Business Without BS

Meet William Wadsworth, a first-class Cambridge University graduated memory psychologist and founder of Exam Study Expert who helps students study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress. Following top 0.01% exam results himself at school, William is now obsessed with helping others get the grades of their dreams as a study strategy coach for private clients...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Oliver Bruce, CEO and Founder at PinPoint Media where we dive deeper into discussing the social media phenomenon that is TikTok, what makes it so powerful (and why Andy's particularly concerned about it), how the platform should be used and why businesses should be embracing it. We also discuss the future of Tech and the workplace, and how the...

Meet Oliver Bruce, CEO and Founder of PinPoint Media, a no nonsense content agency based in Cheltenham, London and Manchester specialising in social content, campaign planning, virtual and augmented reality and video media. During University Oliver ended up growing PinPoint Media from his halls with the simple mission statement to ‘make film accessible to all’. He knew that video was so important...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Carol Alexander, Professor of Finance at Sussex University Business School. We hear more about Carol's love for Mathematics and why she is now passionate about writing papers on Crypto and Blockchain instead of traditional financial markets (hint - she does like banks!). And you'll also hear us have a good chat about the state of UK politics in...

Meet Carol Alexander, Professor of Finance at Sussex University who is an expert in FinTech, blockchains and crypto amongst a whole raft of other things. She also holds BSc in Mathematics with Experimental Psychology (First Class) and a PhD in Algebraic Number Theory from the University of Sussex, and an MSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics and Politic...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Amy Poon, Founder at Poon’s London. We dive deeper into discussing Amy’s life growing up in the Chinese restaurant business, her dad’s migration to the UK, to him becoming a Michelin Star chef and building the original Poon’s restaurant empire and what Amy has planned for the resurrection of Poon's London and their passion for good quality Soya...

Meet Amy Poon, Founder at Poon's London who create signature Chinese sauces and fresh wontons for nationwide home delivery. Amy was born in London and educated at University of Oxford where she obtained a third class degree in Japanese and has lived in Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore. A jack of all trades and master of none, she has tutored in French and Latin, worked as a hostess, marketed Pa...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Ian Woodley, Founder at Finance Kitchen where we talk all things restaurants, dark kitchens, Deliveroo and that time Ian saved the Cinnamon Club from never opening. BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Meet Ian Woodley, Founder of Finance Kitchen which specialises in investment raises and debt funding for the restaurant and grocery sectors. 25 years of experience led Ian to set up the Now Financial group which focused on business rescue and was voted "Business Rescue Funder of the Year" at the Insolvency Awards 2009. In 2015 the time came to turn a passion as a home cook into a profession and Fi...

Part 6 of our New York Sessions is live! Recorded on location at the Beekham Hotel in Lower Manhattan, we spoke to Josh Auerbach, COO of Aura Frames, a digital pitcure frame which let's you instantly frame photos from your phone and invite your favorite people to join in, making sharing photos & videos delightfully simple. All that alongside the usual Q&A chat in true BWB fashion ;) Check...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Michelle Kvello, Founder of Lantern Partners, a virtual CFO advisory firm where we talk more about the business's working principles how they operate. We also share stories about difficult client scenarios we've experienced and how they've been dealt with as well as discuss the current state Australia's startup community, labour shortages and i...

Meet Michelle Kvello, Founder of Lantern Partners, a CFO advisory firm with the objective of propelling fast-growing businesses to success.  Named one of the top 50 women in accounting in 2021 by Ignition, and a finalist for CFO of the year 2022 (Australian Accounting Awards), Michelle is not only highly regarded in the Finance and CFO space, but she is also passionate about us...

Part 5 of our New York Sessions is live! Recorded on location at the Beekham Hotel in Lower Manhattan, we spoke to Founders Lindsay Stewart & Brian McNeill about Stringr, their powerful remote video news gathering solution for broadcast and online journalism as well as their new product Iconik, a cloud-native solution that gathers and organizes media securely from any storage, alongside the us...

Continuing our conversation with Neil Parker, FX Market Strategist at Natwest and all-round economy expert where we hear more about how he got to where he is today, his views on Brexit, his perspective on FX Markets and what he thinks is "Business" and "Not Business" in our Business vs. Bullshit quick fire round! BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Meet Neil Parker, Director and FX Market Strategist at NatWest who joins us for a very special extended episode to discuss all things global economy, financial markets, inflation, interest rates and the Bank of England. An absolute must-listen for anyone wanting insight into what's really going on economically and clarity on how to navigate through such financially tumultuous times. Are the world'...

Welcome to part 4 of our New York Sessions! Recorded on location at the Beekham Hotel in Lower Manhattan, we spoke to Eric Smith, CEO of one of the longest standing reggae music labels, Easy Star Records about all things music, industry, British routes and New York Martinis ;) Check out Eric Smith's recommendations: "The Clash - London Calling" "The Rumour Podcast" "Cloudsplitter" with Russell Ban...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with James Berg, Founder of Picaroons where we break it down and talk about what led James to starting the company as well as hearing about the origins of James's mindset which gave birth to the Picaroons ideology, company culture and realities of running his ship the way he does. BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Joining us this week is James Berg, founder of Picaroons, a content creation agency. His experience as a digital insights expert and content strategist led him to working with the likes of Facebook, IBM, Philips, Samsung, SEAT, Booking.com, GSK, ESPN, Bupa and P&G. James is also a qualified business coach and published author. His book ‘104 Social Media Content Ideas To Increase Sales’ has hel...

Welcome to part 3 of our New York Sessions! Recorded on location at the Beekham Hotel in Lower Manhattan, we spoke to Brand Developing experts Sandi Burrows and Ed Burstell about their career journeys and how they came to join forces and start their brand consultancy Burburs LLC. Sandi has guided brands like MAC Cosmetics, Aesop, L’Artisan Parfumeur, Serge Lutens, T. LeClerc, Byredo, Vilhelm Parfu...

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Guy Haydon and Darren Gardner, Directors at Zaptec UK where we speak about all things Electric Vehicles as well as how Guy and Darren are approaching their recruitment process. They're building a new company culture with the aim of creating a fully modernised workplace where their employee's wellbeing is prioritised just as much as profit margi...

Joining us this week are Guy Haydon, Managing Director and Darren Gardner, Commercial Director of Zaptec UK - an innovative Norwegian manufacturer of world-leading EV charging systems. We speak about all things from electric cars to recruitment practices to company culture to why you should NEVER mix business with pleasure ;) A very colourful conversation to say the least! Check out Guy & Darr...

Welcome to part 2 of our New York Sessions! Recorded on location at the Beekham Hotel in Lower Manhattan, we spoke to Poet, Producer and Professor Nathan Oglesby, also known as Nathanology about his work as conscious rapper and all things education reform, philanthropy right through to his first proper job and how he would fix capitalism. An epic conversation to say the least. Strap in a press pla...

This week's episode of BWB Extra continues our conversation with Courtney Fingar, Editor-In-Chief of Investment Monitor who opens up to talk about all things FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) and globalisation, the very personal topic of Russia's Ukraine invasion and the effect it's having both economically and personally as well as discussing the links between social media's manipulated disinformat...

Our returning guest this week is Courtney Fingar, Editor-In-Chief of Investment Monitor, a digital publication focused on foreign direct investment which launched in September 2020 and is part of GlobalData plc. Before joining the group in 2020, Ms Fingar spent 15 years with the Financial Times where she was editor-in-chief of fDi Magazine and the head of content for its data division, fDi Intelli...

Welcome to part 1 of our New York Sessions series! Recorded live at the New York Stock Exchange, we managed to bag some time with Vincent Keaveny, the 693rd Lord Mayor of London while on tour in the USA and Canada as the UK's ambassador for financial services and tech sector. A big thank you to City of London Corporation and London & Partners for making this happen. No...