Power To Speak with Confidence. Conversations that will inspire and empower.

Trevor Young is a Strategist, Consultant and a Content Marketing & Communications coach. He's also an Author & Speaker, a Content Creator & Social Broadcaster. He provides "up-to-the-minute communications strategies and astute guidance for forward-thinking individuals and businesses wanting to grow their influence and create more impact in the marketplace." If you make content to promote your busi...

Caleb Nelson describes himself as Your Concierge to Happiness, Functional Spokesperson and Image Consultant. What does that mean? Well, put simply he has dedicated his life to inspiring others to live life to their fullest potential. His company (and podcast of the same name) Naked Sunday is the pursuit of all aspects of personal growth. Exploring all topics, ranging from health, love, spiritualit...

As an Executive and Business Performance Coach, Al has worked with 1000s of people around the world, helping them to achieve remarkable success, through infinite pie thinking. His mantra is ‘Improve your thinking, improve your performance.’ He has over 30 years of business experience and is passionate about personal development and performance improvement. He also hosts the @infinitepiethinking po...

Today’s guest is author of Mental Theft, Paul Newton. Magician, mind reader, and former actor Paul, after a brush with the military, now talks about cyber security and cybercrime. As a much sort after keynote speaker, he scares the bejesus out of his audience’s telling them,  ‘You may have the best security systems in place, but I can hack the people in your organisation! It’s not all about high t...

My guest is self-confessed Creativity Evangelist, metal kid and Clash super fan, Jason Miller. He was the Senior Content Marketing Manager at LinkedIn and Senior Manager of Social Media Strategy at Marketo and Microsoft and is currently, the Marketing Director at CreativeX,   He is the best selling author of Welcome to the Funnel and runs  RockNRollCocktail.com . Jason is a global content marketin...

Digital visibility specialists and founders of Yellow Tuxedo, Emily & Alan Braithwaite, a husband-and-wife team who run their successful business from home and around their 3 young kids. They are on a mission to make growing a business online simple for as many people as possible. Emily and Alan are all about personal brand, and they are what they teach. This is a fabulous conversation that covers...

‘What I've learned is that when you have a clear vision of what kind of company you want to be and the value it offers; the confidence to market it, defend it and sell it, follows.’ This is a quote from MY business coach and guest, Christophe Stourton, and I couldn’t agree more. Christophe, founder of DEADLINOLOGY®, is a big believer in small creative businesses and aims his coaching specifically...

Welcome to the 2nd half of my fabulous conversation with Joan Hodges, actor, and wife of the late and legendary Chas Hodges - the Chas half of Chas and Dave. In this half, I find out what happened when 'Dave came along'. Also, we discuss her acting career and appearances in TV classics like Only Fools and Horses, It’s A Sin and Eastenders.  Enjoy... Watch the whole conversation on YouTube https://...

My podcast guest this week is Joan Hodges, actor, and wife of the late and legendary Chas Hodges - the Chas half of Chas and Dave. Joan’s acting career started aged 40 once her 3 children had all grown up. She’s appeared on stage and in TV classics like The Bill, London’s Burning and Only Fools and Horses, and more recently in It’s A Sin and Eastenders, proving that it’s never too late to follow y...

My guest for this episode is Johanna Hooper, Director at Limitless Peak Performance. Johanna says she is on a mission to help “accidental leaders” become leadership legends! A former Naval Officer, Johanna has had many experiences that tested her own leadership skills and has a story to prove it. Ever been on a sinking ship whilst in a leadership role?? Johanna has and it's why she can effectively...

Daniel J. Moore is Creative Director at Iron Dragon Design, a freelance creative studio based in Bournemouth, UK. Daniel’s a graphic designer whose designs are eye-catching, often encapsulating the love and interest he has in all things ‘mythical’. It’s a passion he brings to both his work and play. He’s an avid live-action role player. Part artist part psychologist Daniel uses the 12 Jungian Arch...

My podcast guest this week is content copywriter and magical storyteller, Stefano Capacchione. Stefano runs Puck Creations where he helps businesses to define their brands with content that spurs the customer into action... But he also spreads a little magic with words. He’s an Englishman living in the Netherlands and has been called the "King of the wholesome blog". He created Storytelling with P...

My first guest of 2022 is the wonderful Jill Nalder. Jill is a singer and actress who has played Madame Thénardier in Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre and was in the original 1994 cast of Sam Mendes production of Oliver at the London Palladium. She is also a founder member of the WestEnders, a musical theatre group that tour the world performing songs from West End and Broadway musicals.  Earl...

My podcast guest this week is the amazing, Gerry Clarke. Gerry is an International communications consultant and has produced over 350 films! He's an entrepreneur, educator and co-founder of the World Happiness project and Global Happy Cafe. A qualified botanist, Gerry has climbed Kilimanjaro, crossed North America on a Greyhound bus and designed a mobile unit to help the King of Swaziland communi...

My guest is local businessman and Southbourne legend, Gordon Fong. Apologies in advance for the sound quality and background noise. WE recorded huddled in a corner of the downstairs bar having been evacuated after a power cut from our original venue and following Gordons presentation at the You Are The Media Christmas extravaganza. We chatted whilst everyone else was enjoying the ‘after show’ fest...

We are all in the persuasion business. Or so says my guest for this episode, Andrew Thorp. He's a Ted Talk speaker and trainer in the applied story telling arena. ‘Applied story telling?’ I hear you ask. Yes. That means it’s storytelling applied to business not storytelling for entertaining your kids or mates down the pub. Storytelling for businesspeople who need to be heard, get their message acr...

Johnny is the host of Speaking Influence, the podcast about the psychology and application of influence and persuasion in life and business. Speaking Influence sits within the podcast global top 10 and so for me this was a fabulous opportunity to find out the some of the secrets of podcast success from a master. Johnny is not just a very successful podcast host, he's also a persuasive presentation...

Janine Coombes is a marketing and advertising specialist with the self-titled job description of Chief Offer Creation Genius. She works with service-based businesses to turn their lukewarm offers into sizzling hot must-haves. Janine is known on social media for her colourful, humorous and unashamedly positive videos and posts. She tells me how some misogynistic feedback to a colleague led to her d...

Jon Burkhart is an award-winning keynote speaker and regular at South By Southwest Interactive, as well as a performer, educator, marketer and fire cracking firebrand! He is co-author of the marketing book Newsjacking: The Urgent Genius of Real-time Advertising and founder of marketing consultancy TBC Global Ltd. He inspires his audiences with interactive games and firecracker questions helping th...

Lois is the founder of Bee Loud Words and delivers workshops for kids on how to live well, be healthy and happy. She describes herself as a bouncy Tigger! You'll find out why when you listen, but maybe that should be 'bounce back Tigger! Lois has been on quite a journey in her life. As a child, she bounced from vicarage to vicarage with her family before becoming an Engish teacher eventually head...

And breathe... Tracey Howes is a functional breathwork instructor. That is, she teaches people how to breathe! See, you thought you knew how to do that but it turns out there is SO much more to it. More, even than I thought I knew, and breathing exercises are fundamental to what I do in my work. In our absolutely fascinating conversation, Tracey explains the life-enhancing benefits of breathwork,...

In this episode I talk to the founder of You Are The Media, author of The Content Revolution and all-around marketing legend, Mark Masters. With You Are the media, Mark has built a valuable b2b networking and learning community. In lockdown the community transferred online and is now connecting with people from all over the world. Inviting exciting and inspirational speakers to join in the fun and...

Emily is Head of Client Services at Burlington Media Group, a market-leading niche b2b publishing, media and events company for the legal market. Sound intriguing? It is... Emily has used her classical music training and all that she learnt from travelling the world with Rockschool Ltd to help her clients in the legal world network, connect and innovate. In amongst all of this, we discuss improvis...

Wow! What a conversation. I loved listening to musical director, conductor and Westender, Jae Alexander , talking about his amazing career. I don't think there's been a musical either in the West End on or on Broadway in the last 40 years that Jae has not worked on – Cat’s, Crazy For You, Follies, Beauty and the Beast, Oliver! SO much to talk about. From humble beginnings in Port Talbot to conduct...

Rina Lang is a creative entrepreneurship coach. She helps people move from their corporate jobs into creative self-employment. A fascinating area of work dealing with our limiting beliefs around our own creativity and the expectations and pushback we get from those we love when we try to unleash it. Rina is a German now living in Mexico, her 8th country of residence! She is in the process of writi...