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We Have A Meeting

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Every week, Jack Frimston and Zac Thompson from We Have A Meeting chat with brilliant entrepreneurs about sales, mindset, marketing, and everything in between. It’s smart, human, and full of ideas you can actually use. Tune in for sharp conversations, fresh perspectives, and a few laughs along the way.

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  1. Ben Shephard: The Secret To Winning Anyone Over In Business

    Madonna changed the lights, the seating and her outfit before the cameras rolled. Ben Shephard won her over with one question. That’s the skill behind 26 years in broadcasting. He’s presented This Morning and Tipping Point and done film junkets where he had four minutes to get a Hollywood star to...

  2. Revenue Expert: How To Get So Many Customers Using AI It Feels Illegal

    Your sales team has more AI tools and more data than ever. So why are they doing less with it? And what should you never, ever let an AI agent do for you? Mel Smith has a one-question test for that, and most teams fail it. She also has a rule for her SDRs: book a meeting on a cold call in under...

  3. Spencer Matthews: His Most Honest Conversation Yet

    Spencer Matthews has changed since his Made In Chelsea Days. He was a terrible employee. Hotels, nightclubs, bars, a stint as a forward foreign exchange broker in the City. None of it stuck. Then he got sober, found nothing worth drinking between a gin and tonic and a sparkling water, and built...

  4. What Every Founder Needs To Know About Money - Sammie Ellard King - | Backed by Funding Circle

    Sammie Ellard-King cleared £24k of debt in his twenties, then built one of the UK's biggest money education brands. He launched Up The Gains in 2021 and has racked up more than 500 million views, 510,000+ social followers and 750,000+ podcast downloads. He was named Best Money Content Creator at...

  5. How I Built and Sold a Marketing Agency with Luke Tobin | Backed by Funding Circle

    Luke Tobin has built and sold three businesses. The big one was Digital Ethos, which he took from launch to an eight-figure exit in under five years, making it one of the fastest agency growth-to-exit stories in UK history. He sold to Cadastra, South America's largest independent agency group, in...

  6. Business Advice from a Former Dragon with Piers Linney | Backed by Funding Circle

    Piers Linney is best known as a Dragon on BBC's Dragons' Den. These days he is building the workforce of the future. The entrepreneur and investor, with a background in law and finance, is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Implement AI, which deploys teams of AI digital workers for businesses...

  7. The Ultimate Linkedin Business Strategy with Lea Turner | Backed by Funding Circle

    Backed by Funding Circle. Funding Circle is business finance that backs you. Business loans, a flexible line of credit and a cashback business card for UK businesses, with a decision in as little as an hour. If you are looking for funding to take the next step, check them out here:...

  8. Sales Advice That Actually Works with Matt Elwell | Backed by Funding Circle

    Matt Elwell is the co-founder and director of Elite Closing Academy and one of the UK's most in-demand sales trainers. He's the bestselling author of Open With A Close and Cold To Sold, and used the same methods to help grow two family businesses to over £17 million in revenue. Now he teaches...

  9. What a Psychotherapist Knows About Running a Business with Ella McCrystal | Backed by Funding Circle

    Ella McCrystal has spent 20 years helping people rewire how they think. Now she applies the same neuroscience to running a business. The accredited psychotherapist, clinical hypnotherapist and EMDR practitioner is Director of The Northampton Clinic, a multi-disciplinary private health clinic in…

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  10. How to Win Business Awards with the Award Queen, Donna O'Toole | Backed by Funding Circle

    Donna O'Toole spent years inside the awards industry watching great businesses miss out on recognition. So she built a company to fix it. The founder of August Recognition, part of Daniel Priestley's Dent Global group, has helped hundreds of businesses from start-ups to FTSE 100s win the awards...

  11. The Marketing Advice Every Business Needs with Dan Kelsall | Backed by Funding Circle

    Dan Kelsall built one of LinkedIn's loudest personal brands by refusing to sound like everyone else on LinkedIn. The Manchester creative founded and exited content agency Offended, now runs the University of Creative Idiots and TaxTickle, and wrote the marketing books Fcking Good Content and This...

  12. From Love Island to Business: Curtis & AJ Pritchard's Best Advice | Backed by Funding Circle

    Backed by Funding Circle Funding Circle is business finance that backs you. Business loans, a flexible line of credit and a cashback business card for UK businesses, with a decision in as little as an hour. If you are looking for funding to take the next step, check them out here:...

  13. The Social Media Lessons Every Founder Needs with Chris James | Backed by Funding Circle

    Backed by Funding Circle. Funding Circle is business finance that backs you. Business loans, a flexible line of credit and a cashback business card for UK businesses, with a decision in as little as an hour. If you are looking for funding to take the next step, check them out here:...

  14. 12 Minutes of Business Advice with Chris Gore | Backed by Funding Circle

    Backed by Funding Circle. Funding Circle is business finance that backs you. Business loans, a flexible line of credit and a cashback business card for UK businesses, with a decision in as little as an hour. If you are looking for funding to take the next step, check them out here:...

  15. From Bedroom Startup to $100M Exit with Andrew Hulbert | Backed by Funding Circle

    Backed by Funding Circle. Funding Circle is business finance that backs you. Business loans, a flexible line of credit and a cashback business card for UK businesses, with a decision in as little as an hour. If you are looking for funding to take the next step, check them out here:...

  16. James Martin's Rules for Scaling Fast | Backed by Funding Circle

    Backed by Funding Circle. Funding Circle is business finance that backs you. Business loans, a flexible line of credit and a cashback business card for UK businesses, with a decision in as little as an hour. If you are looking for funding to take the next step, check them out here:...

  17. AI Expert Explains: 97.2% of People Are Using AI WRONG

    You're using AI wrong. Most people treat ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude like a glorified Google search. Amelia Miller calls that level one of ten, and it uses maybe 5 to 10% of what the tools can actually do. In this episode she shows you the other nine levels. Amelia is the co-founder and CEO of…

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  18. The Most Ridiculous Business Interview You'll Ever Listen To - James Martin

    We asked James Martin every weird and wonderful question we could think of. He answered all of them. James Martin started cutting grass as a boy, moved into tree surgery, and has been building, buying and selling companies ever since. Today he owns Baddow Park House in Essex, runs a group of...

  19. Van Man To Multi Millionaire - How To Scale Your Business To 7 Figures

    James Martin started cutting grass as a boy, moved into tree surgery, and has built, bought and sold companies ever since. Today he owns Baddow Park House in Essex, runs a group of businesses and a property portfolio, hosts the Entrepreneur Conversations podcast, and mentors business owners…

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  20. The 8 Psychology Hacks Behind Apple, Amazon And Dyson

    Michael Aaron Flicker started his first company, ZenoSci, at 14 years old, and 28 years later he's built nine operating companies around a single idea: understanding why people actually believe and behave the way they do gives you an unfair advantage in any market. He's the author of Hacking the...

  21. He built a 1,000-person festival in 7 months with no audience

    Andy Coleman has spent the last 21 years starting things, breaking things and fixing them, on rinse and repeat. He became the youngest landlord in the Greene King estate in his early twenties, went on to build and run pubs, bars, a roofing business, a women's clothing chain, an events company and…

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  22. Body Language Expert: What Trump Understands About First Impressions

    Mark Bowden has spent his career reading the eight seconds before anyone says a word. He's the founder of Truth Plane, and he's coached leaders at the G7, elite athletes and Fortune 500 executives on how to win trust and credibility the moment they walk into a room, long before their content…

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  23. The Cons Of Working For Diary Of A CEO

    Will Perez is the lead filmmaker and editor behind Behind The Diary, the documentary series following Steven Bartlett's day to day running Flight Story and hosting The Diary of a CEO. His work on the channel has passed 12 million views and helped build an audience of over 400,000 subscribers, and...

  24. Nobody In Marketing Will Say This Outloud

    Anna Cairns and Kerry Collinge are the co-founders of Illuminari, the marketing collective they launched in 2026 alongside Rory Sutherland, Les Binet, Karen Nelson-Field, Orlando Wood, Richard Shotton, Margaret Heffernan, Tom Goodwin and Adam Morgan. Anna spent 22 years agency-side. She ran...

  25. I Work For Steven Bartlett - Here's What I Learned: Will Perez

    Will Perez is the filmmaker who spent three years documenting Steven Bartlett from inches away. As lead filmmaker and editor at FlightStory, he built Behind The Diary, the behind-the-scenes channel following The Diary Of A CEO, from zero to 400,000 subscribers and more than 12 million views. In...

  26. Microsoft's CEO Says This Makes You Better At Sales

    Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, says empathy is the hardest skill to learn, and the one that matters most. In this clip, Jack and Zac break down why empathy is the single most underrated sales skill in B2B, and how it changes everything about the way you cold call, handle objections and…

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  27. How to Become Impossible to Ignore Online - Tom Hunt

    Tom Hunt is the founder and CEO of Fame, the B2B podcast agency he's bootstrapped to around $4.5m ARR with 70+ full-time staff and $0 raised. Fame now starts and grows 300+ B2B podcasts around the world. Before Fame, Tom quit management consulting in 2014 and, by his own count, tried and failed...

  28. How One Founder Took On Liquid Death and Won

    Josh White is the co-founder and CEO of Cano Water, the UK drinks brand that helped pioneer canned water as an alternative to single-use plastic bottles. The idea was born after a trip to Thailand with friends, where he witnessed the scale of plastic pollution firsthand — a moment that turned…

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  29. Meet The 87 Year Old That Invented Baileys - David Gluckman

    From Bartender's Verdict to 2 Billion Bottles: The Man Who Invented Baileys - David Gluckman David Gluckman is the drinks industry legend who created Baileys Irish Cream, Tanqueray Ten, Cîroc, The Singleton, Sheridan's, Aqua Libra and more during his 40-year career at IDV (now Diageo). He's the...

  30. The Brutal Reality Of Building A Business To Sell - James Ashford

    How to sell your business: James Ashford built GoProposal from a WordPress plugin and exited to Sage. This is the full story. For founders, agency owners and accountants who want a business that runs, grows and sells without them. James Ashford turned a pricing problem in one accountancy firm…

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  31. LIVE Cold Calling Battle: UK vs USA (Jack vs Zac) | Presented by Nooks

    Who cold calls better — the UK or the USA? In this LIVE cold calling battle, Jack (USA) and Zac (UK) go head-to-head, dialing real prospects back-to-back to find out whose style, tone, and script actually book more meetings. Building something cool? Running a business? Join our FREE WhatsApp...

  32. The Cold Calling Blueprint Making Millions on LinkedIn - Sean McPheat

    In this episode, we sit down with Sean McPheat, Founder and CEO at MTD Training and Skillshub for one of the most brutally honest, emotionally raw, and strategically revealing conversations about what it really takes to survive 25 years in business, why a Tony Robbins weekend walking across hot...

  33. The Cold Calling Blueprint Making Millions on LinkedIn - Sean McPheat - Sean McPheat

    In this episode, we sit down with Sean McPheat, founder and CEO of MTD Training, for one of the most brutally honest, emotionally raw, and strategically revealing conversations about what it really takes to survive 25 years in business, why a Tony Robbins weekend walking across hot coals…

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  34. The Ugly Truth: is Samuel Leeds Scamming You?

    In this episode, we dive into Samuel Leeds, property entrepreneur and course creator, for one of the most divisive, brutally honest, and strategically revealing conversations about whether he's a legitimate property investor helping people build wealth or a course selling shyster using rage bait...

  35. Gary Stevenson is Lying, Here's the Proof! - Kent Bray

    In this episode, we sit down with Kent Bray, former Citibank trader and therapeutic counselor, for one of the most brutally honest, emotionally raw, and strategically revealing conversations about what it really takes to survive in the trading world, why cocaine addiction nearly destroyed...

  36. The REAL Problem With Gary Economics!

    In this episode, we sit down to react to Gary Economics, the viral internet economist from Ilford, for one of the most brutally honest, divisive, and strategically revealing conversations about whether his message is genuinely helping poor people or just creating rage bait that oversimplifies...

  37. Why I Wouldn’t Open a Restaurant Today: Tom Kerridge

    Sign Tom's Petition to help lower VAT: https://www.vatstheproblem.co.uk/ In this episode, we sit down with Tom Kerridge, Michelin starred chef and hospitality entrepreneur, for one of the most brutally honest and strategically revealing conversations about why opening a restaurant today would be...

  38. Keir Starmer vs Tom Kerridge: The UK Hospitality Crisis

    Sign Tom's Petition to help lower VAT: https://www.vatstheproblem.co.uk/ In this episode, we sit down with Tom Kerridge, Michelin starred chef and hospitality entrepreneur, for one of the most tactical, politically charged, and strategically brilliant conversations about what it really takes to...

  39. How to Use FBI Tactics to Win Every Sales Call: Chris Voss

    In this episode, we sit down with Chris Voss, former FBI hostage negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference, for one of the most raw, tactical, and psychologically charged conversations about what it really takes to negotiate like your life depends on it, why sales is helping and not...

  40. The Ugly Truth Inside the UFC & Why Hard Work Beats Talent - Brad Pickett

    In this episode, we sit down with Brad Pickett, former WEC and UFC fighter, for one of the most raw, honest, and emotionally charged conversations about what it really takes to survive in the cage, why most fighters retire because they either lose their job or their body gives out, and why…

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  41. The Cold Call Opener That Gets You In the Room - Trench Tips

    We break down the cold call opener that's absolutely flying right now for one of their marketing clients: calling up and saying you've been looking at their content online, you've had a thought, and asking if you can fly through why you chose to call. You'll hear why this works, how to back it up...

  42. Watch This Before Watching The Social Reckoning Film (2026)

    In this episode, we sit down with Simon Rogerson, co-founder and CEO of Octopus Group, for a raw and unfiltered conversation about why META is actively destroying human connection, why most businesses fail because entrepreneurs lack the resilience to survive the brutal early years, and why giving...

  43. Why Most Companies Are Borderline Sociopathic: The Founder of Octopus

    In this episode, we sit down with Simon Rogerson, co-founder and CEO of Octopus Group, an enterprise spanning energy, investments, real estate, and special needs schools, for one of the most honest, grounded, and philosophically charged conversations about what it really takes to build a business...

  44. 52 Minutes of LIVE Cold Calling with Jeb Blount Jr.

    In this episode, we take you inside a brutally honest live cold calling session where Jack, Zac, and special guest Jeb Blunt Jr. dial prospects in real time, proving that even the best salespeople face rejection after rejection and that success in cold calling isn't about magic scripts but about...

  45. 90% of People Don’t Realise They’re Doing This - Ella McCrystal

    In this episode, we sit down with Ella McCrystal, psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, author, and director of the Northampton Clinic, for one of the most raw, honest, and scientifically grounded conversations about trauma, anxiety, ADHD, and what it really takes to heal when your body remembers...

  46. Ban Social Media for Your Kids? - Therapist Opinion

    In this episode, we dive into one of the most uncomfortable conversations of our time: how social media, broken family structures, and a failing education system are fundamentally rewiring the brains of an entire generation, and why the solution isn't more diagnoses but a complete rethinking of…

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  47. Brutally Roasting our Cold Calls! - Trench Tips

    In this episode, we take you inside a brutally honest cold call roasting session where Jack and Zac tear apart their own old sales calls from two to three years ago, proving that even the best salespeople cringe at their past selves and still have room to grow. We break down what actually works…

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  48. How Much We Got Paid to Go on Dragons' Den: Simon Woodroffe

    Ever wondered how much the BBC actually pays you to appear on Dragons' Den? In this clip, we find out exactly what the dragons were paid to sit in that famous chair and it's a lot less than you'd think. We also hear the story of how he almost turned down Dragons' Den entirely, how Duncan…

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  49. From My Prison Cell to £100M Sushi Empire: Simon Woodroffe

    In this episode, we sit down with Simon Woodroffe, founder of Yo Sushi and Yotel, one of the original dragons on BBC's Dragon's Den, and one of the most unlikely success stories British entrepreneurship has ever produced. A man who spent three decades behind the scenes, designing stages and…

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  50. AI Will Make Bad Decisions Faster: Rory Sutherland

    Rory breaks down why AI in the hands of procurement and finance teams will be catastrophic, how the shareholder value movement since the 1980s has created a managerial Ponzi scheme that misaligns leadership with everyone else in the company, and why the purpose of a business should never be…

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Every week, Jack Frimston and Zac Thompson from We Have A Meeting chat with brilliant entrepreneurs about sales, mindset, marketing, and everything in between. It’s smart, human, and full of ideas you can actually use.

Tune in for sharp conversations, fresh perspectives, and a few laughs along the way.

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