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In Episode 24, Simon talks to Saasha Celestial-One. She is the co-founder and COO of OLIO, a free app harnessing the power of mobile technology and the sharing economy to provide a revolutionary solution to the problem of food waste, which is the 3rd largest contributor to the climate crisis. OLIO is empowered by 50k+ volunteers. 2m users have successfully shared over 4.2m portions of food in 49 countries.

Before OLIO, Saasha spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley, McKinsey & American Express. Saasha has an MBA from Stanford, is mum to 7-year-old Nolan, and the proud daughter of hippy entrepreneurs.

Rachael Flanagan has been an entrepreneur from the age of 18 when she founded Mrs.Buckét Commercial Cleaning Services. In this episode she shares her insights on building a business from scratch and how important purpose is in business today.

The Good Luck Club is a podcast and video series that focuses on the idea that luck is an ingredient that's absolutely necessary in order to have a successful life and business.

#Luck #Insights #podcast

In each episode of The Good Luck Club we invite an entrepreneur or change-maker to share their journey to success. For most, it’s never a straightforward one, and there’s much inspiration and learnings in the struggles they’ve been through along the way. And, as our name suggests, we’ll also dive into their stories about luck; the good and the bad, and its role in success.

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About our host Simon Squibb

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, and mentor. He has started 17 businesses, invested in over 65, and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning insight-driven branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips on his website simonsquibb.com and through his social channels.

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About Deborah Kan

Deborah is an award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur. She spent five years as executive producer of video for the Wall Street Journal where she oversaw the expansion of multi-media throughout Asia. Deborah interviewed many business and political leaders throughout her career, including Google’s Eric Schmidt when she broke the story of Google’s criticism of the U.S. National Security Agency. She has also covered exclusive stories, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s historic trip to North Korea, when she was selected as the only journalist from Asia to cover the story. Deborah is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She founded Being Patient after her mom’s Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis to reinvent how people get accurate information on long-term illness, pioneering a community-driven editorial strategy. When not working, she can be found on a running trail or covering mom duties for her three children.

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The Good Luck Club is a podcast and video series that focuses on the idea that luck is an ingredient that's absolutely necessary in order to have a successful life and business.

In each episode of The Good Luck Club we invite an entrepreneur or change-maker to share their journey to success. For most, it’s never a straightforward one, and there’s much inspiration and learnings in the struggles they’ve been through along the way. And, as our name suggests, we’ll also dive into their stories about luck; the good and the bad, and its role in success.

Connect @ Linkedin: http://bit.ly/2vFY3Cp

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About our host Simon Squibb

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, and mentor. He has started 17 businesses, invested in over 65, and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning insight-driven branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips on his website simonsquibb.com and through his social channels.

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In Episode 21, Simon speaks to Adele Parks, who is one of the most-loved and biggest-selling women’s fiction writers in the UK. Adele has sold over 3.5 million books in the UK alone and her books have been translated into 26 different languages.

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About Adele Parks:

Adele was born in Teesside, NE England. Since graduating from Leicester University, where she studied English Language and Literature, she has worked in advertising and as a management consultant. In 2010 she was proud to be awarded an honorary doctorate of Letters from Teesside University.

She always dreamed of being a writer and her first novel - Playing Away - was published in 2000; that year the Evening Standard identified her as one of London’s ‘Twenty Faces to Watch’.

Just My Luck, Adele's latest book is available via https://www.adeleparks.com/

She likes to keep busy and is pretty flattered when described as one of the most-loved and biggest-selling women’s fiction writers in the UK, Three and a half million copies of her UK editions have been sold and I’m translated into 26 different languages. she has published 20 novels in 20 years, and she says she is lucky that they've all hit the bestseller lists!

Her past titles include:

Playing Away (2000)

Game Over (2001)

Larger Than Life (2002)

The Other Woman’s Shoes (2003)

Still Thinking Of You (2004)

Husbands (2005)

Young Wives' Tales (2007)

Happy Families (2008)

Tell Me Something (2009)

Love Lies (2009)

Men I've Loved Before (2010)

About Last Night (2011)

Whatever It Takes (2012)

The State We're In (2013)

Spare Brides (2014)

If You Go Away (2015)

Love Is A Journey (2016)

The Stranger In My Home (2016)

The Image of You (2017)

I Invited Her In (2018)

Lies Lies Lies (2019)

Just My Luck (released in May 2020)

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About Simon Squibb:

#simonsquibb #founder #advice

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, and mentor. He has started 17 businesses, invested in over 65, and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning insight-driven branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips on his website simonsquibb.com and through his social channels.

Connect @ www.simonsquibb.com

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About The Good Luck Club

The Good Luck Club is a podcast and video series that focuses on the idea that luck is an ingredient that's absolutely necessary in order to have a successful life and business.

In each episode of The Good Luck Club we invite an entrepreneur or change-maker to share their journey to success. For most, it’s never a straightforward one, and there’s much inspiration and learnings in the struggles they’ve been through along the way. And, as our name suggests, we’ll also dive into their stories about luck; the good and the bad, and its role in success.

Connect @ Linkedin: http://bit.ly/2vFY3Cp

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodLuckpodcast

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In Episode 20, Simon talks to Dr Christina Dean, Founder of Redress and The R Collective.

Christina is a sustainable fashion advocate and founder of Redress and The R Collective. Redress was founded in 2007, and is a charity whose mission is to reduce waste in the fashion industry. The R Collective, founded in 2017, is a social impact upcycled fashion brand, which creates sustainable luxury fashion using luxury brands' waste materials and debuted in Barneys New York and Lane Crawford.

Christina is also an award-winning journalist, having written opinion pieces for CNN Style, Huffington Post and China Daily, and is widely quoted in VOGUE, BBC, New York Times, Forbes and Bloomberg Business Week. She hosted the TV documentary Frontline Fashion I and 2 and her TEDx talk, ‘You Are What You Wear’ has been widely watched. Christina has received numerous recognitions, including by UK Vogue as one of the UK’s ‘Top 30 Inspirational Women’. She currently splits her time between Hong Kong and London.

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About Simon Squibb

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, and mentor. He has started 17 businesses, invested in over 65, and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning insight-driven branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips on his website simonsquibb.com and through his social channels.

Connect @ www.simonsquibb.com

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About The Good Luck Club

The Good Luck Club is a podcast and video series that focuses on the idea that luck is an ingredient that's absolutely necessary in order to have a successful life and business.

In each episode of The Good Luck Club we invite an entrepreneur or change-maker to share their journey to success. For most, it’s never a straightforward one, and there’s much inspiration and learnings in the struggles they’ve been through along the way. And, as our name suggests, we’ll also dive into their stories about luck; the good and the bad, and its role in success.

Connect @ Linkedin: http://bit.ly/2vFY3Cp

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodLuckpodcast

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#TheRCollective #founder #advice

In Episode 19, Simon speaks to lifetime entrepreneur Carolyn Cowan, who is a psychosexual and relationship therapist, Kundalini Yoga teacher and Teacher Trainer amongst other things. Before becoming a therapist, Carolyn was a fashion designer and photographer, and earned acclaim as a makeup artist in the pop music video industry.

In this open and honest interview, Carolyn shares her story of highs and lows as a entrepreneur and former addict. She will inspire you, as well as remind you that we must all be open to telling our true story and be our authentic self.

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About Carolyn Cowan

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Carolyn is Psychosexual Therapist specialising in couples, pre & post natal, addiction, trauma recovery. She runs workshops in various subjects in the UK and abroad.

➜ Connect with Carolyn Cowan: https://carolyncowan.com/

➜ Learn more about Carolyn Cowan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Cowan

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About Simon Squibb

#simonsquibb #founder #advice

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, and mentor. He has started 17 businesses, invested in over 65, and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning insight-driven branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips on his website simonsquibb.com and through his social channels.

Connect @ www.simonsquibb.com

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Our next guest on the Good Luck Club Podcast is Mikaal Abdulla, co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong-based mobile investing company, 8 Securities.

Mikaal and his business partner Mathias Helleu have been in the news lately, as 8 Securities was just acquired by SoFi, the SoftBank-backed consumer financial services platform based in the US. 8 Securities launched in 2012, and raised US$70 million in funding from investors including Velocity Capital, Route 66 Ventures and Nomura Asset Management.

We talk to Mikaal about his entrepreneurial journey, and his experience as a company man before taking the leap to building his own hugely successful start up. He shares insights on the difference between the Japan and Hong Kong markets, what made him risk it all to start a business of his own, as well as his unique take on luck.

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About Mikaal Abdulla

#fintech #startup #SoFi

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8 was co-founded by Mathias Helleu and Mikaal Abdulla. Before 8, they built E*TRADE’s international business in 15 countries spanning Greater China, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Europe, and Canada. E*TRADE was a pioneer of online investing in Hong Kong and the first to offer investors low-cost, flat-fee commissions.

Entrepreneurs at heart, these founders decided to build a totally new investing service to meet the needs of young customers. They saw traditional banks and brokers taking advantage of customers with complex and unaffordable products with high transaction fees and hidden costs. Aiming to solve this problem, 8 was born in 2012 with a promise of simple, transparent and affordable mobile investing solutions. The company now has tens of thousands of customers in over 50 countries. 8 has secured over US$60 million in venture capital and become one of the largest and fastest growing fintech companies in Asia.

➜ Connect to Mikaal Abdulla:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaalabdulla

- Twitter @mikaalabdulla

➜ Connect to 8 at: https://www.8securities.com

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About Simon Squibb

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Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, and mentor. He has started 17 businesses, invested in over 65, and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning insight-driven branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal experiences, insights, ideas and tips on his website simonsquibb.com and through his social channels.

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About The Good Luck Club

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The Good Luck Club is a podcast and video series that focuses on the idea that luck is an ingredient that's absolutely necessary in order to have a successful life and business.

In each episode, we invite an entrepreneur or change-maker to share their journey to success. For most, it’s never a straightforward one, and there’s much inspiration and learnings in the struggles they’ve been through along the way. And, as our name suggests, we’ll also dive into their stories about luck; the good and the bad, and its role in success.

In Episode 17, Simon talks to Rutger Bruining, the founder of Story Terrace, a personal biography service that helps people turn their life story into a book. You might recognise Rutger from his appearance on the BBC's Dragon Den in April 2019, where he secured a deal with Dragon, @Tej Lalvani. Rutger talks about his Dragon Den's experience, why he eventually turned down Tej Lalvani's offer, how he got the idea for Story Terrace, why it took him so long to finally start his own business and his own encounter with the SARS virus in China in 2003.

In Episode 16, Simon sits down with Simon Loong, the inspirational and forward-thinking founder and Group CEO of WeLab to hear his journey to building WeLab into one of the world's largest Fintech startups with over 43m customers (and he's just getting started!)

➜ WeLab: https://www.welab.co/en

➜ Check out the Q&A with Simon Loong via https://youtu.be/5KVOz3NJR94

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Our guest this week is Simon Loong is the Founder and Group CEO of WeLab.

WeLab is the leading fintech company in Asia with one of the first virtual banks established in Hong Kong. WeLab provides financial services by creating seamless digital experiences to over 40 million individual customers, and also provides B2B enterprise solutions to traditional financial institutions which utilise WeLab’s technology to offer fintech-enabled services to their customers. WeLab operates WeLend and WeLab Bank in Hong Kong, Wolaidai (我来贷), Taoxinji (淘新机) and Tianmian Lab (天冕) in Mainland China and a fintech joint venture AWDA in Indonesia.

Prior to founding WeLab, Simon spent 15 years in retail banking divisions of Citibank and Standard Chartered. Simon has a Master of Science in Management (MSM) from Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Simon serves as an advisor to many professional organizations including Shenzhen Consumer Council, Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and was also a founding Board Member on the FinTech Association of Hong Kong. Simon has received several awards in recognition of his achievements including 2016 "CEO of the Year" by Capital CEO, 2017 “Innovation Leadership Achievement in Hong Kong” by The Asian Banker, 2018 "The InnoStars Award" by Our Hong Kong Foundation and “The World Outstanding Chinese Youth Entrepreneur Award”. Simon has also been named as “one of the 20 people shaping Hong Kong’s future” in the next 20 years by leading Chinese media outlet, YiCai.

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Simon is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, motivational speaker, mentor and recently sold his leading global branding and digital agency fluid (HQed in Hong Kong + China), to PwC.

He is currently the subject of SimonSquibb.com, an online business series highlighting what it’s like to be an experienced entrepreneur who knows luck is vital to it all. He is also the host of #GoodLuckClub Podcast, a business and advice Q&A show online that gets real about what is success and how luck plays a part in everything.

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Our guest this week is serial entrepreneur and adventure athlete, Malcolm Wood. Malcolm is the founder of A Plastic Ocean / The Last Glaciers / Maximal Concepts.

Malcolm is a reputable influence in the F&B industry. His passion for design and food led him to co-found the multi award-winning Maximal Concepts, a hospitality group that has created and owned over twenty individual brands and has restaurants in numerous international locations. In addition to acting as Culinary Director, Malcolm is also Global Managing Director. Maximal Concepts is one of the fastest growing F&B companies in the world and one of the most awarded in Asia.

Malcolm is heavily influenced by his love for the environment and often engages with conservation projects. A passionate environmental filmmaker and social entrepreneur, he has been on the Board of Directors for several charities and is actively involved in their various projects, including Plastic Oceans Foundation, Hong Kong Shark Foundation and Skeena Wild. His involvement includes the world-renowned production “A Plastic Ocean”, which was one of the most awarded documentaries in 2017 and more recently, “The Last Glaciers”, a film that highlights the global issue of climate change.

Teaming up with several different individuals including the world renowned, Director and Producer Craig Leeson, Malcolm’s goal is to release a set of environmental films over the next few years to highlight the many global environmental issues we are facing. Not only do they highlight key environmental issues, but the solutions that are available as well, playing an important role in individual and government environmental policy making. He has recently been selected as the first paraglider, speedflyer and film maker to join UN Environment’s campaign ‘Mountain Heroes’. The team consist of a group of other famous athletes such as Canadian ice-climber Will Gadd, Austrian cyclist Michael Strasser, Kenyan Olympic skier Sabrina Simader and adventurer Ben Fogle, helping to draw attention to emerging environmental issues in mountains including climate change, waste and biodiversity loss.