The Millennial Entrepreneur

In this episode, I spoke with Izzy Prior, founder of Spark Social and LinkedIn growth expert. 🌟 We covered: ✅The opportunities growing your LinkedIn personal brand can bring you ✅The overall strategy in order to implement how she grew her LinkedIn following and how you can do the same ✅The dark side of LinkedIn and the mental obstacles that come with it and how to overcome --- YouTube Channel:...

In this episode, I spoke to former Made in Chelsea star and co-founder of The Cirkel, Eliza Batten We covered: ⁠ ⁠ ✅️ Eliza’s background as a Made in Chelsea star, how she got involved, her craziest experiences, and whether being a founder is harder than being on reality TV 🌟 ✅️ Whether being a founder is harder than being on reality TV and how being part of Made in Chelsea moulded her into bei...

In this episode I spoke to Alex Merry, a public speaking coach that has trained many corporate speakers and has not only spoken at TEDx himself, but organised it. We covered: ✅️ Why public speaking is so important to entrepreneurs to the success of your business 🎤 ✅️ How to improve your confidence when on stage or pitching 💁 ✅️ How to build a connection with your audience when you are speakin...

In this episode, I spoke to Dylan Rich, sales coach and founder of Automated Revenue, a platform that trains salespeople. We covered: ✅️ Why sales are so important in the startup space regardless of the type of entrepreneur you are ✅️ How to construct a sales cycle and tips on closing a sale ✅️ Common mistakes people make when selling and how you can increase your close rate --- YouTube Channel...

In this episode, I spoke to Lucy Lettice, co-founder of &SISTERS, a sustainably focused period care brand.  In the episode, we covered:  ✅️ Why Lucy decided to start a brand within women’s health ♀️ ✅️ The importance of education and how &SISTERS educate women at scale with the dangers of existing products on the market in terms of impact on their health and impact on the envir...

In this episode, I spoke with Sean Ruane, the founder of Mind Data, a startup focusing on tracking mental health data for individuals We covered: ✅️ How Sean personally suffered with mental health issues himself that pushed him to the brink of suicide 🧠 ✅️ Why he decided to seek therapy and why he decided to endeavour on a mission to improve the mental health of 1M people worldwide 🕊️ ✅️ Why h...

In this episode I spoke to Lewis Ellis, former star of The Apprentice and founder of marketing agency, Hussel Marketing 💼 We covered: ✅️ Behind the scenes of The Apprentice and how he got to the top 5 of the competition. How life changed for him after the TV show 📺 ✅️ What Lewis was like at a young age where he got into business slightly later - what made him take that jump 🤝 ✅️ Speaking abo...

In this episode, I spoke to Myles Dickinson, the youngest person ever to get investment on Dragon’s Den solo with his business Haze Cards, sealing investment from Steven Bartlett 🤯  We covered:  ✅️ How he started Haze Cards in his university bedroom at the age of 18 and how he grew the business to generating over £120k in revenue in the first 6 months 📉 ✅️ His experience of applying...

In this episode I spoke with Tanya Marwaha, founder of Championing Youth Minds, a platform that helps young people with mental health We talked about: ✅️ How Tanya started her journey battling with her own mental health 💪 ✅️ How Tanya being from a South Asian background impacted her ability to seek help 🌍 ✅️ How she hosts workshops and how she has monetised helping young people with their men...

In this episode, I spoke with Parker Olson, the founder of Forij - an award winning granola enriched with vital brain nutrients (derived from mushrooms) We covered: ✅️ How he started the business while living in a tent in his back garden to make more space for raw ingredients in his room ✅️ Why Parker decided to start a business within mushrooms ✅️ How he has grown the business, the challenges,...

In this episode, I spoke with Anand Mistry, co-founder of ProjectCHAKRA. We covered:  ✅️ What is the mission and purpose of ProjectCHAKRA and how to bridge that gap between opportunities in socially driven opportunities and talent 🤝 ✅️ Why he decided to run workshops in developing nations and universities 🌎 ✅️ How they are harnessing gamification to make this possible 💪 -- YouTube Chann...

In this episode, I spoke with Maya Raichoora, a mental fitness coach working with professionals and global brands. We covered: ✅️ What is mental fitness and how Maya’s story started with her suffering in hospital at the age to 15🤯 ✅️ How you can use visualisation 💭 -- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8Pd3VD2lZbjSoc-OCtp1w REE SHARE WORTH UPTO £200 🤑: https://magic.freetrade...

In this episode, I spoke to Writesonic founder and CEO, Samanyou Garg. We covered: ✅️ How Writesonic started, becoming one of the first generative AI companies that got accepted into Y Combinator 🤯 ✅️ What his stance is on the world of AI currently 🌍 ✅️ How you can build a business around AI, how easy it is to start, and the mistakes founders make 📉 -- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.co...

In this episode I spoke with AJ, former CEO of one of the largest community of entrepreneurs in the world, Foundrs. 🗺️ In the conversation we cover: ✅️ Why he believes community amongst entrepreneurship is so important and how you should be viewing community as a young entrepreneur💪 ✅️ How he got the role in Foundrs after getting rejected the first time to why he’s decided to leave 👋 ✅️ The i...

In this episode, I spoke to Holly Simmons, co-founder at Niya , a platform that connects organisations to a global community of underrepresented people. We covered: ✅️ How she grow Niya as a two-sided marketplace ✅The power of networking and the impact it has delivered for her ✅️ We she decided for Niya to be very niche, where they are catered to migrant workers, rather than opening it up wider...

In this episode, I spoke with Dr Ally Jaffee, NHS doctor and co-founder of Nutritank , a think tank for holistic health and preventative medicine. We spoke about: ✅️Why she decided to start her own business as a junior doctor in the NHS ✈️ ✅️The importance of holistic health 🧑‍⚕️ ✅️The health issues young entrepreneurs face and how to tackle these problems 💪 --- YouTube Channel: https://www.y...

In this episode, we returned back Ben Leavitt onto the podcast. We covered: ✅️ Why you should consider YouTube as a business growth channel 🔗 ✅️ Short form vs long form content - where and how should they be used and what growth metrics should be defined here 📉 ✅️ YouTube SEO and what businesses get wrong with a YouTube growth strategy 🎥 --- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U...

In this episode, I spoke to Ciaran Savage, founder of Card Industry Professionals and Forbes 30 Under 30 Winner. We covered: ✅️ How he got started in payments and how others can enter too ✅️ How he wanted to become an actor but got his girlfriend at the time pregnant at a young age for both forcing him to reprioritise his life ✅️How he scaled his payment firm from nothing to over $2m in revenue...

In this episode, I spoke to Ian Nene, a former actor and monk. We covered: ✅️ How Ian started his spiritual journey ✅️ What are young entrepreneurs' purposes, values and how do you find them ✅️ The most significant challenges young entrepreneurs face currently when it comes to finding purpose and happiness and how to confront them. --- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8Pd3VD2...

In this episode, I spoke to Danielle Theobald, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest growth expert We covered: ✅️ Why you should be considering Pinterest as part of your marketing strategy, the numbers blew my mind ✅️ Which businesses should consider it to get the most impact ✅️ How you can implement a strategy and how it plays into the overall social strategy --- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube...

In this episode, I spoke to Matt Haycox, founder and entrepreneur.  We cover: - How he started in entrepreneurship, starting in business at 16, to becoming the UK's biggest strip club owner by 27 - How he went bankrupt at 28 - What he looks for when investing in businesses --- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8Pd3VD2lZbjSoc-OCtp1w Interested in spon...

In this episode I spoke to Josh White, Forbes 30 under 30 and co-founder of CanO Water. This is a huge business Josh has created built on the concept of canned water. Extremely simple but scaled massively We cover: - How he came up with the idea and scaled it given an extremely crowded market and also the product itself being extremely simple. Where he saw the value - How he managed to stock in th...

In this episode I spoke to Forbes 30 Under 30 Winner and co-founder of Rotaro, Georgie Hyatt. Rotaro is the leading fashion rental platform for luxury brands and ethical fashion activists. We covered: ✅️Why she decided to leave her role to focus on circular fashion👗 ✅️ The issue of fast fashion and how technology can solve it 💻 ✅️ Her process of landing partnerships with the likes of Carnaby...

In this episode I spoke to Lara Acosta, LinkedIn personal branding expert We covered: - How Lara grew her following from zero to thousands in a matter of months and the impact it had on her and her business in terms of the opportunities she got - The step by step strategy in order to implement how she grew her LinkedIn following and how you can do the same - The dark side of LinkedIn and the menta...

In this episode, I spoke to Ryan Williams, co-founder of Komi, a social media content agency that he exited We cover: - How Ryan started his journey making football meme pages. - How much money Ryan and his team were generating on a weekly basis with Facebook and Twitter pages and the most they made from one video, it is crazy. - Why he decided to exit his business and what is doing now to help yo...