This week on Sydney Matters…

Phil Lee – Peak Performance Training

Phil Lee is one of Australia’s leading authorities on Trust-Based Selling as well as being a dynamic professional speaker, sought-after sales coach and the author of the ground-breaking book, The Game Changer – My Journey from “you’re fired†to “fired up†– How to get he best out of your sales career and your life.

One of Phil’s more dubious claims to fame is that up until the age of 28 he was an abject failure and had been fired from every job he had!

Thankfully for Phil and his family, after a few years and much research and painful experience, he managed to figure out what it REALLY takes to blast through the sales performance ceiling and to live a life that he did not previously believe was possible!

Phil now inspires and works with other sales and business people who are looking for the same result.

Phil is all about RESULTS and CHANGING THE GAME IN YOUR FAVOUR – whether he is motivating a sales team as an engaging and dynamic speaker or working closely with teams and individuals as a sales and performance coach.

As an acknowledged expert in his field, as well as writing his own ground breaking book, he has written over 100 articles for high profile business publications such as MyBusiness, Dynamic Small Business, Sales Professional Magazine and PWC’s Clever Companies magazine.

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Ben Hughes – The Australian Wine and Beer School

Ben Hughes is Head of Liquids at The Australian Wine and Beer School. He has over twenty years wine industry experience, well over thirty years drinking experience and over forty years entertaining experience. Ben was a partner in Oddbins and has owned his own wine label.

After listening to way too many boring wine people Ben decided to start talking about wine and beer in the mid 90′s. Ben has entertained and educated thousands of wine and beer drinkers across Australia in his unique light-hearted yet educational manner. No boring bits and no words that people don’t understand.

Ben combines a panache for presenting with expert wine and beer knowledge. This makes Ben a hit in the corporate market as he always understands why he is in the room. It is to help create business relationships, where the talk is not work. if you have any wine questions you can always call him on 0424 99 33 66.

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Ziggy and The Wild Drums – Live Music

Ziggy was born in 1978 and he is originally from Porto Alegre, Brazil. He started his career playing reggae in Brazil in 1998 with a band called Acustico Reggae, which played original songs and also Bob Marley covers. With this project they recorded a set of original material. An original song called “Verdade†from these sessions was later recorded for a greatest hits album for a popular radio station in the south of Brazil (Ipanema FM 94.9).

Then early in 2003, their much awaited first album was released including a set of successful tracks and few tours around the country .This album (A.R. Na Cidade) went on to become a great success, leading the band to many important and influential gigs and eventuated in the band being famous in the whole state (Rio Grande do Sul).They headlined important gigs in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo as well as playing at the First National Reggae Concert with the all of Brazils most influencial bands.

In 2006 Ziggy was invited to play as the opening act for Ziggy Marley. Ziggy, riding the wave of success, then decided to go and tour Australia because he was interested in discovering some more exotic destinations for song writing inspiration and life experience, and with this he could also indulge his other great passion for surfing. As soon as he arrived in Australia, Ziggy started to search for places and new opportunities to expand his musical pursuits and talents through his determination to crack the Australian music market was connecting with many great musicians in Australia he also performs solo doing gigs at great places like The Arms in Newport place where he lived for a year and a half: ‘I love Newport this place brings me so many good memories and I’ve written some great music in here’.

Ziggy and The Wild Drums his new band which he defines as a musical project with a bit of Australian aboriginal influence mixed with Reggae and Jazz has been performing at some of the most important venues around Australia, mainly in Sydney Northern Beaches. The new band are playing a great new set of groovy and seductive original songs featuring Ziggy’s unique vocal style and groovy rhythms which you can hear now at SoundCloud.