EP005 | Why are you Doing This?

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In this episode Adam Carolan (Xentum) and Mylo Kaye (Dreamr) join Andy Johnson and a studio audience at Prolific North Live to discuss why despite all the stress and chaos, do people go into business and share their own personal business stories.

Topics covered in this episode:

Why it is important that your “why” is aligned among the people you work with and your clients

How having a business can help enhance a passion or idea and turn it into something that makes money

Adam discusses his “a-ha” moment and why he chose to pivot in his career

Balancing the risk and the chaos of business

Having a sense of purpose and being deliberate in everything you do

Taking calculated, well-informed risks

Why it’s important to regularly re-assess the “why” in your business

Guest BIO's

Adam Carolan

A self confessed finance nerd and a big fan of technology and coffee. Also an Independent, "fee only" financial adviser and Director at Xentum who specialises in working with exciting
entrepreneurs and business owners. Author and founder of Genius with Money Blog.

Website: www.geniuswithmoney.co.uk

Twitter: @Adam_Xentum

Mylo Kaye

Mylo Kaye is CEO at Dreamr, an award-winning app development agency that designs and develops iOS and Android apps.

Having worked in the digital sector for almost a decade, Mylo is passionate about technology and the future; he currently mentors start-ups with the Natwest Entrepreneurial Spark programme.

Through his experience of homelessness, Mylo cares about working with charities and organisations in Manchester to raise awareness for the cities homeless challenges. In 2017 he became a trustee of the homeless charity, The Booth Centre.

Originally from Wirral, Merseyside he studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, before dropping out and starting his first business in 2011.

Company website: https://dreamr.uk/

Twitter: @mylokaye


Presenter BIO

A journalist and broadcaster for nearly 30 years, Andy runs his own media consultancy in Manchester working with clients like Weber Shandwick, the NFU, and the Institute of Directors.
Andy started in print before 17 years as a BBC presenter & reporter, appearing on BBC Breakfast, Five Live & the Today programme. For five years Andy presented the award-winning BBC1 current affairs programme Inside Out, travelling across
Europe making documentaries on terrorism, the smuggling of illegal guns into the UK and the Manchester IRA bomb. He also made films with Sir Bobby Charlton, Yoko Ono, Lord Heseltine and Johnny Marr.

Find out more about Andy’s media consultancy: www.andyjohnson.tv

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