The Sandro Forte Podcast

Mental health and emotional wellbeing are words on everyone’s lips of recent years and in the current climate, they are more relevant than ever. Penny Power OBE started out in the IT industry in 1983 and has witnessed every step of the technological revolution.

In 1998 Penny Founded Ecademy with her husband Thomas,; Ecademy was the world’s first Social network for Business. The concept was based on the desire to connect business people as friends in a world that was opening up online but was clearly going to create isolation and fears around who to trust. Penny was Awarded an OBE for her contribution to the Digital Economy and the impact that Ecademy had.

In 2018, having built two more businesses, Penny stepped back for 6 months to evaluate the life she wanted going forward. There were many traumas, both financial and emotional to spend time calibrating and coming to terms with her new normal. Much like many people are doing now. Penny wrote her best-selling book, Business is Personal, published in January 2019. Penny and Thomas once again run a business community and also a Mastermind program and love the life they have rebuilt together.

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

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This week we have a guest I had been looking forward to speaking to for quite some time, Scott Smith. Scott is the founder of RAPS Management, a company dedicated to the management and marketing of talented sports stars. His company looks after a number of high profile individuals in the world of sport - something very much in the Smith DNA!

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

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Today’s guest is Tony Trowers, an award-winning investor and entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in property management and financial services. Within that time, he has gained a wealth of knowledge which has led to him successfully establishing an integrated group of companies, an extensive property portfolio and has seen him become a part of the Planning Futures Committee think-tank who are responsible for developing the future planning development of the UK. More recently he has branched out into the world of beauty and aesthetics and will be launching a restaurant and bar to offer a one-stop shop where people can be pampered, refreshed and fine dine!

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

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Award-winning designer, Neishaa Gharat is the co-founder of London based design house, ‘House of Gharats’. Neishaa takes a multi-cultural approach to her art, craft and fashion designs by bringing together culture and tradition into contemporary designs, combining British tailoring, Italian craftsmanship and Indian artisanship. Much of Neishaa’s work is associated with charity and community projects, including a mission to ‘change the world one scarf at a time’ for ‘The Big Issue’ and volunteering designs for charities such as ‘Oxfam’. This combined with her passion for heritage and sustainability gives us a clear idea of her wholesome approach to her life and her work.

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

www.sandrospodcast.com

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Comedy and business aren’t two words you usually see associated with each other, but my guest today is Christ Tabish – a Silicon Valley businessman, author…and stand-up comedian - who ingeniously introduces his clients to the use of comedy in the corporate world! He was himself the first to benefit from his clever concept when he turned to stand-up comedy in 2010 in an attempt to make his professional life more pleasurable. As a hugely successful businessman himself, he is the perfect advocate for the benefits of this method that he uses to help organisations make their own big success a reality.

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

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Today I’m joined by Rara Plumptre and I think the best introduction would be to say she’s an incredibly busy entrepreneur with a very big heart! Rara’s background was in fashion and luxury brands but in recent years she has become a phenomenal entrepreneur! She has relatively recently set up 4 businesses, including in networking and connections, and a social enterprise for the homeless in England. If you read her Linkedin profile you will immediately see she’s a woman that loves people and thrives on helping others. As well as the homeless, she also devotes a huge amount of her time to helping women and children in crisis and helping young people find their feet and find work. I’m sure we’ll find out during this podcast how much this desire to help others is rooted in her own past when she was herself once homeless.

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Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

www.sandrospodcast.com

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Today, in celebration of the 100th podcast, we turn the tables and David Braithwaite will be interviewing your Host, Sandro Forte.

Today it’s YOUR chance to find out more about the personality behind the voice. I’ll be hoping to extract the best bits from what has been a fascinating and all-encompassing life-journey. You’ll hear about the challenges he’s encountered along the way, how both the positive and negative experiences in his life have led to his own phenomenal success and why he has such a passion for helping others.

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

www.sandrospodcast.com

Blog: www.tumblr.com/sandrospodcast

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Olu Adepitan is a Strength and Conditioning Coach with over 20 years in the industry whose objective is to offer his clients insight and advice to make reaching optimum fitness levels both achievable and enjoyable for people of all levels. As a school-boy he had the dream of becoming a professional footballer but it was his love of nature that actually led him to become a fitness coach.

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

www.sandrospodcast.com

Blog: www.tumblr.com/sandrospodcast

Twitter: @sandrospodcast

Facebook: /sandrospodcast

If today’s guest’s story and achievements don’t make your drop, I’m not sure what will. Dame Stephanie Shirley is quite a woman. She arrived in the UK in 1939 with her sister, sent as a refugee by her parents from Germany to escape the Nazi’s. In 1962, a time where being a woman in business was an incredibly challenging time, she set up her first business with £6 and went on to become the CEO of a multi-billion-pound IT consultancy group. Now in her 80s, Dame Shirley is showing no signs of slowing up as her work as a philanthropist is continuing to make millions of pounds for a cause very close to her heart – autism – following the loss of her autistic son at age 35 in 1998.

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

www.sandrospodcast.com

Blog: www.tumblr.com/sandrospodcast

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Facebook: /sandrospodcast

I’m thrilled to be joined today by the incredible world-record breaking Tracy Edwards MBE. What a woman! In 1989 Tracy was the skipper of the first all-female crew to sail around the world in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Tracy, now a motivational speaker, had a tumultuous childhood that could have easily led her down a very different path but sailing and her beloved boat ‘Maiden’ in effect became her saviour. Her story is a rich and complex one, full of drama and sheer inspiration; from running away to Greece in her youth, to when she nearly lost her life on one of her sailing expeditions to bankruptcy to setting up the most fantastic charity that helps raise awareness for women’s education in developing countries. This woman’s determination, passion and desire to help others is sure to make this a truly jaw-dropping podcast!

Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.

Subscribe, provide feedback, share what you want to hear more of in future episodes and ask any questions via email at [email protected]

www.sandrospodcast.com

Blog: www.tumblr.com/sandrospodcast

Twitter: @sandrospodcast

Facebook: /sandrospodcast