Finding Your Path

Born and raised in Birmingham (UK) since 1981, Melissa has lived the life of an entrepreneur from an early age. In her young teens, Melissa was always exploring entrepreneurial ventures and whilst she wasn’t clear on exactly what her future looked like, she always knew that she would be running businesses.

After leaving her 7-year career in social housing, Melissa took the plunge and become totally self-employed in 2008 when she ventured into a business partnership involving youth & community engagement. This set the foundation for Melissa’s path into further entrepreneurial enterprises…leading onto launching a training & consultancy business; building a property portfolio; launching a boutique estate agency business which she went on to sell in late 2019 and Melissa is now focusing on speaking & delivering training, events & coaching services for entrepreneurs.

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John held Senior Leadership roles at the software company Oracle including leading the UK, Ireland and South Africa Sales Consulting organisation. Prior to joining Oracle, John ran Pan-European Customer Project Teams delivering Software change projects across Western, Northern and Southern Europe for the fast-moving consumer goods company Dalgety and for the Channel Tunnel ticket and reservation system for Eurostar.

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Keith strongly believes that everyone has the capacity to change our world for the better and we each have a duty to pay it forward to support future generations.  He has a lifelong passion for learning and continuous improvement and is motivated by helping people to realise their potential as leaders in society.

A Chartered Mechanical Engineer by background, Keith has acquired over 20 years of operational leadership experience in the Aerospace, Defence, Energy and Marine sectors.  In that time his curiosity about the world has driven him to test himself in a variety of different contexts and to learn quickly from his mistakes.  One of his many roles in that period was as a Chief Design Engineer for three different Rolls-Royce Trent aero engines where he was leading large teams to design, deliver and evaluate new products involving complex systems.  Keith is currently the Managing Partner of Project4 Learning Lab, a company that supports clients achieve outstanding performance by helping leaders to engage their teams in continuous improvement using Agile, Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.  He is also a Director of Blue Lion Learning, which specialises in the delivery of continuous improvement Apprenticeships.

Keith has an MBA from the Open University, is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and is a Leadership Fellow at the College of St George in Windsor.  In his spare time Keith enjoys spending time with his family as well as watching and playing football and golf.

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Today on Finding Your Path we have Zoe Bennett sharing how she has had a variety of turns, opportunities and challenges to find her path.

Zoe Bennett also known as The Motivational Queen www.motivationalqueen.com is one of the U.K's most sought after inspirational speaker. You may ask why do people call her The Motivational Queen? Well... that’s because she Inspires Confidence and Creates Transformation in other people through the 1-2-1 mentoring as well as the group sessions that she delivers. Her international motivational talks especially on Resilience, Never Give Up, Networking, I can I will, Entrepreneurship and Employability are a real crowd pleaser and she most definitely delivers positive results.

Zoe is the owner and Managing Director of Training Personified a personal development training company which recognises and applies individual bespoke training needs to clients on a 1-2-1 basis through to team building and group work such as Lloyds Bank, NHS, Birmingham City University, Big Lottery and many more. She is also the founder of the MBCC Awards that recognises and values unsung heroes in the Midlands.

During this interview Zoe, shares on the importance of family, sacrifice and mindset which either accepts or rejects excuses along your journey. Zoe is s strong believer of instead of asking why me? Ask why not me? 

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This trailer shares why I created Finding Your Path, the purpose for the show and what you can expect from listening to the podcast. My vision is to:

• Inspire people to act on their dreams
  
• Encourage people who may be struggling along their journey
  
• Empower people to take more action and to be afraid of getting it wrong
  
• Debunk the myths around success that it is straight forward
  

From listening to Find Your Path you will discover that you are not alone and we all find success through failure and trial and error.

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Today on Finding Your Path we have Joel Blake OBE sharing how he has had to overcome a variety of challenges to find his path.

Joel is a multi-award-winning businessman and public speaker, with a passion for helping companies accelerate business growth through Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Joel is the Founder & CEO of www.gfaexchange.com,  an award-winning AI technology company supporting the financial lending and wealth management markets.

Over the past 15 years, Joel has authored independent reports on the needs of business owners for the government and financial institutions. He has also advised professional bodies and corporate firms on how to innovate their existing businesses support and leadership strategies.

Joel is Vice-President of the Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce, National Ambassador for the Institute of Leadership and Management, Board Member of Birmingham Symphony Hall and Town Hall, and a Fellow of the National Centre for Entrepreneurs.

He was awarded an OBE for Services to Business Support and Enterprise in 2016.

Joel shares on the importance of family, entrepreneurial insights from his journey and the challenges of accepting and receiving his OBE. 

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