Hot Curry: Olympian racks up business success

Former Olympic swimming champ Lisa Curry has clocked up a personal best for her business Happy Healthy You that provides hormonal health supplements.

From swimming on the world stage to diving into hormonal health, former Olympic champ Lisa Curry has clocked up a personal best with her e-commerce venture Happy Healthy You celebrating a decade in business..

Since establishing the business alongside hormonal health specialist and naturopath Jeff Butterworth, Happy Healthy You has helped hundreds of thousands of women manage menopause at home, in the workplace and within their family unit.

What started out with an order of 1,000 jars of 150 gram Happy Hormones, today the firm offers supplements that cover the spectrum of women’s (and men’s) health needs.

At a time when hormone replacement therapy (HRT) solutions are proving hard to access, Curry (illustrated) and her team offer free online assessments and 24/7 support to women right across Australia every day of the year. That’s gold in anyone’s book.

Lisa Curry in Arizona Picture: Instagram

Heavy hitters

The champagne corks are popping down at the Yatala headquarters of Brown & Hurley

with the trucking business racking up sales of 1000 Kenworth trucks last year, the highest since the firm was founded almost 80 years ago. Given the price tag of these big rigs including trailers, can attract a price tag approaching $1m is this a sign of economic recovery?

Overall, more than 17,000 heavy trucks - defined as vehicles above 14969 kg - were sold across the country last year. Brown & Hurley boss Paul Hurley says the healthy sales not only was a sign of confidence in the economy but the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. “There were a lot of supply chain issues during the pandemic that impacted sales,” says Hurley, the grandson of the firm’s founder Jack Hurley. “Things are getting more in sync now.” Hurley says he had never seen so many trucks being driven out of his firm’s sales yards that span both Queensland and northern NSW.

Paul Hurley

Tech boost

Queensland’s technology workforce is booming, according to the latest Australian Computer Society’s digital pulse report. The number of tech-based workers has jumped a massive 21 per cent to more than 139,000 Queenslanders. Prepared each year by Deloitte Access Economics for ACS, the annual snapshot of the national IT workforce found the state’s tech workforce surged as a result of an increase in interstate migration following Covid-19 and additional investment in the tech sector following the shift towards more online work.

ACS Queensland chair Mat Eames says the rate Queensland’s tech workforce is growing illustrates how rapidly the state is developing and the importance of the technology sector in shaping our communities. “We’ve seen a lot written about emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics and this year’s report lays out the opportunities for Queensland as we head towards the 2032 Olympics,” says Eames. “The report also highlights Queensland’s unique position in Australia as the most decentralised state and the challenges faced by our remote communities as we work to overcome the digital divide.”

Tech jobs booming in Queensland

Digital hires

Digital marketing and automation platform Constant Contact has added two new executives to its Brisbane team as they look to expand from its Queensland base across the Australia Pacific region. Gerard Smith has joined as Asia Pacific head of partnerships while Sam Whitmore as its new head of commercial.