Podcasts about equalife

Amanda Cotterman is the Founder and Managing Partner at Equalife Group, a Venture Debt company based in Nairobi, Kenya. With a background in finance and after having run two previous businesses in Kenya, she realized there wasn’t enough debt financing in Africa. Using her own money, she started on a journey to build out the venture-debt eco-system in Africa. Amanda’s African Business Story is one dedicated to providing access to finance and helping businesses in Africa scale.

In this fascinating episode I interview Georg ell, Director for Western Europe for Tesla on their inspirational vision and unstoppable drive towards creating a global force for good as a vertically integrated energy market leader.  We discuss challenge the normal convention, the desire to consistently focus on solving problems in unique ways and the culture which drives Tesla insatiably to be one of the worlds foremost disruptive innovators defying popularly head conventions. You are just going to love this episode.

Neville Wright is an Investor, Property Developer, Author & Public speaker who left school at 15 with dyslexia not knowing how to write his own name.   Neville shares with me his journey spanning 4 decades and some of the incredible lessons he has learnt through his successes, failures and never ever giving up.  Up to the age of 24 Neville had a string of jobs….. after losing his 17th job in the recession he soon realised that he needed to become responsible for everything that happens in his life and with wife Marilyn started up in business with absolutely no money determined to provide for his family. In his book “The Answer is Yes Now What is the Question“, he describes how he made this dream possible. “I borrowed my father’s wooden ladder, Marilyn gave me a bucket that she had in the house and we bought a piece of scrim for 37p which is a piece of absorbent cloth, an essential piece of equipment for window cleaning.”  Neville become a millionaire by the age of 34 and now aged 67 when most people are wanting to retire, he is a mentor and motivational speaker encouraging people to believe in themselves and helping them to get everything they want in life. Neville’s motivation to do this is knowing that having had no money, no education and no experience to succeed in life. he overcame this and believes that if he can do it, anyone can, no matter what their circumstances are.

Darren is an accomplished ultra-endurance athlete who is also a property developer.  Darren describes himself as “I’m a pretty regular guy, a dad of two awesome kids who I adore, they’re my number one purpose for challenging myself to push on and make a difference to myself, them and others, to make them proud and hopefully show them what can be achieved by mortals like us.”   The more you find out about Darren the more you will see that his determination is anything other than regular!!!   Darren has competed in the world re-known Marathon Des Sables as well as the TV Intrepid Series.  He has just completed running 100 miles (yes 100!!) across a frozen lake in Mongolia as just one of his latest incredible feats. Darren shares his ultra endurance experiences with us and how the mindset he uses can be applied to business, entrepreneurship and life. Darren is a Brand Ambassador for Anna’s Hope – an inspirational charity for which he continues to raise funds for this incredible charity.

At the age of 29 Justin has achieved and overcome more in his lifetime than most of us can even imagine possible, conquering massive adversity as a double amputee combat veteran.  Justin has not only conquered his challenges but continues to set and strive to achieve great goals of herculean proportions. Justin is genuinely one of the most humble, inspiring and goal focused person I have met in a long time and this podcast is going to give you a massive insight into how Justin has used his immensely strong mental skills to overcome physical adversity and to see the incredible potential that he can achieve in society.

Nicole shares with us the drive, skills and inspiration that helped her develop her career as a young entrepreneur and also now s a successful entrepreneur and mum. In 2010 Nicole, a mum of 3 children, bought a run-down property in Hackney. With almost no real estate experience, she hired the first builder that came to quote. Now seven years later and still living in that gorgeous area, Nicole has built up a property portfolio of over 15 projects, with many more completed last year. In November 2016, Nicole and her team at East Eight raised £1,400,000 on the first of five crowdfunded projects to date. Since then they have raised a further £4,280,000. Nicole is prolific on social media and had created an amazing brand.

Daniel Priestley started out as an entrepreneur at age 21 and built a multi-million-dollar event, marketing and management business before the age of 25. A successful entrepreneur, international speaker and best-selling author as well as a father, Daniel has built and sold businesses in Australia, Singapore and the UK. Having a passion for global small business, Daniel is
the co-founder of Dent Global which runs world-leading business accelerators and events. Dent has teams in the UK, USA, Singapore and Australia, and they work with over 1000 entrepreneurs and business leaders each year to develop their businesses. As an active fundraiser, Daniel has helped to raise over £350,000 for various charities, and is connected to some of the world’s most known and celebrated entrepreneurs and leaders.

Mark Stokes talks about his journey in commercial conversions and permitted development. How the market differs across the country, thoughts on the future of the property market and the biggest changes that we will probably see on the market the next three years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Stokes talks about his journey in commercial conversions and permitted development. How the market differs across the country, thoughts on the future of the property market and the biggest changes that we will probably see on the market the next three years.

Bill qualified as an accountant at Virgin, but was a very bad one. He then moved into Investment Banking and was shockingly bad at that as well. “They saw through me in 3 days” He lucked out and sold his business to a Wall Street Bank, retired, and discovered he was bad at that as well. Bill then set up Angels Den in 2007 with some very clever people and appears to have finally found his niche. He has been named the most influential figure in Alternative Funding by City AM and perhaps more importantly 92% of all the businesses funded since that fateful day are still growing with the help of 19,000 angels. AngelsDen.com facilitates over 5000 pitches per year, across 10 countries and there are not many businesses we have not seen pitched badly. Bill started off thinking it was all about the money but slowly began to realise that the value- add the angels bring, is not their money, but their mentorship. Bill and I take a deep and insightful look at what it takes to be successful in today’s ever changing world and what is really takes to inspire youngsters to become successful in business and entrepreneurship.

Mark interviews special guest Joseph Valente– successful entrepreneur business man and winner of The Apprentice in 2015 from over 50,000 applicants, on what it really takes to be successful as an entrepreneur and business man, the courage, confidence and self-belief required, and what it was like being mentored by Sir Alan Sugar. Joseph has a wealth of business experience in high profile environments and talks candidly about the traits that frequently define success and the importance of not fearing failure on the way to achieving your clear goals.

Theory can shape our thinking however it is the grounded actions which shape our destiny. In this episode Mark talks openly about his youngest son, Jack’s, first steps into entrepreneurship in his early teens with the positive and evolutionary lessons learnt by Jack as well as the whole family along the way,  that may help you to prompt that entrepreneurial spark in your Young Entrepreneur.

In this short yet inspiring episode, Mark reflects on when is the right time to start supporting your children to enable them to have the best start in life and too take advantage of the power of compounding.

In this episode Mark shares with us his ideas on supporting youngsters with financial management principles at an early age. This starts with the basics of pocket money, whether it is earned or given and how you and your family can use this simple 5 step system to help teach your young entrepreneurs valuable lessons that will set them up with knowledge and values that will endure for a life time.

Contrarian investor and entrepreneur Mark Homer shares with us the principles, mindset and inspiration that have enabled him to create multiple successful businesses from an early age.  In this frank interview Mark outlines some of the experiences that have helped him shape his success and the key influences that he drew inspiration from very early in his entrepreneurial journey.  

In this first episode of the podcast Mark shares honestly with you as a parent, his observations on what it takes to become an entrepreneur, some of the skills and life qualities required and whether you want to BE or RAISE a Young entrepreneur, how you can make a difference to your future resilience and create an exceptional life of abundance, contribution and choice.