LJMU Starting Up Podcast

LJMU Starting Up Podcast•www.ljmu.ac.uk

You've got a burning idea that you want to start? You've already started up, but want more tips & tricks? Or you just love learning about how people involved in business start up grow their confidence, skills and networks... This is the podcast to power you forward on the way into Uni, on the bus home or over a latte in your favourite indie coffee shop

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Episodes

Starting Up Podcast - episode 6 with Dominique Aspey, Ecosystems Manager @ LJMU Centre for Entrepreneurship on making networking work for you

You are not alone when it comes to not always knowing how to approach 'networking'. Whatever stage you are at with developing your research, your start-up idea or applying for that next dream job - how and when to network is a question that we think needs to be broken down with some humanity and warmth brought into the mix. And who better to sit down and chat with than our very own Dominique Aspey, Ecosystems Manager @ LJMU Centre for Entrepreneurship. Her extensive experience of getting out the...

Sep 20, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Starting Up Podcast - episode 5 with Liz Harry, colourful creative polymath on following your passions and so much more

This episode of the Starting Up podcast is all about allowing yourself to follow what lights you up, what you find really excites you and being willing to play by your own rules. (Recorded pre. lockdown March 2020) Take some time and loads of notes listening to our chat with Liz Harry. She is a true creative polymath from Liverpool who has allowed her career to evolve throughout the years to fit her interests, passions and different ways she likes to and needs to work. Her work has kindness, con...

Sep 20, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Starting Up Podcast - episode 3 with Chantelle Lunt / Leadership as a start up founder + much more

At every stage of starting up a core element to any success is the inner and outer leadership drive unique to each entrepreneur. Chantelle Lunt writer, public speak, activist, volunteer and founder/ owner of The Little Green Juice Box. She is a current student of Liverpool John Moores (at recording date 03.08.20) she studying BA Criminology and sociology. We invited her to talk with us remotely at this key time in so many areas of public life, social activism, community cohesion, regeneration fo...

Sep 20, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Starting Up Podcast - episode 4 with Francesco Contino / Business planning, lifelong learning + much more

Give yourself the chance to learn about tools to grow your start up idea from being in your head to out into the world a plan it is a way to gauge how far you want to go and the distance you have travelled. In this episode of the LJMU Starting Up podcast Business & Finance student, entrepreneur and business manager, Francesco Contino shares his personal journey from how he learns from the range of work experience he has gained, his growing start up ambitions, the power of role models and lif...

Sep 20, 2020•19 min

Episode 2 - How to find your tribe with Amy Collins, founder of Pinhead

At the award-winning Centre for Entrepreneurship , we support Liverpool John Moores University students & graduates to develop their ideas into viable start-up businesses, whether is a freelance consultancy, tech start-up or business set up alongside your studies. One of the biggest challenges when first starting up is knowing who your ideal customer or audience is going to be. Its a vital piece of having a thriving business that takes time & effort. This month's episode aims to help you...

Oct 08, 2019•22 min•Ep. 2

Episode 1 - How was the Centre for Entrepreneurship started up?

As the award winning Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Entrepreneurship gets ready to open it's doors to a new year of students we take the time to interview Emma Robinson, Head of Student Entrepreneurship . Interviewed by Anna B. Sexton, Enterprise Training Manager in a make shift, impromptu recording studio in our offices at Aldham Robarts Library 16th August 2019....

Sep 16, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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