Engaging People Pod

Farooq Mohammed is the MD of Digital Gurus - a digital, data and tech recruitment firm. Farooq and two friends set up the business in 2008 and sold it in 2016.

The business was built to sell and the trio achieved that goal in early 2016. They all stayed on to build to the next level and they now have offices in London, Australia and Dubai.

Hear how Farooq cultivated a culture to succeed and made sure the staff shared in that success when it came.

You can find Farooq at the digital guru's website www.digitalgurus.online or on Linkedin.

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Loui Blake is an award-winning marketer & entrepreneur. He is the founder of the UK's largest plant-based restaurant Erpingham House and brand partner for Eat By Chloe UK. Passionate about plant-based food & sustainable business, Loui is a recognised keynote speaker, having spoken at London school of economics, University college London & Goldsmiths university, as well as corporate engagements for Wagamama, Aviva, Innocent drinks & the global restaurant investment forum. He recently won Future marketing leader of the year at Restaurant marketer & innovator awards, topping the 30 under 30 list.

You can find Loui at his website www.louiblake.com or on instagram @loui_blake

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Today's guest is the current England Under 16 Head Coach Justin Cochrane. If you like football, coaching, are involved in developing young players/people this is a brilliant insight into someone who is doing really great things.

He had a career playing professional football before transitioning to become a coach age 27.

His coaching ability was quite apparent but Justin has an amazing ability to develop young people and so he rose through the ranks quickly at Tottenham to become Under 23 assistant under Mauricio Pochettino who was the first team manager at the time.

Justin is also involved in a local Charity Holler UK - www.holleruk.com who bring community leaders into schools to speak and inspire children from their area.

You can find Justin on twitter @justincochrane8

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Jenny Afia is a privacy lawyer and a partner at the renowned law firm Schillings Partners. Her reputation is one of the most sought after privacy lawyers in the UK.

She is the Head of the Legal Team at Schillings and leads its entertainment practice. In addition to being ranked as a leader in her field in Chambers & Partners, the Spear's 500 and the Spear's Reputation Management index, Jenny was Spears' Reputation and Defamation Lawyer of the Year in 2015. Jenny is a member of the Children's Commissioner's Task Force on Growing Up in the Digital Age and on the Board of the Arts Depot, an award-winning arts centre in North London.

We discuss what she does and how she does it. We talk about online security for children and how big tech is complicit in making devices extremely addictive.

You can find Jenny on twitter @jennyafia or on Linkedin.

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Matt Klienman and Alex Levack have run Sidekick Management football agency for 12 years. They are just partnering with a tech business to turbocharge their growth for the next 12!

Hear their story from joining the football world in 1998 and 2001 respectively and how both they, and the industry have changed over the past 22 years.

This is a brilliant insight into an extremely tough industry and for anyone thinking about becoming an agent.

I will link to the guys social media now but please note it is changing. You can find them on twitter @sidekickmanagem and Instagram @sidekick_management

We'd love our listeners to recommend people for the show so if you know anyone please do send them our way.

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In today's pod we give a little insight into what we have planned for 2020. We say a big thank you to everyone who's listened over the past 12 months and we spread some good news in the world.

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In this episode, Sam talks with Artist James Burke about his path, all the businesses he's involved in and how he's connecting people with art.

James is the founder of Acrylicize, co-founder of Studio Seven London, he's a professional drummer, host's a hip-hop and spoken word night, has his own graffiti brand as well as having 3 young children!

Sam & James speak about how his creativity was nurtured by his parents, how he and his business partner Paul Arad create a brilliant working culture at Acrylicize and their plans for the future.

As always please feel free to get it touch. You can find James & Acrylicize on twitter & instagram.

@jamesburke_artist @acrylicize @sheshtown @studiosevenlondon

www.acrylicize.com - www.jamesburkeartist.com

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Today I speak with Mathew Finn or Finn & Company. Mat is a commercial property investment agent based in London.

Over the last 20 years he's gone from delivering compost for the garden centre to building his own property business. Hear how Mat did the hard yards and what his advice would be for anyone starting in the industry now.

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Today's episode is another filler episode with Sam.

We thank everyone for listening as we reach the milestone of 10,000 downloads.

Also we discuss our new our new business which is an outsourced FD consultancy where we sit alongside your business to provide accountability, objectivity and guidence alongside our normal financial education & wellbeing elements.

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We love to hear your comments, feedback and suggestions so please emails us [email protected] and you can see more about our business Engage Financial Services here www.engagefs.co.uk

Today's episode is a short filler episode where Sam gives a 10 step guide to building wealth for your future.

It's designed to be a simple but it's not easy! You can find this guide on our website - www.engagefs.co.uk/10steps

If you enjoy this or any other episodes please do leave us a review on iTunes and a rating of your choice.

We love to hear your comments, feedback and suggestions so please emails us [email protected] and you can see more about our business Engage Financial Services here www.engagefs.co.uk