Our guest this week is David B Horne, the Founder of Funding Focus, an educational business which aims to raise awareness and give support to women and racial minorities who face a very uneven playing field when trying to raise capital for their businesses. David trained as a Chartered Accountant with PWC and went on to be CFO of two companies listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market where he raised more than £100,000,000 in funding, and has transacted more than 20 companies. David is al...
Jun 21, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 94
In light of TechWeek, we had the pleasure of partnering with our good friends at London & Partners to part take in what can only be described as the world's fastest networking event - we took over a whole Eurostar carriage on a trip from London to Paris en route to the VIVaTech Conference and invited some of the most exciting and innovative Tech startups to join us and network, kind of like Speed Dating for businesses .. on a train .. at 180 miles per hour. It was fast, it was fun and we tho...
Jun 17, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 93
Welcome to this week's BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Sophie Epstone, Founder & CEO of Trekstock. We discuss Trekstock's journey so far with providing support for young adult cancer patients and her learnings about the reality for people who suffer from the disease both physically and mentally. Born out of the realisation that there was a huge lack in support services for young adult cancer patients after a family friend was diagnosed with the disease, Sophie has been on a...
Jun 16, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 92
Our guest this week is Sophie Epstone, Founder of Trekstock, the only UK charity that specifically focuses on supporting young adults through cancer. Sophie became aware of a huge gap in tailored support services for cancer patients in their 20s or 30s after a family friend had treatment for lymphoma and found himself in hospital surrounded by people much older than him whose needs were the opposite to his. There was no age-appropriate support available and Sophie wanted to do something about it...
Jun 14, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 91
Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Dominick Peasley, CEO at Sprk Capital. We take a deeper look at how Sprk's smart model actually works with lending against R&D claims compared to bank's conventional models and the benefits Sprk can provide to a business's cashflow and overall performance. We also get an insight into how Dom likes to keep business operations running successfully plus his thoughts on the future of the workplace culture. BWB is...
Jun 09, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 90
Joining us this week is Dominick Peasley, CEO of Sprk Capital, an online lender to businesses engaged in Research and Development. Before joining Sprk, Dominik was responsible for all lending capital at Funding Circle and raised over a whopping £6bn to support SMEs in the UK, and also co-founded Capital-B, a FinTech advisory and capital placement agency focused on developing lending businesses. Dominik has also worked for Goldman Sachs where he was Head of UK Distribution for its asset managemen...
Jun 07, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 89
Welcome to this week's BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Sukhi Jutla, Co-Founder & COO of Market Orders. We take a deeper look at today's Gold Jewellery industry and get to hear about how Sukhi believes it can be revolutionised with her platform Marketplace. From progress on the shop floor to turning jewellery into NFTs and entering the metaverse, big visions lead the way in today's episode. BWB is powered by Oury Clark.
Jun 02, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 88
Our guest this week is Sukhi Jutla who is the co-founder of MarketOrders, an online B2B platform for the gold and diamond jewellery industry. Sukhi’s won numerous awards including Asian Women of Achievement, Female Entrepreneur of The Year and named Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. She's a leading international speaker and influencer in Tech, qualified IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer and holds board positions with the Mayor of London’s Digital Skills Partne...
May 31, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 87
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with David Levin, Co-Founder and Creative Director of That Lot, an award-winning social creative agency. We take a deeper look into how David went from being a freelance writer to becoming the world's first professional Tweeter being paid to be the voice for some of the world's biggest brands, to then meeting David Schneider who he started That Lot with. Welcome to A Tweeter's Life. BWB is powered by Oury Cl...
May 26, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 86
David Levin, Co-Founder and Creative Director at “That Lot”, an award-winning, platform-first social creative agency is this week's guest on BWB. After working as a writer at MTV and freelance for a number of brands, David’s initial foray into social came when he set up a spoof Twitter account for his local Hackney pub which attracted a cult following and was named Time Out’s ‘Best London Twitter’. He was then asked to write and create social content for numerous brands and broadcasters includin...
May 24, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 85
Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Ben Thompson, CEO and Co-Founder of Employment Hero. We take a deeper look at how and why Ben started Employment Hero, the journey he's been on to build it into a billion dollar company and the vision he has for both its future and his own. We also discuss his views on the adoption of a fully remote working practice and why he believes it's going to lead the charge with revolutionising employment on a global scal...
May 19, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 84
Our returning guest this week is Ben Thompson , CEO and Co-Founder of Employment Hero. A Bachelor of Economics and Law, Ben spent several years working in the banking & finance industry in Sydney before he moved to London at the peak of the dot com boom, and it was there that he realised his true passion was in combining business and technology to create innovative new companies. Ben returned to Australia in 2002 to start an employment law firm and since then has grown his business into an i...
May 17, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 83
We continue our conversation with Author and Mentor Jerry Hyde and dig deeper into the roots of Jerry's recent documentary "Make Me A Man" where members of Jerry's male therapy groups are interviewed to show what conscious masculinity looks like. We also hear about how Jerry's approach to therapy practice differs between male and female clients and discuss the much broader topic of gender stereotypes, their place in society and whether they're still valid in today's world. Powered by Oury Clark...
May 12, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Jerry Hyde, dubbed as “the most dangerous therapist in the world” joins us this week on BWB. With 25 years clinical experience, Jerry rejects many of the conventionally held views of mainstream psychotherapy. An outspoken advocate of shamanic plant medicines, he believes for some people, a combination of deep psychotherapeutic work and psychedelic entheogens is the best way to bring real, lasting and positive transformation to their lives. Jerry works with couples and individuals, leads the larg...
May 10, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 81
**Zoom quality guest audio in this episode** Our guest this week is Vijay Pravin Maharajan, Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch, a Blockchain Analytics company based in Munich focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem. Vijay’s previous experiences include working at Siemens, Volkswagen and Telefónica in Germany, and is also the first Indian to be a 3 times TedX speaker in Germany. He’s been awarded as ‘Top 40 Data Scientists under 40’ in India and nominated as “20+ Inspiring Data Scientists to follow” ...
Apr 26, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 80
**Zoom quality guest audio in this episode** We continue our conversation with Andy Hawkins CPO of Business On Purpose who breaks down what it takes to become a B Corp. He unpacks the mission and process and explains the 5 metrics used to measure a business's quality of activity, as well as giving some surprising cases in point. What types of businesses should consider becoming B Corp? Do you need the full certification to be recognised as one? Where do you go and how do you start? Welcome to Mi...
Apr 21, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 79
We continue to our mission to demystify the complex world of Sustainability in conversation with Andy Hawkins, founder and Chief Purpose Officer of Business on Purpose whose aim is to empower people to do more business on purpose, as a force for good, for people, planet and profit. Andy’s been working with companies and clients for more than 20 years helping them transform the way they work using technology. He also spent 5 years working on community development in Africa and a further 5 years i...
Apr 19, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 78
How do you know if a product has been sustainably produced? How do you even measure it? How do we approach affecting this change globally? we continue our conversation with Austin Simms, Co-Founder and COO of Dayrize who are on a mission to create a new approach to sustainable shopping online. Welcome to Scoring Sustainability. Powered by Oury Clark.
Apr 15, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 77
Up next as part of our Sustainability Special series is Austin Simms, Co-Founder and COO at Dayrize - a new approach to sustainable shopping online making it easy and enjoyable to buy goods that do good. After 20+ years spent working in senior marketing positions at major corporations around the world, Austin had a desire to use his skills to address climate change. With a strong marketing background, he believed that putting the power in consumer's hands was important to make real change and re...
Apr 14, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Welcome to this week’s special episode of BWB where we’re joined by Kyrre Haugan, General Manager of the NBCC. We were lucky enough to recently attend their marvellous 115th Anniversary event where we managed to persuade Kyrre to let us record a special version of Business vs. Bullsh*t, on the ground, with guests who were attending the event, which, let’s say, became more and more colourful as the night progressed. In this episode we shall be playing the night’s recordings alongside hearing from...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with the wonderful Maya Hennerkes, an expert in sustainable finance and Director of Climate Strategy and Delivery, and Green Financial Systems at the European Bank Of Reconstruction and Development (now there's a mouth full!) In this episode we focus on unpacking the European Bank's working model and how they've structured their mandate to implement sustainability and ESG considerations into their projects. ...
Apr 08, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Kicking off our Sustainability Special series where we focus on unpacking the ever-evolving and extremely confusing world of ESG is the brilliant Maya Hennerkes, Director of Climate Strategy and Delivery, and Green Financial Systems at the European Bank Of Reconstruction and Development (now there's a mouth full!) Maya is a sustainable finance expert with almost 20 years of experience and leads EBRDs environmental and social work with financial institutions and private equity funds. She promotes...
Apr 05, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 73
This week we continue our conversation with Tedd George CNO of Kleos Advisory where we explore one of his areas of passionate expertise - African emerging markets. We speak about Tedd's economic work in Africa and hear about his abundance of experiences and knowledge about the continent which have led him to become a leading expert and spokesperson. What's holding Africa back and how is it excelling? what's today's definition of an African entrepreneur? should the rest of the world be paying mor...
Mar 29, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 72
Welcoming Tedd George this week who is the founder and Chief Narrative Officer of Kleos Advisory providing thought leadership and strategic advisory on African markets, commodity value chains and a range of disruptive technology. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, Tedd has a diverse range of specialities including African and emerging markets, soft commodities, trade and trade finance, and ESG. He's also a media commentator and regularly appears as chairman, speaker and moderator on th...
Mar 22, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 71
This week our continued conversation with Jennifer Ogunyemi takes a different direction .. away from business talk and towards hearing her life story about abandonment and homelessness at 16 years old, being rejected by her family and living in hostels through to finding strength and positivity in Islam which became her life line and helped her become the successful business woman she is today. It's a story which we believe is an incredible example of how people can deal with extreme adversity a...
Mar 14, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Our guest this week is Jennifer Ogunyemi, a business owner, author, mentor and speaker. She is the founder of Sisters in Business which aims to support women from all walks of life on their entrepreneurial journey. Our two-part conversation takes us through Jennifer's gripping life story: from being homeless at 16 years old living in hostels, to finding solace in Islam, to becoming the self-aware, driven individual (and mother of 4!) she is today, part 1 of our conversation gives us insight into...
Mar 07, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 69
This week we continue our conversation with Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, a Channel 4 Sports Reporter, Journalist and Founder of Blakademik - an independent media network set up to celebrate, inspire and uplift black culture which Jordan felt compelled to create due to the misrepresentation he was seeing in mainstream media about his community and the adverse effect it was having on the younger generation. We talk about Black Lives Matter and how non-black people should best address what happened, and g...
Feb 28, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 68
We have an EPIC episode run kicking off this week with the brilliant Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, a Channel 4 Sports Reporter, Journalist and Founder of Blakademik. Jordan started in journalism as Editor of the youth publication Live Magazine and has gone on to write for various magazines and newspapers including Dazed & Confused, DJ Mag, Sunday Times, Time Out, The Independent and The Guardian. He can also be heard co-hosting on Talk Sport's "TS Extra Time" and is an occasional guest on the Guardi...
Feb 21, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Joining us this week is Ryan Welmans, CEO at Sopro - a B2B service which helps identify, engage and generate potential customer leads for businesses. Ryan co-founded Sopro in 2015 after several senior business setup and growth roles, and to-date, Sopro has grown to international acclaim with a multi-million pound turnover and winning various high profile awards along the way. Our conversation with Ryan unpacks the mechanics of how successful B2B email marketing actually works: from the conversat...
Feb 15, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Imagine being able to put on AR glasses and experience the battle of Hastings, interactively. That's exactly the kind of thing being developed by New Reality, Ingvi Logason's VR and AR company. This week we continue our conversation with the tech start-up entrepreneur and investor who unpacks what the future of augmented reality in society could look like with the kind of work he's doing at New Reality whose focus is to develop technology for museums, historical sites and even educational instit...
Feb 07, 2022•21 min•Season 2Ep. 65
