Is Innovation the Golden Ticket to Reaching 6 Star Success?; with Chris Fox and Peter Burke - #54

In this episode of the podcast we welcome Peter Burke - a jovial and seasoned entrepreneur  and Christopher Fox, also a successful entrepreneur who both had a love of books!Between them they bounced around topics such as humanity, innovation, purpose, and profits. We ended up at a conclusion worth progressing further!Here's a summary of what we discussed:11:41 - where social media was 13 years ago14:35 - fast morphing technologies17:00 - the 6 Star Business evolution20:32 - complexities of tech we take for granted23:44 - without marketing, then what?31:45 - 6 stars and passionand lots more...enjoy!Here's some information about our guests:Peter BurkeCEO & Founder, Conker GroupCo-founded Logobrand, an outsourced field sales & marketing agency, in 1990.   Stepped back after 20 years  by promoting a colleague to the MD role, but 3 years later created Conker - an apps and data business - due to boredom.  In parallel to Conker, I helped take Wefarm from concept to over 1 million African farmers using the service; we raised over $15m in grants and VC funding.   Now I'm focused on the bunny.money startup - I've been advising them for over 5 years.  After bunny.money gets VC funding, I expect it will be Audacity next for VC funding.  Contact:W: conkergroup.comLI: https://linkedin.com/in/peterburke/T: @tweeterburkeChristopher FoxCEO & Founder, SyncresisChristopher G. Fox, PhD, Managing Partner, Syncresis®. Fox has a career-long history helping people translate their ideas into clean, clear communications. He is a visionary communications and marketing executive who is passionate about ideas, while at the same time committed to getting things done.As Managing Partner of Syncresis, a strategic communications firm focusing exclusively on financial services and fintech, Fox focuses on thought leadership, content marketing, communication strategy, and online marketing program management. He helps companies and their top thought leaders raise their public profile by putting their best thinking forward via effective messages, compelling stories, and transformational conversations. Fox's work helps financial service innovators position themselves as thought leaders by clearly answering why, when, where, and on which topics they should be present to be a leader in their market segment. He then delivers on that plan by developing content that captures his clients’ unique value and expertise.Contact:W: www.syncresis.comLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophergfox/LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/syncresis/Check out our previous episode here.The purpose of the Mission Activated podcast is to inspire people with the stories of people who are activated on their mission, and are living a life of purpose, passion and alignment. Being in business is not just about money: it's about bringing our genius and our gifts to the world to impact others. If you'd like to get in touch please contact us at [email protected]