The 2% Podcast
by Josh Garwood and Ryan McGee
Hey guys Josh and Ryan here and welcome to the 2% podcast. The personal development podcast hosted by the youngsters for once. Research shows, if you put 100 random people in a room, somewhere amongst them there will be just 2, truly incredible, inspirational people who are living their lives to the fullest. In this podcast, we bring those exact people to you, week in week out. Join us on our journey as we learn the secrets, routines and dreams of the 2%ers.
Episodes
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S4E47 - Louis Bollard on resilience and winning pitches to Peter Jones' Foundation
We continue our chat with Louis Bollard, Founder of Play Away, Stay Away by discussing some personal challenges. We chat about his recent health challenge with a brain aneurysm min-pandemic and how post-recovery he was able to pitch PASA to the Peter Jones Foundation. We cover building resilience...
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S4E46 - Louis Bollard on building a business people have heard of before
Business isn't about reinventing the wheel. You do the same thing better, you've got a chance. You combine similar things differently than anyone else and you've got a great shot. Especially if you do it in a new place or market. That just about sums up this week's guest's attitude and business...
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S4E45 - Rijul Arora presents a digital wellbeing workshop: helping you relate to technology better
We're joined once again by Rijul Arora. A self-described recovered technology addict, Rijul has seen both sides of tech; from addiction to recovery and health. Besides his job with EY working on technological transformation, Rijul gives workshops on digital wellbeing. Unpacking the relationship…
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S4E44 - Rijul Arora on overcoming digital addiction
In this episode, we're joined by Rijul Arora. A self-described recovered technology addict, Rijul has seen both sides of tech. He's a millennial who’s been addicted to technology, left it cold-turkey and now uses it in a healthy way. Part of that relationship to technology is through his work…
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S4E43 - Cam Kalare on creating community, chasing genuine passion and having YouTube as a 'government'
Cam Kalare joins us this week. Otherwise known as StraightUpHippo on YouTube. Cam mixes his love for gaming, cars and comedy and has amassed over 50K followers on YT. In this episode, we start off with a cracking word association game which promotes some exciting and even philosophical chats…
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S4E42 - Cam Kalare on achieving 50K subs, creator burnout and advising upcoming creators
Cam Kalare joins us this week. Otherwise known as StraightUpHippo on YouTube. Cam mixes his love for gaming, cars and comedy and has amassed over 50K followers on YT. Cam tells his journey of making content for 10 years including alongside school and living in public. We discuss creator burnout…
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S4E41 - Graham David on TikTok virality, owning and running 5 businesses
Welcome back everyone to The 2% Podcast - today we bring you the second half of our chat with Graham David. In this, we start off with the word association game and progress on to talk about his recent obsession and viral success with TikTok. We discuss the challenges and benefits of running your...
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S4E40 - Graham David on adapting to COVID as a serial entrepreneur
This week, we're excited to be joined by Graham David. Graham is a serial entrepreneur and owner of multiple businesses including a Learning and Development training company. In this, the first half of our chat, we discuss the impact of COVID and how Graham coped and had to adapt to losing all of...
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S4E39 - Christine Michaelis' tips on networking, goals and being yourself in business
Hey everyone, today we're super excited to be sharing the second half of our chat with Christine Michaelis. Christine has founded multiple businesses including the Creative Start-Up Academy and the EU Start-Up Association. She advises founders and startups all over the world to grow and expand...
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S4E38 - Christine Michaelis on how to start *your* business or side-hustle
PRACTICAL START-UP AND SIDE HUSTLE ADVICE! Welcome back to the 2% Podcast everyone, today we're super excited to be talking to Christine Michaelis. Christine has founded multiple businesses including the Creative Start-Up Academy and the EU Start-Up Association. She advises founders and startups...
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S4E37 - Luke Burrows on purpose, creating content at scale and leading with authenticity
Do you know your purpose? Luke Burrows joins us today in the second half our chat. Dive in with an insightful word association game as we explore further the idea of individual purpose and how he finds his purpose each day. We talk about leading with authenticity, overthinking and how to create...
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S4E36 - Luke Burrows on creating purpose, types of people and the influence they can have on us, and developing a growth mindset.
This week we are excited to be joined by Luke Burrows, founder of Grow2Gether, serial podcaster and someone committed to the personal growth journey. He talks to us about his story from dropping out of college, attempting and hating a 9-5, to then rediscovering a love for entrepreneurship and...
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S4E35 - Tom Jelliffe on motivation, success and getting earphones as tough as your workout to market
In part two of our chat with Tzuka founder, Tom Jelliffe we chat about what motivates him and has driven his journey so far. We discuss entrepreneurship and whether success defines the word, routine and the importance of doing something you enjoy everyday. Whats next for Tzuka? Find out by giving...
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S4E34 - Tom Jelliffe on disrupting the earphone industry, start-ups, investment and more
Introducing Tom Jelliffe, Founder of Tzuka - soon to be the world's most durable earphones. After breaking 9 pairs of earphones in the gym in his final year of university - Tom knew something had to change. And so, Tzuka was born. In this first half of our chat, we discuss Tom's journey in…
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S4E33 - Mark Ryan on leadership and why we should be thinking about technology's effect on our future.
In this second part of our chat with Mark Ryan, we discuss what leadership means to him and whether everyone has the ability to lead. We get his thoughts on tech changing the education sphere and future-proofing yourself to seize the opportunities that new technology will present for those who…
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S4E32 Mark Ryan on education, teaching and learning your way through life.
This week we are thrilled to be joined by Mark Ryan. Mark talks us through his education from undergrad in the US to an MBA in the UK, to becoming an educator in China. Mark now has his eyes set on developing as a leader in the business world. He tells us how constant change has helped him keep...
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S4E31 Olaolu and Julian - Raise a Voice; on knowing where you're going vs. coming to be by accident.
In the second part of our chat with Olaolu and Julian, we discuss the importance that music has had on their journey so far, plans for the future, and developing a resilient mindset. We chat about having goals and how to use those end goals to keep going.
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S4E30 Olaolu and Julian - Raise a Voice
The week we are delighted to have Olaolu and Julian from Raise a Voice sharing a frank chat with us about what it means to be young in this day and age, social media, and what effect it is having on us. We also discuss expectations and having the confidence to start.
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The Overthinking Life - Gen Z Journey x 2% 1.0
The start of something new. We've linked up with Aaron and Rio from the Gen Z Journey to bring you a collaborative chat. The start of a semi-regular series we'll focus on a different topic each time. In this first episode, we focus on overthinking. Why we do it, how to overcome it and navigate…
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S4E29 Lewis Baxter on being disruptive in the social activism space.
In this second part of our chat with Lewis Alexander Baxter, we discuss public speaking, why he doesn't consider himself an entreprenuer and shaking away the shackles of a suit. Is the charity model fit for Gen Z and a post Covid world? And why pushing boundaries matters.
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S4E28 - Lewis Alexander Baxter on coping with mental health issues and connecting the nation through conversation
Lewis Alexander Baxter is a storyteller, mental health advocate, and founder of The Blurred Line Group, a mental health-focused funding hub for local community projects and services. He is also the founder of Chit-Chat, a charity connecting the nation through conversation. We talk about his own...
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S4E27 - Daisy Francis on taking on responsibility quickly, travelling to expand the mind and the London-centric nature of the comedy industry
This week we’re hyped to be joined by solopreneur comedy agent Daisy Francis. Daisy is a comedy agent meaning she represents comedic talent helping them to get work. It’s an interesting field and a great chat. In this, the second half of our chat, we focus on her first job with 'The Improverts'…
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S4E26 - Daisy Francis on chasing dreams, being a comedy agent and taking risks
This week we’re hyped to be joined by Daisy Francis. Daisy is a comedy agent meaning she represents comedic talent helping them to get work. It’s an interesting field and a great chat about chasing your passions, taking risks and we also find out about how she came to do this type of work. You…
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S4E25 - Max Klymenko on Identity as an influencer, persuading the world to take action and the mental health crisis in the UK
This week, we're excited to be chatting to Max Klymenko. Max is an Economics and Tech Researcher for Accenture; he runs his own marketing agency - Klym&Co. and has risen to social media fame on TikTok and Instagram focusing on educational and entertaining content blending humour with learning....
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S4E24 - Max Klymenko on TikTok, balancing influencer life with corporate work and building his own agency
This week, we're excited to be chatting to Max Klymenko. Max is an Economics and Tech Researcher for Accenture; he runs his own marketing agency - Klym&Co. and has risen to social media fame on TikTok and Instagram focusing on educational and entertaining content blending humour with learning....
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S4E23 - Jesse and Joonatan on building a 20 person student start up.
This week we speak to Jesse Pihkanen and Joonatan Halonen, students who share their experience as BBA students in Finland. We explore the difference between Finnish and British business education and how theirs is a more practical, hands-on experience in the world of business as opposed to the...
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S4E22 - Alex and Charlotte on creating positivity their enterprising motivations
In the second half of our chat with Alex and Charlotte from Endeavours Student Adventures, we dive deeper into their motivations to disrupt the student raising and giving travel market. As well as how they work together to create and maintain a positive outlook and environment. Something...
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S4E21 - Alex and Charlotte on breaking into the student fundraising market
This week, we are excited to be joined by Alex and Charlotte from Endeavours Student Adventures - a new and disruptive startup in the University Raising and Giving (RAG) space. We talk about breaking into this market, why they started the business (especially with COVID happening) and discuss…
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S4E20 - Sanjana on the difference between purpose and passion and finding humanity
Sanjana continues in this second part of our chat to discuss her project, You Humanity. Collecting 1000 stories of kindness and shaping a different narrative around the pandemic. In this episode, a key focus is asking what the difference is between passion and purpose and defining a vision for a...
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S4E19 - Sanjana on collecting 1000 stories of kindness
How often do you consider your common humanity? Probably not that often, right? This week we are joined by Sanjana from You Humanity. She is on a mission to collect 1000 stories of kindness and to show another side to the COVID pandemic. We talk about finding positivity in negativity, meeting...
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S4E18 - Mesh Kumar on why purpose over profit is key
Continuing our chat with Mesh, we dive into why purpose over profit is a key positional factor for a business. We talk about the loneliness of entrepreneurship and how it can be romanticised as a career in culture. Loads of value here, we hope you enjoy :) R&J x Umesh is a serial entrepreneur who...
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S4E17 - Mesh Kumar on start-ups, entrepreneurship and working with some of the world's biggest companies
This week we're joined by Umesh Kumar. Umesh is a serial entrepreneur who has founded 4 startups in recent years. He is a freelance innovation consultant who has worked with some of the largest companies in the world with clients including National Grid, Unilever, P&G, SXSW, Cushman & Wakefield,...
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S4E16 - Presence on creating your own story, surviving trauma, thriving and deciding to be happy
Today we are joined by Presence. Presence hosts the 'It Starts with Action' Podcast. We chat about going through anorexia, depression and alopecia and deciding to take action on her dreams. We chat about facing your fears, chasing what you dream about, being happy, perfectionism and so much more....
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S4E15 - Scott Stockdale on hiring a virtual assistant and being an SEO guru
"This is the most fun I've ever had on a podcast" - Scott about us! We had an awesome time chatting with Scott about his SEO background and experience. We also dive into the process and benefits of hiring a virtual assistant to outsource some of the podcast work for his podcast 'Entrepreneurs Can...
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S4E14 - Scott Stockdale on growing a top 10 podcast
We are really excited to be joined this week by Scott Stockdale from the 'Entrepreneurs Can Party' podcast. His podcast has featured in the Apple Top 10 listing and is all about how building businesses, chasing your passions and being an entrepreneur can and should be fun. He interviews guests…
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S4E13 - Liv and Grace from Go-PA on Coronavirus accelerating the virtual world
Hey hey, welcome back to The 2% Podcast. Today we bring you the second half of our awesome chat with Liv and Grace from modern secretarial solutions company, Go-PA. We continue the conversation around how they came to form their business during lockdown but go deeper into how the COVID-19 crisis…
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S4E12 - Liv Holroyd and Grace Cusack on starting their business, Go-PA, in lockdown
The COVID crisis has been challenging, heartbreaking and unprecedented but today we're delighted to be sharing with you the beginning of a fantastic story which has started because of it. We chat to Olivia Holroyd and Grace Cusack about their modern secretarial solutions business. Go-PA has…
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S4E11 - Our Advice and Reflections on University, being Class of 2020, Career and Life
We've finished University. Wow. So we thought we'd sit down, reflect, chat and bring you some value based on our time. Was uni worth it? What was our best bit? What did we learn? + loads more - we hope you enjoy. There are a few exercises throughout and lots of thoughts, so it's not just our...
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S4E10 - Mya Krishnakumar on connecting the nation through our love for key workers
This week Josh and I are delighted to be joined by Mya Krishnakumar, founder of The Crisis Project. The project is a community of changemakers who's flagship project, Letters to the NHS, works with a network of over 700 volunteers to write bespoke handwritten letters to key workers during the...
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S4E8 - Isa and Gurupma from Happier Souls on making the world a happier place and defining happiness
Today we're joined by the team from Happier Souls, Isa and Gurupma as they talk about going about making the world a happier place. Happier Souls is a project creating a community who want to be happier and more fulfilled; they're doing this by blogging and sharing personal stories. By answering...
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S4E7 - Is Elon Musk happy and what can he do about it?
A random question for these random times. But is someone that successful, that admired and financially well off happy? Josh saw a clip asking this exact question and it provoked us to chat about it. What factor does money have? Can someone with such large-scale ambitions be happy now? Super...
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S4E6 - Darcy Dixon on creating the change you want to see, hard work and Oxford Uni life
We could say that Darcy is a Philosophy and Theology student at Oxford but is she is so much more. We could say that she's Head of People at Prospect100, a youth movement by Future Labs. We could say that she's a founding member of Black Head Students' Network connecting Black Head of Schools...
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S4E5 - Dean Lafferty on creating the retail career you want
Dean has been in retail for 5 years from working in a coffee shop to New Look and then onto Dunelm where he has secured a grad role. He shares his story of falling in love with serving customers and how he forced himself to become more commercially aware from his time in New Look at 17. We talk...
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S4E4 - James Goforth on running a uni start up incubator
James is a 19 year old student and a director at The Warwick Incubator, Warwick Uni's start up incubator. We chat about what it's like running it, hear about his time representing his university over in Canada on a Consulting Competition and hear about his the many different internships he's done...
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S4E3 - Cancel Culture, is it too much?
This episode is a debate around cancel culture. We discuss the attitude we have to celebrity and how we are often quick to 'cancel' people. But then do people have a right to be forgiven? Do we underestimate the trolling that happens online and the effect that can have on the individual? We...
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S4E2 - Varun Balsara on human entrepreneurship
Hey hey and welcome to our first main episode of season 4 as we are joined by Varun Balsara. Varun is a student over at Warwick University and runs ConnectUs - a student programme to bring people together over shared interests. He is also co-host of The Human Entrepreneur Podcast which takes a…
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S4E1 - Welcome to Season 4!
Well hello stranger, it's been a while! Josh and Ryan here, we're back on the pod game after being away for the mic for a while with our final year coursework and exams. Hear about the pressures of exam season, what personal projects we've been up to and what we have in store for Season 4!
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S3E15 - Ben Hughes on HOW we can THRIVE and SUSTAIN PERFORMANCE
How exactly can we thrive in our daily lives? That's what the 2% mindset is all about. How can we accept and move towards the challenges we face? How can we have better conversations with ourselves to achieve what we want to and sustain that? All this and more in today's session as we talk to Ben...
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S3E14 - Gavin Evans on the perceptions of young people and the importance of mental health in youth work
Hey hey, Josh and Ryan here, welcome to the second half of our chat with Gavin Evans, CEO of Future Youth Zone. We dive straight in with the word association game and go on to talk about the life of a CEO and wearing lots of hats at one. We then talk about the wider perceptions of young people…
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S3E13 - Gavin Evans on being a Youth Zone Chief Executive
Welcome back all, this is the first half of our chat with Gavin Evans. Gavin is the CEO of Future Youth Zone in Barking and Dagenham which is part of the OnSide Youth Zone network of state of the art youth centres. We chat about working in his area of passion, what it means to be a CEO of a youth...
About this show
Hey guys Josh and Ryan here and welcome to the 2% podcast. The personal development podcast hosted by the youngsters for once. Research shows, if you put 100 random people in a room, somewhere amongst them there will be just 2, truly incredible, inspirational people who are living their lives to the fullest. In this podcast, we bring those exact people to you, week in week out. Join us on our journey as we learn the secrets, routines and dreams of the 2%ers.
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