Small Business, Big Network

Carl Jaffer is an entrepreneur / problem solver, business owner and Co-Founder of Legacy Vault Pro, with a career spanning financial services and tech (predominantly sales) and a number of entrepreneurial ventures. Having spent much of his working life building, running and advising businesses, Carl has seen first-hand how heavily many businesses depend on the knowledge, relationships and day-to-d...

Lau is a PR consultant, entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Replenish, a women’s health brand born from her own experience of severe Pregnancy Sickness. She is passionate about changing the way we talk about Pregnancy Sickness, challenging the minimising language of “morning sickness” and questioning some of the conventions of the traditional pregnancy supplement category. Her career in PR and experien...

Amanda Van Der Heiden is a Learning & Development leader specialising in People, Project and Change Management. With 20+ years of experience, she has led global initiatives across 40+ organizations, 15+ countries, and 12+ industries. She holds a Master’s in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, is CPTM-certified and maintains credentials from ATD, SHRM and McKinsey. Amanda is an award-winning...

Terry Bower is one of the co-founders of Inside Stories. They help founders, investors, private equity, corporate innovation teams and ambitious businesses articulate what they really do, why anyone should care and why people should invest, buy or believe. Inside Stories Ltd “Saving the world from unfulfilled business dreams, lost in poor narrative” m.+ 44 (0)7516 823195 terry@insidestories.guru w...

Liz Lay is a menopause consultant and certified coach. She helps professional women navigate perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause with greater clarity, confidence and control, while helping organisations understand how menopause can affect the people behind performance. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Liz1ay/?viewas=100000686899395 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/liz-lay-367072b Instagram:...

Louise Haywood is an award-winning animation director, artist, educator and founder of Alchemy Studios. A Churchill Fellow and passionate advocate for neurodivergent creatives, she has built a successful creative business through collaboration, authentic relationships and the power of networking. Having worked with leading studios including Disney, Aardman and Nickelodeon, Louise now mentors emerg...

Larissa Banting APR is one of only a handful of professionals to be Accredited by the Canadian Public Relations Society. Over the past 30 years, she’s worked with clients such as SaaS success SudShare, The City of St. Albert, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Alberta Ballet, CBC Television, and CTV Network. She was a columnist for See Magazine and Vue Magazine, authored the best-seller Costa Rica -The Bradt Gu...

Larissa Riba is the founder of Thirteen Financial Services, an asset management company which has helped clients finance large business purchases from vehicles to sunbeds! She also runs a networking group for people working in or adjacent to the construction industry (one of her key sectors), and on top of that she's a trustee for the local RSPCA! https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrisa-riba/ https://...

Cintia Arnhoffer is the Co-owner and General Manager of a Dubai real estate company. Originally from Hungary, she moved to Denmark at the age of 21, where she spent 13 years building her career in an international environment. In 2021, she relocated to Dubai on her own, without contacts or an existing network, to build a new life and business from scratch. Today, she helps international clients in...

With over 20 years in business development, sales, marketing, and events, Heather Offord has worked across everything from hospitality to consultancy — but what lights her up most is seeing people go from stuck and overwhelmed to confident and visible, with a clear plan that actually works for them. At Clarity Consultants, Heather created The Growth Roadmap — a framework that helps business owners...

Chad Bauer is President & Owner of SR&B Advertising, a performance-driven growth marketing agency based in Baltimore, USA - over 60 years in business. Chad acquired the agency from his father and has transformed it from a traditional advertising shop into a modern, data-driven operation. Every client SR&B has today came through a referral - no paid ads, no outside sales team, no self-p...

Tash Rebuck, the Founder of The Good Sales Company is on a mission to help people fall in love with Sales. Sales has become a bit of a dirty word, but it is integral to every business. Tash provides Coaching, Training and Retainer support to help businesses find the sales style that fits their values. With over a decade of B2B sales experience, Tash has worked with hundreds of companies looking to...

Sasha Core went from £25k in debt to building a multi 6 to 7 figure salon business, which she now hasn't worked in for over four years. With 21 years in the beauty industry and 14 years as a salon owner, Sasha knows exactly what it feels like to be the hostage of your own business - doing everything, being everything, and often wondering why you started in the first place. But she figured it out....

Tobi Aromire is a Sales Executive and Partnerships Manager with Tide in the UK. Tide is much more than a business bank - in fact you can pretty much run your business from Tide without needing any separate accounting software or payroll platform, and it even has a savings account built in! If you want to try Tide for your own business, use my referral code LIZDRURYF2F and when you deposit £100 you...

Who knew the girl who used a whole roll of film taking pictures of headstones (age 7) and wrote a terrible poem about memories (age 9) would become a writer and photographer? Let that be your inspiration. If Sarah could do it, then really, ANYONE CAN. Sarah has always been creative, but it took a 20-year paramedic career to work out what she really hated doing and a move halfway across the world t...

When times are good you NEED new clients. If the economy is bad you REALLY NEED new clients. The problem is how do you get found in all the noise that is today's internet. On top of that, who can you trust and how much should it cost? John de Jong of Alley Kat Signs and Marketing has over 800 Google Reviews for his family business and will share the playbook he uses at iGetYOUfound.com to help you...

Margaret Sinclair is the founder of Mind Tamers®. A business that helps entrepreneurs and business owners rewire the subconscious programming keeping them stuck. Using what she calls The Mind's Secret Rule Book, s he helps people identify the rules their minds have that cause imposter syndrome, burnout, lack of self-confidence, and that stop them from charging what they are worth. The problem is t...

With more than 30 years’ experience in communications, Lynda Russell-Whitaker specialises in supporting professional women to raise the quality of their public speaking. This can include defining the purpose and objective of a talk; refining the key message; developing a persuasive argument and delivering it with authority to their chosen audience(s). Her current primary focus is championing women...

Rachael Dines is the Founder of award-winning marketing agency Shake It Up Creative based in West Sussex and a Chartered Marketer with 25 years’ experience. She studied B2B International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago and advises small businesses through top UK business communities including Enterprise Nation and the Business & IP Centre. A dynamic speaker, mentor, an...

Barry Cryan is the CEO, and founder of DoMoreBetter, where he helps ambitious business owners reclaim their time, scale with systems, and operate as their highest-performing selves. Through a blend of AI, automation, execution systems, and mindset optimisation, Barry has developed frameworks that help founders buy back 10–14 hours per week while increasing focus, clarity, and business growth. He’s...

Dan Glyde is a former journalist and broadcaster who became a coach after suffering burnout. He runs two businesses, 'Positive Masculinity' which is for men only, and 'Tribe Fortune' which is for both men and women. Dan is really passionate about his work as you will hear in this episode! Websites are danglydecoach.co.uk and tribefortune.com . Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danglyde...

Sarah White is a Personal Branding and Visibility Mentor, Speaker and Networking Host, supporting business owners to build a brand that reflects who they are and what they stand for. Sarah struggled in business for a long time, expecting her work to speak for itself and not wanting to be around other business owners for fear of being judged and feeling inferior. When she did try networking though,...

Paul Westlake (Westy) is on a mission to make learning actually work – not just tick boxes. As Digital Director at PeopleUnboxed and Customer Success Director at BentoBot (BentoBot.com) – a spaced repetition solution that makes learning stick – Westy transforms how organisations develop their people. He also hosts the popular PeopleUnplugged podcast, where he unpacks what really works in L&D....

Katrena Friel is an internationally recognised Business Mentor and networking catalyst for women in business. With over 25 years of experience, Katrena has dedicated her career to helping women build powerful professional networks that unlock opportunities, accelerate growth, and create lasting impact. Known as the “Business Mentor to the Awakened,” Katrena’s approach is all about connection. Conn...

Laurie Kozan is a brand and marketing strategist who helps founders, experts and independent consultants attract more of the people they really want to work with, by learning what to say about what they do. Laurie’s work is built around the conviction that the way we communicate has real power — to create clarity, community and change. Using her background in PR, marketing, graphic design, and int...