Expensive Lessons

This week our special guest is Tunde Babs, co-founder and Managing Director of Eloise Beauty, an online beauty brand with a vast international customer base.

Tunde offers up some serious gems about a successful product life cycle, developing a design on a piece of paper into an award winning product. We also discuss the challenges of managing two careers, the importance of testing your value proposition and breaking into the US Market.

This week we have a special Guest. Aasiyah Abdulsalam, the founder of both Alerojasmine (An Africa-inspired fashion brand) and The Renatural (a pioneering beauty company) joined us for an amazing conversation. We interrogate her on how her businesses came to be and whether the entraprenurial spirit is a gift we are given at birth or something we can learn.

Set in the late 90's, The Last Dance follows the NBA team, the Chicago bulls as they pursue a record 6th NBA Championship title. In part two of our review we do a deep dive on the G.O.A.T. himself, Michael Jordan. We look at his work ethic and how that made him one of the most successful sportsmen of all time. We also discuss the cost of greatness and whether the sacrifice is always worth the prize.

THIS IS STILL A BUSINESS PODCAST! But In this episode we dissect one of the best sport's documentaries we've ever seen. The Last Dance, follows the legend, Micheal Jordan and the Chicago bulls as they pursue a record 6th NBA Championship title. In part one we look at MJ's team members, how they were crucial to his success and how we can take some great  lessons from their journey.

The death of George Floyd at the hands of US law enforcement has escalated the anger felt by the black community regarding systematic oppression and unfair treatment by the state.  His death resonated with people all over the world and this week has seen a number of protests and counter protests take place in North America, England, Scotland, Canada and Australia. The western world is again forced to address the role that racism plays in our lives; a topic which has so many conflicting views. In this episode we share our candid thoughts about the problems faced by the black community and what we can do about it.

This week we answer some of your questions about entrepreneurship. We go on a few unexpected tangents on this one, talking about everything from different personality types to GOLA trainers! Hope you enjoy!

This week we’re joined by Micheal Williams, Founder and CEO of FlakeBake, a Caribbean catering business. Each year, FlakeBake serves tens of thousands of their famous patties in just two days, during the Notting Hill Carnival. He’s supplied patties to a number of restaurants in London, including high profile clients such as Levi Roots.

In this episode, we discuss how his business started, how he scaled operations to supply hundreds of thousands of patties a year and some of the biggest challenges he has faced in his 6 years of business.

Can you start a business in 30 days whilst working full time? In this podcast we breakdown the 10 steps that you need to follow in order to transform your idea into a sustainable, income generating business. We really enjoyed this one, hope you do to.

This week we’re joined by Nathan Adabadze (@Nathan_Kwesi and @smashedscreenfilms on Instagram), a multi-talented entreprenuer and one of the producers behind ‘Alpha and Omega’, a touching film exploring love, identity, and faith from a black female Rastafari's point of view.

In this episode we talk about; using film to explore different perspectives, how to secure funding in the indie-film industry, balancing your passion with your day job and loads more.

We're back and finishing off our discussion about teams. This time we talk about the lessons we learned when trying to manage and motivate a high-performing team.