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Between the Spreadsheets

12 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -

Tricia Bacon, founder of Couplepreneurs - a growing global community of couples who live together and run a business together - speaks to inspirational couples about just how they juggle work, life, love and everything in between.

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Episodes

Jillian & Michael from The London and New York Meditation Centre

April 22, 2020 09:15 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MB

In this Episode we spend time with Jillian Lavender and Michael Miller who run The London Meditation Centre and New York Meditation Center. As Jillian and Michael take us through their journey from their corporate lives and the changes that took place we are fortunate to also be able to hear more about the benefits that vedic meditation practise is bringing to the increasing number of people they are seeing who are in search of some way to cope with the world as it is at the moment....

Slisha Kankariya & Anubh Shah from With Clarity

April 07, 2020 10:15 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MB

We recorded this Episode with Slisha Kankariya and Anubh Shah from With Clarity on a call to their New York offices at the end of January this year and as it goes out at today on 7th April 2020 it is incredible to see how much the world has changed within those few weeks. And whilst everything is different we hope you enjoy hearing their story of meeting, falling in love and that moment when Anubh talked to Slisha about going in to business together.  Slisha and Anubh met in 2013 a...

Jan & Morgane from Guud

March 24, 2020 10:35 - 1 hour - 194 MB

In this Episode we meet Jan Deruyck and Morgane Leten who started out on their Couplepreneur journey just last year in 2019 and are building Guut - https://guut.co – their new and very exciting health coaching business where they help people live their best lives. Jan, Morgane and I recorded this session in January and little did we know that within 2 months the world would look so different and our lives so very different. But so much of what they cover I think will resonate as the...

SE E2: Sara & John from Finlay James and Talentskowt

March 10, 2020 09:31 - 1 hour - 156 MB

In this episode John and Sara Gaughan take us back to when they met 29 years ago and their journey together since. We hear how John knew within 4 months of getting his break in to recruitment that he was going to do it for the rest of his career. He’d found something he was good at, he enjoyed and he could embrace.  Whilst John initially went on to found Finlay James, a digital and tech recruitment business, it wasn’t until 10 years on that Sara joined the business. This is such an...

S2 E1: Amber & Christian from The Service Course

February 25, 2020 09:25 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

In this episode we hear about how coffee brought Christian and Amber Meier together in 2006 when they met in Canada and how coffee has remained hugely significant in their lives. Christian’s professional cycling career took them to Europe where they decided to make Girona in Spain their home.  It was a discussion and a seminal moment in 2014 on a Spanish beach – where Amber couldn’t carry on living the way they had and was considering returning to Canada - that would set them on a ...

Between The Spreadsheets - Season 2 coming soon

February 19, 2020 16:05 - 1 minute - 4.67 MB

I’m Tricia Bacon and I'm delighted to tell you a little more about Series 2 of our Between the Spreadsheets podcast. I’m the founder of Couplepreneurs, a growing global community of couples in love and in business. This is a growing economic segment and one that I believe is somewhat undiscovered, unknown and undervalued. There are many thousands of Couplepreneurs in the UK, millions globally and this is definitely a thing. It’s happening in all sectors and across all ages. There a...

Michelle & Michaele from Cama

December 10, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 117 MB

Episode 5 is the story of Cama, a 119 year old business that is going through huge change and growth and almost feels like a start up as a chance meeting at a networking event has opened up a whole new and very exiting sector. Having had some enormous challenges in recent years, Michelle and Michaele share such honesty about meeting through work, the luck they have had and how they’ve seized opportunities. They tell us about the sleepless nights they’ve had and how this forced them ...

Laura & Karol from Sxollie

November 19, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes - 99.8 MB

Episode 4 tells the journey of Karol Ostaszewski and Laura Clacey who are building Sxollie, a craft apple cider brand where they want to change mindsets to make cider sexy. Whilst they are now planning a fundraise, back in the early days they questioned their decision many times when one huge challenge really started to impact their ability to move the business forward. But they tell us how backing themselves enabled them to push through and continue. Leaving corporate jobs and very...

Chris & Julie from The Cheeky Panda

October 29, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 94.4 MB

Episode 3 is the really inspirational story of Julie Chen and Chris Forbes who met on the dating site e-harmony where building a global brand together was initially the furthest thing from their minds. But as Julie discussed the idea with Chris that she'd been researching around creating a sustainable bamboo tissue business, an early trip to China in their relationship really opened their eyes to see just what was possible and The Cheeky Panda was incorporated upon their return. Tha...

Lara & Charlie Morgan from Pacific Direct

October 08, 2019 09:10 - 48 minutes - 111 MB

Episode 2 is the first time anyone has ever heard both Lara and Charlie Morgan tell the story together of building Pacific Direct that Lara set up when she was 23 with Charlie joining 3 years later.  This is their incredible journey in building the business, taking it globally and their exit 17 years later for £20m. They tell us about their sweaty knickers moments including how, early on, they were thrown in to turmoil when their supplier from China chose not to supply them anymore ...

Julianne & Matt from Creative Nature Superfoods

September 17, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes - 97.4 MB

This is  Between the spreadsheets, a series of conversations with inspirational couples who combine love and work to run a business together. Episode 1 is an inspiring story of true resilience. Julianne Ponan was ready to give it all up when potential investors told her she’d never launch in a supermarket. She has often not been taken seriously at exhibitions as a young female founder. A year in to the business Julianne fell ill with pneumonia and it was her partner Matt who stepp...

Between the Spreadsheets Trailer

September 05, 2019 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.82 MB

Coming soon on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher and wherever you get your podcasts I’m Tricia Bacon and I’m the founder of Couplepreneurs, a growing global community of couples in love and in business. This is a growing economic segment and one that I believe is somewhat undiscovered, unknown and undervalued. As I set up my consulting business in 2015 helping companies to scale, I started to attract couple owned businesses through no intention and as I began to research the market more it ...