In this episode, Mark Smith of MAKE YOUR MARK UK chats to Fiona Morgan (Morgan Wills & Trust) with insights from career reinvention in lockdown to demystifying estate planning. this conversation explores the bold moves and practical lessons of a business owner who’s navigated multiple industries. Whether you're thinking of starting a business, building your network, or just want to finally sort your will out - this episode has something for you.

Morgan Wills & Trusts – Protecting You, Your Wealth and Your Loved Ones.

In this episode, Mark Smith of MAKE YOUR MARK UK sit down with Chrissy Cattle, CEO of Irise International, to explore her journey in leading a charity dedicated to addressing menstrual health and equality.

Chrissy shares insights into the challenges the charity tackles, her personal inspirations, lessons learned in the charity sector, and practical ways listeners can support their impactful work.

Links:

Irise Homepage - Irise

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews Tracy Viner from the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce.

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews the Co-Founder and Director of EvesTrust charity, Clynton Johnson. 

Clynton shares his insights into the challenges of running a charity; how he copes with stress and the impact of suffering a heart attack; the importance of partnership working and more.

https://evestrust.co.uk/

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews Gillian Pickard, Investment Manager from Finance for Enterprise about business startups.

Gillian reflects on what are the key challenges facing business startups; what it takes to be successful when starting your business; some stand out businesses she's worked with and also finance options to help kick start your business.  https://finance-for-enterprise.co.uk/

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews Ches Moulton, The Stress Master, the UK’s leading authority on stress management.

Stress seems to be a common factor in everyday working and personal lives but our ability to cope with it can vary.  Ches shares his insights into working in this area for many years, including how he got into this area of helping people and what motivates him.

https://thestressmaster.com/

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews Chris Hewitt, Head of Co-create about the place of co-production and co-design in service development.  

Co-design is an attempt to define a problem and then define a solution; co-production is the attempt to implement the proposed solution; co-creation is the process by which people do both.

Chris explains the pros and cons of adopting an associate model in delivering the business; how he approached defining the values or 'building blocks' of the organisation as well as the impact of the COVID pandemic on the Co-create business model...and more!  

https://www.wearecocreate.com/

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews charity founder and CEO Vicki Beevers. Vicki set up the charity after experiencing her own personal challenges with sleep deprivation after becoming a mum and feeling there wasn't the help and support available that she needed.  Mark asks Vicki about how the charity has rapidly grown in the last few years, what its like being a charity CEO, advice she would give herself if she was starting the charity and much more!  As in all our episodes, the guest gets to ask Mark a question - Vicki asks Mark what is his favourite coaching question.  https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/

In this episode, Mark Smith interviews Julie White, founder of Bright White Life that helps you to create the brightness in your life. Julie offers mental health first aid training, coaching and wellbeing consultancy services.  Mark asks Julie about her experiences as a start up business owner and how she juggles all the different aspects of running a business and her other commitments. Julie also shares her insights into how to create a healthy and inclusive working culture around mental health in the work place as well as top tips and coping strategies to help you manage mental health and stress levels.

https://www.brightwhitelife.co.uk/