The Graduate Guide

In this episode, Victoria shares her journey in the marketing industry, from consulting to working for Nestle and Google. She discusses her passion for influencer marketing and the greater economy. Victoria also reveals how she discovered her interest in marketing through a marketing internship and why she decided to pursue it as a career. Tune in to learn more about her experiences and insights i...

In this podcast, Harry, the COO of a company called Homebox, discusses the company's role as a bill bundling company. Homebox manages and bundles all of the utilities for tenants in households, such as energy, council tax, water, TV license, and broadband. Harry also talks about the future of the company in the realm of banking and how they aim to provide better tailored financial solutions than t...

Meet Nick Paine - the man who provides the likes of Five Guys, Popeyes and Pizza Hut with 5+ returns on investment every single month! For example - Tortilla saved Over $18k, across all stores, in one month. How does it work? Online delivery has redefined dining. As fraudulent claims roll in from customers, OpSpot’s no-touch, low-cost and data-light operations management platform transforms a time...

Meet Reese Wong… the 20 year old award-winning, community builder and speaker! At age 16, he founded ISSIA, Hong Kong's largest youth-led nonprofit. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved 300+ volunteers from 80+ schools, launching 30+ projects; featured on 15+ platforms. As an international speaker, he has spoken to 3000+ attendees at 60+ engagements, including global conferences and schools. He have bee...

Joe Seddon is the Founder & CEO of Zero Gravity, a mission-driven business that unlocks potential by mentoring talented students from low-opportunity backgrounds into university, work, and life. Since launch, Zero Gravity has mentored 8,000+ students into top universities, and our success stories have been featured in BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4, and The Times, amongst others. This was truly...

❗️The Uber for last minute bookings❗️ As a student living in London there we countless evenings where my friends and I would be like… “Let’s just go out” But then you end up going to the same late night bar having experienced nothing new. Ambl. is on a mission to solve the inability to find anywhere good to eat, drink, watch sport and socialise spontaneously. I had the co-founder, Aaron Solomon...

The Graduate Guide has a new SPONSOR and a new STUDIO‼️ I’m so proud to announce that Tom's Trunks is the new sponsor of my podcast and I couldn’t think of a more fitting brand. Tom Holmes started his company when he was 14 and has gradually built it into one of the biggest beachwear brands in the world. The Graduate Guide is all about challenging yourself to seek the career you are most passionat...

This week we are joined by Simmy Dhillon, who started Simmer, a food business offering easy, tasty meals for busy people, at university, with his mum and brother. He walks us through his time at the University of Bristol, internships at Google and banking and his path to freedom from corporate life.- the benefits of starting a business young (20:00)- building accountability for yourself (23:00)- w...

Ian McKenzie is a personal branding expert. He has previously worked for companies such as Unilever and Sports Interactive, before pivoting towards helping to grow people’s brands, becoming self-employed. Ian opens up about his journey, exposing low points such as unfavourable GCSE results, the struggles of self-employment and, as with all guests, his interesting, family-based idea of success. In...

Hashim Syed is a Regional Product Lead at Google, having previously worked at Meta and Microsoft too. Whilst at the University of York (grad. 2018), Hash started his own consulting business, and is now heavily involved in the startup world, in industries such as health and fitness. In this conversation, Hash and Peter discuss topics, such as: ‘We regret to inform you…’: The perils of student job h...

Navjot Sawhney is the Founder of The Washing Machine Project, who are pioneers in the global manual washing machine space, and solving a problem for thousands of people worldwide. After university, Navjot was in a seemingly ideal situation, having been accepted onto the Dyson graduate scheme: one of the most prestigious around. Yet, Navjot grew disillusioned with the nature of his work and who it...

Sam Hörbye is the Co-Founder of Olsam Group, who grow Amazon ‘side-hustle’ businesses, identifying and acquiring them in a unique private equity model. Sam’s path to entrepreneurship was far from conventional, having run his own stationery side-hustle whilst working at Amazon himself. Olsam has since raised $170m in VC funding led by Elevat3 Capital which boasts Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s firs...

In this episode, the Chief Development Officer of Esports Global Fund, Latimer King, explains all things esports. We dive into the endless opportunities available for a career in esports that many would not be aware of. Lat's mission is to grow the British esports industry and he provides invaluable insight into how people still in education, recent graduates or anyone looking for new direction in...

In this episode, we sit down with Karishma Gupta, a rising star in the fashion industry. Karishma shares her inspiring story of how she pursued her dreams of fashion entrepreneurship, moving from India to London to establish her own business as a woman and person of colour. Despite facing biases from others, Karishma never let those affect how she viewed herself, and she speaks passionately about...

In this episode, we sit down with Craig Fenton, the Managing Director of Strategy and Operations at Google. Craig's journey is an inspiring one, and he shares with us his incredible story of how he got to where he is today. After leaving university, Craig trained in law before realizing his passion lay elsewhere. He went on to earn an MBA, graduating top of his class at the London Business School....

Leone Baron is a young leader in the sustainability space. Having graduated from UCL in 2019, she has gone on to found Following the Footprints which digs into how consumer goods businesses are innovating to have a more positive environmental impact'. This has led to many opportunities, including her current role as Community Lead at MCJ Collective, one of the largest climate communities in the wo...

This week we spoke to Tessa Clarke, the CEO and co-founder of Olio, a mobile app pioneering ‘sharing’ culture and championing sustainability. We spoke to her about her storied career, where she has worked at BCG, Dyson and other organisations after graduating from her Bachelor’s at Cambridge. She offered advice about leaping into entrepreneurship and navigating the corporate world, whilst educatin...

Charles has had immense success as a businessman since dropping out of UCL with his companies Gelcard and Water2. Having started Gelcard during the pandemic, his lone success with this venture led him to coverage on BBC and Sky News. In this episode, Charles discusses the highs and lows of entrepreneurship at a young age and gives invaluable advice on how to navigate this unique career path. Charl...

Joining us today is a different kind of guest to usual. We had the privilege of talking to UCL councillor, Kate Joseph, who shared her wisdom on how to improve your mental health as a worried student or a lost graduate. Her extensive experience as a therapist meant she was a perfect guest to cover this career path and both Nelith and I really felt we took a lot from this episode.

Cristina is an engineer by trade but has found herself working as the COO at the company she co-founded, Bound4Blue. Her accolades include selection as one of Europe’s Top 50 most promising entrepreneurs in 2017 , she received the 2019 edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Award, in 2020 she won the FEDEPE’s Innovation and Female Entrepreneurship Award and the EIT Woman Award, in 2021 she received the...

DJ Priya is one of the bright lights of the British electronic music scene. Having only picked up the decks for the first time five years ago, her meteoric rise has led her to play at events that many can only dream of: working with established names in the scene (such as The Warehouse Project and Boiler Room) and beyond (Adidas). In this episode, she sheds light on this highly opaque industry and...

Freddy is a podcast host, producer and editor of some of the biggest sports podcasts worldwide, including The Rugby Pod, Around the Wicket and The RigBiz Podcast. Since graduating from Kings College London in Politics, he has found himself working in an eclectic mix of career paths within the corporate and arts world. In this episode, Freddy shares advice on fulfilling your own idea of success, th...

Sam is a final year student at LSE studying Mathematics and Economics. While completing his studies, he has been about as successful as one can be in preparing himself for a fruitful career. He has ultimately decided that a career in consulting is what he wants to do as a postgraduate with MBB consulting firm, McKinsey. However, despite not making it his career, in this episode he speaks about the...

Shanil is an ex BARCAP and KPMG employee and having decided to follow his passion of entrepreneurship has now landed a job as one of Moove's senior strategy associates. In this episode, he gives an honest account on what to expect from investment banking and consultancy as well as advice on how to land a job in this extremely competitive industry. He has also started an app on the Shopify platform...

Amelia is the CEO and Founder of Bijoux De Mimi, which is one of the fastest growing UK jewellery brands, winning the highly commended brand of the year award in 2021 and contributed to Amelia earning a runners up spot for the young entrepreneur of the year award 2022. Whether you want to pursue a career in fashion, start your own company or are struggling to find a career out of your talents, Ame...