Tough Cookies Podcast

This week Nic and Nat sit down with Dr Becky Sage (Director of Acceleration at EDUCATE and former CEO of Interactive Scientific) to share their personal experiences with identifying and overcoming burnout.

This week Nic and Nat sit down with Dominic Mills, co-founder of Yuup to talk about if we have all reached "peak stuff" and launching an experiences-based business in lockdown

This week Nic and Nat sit down with our own clients for the very first time: Rupert Howe and Kate Dimbleby, co-founders of Stornaway - a platform that enables creative filmmakers to plan and produce multi-linear interactive films without coding or complexity.

We're kicking of 2021 with an especially adorable episode in our Behind the Screens series. Nic and Nat sit down with their home co-workers (ahem, kids) Timmy - aged 8 - and Alice - aged 6 - who give the lowdown on how homeschooling stacks up against going to school, what they really think of mum and dad's jobs and whether they see themselves joining CookiesHQ when they're grown-ups.

This week Nic and Nat sit down (remotely, of course) with Piers and Dave from Atomic Smash - a Bristol-based specialist WordPress and WooCommerce studio. CookiesHQ and Atomic Smash are nearly the same age, and have had very similar journeys towards similar goals, so they dig deep into this alignment.

This week we have a very special episode lined up - this is a recording from 4th November when Nic & Nat were interviewed by the lovely bunch at Revoco for their ‘Don’t Fear the F Word’ webcast series.

Back in June we welcomed Emily Mellon to the team to look after CookiesHQ's marketing. And she had a tonne of questions: how do we work? What makes CookiesHQ unique? Why do our clients love us? What’s different between a web and mobile app and what the hell is Ruby on Rails? We're setting aside some time to answer these, and thought we'd record them so the rest of the world can learn more about CookiesHQ too.

To mark the re-opening of Engine Shed this week we’re releasing our Tough Cookies episode featuring Marty Reid.

Marty had only recently taken on the role as Head of Engine Shed the time of recording, and chats through his decision to leave the corporate world behind after 10 years at Rolls Royce. His previous work and studies had taken him all around the world from Munich to Canada to Japan — but he found his focus shifting moving towards working with smaller companies, within the tech sector and on a more regional basis. He landed a role leading Future Space, the innovation centre at UWE, before joining Engine Shed.

We talk to a lot of early stage founders looking to build businesses around a tech product. In having so many of these conversations over the last decade, we've learnt to look out for some early indicators as to whether someone has the right business mindset to make it work. This week, Nic and Nathalie sit down to talk about some common mistakes they’ve seen early stage founders make when it comes to getting their product off the ground.

This week Nic and Nathalie sit down to talk about getting involved in and giving back to the community as entrepreneurs. They look back at everything they’ve done, successfully or otherwise, over the last decade to cement their place in the Bristol ecosystem.