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After 25 years in corporate leadership, Mark Sheppard now runs Sydney Pole — a fast-growing fitness business built on community, speed, and real customer insight.
In this podcast, Mark shares the lessons he didn’t expect to learn, comparing big-business thinking with small-business reality, and exploring what actually works when the stakes are real.
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Average audio length:
10 minutes
English
Australia
3 episodes
since Jan. 27, 2026
episodic
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After 25 years in senior corporate roles at General Electric, Mark Sheppard made an unexpected move — he now runs Sydney Pole, a fast-growing chain of pole dancing studios.
Studio Shift explores what really happens when big-business thinking meets small-business reality.
This podcast isn’t about t…
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Episode one of Studio Shift begins on show night at Sydney Pole.
It’s a Saturday night in the Camperdown studio. The audience is full, the lights are on, and performers are waiting backstage in the green room. And among them is Mark — face covered in black makeup, wearing a costume he probably shou…
In the last episode of Studio Shift, we talked about what it really means to walk in your customer’s shoes — not as a slogan, but as a daily way of making decisions. And when you genuinely do that, one thing becomes immediately clear:
Speed matters.
Customers don’t experience your org charts. They …
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