Maya Bruney is a designer elite British athlete. She's currently preparing for the 2020 IAAF World Indoor Ahtletic Championship in China and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in her chosen disciplines of the 200m, 400m and 4x 400m. She's also a graphic design graduate from the BRIT School and the University of East London.

Maya grew up in Croydon and was introduced to athletics by her parents, David and Silvia, having shown early interest in "moving around quickly". Her parents remain deeply involved in her career, Silvia as her nutritionist, and David as her technical coach.

Maya became the only athlete to achieve a hat-trick of medals at the 2017 European Atheltics U20 Chanpionships. She became the 2017 European Junior 200m Champion, 4 x 100-metre relay bronze medalist and 4 x 400-metre relay bronze medalist, placing Britain top of the medal table at the Championships. She broke Chirley Thomas's 30-year-old Surrey record for the 200 metres, running 23.04 seconds and set the 2017 European Junior 200m Leading Time. In 2018 she won gold in the British Universities & Colleges Sports (BUCS) 400m and 4x100m gold medalist.

She's also a talented designer, with interests in jewerly design and sports technology design, and has played a central role in creative dimensions of her marketing work with her sponsor, Puma.

She follows her dual passions of design and athletics with equal determination and is motivated to inspire others to follow their dreams by doing what they love. I hope you find her story as inspirational as I do.

Website

https://mayabruney.com/about

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayabruney/

Twitter (@mayabruney)

https://twitter.com/mayabruney?lang=en

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/mayabruney/?hl=en

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Bruney

Puma

https://eu.puma.com/uk/en/home

Starting out aged 15 with a simple video camera that his parents gave him pre smartphone era, Jamal Edwards redefined the grass roots music scene in a new digital age with his breakthrough SBTV channel on YouTube.

Through SBTV he helped break some of today's biggest artists, including Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Rita Ora and Amelie Sandé.

In 2015 Jamal was awarded an MBE for his services to music and business.

Today, he's one of the most recognised and connected names in the music business and a pioneer of a new way of surfacing and celebrating new talent in the YouTube age, taking them viral.

Jamal is also a huge contributor to his community, and to British society, with his grass roots organisation Delve, designed to help youth find opportunities and revitalise the youth centres and other physical spaces that help them get there.

Watch and listen to the story from the man himself, complete with a special guest appearance!!!!

SBTV:

https://www.youtube.com/user/smokeybarz

Jamal's LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamal-edwards

Delve:

https://jedelve.com/

Craig's Podcast Channels:

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5TA94RtIzFsOnSHUtNY1VN?si=k78VrWPzQkiubGw8Es2pcA

Apple:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coffee-eggs-inspiration/id1481063033

SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/user-349970141

Stitcher:

https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=467047&refid=asa

TuneIn:

http://tun.in/pjyZb

Craig's Social:

LinedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigfenton

Twitter: @craigwfenton

Instagram: @coffee_eggs_and_inspiration (YouTube channel)

Riccardo Zacconi co-founded King.com, famous for social mobile games like Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga.

Hear Riccardo describe the journey from consulting into the tech start up world going from near bankruptcy to public company, to one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world and Activision Blizzard's 2016 purchase of King.com for $6bn.

Riccardo is refreshingly down to earth and now spends much of his time giving back, helping young entrepreneurs, supporting modern education initiatives and investing in biotechnology. A true gentleman entrepreneur.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardo-zacconi-b393a7

https://king.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ptenresearch

https://sweetcapital.com/

Watch the podcast on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwM-V1IDDIvEBqyyVFkAplg/

In the mood for a heart warming story of courage and raw talent? Meet Gabriel Akin-Odujobi, the epitomy of what it means to excel.

Model, break dancer, British Hurdler, maths teacher and now digital marketer.

Gabriel approached me for career advice, and ended up giving me a masterclass so compelling I had to share it.

An uplifting and extraordinary story of determination from heartbreak and despair to the Pinnacle of more than one field, Gabriel gives us a life lesson in how to succeed.....and a little break dancing for good measure.

#gabrielakinodujobi #inspiration #coffeeeggsandinspiration #craigfenton

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-akin-odujobi

Kwazi Cort is a British Rapper from Mitcham in South London. He's grown up in a harsh and sometimes unforgiving, poor area, but with good parents and a positive mental attitude is building a new life of hope and creativity.

He's a great role model and immense talent. One of the first times I met Kwazi, he asked to borrow the sound system in my car to warm up for a rap video he was about to film. He then proceeded to pull random tracks and freestyle over the top of them.

I cannot find the words to describe how impressive this was. He's now well on his way to becoming the next big name in British rap with a unique fusion that mixes rock and rap together in a soulful and funky mash up.

This is a refreshingly honest account of where he came from and what has driven him to strive for more.

Inspired by Kwazi's story and quest, shortly after filming this in September 2019, I started my record label, Big Community Records, and signed Kwazi. In July we released his debut Grock (Grime / Rock) album, "Blood on the English Carpet. Check it out!

Blood on the English Carpet (Debut Grock Album)

https://ditto.fm/blood-on-the-english-carpet

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/KwaziCort

Insta

https://instagram.com/kwazicort?igshid=10yqh9o6ffe9f

Ryan Taylor is one of the UK's biggest YouTubers, a pro BMX Rider and an entrepreneur.

He has built a huge following with unique BMX bike lifestyle content. His audience are invited to become part of his community - his "Certi Fam" - and join him in a lifestyle of healthy adventure. He's built a successful apparel brand called Certi and his own line of BMW and Wheelie bikes called Collective.

Ryan has built on his following by inviting his community to join him campaign against knife crime, with Bikes Uo, Knives Down. In 2019, he took to the streets of Notting Hill Carnival with a quarter pipe mounting on a massive truck, so celebrate the cause.

Join me as we go on a journey with Ryan from his beginnings on the outskirts of Birmingham to the top of the Egyptian Pyramids to the US and back to his home in East London. This is one you don't want to miss.

https://everythingcerti.com/

https://www.collectivebikes.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/Ryantaylorbmx

https://instagram.com/ryan_taylor?igshid=1gxiooqj51ppj

Brandon Relph is somewhat of a child prodigy. He was the UK's youngest CEO, at age 13, flipping his first MineCraft based company before he left school, aged 17. He's now 19 and on his 5th company, is a TEDx speaker, Gen Z adviser and youth ambassador.

Speaking with him was like standing in the eye of an innovation hurricane!!!!

I'm sure you'll get you dose of Gen Z inspiration from this chat as I did.

If you are interested in investing in his latest business, you can contact Brandon on: [email protected]

His companies are as follows.

http://brandonrelph.com/

http://studiobe.co.uk/

https://thinknation.co/

You may know Tom as the presenter and host of Shiny New Object Podcast. Each week he interviews someone new in the digital marketing world. Check it out if you haven't already (links below).

What you may not know is that Tom is also the Founder and CEO of an innovative creative agency that uses AI to produce multiple variations of a creative asset according to what works with individual customers.

His personal story is as fascinating as his company, taking him from studying philosophy to becoming a professional musician, to working as a pasta chef to learning how to be a stand up comic.

I hope you enjoy his humour and story as much as I did.

https://soundcloud.com/user-316041253

https://soundcloud.com/thedrum-2/the-drums-shiny-new-object

https://automatedcreative.net/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomollerton/?originalSubdomain=uk

Adejare Doherty and I met at House Festival in 2019.

His company provided all the disposable plates for the event. He makes these from fallen palm leaves, they are fully biodegradable and you can even feed them to cows.

The story that led him there is fascinating, taking him from Nigeria, to India, to the UK, on a personal journey that included time as a Barrister, magazine publisher, Dragon's Den finalist and much more.

I hope you enjoy listening to Adejare's story as much as I did.

http://www.thewholeleafco.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adejare-doherty-a6037817

Here's an idea for a new podcast and YouTube interview series.