Confounded TV

Shannon, now 31, joined 10 Yetis when she was just 18-years-young and worked her way up through the PR ranks to the helm of the agency. She has previously been awarded accolades such as PR Week’s 30 under 30, The Drum’s UK's Top 50 Digital Women Under 30 and a place on B2B Marketing’s Top 10 30 under 30 list.

She has led campaigns for the likes of Confused.com, Gocompare, Just Eat, carwow, Totaljobs, WaterAid, Optical Express and Hillarys Blind and is passionate about delivering creative campaigns for brands that drive phenomenal results.

From helping start-ups sky-rocket to success through clever PR tactics, to making a splash with stunts and “hero” content, Shannon shares how things have changed over the years in the world of PR and the impact of digital media and SEO on client and journalist expectations.   

10 Yetis works with start-ups right through to global brands on PR, social media, web, design, video and SEO campaigns.

Find out more at www.10yetis.co.uk

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Imposter syndrome is the secret feeling of being a fraud when you’re not. 

A doubt that you’re good enough, despite a track record of success, and a fear of being found out.

 It affects 70% of professionals at some point in their careers, men and women equally. 

Imposter syndrome creates stress, reduces creativity and productivity. It can lead to burnout and people ending their careers. 

When you resolve imposter syndrome, you finally feel good enough, you feel like you belong, excel and enjoy your success. 

Dr Tara Halliday has been a holistic therapist and coach for 21 years and specialises in resolving imposter syndrome. 

Her book ‘Unmasking' was an Amazon #1 Bestseller in 2018. 

She runs Inner Success, an 8-week, one-to-one training and coaching programme for C-suite executives to eliminate imposter syndrome for good.

Take the Free Imposter Syndrome Test: http://bit.ly/ImpostorQuiz

https://completesuccess.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-halliday-phd/
Book: http://bit.ly/TH_Unmasking

Meet Darren Fell,  the Founder at Crunch an award-winning online accounting solution and community. 

Crunch is invested in by former Skype Chairman Michael van Swaaij.

Darren has been named ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Sussex Business Awards, and is also a past winner of the ‘Innovation in Business’ accolade at the Brighton and Hove Business Awards. 

Prior to Crunch, Darren created, built, and later sold the email marketing specialist company Pure360 to the NASD listed US firm, MobiVentures, for $7.8m (funds that Darren later used to create Crunch). Pure360 now employs around 100 people and has over 2,000 clients including Innocent Drinks, Financial Times, and Rightmove.

Crunch offers easy-to-use, accounting software, with every add-on imaginable, all the way through to a full accountancy service. The audience they love to work with is freelancers, contractors, and small businesses across the UK.

Crunch is also home to Crunch Chorus, an ever-expanding self-employed community of 50,000 members.

Nelly is on  a mission to help entrepreneurs minimise technology mistakes. She teaches the roadmap to successfully manage technology teams and projects like a CTO ... without being technical or learning how to code.

She runs the TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs Academy  and was featured in ️Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Women” and ️Wall Street Journal’s “Woman on the IT Fast Track”

The TechSpeak 10 step process consists of the following:

Step 1: Validate and Refine the Idea

Step 2: Build an interactive prototype of a possible solution.

Step 3: Create technical specifications for your prototype

Step 4: Pick the right tools & technologies that could be used to build the project.

Step 5: Determine the price and budget for your project & define your MVP

Step 6: Hire a Tech Team to estimate and code the project

Step 7: Design your MVP.

Step 8: Project manage the coding of the MVP

Step 9: Hosting options, security, and scaling techniques

Step 10: Refine your product based on data from actual users using your product

You can find out more, completely free at https://www.techspeakforentrepreneurs.com/free-classes/ and if you subsequently decide to sign up Nelly has kindly given you a 10% discount code  - use code CONFOUNDEDTV

Nelly is also a Speaker and presenter for many organisations and major industries events including: Women’s Enterprise Center, NY Entrepreneurs Business Network, Small Business Summit, BlogHer, Social Media Jungle, Women 2.0, BlogWorld, and has been featured in INC Magazine, NBC Today Show, Fast Company Magazine, NewsDay.com, O’Reilly, SmartMoney, SmallBiz, TechRepublic, Women’s Radio

And if that wasn't enough Nelly is the CTO of Webgrrls International, the first and largest networking organisation of women in or interested in the Internet and Technology. 

Founded in April, '95 with six women in New York City, Webgrrls' currently has over 100 chapters worldwide with over 30,000 members.

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.

Rich has gone through an amazing journey, from concept, through the Y Combinator process and now back in the UK to landing his first clients, building a platform to support fast growth ecommerce business.

His goal is to totally automate the supply of lending to fast growing ecommerce businesses where traditional funding just cannot deliver using old systems and measurements. 

Along the way he has met Silicon Valleys finest and most famous investors and is one of the rare UK founders who have applied, won a place and graduated from the Y Combinator process.

Business score is a funding platform designed to help high growth ecommerce businesses through automated lending.

Find out more at https://www.scorethebusiness.com

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.

Already a provider of meeting and desking systems to blue chip clients, Gerry has seen huge demand since the Covid pandemic began as clients look for ways to safely manage their office spaces.  Not only that but Gerry has run the Cloudbooking team of over 60 people purely as a remote business for over a decade. 

The changes that some people are struggling with today, he knows inside out. 

He explains how he gets it to work and the key things he does to help motivate, engage and manage his team.

It’s a long one at over an hour but I’m not apologising, Gerry has more experience in managing remote working, room planning and desk management than anyone else in the UK. 

I guarantee you learn something useful in this podcast! Or your money back ;-)

Cloudbooking is a workplace space management and utilisation tool that uses live data to analyse how desks and meeting rooms are actually used and helps companies to improve their efficiency and the booking process around them. This service is particularly important in the current pandemic and is helping companies plan the safe return of their staff to the office in a socially distanced and secure way.  

Find out more at https://cloudbooking.com

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.

Just back in London from Copenhagen, we touch on how normal life is compared to the UK and how people need to meet people to build real relationships before going on to talk through his business and how he has built something really special. 

A graduate of Copenhagen Business School, Mads honed his knowledge of lending at Zopa and Lendable growing a wide network of contacts and the knowledge and skills needed to try and attempt a super complex API for financial lending.

For the last 3 years Mads has been building and championing his platform. A single API where consumer facing businesses and websites can allow their visitors to apply to multiple lenders simultaneously. As a platform and by re-defining the broker model Accepty makes finance fairer for consumers and doesn’t keep the customer details leaving the credit introducers with the relationship from the beginning.

With multiple types of credit available on the platform, his company now counts comparison sites, loan brokers, finance apps, lenders and banks as clients. Accepty is becoming the leading search and comparison engine for credit in the UK, powering businesses that truly care for customer outcome and responsible data handling.

Mads has retained Accepty's independence so there are no vested interests  - this means their service is not favouring higher commissions to the detriment of customers and unlike other providers, they do not compete against their partners and only succeed when their partners succeed.

Find out more > Accepty.co.uk

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.

News Flash ! - Quinoa isn’t pronounced the way you think or why you think…

That’s one of many amazing things I learned from Meeting Kathryn and the most trivial. 

Listen to this episode as Kathryn tells the story behind her success at Discount Vouchers and her amazing new startup Upside Savings  - https://www.upsidesaving.com/ - an app that can save money in your bank account based on what and where you shop while you do nothing!

Since our recording their Seedrs campaign is now live and as of 19/09/2020 is at 87% of target - have a look and find out more at https://www.seedrs.com/upsidesaving as they “Reinvent cashback through Open Banking to build a nation of savers.”

Other subjects covered including maximising your email list open rates and being smart about which providers to use and why, how Honey won the toolbar / extension wars and ways to save while shopping online.

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.

Did you know there were 10,000 varieties of Champagnes in France you have never seen in the UK? Me neither! 

Peter and Dan are two of the most interesting people i've met - the depth and knowledge they have of the wine is amazing. Add in their energy, humour and sense of mission and this podcast fizzes with energy :-)

They have launched Sip Champagnes https://sipchampagnes.com to bring you the very best wines from across France from small local vineyards. These champagnes are the very best they can find and the effort they put into to finding, tasting and importing these wines is immense.

Really worth a listen - their genuine care and passion shines through and it was a pleasure to interview them!

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.

Tom hails from a business & innovation background having led technology teams within investment banking and pharmaceutical sectors and founded and sold companies in the marketing technology space.

In a short space of time, he has built the company, raised crowdfunding and equity funding, bought https://carandclassic.co.uk and taken to Cazana to be a leading big data company in the automotive space.

Cazana provides automotive insights for the future of vehicle ownership. Using big data and predictive analytics, Cazana analyses millions of automotive transactions daily to assess the value and risk associated with every vehicle on the road.

Cazana's systems are used by manufacturers, finance companies, dealerships and insurers globally. Companies use Cazana's data to provide vehicles to the modern automotive consumer who wants to access, not own vehicles.

Find out more at https://cazana.com

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Confounded TV is the people podcast with amazingly successful and interesting guests and a high octane energy blast.