The Happy WorkLife Podcast

WorkL Founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Liz Jackson MBE, Sales & Marketing Director at Initium Corporate Finance (formerly BCMS). At the age of 2, Liz was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disorder which meant that by the time she was 25 she was blind. Amazingly at this age, Liz set up an award winning company, Great Guns Marketing, which she ran for 17 years and was awarded an MBE in 2017 by the late Majesty Queen Elizabeth for services to business.

In this episode, Liz talks about her early school days and the struggles that came with going blind and the impact it had on her education. Liz also shares how she got into her first sales role and transitioned from being an employee to business owner to now working with entrepreneurs and being a co-owner at Initium Corporate Finance.

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WorkL Founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Joe Seddon, Founder of Zero Gravity, a tech company that helps students from low opportunity areas get into university and access world-class careers.

Earlier this year Joe was recognised by The Sunday Times in their inaugural Young Power List as one of 25 most inspiring people aged under 30 in the UK & Ireland. Amongst these, Joe has racked up many accolades, being on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2022 and being honoured in King Charles' Birthday Honours List in 2023.

In this episode, Joe talks about his early life growing up in Yorkshire, his time at the University of Oxford, coming to identify the barriers that prevented people from getting into top universities and world class careers post graduation. Joe also shares how his early connections with technology fostered his skills and experiences, eventually leading to him founding Zero Gravity.

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WorkL Founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Guy Singh-Watson, Founder of Riverford, an organic farm and UK-wide organic vegetable box delivery company.

Guy is an admired figure in the world of organic farming and has grown Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to around 50,000 customers a week.

In this episode, Guy talks about his early childhood, his school experiences, making Riverford a completely employee-owned business, the need for honesty and transparency between customers and supermarkets and so much more.

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WorkL Founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Elliott Rae - speaker, author, social changemaker and founder of parenting platform MusicFootballFatherhood.

Elliott has raised considerable awareness of the struggles of fatherhood, his book 'DAD' is an Amazon Top 10 bestseller and his 2022 BBC One documentary ‘Becoming Dad’ was one of the 20 most watched documentaries across the whole BBC network in 2022.

In this episode hear everything from Elliott's early career experiences, his time working in the civil service (latterly as Head of DEI Delivery at HM Treasury) and so much more!

In this short episode WorkL founder, Lord Mark Price talks about his new book 'Happy Economics'. In 'Happy Economics' Mark explains why happiness at work is important and explores the proven links between workplace happiness and financial success.

You can preorder the book at koganpage.com/workl and get 20% off your purchase using the code WORKHAPPY.

WorkL founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Equity & Inclusion Practitioner Sereena Abbassi - former Worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion at M&C Saatchi Group.

Sereena has worked with some of the biggest organisations around the world such as Lego, Monzo, Google, Airbnb, Coca Cola and many others.

Hear everything from her early years studying at The BRIT School, her time running her own business & working at M&C Saatchi, the organisational changes needed in the culture & inclusion space and more.

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WorkL founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Swedish entrepreneur Konrad Bergström.

Konrad has been extremely successful throughout his career and is the recipient of one of Sweden's highest honours, The King's Medal, in recognition of his entrepreneurial achievements.

Hear everything from his childhood learnings, the time he spent in the Swedish army and his experiences which led to the founding of X Shore & Zound Industries (now Marshall Group).

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*Please be advised this episode features some explicit language.

WorkL founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Nicola Hodson, CEO of IBM UK & Ireland. Nicola is the first woman to hold the CEO position at IBM UK & Ireland. Hear everything from the early career skills she developed, childhood fascinations that sparked her curiosity, to the career experiences that have equipped her to lead IBM today and much more.

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WorkL founder, Lord Mark Price speaks to Nelly Hall, creative director of Alitex.

Nelly takes us on an insightful journey recounting how she started her career in hospitality and her work building All Bar One during her time as their brand manager prior to joining Alitex. Nelly also shares a fascinating perspective into what it's like to prepare for the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, one of the world's most renowned garden shows.

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WorkL founder, Lord Mark Price, speaks to James Perry, co-founder and co-chair of COOK, a certified B Corporation. James speaks about his early career, family influences and ambitions to create social change through enterprise.

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