The Unlock with Oliver Bruce

Ex-professional rugby player Elliott Herrod-Taylor’s career was cut short thanks to a spider’s bite! He founded his first business UP4 Events whilst at university thanks to his love of music and juggled this alongside his degree and starting The Bunch.

As the designated bill payer in his university house Elliott dealt with the frustrations of setting up contracts with utility providers and knew there was a better way! The Bunch, founded in 2017 helps students and letting agencies compile their multiple bills in an easy to manage one off payment.

Now The Bunch has expanded to help 3,000+ customers per year and works with massive names such as Virgin Media and Ovo Energy. For someone that had already founded 2 companies by the age of 23, what’s next for Elliott? Find out in this podcast.

We're thrilled to be sponsored by Coronation Wealth Management LLP for the 4th series of this award-winning podcast series.

The former Head of Marketing at Red Bull in Europe, Huib van Bockel quit his high-profile job to create a brand with purpose and an energising drink that was plant-based, low-calorie & sustainable. He shares how he got started, dealt with knock backs and his plans for the future!

Over the past 20 years, Huib has worked in the fashion, television and consumer brand world. Now he is taking on the big dogs of the soft drinks world! 

From the belief that there was a need for an energy drink free from artificial ingredients and stacks of sugar, to climbing Everest for the naming inspiration, TENZING has tripled in size annually since its founding in 2016 and now has a turnover in excess of £10m.

With the energy drink market expected to grow to over $80 billion by 2026 and the health food market on the rise, is TENZING literally liquid gold? Find out in this podcast.
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Taking on the energy drink space – https://bit.ly/3zz5lDY

The difficulties of starting a business – https://bit.ly/38vBy3j

Dealing with doubts – https://bit.ly/2Wx5B7X

We're thrilled to be sponsored by Coronation Wealth Management LLP for the 4th series of this award-winning podcast series. Coronation Wealth Management, an Appointed Representative of St. James's Place Wealth Management, provides a wide range of services to their clients to help them build, grow, protect, or preserve their wealth.

Sir Martin Sorrell, famed for 'inventing the earn-out', taking over WPP and aggressively scaling the largest Ad Agency in the world talks to Oliver about his greatest successes and biggest regrets. 

Founding S4 Capital Group in 2018, Sir Martin grew a Unicorn (£1bn company) in under a year, he tells Oliver about his 'twenty squared' strategy and the future of the economy, why D&I is critical for all business and how to build, merge, manage and scale a business of the future! 

This episode is not just insightful to entrepreneurs but leaders and CEO's alike. 
Exclusive Content -

Martin's Unique Business Model - https://bit.ly/3Dn8B7K

We're thrilled to be sponsored by Coronation Wealth Management LLP for the 4th series of this award-winning podcast series. Coronation Wealth Management, an Appointed Representative of St. James's Place Wealth Management, provides a wide range of services to their clients to help them build, grow, protect, or preserve their wealth.

Series 3 saw the winning of awards, international conversations, tonnes of bloopers and even more inspiration. Join Oliver as he looks back at some of the best (and worst) takes of the last series.  
With the inauguration of the new studio, the winning the Business Media Podcast of the Year award and an abundance of wisdom from fascinating guests, the series has been jam-packed with energy💪
From travel to Gen Z trends, Avatars to Finance, Success Is In The Mind has seen an eclectic mix of entrepreneurs sharing their insights into what success looks like for them, and anecdotes from their experiences at the forefront of business. 
Thank you to everyone who has listened, subscribed and reviewed us - we’ll be back better than ever for Series 4 soon!💥

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As a founding team member and Head of Avatar SDK and API at Genies, Izzy Pollak is no stranger to the technology startup world. 💥
Branded as ‘the next generation of humans’ and allowing you to create the ‘fantasy version of you’, Genies avatar creator allows you to bring your personality to the digital space. With a background in film and television production and an interest in technology, there was no one better trained than Izzy to build the emotional expression for the tech 😎
Izzy believes you can navigate around problems and cut out things that are not moving you forward, by looking at the problem you’re trying to solve and always maintaining your core values and mission. Positive and motivated, Izzy is committed to the noise the company makes. 
After all, as Izzy tells Oliver, no limits exist in the digital world. 
Find out more about Genies via their website https://genies.com/

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For our charity special podcast episode, Oliver Bruce chats to Julie Kent MBE about how she is a self-proclaimed go-giver 🥰 👏
“Always giving”, Julie is the Vice Chair at the Pied Piper Appeal, a Trustee for Goals Beyond Grass and Chairman for Cheltenham Open Door 🤯  Born and bred in Gloucester and now a pillar of the Gloucestershire charitable community, she emphasises the importance of giving locally.
Approaching her 60th birthday, she makes her £100,000 fundraising target for the year sound not only manageable, but easy 💪  In this truly inspiring chat, Julie clearly lives the mantra that if you believe, you can achieve!
Find out more about Julie via her website - https://juliekentmbe.com

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Oliver Bruce talks all things startup with Alizé Marchand, co-founder and CEO of Impresm; a marketing company specialising in helping the financial industry build solid online presence in order to engage with millennials and Gen Z in the digital age 💻 📱

Dialling in from Switzerland, Ali’s American charm began at odds with the culture she found herself in, but she quickly started to change conversations in finance and engage with sustainability in the sector 🌍

Ali realised there’s a big difference with how the next generation wants to deal with their money management… In order to “Impress ‘em”, you should be getting tips from Impresm! 💪

https://www.impresm.com/

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Ann Perkins, co-founder and CEO of health snack brand Perkier, started out making healthy snack bars with co-founder Steve Turner in their kitchen to help with her gluten and dairy free diet. Jumping ship from global food brand Kraft Heinz to pursue her passion for not only tasty but ethical food, Ann saw the gap in the market and proceeded to launch Perkier into it. 🌍 💚
By managing cash carefully, Perkier turned a profit within a year and their products are now stocked in Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons. Despite bringing in investors to help them double their team in the next twelve months, Ann is determined to maintain the truly independent British business she and co-founder Steve have built up. 
Ann Perkins is in it for the long haul with Perkier; she’s in the name after all! 💪

Perkier is a young independent British company on a mission to make the healthiest snacks on the planet!

https://perkier.co.uk/

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From being handed the reins to a business turning over £700k in 1995 and growing it in 4 years to £2.5m turnover, SLG brands (as it's now known) currently boasts a turnover of some £32m+ with over 120 staff and are currently undergoing rapid expansion into the US. 🇺🇸

Oliver sits down with Miles Dunkley owner of SLG and an entrepreneur investor himself to talk about how in 1995 he received a call from his Dad asking him to join the family firm, little did Miles know, he was being pitted against other job applicants for the position.

Miles joined the business and immediately put it all on the line financially (including his Dad's house) to acquire a business which assisted with the growth and name change from Synlatex to SLG. Through the combination of the acquisition, product diversification and a focus on leading with design Miles and his team grew SLG to a turnover of £32m+.

From investing in his staff through one of the biggest open plan offices in the South West to investing in SLG Brands despite the pandemic, Miles leads by example.

SLG Brands is a creator, maker and distributor of some of the high street's most fashionable beauty and male grooming brands.

https://www.slgbrands.com/

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Now a Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni and one of 5 children from a migrant family, Jay had a rebellious start to life whilst at school. The born salesman, Jay sold Beats by Dr Dre to his peers for a small markup, however, It was with the support of his mother and this natural ability to sell that saw Jay and his business partner found Imagen Insights, a business harnessing the power of Generation Z to shape, influence and build the brands of tomorrow. 🧠 🚀

Despite not originally fitting the mould of education Jay has managed in 16 months to influence brands such as Gymshark, the NFL, Ebay and BBH through his innovative and influential business model. 💥

As well as his role as CEO, Jay is also a Forbes 30 Under 30 Alumni and Diversity Council Member of Publicis Groupe.

Imagen Insights is trusted by brands such as eBay, Gymshark and PepsiCo.

https://imageninsights.com/

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