Latest Entrepreneurstories Podcast Episodes
George Scott-Welsh – Investment, work ethic and a people-centric approach
Evolve to Succeed - September 25, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGeorge Scott Welsh is CEO at Incuhive—a business incubation, investment and collaboration space that operates in several locations. This episode takes in a range of topics including the influence that coming from a very entrepreneurial family has had on George, his varied career choices and impo...
Simon Hawtrey-Coombs – Enthusiasm, franchise success, and giving up alcohol
Evolve to Succeed - September 18, 2023 05:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSimon Hawtrey-Coombs is a franchisee of the global DPD group for the Bournemouth and Southampton branches, a position he has held since 2001. As well as this, Simon has owned and managed several businesses over the years, including a commercial cleaning company and a boat charter business, and h...
Alexis Kingsbury – Delegation, company culture and empowerment
Evolve to Succeed - September 11, 2023 05:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlexis Kingsbury is co-founder at AirManual and SpiderGap. He is also a speaker on topics such as freeing up time and the business applications and limitations of AI. Alexis’s entrepreneurial journey started before he was even a teenager, and in later years it was the honest if brutal advice fro...
Marc Trent – At the helm of a hundred year-old family business
Evolve to Succeed - September 04, 2023 05:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMarc Trent is CEO at Charles Trent, a fourth generation family-run vehicle recycling company with nearly a century of industry leading experience. Established in 1926 by Marc’s great grandfather, the company has grown to operate across multiple sites and has a customer base that spans the world....
Michael French – Alignment, food shortages and community sufficiency
Evolve to Succeed - August 28, 2023 05:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMichael French is the projects coordinator at Grounded Community. Based in Boscombe, Grounded Community works to give the local community access to healthy, nutritious food. It grows fruit and veg, provides education and workshops, redistributes surplus food and creates networks to help others s...
Jamie Sergeant – The secrets of running a global business
Evolve to Succeed - August 21, 2023 05:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJamie Sergeant is Global CEO of Crowd—a multi-award winning global creative agency that specialises in amplifying demand for brands around the world. Combined with his creative thinking and knack for spotting and developing raw talent, Jamie has a particular passion for the nurturing and export ...
Cybersecurity – What every business owner needs to know
Evolve to Succeed - August 14, 2023 05:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the first of a series of shorter, subject-specific episodes, host Warren Munson talks to Chris Palmer, managing director and founder of AnyTech Solutions, about the biggest cyber threats that your business could face and the simple, first step you can take to start protecting your business fr...
So you want to be an entrepreneur?
Evolve to Succeed - August 07, 2023 05:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs well as telling the story of his own entrepreneurial journey, host Warren Munson reviews the experiences of several guests that have appeared on the show over the past few years. From hospitality and IT, to gaming, nursery school owners, olive farmers and more, this episode examines the joys ...
Nigel Smith – Strong values, serious work and a culture of fun
Evolve to Succeed - July 31, 2023 05:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNigel Smith is managing partner and solicitor at Ellis Jones Solicitors, which have offices in Dorset and Hampshire as well as London. From his serendipitous path to becoming a lawyer, the pleasures and challenges of running a professional services business and watching members of the team devel...
Entrepreneurship and mental health
Evolve to Succeed - July 24, 2023 05:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWarren Munson joins host Emma Sheppard and fellow guests Leanne Spencer—bestselling author and expert in corporate wellbeing—and Rachel Harris—Director of striveX and founder of ACCOUNTANT_SHE—to talk about the very important topic of entrepreneurship and mental health. With rising costs, econ...
Richard Eastham – Urbanism, human exchange and the need to belong
Evolve to Succeed - July 17, 2023 05:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRichard Eastham is founder of Feria Urbanism, an award-winning design practice that connects community aspiration with urban planning projects to design thriving hubs of activity that benefit people, the natural environment and the local economy. Amongst other achievements and accolades, Richard...
Dani & Mel Bowen and Carna Wilson – Teamwork, risk and learning from children
Evolve to Succeed - July 10, 2023 05:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarna Wilson and sisters Dani and Mel Bowen founded Muddy Boots Nursery School in 2014 while they were all still in their 20’s. Their original vision was to start a nursery where children can spend as much time as possible outside, exploring, learning, getting dirty, challenging themselves, test...
Steve Wyatt – Pain, addiction and restoring my life
Evolve to Succeed - July 03, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter more than twenty years of drug addiction, which included three years on the street, three years in prison, and four years in rehab, Steve Wyatt found a talent for furniture restoration and used it to restore his own life. He now owns a furniture restoration space called Restored Retro and ...
Gina Felce – Gaming, fundraising and a people-centric approach
Evolve to Succeed - June 26, 2023 05:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGina Felce is the co-founder and COO of Tailwind Games, a video game development studio working within the Roblox metaverse that has raised more than $4-million since its creation in 2021. Gina was also one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022. Amongst other things, you’ll hear how Gina transitioned ...
Gordon Fong – Deep connections and the value of community
Evolve to Succeed - June 19, 2023 05:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGordon Fong is the CEO and co-founder of tech company Kimcell, which contains three businesses within it—Datacenta Hosting, e-mango and X-Net. Gordon is deeply passionate about making connections, both in the technical sense and the personal one. His goal is to enhance and champion business in D...
Kelli Aspland and Laura Waters – Sunscreen, Dragon’s Den and the surprise of success
Evolve to Succeed - June 12, 2023 05:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKelli Aspland and Laura Waters are the founders and directors of Solar Buddies, a child-friendly sunscreen applicator. Their story began in 2011 whilst discussing issues they were both encountering, along with other fellow parents, about how they children could apply sunscreen safely and effecti...
Kevin Dawson – Wisdom from three generations of business
Evolve to Succeed - June 05, 2023 05:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKevin Dawson is the owner and managing director at Dawsons Bang & Olufsen, which has been designing, supplying and installing industry leading audiovisual systems for an incredible 90 years. Kevin himself has been with the company, which is a family business, for almost 43 years. The podcast ...
Darren Colley – Military mindset, situational leadership and staff engagement
Evolve to Succeed - May 29, 2023 05:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDarren Colley is the managing director at Iracroft, a premier supplier of a comprehensive range of metal pipe and tube fabricated products for diverse industry sectors. As well as his role at Iracroft, Darren is also a member of and an Ambassador for The Institute of Directors and sits on the Re...
Will Rolph – Love, olive oil and regenerative farming
Evolve to Succeed - May 22, 2023 05:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWill Rolph (left), together with brother Harry, produce Two Fields olive oil from a small farm in Greece. Olive oil farming was something they both unexpectedly fell into, and it’s a great story of love, learning, reconnecting to nature and the value of taking things slowly. Both Will and Harry ...
Steve Coburn – Forward-focus, upside down leadership and ethical business
Evolve to Succeed - May 15, 2023 05:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSteve Coburn is managing director at Project Five, a multi-award winning outsourced IT Support company that works with local businesses of all sizes in Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire. Amongst other things, Steve is also president and director at the Surrey Chamber of Commerce, chairman of Colle...
Jo Barry - Empathetic leadership
Evolve to Succeed - May 08, 2023 05:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJo Barry is managing director at Platinum Care Solutions Group, which has been providing care solutions in Hampshire for over 20 years. Alongside its sister companies—Acre Care and Safe Harbour—Platinum Care is the largest, independent, care group on the south coast, as well as being award-winni...
Nida Leard – Upgrade yourself from version 5.0 to 6.0
Evolve to Succeed - May 01, 2023 05:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNida Leard is the founder of Nida Leard Consulting, where she advises world-class experts to become what she terms ‘legendary market outliers’. She is also the author ‘One to Millions Entrepreneur’, host of the Nida Leard Podcast, and a former Fortune 500 executive with more than two decades exp...
Gerard McSharry – Boyhood ambitions, skydiving and making flooring interesting
Evolve to Succeed - April 24, 2023 05:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGerard McSharry is the owner and director of Higherground, a flooring company that’s been in business since 1990. Remarkably, Gerard has wanted to be a business owner since the age of eight and is therefore an entrepreneur through and through. Being at the helm of your own business certainly com...
Helen Stacey – Losing, winning, being kind and having fun
Evolve to Succeed - April 17, 2023 05:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHelen Stacey is the managing director and owner of Aspire—a boutique recruitment agency based in Dorset. She has over thirty years of experience in the sector and set up Aspire to stand out from the crowd and align with her values. Her career includes building what was, at the time, the largest ...
Adam Walker – Early entrepreneurship, regeneration and creating co-working spaces with community
Evolve to Succeed - April 10, 2023 05:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAdam Walker has been the owner of Adam Walker Property Company since 2001, Director of the real estate consultancy Re:curate and most recently the co-founder of Foundry – co-working spaces aimed at empowering local businesses. Adam is a natural entrepreneur, having co-founded a highly-successful...
Carly Jermyn – Conflict resolution, progressive leadership and female empowerment
Evolve to Succeed - April 03, 2023 05:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarly Jermyn is the CEO and Property Litigation Solicitor at Woodstock Legal Services. One of her specialities is dispute resolution, and this episode includes her opinions and advice on the topic, not just as it applies to property disputes but in a broader context as well. Amongst other things...
Sammi Adhami – The power of accountability, workplace wellbeing and competing with Apple
Evolve to Succeed - March 27, 2023 05:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSammi Adhami is co-founder and COO at Fiit, the UK’s number one fitness app. From the inception, Sammi and Fitt’s mission was to make exercise a habit for everybody. Backed by the insight of fitness experts, data scientists, engineers and DJs, the app gives its members a highly-motivating, effic...
Oscar Brooks – Entrepreneurial lineage, no-code and the importance of fun
Evolve to Succeed - March 20, 2023 05:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOscar Brooks is the co-founder of V88 Apps, a premium no-code agency which currently has over 60 clients in nine countries. This is a particularly impressive stat, considering that V88 is barely three years old and was started at the height of the pandemic. Topics on the agenda include finding o...
Matt Hammond – Software, company culture and the future of AI
Evolve to Succeed - March 13, 2023 05:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMatt Hammond is the founder and CEO of Talk Think Do, a software development company that strives to solve complex business problems with cloud applications. As well as his informed insights into the future of tech, including AI and the metaverse, Matt reveals how he fell into the world of compu...
James Appleby – Love and butterflies
Evolve to Succeed - March 06, 2023 05:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJames Appleby is Group Sales Director at the logistics companies DG International and Pro Carrier. His understanding of human motivation, behavioural styles and peak performance states has seen him work at the highest levels in a number of sectors, including professional services, politics and f...
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