Different Hats Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Lucy Tarrant a Solicitor with over 28 years legal experience and Managing Director at Cognitive Law Limited, she is past President of the Sussex Law Society and someone who has been on a mission to create a place where solicitors could work to live and not live to work. 

In this brilliant episode Lucy talks about how she was a witness in a magistrates court for a road traffic accident and how the prosecuting barrister had inspired her and ignited something inside her to follow a career in the legal profession. She describes her unorthodox path to becoming a solicitor through, hard work and continued determination before working her way to partner in a large regional law firm. However reaching this status had not given Lucy the work life balance that she wanted and as a single parent decided to create a modern law firm that challenged the status quo and championed choice, in 2014 with business partner Stuart Gillespie, Cognitive Law was born. Lucy was adamant that she wanted to create a firm 'where solicitors can work to live not live to work, borne from a deep-seated belief that having a passion for the law doesn't mean sitting at a desk in an office all day, every day; or compromising peoples personal lives'. We discuss some of the challenges she has faced over the past 9 years and despite some of the pressures of growing the firm to five head office staff and 15 solicitors all whom work remotely and flexibly, and how she has maintained her own work life balance, continuing to advocate passionately for giving solicitors their lives back and creating an alternative place to practice the law. This episode is a great example of someone that wanted to do things her way and do things differently, so created her own business that would do just that.

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/OiG888oZqA0

Find out more about Lucy Tarrant here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucytarrant/

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My guest on the podcast this week is the founder of Dad La Soul, Dan Flanagan. An entrepreneurial, curious and creative thinker with a relentless passion and commitment for increasing the understanding of how social impact research, reporting, storytelling and commercially-focused strategies can work together hand-in-hand. 

He is an award-winning and respected thought leader in the men's mental health and fatherhood field. His work has been showcased by The All-Party Parliamentary Committee on the Future of Fatherhood, The Department of Media, Culture and Sport, The Guardian, BBC World Service, Radio 4, Huffington Post, and ITV.

This is such a powerful episode as Dan's openess and honesty truly highlights the importance of why we need to ask for help when we are struggling with our mental health. He shares how growing up his mum had a breakdown, his parents split up and the impact this had on him. He goes on to talk about his own mental health issues, a dark time where after challenges in his business he felt like a failure, that he had let his family down and how his son giving him chicken pox forced him to stop, and was a turning point for him reassess what was important and was ultimately the catalyst for him launching Dad La Soul and building a community and support network for Dad's around the world. With suicide the largest killer for men under 45, with 96 men taking their own lives per week in the UK a truly staggering statistic and one that needs to change. It can only change if together we break the stigma attached to mental health and show, as Dan has done that asking for help, being vulnerable and talking openly to people about our struggles is not a sign of weakness, but shows immense bravery and strength. Dan has started a Dad's revolution and one that is truly needed, this is his story.

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/GB5--35nEU4

Find out more about Dan Flanagan and Dad La Soul here ➡️ https://www.dadlasoul.com/

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My guest on the podcast this week is an Olympic Silver Medalist and the voice of British diving Leon Taylor. Leon is also a Speaker, Executive coach, Mentor, Author, Co-founder Adeki Performance and BBC Commentator. 

Leon's passion for everything he does has helped him achieve sustained success at the highest level. A 20 year career in a demanding sport is a notable feat in itself. But his breakthrough successes brought diving to the attention of the British public.

Training in the pre-lottery funding era in a minority sport had its challenges. Yet at the Athens Olympics of 2004, Leon and his diving partner Peter Waterfield, managed to secure Britain's first medal in the sport for 44 years. An honour which led to new investment in the sport and the development of a new crop of British talent.

This is a truly amazing episode as we look back at Leon's childhood and how he was labelled a problem child from a young age but found his outlet through physical movement and activity. From 6 years old he had a dream of going to the Olympics and he shares his inspiring story of how he got there. We talk about his bouts of depression and struggles with mental health, and delve into the mindset of what helped him return from injury to eventually stand on the podium in 2004 Olympic Games and realise his dreams. Leon shares insights into how him and diving partner Peter Waterfield were able to tap into their unconscious mind and achieve a state of flow that saw them win an Olympic Silver medal and Britains first diving medal in 44 years. There are so many amazing takeaways that anyone listening can take into their business or life to help achieve their dreams and tap into their potential. Leon is an incredible human being and this is an episode and conversation I will never forget.

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/yy_dv4fSxDU

Find out more about Leon Taylor here ➡️ https://leontaylor.co.uk/about.html

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the podcast with very special guest Monty Munford. Monty is a keynote speaker on technology, speaking at more than 200 global events... He has interviewed and conducted fireside chats with names such as Kim Kardashian, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak (twice), and more at the world's best tech events. 

He was previously a weekly tech columnist for Forbes in New York, the Telegraph in the UK and has contributed to the FT, MIT Tech Review, Mashable, Wired, Newsweek, TechCrunch, The Guardian, The Independent, Times of India and many more. He continues to write regularly for the BBC and The Economist and a weekly column on finance for City AM.

He has appeared in two Bollywood movies as an actor, and over the past decade has worked as a strategist with 25 companies and created an accumulated value of $1.2 billion through Series A-D funding and exits. 

I had the pleasure of meeting Monty recently and he is genuinely one of the most intriguing, interesting, charismatic and inspirational person I have had the pleasure of chatting to on the podcast. I man with endless stories of incredible life experiences, seeing the world, meeting amazing people, experiencing different cultures and interviewing some of the most iconic people on the planet. We talk about travel, writing his first novel, crypto currency, interviewing Steve Wozniak, his divorce and how the next chapter of his life starts with writing his next book that has been 25 years in the making. This is a truly fascinating episode that I know you'll love listening to as much as I did recording it. The biggest takeaway for me was his reference to time being our most valuable commodity and what we should do to live a fulfilled life.

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/18YjKj8DX7E

Find out more about Monty Munford here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/montymunford/

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This weeks special guest is CEO of Rivervale Cars Ltd Vince Pemberton. He has been in the motor trade and Sussex business community for nearly three decades and today he shares his journey with us. Two weeks ago we released a tribute from this episode to Vince's father Alex Pemberton who sadly passed away recently.

This is a brilliant episode from someone that was told by his careers officer he would never get a job, no one would employ him and wouldn't amount to anything, but proved that through being a good person, working hard and building relationships just how wrong they were. We talk about Vince's early career and the lessons he learnt from cold calling, to his first role at Rivervale to starting Eagle Oak Vehicles ltd with his dad. Vince tells me how he has never sold anything to anyone, he simply helps people buy what they want including some well known names such as Tony Cascarino, Teddy Sheringham and Bradley Walsh to name a few. We delve into the strong culture at Rivervale that has helped the company continue to grow from strength to strength over the years despite many challenges all businesses have faced recently, but how the people in the business are what really make it what it is, and how the values of former Chairman, the late Tommy Sopwith are still above the door as you come into the building... 'Do it the right way, do it the Rivervale way'.

There are so many great takeaways from this brilliant CEO and entrepreneur, you can tell his passion for the industry and Rivervale as a company. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did...

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/rzKG8LF3_Y0

Find out more about Vince Pemberton here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vince-pemberton-a0978517/

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This is the 50th Episode of the County Business TALKS podcast and the start of series 4. To kick off this series I was honoured and privileged to welcome the one and only Sally Gunnell OBE; the Essex Girl who captured the hearts of a nation. She remains the only woman ever to hold four major track titles concurrently – with Gold medals in the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth games.

Following her retirement from international athletics, she developed a new career as a television presenter and inspirational speaker and has written four books on fitness, health, self-fulfilment, and wellbeing.

This was such an honour to have this conversation as Sally shared her inspirational story, we discussed what life was like growing up on the farm in Essex and her early athletics career at Essex ladies. We delve into that glance in 1991 in the final of the World Championships that cost her the gold medal, her mindset around then and how she bounced back, focusing on her mindset and using the power of visualisation to achieve her dream, as a year later in Barcelona 1992 she was standing on the podium as Olympic Champion. We talk about teamwork, even in individual sport and how important it was to surround herself with a great team to help her achieve her goals. Sally discussed the later part of her athletics career and her struggles with injury, to life after athletics as a business woman and sharing the lessons she has learnt through her journey around resilience and visualisation to achieve high performance not only in business but in life, and inspiring others with her incredible story.

I could not have thought of a better way to celebrate my 50th episode and kick off Series 4 💥

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/heuJS6CUgDg

Find out more about Sally Gunnell here ➡️ https://www.sallygunnell.com/

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🖤 "Don't take anything for granted" 🖤

On 31st January 2023 I recorded an episode of the podcast with CEO of Rivervale Cars Ltd my good friend Vince Pemberton. On every episode I always ask my guests who has inspired them throughout their journey. During the whole of this episode it was clear that Vince’s Dad, Alex Pemberton had been that person for him, not only as a father, but a friend, business partner and confidant. Unfortunately since recording the episode, Alex sadly passed away earlier this month, my thoughts are with Vince and his family at this time, for me this is a reminder as you’ll hear and as Alex would often say to Vince, “Don’t take anything for granted”.

This trailer is a tribute to the late Alex Pemberton. 

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/ooqTyuHLPGM

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This week's episode is from the 24 hour podcast with Jon Saunders. Jon has had a long career in the hospitality industry, running, managing and owning bars. Now with a wealth of knowledge he is empowering hospitality business leaders to transform soft skills from a team liability into a formidable asset through high-energy facilitated training sessions. He has also completed two Iron Man challenges and is someone that will just Crack On with life.

In this episode we discuss:

💥 His early career at Tiger Tiger

💥 Running his own bars in Wales

💥 How he lost it all

💥 How with a positive mindset he bounced back..

Jon is one of the most positive people I have ever met, his energy and enthusiasm is simply infectious. In the episode we delve deep into how tough it was to close one of his bars and how he lost nearly everything on the back of it. We discuss the difficult conversations he had to have with his wife at the time and after he closed the doors how the reality kicked in. He goes onto to talk about how he has rebuilt his life and the lessons he has learnt throughout his journey and how he is ready to go again, using his wealth of knowledge to help support and train leaders in the hospitality industry..

Everyone has a story to tell... Happy Listening 🎧

💥 "My mantra in life is always gonna be crack on mate, and that's why I say to all your listeners is get on with it, you got something to do today, just get on with it, get a plan get it going and CRACK ON!"

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/FAQ6mwDWD2g

You can find out more about Jon Saunders here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-saunders-crackoncoaching/

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This week's episode is from the 24 hour podcast with the Brighton & Hove Albion legend Will Buckley. Every Brighton & Hove Albion FC fan remembers that epic first competitive game at the Amex with Will's late winner against Doncaster, we relive that moment along with other highlights from his amazing career and tap into the mindset of what it takes to achieve high performance.

In this episode we discuss:

💥 His time at Brighton

💥 What it takes to be a high performing athlete 

💥 Leadership 

💥 The importance of Hard Work

This was a fascinating conversation as Will talked about playing football growing up and his pure love of the game. We discuss what it was like playing under Gus Poyet and what true leadership looks like, knowing and understanding how to get the best out of each player. This relates so much to the business world and not just in sport, as a leader if you can know and understand the individuals in your team, you can motivate, inspire and get the best performance from them. Will talks about his time at Brighton and the amazing buzz in the city during that period and those first seasons at the Amex, as well as what he is up to now and life after football as he helps to support and inspire the next generation of players as an FA Registered Intermediary and Owner of WEB Sports Management. One of the major key takeaways for me though was Will's mindset and the ability to focus on 'what I am doing right now' and 'how do I get better at this', that along with a strong work ethic is ultimately how we have achieve high performance.

Everyone has a story to tell... Happy Listening 🎧

💥 "I think if you want to get anywhere in life, you've got to give 100%, they're the main skill sets that you see from every top player that I played with, hard work, that's just number one"

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/I0scuDqZ2Qg

You can find out more about Will Buckley here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-buckley-ab316b1b4/

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This week's episode is from the 24 hour podcast with the amazing Leigh Otterson Walter, an entrepreneur, community builder and truly wonderful, inspirational human being.

In this episode we discuss:

💥 Her traumatic childhood in South Africa

💥 Parenthood

💥 How Covid destroyed her travel business

💥 What it takes to build a value driven community

This was a truly wonderful conversation with a wonderful human being. Leigh shared openly about her traumatic childhood and what it was like growing up in a neglected family environment and why she left home at 16 and moved to England on her own at just 19. We discuss the joys and struggles of parenthood, and how through a need to seek support from other mum's she built a community of nearly 20,000 Mum's and Dad's in Worthing. She talks about how Covid destroyed her travel business that she had grown for 9 years, and the feeling of shame, failure and mixture of emotions she felt when she had to close it in 2021. For me her definition of success encapsulates why she is such an amazing, inspirational woman and why I loved this conversation so much, as I am sure you will.

Everyone has a story to tell... Happy Listening 🎧

💥 'You can be as successful as you want, whatever that looks like for you, you can make all the money in the world if that's what motivates you, but at the end of your life when you have nothing, all you have is love, and all you have is the relationships with the people in your life that you've built over that time and all the money in the world is not going to help you at that point'

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/lHwJglQSw2c

You can find out more about Leigh Otterson Walter here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leigh-ottersonwalter/

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