Your Business Hour

Jeff Meers has been trading as Meers Legal Services for over 10 years specialising in trusts and inheritance taxation especially on property. His wife Sarah also works in the company and is known for her talks on lasting powers of attorney. During our chat we get down to basics and explain the importance of wills, types of trusts and who can benefit from a trust. You can find Jeff at www.meerslega...

Mark Mills OBE DL has built and sold 5 companies including Cardpoint Plc, Europe’s biggest independent cash machine operator which he exited in 2007. Mark share with us a wonderful story about how it all started and his wife’s reaction when he decided to sell. If you are thinking about exiting your business, this is the podcast you must listen to first. Mark shares tips with us that enable you to...

Chantal is the host of Your Business Hour but also a Chartered Certified Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser. She is also the founder and director of Champ Consultants. Chantal explains to us the announcements in the budget and how it will affect businesses and individuals. You can find Chantal at www.champconsultants.co.uk Your Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultan...

Alexis Sikorsky founded, scaled and sold New Access in a nine-figure exit to private equity. It took almost twenty years to build the business and he says he made every mistake available along the way. Today he co-runs Knightscale Partners advising founders of businesses on how to scale past their own capacity and when the time is right, to sell to private equity on the best possible terms. Alexis...

Shazia Ali is the founder, director and principal solicitor at Scarsdale Solicitors, specialising in criminal law and motoring offences. Lots of people shy away from criminal law by Shazia explains to us why she decided to go in this field of law and how motoring offences are increasing. It was an amazing chat with Shazia and enlightening. You can find Shazia at www.scarsdalesolicitors.com    Your...

Christina Moore is the founder and managing director of Don’t Skip Media and a Lovie Award-winning executive producer. Through Don’t Skip Media, Christina helps organisations apply the same principles used by BBC, Apple and others to their own content, making it easier to discover, easier to trust and more closely aligned with business goals. During our conversation, Christina shares with us how t...

Naila has worked in Financial Services since 2007 in roles ranging from Private Banker to Wealth Manager. During our conversation Naila shares with us different types of possible investments and how anyone can benefit from these. All advice and examples provided are just for information purposes and should not be relied upon as an means for investment. Always seek professional independent advice b...

Moira joined the Orpheus centre in summer 2016 and is the Chief Operating officer. She brings over 20 years of experience in fundraising, marketing and communications across the charity sector. Moira shares with us the stories of the Orpheus centre, what they do and how they help young adults as well as sharing with us their future plans. You can find our more about The Orpheus Centre at www.orphe...

Kieran Cameron is the founding editor of Brand Cult, the UKs first award-winning print-only business newspaper and founder of House Of Cult Brands, a London design studio that creates bespoke newspapers for brands, campaigns and events. During our conversation Kieran shares with us how she was able to get big brands on board such as Virgin and Canva as well as how she makes her business newspaper...

Andy Hooper is an investor, entrepreneur and international speaker passionate about helping e-commerce brands and SMEs scale globally. He has bought and sold many businesses and shares some great methods with us. Andy has developed frameworks like STEMS, OATS and GEP which he discusses with us and explains what they are. You can find Andy at  www.linkedin.com/in/andyghooper/ Your Business Hour pod...

Alex Leathard has a deep curiosity and love for solving complex problems. As an independent consultant, he helps organisations achieve meaningful data and AI success through a human-centric, ethical, and values-led lens. AI is such a complex area and many business owners are scared of it but in our discussion with Alex we look at ‘what is AI?’ ‘what can organisations do to help themselves with AI?...

Hannah Martin is the founder of Rich Riteree, a website that helps women over the age of 45 prepare emotionally, physically and financially for retirement. Hannah has spent the last 13 years helping women balance motherhood with careers and start businesses on her website Talented Ladies club, growing a global audience of over 120,000 monthly readers. Hannah chat with us about how we can become a...

Rich Marsh has a wealth of experience in the corporate world and various industries. It is this wealth of knowledge that enables him to help business in their growth. Rich explains to us money lessons and people handling that is applicable to any business size. You can find Rich at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcmarsh/ Your Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, C...

Mark Milsted has over 30 years of high-level leadership under his belt and knows exactly what it takes to success in the B2B space. As the founder of Performance Method, he acts as a strategic partner and fractional commercial director to leaders looking to refine their revenue operations and commercial strategy. Mark shares many tips with us especially in how to work as a founder. You can find Ma...

Richard Shorter has spent the last decade helping high-performance schools, elite sports environments and leadership teams face the conversations that most people run from. Now he brings that experience to the workplace, where leadership lives or dies in the heart of dialogue. During our chat we discuss confidence and resilience, development and growth and Richard shares some tips on how to improv...

Hannah Welton is part of the fundraising team, raising funds for St Piers School and College in Lingfield and her role also includes building relationships with the local community. St Piers is a specialised school for children and young people living with special educational needs and some also have epilepsy. Hannah shares some amazing stories about the school, the college and some of the pupils....

Ritam Gandhi is the founder and director of Studio Graphene, a digital product studio that partners with growth stage businesses to design and build AI-native digital products.  In today’s world AI is in every business, no matter how big or small it is. Ritam embraces this and explains how each business can use AI to help it grow and some tips on how you can include AI in your business. Ritam expl...

Gary is the owner of The Missing Linke which is an agency that focuses mainly on sport. Verena heads up the Kit Funder project through My Club Group. These two individuals have collaborated and are building an amazing initiative that supports grassroots sports in the community. We discussed various matters including the importance of collaborations and how to build collaborations in order to allow...

Charlotte Webb is a project manager at Surrey Chambers of Commerce, where she leads the Source in Surrey initiative – a programme dedicated to helping local SMEs connect, collaborate and grow through stronger supply-chain relationships and community-driven networking.  Source in Surrey run some amazing events that collaborate training and networking. Without these two essential skills your busines...

Liane Spencer-Graham has always wanted to be a fashion designer since a young age. She has been able to gain a wealth of experience in the fashion world which has enabled her to start her own fashion label. Her business does not follow the normal structure of a fashion label and so her ideas are different to the norm. Her sustainable fashion label has meant that every part of her product is sustai...

Ash and Ian had never met before, one day fate brought them together and they started a micro pub in Warlingham, Surrey – Ales On The Green. Their passion for their community is what brought them together. Our chat discovers how they met, how they structure their business and their aims and ambitions. Their stories are truly entertaining. You can find out more about what they do by subscribing to...

Will Steel is a transformational leadership coach, author of Free To Lead and the host of the Free To Lead podcast – where entrepreneurs, founders and world leaders uncover what’s truly holding them back and step into the power of authentic leadership. Will shares details of his coaching and discusses with Chantal matters that may be holding her back from writing her book – it does get interesting...

Fiona Tothill is a ‘hands on’ proprietor of Kingsmead Equestrian Centre which she has run with her family for nearly 14 years. Through our chat with Fiona you can hear her passion, her love of horses and her natural ability to talk and understand the horses. Such insightful and touching stories were also shares. You can find out more at www.kingsmeadhorses.co.uk    Your Business Hour podcast is ho...

Matteo Turi is a finance leader, investor and bord advisor who has spent nearly two decades working with businesses at pivotal moments of growth. Matteo shares his experiences from being on both sides of the table to enable a business to grow. Matteo explains his High Valuation Triangle, a model he applies to the five stages of business: startup, scale-up, stagnation, crisis and exit. You can find...

Emma Regan is the founder of Strength & Bloom, a women’s strength and wellness brand based in Surrey. In chatting to Emma we learned about how she started her business, how her passion about cutting through noise in women’s health has also led to her a podcast, retreats and much more. Emma shares her stories, benefits of opening a gym and why she decided to start a women’s only gym. I love Emm...