Owner To Owner Podcast

Michael Duregon from Bring Back Australia on his mission to make it easier for Australian consumers to directly support locally owned businesses.

Episode Summary

Michael Duregon has personally bootstrapped Bring Back Australia to help consumers more easily understand what's Australian-owned when shopping. He talks about the personal challenges of starting up, and then his ongoing dedication to the movement knowing there are huge flow-on benefits if we can all get on board.

Episode Notes

@MichaelDuregon founded www.bringbackaustralia.app to help current Australian consumers better understand what products & services they buy are Australian-owned, and not just Australian-made. 

The highly successful #australianmade campaign was his prompt and he couldn't walk past what he saw as a big gap and lost opportunities for local #makers and #manufacturers. He had to do something about this!

Michael trained as a fitter and turner (trained in Port  Augusta), worked in the #familyhardwarebusiness and also ran (and sold) a couple of his own businesses (signage industry). In our discussion we talk about;