Latest Business mentorship Podcast Episodes
The power of networking & changing lives through careers - James Mitra in conversation with Alembic Strategy
40 Minute Mentor - July 10, 2024 03:55 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Make networking a daily occurrence. It’s everyday interactions. It’s making a good impression early doors and really taking the time to build meaningful relationships and connections.” In today’s episode, we’ve put our host, James Mitra, into the interviewee seat. James was recently invited o...
Scarlett McCabe & Lewis Iwu: The power of debating & disagreeing
40 Minute Mentor - July 03, 2024 03:55 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“[Debating] teaches you to listen, to challenge well, and it teaches you all the skills that you need to be able to be in any room at any time, with anyone.” The world seems more divided than ever before. But is it actually or are we simply shying away from debating and leaning into disagreein...
F.A.I.T.H.
Heir Flow Podcast - July 02, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🌟 Dive into the Power of F.A.I.T.H. on the latest Heir Flow Podcast Episode! 🌟 What does it take to live a life filled with purpose and positivity? Discover the essence of F.A.I.T.H.—Faithfulness, Adaptability, Inspiration, Trust, and Humility—in our groundbreaking new episode. Join us as we e...
Neda Sahebelm & Carla Hoppe: How to make fractional hiring & careers work
40 Minute Mentor - June 26, 2024 03:55 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“The most difficult part [of going fractional] is starting a business. It’s having to wear every hat yourself, from selling, marketing, relationship building, finances, ops and admin. You are everything.” Fractional careers have been on the rise over the last few years. Both, for experienced Op...
Amy Gallo: Conflict Management & How to get along with your colleagues
40 Minute Mentor - June 19, 2024 03:55 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“If you’re in a situation where you’re dealing with [a difficult boss], I think the question is - am I actually getting something from this? And if the answer is ‘no, I’m getting nothing’, then it’s time to really think about what could be your next step.” To kick off our brand new ‘Specialist ...
The Best Bits of Season 11 - A Mentorship Roundup
40 Minute Mentor - June 12, 2024 03:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThat’s a wrap on Season 11 of 40 Minute Mentor and 12 weeks of non-stop pocket-sized mentorship. Our guests over the last 12 weeks have candidly shared the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and shared the advice they wish they would have received when they started out. We also celebrated some...
Jason Flemyng: From ‘Lock Stock’ to Brad Pitt, the inside scoop on life as a Hollywood Actor
40 Minute Mentor - June 05, 2024 03:55 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“80% of your work, no matter what it is, is confidence. It’s the confidence to know that when you go to a door handle, when you turn it, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know whether you pull or push. You just have to see which way it goes and then go with that.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is a pod...
Dr Rupy Aujla: The accidental business that helps millions of people eat healthier every day
40 Minute Mentor - May 29, 2024 03:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Had I continued along my path, I could have a very successful private and NHS GP practice. I could be earning multiples of what I’m allowing myself to earn right now. The stability that I can provide for my family is, quite frankly, limited.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is Dr Rupy Aujla, Founder ...
Avion Gray: Raising the largest pre-seed round as a female Founder in Europe
40 Minute Mentor - May 22, 2024 03:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Fundraising can be exhausting, so it’s really important to spend time with the right people who just won’t waste your time [...], pay attention and ask the right questions.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is Avion Gray, Co-Founder and CEO of Belong, a new wealth-building platform. Avion started her ...
Gurinder Dhillon: From 1 black cab to bootstrapping one of the fastest growing Startups in Europe with Otto Car
40 Minute Mentor - May 15, 2024 03:55 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“[Having bootstrapped] we get to control our destiny, we can move as quickly as we want and we can go where we want and don’t have to be accountable.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is Gurinder Dhillon, Founder of Otto Car, London’s largest community of PCO drivers and Europe’s largest provider of ele...
Greg Marsh: A $200m+ exit with onefinestay to helping you save on household bills with Nous
40 Minute Mentor - May 08, 2024 03:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“There are days when you wake up and think ‘this is it - we’re going to be the next Google’ and then you wake up the next morning and feel like it’s all over and you’re going to fail.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is former VC investor turned serial entrepreneur, Greg Marsh. Following his time as...
Deirdre O’Neill: Breaking taboos and transforming women’s health with Hertility
40 Minute Mentor - May 01, 2024 03:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Entrepreneurship feels like a process of torture sometimes because no matter how hard you try and how much you work and how many evenings or weekends that you sacrifice, you’re still only at the very bottom of the hill.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is Deirdre O’Neill, Co-Founder and Chief Commerc...
Natasha Ratanshi-Stein: From Chief of Staff at Bulb to Founder of Surfboard
40 Minute Mentor - April 24, 2024 03:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“If we’re not seeing outcomes, we need more visibility. Does visibility mean someone being physically in front of you? Probably not.” Today’s 40 Minute Mentor is Natasha Ratanshi-Stein, the Founder of Surfboard - the next generation planning tools for customer service teams. Before building S...
Gary Izunwa: Driving Social Mobility through referrals with Tangent
40 Minute Mentor - April 17, 2024 03:55 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“I think we over index on the significance of education at the cost of other important parts of the social mobility conversation.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Gary Izunwa, Co-Founder and CEO of Tangent. Tangent is an employee referral platform that makes referrals accessible to everyone a...
Lottie Whyte: From the kitchen table to £100k investment on Dragons Den with MyoMaster
40 Minute Mentor - April 10, 2024 03:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“You work so hard for something you’ve dreamt of for so long and then you achieve it and it’s nothing like you imagined it would be…” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Lottie Whyte, Co-Founder and CEO of MyoMaster, the home of sports recovery and a brand on a mission to unlock every athlete’s gre...
Morgan Fowles: Scaling sustainable activewear brand TALA as CEO, alongside Grace Beverley
40 Minute Mentor - April 03, 2024 03:55 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“It’s never felt easy. There’s never been a single day where it’s felt easy. The winds are always hardwired for various reasons, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a lot of fun.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Morgan Fowles, CEO of popular sustainable activewear and athleisure brand, TALA. If yo...
Radha Vyas: From £20m revenues to bankruptcy & rebuilding Flash Pack 2.0
40 Minute Mentor - March 27, 2024 04:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“They say all the best businesses in the world have nearly died three times. It’s an inevitable journey you go on when you're creating a high growth business.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Radha Vyas, Co-Founder and CEO of adventure travel startup, Flash Pack. Flash Pack is on a mission to ...
Richard Robinson: Disrupting the legal sector & raising $32 million with Robin AI
40 Minute Mentor - March 20, 2024 04:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Sometimes entrepreneurship is about bending the odds of success and being willing to take on the risk even though it doesn’t make much sense. It’s about going ahead anyway and changing the odds yourself.” In our first episode of Series 11 of 40 Minute Mentor, we’re joined by Richard Robinson, ...
Coming soon: Series 11 of pocket-sized mentorship
40 Minute Mentor - March 13, 2024 04:55 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Sometimes entrepreneurship is about bending the odds of success, and just being willing to take on the risks…” Welcome back to Series 11 of 40 Minute Mentor - your pocket-sized career mentor. We’ve got 13 weeks of non-stop mentorship from some of the best in the industry, coming up for you. ...
Peter Specht: Spotting Unicorn investments & navigating global markets with Creandum
40 Minute Mentor - March 06, 2024 04:55 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“We scaled way too fast…and the result was that we mis-hired quite a lot. It was not a sustainable way to scale.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Peter Specht, General Partner at Creandum, one of the leading early stage VCs that have invested in over 120 companies, of which 20 are unicorns today...
Davor Hebel: Making VC more empathetic & the future of European Startups
40 Minute Mentor - February 28, 2024 04:55 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Team sports are a great proxy for working in companies, where often the power of the collective is way stronger than any individual.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Davor Hebel, Managing Partner at Eight Roads Ventures, the global VC firm backed by Fidelity. Eight Roads backs and partners ...
Masha Bucher: Harnessing the power of storytelling in VC with Day One Ventures
40 Minute Mentor - February 21, 2024 04:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“If you’re not ready to commit to VC for at least 10 years, it’s just not worth trying…” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Masha Bucher, Founder & General Partner at Day One Ventures. The firm backs Founders from AI and Climate, to future of work and Deeptech, helping customer obsessed and miss...
Sandra Schwarzer: Transitioning careers & putting people first at Index Ventures
40 Minute Mentor - February 14, 2024 04:55 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“You need to figure out what you really need. Not just the role now, but looking at the future and at the competencies you need in your organisation. Figure out how you build a very complementary team, rather than having people who are all the same.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is Sandra Schwa...
Abhishek Lahoti: From Dropbox to Head of Platform at Highland Europe & how to navigate the US market as a Founder
40 Minute Mentor - February 07, 2024 04:55 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“This is not necessarily a one-way transaction. Look at fundraising like it’s dating. The VC you’re going to choose, you’ll be stuck with for quite some time, so don’t play games and be honest, the whole way through…” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is the brilliant Abhishek Lahoti, Head of Platfo...
Hannah Leach: An unconventional route into VC & driving ESG across portfolios
40 Minute Mentor - January 31, 2024 04:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“The whole industry is full of very successful people who have had this very standard path. It’s hard to look at your own [different] background and put yourself on an even level with them.” This week’s 40 Minute Mentor is the brilliant Hannah Leach, Partner at Houghton Street Ventures and Co-F...
Eileen Burbidge MBE - From early Skype employee to becoming the Queen of British VC
40 Minute Mentor - January 24, 2024 04:55 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“I think 2024 is a great opportunity to back fantastic people and get more attention on things that are undervalued or don’t get enough attention to invest in.” Described as the ‘Queen of British VC’ by Fortune magazine, we are kicking off our new VC feature series with the brilliant Eileen Bur...
Residue
Heir Flow Podcast - January 24, 2024 03:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to The Heir Flow Podcast! Hosted by Rickey Thomas, this podcast is your guide to unlocking your true potential and living life on your own terms. 🌟 New Episode Alert 🌟 | "Residue: Embracing Spiritual Renewal" | Hosted by Rickey Thomas | #HeirFlowPodcast #SpiritualRenewal #NoMoreResidue ...
Career Spotlight: The Advisory Role - everything you need to know
40 Minute Mentor - January 17, 2024 04:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Founders often don’t have someone outside of the business that they can be really vulnerable with…that’s where an advisor can help.” For our final episode in our career spotlight feature series, we’re taking a deep dive into an increasingly popular, yet often unspoken about role - the advisory r...
R.I.S.E (Reclaiming Identity, Shattering Expectations)
Heir Flow Podcast - January 12, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to another empowering episode of the Heir Flow podcast with your host, Rickey Thomas. Today, we dive deep into "R.I.S.E.: Reclaiming Identity, Shattering Expectations" — a journey of overcoming Imposter Syndrome and embracing true self-worth. In this episode, we explore personal stories,...
Career Spotlight: How to nail the interview stage to secure your next role
40 Minute Mentor - January 10, 2024 04:55 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“You need to be able to own what you do have, but even more so, what you don’t have.” Following last week’s episode on building a stand-out CV and personal brand on LinkedIn, we’re now focusing on the next crucial stage in the recruitment process - the interview. Very often, the interview stage c...
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