Teach me how... with The Northern Affinity

This week we speak to Russell Thompson from Russell Thompson Consulting Limited to support entrepreneurs and small business owners. We discuss the importance of collaboration for him such as providing a mindset as well as an action and offering inspiration and a community. Secondly, we discuss his values, for example, effort over skill and dignity in the online world. Finally, we look at his aspirations focusing on the importance of the journey rather than the end goals.

To contact Russell Thompson click HERE, and for more information check out his bio on our website HERE.

In this week's podcast, we talk with Matthew Sammon, founder of SONDER IP LIMITED, where he specialises in intellectual property legal services. As a service that isn't spoken about enough, we look at Matt’s experience with the changes Brexit has had for his company, how collaboration means  being part of a community, the difficulties for larger businesses to maintain values and how meaningfulness will become more important in the future. Finally, he tells us what his aspirations are for the future of the business. 

To contact Matthew Sammon click HERE, and to find out a bit more about him, check out his bio on our Northern Affinity page HERE. 

This week's podcast we introduce you to business strategist, Joelle Byrne who brings out the potential in businesses. We discuss how collaboration raises confidence, the values she looks for in business such as integrity. Finally, we look at her aspirations for the future such as hearing how she helped her clients succeed.

To contact Joelle Byrne click HERE, and to learn more about them and what they do, visit their Northern Affinity website bio HERE.

On this week's podcast episode we talk about business and personal collaboration, traits as opposed to values, with the professional commercial insurance broker, Jeff Dunn from the Spencer Hayes Group. Jeff expands on his extensive business journey, his personality with music being his “happy place” and where he hopes to be in the future. 

To contact Jeff Dunn you can find him HERE, and to find out more about them visit their Northern Affinity bio on our website HERE.

This week's podcast we chat with Heidi Dawson, owner of Glint, which incorporates personal and professional development with the help of horses! We discuss her journey to creating this unique business and why her animal of choice was horses. We then look at how collaboration is a “triple win” opportunity for her and finally, her dreams for the future of her business. 

To contact Heidi Dawson you can find them HERE, and for more information on what she does visit her bio at The Northern Affinity HERE.

This week's podcast we chat with Director Jag Panesar from Xpand, a digital marketing agency. We cover what collaboration means for him and his business, such as profiling, building trust and expanding whilst involving. Secondly, we expand on his thoughts on values such as “doing the right thing”, and finally covering the generalisations of business aspirations.

To contact Jag you can find him HERE, and for more info about them visit their Northern Affinity bio on our website HERE.

On this week's podcast we have the director of Unlikely Genius, Helen Hill! A digital learning  and content designer who tells us about how covid helped her business, how collaboration prevents isolation in business and makes you part of a team that has helped her launch her own book! Finally, Helen tells us the values she looks for and her future aspirations.

To contact Helen Hill you can find them HERE, and for more information on Helen visit her bio at The Northern Affinity HERE.

Gemma Edwards - So Contented

Ian Earl - In Business

Tune in to hear one family talk about running three separate businesses, and the trials of parenting, homeschooling and entrepreneurship during lockdown and beyond.

Michael Edwards from The Northern Affinity is joined by his wife, Gemma (co-founder of So Contented) and father-in-law, Ian Earl (co-founder of In Business) as they share their ups and downs of being business owners, and what worked and what didn’t to keep their sanity in tact (just about!)

Clare Clifford - Sunshine Digital Media

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-clifford-ab313b14a/

Michael Edwards from The Northern Affinity joined by Clare Clifford from Sunshine Digital Media. Clare will be giving us the benefit of her knowledge and experience in Digital Marketing and discussing how important it is for all businesses to get this right.

https://thenorthernaffinity.co.uk/our_partners/clare-clifford/

Rebeeca Roberts - Saldi Business Development

Michael Edwards from The Northern Affinity was joined to discuss how you can outsource your sales with Rebecca Roberts.

   

Rebecca works with a number of companies to help open doors that they may be struggling to get through.  Her extensive experience and passion for this have helped numerous businesses and we will be finding more about this as well as a few hints and tips for those less experienced in sales.

https://thenorthernaffinity.co.uk/our_partners/rebecca-roberts/