Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Emma Jones CBE.  Emma trained as an accountant with Arthur Andersen, and that's a name from the past! and founded her own business Techlocate.com in 2000 during the dotcom boom - so she's been on both sides of the professional relationship - as an adviser and also as a business owner.  She sold that business and took her experiences from that to develop Enterprise Nation - which now boasts a community of over 75,000 people

Emma is ow considered to be one of UK's most recognised business experts, as well as being a best-selling author of business books such as ‘Working 5 to 9’ and ‘The StartUp Kit’

She has also been asked by various governments to work alongside them in several roles including the Small Business Representative for the Crown and leading the private sector campaign Start-up Britain, plus she was asked to co-chair the Small Business, Scale-up and Entrepreneurs Business Council.

For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk

Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Kate Nicholls OBE. Kate was appointed CEO of UKHospitality, the powerful voice representing the broad hospitality sector, in April 2018, having previously worked as CEO and Strategic Affairs Director of the ALMR.  She was Director at one of the largest independent public affairs companies, working with a number of hospitality, retail and leisure accounts before establishing her own strategic communications consultancy in 2000. In 2021 she was awarded an OBE for services to the hospitality industry, particularly during the Coronavirus pandemic.

You can find out more about Kate and UKHospitality visit ukhospitality.org.uk

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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Della Hudson. Della a chartered accountant, a business owner and founder of two accountancy firms, a bestselling business author, public speaker, mentor & business coach with other 30 years experience in the industry.

You can find out more about Della at hudsonbusiness.co.uk as well as on Linkedin and Twitter.

For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk

Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Kate Upcraft.  Kate is a technical writer, editor, public speaker and lecturer on all aspects of employing people - primarily payroll and HR matters. Prior to setting up her own company in 2005, she was the payroll legislation manager at M&S, where she worked for 20 years, 11 of them in payroll.

Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)

You can find out more about Kate on LinkedIn, Twitter and at kateupcraft.com

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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.  

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Gina Broadhurst  Georgina is a small business owner AND the co-founder of ForgottenLtd - The campaign for fair and equal meaningful Government support for the director owners of small limited companies during and after the Covid19 global pandemic  

Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)  

You can find out more about Gina and ForgottenLtd on twitter at @ForgottenLtd and at www.forgottenltd.com  

For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk

Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil recap their favourite moments of Season 1 as well as run though our guests for season 2.

Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)

For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.com

Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by David Dand.

Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)

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BONUS Episode! Before our next Future Positive Community event next week, catch up with our first panel event looking at Future proofing the accounting industry.

To kick things off we’ve brought together a panel of industry specialists to talk about what 2021 will bring - both the challenges and the opportunities. 

Leading the panel is Rob Brown, TED speaker, podcast host and founder of the Business Development Academy which works with accountants & professionals to win new business. 

He was joined by:

-Paul Barnes, MAP

-Zoe Lacey-Cooper, Accountex

-Emma Chesson, Kreston Reeves

-Matt Flanagan, Appacus

Find out more at www.futurepositivecommunity.com

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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by James Ashford.

Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)

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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.

This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by John Stokdyk.

John is the current Editor in Chief for AccountingWEB - the leading online community for accounting professionals.  As editor John played a key role in delivering the highly regarded Practice Excellence and Software Excellence Awards and has been involved with Web-based media since 1997.

Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)

For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk

Episode resources: You can find out more about John and AccountingWeb at AccountingWEB.co.uk