The Independent Minds

Adam Mokhtar runs Diogel an architecture company in North Wales. But Adam has had a very varied career, ranging from preacher to playing guitar in a rock band that performed at the Manchester MEN Arena.

As you would expect in a conversation about the transferability of skills Adam and host Michael Millward discuss a wide range of subjects as they explore how understanding the skills you have can open doors.

It is not all plain sailing for Adam. He also discusses the hardships that he has experienced, and how these have added to his transferable skillset.

Looking to the future Adam also explains how he intends to raise his sons so that they also enter the workforce understanding how to learn new skills and unlearn old skills so that they can enjoy continuous employment.

This episode of The Independent Minds is useful listening for people who are facing a change and see only the negative outcomes.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms.

Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and Adam Mokhtar at Abeceder.co.uk

Travel

Colin is based in North Wales, a very beautiful part of the United Kingdom. When I visit North Wales, I make my travel arrangements with The Ultimate Travel Club, because as a member I can access trade prices for flights, hotels and holidays. You can also become a member at a discounted price by using my offer code ABEC79 when you join-up.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Adam Mokhtar.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Adam, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Barry LaBov is the marketing expert who has developed a proprietary Brand Re-Engineering process that will help any organisation discover and maximise the value of their brand.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Barry explains to Michael Millward the difference between being different and having a differentiation that customers can identify and buy into.

Before you can win market share explains Barry, an organisation must first win hearts and minds.

During this conversation Barry uses examples from brands like Harley Davidson, Volkswagen, Audi, and Michael throws in classic Great British brands like Jaguar and Land Rover.

You will leave this podcast, as Michael did, enthused to find the power of your brands differentiating factors.

You can buy Books by Barry LaBov at these links

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and Barry LaBov at Abeceder.co.uk

Travel

Barry LaBov works globally from his base in Indiana, USA.

If you would like to travel Indiana the best place to make your travel arrangements is The Ultimate Travel Club, which is where you can access trade prices for flights, hotels and holidays. Use my offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Barry LaBov.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Barry, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Rob Spence is the founder of Paragon Sales Solutions, a Leicester based sales and marketing services provider and author of the best-selling book, Relationship Selling.

In this episode of the Abeceder podcast The Independent Minds Rob tells explains what Relationship Selling is to host Michael Millward.

Rob describes how the process of selling creates the negative experiences that many buyers have of being sold to.

He uses a quotation from Jeffery Gitomer to explain how a relationship-based approach to sales benefits both buyer and seller.

Rob explains the three ‘R’ of sales and how this can be applied to the long-term approach that relationship selling.

Michael applies what Rob describes to his experience of being sold to by Zencastr, the company that provides the technology that The Independent Minds is created on.

Rob also explains the difference between relationship selling and social selling.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and Rob Spence at Abeceder.co.uk

Travel

Leicester is famous for Richard III, Gary Lineker, and Rob Spence, so if you fancy visiting the best place make your travel arrangements The Ultimate Travel Club, which is where you can access trade prices for flights, trains, hotels and holidays. Use my offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Rob.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Rob, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

David Fradin has been building successful products and services since 1969, at organizations including at HP as well as Apple, where he was at the same management level as Steve Jobs.

Now he has used all his experience to create the S.P.I.C.E Catalyst.

S.P.I.C.E Catalyst is on a mission to help aspiring and experienced product professionals and to build insanely great products and services that delight customers and create value.

In this episode of The Independent Minds David outlines the S.P.I.C.E Catalyst Model to host Michael Millward and shares the experience that helped him create it.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr, the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms. Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

Try podcasting using Zencastruse our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and David Fradin at Abeceder.co.uk

Buy Books written by David Fradin

Travel

David Fradin is based in California, USA.

If you would like to travel to California, the best place to make your travel arrangements is The Ultimate Travel Club, which is where you can access trade prices for flights, hotels and holidays. Use my offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to David.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like David, you have something interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

You have just had a long hard day at work. You are exhausted. You could take the short walk home. Instead, you take the longer route through the park. Somehow you arrive home not feeling as worn-out as you did when you left work.

The question is why.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Michael Millward finds out from London’s Green Space Coach Karen Liebenguth of Parcival coaching why being in green spaces can make us feel relaxed and re-energised.

Coaching will work in any environment, but for some people, and some situations green space coaching can be the best solution, because it creates a more constructive coaching experience and more workable outcomes.

We may use say ‘a walk in the park’ to describe something as easy, but just because green space coaching takes place in a park does not mean it is easy. Karen explains how to make the coaching run smoothly and is free from distractions.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms. Zencastr really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

London

London is an expensive place to visit, but members of The Ultimate Travel Club can access trade prices on hotels, holidays, flights and so many other travel essentials.

Visit the Ultimate Travel Club and use our offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and Karen Liebenguth at Abeceder.co.uk 

Three the network

If you listen to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for more information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three. And use our referral code WPFNUQHU to access special offers.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening. 

In this episode of The Independent Minds Michael Millward meets Stuart Davis, joint founder of the comfortable and super sustainable children’s shoe brand Dubs Universe.

During lockdown Stuart became a stay-at-home Dad to his young daughter. He was struck by how rapidly she was growing both mentally and physically. Like every parent he also saw how quickly she grew out of clothes and shoes.

Stuart explains to Michael the steep learning curve he faced when he was inspired to create a new children’s shoe company. Everything from manufacturing techniques to biology!

Now Dubs Universe is operating successfully, so Stuart explains his plans for the future and the level of investment that will be required to achieve his goal.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms. Zencastr really does make making podcasts so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

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You can find out more about both Michael Millward, Stuart Davis and Dubs Universe at http://www.abeceder.co.uk.

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If you are using your smartphone to listen to The Independent Minds and experienced connection problems, you will probably like to know that Three has the UK’s fastest 5G network with unlimited data, so listening on Three means that you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact Abeceder, using the link at https://www.abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

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Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Until the next time, thank you to you for listening, goodbye.

Have you got a will? 

If you haven't you could be creating work for people like Ryan Gregory.

Ryan is the International Director at Finders International who are probate researchers. He spends his time at work tracing heirs to estates, property and assets.

His job made him a star of twelve series of the BBC TV programme Heir Hunters. 

In this episode of The Independent Minds Ryan explains what it is like doing your profession when your office has become a TV studio.

How Ryan and his team had to adapt the way in which they worked to meet the requirements of daytime TV.

Ryan and Michael do agree that appearing on a hit daytime TV show like Heir Hunters which is shown on a prominent channel like BBC1 does raise the profile of a business.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit the Zencastr websiteand use our offer code ABECEDER.

You can find out more about Ryan Gregory and Finders International at Abeceder.co.uk

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Travel

If you would like to travel the best place to make your travel arrangements is The Ultimate Travel Club, which is where you can access trade prices for flights, hotels and holidays. Use my offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Next time you are involved in a buying process you might experience a different selling approach from the salesperson.

How that new approach will look is explained in SELLING IS SERVING: which author Nick Staab describes as a Master The Art Of Selling Ethically With Confidence And Conviction.

In this first episode of The Independent Minds with two guests, Nick explains to Michael Millward what serving means in the context of selling. They explore how the ethics that customers expect sales people to adhere to are changing and what this means for sales people.

Michael also talks to Suzanne Jenkins a graduate of Nick’s Elite Sales Academy training programme.

Suzanne describes the challenges of being a solo-entrepreneur life coach and her dread of having to sell to clients were overcome by what she learnt from attending the Elite Sales Academy.

Suzanne was so inspired that she joined the Elite Sales Academy coaching team, and contributed to the book

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit the Zencastr website and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward, Nick Staab, Suzanne Jenkins and the Elite Sales Academy at Abeceder.co.uk

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

There can not be a parent of a school age child who does not want their child to do better at school than they did.

Every parent wants to play an active role in supporting their child to do well in every aspect of their school life not just their academic attainment.

But our memories of what school was like are not always happy ones, and the way schools teach even the most basic aspects of English and Maths today seems very different from how things were in our day.

It is easy to understand why parents feel frustrated. It is not easy.

There is help – Caroline Hudson is a teacher who left the classroom and became the Kitchen Table Teacher.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Caroline explains how small group of parents join her around her physical or virtual kitchen as she demystifies what happens in schools and helps parents provide the support their children need.

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and Caroline Hudson at Abeceder.co.uk

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Regardless of when someone leaves full time education, entering the world of employment is the real 21st Century rite of passage.

You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job. 

Only the biggest employers have the resources to provide training for people entering the workforce.

As a result, getting a foothold on the career ladder can feel like an impossible task, especially when you live in a country that does not provide the same sort of support as the UK.

Erefa Coker is based in Nigeria, a country that does not provide a structured transition from educatioon to employment.

Instead of seeing a problem Erefa saw an opportunity and set-up a company Imo Interns. 

Imo Interns provides interns for smaller companies, and at the same time provides the support and training for those young interns that can be a challenge for smaller businesses to provide.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Erefa explains to host Michael Millward how Imo Interns works, the added value that the Nigerian-based interns have delivered for companies in Europe, North America and Australia. 

The Independent Minds is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Find out more about both Michael Millward and Erefa Coker at Abeceder.co.uk

Travel

Imo Interns is based in Lagos Nigeria.

If you would like to visit Nigeria the best place to make your travel arrangements is The Ultimate Travel Club, which is where you can access trade prices for flights, hotels and holidays. Use my offer code ABEC79 to receive a discount on your membership fee.

Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote my referral code WPFNUQHU.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on The Independent Minds, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

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