The Unlock with Oliver Bruce

Sophia Proctor who in a former life worked in PR for British Airways before being made redundant just before the 2020 pandemic used her redundancy payoff to change her life forever. 🚀 Sophia conceptualised, designed, manufactured and started to distribute her innovative children's mealtime toy at the hight of a global pandemic using entirely UK manufacturers. With a wealth of knowledge in the PR...

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Becoming the worlds largest podcast collaboration platform wasn't where it all started Audry's co-founders...  Niklas' initial business idea conceptually was sound, however, in hindsight, one small adaptation from the likes of Instagram and their business would be no more. It was this realisation and acceptance that lead Niklas and his business partner to start the 'Tinder' of podcast platforms -...

From a life in the city to selling second handbags, not the route to entrepreneurialism one might imagine.  James, since founding Cudoni (luxury goods and fashion resale service)  through the power of LinkedIn and the odd bit of stalking has raised in excess of £7million in seed capital to get his concept off the ground.  Oliver asks how an idea of selling posh goods, second hand garments and your...

Lifetime entrepreneur Richard Lowden started his career working under an alias for his Dad's business so his colleagues didn't realise he was the Chairmans son...  As Richard absorbed and grew within the firm one day his father summoned him into the boardroom and fired him. Why? Because he had been taught all he could learn, it was time to spread his wings and go it alone! This, in the late 80s wa...

Founded in 2017 the duo behind Big Bake London would be more likely to be found in a glass fronted boardroom than a kitchen full of icing sugar.  Prior to the pair's entrepreneurial endeavours, Adam & Eloise had climbed the corporate ladder in the world of Aerospace and Marketing. Throwing the towel in on a six figure salary to bake cakes takes some guts!  In this Christmas special, multi-awar...

SUCCESS for 15% OFF all products at www.beaufortandblake.com - available until 31st December 2020.  Before visiting a mate at University for a pint Ed worked on Saville Row cutting his teeth in the world of tailoring. It was over a beer at the infamous Royal Agriculturally University that Ed decided to sew a Union Jack to the back of his dress shirt for a 'Best Of British' themed party, this was t...

For 15% off all products mentioned in this podcast use discount code CAMSUCCESS  Hospitalised aged 21 from one of the most common skin conditions, eczema, Camille decided she wanted to empower and inspire other 'warriors' going through similar experiences. It was this want and drive to inspire and empower that led Camille to founding her first business as well as writing 2 best selling books "The...

Oliver Bruce interviews Rory Sweet, the British version of The Wolf of Wall Street... Rory Sweet founded RBR Networks from his London flat in his early 20s and within 6 months had turned over more than £1million, he's now estimated to be worth £700m, not bad, but how can a bedroom startup selling grey kit become one of Europe's largest IT distributors?  Rory speaks about how having 'fun' has alway...

With over £1bn worth of interviews in Series 2 we've the great and good of entrepreneurial Britain discussing what it takes to turn a dream into a reality.  Launching November 4th 2020. 

In this podcast we look back over the last 8 inspirational and highly entrepreneurial episodes.  From gin and hand sanitiser to influencer marketing and alcoholic sweets, series 1 has been a lot of fun with some really inspiring, eyeopening and motivating stories shared by some of the UK's most watched up and coming owner entrepreneurs!   We will be back on November the 4th 2020 with an all new li...

After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2015 Jasmine Thomas said to her mother "there's no point in crying over spilt milk" alas this belief and ethic has enables Jas to become the business leader she is today!  Jasmine continued after her diagnosis to work for a large London City firm. It wasn't until Jasmine's discovery of cannabis and other CBD/alternative products & therapies that...

From bouncy castles to gun slips followed by a trip to Spain to start a shoe business which ultimately led to a court settlement... Starting a business isn't as easy as it may seem, it certainly wasn't for the Fairfax and Favor boys.  Felix talks to Oliver about how his assumption in the early days nearly cost him and his business partner their business. What was the turning point for Fairfax and...

From Director of Opportunities at the Royal Mail through to Editor in Chief at Woman in Business Magazine, Susannah Scofield's corporate career spanned nearly two decades.  Susannah picked up an OBE from HRH in the New Years Honours List and now sits as the Director General for the Direct Selling Association though whilst it was once six figure salaries and recognition from royalty she packed it a...

Initially a byproduct of a dating board game (pre Tinder/Bumble) Smith & Sinclair brought to market alcoholic gummy sweets. 3 days after launching Smith & Sinclair landed an order for over 20,000 sweets. With little infrastructure, no kitchen facilities or manufacturing arm Melanie, her family and her friends spent 2 months hand making their first sizeable order!  After leaving her job in...

How do you make £1million of revenue in 1 week during a global pandemic? Hugo Tilmouth tells us how...  University engineering graduate turned entrepreneur Hugo Tilmouth, like many of us, never predicted the global pandemic of 2020. Raising £3.5million in seed funding after graduating from university, Hugo launched ChargedUp, a mobile phone charging station allowing users to rent battery packs and...

How do father and son team Chris and James Horne turn their hobby and ultimately vision of an online sporting broker into a reality?  Having not turned profit for over 10 years and struggled to make payroll on multiple occasions it was only in the last 18 months that the biggest online sporting broker GunsOnPegs finally became 'profitable'  James Horne, who sold his previous business before becomi...

What does it take to grow a gin brand with no distilling license in a market flooded with competition and very little knowledge? Felix and his 3 siblings founded Sibling Gin before most of them could legally drink alcohol. Having never run a business, been to University or worked in the food and beverage industry before, all 4 of them took the plunge in 2013 and formed family owned brand Sibling D...

At 25 years old and with over 120 staff Harry Hugo seems to be doing everything right. Aged 18 he raised £25million to start his second business after being turned down earlier on by the Bournemouth Echo for being 'too young' to write for them.  Now Harry is one of 3 founding partners at the influencer marketing agency Goat and with offices in London, New York and Singapore Harry talks to Oliver a...