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Quint Boa has spent over 25 years running Synima, a video production and animation company he built from a bedroom in 2000. He's also a qualified psychotherapist. And he's deep inside the AI wave hitting the creative industries, while being one of many that is genuinely worried about where it's going. In this conversation, James sits down with Quint to talk about running a creative business and na...

Ella Halliday spent 15 years in corporate HR watching organisations spend a fortune on ping pong tables and pizza Fridays, while the people inside them had no psychological safety, no trust, and no real culture to speak of. So she left… with nothing to go on to. At the same time she was dealing with a separation, three children under six, a mortgage and no income. Yet this decision would pave the...

Kelly Drewett started building websites at 19, at a time when most people didn't know what one was. Twenty-five years later, she's still doing it - and loving it! Not many people can say they knew what they wanted to be from so early on and many change course. Kelly has watched the web design industry transform completely, multiple times over - from HTML and dial-up connections, to WordPress, mobi...

What does it take to build something from nothing - a feature film, a tech company, a political career? Steffan Aquarone has done all three.  In this episode of One Million Conversations, I sit down with the Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk to discuss an extraordinary career - from producing a low budget, community-made, British feature film in an Oxfordshire village, through building and adv...

What if the way we've been running workplaces has been wrong all along? Sarah Dena spent 25 years working inside the HR profession, only to come to a painful realisation - she'd probably contributed to some of the very practices that make workplaces feel dehumanising. In this conversation, Sarah, Managing Director of New Wave Learning and founder of The Culturevators, makes a compelling case for e...

In this episode of 1 million conversations, I speak with Peter Mols, Co-Founder of Mastermind 9, a mastermind group for business owners looking to grow. Peter has been a life long entrepreneur and advocate of entrepreneurship, but he’d be the first to admit that he’s had his fair share of struggle along the way. We talk about what Mastermind9 is and how he’s building it - alongside his wife and Co...