By Alex Chisnall
The Festival of Enterprise podcast series showcases some of the most famous names in British business, giving you an insight into what to expect when attending the event.
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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.
Managing Remotely: Teams, Customers, & Pipeline
‘In this together – Dell Technologies are here to help support small businesses.
For more information please visit: http://www.dell.co.uk/small-business-solutions
Managing a business can seem especially challenging when the future of the economy, your ability to access resources, and the health and wellbeing of you and your family are uncertain. In this episode of The Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) Podcast, DWEN Director Ingrid Devin chats with Marie Moynihan, SVP of Global Talent Acquisition at Dell Technologies, and DWEN member Tamara Littleton, CEO/Founder of The Social Element. Together, they discuss the unique challenges presented by managing a business remotely during this time – from keeping teams engaged, to pitching new business, hiring new talent, and battling isolation.
We’re all in uncharted territory, looking for ways to support our communities. At Dell Technologies, we’re making sure that small businesses have the right solutions and are supported every step of the way.
Our advisors are here to give you FREE advice on a one-on-one basis, whilst working with you to understand your bespoke business needs and to provide you with the right solutions.
If you would like to discuss your small business IT needs or if you are looking for professional support and advice call our Dell Technologies Advisors today on 0800 085 4878.
To find out more about DWEN membership, please contact the team at [email protected] or visit DWEN.com
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‘In this together – Dell Technologies are here to help support small businesses.
For more information please visit: http://www.dell.co.uk/small-business-solutions
Staying Resilient: A Conversation on Bouncing Back in Tough Times
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed given current events, but it’s important – perhaps now more than ever – to remain calm, cool, and collected during these times of uncertainty. In this episode of The Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) Podcast, public speaker Jenny Garrett and Erica Brennes from Real Mom, Real Tired have a conversation about how we can maintain resiliency by identifying what we can control, what we can influence, and what’s outside our power during this time.
We’re all in uncharted territory, looking for ways to support our communities. At Dell Technologies, we’re making sure that small businesses have the right solutions and are supported every step of the way.
Our advisors are here to give you FREE advice on a one-on-one basis, whilst working with you to understand your bespoke business needs and to provide you with the right solutions.
If you would like to discuss your small business IT needs or if you are looking for professional support and advice call our Dell Technologies Advisors today on 0800 085 4878.
To find out more about DWEN membership, please contact the team at [email protected] or visit DWEN.com.’
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Welcome to this mini-podcast series from the Festival of Enterprise in partnership with Dell Technologies.
‘In this together' – Dell Technologies are here to help support small businesses.
For more information please visit: http://www.dell.co.uk/small-business-solutions
1.Courage Amid Uncertainty: A Conversation on Overcoming with Optimism
In this episode of The Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) Podcast, we’re joined by Margie Warrell, bestselling author and keynote speaker at the last DWEN global summit in Singapore, and Cathie Reid, co-founder of Icon Group AU and DWEN advisory board member. Together, they share their advice for keeping a brave face while trying to prepare for the unexpected.
We’re all in uncharted territory, looking for ways to support our communities. At Dell Technologies, we’re making sure that small businesses have the right solutions and are supported every step of the way.
Our advisors are here to give you FREE advice on a one-on-one basis, whilst working with you to understand your bespoke business needs and to provide you with the right solutions.
If you would like to discuss your small business IT needs or if you are looking for professional support and advice call our Dell Technologies Advisors today on 0800 085 4878.
To find out more about DWEN membership, please contact the team at [email protected] or visit DWEN.com.’
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Welcome to Episode #8 from the Festival Of Enterprise Podcast 2020.
"We rock in with almost a crocodile, an inflatable crocodile under our arm and they're like, who are these jokers? But actually they quite like the fact that we're not corporate. So if anyone is starting up a business, just be yourself because there are so many suits and so many pointy shoes and so much of that tie stuff going on that if you just be yourself and you will stand out that way. I'm not saying don't wear a suit because there are people here wearing suits. Be yourself because that's, that's why we've got to where we've got to and that's why they still will respond to us first, you know, on email, and they will ignore our sales guy for six months who will be trying to get them all the time and then we drop them a mail and they respond straightaway because they they like the chat. We chat to them as if we're talking to a mate in the pub because at the end of the day, they're just humans."
I chat this week to Jim Cregan, founder of Jimmy's Iced Coffee. Find out why looking at a builder's backside was the catalyst that led to Jimmy's version of iced coffee, now stocked in pretty much every UK supermarket. Hear about the crazy things that Jim gets up to to spread the word about his drinks.
You can ask Jimmy, your questions live in April at the Festival Of Enterprise in London.
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Welcome to the trailer for Episode #8, Season 2 of the Festival Of Enterprise podcast 2020.
"It's really quite complicated doing international because you don't know whether you just pick up the phone and ring a supermarket buyer in some country, or you work with a distribution company. And if you work with a distribution company, do you have to pay for the marketing? Or do they pay for the marketing? Or do you split it down the middle and then end up splitting hairs and saying, I paid for this and I pay for this? And we had out of the blue company in Cyprus rang us the other day, a distribution company, they said - Can we buy a few pallets off you we want to put it into these supermarkets?"
Joining me later this week for the full episode will be Jim Cregan, founder of Jimmy's Iced Coffee. Jim joins me to talk about how he went from British building site to Australia and back again in the process, launching his own brand of iced coffee. We talk about brand building through university tastings, his ride clubs, cinema club and festivals. You can get your free ticket to see Jim live at this year's Festival of Enterprise.
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Welcome to Episode #7 from the Festival Of Enterprise Podcast 2020.
"Coming off something like The Apprentice, I get so many messages every single day. Do you want to start a business? Would you like to go into, you know, coaching and consulting or the third one is profit share. And I stay away from profit share 100% of the time, because if I'm working on somebody else's business and have this percentage, usually it's 20-25%. It's not me making the calls. And it's not me helping them out. It's all about them because it's their business. And I think, especially if you're not an established business person, which you know, I'm not I'm still I'm still young, I'm still a baby business, I'm still a baby businesswoman. If I start taking on too many things, I lose the focus on what she really matters, and that's growing my business."
I chat to Sabrina Stocker, best known for appearing on the BBC One show The Apprentice. She's also a successful entrepreneur, having launched My Tennis Events in 2016 with zero capital. She started her first business at the age of just 14 and became the youngest person ever to graduate from Edinburgh Business School with distinction. The London born entrepreneur also won the prestigious Queen Tennis Tournament age just 12. Like most entrepreneurs, she's got eyes on other opportunities.
You can see her She started her first business at the age of just 14 and became the youngest person ever to graduate from Edinburgh business school with distinction. The London born entrepreneur also won the prestigious Queen tennis tournament age just 12. Now like most entrepreneurs, she's got eyes on other opportunities.
You can see Sabrina live in April at the Festival Of Enterprise in London and find out exactly what she's doing now.
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Welcome to the trailer for Episode #7, Season 2 of the Festival Of Enterprise podcast 2020.
"I'm really happy where it is at the moment. We've got a team of 42. We've got 10 venues with, you know, the biggest event company in the UK. I'm happy where it is. And again, I think the true spirit of an entrepreneur is that you just don't want to have one business. You want to have several. And if I spent the next 10 years really investing into this tennis business, and there's only you know, there is only so much a tennis business can grow. Then if everything falls apart, I'd have nothing else to go on to. So I'm in a place now where I'm launching a new business but allowing the current one to keep running in the background."
Join me later this week for the full episode with Sabrina Stocker, Founder of My Tennis Events and best known for appearing on the BBC One show The Apprentice. Having launched My Tennis Events in 2016 with zero capital, she now runs over 400 tournaments a year and has built a team that enables her to spend just 15 minutes each day on the business itself. Like most entrepreneurs, she's got her eyes on other opportunities. You can see Sabrina live at this year's Festival of Enterprise.
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Welcome to Episode #6 from the Festival Of Enterprise Podcast 2020.
"One thing that I, I am very convinced about, and I prove to myself time and time again is the ability to see things to make them happen. And I've proved that again and again, as I said, where if you can really see something, you can definitely achieve it. And if I had to go back to when I was younger, even now with my own children, you know, I always install the thinking that you can really achieve anything you want. And, you know, of course, education is important. And of course, having that formality in, you know, in your interest in the way forward that you get put through in terms of the education and stuff I think that is, is great, but it's not, it's not what you need to be successful in life. Yeah, absolutely. Any sort of in business life, you know, and it's not a dependency and if you don't have an education, you can still, you know, achieve so much. And that is my case, because I you know, I didn't go to university, I didn't, you know, finish university, and so I didn't need that to be ultimately what's deemed as successful today."
I talk to Avi Lasarow, who created a global brand DNAfit, scaling it to a £20 million business with zero funding, and Avi is the CEO International for the worlds most comprehensive DNA test - CircleDNA. Avi's held a lifelong ambition to use genetics to transform the health and wellness for millions of people by striving to reduce and prevent lifestyle related health conditions, so we can all live healthier and happier lives.
You can see Avi speak at the Festival Of Enterprise in London and ask him your questions in April.
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Welcome to the trailer for Episode #6, Season 2 of the Festival Of Enterprise podcast 2020.
"I always see being an entrepreneur and doing your job as almost like a hobby. So my wife, for example, that's riding horses. She'll do that all the time when she's not at work. She's riding horses. Yeah, for me when I'm at work, I'm at work because work is my equivalent to that kind of hobby. Yeah, she does use against me, by the way, because when I say hey, you know I'm doing because work she'll say, No, no, you didn't because of a hobby. But um, I think if I had to separate something I'm trying to is difficult is to try and separate technology from, from, from the personal life that makes sense. So I might not separate work, because if I don't have technology, I might write my ideas down or conceptualise things out of the technology framework. And that's the big distinction I'm trying to do because I think it's healthier to do so."
Join me later this week for the full episode with Avi Lasarow, Founder and CEO of DNAFit. Avi is the CEO International for the worlds most comprehensive DNA test CircleDNA and the Hon Consul for the Republic of South Africa and creator of the first scientifically proven commercial DNA fitness test. You can see Avi live at the festival of enterprise for free.
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Welcome to Episode #5 from the Festival Of Enterprise Podcast 2020.
"We wanted the branding, the brand really to last a lifetime. And I think for us it was walk before you run. So it was really treated slowly make sure the brands big enough that if we are lucky enough to be put on a shelf that it definitely gets taken off. So that, that was a key for us which I think we're at that stage now, which is quite exciting."
I talk to Oliver Bennett, XITE Energy Drink Founder and World Championship Rallycross Driver. XITE energy hit the market at the beginning of 2019. Selling out of Holland & Barrett nationwide, in just its first two weeks, but creating a sugar free blend was just the start of his journey. We chat about taking on the big boys and how he launched the business straight out of university with his partner Megan Jones.
Join Oliver at the Festival Of Enterprise in London to hear his full story and ask him your burning questions.
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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.