Creating useful people - the childhoods of entrepreneurs and business leaders - from Clever Tykes
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow does our upbringing dictate our current situation and future aspirations? How do we bottle the ingredients that create success? What are the childhood influences that really shape someone’s future? How can we raise kids to be confident, positive, creative and resourceful? What can we do about it as adults?
These are all questions the Clever Tykes team is working hard to get to the bottom of. To do this we are interviewing people we admire. The line-up includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, sportspeople, actors and many more inspiring people from all walks of life, to find out how they were raised.
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LAUNCH DAY! How To Raise Entrepreneurial Kids - the book by Jodie Cook and Daniel Priestley
December 01, 2020 07:00 - 5 minutes - 3.79 MBWe are so excited that today is the launch date of the brand new book - How To Raise Entrepreneurial Kids. You can find the book and accompanying resources here: https://clevertykes.com/book This episode is presented by Clever Tykes cofounder Jodie Cook. Here's the transcript: Hello and welcome to the Clever Tykes podcast – creating useful people – if you have been following this podcast since the start and listened to the interviews with amazing entrepreneurs and business leaders you wil...
How to raise entrepreneurial kids: the book. FAQs with Daniel Priestley
September 07, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBAfter announcing our brand new book How to raise entrepreneurial kids, Daniel Priestley and I were inundated with questions about it, so we recorded this episode to answer them. Topics include: When the book will be available to read If this book is only for pushy parents Our collective expertise for writing this book The difference between a child entrepreneur and an entrepreneurial child Raising kids to be kind and happy Letting kids be kids What if my kids don’t want to be entrepr...
How to raise entrepreneurial kids: interview with Daniel Priestley
June 11, 2020 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBI’m super excited to announce the launch of a brand new book! How to raise entrepreneurial kids is a brand new book that I have written with Daniel Priestley, a friend and co-author whose work I admire. It will be released in autumn 2020. Ahead of that, we recorded this podcast episode in which we discuss the book and the inspiration behind it. The book covers how to raise confident, resourceful and resilient children, with stories from both our childhoods as well as those of 200+ entrep...
The childhood influences of future entrepreneurs and business leaders. Season one round-up presented by Jodie Cook and Ben Cook
April 17, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBAfter recording 17 interviews with 17 amazing guests, we started to see trends between their childhood influences. Listen to this season one summary episode to find out the 6 trends that came up several times. Revisit each episode using the link below: Craig Donaldson, CEO of Metro Bank Jessica Wheeler, principal of Elmhurst Ballet School Jordan Daykin, CEO of Gripit Emma Jones MBE, founder of Enterprise Nation Mike Bandar, founding partner of Turn Partners Graham Allcott, author & fou...
Sara Davies, founder of Crafter's Companion
December 02, 2019 11:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBSara Davies MBE is the founder and creative director of Crafter’s Companion, which designs, manufactures and sells its craft-related products to customers across 40 countries and employs more than 200 people worldwide. She established Crafter’s Companion while studying at York University. In 2016, Sara was presented with an MBE in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours List, for services to the economy. She is a keen champion of women in business, mentoring and the North East of England! More recen...
Carrie Green, founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association
October 15, 2019 09:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBCarrie Green is the founder the Female Entrepreneur Association (FEA) and the author of the international bestseller, She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur. FEA is a global network of over 600,000 women from around the world. Carrie set it up after feeling isolated running her first successful online business and is now utterly passionate about helping to inspire and empower other women to succeed in business. Carrie has a TEDx talk on...
Katrina Owen, ecosystem engineer at GitHub
June 08, 2019 13:00 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBDecision-making frameworks for a successful career and lifestyle. Katrina Owen is an ecosystem engineer at GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. She accidently became a software developed whilst pursuing a degree in molecular biology! Katrina is also the creator of Exercism, a platform for code practice and programming mentorship that has helped over 200,000 people all over the world learn new programming languages. Katrina mainly works in programming languages Go and R...
Benjamin Banks, founder of SBD Apparel
April 14, 2019 16:00 - 39 minutes - 18 MBThe importance of attention to detail when creating a global sports brand Benjamin Banks is the CEO and founder of SBD Group. Started in 2013 under the name SBD Apparel, the company develops superior strength clothing and equipment with world class athletes, coaches and health professionals. The products are made in the UK, predominantly in SBD’s factory in Rotherham. The group employs over 50 people, the products are distributed in over 40 countries and SBD received the Queen’s Award for E...
Andy Street CBE, mayor of the West Midlands
March 12, 2019 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBThe making of a mayor Andy was elected as the first mayor of the West Midlands in May 2017. Prior to that, he was the managing director of British retail giant, John Lewis, where during his tenure at the top he oversaw a 50% increase in gross sales to over £4.4bn, a doubling of the number of stores and the growth of the company's online business. Alongside this, Andy held a host of high-profile economic development roles including the chair of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enter...
Charlotte Hodson, cofounder of Awesome Merch
February 14, 2019 03:00 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBFrom buying a badge-making machine to hiring 100 people. Charlotte heads up the creative and marketing at Awesome Merch - a custom print and merchandise business she co-founded way back in 2005, when business partner Luke and she went off to university in Leeds. Since then, Awesome Merch has gone from 2 people in a bedroom, to over 100 people in two locations across two continents, and from one product to over 650, almost all produced in-house. In this episode we discuss Charlotte's favour...
Jeremy Walker, technology entrepreneur
November 06, 2018 20:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBFrom no electricity on Sundays to technology that saves lives. Jeremy is a geek and an entrepreneur. He runs a range of technology businesses ranging from an education platform that’s helped over 200,000 learn to code, to using artificial intelligence to improve outcomes during heart surgery. In this episode, recorded face-to-face from Austin, we discuss how a low-income, religious upbringing can create future success, as well as Jeremy’s love of debating and travel. We learn about the tea...
Phill Jupitus, comedian and poet
October 01, 2018 23:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBHow a “yeah, why not?” attitude shaped a career in TV and comedy. Phill Jupitus is a stand up and an improv comedian. He’s also an actor, a performance poet, a cartoonist and a podcaster. Phill was a team captain on the BBC 2 show "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" for 19 years. He regularly appears on other panels shows including QI and within the last month you’ve probably seen him on Dave! In this episode we find out about Phill’s mercurial career doing largely whatever he felt like at the time...
Deepak Tailor, founder of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk
September 20, 2018 23:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBFrom teen eBay power-seller to a global internet entrepreneur. Deepak Tailor is the founder of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk. He started his first website aged just 16 from his bedroom and his sites now reach over 1 million consumers every month. He has featured on the BBC show Dragons Den, been voted young entrepreneur of the year and has written & published a bestselling book on Amazon. The company has even been chosen as one of the top 100 startups in the UK. In this episode we discuss Deepak's...
Paul Faulkner, CEO of the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
September 03, 2018 23:00 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MBHow changing school 6 times prepares a future CEO. Paul Faulkner is CEO of Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, former CEO of Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest football clubs and board member for organisations including Cure Leukaemia, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Sport Birmingham… all before the age of 40! In this podcast we discuss growing up reading newspapers, moving primary school six times and being fearless in front of the press. We also cover the messages Paul is passing o...
Oona Collins, CEO of Potential Plus International
September 01, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBThe value of adversity and travel on a career developing others. Oona Collins is the CEO of Potential Plus International and an executive coach with 25 years experience of developing emotionally intelligent leaders and high performing teams. Her work has taken her all over the world, coaching people of all different nationalities in senior and high profile positions. Oona’s client list includes Burberry, Warner Brothers and Virgin Airlines. In this podcast we discuss Oona’s childhood; and ...
Graham Allcott, author & founder of Think Productive
August 30, 2018 23:00 - 48 minutes - 22 MBFrom washing neighbours cars to becoming a bestselling author Graham is the author of three books, including the global best-seller “How to be a Productivity Ninja“, and is the founder of Think Productive, one of the world’s leading providers of personal productivity training and consultancy, with offices all over the world. In this podcast we discuss the power of wanting less, not more, how a religious upbringing has shaped Graham’s world views as an adult, and the valuable lessons he lea...
Mike Bandar, founding partner of Turn Partners
August 28, 2018 23:00 - 45 minutes - 21 MBFrom teenage publicity stunts to multiple businesses and an honorary doctorate. Mike Bandar is a founding Partner of Turn Partners, a start up studio focused on the acquisition, turnaround and creation of digital businesses. In 2017 he received a British Empire Medal for ‘Services to Young Entrepreneurs in the West Midlands’ as well as being awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Aston University, making him one of the youngest ever recipients of a DSc. In this podcast we discuss Mi...
Emma Jones MBE, founder of Enterprise Nation
August 26, 2018 23:00 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBFrom an enterprising household to an enterprise nation. Emma Jones MBE is the founder of Enterprise Nation and small business advisor to the UK government. She received her MBE in 2012 for services to enterprise, speaks fluent Japanese and is on a mission to make the UK the most enterprising nation. In this podcast we discuss how Emma’s first experiences of the world of business, her approach to a “work/life balance”, her experience of the education system as well as the messages she’s pas...
Jordan Daykin, CEO of Gripit
August 24, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBSchoolboy negotiator to Dragon’s Den success story Jordan Daykin is the CEO of Gripit, a £20million business that he started with his grandad when he was 13. Jordan successfully secured investment from Deborah Meaden on Dragon’s Den when he was 19, making him the youngest person ever to do so. In this podcast we discuss how leaving home and school very early forces independent and resourceful behaviour, the teachers and family members who believed in him and what they said, and how raising...
Jessica Wheeler, principal of Elmhurst Ballet School
August 22, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBCreating ‘thinking dancers’ at world-leading dance school. Jessica Wheeler is the principal of the prestigious and world-renowned Elmhurst Ballet School, and has been since 2010. Under her leadership the school has received glowing OFSTED reports, record-breaking exam reports, and even received a royal visit! After studying contemporary dance at Trinity Laban she started her career in dance education. Jessica has created a set of videos for Teachers TV, and OFSTED has described her as a ‘hi...
Craig Donaldson, CEO of Metro Bank
August 20, 2018 23:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBFrom pub cellar boy to award-winning bank CEO. Craig Donaldson is the CEO of Metro Bank, a role he has held since the bank’s inception in 2009, having previously worked in many financial services roles including at BT, Barclays, HBOS and RBS Group. In 2017 Craig won the ‘Most people-focused CEO’ award at the HR Excellence Awards. Originally from Sunderland and a huge football fan, in this podcast we discuss how growing up in a pub led to Craig’s personable approach to leadership. We also d...