The Millennial Entrepreneur

In this episode I spoke to Lewis Ellis, former star of The Apprentice and founder of marketing agency, Hussel Marketing 💼

We covered:

✅️ Behind the scenes of The Apprentice and how he got to the top 5 of the competition. How life changed for him after the TV show 📺

✅️ What Lewis was like at a young age where he got into business slightly later - what made him take that jump 🤝

✅️ Speaking about his mar...

In this episode, I spoke to Myles Dickinson, the youngest person ever to get investment on Dragon’s Den solo with his business Haze Cards, sealing investment from Steven Bartlett 🤯

 We covered:

 ✅️ How he started Haze Cards in his university bedroom at the age of 18 and how he grew the business to generating over £120k in revenue in the first 6 months 📉

✅️ His experience of applying to Dragon’s Den ...

In this episode I spoke with Tanya Marwaha, founder of Championing Youth Minds, a platform that helps young people with mental health

We talked about:

✅️ How Tanya started her journey battling with her own mental health 💪
✅️ How Tanya being from a South Asian background impacted her ability to seek help 🌍
✅️ How she hosts workshops and how she has monetised helping young people with their mental health 💭

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In this episode, I spoke with Parker Olson, the founder of Forij - an award winning granola enriched with vital brain nutrients (derived from mushrooms)

We covered:

✅️ How he started the business while living in a tent in his back garden to make more space for raw ingredients in his room
✅️ Why Parker decided to start a business within mushrooms
✅️ How he has grown the business, the challenges, especially with m...

In this episode, I spoke with Anand Mistry, co-founder of ProjectCHAKRA.

We covered:

 ✅️ What is the mission and purpose of ProjectCHAKRA and how to bridge that gap between opportunities in socially driven opportunities and talent 🤝

✅️ Why he decided to run workshops in developing nations and universities 🌎

✅️ How they are harnessing gamification to make this possible 💪

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In this episode, I spoke with Maya Raichoora, a mental fitness coach working with professionals and global brands.

We covered:
✅️ What is mental fitness and how Maya’s story started with her suffering in hospital at the age to 15🤯

✅️ How you can use visualisation 💭

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In this episode, I spoke to Writesonic founder and CEO, Samanyou Garg.

We covered:

✅️ How Writesonic started, becoming one of the first generative AI companies that got accepted into Y Combinator 🤯
✅️ What his stance is on the world of AI currently 🌍
✅️ How you can build a business around AI, how easy it is to start, and the mistakes founders make
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In this episode I spoke with AJ, former CEO of one of the largest community of entrepreneurs in the world, Foundrs. 🗺️

In the conversation we cover:

✅️ Why he believes community amongst entrepreneurship is so important and how you should be viewing community as a young entrepreneur💪
✅️ How he got the role in Foundrs after getting rejected the first time to why he’s decided to leave 👋
✅️ The importance of vuln...

In this episode, I spoke to Holly Simmons, co-founder at Niya , a platform that connects organisations to a global community of underrepresented people.

We covered:

✅️ How she grow Niya as a two-sided marketplace
✅The power of networking and the impact it has delivered for her
✅️ We she decided for Niya to be very niche, where they are catered to migrant workers, rather than opening it up wider

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In this episode, I spoke with Dr Ally Jaffee, NHS doctor and co-founder of Nutritank , a think tank for holistic health and preventative medicine.

We spoke about:

✅️Why she decided to start her own business as a junior doctor in the NHS ✈️
✅️The importance of holistic health 🧑‍⚕️
✅️The health issues young entrepreneurs face and how to tackle these problems 💪

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In this episode, we returned back Ben Leavitt onto the podcast.

We covered:

✅️ Why you should consider YouTube as a business growth channel 🔗
✅️ Short form vs long form content - where and how should they be used and what growth metrics should be defined here 📉
✅️ YouTube SEO and what businesses get wrong with a YouTube growth strategy 🎥
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In this episode, I spoke to Ciaran Savage, founder of Card Industry Professionals and Forbes 30 Under 30 Winner.

We covered:
✅️ How he got started in payments and how others can enter too
✅️ How he wanted to become an actor but got his girlfriend at the time pregnant at a young age for both forcing him to reprioritise his life
✅️How he scaled his payment firm from nothing to over $2m in revenues

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In this episode, I spoke to Ian Nene, a former actor and monk.

We covered:

✅️ How Ian started his spiritual journey
✅️ What are young entrepreneurs' purposes, values and how do you find them
✅️ The most significant challenges young entrepreneurs face currently when it comes to finding purpose and happiness and how to confront them.

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In this episode, I spoke to Danielle Theobald, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest growth expert

We covered:

✅️ Why you should be considering Pinterest as part of your marketing strategy, the numbers blew my mind

✅️ Which businesses should consider it to get the most impact

✅️ How you can implement a strategy and how it plays into the overall social strategy

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In this episode, I spoke to Matt Haycox, founder and entrepreneur. 

We cover:

- How he started in entrepreneurship, starting in business at 16, to becoming the UK's biggest strip club owner by 27

- How he went bankrupt at 28

- What he looks for when investing in businesses

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In this episode I spoke to Josh White, Forbes 30 under 30 and co-founder of CanO Water. This is a huge business Josh has created built on the concept of canned water. Extremely simple but scaled massively

We cover:

- How he came up with the idea and scaled it given an extremely crowded market and also the product itself being extremely simple. Where he saw the value

- How he managed to stock in the likes of Selfridges, Whole Foods Mar...

In this episode I spoke to Forbes 30 Under 30 Winner and co-founder of Rotaro, Georgie Hyatt. Rotaro is the leading fashion rental platform for luxury brands and ethical fashion activists.

We covered:

✅️Why she decided to leave her role to focus on circular fashion👗

✅️ The issue of fast fashion and how technology can solve it 💻

✅️ Her process of landing partnerships with the likes of Carnaby London&nbs...

In this episode I spoke to Lara Acosta, LinkedIn personal branding expert

We covered:

- How Lara grew her following from zero to thousands in a matter of months and the impact it had on her and her business in terms of the opportunities she got

- The step by step strategy in order to implement how she grew her LinkedIn following and how you can do the same

- The dark side of LinkedIn and the mental obstacles that come with it and how t...

In this episode, I spoke to Ryan Williams, co-founder of Komi, a social media content agency that he exited

We cover:

- How Ryan started his journey making football meme pages.

- How much money Ryan and his team were generating on a weekly basis with Facebook and Twitter pages and the most they made from one video, it is crazy.

- Why he decided to exit his business and what is doing now to help younger people.

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