Engaging People Pod

In this re-posted episode, which first aired in Jan 2019, Sam talks to serial entrepreneur James Bott on his successes, failures and lessons learned in business. This is a brilliant conversation with someone who's been willing to take a number of risks to become successful.

James is the current co-founder of The ASO Co. A company that started just over two years ago and was recently acquired by Jellyfish - the global digital marketing agency. Listen in to hear how he created a new market around app's & built his business around it.

You can find James on twitter @jamesismobile and on Linkedin under his name.

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Dave Martin signed for West Ham United in the summer of 2019 on a free transfer. He signed as 3rd choice goalkeeper having spent two seasons at Millwall.

Dave talks us through the ups and downs of being a footballer, from signing for Liverpool at 19 to being without a club on a free transfer 9 years later to signing for his boyhood club after an up and down two years.

It's a brillant story of working hard, determination and belief in yourself.

You can find Dave on twitter @davemartin_gk.

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Andy Hart is a serial entrepreneur and is currently running 5 businesses in the same sector. His story is one of lots of personal growth and development to get him where he is today.

He shares a number of interesting business tips and explains how a failure early on can be a very good thing.

Andy recommends 'The War of Art' by Steven Pressfield. He cites his mentors as Warren Buffet, Charlie Mungar, Alan Yau & Seth Godin.

You can find Andy on twitter @mavenadviser - instagram @mavenadviser - linkedin - Andy Hart. His website is www.mavenadviser.com

His podcast is The Maven Money Podcast.

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In this short podcast, Sam brings down the curtain on season 1 of the Engaging People Podcast.

He thanks the brilliant James Ede for his help in editing the podcasts, he recommends you listen to the brilliant How I Built This podcast and that you read Raising Girls by Steve Biddulph.

Thank you so much to everyone for their messages, emails and interest in the show.

We'll be back next week with another great interview!

As always you can find us on iTunes, Spotify and at www.engagefs.co.uk

Zack Cleary's story is a really interesting one. His company was approached by a startup around 20 months ago to create the tech behind their vision.

They subsequently bought his company and this startup has recently been valued at over $500m (see link)

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/15/ro-a-direct-to-consumer-online-pharmacy-reaches-500m-valuation/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=5v1lSQytw9y0u2t2V7YArA

This is one of the hottest start ups on the planet right now and the growth trajectory has been unprecedented. I met up with Zack in their new office in NYC for a chat on what he does, what they hope to achieve and all thing Ro!

Check out Get Roman www.getroman.com and the top company Ro www.ro.co

You can find Zack on Linkedin - Zack Cleary.

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In 2001 whilst living in Spain, Andrew Mangan was working out what to do with his life. Whilst working on this new found internet, he decided to start writing about Arsenal and posting his thoughts every day.

18 years later at Arseblog is one of the biggest Arsenal blogs in the world. Andrew now has two different blogs covering all things Arsenal. This is general thoughts, news, Arsenal Women, Youth, transfers etc.

He has two weekly podcasts and has written 2 books. For someone who admits they're not business savvy, the evolution of this site has been a huge success.

Listen in to hear Andrew's story. You can find him on all the social channels @Arseblog and arseblog.com.

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Woody is one half of the duo Woody & Kleiny who have amassed an amazing 4.9m Instagram followers, 2m YouTube subscribers & 3m Facebook followers.

Throughout the journey to get where they are today, Woody & Kleiny have suffered numerous setbacks in their lives. However they have always shown resilience and a desire to achieve above everything else.They never thought about going solo, they had each others back and their friendship is first and foremost to this day.

Woody gives lots of great insights into the W&K strategy, how to utilise social media & how they get paid for the work they do. He talks in detail about the differing elements of YouTube, Instagram & Facebook.

You can find Woody & Kleiny in the following places

Instagram @woodyandkleiny

YouTube - Woody & Kleiny

Facebook - Woody & Kleiny

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Mark Cowan is the Co-CEO of Entourage Global. In this episode he tells the story of how the business started and how far it's come in the past 5 years.

Mark & his co-founder Paul came together from different backgrounds and were able to grind out deals almost from day one. They leveraged connections & their network but don't underestimate some of their marketing techniques that have helped them build.

Entourage have a member of staff at every event & booking they take whilst other agencies often didn't see the need. They made ex professional footballers feel special again and give them much needed marketing opportunities.

Mark shares his vision for the future and gives an interesting view of what success means.

You can find Entourage on their website www.entourage-global.com

Twitter @entourage_sport

Insta @entourage_sports

Mark can be emailed [email protected]

On today's podcast I run through some of the value I hope to provide the families I work with.

In financial planning, it often feels that a lot of the value we provide is intangible. It's the phone calls when someone is under some stress, it's the big picture plans when people are getting caught in the small stuff and it's the trust where the the real value lies.

So on today's pod I try to uncover some of the hidden intangibles from our business.

Next week we'll be back on the interview trail!

Yusef Bouattoura has a brilliant story to tell. Growing up in Tottenham he fell into the wrong crowd and by 15 he was in Feltham young offenders prison.

A judge let him out with orders to give something back to his community and he took those instructions & then some.

Listen in to how Yusef has used the 'give and ye shall receive mantra' to amazing effect, how his crazy work ethic & determination have shaped a business that receives over 300 inbound enquiries a day!

Yusef slept on floors, he worked 20 hour days and he his passion, drive and determination are really inspirational.

You can find Yusef on Instagram @ProPT & his website is www.pro-pt.co.uk and on Facebook at Pro.PT