The Independent Minds

Kyle Gillette created the Blue Shirt Leadership Framework, which he explained in his book Right Now Leadership. Right Now Leadership is based on the 4-part B.L.U.E. Leadership framework that provides today's leaders with the core tenets to inspire other people to follow them. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Kyle explains to host Michael Millward the experiences he ha...

Pete Romano is the founder of Segwik.com , an AI powered customer journey optimization platform that helps businesses turn every customer interaction into a meaningful, memorable relationship. Before becoming a tech, entrepreneur Pete was a composer of advertising jingles like the Budweiser frogs . In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Pete explains to host Michael Millwar...

Rebecca Olson is a working mom, who is using her experience of motherhood to help other working mothers to balance motherhood with achieving career objectives. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Rebecca explains to host Michael Millward a few of the issues that mothers face when returning to work after maternity leave and highlights the high number of women who change t...

uRoutine  is the productive social network. uRoutine helps users to build routines that help them to achieve their objectives. The social network aspect of uRoutine enables users to support, and hold each other accountable to each others routines. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, uRoutine co-founder Ed Johnson explains to host Michael Millward how valuable having...

Philip Milne built his IT expertise working at the sharp end of business as he endeavoured to use technology in all its forms to make his business more efficient and more profitable. Now as the founder of Intelidat Philip helps other business owners make better use of their investment in IT and the data that that IT helps to generate. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds,...

Marcia Darwood is an Angel Investor, and the host of the Angel Next Door podcast. Marcia is also the author of Do Good Whie Doing Well a book in which she explains what angel investors do and how ordinary people can become angel investors. It is important to remember that angel investors make investments in companies and that these investments are not always successful. If this episode of The Inde...

Mike Moyer is a serial entrepreneur and the fonder of Slicing Pie the world’s only fair start-up equity calculator. Now Mike has written a book, the Slicing Pie Handbook. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, mike shares with host Michael Millward how the SaaS behind Slicing Pie works and how the entrepreneurs can use both Slicing Pie and the Slicing Pie Handbook. During t...

William Davis is the creator of The Leadership Blueprint  which aims to address the global crisis in corporate leadership. He is also the author of How to Lead Without Just Managing. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, William shares with host Michael Millward his view on why and how the crisis in leadership developed. William and Michael discuss the special role of...

Yaron Been is the founder of EcomXFactor , and other ecommerce related businesses. Yaron was encouraged to set-up an on-line store by a friend who had been successful. He ran this store, with his wife as a side gig to his day job for two years. After two years that business was successful enough for both Yaron and his wife to focus on ecommerce full time and adopt a digital nomad approach to worki...

Paul Hargreaves is the founder of certified B-Corp food wholesaler Cotswold Fayre , and restaurant Flourish. He is also an award-winning business author of two books The Fourth Bottom Line and Forces for Good. When Paul established Cotswold Fayre, and later his restaurant Flourish he committed to creating an inclusive employer that would welcome people to the team who might face challenges finding...

Terry Tucker has had a varied career. From college scholarship basketball player, to marketing executive, to police hostage negotiator and school safety advisor, he has certainly been there and done it. Most recently he has been battling a rare cancer. That is the sort of life event that forces you into a reflective learning mode. Unlike most people Terry has distilled his reflective learning into...

Joseph Rockey is the author of Casino Sales Master and the founder of Elite Business Conversations . Joe got his first job in sales at the age of 18. It was the start of an addiction to being paid for his results, instead of swapping time for money. He believes that selling has been tarnished by people who attempt to force sales, and that the best deals for both buyers and sellers happen when they...

Gal Ezra is the founder of Guaranteed Prosperity.  It was an organisation which was inspired by the advice Gal received from his father when he found himself stranded in South Africa, unable to return home because of a visa mix up. Gal needed money, but his father would not send it. Instead, Gal business received advice so that as his father said he could make his own money. After building se...

Rob Lion is the founder of Black River Performance Management and a Professor of Human Resource Development at Idaho State University . Rob is dedicated to helping organisations build cultures that foster employee well-being whilst supporting the achievement of organisational objectives. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Rob Lion and host Michael Millward discuss what...

Hannah Acosta works at Ugly Mug Marketing in Alexandria, Louisiana, USA. In this episode, of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Hannah starts by explaining how David Ogilvy inspired the name Ugly Mug Marketing.  Hannah then explains some of the assumptions that companies make about marketing that ultimately result in the failure of their marketing initiatives. Hannah also explains to...

David Eriksson is the founder of Eriscale a provider of relationship first outbound sales strategies. As the founder of Eriscale, David Eriksson helps B2B service providers to increase their rate of growth by adopting a relationship first approach to sales. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, David explains to host Michael Millward the four stages of the Relationship Fir...

Usman Skeikh is the Strategic Leader of Web Worx Labs a digital marketing agency based in Toronto Canada. Usman joins host Michael Millward from a conference in Toronto, to talk about how Web Worx Labs has adopted a build from scratch approach to digital design. Michael Millward discusses his experience of using both built from scratch websites and template-based websites. Usman and Michael discus...

Jim James had his first experience of being an entrepreneur when he needed to raise funds to participate in Operation Raleigh , by doing a parachute jump. Jim then found himself in Singapore looking for a supplier. Unable to locate one he decided to set up as the supplier he could not find. The business grew to several locations. Jim has always been fascinated by entrepreneurs and now hosts the su...

Nathan Turner is the founder of Earnest Investing a company that invests in property. Nathan identified that he liked the regular income that being a residential landlord provided. But that was the only aspect of being a landlord that he did like. So, he hit on an approach that would provide the regular income, without the other responsibilities. In the process he created a different way for peopl...

Erin Craske has built more than forty product brands for large FMCG companies including, L'Oréal, Reckitt Benckiser, British American Tobacco, SSL International, Mars, P&G, and Walgreen Boots Alliance. Yet Erin describes herself as someone who does not fit into the corporate machine. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Erin and host Michael Millward discuss why busin...

When Jeff Barnes , the author of All Hands-On Deck asked at a networking event how to explain what his business did to potential customers, the advice he received was to focus on what made him unique. Like many people it is Jeff’s experience that brings something special to what he does today. Success in the first stage of his career meant that Jeff had to rely on his wits and the instruction manu...

In the 16 years since 2008 Dave Valentine has provided hundreds of clients like Target and Real Simple with consultancy and marketing services that have helped them add over a billion US Dollars in business growth. It is says Dave, all about finding ways to maximise the return on every dollar of marketing spend. As Dave explains in this episode of The Independent Minds it is the money that should...

Jonathan Baum is the founder of Avenir Law a law firm based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA. Jonathan is concerned that too many lawyers/solicitors and other professionals are working excessive hours. He believes that professional service firms know that this practice has a negative impact on both individual workers and the quality of the work they produce. In this episode of the Abeceder...

As someone who has contributed to over 200 patents Sam Zellner is undoubtedly an innovator. Sam is the founder and CEO of Inspire IP, a SaaS platform that helps corporations build and sustain innovation ecosystems. He serves on the USIPA board, is one of   IAM's Top 300 IP Strategists. and is regarded as a leader in innovation. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Sa...

A straightforward explanation of Artificial Intelligence. Garik Tate is an AI Futurist, and the founder of Valhalla a software company based in the Philippines. In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds, Garik explains to host Michael Millward the technical discoveries that made the Artificial Intelligence (AI) possible and how AI works. Although the technology has been around...