SURVIVING LOCKDOWN - an essential business podcast from Mark Ryes Voiceovers

Jason Williams is a Director and Veterinary Surgeon at Bicester Vets in Oxfordshire. He joined the practice in 1995 and became a partner in the year 2000. It's a high quality, modern small animal veterinary practice based in the heart of the town. With the onset of covid-19, Jason talks about the strict changes that had to be put in place.
You can contact Jason through the website - www.bicestervets.co.uk

In 2008 Allan Chester launched UK Postbox - the UK's premier mail scanning, virtual address, and parcel solution. They enable businesses to operate on an international level while offices remain closed, through their virtual mail management solution. Allan talks about the surge in demand at the onset of covid-19, and the changes he and his team had to put in place.
You can contact Allan through the website - www.ukpostbox.com

When covid-19 hit - the events industry pretty much came to a halt. Then people started thinking about virtual events... which was lucky for ReAttendance because they'd just developed a platform to allow fully bespoke virtual events - their first major booking being the fully virtual One Voice Conference in May.
Chloe Prince is the Commercial Director of ReAttendance and chats to Mark about what's now possible in a virtual conference venue.
You can contact Chloe through the website at www.reattendance.com

When your goal is to get people to "never work a day in their life again" - recruitment may seem an odd choice - until you realise when you love what you do, you don't really see it as work! Sarah Naylor of Naylor George Recruitment has just such a goal - but since lockdown, opportunities have been few and far between. So how does Sarah see recruitment in the next few months?
You can contact Sarah through the website at www.naylorgeorge.co.uk

Luisa Diaz is a fully qualified counsellor and registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She was just opening her own private practice in North London when covid-19 struck - forcing her to adapt her plans and change to more remote therapy. Luisa joins Mark to talk how lockdown can affect many people's mental health and about the challenges facing her own business.

You can contact Luisa by email - it's [email protected]

Find out more from Luisa's page on BACP’s counsellor directory:
https://www.bacp.co.uk/profile/8f3a9ee7-5390-e711-80e8-3863bb351d40

With the economy contracting, and unemployment already on the rise - recruitment services are having a tough time. Mark Callahan is the CEO of Recruiterlink, a company that changed the way they did recruitment long before lockdown - which has put them in a stronger position now. Mark tells us how he thinks the sector has fared after the onset of covid-19, and what it'll be doing in the months to come.
You can contact Mark through the website at www.recruiterlink.com

Crafting has seen a massive upsurge during lockdown. Fiona Gurney is the owner of Woolyhippo, which started in 2010 on a market stall. They're now an online company selling their own brand of wool internationally from their website. Fiona joins Mark to talk about hugely increased demand during lockdown - and the problems that can bring.
You can contact Fiona through the website at www.woolyhippo.com

Working from home, stuck in the house, home schooling, on furlough - all things that have played havoc with our collective confidence during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Dannie-Lu Carr is a Leadership, Communications and Creativity specialist working internationally to help executives and employees get better with communications, access their creativity and master their all round leadership skills. As Dannie tells Mark, when one-to-one training is off the agenda, new ideas have to be implemented - and quickly.
You can contact Dannie through the website at www.dannielucarr.com

The IT and Technology sectors have been in huge demand since lockdown - but has it been easy to cope with the extra demand? Simon McAlpine, Chief Commercial Officer of the award-winning Infinity IT Solutions, talks to Mark about the challenges faced by a huge upsurge in both demand and cyber criminal activity.
You can contact Simon through the website at www.infinityit-solutions.com

Networking in some of the top venues in the East Midlands sounds superb - but for KuKu Connect, lockdown meant things had so radically change. It could have spelled disaster for owners Stephen Goddard and Philip Brooks-Stephenson - but instead they now have some superb online events like the twice-monthly KuKu Cocktail Hour and daily videos with business tips on their Facebook page. So how difficult was that change?
You can contact Stephen and Philip through the website at www.kukuconnect.co.uk and their Facebook group is https://www.facebook.com/groups/kukuconnectcorona/