The Millennial Entrepreneur

In this episode, I talked with Jack Rolfe, the founder of The Coaching Lab, a card based coaching business that aims to make sport training more intensive and challenging. We talk about how he started the idea to now living in Australia running his business remotely boasting customers that include massive sporting teams such as Leicester football club, Bournemouth football club, as well as rugby a...

In this episode, I spoke to Damian Zabielski, one of the co-creators of Mind Mapper UK, a start up focusing on improving the mental health of young people.  In his time, they have campaigned and worked to improve the mental health strategies of top organisation across government such as working with the Conservative and Labour party, as well as working with universities to see how they can im...

In this episode, I spoke to Nikita Khandwala, the founder of UnbOx, a platform that bridges the gap between students who want to work in a dynamic start up and start ups who want to recruit. We also talk about how the mission of her and her business is to promote diversity in the start-up space to get more women and ethnic minorities to change the landscape and offer more opportunity to all backgr...

In this episode, I had a really eyeopening and inspiring discussion with Pravjoth, who goes into how growing up with a disability and then surviving cancer at the age of 17 has given her the motivation to start a fitness and wellbeing brand focused on disabled people. She talks about how her mindset changed once she got diagnosed with cancer and goes into how this life changing experience has moti...

In this episode, I spoke to Sabrina Stocker, a semi-finalist of BBC’s The Apprentice. It was an amazing chat where we talked about what life has been like before and after the hit TV show in terms of business and her personal brand image, along with personal branding advice for people listening. We talk about how she has ventured into business coaching and even coaching celebrities, and of course...

Today I spoke to Arminder Singh Dhillon, the teenage founder of Boot Buddy. If the name sounds familiar its because he was the youngest ever person in Dragon's Den history to get successful investment and not only with one dragon but with three of them.  The business and Arminder have been featured across loads of TV channels obviously. So we talk about the experience of Dragon’s Den, some be...

In this episode I talked to Ian Roth, who gives a leadership masterclass on how to be an effective leader from his experience being in the USA army, seeing action in Afghanistan. He also gives an insight into what it’s like running two podcasts while working full-time with a family and tips for any aspiring podcasters. --- Opportunity: Over the next 3 years, Innovate UK has £2.2 million to support...

Today I spoke to Nav Sawhney, the founder of The Washing Machine Project ( https://thewashingmachineproject.org/ ). This is an amazing business that has been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, ITV and many more, with the ambition of providing hand powered washing machines for underdeveloped communities.  He talks about how he left his well-paid dream job at Dyson to embark on this journey aft...

Today I had an amazing conversation with Kurt Henderson, one of the co-founders of Nava ( https://www.usenava.com/ ). Nava simply discovers the places and the people that make your area unique, making the whole process of travelling and visiting new cities unique and personalised to you. It mixes curation and AI to find the places perfect for you. Everything on NAVA – from events, to restaurants a...

Today I spoke to Roman Bromidge and Konstantina Psoma, the co-founders of Kaedim ( https://www.kaedim.com/ ). If you’re a big gamer like me, you’ll love this episode and if you’re not a gamer, that’s cool; it's a great episode with two incredibly intelligent university students that are experimenting with artificial intelligence to revolutionise the gaming development industry, so you might as wel...

Today I spoke to Eoin Sharkey, the founder of The BioFactory ( https://the-biofactory.com/ ). Now you want to listen to this episode because his company is turning poo into fuel, helping poor communities with sanitation issues and also providing fuel. We cover how he’s achieving this, while striving to be a for-profit company, talking about the technology behind it and challenges he’s facing with...

Today, I had an amazing conversation with Lauren Bell, founder of Cosi Care ( http://www.cosicare.co.uk/ ), a business that has created patented technology to help children suffering with eczema. We talk about how she took an idea for a physical product straight out of uni to prototyping, taking part in loads of start-up competitions pitching in front of some pretty big household names, patenting...

In the conversation, I spoke to Henry Purchase, co-founder of CONNEX.EVENTS (www.connex.events); platform that finds industry-leading events that interest students by volunteering or purchasing discounted tickets, facilitating growth of knowledge,  job opportunities and network building.  Instagram: @connex.events  We spoke about his journey starting his business coming from being a...

In the conversation, I spoke to Lydia Jones, the founder of Housemates ( www.housemates.io ); a platform that streamlines the whole process of booking student accommodation for both landlords and students. Having dropped out of school at the age of 15 to recently securing £100,000 in funding for her start-up at just 21, we talk about the process behind this along with other lessons she has learnt...

In this episode, I spoke to Simmy Dhillon, founder of Rice n Spice ( https://rnsmeals.com/ ), about how he started his meal delivery service from his university kitchen to now turning over 6 figures in revenue, providing food to premier league winners and reality TV stars. We also talk about how his mum was a massive motivation to him that he used RNS (Instagram: @rice_n_spice_) to allow her to re...

In this episode, I spoke to Ben Fisher who went from studying physics with his sights set on working within the defence industry to founding an app in beauty called Beu ( https://www.beuapp.com/ ). The Millennial Entrepreneur publishes a new episode EVERY WEEK, showcasing the most inspirational young hustlers and analysing their journeys. Be sure to share and subscribe. Don't forget to leave a rat...

In this episode, I spoke to Ilham Said, the young founder behind Engineer2Engineer ( eng2eng.net / @engineer2engineer), a revolutionary platform in the space of EdTech, who has already partnered up with the University of Bristol, along with gathering interest from other educational institutions while studying and being just 22 years old. In the conversation we spoke about how to gather support fro...

In this episode, I had an amazing insight into how AJ ( LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/edaj/ ) started his nightclub and music based events company as a side hustle while studying at university, while also selling 1,500 tickets at his largest event, along with organising a massive music festival with Example as headliner. I talked to him about how others can successfully start this side-hu...

Ayush Sanghavi (@ayushapps) is an 18 year old founder of an app called Veggie Alternatives that has been featured on The Huffington Post and BBC’s The One Show, with the ambition of making the transition to a vegan or vegetarian diet as effortless as possible. He has won and participated in numerous start-up competitions and has recently been offered a place to study at the University of Cambridge...