Business Without BS

Hello and welcome to BWB Extra! This week we continue our conversation with Beluga Bean "well-being" enterprise founders Renee Elliott and Sam Wigan where we give them full permission to get in the hot seats, put their coaching hats on and shine their personal discovery mirrors at Dominic and Philippa to give them both a full treatment of self-awareness. Welcome, to The Beluga Bean Effect. And for...

Founders of Beluga Bean, Sam Wigan and Renee Elliott join us this week on BWB. Beluga Bean is a well-being enterprise pioneering new strategies for success in business and life. Through Corporate Training, Personal Coaching and Business Advisory services the team deliver powerful journeys of personal discovery that promote individual and team success. After all, Beluga Bean’s key belief is that “S...

Officially welcoming BWB Extra! our new extended feature which will follow on from each guest's main episode. The aim? to hand the reins over to our guests and let them lead the conversation with their biggest bug bear, most burning question in business, or even just a topic they'd like to discuss with our hosts. This week we follow on with Jason Gibb who speaks about how big businesses need to ch...

Founder of Bread & Jam, Jason Gibb joins us this week on BWB. Jason is a food entrepreneur, community builder, climate activist and Vegan advocate who has a passion for mission driven businesses with sustainable development goals. Jason’s most recent venture is founding Bread & Jam - the UK's biggest food and drink founders' festival for emerging and scaling brands with...

Welcome to part 2 - The Art of Whisky where we take a deeper dive into our conversation with Desiree Whitaker, CEO and Managing Director of The Cardrona Distillery who tells us her story about how she came to set up Cardrona and what it takes to create a truly unique and authentic signature brand of spirit: from the type of water used to the height of the Distillery location and even the type of f...

Desiree Whitaker - CEO and Managing Director of The Cardrona Distillery joins us this week on BWB. Originally started in New Zealand, the family business now ships its exquisite range of hand-crafted Whiskies, Spirits and Liqueurs across Australia and the UK. Desiree’s fascinating journey to starting the business spans over years of research, planning and travelling globally to...

Co-Founder of Greenroom Digital, Tom Huggins joins us this week on BWB. With offices in Australia and the UK, Greenroom Digital are a sports marketing business working with some of the largest global sporting organisations. Their aim is to create a positive change in the sports and entertainment industry by revolutionising the way we connect and engage the audience. Alongside Dominic and Andr...

Coach, Consultant and Founder of Mennenia, Maxim Cramer joins Juliet Oury and Philippa Sturt this week on BWB. Maxim’s mission with Mennenia is to help women entrepreneurs start, launch, and grow their businesses by making technology as simple as everyday English. She’s also worked as a principal design technologist, technical consultant, mobile software engineer and was integral to the team that...

Author and Vlogger Christine Armstrong joins Juliet Oury and Philippa Sturt this week on BWB. Christine is the author of The Mother of All Jobs: How To Have Children And A Career And Stay Sane(ish )  published by Bloomsbury, writes regularly for the Times and Telegraph, and is a contributing editor of Management Today. Christine’s work focuses on parenting, work-life balance, a...

Sunna Van Kampen, Founder of Tonic Health joins Juliet Oury and Phillipa Sturt on this week’s episode of BWB. Sunna previously co-founded LVK Global - a sales and marketing agency and developed Piccolo Baby Food - the fastest growing baby food brand in the UK which led him to found Tonic Health - a start-up aiming to empower the world to work with and not against their immune system. Within the fi...

Ted Edwards of London & Partners joins Andrew and Juliet on this week’s episode of BWB. Born near Liverpool, UK, Ted joined London & Partners in 2011 - an agency focused on creating economic growth that is resilient, sustainable, and inclusive. Ted’s managed hundreds of successful investment projects from all corners of the globe, organized dozens of trade missions and Mayoral trips to the...

Luke Sequeria, Founder and CEO of Numadic joins Andy and Dominic this week on BWB. With a background in Computer Science and Engineering, Luke's been a serial Entrepreneur since his mid-teens founding a number of companies, his latest being Numadic which builds apps and APIs that enable financial transactions for mobility and logistics in India. The three take a deep dive into Luke’...

Michael Branagan-Harris, CEO of Device Access UK joins Andrew and Dominic this week on BWB. With a background in Medical and Healthcare Sales, Business Development, and Management, in 2010 Micheal set up Device Access UK - a Med Tech consultancy firm specializing in market access, which basically means they help Medical Device and Diagnostic companies navigate their way into th...

Founder of Koalaa: Soft Prosthetics Service, Nathan Macabuag joins Dominic Frisby and Juliet Oury on this week’s episode of Business Without Bullsh-t. A born and bred East Londoner, Nathan’s career path started during his gap year as an Engineer at an automotive plant in Gloucestershire which led him onto eventually studying a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College...

Award-winning Garden Designer Melissa Jolly joins Dominic Frisby and Juliet Oury on this week’s episode of Business Without Bullsh-t.  Melissa’s work has won her the BBC Gardeners World Live competition and the People’s Choice Award. She's also built 3 consecutive show gardens for Royal Horticultural Society shows. As well as garden designing, Melissa likes to renovate houses that have b...

Hannah Barrett joins Dominic and Juliet on this week’s episode of Business Without Bullsh-t. Hannah’s a Yoga Instructor, Business Women, and influential Instagram star with a following of over 360,000. Her transition from being a full-time Actuary to a Yoga Instructor began in 2014 when she became a mother. But it was when Hannah had her second child that things really changed for her. After a tra...

Melina Jacovou joins Dominic and Juliet on this week’s episode of Business Without Bullsh-t. Melina’s a very prominent figure in the UK digital industry. She founded Propel in 2001 and has grown it into one of the largest independent digital talent businesses in the UK, winning a MARA Award for “Best Large Agency” in 2012. Melina’s also a passionate Thought-Leader, Writer and Public Speaker, chall...

Neil Smith, Chairman of Tower Transit is this week’s guest on Business Without Bullsh-t along with the return of Juliet Oury as co-host! With a career spanning over 40 years in Public Transport, Neil’s originally from Sydney, Australia where he built Tower Transit - Australia’s biggest passenger carrying company responsible for carrying a whopping 380,000,000 people per year and is also present in...

This week on Business Without Bullsh-t, we take a look back at the month’s episodes in conversation with Martin Adams from Codec, Jonathan Wood from C2 Cyber and our Budget Special hosted by Oury Clark’s very own Richard Oury, Ian Phipps, Simon Walsh, Jeremy Coker alongside Andrew Oury and Dominic Frisby. You'll hear new, unheard parts of our conversations that take a deeper look at the topics we...

Jonathan Wood, Founder and CEO of C2 Cyber joins us this week to talk Business Without Bullsh-t. On the surface, Jonathan’s current work-life seems synonymous to that of a typical technophile: a former Charted Engineer with a Masters Degree in Renewable Energy Systems Technology and a certified professional in Data Protection, Jonathan now runs C2 Cyber specializing in cybersecurity for major corp...

This week, Business Without Bullsh-t sees an all-star line up joining Andy and Dominic for a UK Budget Special.    Bossman Richard Oury alongside Simon Walsh, Ian Phipps and Jeremy Coker takes to the (virtual) round table to discuss what the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak described as “the most important budget for a generation”. The team discusses an array of topics including t...

Martin Adams, Founder of Codec joins Andy and Dominic this week on Business Without Bullsh-t to talk about how Codec’s cutting-edge AI and Deep Learning technology is enabling them to help companies gain a better understanding of their audience's cultural behaviour through the content they interact with. Fascinating and smart to say the least. But the focus wasn’t just on plugging Codec. The three...

This week on Business Without Bullsh-t, we take a look back at the month’s episodes to round up some of our favourite moments in conversation with Richard Celm of Startupbootcamp Australia and Entrepreneur Tom Graham .. but with a bit of a twist .. We’ve put them together with new, unheard parts of the conversations where you'll hear Tom speak about his experiences living in China, what learnt abo...

If you caught last week’s episode, you would’ve heard just how articulately Tom spoke about a range of topics, so much so that we decided to save our favorite part of the conversation for its own mini-episode speaking about one of my hot topics, and one which is on the tip of everyone’s tongue at the moment - Cryptocurrency. Not even sure what Cryptocurrency is? don’t worry, nor does Andy, and you...

Tom Graham is this week’s guest on Business Without Bullsh-t. With a CV length stretching from London to a small Cheese shop in Paris, Tom’s career legacy really is something. He’s the Founder of several successful tech companies, was a Managing Partner at TLDR, a leading crypto advisory firm, a qualified Lawyer who lived and practiced in China speaking fluent Chinese, and was a Visiting Scholar a...