was nothing wrong. But in my mind, there was something wrong and that little issue was exacerbated over the course of probably 10 months.
I went from a pain in the gut to a pain in the shoulder, and I was feeling nauseous all the time. I had all these physical ailments that were coming out in my body, and I thought I was on death's door. I thought I was dying. And I thought there was something that just hadn't been found.
I spent a ridiculous amount of money that year going from specialist to specialist trying to figure out what was wrong with me, I saw one of Melbourne's top infectious diseases specialists, and it wasn't until probably later on that journey, there was a specific moment for me. There were a couple of specific moments actually, there was one when I was going to the hospital I was in all sorts. Getting out of my Uber, literally my legs just left me I couldn't walk. I was completely paralysed from the waist down and I was crawling on the ground. It was the weirdest sensation, and from here the doctor started talking more about exploring things from a mental perspective.” says Jeff.
Jeff’s tips:
- Talk to people, specialists, friends, and colleagues.
- Education and awareness can help you enournously.
- Smile, it helps you to be more oprimistic and this action is connected to our bochemistry.
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