On 'The Buzz' we hit our guests from the main GMBS podcast with rapid-fire questions to find out more about their personal connections to Greater Manchester through music, leisure, sport and of course food & drink.Do drop us a line with questions and interview recommendations.Email [email protected] @gmbspodcastProduced & Presented by Joe TaylorSound & Music Editing by Andy Blackaby-Iles

Except for when they’re taking down an evil corporate entity in a John Grisham novel lawyers tend to get a bad reputation. But the reality is that lawyers often work long hours, under extreme pressure and in situations where a single mistake can have huge consequences. And alongside all this pressure they’re often working with clients who are going through a particularly stressful event. So what I found really refreshing in this conversation with Matt Fleetwood was that in ta...

On 'The Buzz' we hit our guests from the main GMBS podcast with 20 rapid-fire questions to find out more about their personal connections to Greater Manchester through music, leisure, sport and of course food & drink.Do drop us a line with questions and interview recommendations.Email [email protected] @gmbspodcastProduced & Presented by Joe TaylorSound & Music Editing by Andy Blackaby-Iles

Having worked as a buyer with Sainsburys and the Coop Ben Davies had seen too many products launch into supermarkets and fail to meet expectations, often with costly consequences.Realising that technology provided the opportunity to build a platform that could help rapidly inform retailers and brands he set about creating Vypr - an intelligence platform that captures responses from the public at scale. Vypr is now plugged in to the NPD process for numerous companies, large and small, te...

On 'The Buzz' we hit our guests from the main GMBS podcast with 20 rapid-fire questions to find out more about their personal connections to Greater Manchester through music, leisure, sport and of course food & drink.Do drop us a line with questions and interview recommendations.Email [email protected] @gmbspodcastProduced & Presented by Joe TaylorSound & Music Editing by Andy Blackaby-Iles

Former teacher Rachel has launched Fearne & Rosie to help combat the growing issue of kids 'sugar loading' at breakfast. Her jams and condiments business makes a range of lower sugar products that contain more real fruit and Rachel shares here how she built a team or partners and advisors to make the business a reality.Now sold in Waitrose, Morrisons & Ocado Rachel is embarking on the exciting step of raising investment through Crowd-funding to support their next stage of growt...

On 'The Buzz' we hit our guests from the main GMBS podcast with 20 rapid-fire questions to find out more about their personal connections to Greater Manchester through music, leisure, sport and of course food & drink.Do drop us a line with questions and interview recommendations.Email [email protected] @gmbspodcastProduced & Presented by Joe TaylorSound & Music Editing by Andy Blackaby-Iles

Fintech startup Hydr was launched by Nicola and her Co-Founder Hector Macandrew in May 2021. Using their combined experience of the industry, and taking advantage of advances in technology, they have created a game-changing invoice finance platform that promises to liberate small businesses from the timely burden of using similar, more traditional, services.In this conversation Nicola shares how technology has enabled Hydr to disrupt an industry and their ultimate goal for Hydr to help...

On 'The Buzz' we hit our guests from the main GMBS podcast with 20 rapid-fire questions to find out more about their personal connections to Greater Manchester through music, leisure, sport and of course food & drink.Do drop us a line with questions and interview recommendations JEmail [email protected] @gmbspodcastProduced & Presented by Joe TaylorSound & Music Editing by Andy Blackaby-Iles

Happy 2022! We're back with a BANG with this amazing conversation with Steve Oliver the CEO of musicMagpie and Chair of the Stockport Economic Alliance.Steve shares the amazing story of how he and the musicMagpie team took the business from his converted garage to its float on the stock market in 2021 that valued the business at >£200m.He also digs into the 'Smart for the Planet' vision for the business that's reflected in the positive impact musicMagpie has giving second, third and ...