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This week we’re reflecting on our experience as digital nomads for you to learn from our mistakes!

Where’s the best places to go?

How much money do you need?

How long to go for?

What’s the WiFi like?

Is the 4 hour work week even possible?

We discuss all of this on this episode, so if you’re interested in travelling the world whilst working as a digital nomad, this episode is for you!

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If you enjoyed today’s episode, please share it with friends, SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes.

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Do you want to become self employed this year? Are you keen to find out what life is really like on the other side of having a job?

If you want to make the leap away from employment and earn your own living, this episode is for you.

Matthew Knight is a Strategy and Innovation Partner working for himself. Having left his job years ago to pursue this new path, Matthew has firsthand experience of the ups and downs that come with self employment. 

In this episode, we discuss many of the areas that aren’t often told. Struggles with mental health, imposter syndrome, clients, companionship and more.

These are all such important topics, especially when you step into the uncertain path of self employment. I say this because going it alone brings a whole host of questions, choices and challenges. The so called ‘freedom’ that comes with working independently can very often lead to overwhelm, uncertainty and difficulty and we discuss our experiences of all these during this conversation.

Matthew was completely honest and authentic and I know this insight will be so useful to so many people in a similar situation.

Please enjoy my conversation with Matthew Knight.

REFERENCES:

• Leapers.co
• thinkplaymake.co

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Welcome again to Life Design Diaries, the business and lifestyle podcast where we bring you interesting conversations with interesting  people.

On todays episode, I’m speaking with Tristan Thomas who is the Head of Marketing and Community at Monzo. 

Monzo is the bank of the future. Since they started they’ve been busy building the best current account in the world an they now have more than one million customers using their debit cards. Unlike traditional banks, they have no high street premises, instead their service is provided by their app making it convenient and relevant to its customers.

To give you a slight insight into how popular this bank is becoming, recently they raised an additional £20m from a crowdfunding campaign… £18m of it came in just 2 hours and 45 minutes. 

People who use Monzo, often turn into raving fans. Think about it, when was the last time you heard someone raving about a bank?

Tristan has pretty much been there from the start to drive this success and he’s only 26.

Please enjoy my conversation with Tristan Thomas.

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“How can brands be built with customers” - Jamal Benmiloud

This week we’re thrilled to welcome a fantastic marketer and business owner, Jamal Benmiloud.

Jamal has had a glowing career. Having risen to become Head of Marketing at Redbull and VP Marketing at Monster Energy, he decided to stretch himself even further and start his own consultancy, EARN Studios.

Now Jamal works at Non Executive Director at Huel, a company we know well from episode #34 with Huel founder Julian Hearn.

This episode is one of our favourites by far! There is so much to learn from Jamal’s approach to business and life in general. In particular, we discuss:

• His and his wife’s goal setting process - a really interesting process
• Starting and maintaining a lean operation
• Challenging the conventions of marketing agencies
• His experience writing his new book, Brand Love
• How Jamal approaches business ideas
• Some of the more challenging times when running your own business

REFERENCES

• Brand Love - How To Build A Brand Worth Talking About - Jamal Benmiloud, Graham Brown & Paul O’Shannessey
• EARN Studios
• Jamal LinkedIn
• Huel
• One Simple Idea - Stephen Key

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I feel strange. 

I'm not quite as busy as I could be, and it's giving me more time for chats and side projects, but I'm feeling like I am not really doing anything productive. 

Why are we so tuned to feel like doing paid work is productive, but doing exploration, investment in yourself and future-facing work is less important?

If it was anyone else, i'd be telling them to embrace the quiet times, and make best use of it... but following your own advice is far harder than dishing it out.

That was the LinkedIn post I stumbled across which lead me to todays guest. 

I didn’t write this post, and neither did she, but it was her answer to this post, addressing this situation of feeling unproductive when focussing on yourself that got me fascinated into how she thinks.

Rachel Tillman is a psychotherapist, she helps people and organisations, successfully navigate change as they work toward wholeness and more meaningful engagement. She uses creative, refreshing, and honest ways to do this and believes work should be life-giving.

Yes, on this podcast we’ve had on what you’d call ‘successful’ founders of companies in recent weeks to learn how they built the brands they are so proud of, but I’m so excited to share with you this episode with Rachel and provide a fascinating perspective on a whole host of topics that can no doubt help all of us  listening in whatever pursuit you have. 

Just a quick caveat, none of Rachel’s advice should be taken as medical advice. More, her thoughts on these wide ranging topics

Its a good one, please enjoy my conversation with Rachel Tillman.

REFERENCES

Rachel Tillman LinkedIn

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"Are you working on the hardest part?"

On this episode we discuss the the main milestone you should look to achieve immediately when taking the leap into entrepreneurship.

We’ve learned this through personal experience and discussing it with everyone we’ve interviewed on this podcast.

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If we feel bad when comparing ourselves to others, then we should simply stop comparing... Sound advice yes, but often a lot harder to do than the ‘simply’ suggests.

The Will Smith Effect is a concept I’ve created after mulling over this scenario for the past few months. It’s a different approach and I’d love to hear if you agree/disagree. Get in touch on Instagram to join in the conversation and let us know what you think.

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“Think like a big business and act like a small one”

What's the worst that can happen?

Well, when The Primal Pantry, a Paleo brand on a mission to start a real-food revolution, slipped from the heights of growing a £1.7m turnover business in only 3 years, to running out of cash and having to take a significant loan from an employee, this mantra of ‘what's the worst that can happen’ would surely have taken on a whole new meaning.

Welcome back to Life Design Diaries, I’m Lucy Menghini and on this episode I’m speaking with Suzie Walker, founder of the Primal Pantry.

It was amazing to get to know Suzie and hear her fascinating story including  how she started, her path to growth and how she navigated this particularly tricky time all whilst balancing the rest of her life including being a great mum to her daughter.

If you’re looking to start or progress within the food industry, this episode provides some great advice for you. And if you’re not in the food game, you can take so much from Suzie’s thought process, approach to growth and decisions she’s made.

Suzie also reveals her 4 tips for maintaining a healthy diet later in the episode. 

Please enjoy this episode with Suzie Walker, founder of The Primal Pantry.

REFERENCES:

• Primal Pantry Website
• Suzie’s LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Email 

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