Back To School With Janine Allis

Meet the founder of Boost Juice (and Shark Tank 'shark').

This post is presented in partnership with Bankwest.

In 2015, we interviewed Anthony Albanese, Michael Caton, Marie Bashir, Tom Ballard and too many other fascinating peeps to mention. Tough to top, right?

Well, in Season 3 of Back to School With, we're kicking it up a notch.

Our webseries Back to School With invites Australia's most interesting and successful people to share stories from their school days. In each episode, they let us know how they landed their dream careers, as well as how they faced all those inevitable obstacles of teenagerdom along the way.

In the sixth episode of Season 3, we speak with Janine Allis, the entrepreneur who gave us Boost Juice and one of television's Shark Tank sharks (though she prefers the term 'investor', understandably). During our interview, she spilled the details on her raucous teenage years and explained how she rose to become a respected businessperson without ever going to uni, as well as inspiring us to ask this question: "What life lessons do you learn from David Bowie on a yacht?"

Check out our chat!

We'll meet you back here next week for the seventh episode of BTSW Season 3!

Catch up on previous seasons below:

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Back To School With Season 3 is presented by Bankwest. Need a bank account with student benefits? Find out more here (and remember to consider the PDS).