The Sandro Forte Podcast

I’m delighted to welcome Matthew Murphy as my podcast guest today. If you aren’t familiar with his name, I’m sure you’ll be familiar with his band, ‘The Wombats’ for whom Matthew is the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. His musical talent was discovered at a young age when he started playing the guitar at age 5 and his teen years saw his world become more and more shaped by music as he joined his first band at the age of 13 and went on to study music at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts where he met his Wombat bandmates. His path to fame with the band wasn’t an easy one as during his teens he also started suffering with anxiety and depression. Despite this he has gone on to become a huge success with his band and more recently also as a solo artist.

Matthew talks to Sandro about his journey to fame and the highs and the lows that come with being a part of the music industry.

Find out more about Matthew and The Wombats here:

Twitter - @thewombats

Instagram – wombatsofficial

Instagram - lovefametragedy

Facebook – The Wombats

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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Christopher Head’s passion for the marine world started with an apprenticeship as a Marine Engineer at the age of 16. He then went on to work in Marine Sales which led to him setting up ‘Sunseeker’, the largest UK-based luxury yacht makers and one of the most successful dealerships in British boats. His boats have even featured in 4 James Bond films!

Chris’ sales ethic is that of delivering perfection and exactly what he promises. This attitude has led to the huge success of his empire of Sunseeker boat dealerships across Europe. He is also often seen ditching his boats for a bike and taking to the road to show his support at various charity events.

Christopher talks to Sandro about how his early career in engineering has made him far more than just a salesman and about the work ethics he believes are essential to become a successful individual, business and team.

Find out more about Christopher here:

www.sunseekerlondon.com

Twitter - @SSLondonGroup

Facebook – Sunseeker London Group

Instagram - sunseekerlondongroup

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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I’m joined today by Anita Brightley-Hodges – a fantastic role-model for women in business and a shining example of compassion through the fundraising that she has done for numerous charities.

Anita runs her own business as a specialist advisor to people that own their own family businesses. All businesses come with challenges, but when they’re family-run, they also come with their additional pressures. As wonderful it is to know you have set up a business that could be passed down from generation to generation, you also have overcome the hurdles of working with family, dealing with succession of the business and family disputes. Anita is the go-to woman to offer strategies to deal with these eventualities. In addition to this she offers wealth and well-being support to clients that are dealing with life-changing situations in her Associate role at ‘Saphora Private’…and somehow, in the middle of her incredibly busy and successful business life, she’s managed to complete numerous tough treks across the globe to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.

Anita talks to Sandro about her family business and what makes it work so well and she explains how she is able to help others, not only by using her wealth of experience but because she has personally lived many of the situations she helps people through, such as a marriage breakdown and the time in 2008 when, as she put it, she “lost everything”.

Find out more about Anita here:

www.familybusinessplace.com

www.saphoraprivate.com

www.anitabrightleyhodges.com

Twitter - @anitabhodges

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

Neil Bage is the founder and Director of Behavioural Insight at ‘Be-IQ’ and a Keynote Speaker. After years of working for financial service companies, he decided to go at it alone as he recognised the customer was all too often losing out as a result of a poor relationship between the company and the customer. He is now a specialist in subconscious behaviour. He cleverly combines science and psychology to help people make better decisions to improve their financial health and well-being. When I mention the names HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds, all of which have been attracted by what Neil has to offer, you’ll get a very good idea of his calibre!

Neil talks to Sandro about how what goes on in our head defines who we are and how it influences the way we see the world we live in. He explains how he has learnt to simplify complex psychological theories to help others understand it.

Find out more about Neil:

www.beiq.co.uk

Twitter - @neilbage

Linked In – Neil Bage

Instagram – Neil Bage

Apple Store - MyBE

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

It would be great to think that life could go by without crisis striking, but the reality of it is that it can, and it often does. When things go wrong for a company, the after-effects can destroy that company’s reputation and customers may be quick to turn away. My guest today is Bill Coletti, a reputation management and crisis communications expert who founded ‘Kith’, a firm that works closely with businesses to help advise them how to avoid potentially devastating crises but also helps them recover, should they be hit by dark times. A business is nothing without its reputation and Bill’s here today to tell us about how he has built his own successful reputation and how exactly he helps to preserve other’s.

Bill talks to Sandro about how he uses his experience, calm nature and empathy to help people get through the worst thing that is ever going to happen to them in their career. Truth, integrity and trusting our gut-instinct is at the heart of all that he does, and he explains why he believes this should be integral to the way we all conduct ourselves.

Find out more about Bill:

www.billcoletti.com

www.kith.co

Linked In – Bill Coletti

Twitter: @bcoletti

Facebook: Bill Coletti

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

Ed Ley: Life is about who I’m ‘being’ not what I’m ‘doing’ by Sandro Forte

Oscar Trimboli is here to talk to me today about how his work as a leadership coach and mentor helps so many individuals find out how to unlock their own potential and go on to achieve personal success. Oscar has very much soaked up every experience in life; from his upbringing, his school life, working with his dad during the school holidays at his concreting business, through to working for the technology giant, Microsoft. He has cleverly thought through his life experiences and worked out what he believes to the key to success. He has coached a wide variety of people from CEOs and leaders through to marathon runners and he’s here today to tell us how he goes about helping people get the very best out of themselves.

Find out more about Oscar:

www.oscartrimboli.com

www.listeningmyths.com

Twitter – oscartrimboli

Facebook – Oscar Trimboli

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

Charles Marcus is a motivational and business speaker and a best-selling author, with translations of his book being made into 27 languages. Originally from the UK he is now based in Toronto, Canada but he delivers his message to audiences worldwide and has been recognised as one of the top 60 motivational speakers in the world.

Charles suffered with a severe stammer for 25 years which he overcame with great determination. This, along with his stories of his award winning success in the world of sales and his life-experiences as an entrepreneur are at the heart of his inspirational speaking, with which he aims to help people face the challenges in their life, become more confident and develop the right mindset to achieve success, just as he has done. You can hear his passion for what he does shine through in his mission statement, which is “to help organisations and their people go deep, be exceptional and get to world class”.

Charles talks to Sandro with refreshing and admirable honesty about how growing up with a stammer left him angry and screwed-up, but you will hear from his interview that he has very much learnt to control his stammer and turned the negativity that impacted him so dramatically in his childhood into inspirational positivity!

Find out more about Charles:

www.cmarcus.com

Facebook – Charles Marcus. Speaker, Author. The Empowerment International Group Inc

Twitter – @CharlesMCanada

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

Jason Treu is an executive coach, keynote speaker and communication expert. In a world where every individual and organisation is constantly striving to be the very best at what they do, Jason is the go-to person for people that are already at the top of their game but want to climb even higher!

The list of services Jason offers is extensive, to say the least. He’s an expert in team building, a Chief Personal Officer, an organisational psychologist and high-performance trainer whose services benefit CEOs, executives, managers, HR departments and entrepreneurs! Some of the names he has worked with include Apple, Amazon and Google, which immediately gives you a clear idea of his calibre.

Jason talks to Sandro about why he believes that to be become a good leader or manager it’s essential to master your own psychology and understand the impact it has on people around you, and why being open and vulnerable can be more beneficial to your success than having a high IQ!

Find out more about Jason Treu here:

www.jasontreu.com

Twitter: @jasontreu

Facebook: Jason Treu Business & Executive Coaching

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

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