Small Business, Big Network

Since 2024, Andrew King has been the founder of SGT. Based in Buckinghamshire, Andrew helps businesses across the UK find commercial energy tariffs that meet their needs while keeping costs low. He has extensive experience in client relations and business management.

SGT provides energy procurement services to commercial clients. It helps its customers get the best value from their energy contracts, reducing their consumption, minimising their carbon footprint and ensuring that their bills are right. SGT also invests in ongoing training and development to advise business owners on the latest technology and best practices.

https://www.sgt-ltd.co.uk

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-king-53234463/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/andrewking2906/

Caroline Voaden is a copywriter and content strategist helping B2Bs ditch boring for brilliant. After a decade in PR advising multimillion-dollar businesses, politicians, and even a few disgraced sports stars, she paired the industry’s best-kept storytelling secrets with sales psychology to create storyselling: the framework behind her can’t-stop-reading content and revenue-generating websites.

Today, she helps global finance giants like HSBC, innovative SaaS fintechs and legtechs, and consultants, turn technical expertise into authority content that makes money. With 128+ clients and award-winning campaigns under her belt, Caroline knows how to get results – like 441% traffic spikes and white papers that reach 22M people.

Originally from the UK, Caroline traded London’s high-octane life for the laid-back beaches of Australia. When she’s not crafting stories, she’s surfing, teaching yoga or bingeing cosy English crime dramas.

 https://www.storycopywriting.co/website-copywriting

Have you been procrastinating since forever about launching a project such as an event or online course but keep blocking yourself as it seems such an overwhelming task? Are you lost in the rabbit hole of researching, you simply don’t know where to start or the fear of technology is holding you back? Don’t let these reasons prevent you from shining out your expertise to the world.

Completing a project like this is the hardest thing to do after starting it but Alison is here with a virtual pair of hands to support and guide you.

Alison loves creating and as an award-winning Business Consultant and Project Administrator, and with decades of experience supporting business owners and charities realise projects, she can help you break the project down into bite sized manageable pieces and create a framework to get it started.

As a born solution finder, in 2024 she helped business-savvy clients set up 42 events both virtual and in person and build out online courses on platforms such as LearnDash, Podia and MemberVault. 

She has been self-employed now for 10 years and started her business VirtuAli Business Solutions to help savvy business owners be more organised , create structures and have automations to create more time, more passive income and more head space!

She finds being organised easy but realises that isn’t the case for everyone. 

Let her take the tech overwhelm away and be a virtual pair of hands to support and guide you!

https://www.virtuali.uk/services

Follow Alison on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/virtualiadminsolutions/

Connect with Alison on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonmatthewsvirtuali/

Website: www.virtuali.uk

https://www.virtuali.uk/services 

Email: [email protected]

Simon Raybould started his working life as a research scientist after a PhD looking at the causes of childhood cancer. After over two and a half decades as a research scientist he became Centre Manager of what was then the UK’s largest social science research unit. That need to look at the evidence, the causes, the relationships is what makes him different from most presentation trainers and professional speakers. His style is to avoid “this works for me” in favour of “the research says this works for 85% of the population - try it this way first”.

As an introvert he's not a natural networker, so he likes to employ SAS style tactics to 'get in and get out'!

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/simon-raybould-presentations

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonstorymaking/

Website: https://storymaking.business/

John The Video Guy is a freelance video editor and content creator. He runs a YouTube channel where he teaches all things video related and helps viewers to monetize their passions through content creation on YouTube. His mission is to inspire the lives of others through video and design while preparing our future workforce through education and mentorship.

He has found that taking a branded water bottle to social events has helped build his network!

johnthevideoguy.com

youtube.com/@johnthevideoguy

instagram.com/johnthevideoguy

Today's episode is sponsored by VirtuAli. If you're a small business owner who would love to run and event or an online course but the thought of it overwhelms you, Ali can help!

Let her take the tech overwhelm away and be a virtual pair of hands to support and guide you!

https://www.virtuali.uk/services

Follow Alison on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/virtualiadminsolutions/

Connect with Alison on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonmatthewsvirtuali/

Website: www.virtuali.uk

https://www.virtuali.uk/services

Email: [email protected]

Published author and expert writing coach, Jennifer Jones has been helping people become happier, more productive writers since 2001.

She trained to teach writing during her PhD at the University of California at Davis. She’s taught at universities in the US and the UK, and now coaches service-based business owners and other experts to write their credibility-building blogs and books.

When she's not talking about writing, she can often be found herding her two kittens or researching and writing about banned books or Victorian medicine and popular culture.

https://ewc.coach

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjonesewc/

Nadège Saysana, known as Nan, is a former English teacher from Paris who turned her personal struggles into a passion for helping others achieve the same kind of transformation she’s experienced. She’s a certified Life and Weight Loss Coach through The Life Coach School and Corinne Crabtree’s No BS Weight Loss University.

Nan’s journey started with stress-eating, and she gets it. She’s been there—feeling like food had a hold on her. But today? She’s no longer binge eating or battling cravings. She sticks to her food plan effortlessly—chocolate included (because, yes, she knows life’s too short not to enjoy your favorites).

At 50, Nan has also accomplished a dream she thought was out of reach—becoming a bodybuilder. She dropped three dress sizes along the way, and she’s determined to stay strong, fit, and vibrant for as long as possible, inspired by her 105-year-old grandmother.

Over the past five years and a half, Nan has coached around 50 clients a week through The Life Coach School, helping them stop binge eating, overcome cravings, get rid of procrastination and stick to their goals. Her approach is straightforward, compassionate, and grounded in mindset shifts that make real, lasting changes. She’s helped clients lose weight, build muscle, reduce inflammation, and take control of their health—and, most importantly, feel proud of who they are around food.

Based in Paris, Nan works with English-speaking clients from all over the world, with her adorable cat Eva by her side. Her philosophy is simple: Change doesn’t have to be hard. With the right mindset and tiny, healthy habits, transformation is not only possible—it’s inevitable.

STEP 1 - Let’s connect!

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: Nadège (Nan) Saysana

Website: www.TheCravingsCoach.fr

Instagram: Nan.Saysana.Coaching

YouTube: Nadege Saysana Coaching

STEP 2 - I’m on a personal mission to empower overeaters around food - check out the free resources that are relevant to you:

- 5 simple steps to not stress eat tonight https://nadege-saysana-coaching.ck.page/b33737ad80

- 3 easy steps to stick to your chocolate plan today https://nadege-saysana-coaching.ck.page/5416ffba36

Need personalized support? Book a Free Crave Control Call: https://calendly.com/nadege-saysana/consultation

Carl Mannion is a dynamic entrepreneur, experienced property investor, and the host of the _Lazy Wealth Creation_ podcast, which ranks #1 in the UK for business "how-to" guides. With a career spanning several industries including property development, construction, and safety management, Carl has established himself as a thought leader in entrepreneurship and financial independence.

He also leads a network in the property sector and helps others to build their portfolios.

And he was once an Avon lady.....

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-mannion-cmiosh/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lazy-wealth-creation/id1767853808

Obviously, feel free to edit/shorten it if it's too long - or let me know and I'll do it.

Links that would be great to share please would be any of these (in order of preference):

• https://www.celebrantcourses.com/ (our Celebrants Collective training site)
• https://creatingceremony.com/ (my celebrant site)
• https://www.thecelebrantscollective.com/podcasts/ (our 'Celebrant Survival Podcast')
• https://www.thecelebrantscollective.com/join-us/ (our Celebrants Collective membership site - CPD for existing celebrants)