Mark Twigg is an executive director at Cicero/AMO, he was born in Rotherham before working for the Labour Party in the late 90's. A lifelong diversity and inclusion campaigner he specialises in government relations and lobbying. Tom and him go toe to toe on the why the financial regulator is key to our society going forward and look back at what Britain could have done better in the 70's and 80's and how that might inform us as we approach the future.
Dec 01, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Tony Langham, CEO of Lansons, joins Tom and Angus and dives into his and Lansons' history, horse racing and why he's happy defending the offshore banking sector.
Nov 24, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Just before she went through the major life change of motherhood, Katie sat down with Tom and Angus Baigrie to discuss her journey through the world of Insurance; a journey so adventurous it has even taken her halfway up Everest. Listen in as Katie talks to Tom and Angus about her past, what brought her into insurance, and her thoughts on how diversity and inclusion has changed recently within the financial services industry.
Nov 17, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Industry giants do battle! Well it may not be a battle but it's definitely heavy hitting. Join Johnny Timpson, Peter Hamilton and Tom Baigrie as they talk about how they are attempting to make Protection better for everyone.
Nov 10, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 4
The handover from successful entrepreneur to successor CEO is notoriously fraught with danger. Join Tom Baigrie and LifeSearch's new CEO, Debbie Kennedy, as they look to draw up a map through the whirlpools.
Nov 02, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Tom and Angus sit down with a leader from inside LifeSearch, Melvyn Nwajei leads a team of telephone interviewers but also after George Floyd's murder was one of the founding members of LifeSearch's Fairness and Diversity Squad. Hear him talk about a range of issues from his days spent searching people for weapons in Manchester to a massacre in 1920's Oklahoma.
Oct 27, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Wasfi Kani is the CEO of Grange Park Opera. Born in the East London she started teaching herself the piano at 9 and was playing Violin in The National Youth Orchestra by 16. She read music at Oxford but was good at Maths so became a computer programmer but soon gave that up to become a conductor. With a story like that how could she be anything but interesting?
Oct 20, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Apparently Podcasts require a day of celebration and apparently 30th September 2021 is it. So here's a little trailer to give you an idea of what we do and what's coming up in Season 2. Landing mid October!
Sep 30, 2021•2 min
Angus talks to Ste Clark, Fi Rooney and Maddy Gunn, 3 highly experienced Searchers who live with disabilities, about disability and how it affects their lives. Covering a wide range of topics this conversation gives great insight into the lives of people who live with a disability.
Jul 12, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
LifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie hosts Ally Millar, Baz Moffatt, Davinia Tomlinson, Luke Ambler and Nina Skero in the Health, Wealth and Happiness conversations*. Together with Cebr, LifeSearch compiled three brand new indices to deliver an accurate reading of health, wealth and happiness levels in the UK. In these three conversations, our experts further pull apart the report, exploring its findings and relating them to their own experiences and expertise. This episode, the last of a 3-part series, i...
May 11, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 14
LifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie hosts Ally Millar, Baz Moffatt, Davinia Tomlinson, Luke Ambler and Nina Skero in the Health, Wealth and Happiness conversations. Together with Cebr, LifeSearch compiled three brand new indices to deliver an accurate reading of health, wealth and happiness levels in the UK. In these three conversations, our experts further pull apart the report, exploring its findings and relating them to their own experiences and expertise. This episode, the second of a 3-part series, ...
May 11, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 13
LifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie hosts Ally Millar, Baz Moffatt, Davinia Tomlinson, Luke Ambler and Nina Skero in the Health, Wealth and Happiness conversations. Together with Cebr, LifeSearch compiled three brand new indices to deliver an accurate reading of health, wealth and happiness levels in the UK. In these three conversations, our experts further pull apart the report, exploring its findings and relating them to their own experiences and expertise. This episode, the first of a 3-part series, i...
May 11, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Join Angus as he talks to 4 members of LifeSearch's Listening Ears team - Sarah Martin, Matthew Grantham, Bethan Jones, and Maxine Austin as they talk all things Mental Health, LifeSearch and how the two fit together. In this in-depth conversation, they dive into how to better get a grasp of your thoughts, their personal history with the subject and why it is that LifeSearch needs The Listening Ears. Please be aware some people may find some of the things that come up triggering if you do so our...
Apr 16, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Ben Burgess, Poonam Khan and Tom Baigrie discuss what it's like to be a top adviser at LifeSearch, how nervous they were on their first day and how long it took them to get up to that A+ standard. They are open with Tom on how they view the business and protection industry as a whole and even delve into why the job they do works, and sometimes doesn't work, for them
Mar 30, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 10
All the winners of the LifeSearch Awards 2021 tell us what it feels like to win and why they think they won, and the Searchers that did vote for them tell us why they actually did win. Think of it as a cheat sheet for how to win an award next year!
Mar 19, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This week we talk LGBTQ+ History Month. Angus is joined by Shaukat Ali, Maddy Gunn and Andrew Parker and they talk about everything from Queer as Folk and It's a Sin creator Russel T. Davies to eating Cake in the Garden centre.
Feb 26, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 8
After the death of George Floyd and the subsequent BLM protests, LifeSearch felt it wasn't doing enough. So The Fairness and Diversity Squad was born. They meet twice a month to talk about a massive variety of things and have already made many changes to the way LifeSearch operates. Tune in to hear about the experiences of LifeSearch's fairness and diversity squad and the changes they are helping to bring to LifeSearch today.
Jan 18, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This podcast was first released inside LifeSearch in the late Summer of 2020, we feel it's right to start off 2021 by putting this conversation between Darren Sturdy and Tom Baigrie out into the world. Darren talks openly and honestly about what it's been like growing up as a black man in Britain and how the death of George Floyd and the BLM movement has and are changing things.
Jan 10, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Shaun Barker is retiring after 14 brilliant years with LifeSearch, he and Tom Baigrie have a conversation that covers all areas. From the early days of LifeSearch's Leeds branch to more recent memories of Cape Town. Shaun reveals why he was scared the first time he and Tom met and gets to ask Tom a question that he's had on his mind for 12 years.
Dec 29, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This week Angus is talking to Emily Kate Brewer, John Hurd, Naz Patel, Beth Jones and Melvyn Nwajei about how they celebrate. In a weird and wonderful conversation, we talk Fasting, Nut Roasts and the computer game, Football Manager.
Dec 22, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Every year we have an End of Year Celebration, this year's was online but no less epic than any other. Our award winners recorded their thoughts post-winning and let's just say that we had to grab a tissue or two. Thank you so much winner's, this podcast would literally be nothing without you!
Dec 15, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 1
