Industry Angel Business Podcast
by Ian Farrar
The Industry Angel Podcast is THE most diverse business podcast out there!Ian Farrar interviews Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Social Influencers, Marketing Guru's, Sales Rockstars, Motivational Speakers and even the odd Adventurer or two! We share actionable advice from speakers that keeps you ahead of the pack.
Episodes
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237 Hey, Westminster - Don't Blame the Victims
It's once again time for us to talk about the support needed in the micro and small business sector. Ian and Tony chatted about the campaigning that ourselves and our friends have been doing this year and The Micro Business Alliance and what that means to YOU. Many business owners are still...
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236 Melissa, Judith & Lisa | Setting up a Social Enterprise
Entrepreneurs helping to improve communities across South Tyneside are to receive a welcome funding boost. The Social Enterprise Boost (SEB) Fund will provide grants of up to £10,000 to the borough's social entrepreneurs! Delivered by Project North East (PNE), the programme aims to kick-start and...
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235 Marius Capra | The Business of Tarot
Budding entrepreneur, eloquent linguist, and ever-inquisitive spiritualist. Marius Capra is a continuously developing tarot reader and astrologer with a mission to clarify the 'languages of the universe' in his business practice, providing transformative answers to the questions of the…
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234 Alison Gwynn | Opportunities in TV and Film
Alison Gwynn is Chief Executive at North East Screen, Alison is leading the resurgence of the TV and Film industry in the North East. After an investment of at least £37m, North East Screen (formerly Northern Film + Media), the screen industries development agency for the North-East, launched its...
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FLASHBACK Ep 055 Build A Brand In 30 Days
THROWBACK to Episode 055, Simon - Build a Brand in 30 Days! Simon was Founder of The Shackleton Design & Manufacturing Company, the menswear, lifestyle and experience brand: producing made-in-Britain products inspired by the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Having built the Shackleton brand...
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233 Rory McKeand | Unlocking the Potential of Technology
Rory McKeand leads the team at Technology Services Group as the CEO. Before his career at TSG, Rory was involved in shaping and transforming organisations in the Healthcare, Education and Technology industries. He now works with TSG's team of technology experts to help customers and partners to...
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232 Mike Weedon | No Nonsense Financial Advice
Mike Weedon is a Diploma Level Qualified Independent Financial Adviser, with over 20 years' experience working in the Financial Services Industry. Financial planning isn't just for the mega rich and famous and Mike helps hard-working people confidently arrange their finances. Ian & Mike discuss;...
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231 David Birchall | Controlling the Show
David Birchall is Technical Director and owner of db Show Control and Automation. The company's solutions are at the core of the world's most demanding multimedia shows, theme park rides, interactive visitor centres and AV installations. db Show Control's clients include the world's leading theme...
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230 Rob & Kennedy | How to Write Emails that Convert
Rob is a hypnotist and Kennedy is a Psychological Mind Reader. They both turned their skills into email marketing and founded The Email Marketing Heroes... Ian, Rob & Kennedy discuss topics such as; Turning Feedback into Sales Modern Email Marketing for your Audience Dynamic Customer Journeys:...
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229 Kerrie Highcock | Autism Acceptance
Kerrie Highcock has worked in the field of autism for 18 years and has recently gained her Masters of Education, in Autism, from the University of Strathclyde, and is currently working on her Doctorate. She is passionate about elevating the voices of and learning from autistic people. Before her…
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228 Ian & Mischa | The Positive Effects of Apprenticeships
With National Apprenticeship Week fast approaching, Ian decided to grab Mischa for a chat around her experience of being an apprentice. Ian & Mischa discuss areas such as; Why businesses should take on apprentices Different levels of apprenticeships Mischa's progression Apprenticeships vs...
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227 New Year's Message & Interview with Ian by Guest Host Ashleigh King
New Year's Message from Ian AND Industry Angel's first ever pod-swap with Nurture Your Zest with Ashleigh King! This is a special episode as it's the: 🎙️ First release of season 2 of the #NurtureYourZest Podcast series🎙️ First episode recorded in 'The Nest' of the new podcast studio in…
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226 George Fee | A Gen Z's Guide to Kicking Off Your Business
George Fee is MD of GBO Media, social media entrepreneur, student at university of Sunderland, lover of photography and all things digital. Ian & George discuss; Founding a social media business From being an apprentice to owning a business Being self-taught in social media Imposter syndrome Your...
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225 Celebration of International Men's Day 2021
To celebrate this International Men's Day 2021 we hosted an online panel exploring "Better relations between men and women". International Men's Day celebrates worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities. In this session Ian highlights three positive role...
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224 Kay Tarry | From Side Hustle to Candy Empire
Kay Tarry is Founder Director of Sugar Noms Ltd, a 100% vegan pick & mix online store, based in the North East of England. Kay is an entrepreneur and total business geek. Ian and Kay discuss; The birth of Sugar Noms Being a therapist and business owner The largest range of vegan pick & mix on the...
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223 Microbusiness Unite | Live Panel Discussion
This panel, hosted by Ian Farrar, was part of Far North's 'Who Wants to be a Happipreneur?' event. The panel was made up of the following rockstars;- Jeanette Nattrass, Co-Founder & Director of Just Breathe Terry McStea, Head of Design Network North Sarah Crimmens, Community Creator & Curator:...
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222 Tony Robinson OBE | The Micro Business Champion
Tony Robinson OBE has embarked on a tour of 70 talks in 70 towns to raise money for ExcludedUK and we brought the legend himself to sunny South Shields. Tony gave his 'Who wants to be a Happipreneur?' talk and we recorded this just for the podcast... Tony's talk includes; - Of interest to all who...
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221 Tom Nightingale | Get Involved: Dogger Bank, The World's Largest Wind Farm
Tom Nightingale, North East Stakeholder Manager at Equinor, shares his experiences of working as part of the team behind the world's biggest offshore wind farm. The £9bn Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be operated by Equinor for up to 35 years. When it is completed in 2026, the 3.6GW project will be...
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220 Paul Colman | Want to start a Distillery?
Paul Colman owner of The Little Quaker distillery, along with his wife Leanne they started the multi award winning Quaker Gin range in 2018 and have gone from strength to strength. Paul's background is in manufacturing having spent 24 years working in the woodwork industry he moved to recycled...
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219 Jeanette Nattrass | Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace
Co-founder and director of Just Breathe, mental health specialist, Jeanette Nattrass. Jeanette has a plethora of skills and knowledge including Clinical Counselling, Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, EMI Practitioner and EMDR Practitioner. Ian & Jeanette discuss; What Just...
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218 Gary Giles | Surviving The Dragons' Den
Gary Giles is the founder and CEO of OGEL, a revolutionary building system business. Gary has developed a brand new system that uses recycled polystyrene to construction walls, floors and roofs - the first ever to be globally patented. It is simple, fast, light and reusable, with no glues to…
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217 Ryan Quickfall | How to Commercialise Your Creativity
Ryan Quickfall, AKA Ryan Roadkill, is a Newcastle based illustrator working from his studio in the city. He draws influence from B-Movie posters, comic book art, retro skate graphics and absolutely anything Motorcycle orientated. Using his signature style of solid black line work and bold colours...
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216 Ame McQuillan & Madeleine Liddell | Furlough is ending, now what?
Madeleine & Ame are both from Education Development Trust, that run many schemes to support businesses and individuals. Madeleine's focus is on the North East Ambition Programme, an impartial consultancy service to SMEs in the North East, helping them to understand their skills needs and how to...
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215 Alfie Joey | Creative Juice
Artist, actor, writer, presenter, singer, impressionist, Alfie Joey has appeared everywhere from the Comedy Store to Coronation Street. Alfie co presents the breakfast show with Anna Foster on Sony nominated BBC Newcastle. His TedX talk 'Changing Lanes' is on YouTube and tells his remarkable…
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214 Sarah & Chris Cookson | The Charlie & Carter Foundation
Sarah & Chris Cookson are the parents of Charlie and Carter, they set up The Charlie & Carter Foundation to provide financial support to parents of seriously ill children with life limiting conditions that require 24 hour nursing care or specialist nursing facilities. They aim to raise awareness…
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213 Eddie Czestochowski | Exporting Through Acquisition
Eddie Czestochowski is Managing Director at Cell Pack Solutions, Tracer Batteries, your friend in the Battery Industry and passionate about chess. Cell Pack Solutions are an independently owned company that specializes in the wonderful world that is batteries, with an emphasis on the industrial...
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212 Ray Spencer | Chloe & Liam Together Forever Trust
Ray Spencer is chair of Chloe & Liam Together Forever Trust, a trust set up to honour kids through what they love most and hope to inspire others to follow their dreams and achieve their goals in sport or performance. Ian & Ray discuss; The aim of Chloe & Liam together forever trust Follow your...
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211 Sara Young | Founding a Mental Health Based Charity
Forrest Hall based Sara Young trained as a psychotherapist at the Northern Guild of Psychotherapy with a specialism in children and young people. She's worked with children as young as two, up to adults, her oldest being 78. Her work is typically characterised with a humanist approach based…
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210 Sarah Crimmens | Limitless Potential.
Host and founder of GrATTITUDE Gal - interview series, soon to be podcast + affirmation and self-care card decks; and funky merchandise to: 💆 Support 🤩 Motivate 🦹♀️ Inspire 🥰 Love/ Laugh/ Learn 🔥 Empower Sarah is a true advocate of self-care, self-love and authenticity. She's particularly...
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209 Kaylee Davidson-Olley | First Baby in Europe to Successfully Receive a Heart Transplant
Kaylee Davidson-Olley was the United Kingdom's first successful heart transplant baby when she received a replacement heart at less than one year of age. In 2017 she celebrated her 30th year after the transplant operation; it was her 30th year as the longest surviving heart transplant baby in...
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208 BONUS: Talking Menopause at Work
For the first time EVER, Ian hands over Industry Angel to Tina Boden and Sharon MacArthur. Tina interviews Sharon about the impact menopause (and hormones) can have on female micro business owners and freelancers. Sharing hints and tips to help get them through. Tina describes herself as 'More...
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207 Dinah Bennett | Global Opportunity for Women Entrepreneurs
Dinah Bennett is the founder director of International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Consult ICE and Global Lead for Enterprise Development for Women's Economic Imperative www.weiforwad.org an organisation which was formed form a UN high level panel on Women's Economic...
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206 Juliette Brown | A 25 Year Rollercoaster of Leadership
From a finance background, Juliette Brown is the proud creator of Design Xpress, a large format print business of 25 years, based in the North East. Initially set up to produce POS and posters for the Food Retail Industry, her business has evolved from start up to become a 1 million plus turnover...
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205 Adam Brown | How to Wrap Your Arms Around Your Team
Ian recently met Adam Brown, director in The Healthcare Insurance Group, and had his eyes open to the world of employee health benefits for ourselves and our teams. This is such an important topic that's becoming increasingly relevant right now. He wants to highlight this to you the audience....
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204 Luke Szyrmer | How to Master Working from Home
Luke Szyrmer has managed or participated in remote only knowledge work teams for almost a decade. Most recently, he lead a program of approximately 30 distributed across 13 time zones and 8 different locations. Over the last 9 years, Luke has led teams building software, running marketing and...
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203 Industry Angel's 2020 Christmas Special
Ian & friends share their thoughts on 2020, the Christmas holidays and the coming year ahead. Speakers include; Ian Farrar - 201 Goals Shawn Anderson - #ReluctantStoryteller Ted Rubin - The Straight Talker Simon Raybould - #ReluctantStoryteller Tony Robinson OBE - How to Play Okey Pokey Gillian...
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202 Sue Balfour | How to Grow Your E-Commerce Business
Sue Balfour is CEO of Katy Sue Designs Ltd which designs, manufactures and retails its own unique range of products for the arts and crafts and cake decorating markets. The company's manufacturing and HQ is in South Shields but it also has a subsidiary company in USA. Katy Sue exports to over 50...
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201 Carl Buckley | Live Well, Lead Well
Carl Buckley is the MD at Urban River, a branding and digital marketing/website agency in Northern England, an experienced Marketeer, School governor, Business mentor and Non exec - "helping businesses to market themselves better" and to avoid doing the wrong thing really well. No fluff, just a...
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200 Celebration | Live Q&A with Ian Farrar!
For Industry Angel's 200th episode, Ian Farrar went LIVE and done a Q&A with a guest host, Chris Donovan from One More Than Two Brew! Ian and Chris answered questions from YOU. They answered questions like who was the WORST podcast guest? Why do we dream? Who would you snog, marry and kill with...
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199 Steve Scott | The Power and Reach of Online Events
Growing up in the Lake District, Steve relentlessly pursued a career in adventure sports. A former professional national team skier, ski coach and an accomplished professional paraglider pilot - he lived in the Alps for over 10 years which saw him develop an anglo/french adventure sports school...
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198 Kate Baucherel | How Blockchain is Revolutionising Industry
Kate Baucherel is a speaker, writer and digital strategist specialising in the application of emerging technologies, with a focus on the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency. She is the author of several books including Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and...
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196 Russell Dalgleish | The Global Reach of Scottish Business Network
Russell has enjoyed the benefits of a highly successful international career in the technology sector and now focuses his efforts on supporting owners and boards of companies to devise and implement growth strategies to create shareholder value. In his earlier career he has held board leadership...
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197 Anneka Hicks | Founder of ExcludedUK - Supporting the 3 Million Excluded
Anneka Hicks is the founder of ExcludedUK, a grassroots non-profit organisation committed to providing personal, business and career support to those facing hardship as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Anneka is an experienced marketer, strategist, and technologist with a deep routed passion…
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195 Dave Lee | Celebration of International Podcast Day 2020
Dave Lee is co-founder of International Podcast Day, a true international celebration of the power of podcasts. Since 2014, Dave has organized and featured hundreds of podcasters from around the world during an annual live stream celebration and event. He works with international podcasters to…
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194 Tony Robinson OBE | The Role of Micro Business in the World of Business Innovation
Tony Robinson OBE is the Micro Business Champion, multiple business owner, #PayIn30Days Campaigner, Ambassador for 3 Million #ExcludedUK, Co-Founder of #MicroBizMatters Day and Movement, Founder of the SFEDI Group, Chair of Yorkshire in Business Limited and Patron of the John Cracknell Youth...
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193 Elise Lane | Crowdfunding Tyneside's First Urban Winery
Elise grew up in Newcastle and moved away in 1999 to study Chemistry at Oxford. She then worked in London a big four accountancy firm in corporate finance (where she met her husband Nick, who is from Gosport in Hampshire) whilst there she did a couple of wine related qualifications at the WSET…
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192 Dr Russell Thackeray | How To Drive Change Through Your Organisation
Dr Russell Thackeray works with leaders and their organisations to achieve enhanced performance and results. By aligning culture, leadership and people, he can spark, design and embed change that creates organisational resilience. The result is a reduction of personal 'drama' and an increase in...
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191 Phil Jones | Exactly What to Say, Where to Start & How to Sell
Phil entered the world of business at the tender age of 14. With nothing more than a bucket and sponge, he went from single-handedly washing cars at weekends to hiring a fleet of friends working on his behalf, resulting in him earning more than his teachers by the time he was 15. He took…
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190 Jeni Smith | Network with Impact
Jeni is passionate about connecting people. When people come together powerful things happen: relationships are built, knowledge is shared and sparks of innovation are fired. With fourteen years' experience in the networking industry, Jeni now teaches networking skills and creates networking...
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188 Polly Brennan & John Mew | How to manage your mental health in a fast paced world
John Mew is a military veteran, Ex forces PTI and Field Gunner who was on HMS Coventry 38 Years ago when she was bombed and sank in 20 min. An advocate for mental health and a dedicated fundraiser. John is joined by his friend Polly Brennan, founder of Adventurous Coaching & creator of The Mental...
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The Industry Angel Podcast is THE most diverse business podcast out there!Ian Farrar interviews Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Social Influencers, Marketing Guru's, Sales Rockstars, Motivational Speakers and even the odd Adventurer or two! We share actionable advice from speakers that keeps you ahead of the pack.
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