Launching on International Women's Day 2024 - the theme of which is "Inspire Inclusion" - the first episode of our rebranded podcast features three women of Bluestone, all of whom have grown successful careers in the male-dominated arena of commercial finance. 

Beginning with an exploration of their personal career paths and growth, we then discuss the potential challenges facing women in traditionally male dominated industries, what it takes to succeed in finance, and what they find so rewarding about working in finance.

Hosted by Hayley May,  Content Executive at Bluestone

Featuring: 

Louise Harris, Interiors Director at Bluestone
Nichola Hawkins, Account Manager at Bluestone
Natasha Mylett, Marketing Manager at Bluestone

In episode number six of Talking Bluestone we're joined by Divisional Manager, Hez Bowrage, about the importance of having the strength to walk away from bad fit clients.

Hez talks through what it takes to be successful, how to spot a bad fit client and when to walk away from the table. As always we finish with our quick-fire questions.

In episode 5 we speak to our Head of Sales, Richard Tamlyn, about the importance of mindset in personal and professional growth.  

We speak about Richard's career before Bluestone, how he's worked on and improved his mindset, and how we can all develop both personally and professionally by focusing on the improvement mentality.

As always, we finish with our quick-fire questions. It's a long one so strap in.

In episode 4 we speak to our Key Account Director, Louise Harris, about her journey at Bluestone. In the 13 years since joining she has become the go-to person in the interiors industry when it comes to finance. 

Lousie talks us through how she stayed ahead of her competition, how her role has grown alongside her, and that there really is no substitute for hard work.

As always, we finish with our quick-fire questions and some very sage advice from Louise.

In this episode, we speak to our Finance Director, Mark Hargreaves, about the data journey Bluestone is on. We discuss the history of our tech, the bumps along the way that got us to where we are now and finally we talk about our aspirations for the future of Bluestone's technology platform.

Mark speaks about how our use of technology has changed and will continue to change to ensure we are a business who are always at least one step ahead of our competitors.

As always, we finish with our quick-fire questions which led to some very powerful and personal answers from Mark.

In this episode, we speak to our Managing Director, Vineesh Madaan about how Bluestone grew from a startup business to where we are today. Over the past 25 years, we've grown to an organisation of nearly 50 with big plans for future growth.

Vin speaks about how Bluestone got through the initial couple of years of being a business when the odds were against us and how Bluestone as a business has dealt with recessions and uncertainty ever since.

As always, we finish with the 4 quick-fire questions to get to know Vineesh a bit better.

In the first episode of our podcast, we're starting with why. We chat to our CEO Phillip Bennet about why he bought into the business, why Bluestone exists and what his long term aspirations are for the business.

We also discuss the importance of communicating the 'why' of Bluestone both internally and externally in order for Bluestone to keep improving and evolving as a business.

As will be the tradition for this podcast we finish on four quickfire questions to get to know a bit more about what personally drives Phillip.