Sound Advice: Entrepreneurs Unfiltered

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give more insight from our star entrepreneurs. The founder of Small Robot Company believed in his prototype made from Blu-tack and elastic bands but when early customers didn’t, he persisted. Listen to the full episode here: Apple Spotify

The co-founder of Songkick and carbon-offsetting platform Supercritical, on imposter syndrome as a non-coder, raising investment, burnout and facing failure.

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, the founder of The Cornwall Camper Company shares how she taught herself everything she needed to know through Google and YouTube. Listen to the full episode here: Apple Spotify 

We know tax can be scary and numbers daunting but don't worry, this episode features 5 small business owners laying out the fundamentals to getting tax right – and what they've learned from some hairy moments…

Covert discrimination, invisible barriers, being broke, raising a million, feminism, intersectionality - if you want to reach your next business milestone, then you NEED this episode with the inspirational founder of WAH Nails and The Stack World.

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, the co-founder of YEO Messaging—and 2 other International Women's Day guests—confide the challenges of being women in business. Listen to the full episode here: Apple Spotify

What's more important; the ability to make, or the ability to sell? Both, says the co-founder of Hiut Denim. Here's how he built a global brand from nothing.

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, Sahar Hashemi reveals how she persevered when 19 bank managers told her that Coffee Republic was a 'crazy' idea. Listen to the full episode here: Apple Spotify

When the pandemic grounded Joe Townshend’s career as a pilot, he saw an opportunity to chart a course towards being his own boss. Fast forward a year and Altitude Coffee is soaring, bringing hand-roasted coffee to everyone. Here’s how he did it. 

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, Solveiga Pakštaitė confides what she did when an angel investor disappeared, leaving her without the funds to pay her staff. Listen to the full episode here: Apple Spotify 

From huddling in a fire escape, cold calling dismissive beer bosses, to creating a disruptive brand that lives up to it's name ‘Lucky’ Saint, this is Luke Boase’s epic story of perseverance, false starts and last-minute flights.

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, Mathew Porter confides how manufacturers stonewalled his idea to bring glass straws to market. Listen to the full episode here: Apple Podcasts Spotify 

In the depths of postnatal depression Samantha Senior found herself 'scouring the internet to change how she looked’.   Unexpectedly, her research led her not to botox, but an entrepreneurial lightbulb moment that injected the passion back into her life.

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, Alec Dobbie confides he had some harebrained ideas that never would have made money. Listen to the full episode here: Apple : http://1sa.ge/1EJw50H9jgB Spotify : http://1sa.ge/TI0z50H9jmJ

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini-sodes give even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, Julien Callède confides the mistakes he made in the early days of setting up Made.com Listen to the full episode here: Apple: http://1sa.ge/LWQP50H9jeF Spotify: http://1sa.ge/Ajkr50H9jkO  

'There is no nursery slope in business.’ Approached by an army general to be a classic Cool Runnings-style bobsleigh sprinter, Will Golder was off to the Olympics – until injury struck and a new, entrepreneurial career beckoned.

Thinking of setting up your own creative business in the New Year? The fabulous founder of Cake or Death talks making a sell-out product from your side hustle. It's practically an MBA in leopard print letterbox brownies.

Sound Advice is known for truth-telling and our mini episodes are designed to give you even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. This week, Carl Reader confides how to start up on a shoestring budget. Listen to the full episode here:  Apple: http://1sa.ge/hANZ50H2EbY Spotify: http://1sa.ge/MizS50H2EeX

Let’s Be Honest, it’s hard to start a small business.  Sound Advice is known for its truth-telling, that’s our USP, and our brand-new mini series is designed to give you even more insight from our star entrepreneurs. 

Nothing we can write here will do this two-part episode justice. Not only does Carl Reader subvert all the usual myths and clichés of being an entrepreneur, he tells small businesses how to crack tax fear and get to grips with Making Tax Digital. 

Getting into the nuts and bolts of starting a business from scratch, ditching trad business plans, driving yourself with fear, having uncomfortable convos and creative avoidance. You need this two-part episode with the star that is Carl Reader. 

Do you have £0? Then you can build a business, says the founder of Colleague Box. And not just any business. When Nat Bamford’s accountant told her to sell 7,000 boxes to break even – she sold over 100,000. Here’s how she did it from her spare room.

How do you make your passion project profitable? When Natalie Bannister moved to London from Portugal she lost her community in the process, so set up Gutsy Girls, running bespoke retreats and unique active experiences to bring women together. 

Mart and Rob Drake-Knight set up Teemill in a garden shed. From tinkering with Epson printers to building factory robots from old eBay parts, this is how the pair built the first open access circular fashion supply chain from scratch. 

When is the right time to quit the day job and start your own business? Disillusioned by the 9-5, barristers clerk Rob Abrahams retrained in his spare time as a plumber before taking the leap to set up RJA Plumbing. Here's how he did it.