Millennial Masters

Yota Trom is an executive coach and promotion strategist who helps founders, leaders, and high performers ask for more, position their value properly, and stop getting overlooked. She spent years inside companies like Yahoo and Amazon, doing the long hours, staying quiet about money, and paying for it with burnout. Today, she helps clients increase their salaries, move into more senior roles, and...

Simon Jenner is the co-founder of Million Labs. He has spent the last two decades building, breaking, and rebuilding startups, from selling his first business in his mid-twenties to helping shape the early UK accelerator scene and supporting the launch of more than 1,900 startups. What makes this conversation timely is what he is seeing now. AI has made it far easier to build. People without a tec...

Dr Anmol Kapoor is a cardiologist, founder, and investor focused on helping people take control of their health earlier, with better data, clearer signals, and far less guesswork. He started as a heart doctor in Canada and quickly saw the same pattern too often. Patients were doing what they thought was right and still ending up with heart failure, repeat heart attacks, and no real explanation unt...

Nick Holzherr has already built and exited once, then chose to start again. After appearing on The Apprentice in 2012, he built Whisk, a food AI company later acquired by Samsung, spent six years inside a global product environment, then stepped away to build from scratch again. His latest company, GitLaw, is an AI legal platform for founders, backed by a $3 million pre-seed round. What makes this...

Josh Payne is the founder and CEO of Coframe. He never took a traditional route. Straight out of Stanford, he went into building, turning a pandemic project into a telemedicine company later acquired by Tata Group. He then co-founded Autograph and helped scale it during the NFT wave to unicorn level with major investors behind it. What stands out is the kind of problems he moves towards. He built...

Carly Meyers has one of those stories that sounds unlikely until you hear it properly. She started on London’s West End, performing in shows like Wicked and sharing the stage with Monty Python at the O2. Then one bad landing during an audition ended that chapter overnight. What followed was a full reset through waitressing, sewing custom clothes, working at the Apple Store, building a network mark...

Harry Sanders did not start with a network, a safety net, or much room to get things wrong. At 17, he was sleeping under a bridge in Melbourne with a backpack and a laptop. A social worker gave him a plan. He followed it, taught himself fast, and built StudioHawk from scratch into one of the best-known SEO agencies in the world. Today, he leads a 140-person team across three continents and hires f...

James Fleming had everything you’re meant to want: a senior exec role in oil and gas, the house in Dubai, the pool, the salary, the status. But he realised he wasn’t happy. Then life stepped in. A corporate reshuffle made him redundant, and overnight his three-year plan to start a business became a three-month deadline to survive. He and his wife launched The Power Within from their living room, s...

Most people complain about the office, but Joe Averill built a business by rethinking it. He launched Level in the middle of a so-called office apocalypse: no co-founder, no funding and a young family depending on him. But Joe saw what others didn’t: companies still want space, they just don’t want old-school leases, hidden costs or landlord games. Before Level, Joe cut his teeth in Manchester’s t...

People talk about connection, but this week’s Millennial Master builds it. Lara Varjabedian is the founder of UBQT , a platform reconnecting people in real life. Before launching her startup, Lara spent 13 years inside the global corporate machine. Then she moved into the startup world, helping VC-backed companies scale at speed... until she realised she was ready to build something of her own. Sh...

Most people chase money. Jason Graystone chases freedom. He’s not your typical wealth guru. Jason quit a safe career when his first child was born, blew £40k learning the hard way in the markets, and then built digital assets that went on to make millions. His philosophy is simple: buy time, not things. In this episode, Jason shares why financial freedom starts with mental freedom, what losing big...

Simon Penson went from journalist to exited entrepreneur, building one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital agencies and selling it in a £20m deal to one of the world’s biggest advertising groups. In this episode, he opens up about the hidden costs of scaling, from early hires who become blockers, to the harsh reality of earn-outs that can make or break your outcome. Now through Scaled , Simon help...

Confidence isn’t free. As Lauren Currie puts it, “as your confidence increases, you will lose people.” She’s built Upfront into a global movement helping thousands of women step onto stages, into boardrooms, and into leadership roles that were never designed for them. In this episode, Lauren shares the reality of building confidence as a muscle, not a finish line. We explore tall poppy syndrome, t...

Petr Kozyakov didn’t set out to build a crypto company. He set out to solve a problem. After struggling to make a simple cross-border payment, he realised the gap in how money moves, and turned that frustration into Mercuryo , a 300+ person fintech bridging crypto and traditional finance. He talks candidly about building a culture that survives hypergrowth, learning where not to waste energy, and...

Kevin de Patoul walked away from a secure consulting career to build Keyrock , a digital asset firm that’s now raised over $80 million and employs nearly 200 people worldwide. His mission is to create the infrastructure that will power the next generation of financial markets. In this episode, Kevin breaks down the lessons from scaling a startup at hyper-speed, navigating volatile crypto cycles, a...

This week’s Millennial Master is Emma Mills, founder of MiPA . Emma started out answering calls and managing inboxes. Seventeen years later, she built MiPA into a seven-figure executive assistant business serving more than 500 clients. Along the way, she’s learned how to protect her own time, escape the bottlenecks, and build a culture that scales. In this episode, Emma shares the systems, mindset...

This week’s Millennial Master is Brad Mac, co-founder of Unreasonable . Most brands are burning cash on lazy ads and chasing the wrong metrics. Bradley McDonald (aka Brad Mac) thinks it’s time to do the opposite: cut the noise, go deep on what actually moves people, and treat creativity as a profit centre, not a gamble. He’s scaled Unreasonable into the marketing agency everyone’s watching, provin...

Augustin ‘Gus’ van Rijckevorsel has built his career on bold bets and stubborn ambition. By his 30s, he’d launched seven companies: some collapsed in spectacular fashion, others scaled fast enough to put him on the radar of Europe’s top investors. Gus is the kind of founder who hacks the system, takes bets most would avoid, and believes the only real risk is standing still. Now, as CEO at Ultra ,...

This week’s Millennial Master is Jordan Stachini, Founder of Co & Co . Jordan never planned to be an agency boss. She went from flying around the world in high-pressure marketing roles to starting a consultancy that, thanks to her “no BS” style and obsession with results, quickly snowballed into a boutique agency with clients across the globe. She’s honest about slow, sustainable growth, why she t...

Andrew Steele is the founder who went from Olympic medal sprints to building startups with nothing but a risk appetite, relentless honesty, and a knack for ignoring the “safe” option. After a decade chasing medals, he fell into tech with zero business experience, helped turn DNAfit into a global health brand, stuck it out through an IPO, and is now back at it with Stride : a membership for people...

Tyler Dunagin never set out to become “the bathtub guy,” but that’s what happens when you turn burnout into a platform business and outpace almost everyone around you. After growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Tyler hustled his way from odd jobs to flipping houses, only to hit the wall. He rebooted, switched from working on homes to scaling businesses, and now runs Turnserv , one of the faste...

This week’s Millennial Master is Archie Mackintosh, founder and coach at TruProductive . Archie doesn’t look like your typical productivity guru, and he’s not. He went from falling asleep in lessons and nearly dropping out of Cambridge to obsessing over neuroscience and building a new playbook for getting things done. His approach skips the hustle and strips back the “just work harder” noise. Inst...

Every founder knows the pain: killer idea, flat pitch. The harsh truth? Most pitches fail not because of the product, but because the story gets lost in translation. I’ve learned this the hard way, and so has Millennial Master Andrea Pacini , presentation coach, author, and the guy behind Ideas on Stage . This week, we break down what actually builds confidence on stage (spoiler: it’s not talent)....

This week’s Millennial Master is Oliver Yonchev, founder of cocreatd . What does it take to break out of low-aspiration roots, ride the startup rollercoaster from failed indie rocker to Social Chain and then build a venture studio in the middle of an AI revolution? For Oliver Yonchev, the answer is relentless ambition, and a kinda toxic work ethic. In this episode we get into everything: * Buildin...

Tom Wallace-Smith never planned on becoming a deep tech founder. He started out in nuclear engineering, working on the technology that powers Britain’s submarines, then took a left turn into startups via a Zoom call and a wild idea. Today, as co-founder and CTO of Astral Systems , Tom is leading a team building compact fusion reactors: not to power the grid, but to tackle one of the most stubborn...