ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Pak Chat is a weekly long-form podcast hosted by Blake Thorn. Blake is a Top 20 mortgage broker nationally and co-director of Auspak Home Loans, family-owned in Sydney since 1998.
Each episode, Blake sits down with people who have actually built something in Australian property, business, sport and performance.
Real lessons, honest conversations, and the complex made simple. If you work for yourself or want to build something of your own, Pak Chat is for you.
New episodes weekly.
Each episode, Blake sits down with people who have actually built something in Australian property, business, sport and performance.
Real lessons, honest conversations, and the complex made simple. If you work for yourself or want to build something of your own, Pak Chat is for you.
New episodes weekly.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
74 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
22 episodes
since April 28, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Tim Veron looked fit until a blood test showed prediabetes. That shock pulled him into continuous glucose monitoring, then into building Vively, the Sydney metabolic health platform behind CGMs, deep blood work, and a membership health team.
Tim Veron is Founder and CEO of Vively.
In this Episode:
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Oliver Williams hit rock bottom on his apartment floor, got sober, and left Sydney real estate to build Sunday Salt. Blake frames the early real-estate run as nearly $1 million in commission in the first year and a half. He talks through fruit baskets in Double Bay, six months without a deal, and a…
Bree Brown is a New Business Partner at The Agency Surry Hills, talking Sydney property management and leasing while sales have slowed. She prices stock from $600 to $4,500 a week, and walks through why a $3,000 listing that sits two weeks can cost $6,000, why the tenancy ledger beats a glowing ref…
Australia is at least five years behind America on AI, and Ashton Proctor says that gap is the single biggest opportunity for Australian business owners right now.
Ashton, co-founder of Intraflow AI, left his final year of college basketball in San Francisco, deep in Silicon Valley, to build an AI…
Flow state isn't a lucky accident. It's a measurable brain state, and Mark Lang can show you the data.
Mark spent 25 years leading senior teams in media, tech and AI before he built Executive NeuroPerformance. It came out of a question that follows pretty much every founder I talk to: how do you a…
Mortgage broker market share is pushing 80 per cent in Australia. But the Commonwealth Bank executive who runs the broker channel rarely sits down and says, on the record, what the bank is actually thinking. CBA's Baber Zaka just did.
As General Manager of Third Party Banking at Commonwealth Bank, …
Clay Brodie spent 15 years becoming one of the most recognised real estate agents in New South Wales , straight years in Ray White's Chairman's Elite, the top 1% of Australia's biggest network, and director of an office that placed top 10 in the country.
Now he's putting all of it behind his bolde…
37 years. $4 billion in property sold. 6,000 auctions called. 27 consecutive years of 100+ transactions. Adrian Bo is one of the most credentialled sales operators in Australia and the coach behind the top agents at McGrath, Ray White, and beyond.
He sits down with Blake Thorn on Pak Chat for one o…
Angus Barwick, a Sydney-based entrepreneur and property expert who is currently managing four distinct businesses while navigating the journey of new fatherhood.
Angus shares raw, unfiltered lessons from his time as a carpenter to becoming a top Sydney buyers agent, discussing everything from ma…
In this episode of Pak Chat, Richard Bharata walks through every step of the journey — from working four jobs post-engineering degree (including getting fired from a sushi restaurant and a kebab shop) to cracking a $150K government role through networking, losing his savings to gaming addiction, an…
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