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In this episode of Mark and Pete, we delve into the latest headlines capturing the nation's attention. Snooker Fever: The 2025 World Snooker Championship is in full swing at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. With legends like Ronnie O'Sullivan aiming for an unprecedented 8th title and rising stars challenging the status quo, we explore why snooker continues to captivate audiences across the UK. M&S Cyberattack: Marks & Spencer faces a significant cyberattack, disrupting online orders and click-and-collect services. We discuss the implications for digital retail, customer trust, and whether this incident signals a need to return to traditional high street shopping. Apprentice Controversy: Dean Franklin, the latest winner of The Apprentice, is under scrutiny for allegedly operating his air conditioning business without the required F-Gas certification for 17 months. We examine the potential fallout, including possible fines and the impact on Lord Sugar's investment. Join us as we unpack these stories, offering insights and commentary on the intersection of sports, business, and technology in today's Britain. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mark-and-pete--1245374/support.
Step inside the high-stakes world of Donald Trump's business empire, where ambition, grit, and unshakable vision built a global brand that redefined success. This episode celebrates Trump's meteoric rise from New York real estate prodigy to Commander-in-Chief, featuring exclusive interviews with longtime associates, Ivanka Trump, and former apprentices who reveal his mentorship genius. Discover how Trump turned bankruptcies into comebacks, negotiated billion-dollar deals with unrelenting confidence, and transformed iconic properties like Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago into symbols of American excellence.Hear never-before-aired audio of Trump rallying his team during the 90s financial crisis, declaring, “We don't lose—we reload,” and learn how his “America First” philosophy reshaped global politics. This episode dismantles media myths with leaked boardroom tapes showcasing Trump's strategic brilliance and testimonials from employees who credit him with life-changing opportunities. From The Apprentice to the Oval Office, this is the definitive tribute to a man who dared to think bigger—and changed the world.
From a Queens real estate prodigy to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump's journey embodies the relentless pursuit of the American Dream. This documentary chronicles his unprecedented rise, blending business brilliance, unyielding patriotism, and a visionary blueprint to restore America's greatness.Born into a family of entrepreneurs, Trump transformed his father's real estate business into a global empire, turning iconic landmarks like Trump Tower into symbols of ambition and excellence 815. His transition from The Apprentice host to political outsider captivated the nation, culminating in a historic 2016 victory that defied establishment odds. Trump's "America First" agenda delivered record tax cuts, slashed stifling regulations, and revitalized industries, fueling a booming economy and creating millions of jobs Witness how Trump renegotiated trade deals like USMCA, replacing NAFTA to protect American workers, and achieved energy independence, unleashing U.S. oil and gas dominance 1215. His administration secured the border, appointed over 250 constitutionalist judges, and brokered Middle East peace accords, proving "peace through strength" is more than a sloganThe documentary highlights Trump's resilience against unprecedented opposition, including baseless impeachment attempts and a global pandemic. Through "Operation Warp Speed," his leadership fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines, saving countless lives 15. In 2024, Trump's landslide reelection victory reaffirmed America's demand for bold, results-driven leadership—a testament to his unwavering commitment to renewing the American spiritFeaturing exclusive interviews with allies like Ivanka Trump and cabinet members, rare footage of Trump's Wharton School days, and heartwarming moments from his 2025 Congressional address—where he vowed to usher in a "New Golden Age"—this film is a celebration of patriotism, perseverance, and the power of believing in America
(00:00) Cold opening come i podcast quelli veri(01:20) Sigla e inizio(02:40) Curiosità, dati, numeri e amenità varie(06:38) Classifica di gradimento di Spin-Off ovvero una media di tutti i voti dati ai film della categoria Miglior Film di tutta la redazione di Spin-Off(09:44) Miglior Regista(16:38) Miglior Attore Protagonista(19:02) Miglior Attrice Protagonista(24:44) Miglior Attore Non Protagonista(27:00) Miglior Attrice Non Protagonista (28:12) Miglior Sceneggiatura Originale(29:43) Miglior Sceneggiatura Non Originale(30:32) Miglior Film Internazionale(31:20) Miglior Film D'Animazione(33:33) Miglior Documentario(35:30) Miglior Colonna Sonora, Miglior Canzone Originale, Miglior Cinematografia, Miglior Sonoro, Miglior Production Design, Miglior Trucco e Acconciatura, Miglior Montaggio, Migliori Costumi, Migliori Effetti Speciali(38:12) Miglior Film (Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, I'm Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance, Wicked)
Hei og velkommen inn til oss i Emilia Pèrez hate club. I natt gikk årets Oscarsending av stabelen og vi har i den anledning diskutert årets skeive nominasjoner. Spesielt èn film har satt sine spor, men ikke på den gode måten...
Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Interior Chinatown, Heretic, Venom: The Last Dance, Secret Level, Dream Productions, No Good Deed, Paris & Nicole: The Encore, Dexter: Original Sin, Carry-On, Saturday Night Live: Chris Rock, Yellowstone, Somebody Somewhere, The Madness, The Agency, Rasslin' News, Severance, The Apprentice, Landman, The Sticky, and more. Drinking: Whiskey & Cokes made with bourbon from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Outlaw Distillery. * Yell at us (or order a TV Tan T-shirt) @TVTanPodcast on Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail.* Rate us: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, Amazon Podcasts, Audible, etc.
(00:00) Introduzione(01:20) Cobra Kai(08:20) The Apprentice - Alle origini di Trump(14:23) Disclaimer*(18:43) Smile 2(23:13) The Creep Tapes(27:20) Saturday Night(32:14) Dune: Prophecy(43:00) Il Gladiatore 2(49:10) Interior Chinatown
Kasper og Frederik gennemgår tidens vigtigste film og serier så du ved præcis hvad du skal bruge din tid på. Fra body horror i The Substance, sydkoreansk kogekunst i Culinary Class Wars til Nicolas Cage i folks drømme, Cate Blanchett i erotisk thriller og Josh Hartnett i unik koncert-gyser. Der er lidt til enhver smag! God lytning. 04.10: Disclaimer 10.50: Culinary Class Wars 18.50: Shrinking S2 23.10: Dream Scenario 28.40: The Apprentice 46.00: Money Electric - The BitCoin Mystery 53.40: The Substance 1.04.00: Trap 1.13.00: Don't Move 1.16.20: Bodies Bodies Bodies 1.20.00: It's What's Inside Programmet er lavet i samarbejde med Playpilot - en gratis app der fortæller dig præcis hvor alle film, serier og podcasts ligger og venter på dig: https://www.playpilot.com/dk/ Følg Frederik og Kasper her: https://www.playpilot.com/dk/profile/ https://www.instagram.com/frederikdirks https://www.facebook.com/streamteamradio/ https://www.instagram.com/kasperlund
Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Bill's Movie Korner (The Substance, The Apprentice, Joker: Folie a Deux), SNL Election Special, Election Night coverage (including The Daily Show), Citadel: Honey Bunny, Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson, Outer Banks, Arcane, the return of Yellowstone, the finale of The Penguin, Rasslin' News, Sweetpea, Loudermilk, Detroiters, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Preacher, Warrior, The Franchise, Somebody Somewhere, Have I Got News for You, Lioness, and more. Drinking: Bourbon Whiskey from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Sugar House Distillery.* Yell at us (or order a TV Tan T-shirt) @TVTanPodcast on Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail.* Rate us: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, Amazon Podcasts, Audible, etc.
Two origin stories set in New York in the 1970s are in theaters now, and we have some thoughts on both! First up, SATURDAY NIGHT, depicting the tension-filled first night of NBC's legendary sketch comedy. Does director Jason Reitman's love letter to a TV institution come off like a well-oiled machine -- like SNL circa 1978? Or fall apart under the weight of a faulty premise -- like SNL circa 1994? Listen in for our thoughts! After that, it's the Donald Trump parable THE APPRENTICE, starring Sebastian Stan in the title role and Jeremy Strong as his lawyer/mentor Roy Cohn. We have plenty to say about this one so don't miss it! Plus: The MCU's BLADE reboot hits rough waters, Brian revisits M. Night Shyamalan's SIGNS, Listener Letters, and much more!
Join us for this episode, where our Feds will unravel the London Film Festival's final week. She just watched some of the hot topics in cinema of the upcoming awards season and she wil talk about The Apprentice, Maria, Joy, Bird, The Room Next Door, That Christmas, We live in Time and more...Find out which have a real Oscar hope, which are overhyped and which are out of the game!Don't miss our video content on Youtube and follow us on Instagram for the latest updates!
(00:00) Intro(01:08) 15 ottobre: American Horror Stories S4 (Disney+) (02:55) 16 ottobre: Shrinking S2 (Apple TV+)(07:17) Brothers (Prime Video)(09:34) Megalopolis (Cinema)(15:15) 17 ottobre: The Apprentice - Alle Origini Di Trump (Cinema)(21:10) Smile 2 (Cinema)(25:19) 18 ottobre: The Office: Australia (Prime Video)(30:44) Woman Of The Hour (Netflix)(34:44) 21 ottobre: Saturday Night (Cinema)(39:16) 22 ottobre: What We Do In The Shadows S6 (Disney +)(39:44) 23 ottobre: Lupi Mannari (Family Pack) (Netflix)(42:15) 24 ottobre: Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black, Venom - The Last Dance (Cinema)(48:34) Muori Di Lei (Cinema)(50:48) Parthenope (Cinema)(54:19) 25 ottobre: Before (Apple TV +)(54:45) Don't Move (Netflix)(56:31) 30 ottobre: La Legge Di Lidia Poët (Netflix), The Substance (Cinema)(58:20) 31 ottobre: Longlegs (Cinema), Berlinguer - La Grande Ambizione (Cinema)
What a Creep: Roy Cohn(Updated Intro & Replay from Season 4)Roy Cohn (1927–1986) was a prominent American lawyer known for his involvement in controversial cases. He gained national attention as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s. After working with McCarthy, Cohn became a private attorney, representing clients like Donald Trump and mafia bosses. Cohn's manipulative strategies served as a foundation for Trump's later tactics in his political career. Allegations of unethical behavior marked Cohn's career, and he was disbarred in 1986 for professional misconduct. He died of AIDS-related complications shortly after. The Apprentice (2024), directed by Ali Abbasi, is a controversial film that delves into Trump's (played by Sebastian Stan) early life, focusing on his rise in the 1970s and 1980s. The movie centers around Trump's relationship with his mentor, Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.Sources for this episode:Roy Cohn WikipediaThe AtlanticPoliticoEsquireLife magazine (1988)"Where's My Roy Cohn" trailer (directed by Matt Tyrnauer)"Citizen Cohn" (1992) starring James WoodsThe Fixers: by Joe Palazollo & Michael RothfeldThe Apprentice (2024 trailer)Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)Be sure to follow us on social media. But don't follow us too closely … don't be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple PodcastsTwitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPodFacebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcastVisit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreepEmail: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We've got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud
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Join Reality Queens Rachel Reilly and Jenn Hoffman as they discuss the news, commentary and gossip for this week in reality television. Premiere episode talks Deal or No Deal Island, The Goat and more...Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reality-after-show--5448874/support.
This is the full show for May 9, 2024. We ask the American Mamas what they think about Donald Trump's rising poll numbers and why he's gaining support. We Dig Deep into Trump's strategy in choosing a Vice President. Plus, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that he will be enforcing the law against pro-Hamas protestors and rioters, and that's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with some words of wisdom about enforcing the law that will make you say, "Whoa!"
A look back at Jonny Fairplay's first season of Survivor, Survivor Pearl Islands. Jonny Fairplay is joined by Jenn Hoffman of Apprentice Season 6 and stand up comedian Wayne Memmott. Survivor Pearl Islands is NOW on Netflix and we're taking a LOOK BACK!Join Survivor Hall of Famer, the guy that did the Dead Grandma Lie, Jonny Fairplay as he hosts his favorite reality stars Jax Taylor from Vanderpump Rules & DJ Shake from Love Is Blind and House of Villains and more reality stars for the first ever Fairplay Rumble Party. It's the night BEFORE WWE Royal Rumble at PJ O'Reilly's in beautiful Clearwater Florida minutes from Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.It's the biggest party of the weekend! VIP is $75 includes 8:00-9:00pm meet and greet, preferred seating and personalized & signed Fairplay Rumble 8.5x11 poster. General admission is only $25. Go to FairplayRumble.com to get your tickets NOW!
Ten of the greatest villains in the history of reality television all under one roof competing for the title of greatest supervillain of all time and $200,000. Jonny Fairplay is joined by Jenn Hoffman of Apprentice Season 6 to discuss the penultimate episode of E!'s new fall hit!See Jonny Fairplay LIVE for Survivor Viewing Parties across the country, Tickets available at SurvivorTix.com and House of Villains Viewing Party with Jax Taylor of Vanderpump Rules, Shake from Love is Blind, Corinne Olympios from The Bachelor, Johnny Bananas from The Challenge & Izzy Zapata from Love is Blind tickets available at VillainTix.comTo get your fix of the GREATEST and ONLY coconut whiskey, head over to WatertownWhiskey.comDonate to Give Kids the World Village. No donation is too small!!! https://give.gktw.org/fundraiser/4426195 Thank you!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5448874/advertisement
Ten of the greatest villains in the history of reality television all under one roof competing for the title of greatest supervillain of all time and $200,000. Jonny Fairplay is joined by Jenn Hoffman of Apprentice Season 6 to discuss episode 7 of E!'s new fall hit!See Jonny Fairplay LIVE for Survivor Viewing Parties across the country, Tickets available at SurvivorTix.com and House of Villains Viewing Party with Jax Taylor of Vanderpump Rules, Shake from Love is Blind, Corinne Olympios from The Bachelor, Johnny Bananas from The Challenge & Izzy Zapata from Love is Blind tickets available at VillainTix.comTo get your fix of the GREATEST and ONLY coconut whiskey, head over to WatertownWhiskey.comDonate to Give Kids the World Village. No donation is too small!!! https://give.gktw.org/fundraiser/4426195 Thank you!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5448874/advertisement
#TheFullyGeekedPod return with podcast episode 173 (00:07) #FullyGeekedWeeklyRoundUp This weeks topics include a big welcome back and reflection on the holiday season, where do grown-ups rave? Come back Sun this winter ting is long! Expectations for the new year. Arsenal did the double on Spurs. Love Island is back and MOTD got pranked with "That Sound" before TV/Films (29:06) Willow (#DisneyPlus) (33:45 ) His Dark Materials S3 (#BBCOne) (36:50) Riches (#ITVX) (43:15 ) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (#Netflix) (45:13) BMF Season 2 Ep 1 & 2 (#LionsgatePlus)(# Starz) (55:45 ) The Last of Us Ep 1 (#SkyAtlantic) (#HBO) (01:05:35) What else have we been watching: Godfather of Harlem S3, Yellowstone, Kaleidoscope, Star Wars: The Bad Batch S2, The Witcher: Blood Origin Netflix, The Apprentice BBC One, The Chippendales Show on Disney+ #Podcast #TheFullyGeekedPod #Films #TV #Review #GuysThatPodcast #PremierLeague #HisDarkMaterials #KaleidescopeNetflix, #TheApprentice, #WitcherBloodOrigin, #Witcher, #TheLastOfUs, #Yellowstone, #BMF, #GlassOnion, #LoveIsland, #Arsenal, #NLD,
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Noel Casler is best known for his outspoken commentary on Twitter, and unveiling truths in his weekly Car Rant's about his 25 years experience behind the scenes in live television and in the music industry. Noel spent six seasons working directly with the Trump family on “Celebrity Apprentice,” and toured with many musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Crosby, Stills & Nash and many others. These experiences inform and guide his work as a stand-up comedian giving him a unique perspective and many first hand stories to draw upon, making his humor both captivating and hilarious. Noel's tweets and Car Rant's are often cited by Joy Reid on MSNBC and various other news programs. Videos of his stand-up routines have reached millions, especially his revelations about working with the Trump family. Noel is a frequent guest on various Sirius XM and iHeart Radio podcasts; and in 2021 decided to officially launch his own aptly named podcast the Noel Casler Podcast. Noel excels at breaking down complex socio-political subjects into funny and entertaining vignettes that often get shared to millions. Utilizing his large and loyal online following The Noel Casler Podcast is a mainstay on the Apple Podcast Charts (Comedy Interviews). Since its debut there have been over 300k downloads and continuing to see a growth in streams each week. Continuing his “Unverified Tour,” his live show features his comedic takes, insights and heartfelt observations his fans have grown to love. AND Comedian Jay Black left his job as a high school English teacher ten years ago to embark on a career as a stand-up comic. In that time, he's achieved an incredible amount of success. On the stage, Jay has headlined clubs across the nation, from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to the Tropicana in Atlantic City and just about every comedy club in between. He also toured extensively in Europe as the host of the US Army's "I Am Strong" tour. He's met with equal success on the college market, performing at nearly 1,000 schools across the country, winning the "College Performer of the Year" award once and the "College Comedian of the Year" award three times. For the last ten years, Jay has done a weekly spot on WIP Radio, discussing television, pop culture, and sports. In 2009, Jay started writing screenplays with his lifelong friend, Brian Herzlinger, producing a string of successful projects from 2012's "Paulie" with Paul Sorvino, 2014's "Meet My Valentine" with Scott Wolf, 2016's "Love Always Santa" with Margueritte Morea, and the upcoming "Orchard" with Tiffani Thiessan. Jay's latest screenplay, “Perfect Pose” will go into production in December of 2019, for a 2020 television release. Jay also began acting in his projects, with significant supporting roles in both "Meet My Valentine" and "Love Always, Santa". Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page
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Are you tired of barely surviving? Ready to thrive? Then this is the episode for you. Everything in your life you allow and invite. On this episode Extra Credit episode Shawn revisits his interview w/ Marshawn Evans Daniels. She is reinvention strategist helping womenprenuers maximize, monetize, and magnify define gifts. Marshawn brings the
In this episode, Anna Jordan meets entrepreneur and The Apprentice 2019 winner, Carina Lepore. We discuss the law of attraction and starting a business in a field that you're not familiar with. This episode was brought to you in partnership with UPS and AAT. You can also visit smallbusiness.co.uk for more on starting your own business. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Don't forget to check out the video version of this episode and subscribe over on our YouTube channel! Would you prefer to read the podcast interview instead? Hello and welcome to Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk. I'm your host, Anna Jordan. Today we have Carina Lepore – entrepreneur and the latest winner of The Apprentice back in 2019. She's considered the most successful candidate of all time, winning nine out of ten challenges and never appearing in the bottom two. Before she went on the show, Carina joined her dad to start a coffee shop business after his previous bakery burned down. Now Dough Artisan Bakehouse has two branches in London and has plans to take on Greggs. We'll be talking about the law of attraction and starting a business in an unfamiliar field. Anna: Hi Carina Carina: Hello Anna: How are you doing? Carina: Yeah, good. Anna: Hi, Carina, how you doing? Carina: Hi, I'm good. You? Anna: Yeah, I'm doing well. Enjoying this lovely heatwave after the thunderstorms yesterday. Carina: I got caught in that! Anna: Me too. Oh, I know. I know. And you think, is it just going to be sun, shower, sun, shower. Carina: I know. It was awful. Okay, so the first thing I want to ask you is a bit about before you joined your dad's bakery business. You had your first business when you were 18? Tell us a bit more about that. Carina: Yes. So, I left school, left sixth form and I had been working for our small High Street shop, I suppose, and I was really just interested in the ways he ran the business. I would start to, at a very young age, say 14-15, I'd start to ask the right questions, just try and get involved with merchandising and his little takings book and where he would get stock from. I started to want to know more about the ways the business worked, really. So, I had that keen interest and drive at such a young age. It's obviously A-Level result day [at time of recording] and we've been talking and the main thing I've just keep thinking and saying is that when you get them results, you just think, ‘Oh my God. Is this making or breaking my life?' I remember that as well – and I remember I didn't get great grades, no, but I still had that entrepreneurial drive. So, I was going do something with that. That was more my route. I then went and opened up a shop and I did a shop, car-boot sales and a market – Wimbledon Market. What I would do is I would buy my stock. A lot what Lord Sugar says, and now I can say to him, ‘Smell what sells.' I would pick top sellers and just bung them in my shops or whatever I had. That was me really. It was bold, it was brave. It was different. It was just something I wanted to do. I was just really excited by it. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Great stuff. What was your first business then? I believe you had a fashion store. Carina: Yeah, it was a shop called Faze. And it was – well, it was a phase actually, because it didn't last too long. It was more of an ‘I wanted to do it – this is what I was going to do'. It was a sort of, what you would call now, I suppose, clothes that you see on Pretty Little Thing and Boohoo – just fashion clothes for young people. I also started to sell, this was crazy, I mean, spotting trends is key for any businessperson. I started to notice people would like, I don't know if you know, you're going to be like, ‘What a weirdo', people used to wear, like, designer gold teeth. I remember the American fashion sites come in. I was like, ‘I'm going to source grills and sell them'. At the time I was so excited. I had this famous rapper come in, I was like, ‘Oh my God'. But that's what is exciting. Now 16 years on, it's the same sort of thing. You know, you smell sales, you spot a trend, you get a few influencers to put your stuff up. That's how the world is working. So if you think you've got a great idea – and I keep touching on it, and it's my thing today – is I've really learned a lot about different routes coming out of school for A level students really I've learned loads about the qualification that AAT offer. It's an accountancy firm, and they offer this apprenticeship in accountancy. I imagine if I'd had that running alongside me working and wherever it be, whether I was at M&S or Vibe (at the time), but I would have had that in the bag as well. It would have just made me feel even more confident because I would have actually known a bit about real numbers back then. Knowing your numbers in business is just so key, so crucial. I've learned loads from Lord Sugar, he could just whip numbers up like this. Whereas, with someone like me, it takes a lot more. But if I'd had, for example, that qualification with AAT I would have been up on his level. Yeah, absolutely. And I guess you've been learning as you're going along, and your dad will have had his own experience and his own business savvy. When you decided to pair up to start the Bakehouse, how did you weave your vision with his – and potentially his business partner's? What kind of challenges did you have there? Especially as a family member, someone who was quite fragile at the time. Carina: Yeah, it's been like a roller coaster. I'm even talking pre-pandemic, that's a whole different roller coaster. And so I think he just allowed me to run with everything, every element I just would run with and I don't know whether he just found this new confidence in me as a woman, maybe as a grown-up woman when I was 18. He was telling me, ‘Oh, what silly mistake, go and get a job.' Whereas now, I was taking an even bigger risk, I was leaving a secure job at M&S with a good salary to then risk us having barely any takings, just to do something risky, but also as a passion of his and mine. And that's what I really wanted to do. I saw it as an opportunity. He was going through such a dark time, and I've never seen him go through anything like that in my life. I did take it as an opportunity for me to help him for once in our lives and give back to him. It's worked very well, because he's got this creative flair. He can't talk, he can't relay information. If he was here now – oh, bless him. He's got this creative flair and anything to do with products and recipes, his personality just comes out in all his products and he's so fun. That's what customers love. But yeah, the business side definitely needed to take a different route, more of a structured route. That's where I think have helped him. Such a huge part of that route has been appearing on The Apprentice. And I understand that you watched the previous series before you went on. What did it teach you before you went on? Carina: Oh my God that show. It was between that and MasterChef, but I'm not a chef, so I was going to be one of them. I just loved The Apprentice and everything about it. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the challenges, the team, Lord Sugar, the scary element, the adrenaline rush – I don't know. I used to always think it was one of them shows where you think, ‘Oh, I could have done that' or ‘I would have made that' and it's making the ideas. I just love everything about the show. I just did the application one night on my phone and then suddenly got through and then just kept getting through the application process and I thought, ‘Wow, this is for me, this is meant to be.' That's when I suddenly switched into, ‘Now I need to win the show because this is want.' I want Lord Sugar to be my business partner. ‘This is for me' – that's what I kept thinking – ‘This is meant to be.' That's all I kept thinking and then actually getting on there, getting the call that they want you in the house. It was just this surreal feeling, what an experience. I loved everything about it. Just out of interest, how many steps are there in the application process? It's as tough as the show. They set you up from day one. When you turn up [at the audition], there's obviously London, Manchester and one other place somewhere. There's three application spots, I suppose. I went to the London one. So, it was over three days – Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I went on the Sunday. I remember I turned up and there was, like, suits everywhere. It was full of ‘Wolf-of-Wall-Street-type people' as I called them. It was like everyone was boardroom ready with their briefcases and there were a couple of people like me, more down to earth. We were the minority, 100 per cent. I immediately thought, ‘Oh my God – I just rocked up.' Then what they do is – it's very tough, and you learn straight away from that first task – they give you a number, I can't remember what I was, I'm thinking it was seven. Then you stand up in groups of ten or 20, whatever. You'd stand up on the line. You have to talk for 30 seconds, just talk. ‘Number seven – talk.' Anna: About anything? Carina: Yeah, anything. Some people tried to be funny, some people would go with the whole, ‘This is what I do.' Then it was a bit X Factor style. They'd call your number – half of you would go one way, half the other. That's how the process was – you kept moving up levels. The more I started to move up, I was like, ‘Oh, I must be doing something right. I'm not going down the list, I'm going up.' So you keep going up. Then I remember sneaking off. It got to 10pm and it's exactly how the show is, the days are long. They are so vigorous and they want to literally hone out the best people for this show that they keep you there. I'm ringing my sister going, ‘It's a school night you're going to have to put Lucas [Carina's son] to bed because I'm still here.' I didn't know what was happening. They could have kept me the whole night. Then you get to the next set of practice tasks and it's just so hard. I had to write a manifesto. I didn't know what that was. I was like, ‘What is this?' Yeah, it's a very challenging application process. But they obviously just want the best candidates. That's why they make it so hard. They need to set you up for how hard the show actually is. It's so hard. It's not for the weak. It's so tough. Anna: Yeah, it's a tough 12 weeks. I've read that you're a big believer in the law of attraction, and that it did play a part in you applying for The Apprentice in the first place. First of all, could you give us a bit of an explanation as to what the law of attraction is? Carina: Yes. I'm a massive believer. I started, when I suddenly just had something clicking, I can't remember the day. But I remember doing my vision board. The vision board obviously plays a massive part. If you need any books, definitely start with The Secret. It gives you everything you need. If you want to change your mindset – I used to struggle with anxiety and massively I still do. Try to breathe and think that everything is written and everything is for a reason and that it's about manifesting what you want and believing in what you want and achieving and getting your results, really. I remember this one example. I think I told This Morning or something I was on with Ruth and Eamon. And I remember saying, I sat in my shop – August is always quiet. We're going through the same thing now. So, I remember it was an August month, and it must have been 2018, just before I applied for the show. I sat there and I saw the AMS 1 (Lord Sugar's car). It was that car. It was like an entourage of three cars, I was like, ‘It's Lord Sugar.' I knew the car from the show. And I immediately saw it as a sign. This is meant to be my business partner. So that was all good. I then applied for the show in January and got on. It all happened quite quickly. If you believe and if you really think this is [meant to be]. I remember, that was a sign. I'm now going to either meet Lord Sugar, or I had Karren Brady on my vision board. Again, pre-Apprentice, she was up there, just as I didn't know… This is a thing with the law of attraction – you can put it out there, but you just you don't know where it's going to come in. You can't force it. It might just happen. Then it just happens that everything I have on that board was ticked off. It's crazy. I talk to my friends about it who are big believers. One of them is a big artist. He's really known in the world of music. He is just so successful with it. He has this vision board, he shows people what he puts on, he then takes it off a year later. It could take years, months, I don't know. But you'll slowly start to think that I'm actually getting everything I want out of life. That's what's so important. I could talk about it all day, I get so passionate about it. And I'm finding other people that really understand it and believe in that way of life. I appreciate that a lot of it is based on positive psychology – visualisations, gratitude, that kind of thing. What would you say to people who are more sceptical and think it's a bit victim blaming in some ways? Maybe there's a sense that if somebody in a business example, say you're struggling with their business, they're maybe not manifesting in the right way. Perhaps it devalues the work that the individual does and says it's more from the universe rather than the actions that the individual has put towards achieving their goals? What kind of things would you say to them? Carina: Yeah, people think differently to me, which is fine. But ultimately, you get the results that you are willing to put in. I'm not saying you've got to go and say this is the thing. This is what the books teach you. I might want a mansion, I haven't got a mansion yet, but as long as I keep believing that I'm going to have a mansion, then maybe hopefully one day, we'll just put it out there, just give it away and then stop thinking about it. But with regards to running a successful business, if my mindset was like, ‘That's it. What a bad month' or looking at takings for that month or, ‘We hit a pandemic, we can't trade anymore.' If you just say that to yourself all day, you're going to eventually get into a lull where negativity is just eating you up and you won't be able to see a way out. Anytime I'm having a bad week, of course, you have to then really think about your thoughts because they play such a big part. But it's very easy to get wrapped up in those negative thoughts. I even still struggle with it. For example, last month was a tough month, and I remember thinking ‘Ugh', but then I put a plan in place. That's all – you just got to spin it back to, ‘We're going to go again, team. Come on, let's go again, let's strive for more.' So, I have a bad day and then I'm suddenly back with a notepad and loads of notes. We go again and we push harder. But yeah, getting into a lull is hard, you've just got to find something that can find a way that can get you out, whether it's taking yourself away for a bit, self-love or self-care which is so important. Again, something I struggle with. I really have to force myself to switch off, but you have to because otherwise you'll be eaten up with all the bad thoughts. You just have to think, ‘Right, let's go again.' You know? With anxiety and having to keep your mental health and your thoughts and your mindset in check. In the last meeting that you had with Scarlett and Lord Sugar, and she said that you weren't an established business, you're a newbie and you didn't really know a lot about the industry. How did that make you feel at the time? How did you cope in such a high-pressure situation? Carina: Yeah, you do. You do want to just react instantly when there's something said about your business or yourself or your character or anything like that. It heightens the tension in the room – it's already really as high as it can be. I can't remember my answer. You might have it but I'm sure I was just more of the guidance. And I'd show I would just talk to Lord Sugar and say, ‘Well, I do know my business and I can tell you what I know about my business' and I would then just relay everything. I didn't understand her business. I would sit there. I think Claude said to me once, like, ‘You can you can take a nap now.' So maybe she didn't understand what I was trying to relay and that I didn't know my business. But yeah, even if you're a newbie and a start-up, like I've been touching upon, if you can get a great qualification, and if you can understand the importance of spotting trends, and run with it, take risks. Actually, that is exactly what I was just about to ask you. We do sometimes come across entrepreneurs or want-to-be entrepreneurs who are wanting to go into a field that they're not so familiar with. As someone who has been there, what advice might you have for them? Carina: I didn't know. And I still get dinged up on about being the baker who doesn't bake. That was the whole tagline I ended up getting from the show, but I didn't let it deter me or let it put me off. In them interviews that we do with Claude and the scary interviewers, it was so scary. They were just picking me up on the fact that, ‘How can you know your business if you don't know your business?' My argument was that you can be a club owner, you could be a restaurant owner or hotelier, it doesn't mean that I'm going to be the chef of the restaurant or the barman and I'm going know every cocktail, every recipe. It's more about your leadership skills, I think, and your passion for that business and that drive. I love everything about the bakery – I love bread, I love seeing them make it. It doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to muck in and make it, but I love the process. I love everything about it. That's where my passion shines through in customer care, the customer service piece. I tried to relay that in the show that that is actually more important. Knowing your customers and knowing what they want rather than me actually knowing how to knead a loaf. You employ people to do certain skills, you don't have to have everything. So that was my argument for the show. Any young people out there who have a passion for something, obviously learn about it and know your business, because that is very important. But you don't actually have to be the chef or whatever. Looping right back to the start. For people who have got their A levels today and they maybe didn't get the grades that they expected and they maybe want to go down the entrepreneurial route. What would you say to them? Carina: I've learned a lot myself from the qualification that AAT are offering. I'm just going to throw out the link. Basically, it's an accountancy firm, and it's an accountancy apprenticeship. The link to that is aat.org.uk/123. The 123 spheres on the fact that knowing your numbers is so key. If you didn't get the grades you want and you know in your heart that university isn't for you, then definitely explore other routes, explore this route from AAT. See if it's for you. If you've got ideas about business, just make sure you've got a notepad, keep everything jotted down with what you want to do. Keep learning, keep networking. Get all the knowledge you need, reach out to people – some people will get back to you and give you tips and advice in the field you want to go into. Anna: Great. Well, that seems like a very good place to end. Thank you for coming on the podcast, Carina. Carina: Thank you. Thanks for having me. You can find out more about Dough Artisan Bakehouse at doughbakehouse.co.uk. You can also visit SmallBusiness.co.uk for more on starting your own business. 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This week, Catherine welcomes Sian Gabbidon to the podcast. Sian is best known as the 2018 winner of the BBC television show, The Apprentice. After quite an organic start to the business, Sian went on to receive investment and support from Lord Alan Sugar. Sian joins Catherine to talk about pivoting during the Covid-19 crisis, staying grounded and shares some great tips that she received from her business partner, Lord Sugar. In this episode: How businesses needed to pivot during Covid The importance of building business foundations so you are ready to grow at whatever speed you desire Why getting a basic knowledge of how things work in a business can be really beneficial What getting a fresh start with your audience can do to your business Staying humble and grounded when scaling up How a humble mindset can impact your money mindset in business Why getting the branding just right is essential Resources: Register for Catherine's FREE Financial Coaching Masterclass Join Catherine's Facebook Page and FREE Facebook Group My Online Courses – Investing for beginners from £1 Catherine's YouTube Channel Connect with Catherine on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Connect with Sian on Instagram Sian's Website: Sian Marie
In this episode, Anna Jordan meets Mark Wright – entrepreneur, TV personality and winner of The Apprentice in 2014. We talk about work-life balance and maintaining a strong online presence for your business post lockdown. You can also visit smallbusiness.co.uk for more on the pros and cons of business education. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Don't forget to check out the video version of this episode and subscribe over on our YouTube channel! Would you prefer to read Mark Wright's podcast interview instead? Hello and welcome to Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk. I’m your host, Anna Jordan. Today we have Mark Wright – entrepreneur, TV personality and winner of The Apprentice in 2014. Born in Armidale, Australia, Mark’s entrepreneurial family inspired him to go into business himself. He was backpacking when, with £172 in the bank, he decided to get to an English-speaking country to start earning. After coming to the UK, he found a job selling digital advertising services. Unfortunately, he was unable to secure a bank loan to start a digital marketing agency of his own, so a friend suggested he entered The Apprentice instead. Since winning the show, he’s launched five businesses and is the only winner to turn over in excess of £1m within one year. We’ll be talking about stress management and maintaining a strong online business presence post lockdown. Anna: Hi, Mark. Mark: Hey, how are you? Anna: Yeah, I'm really good, thank you. How are you? Mark: I'm really good. Thank you so much for having me today. I really appreciate it. Anna: Of course, of course. How is it down where you are? Mark: Listen, it's pretty good. We're pretty lucky considering everything that's going on in the world. I mean, not compared to my family in Australia. They think we're like aliens over here in the UK. Anna: Oh, I know. I’ve got a lot of family in Brisbane and they were just going about like everything's normal and I'm just going, ‘I’ve forgotten how that how that functions.’ Mark: I'm so jealous. People always say to me, ‘Why are you living over here? I've always had a good answer, but I'm not so sure right now! Speaking of you coming over here, there's a little bit I wanted to know. In the intro, we've talked a bit about you backpacking and you coming to the UK to start work. I know that this backpacking adventure has been pivotal to where you are now. But I'm wondering, what was the intention of it when you set out? Was it part of your broader plan to become a business owner? Mark: Well, it's a bit of a sad story really. I was dating a girl in Australia, and I had sort of found my passion for digital marketing, had my self-discovery of what I was going to do in life. And then I got my heart broken. I decided the best revenge was to go out and get out in the world. I got my backpack, packed it up with like three pairs of jeans, a couple of shirts, and off I went around the UK and around Europe, as a backpacker. And it started off as a well-intentioned holiday, with the view of being a tour guide, having some fun, seeing the world, seeing some different cultures. I loved it. I visited London, I fell in love with London, I love the UK. As I continued my travels, and started to run out of money, I decided I loved London, so why not go back there? I felt pulled, it had some good energy. I'm a big believer in getting those feelings. The best book I've ever read in my life in my career is called The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho. And there's a big thing, three set themes throughout the book, which is follow the omens. If you feel something, if you feel a pull towards something, if you get energy towards something, just go with it. You technically might not know the answers at the time but if you go with it, go with the vibes and you never know what's going to happen. And as they say, the rest is history. I got here. I was living in a hostel, a backpacking hostel, I had no money, I started door knocking for jobs, I got a job, worked my way up in the digital marketing community, thought I could do it better and took my idea on The Apprentice – and one thing just led to the next. I sit here today, and all these amazing things have happened. It kind of just feels like the click of the fingers or a blink of the eye. I'm Lord Sugar's business partner and I own all these companies. It's hard work, having goals, and almost it was preordained to a certain respect. Anna: You've talked about being a real goal setter, knowing where you're going to be 5-10 years’ time, but that seemed like quite a spontaneous move. Mark: Yeah, I think, how they say the biggest things happen outside your comfort zone? I think the biggest killer of people's success is comfort, staying in their mediocrity, getting comfortable doing things that don't necessarily challenge them, but make sure they stay safe. It's really easy in our society today. Particularly, what, in Australia, where I come from and in the UK and America, it's really easy to stay comfortable in the middle part of society. Every time I've gained any success in life, whether that's leaving Australia with no money and backpacking, giving up my job and my flat to go on The Apprentice, taking loans to start companies, whatever it might have been. Every time I've achieved something in my life, it's been from pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Just reflecting on that, Steve Jobs, who's the photo behind me, who I am in love with, basically. He always said you can – it's easier to connect the dots looking backwards and it's so true in my life, when I look back at any success I've had, yes, it's from setting goals and knowing where I want to be in life and focusing on who I want to be and what I want out of life, but also pushing myself to do things that I’m not necessarily comfortable with. With your jumping in and doing things attitude, where do you stand on things like MBAs and business education qualifications? What role could be play in somebody becoming an entrepreneur? Mark: It's an interesting question. I would much prefer the people I employee to have MBAs and the infrastructure and theory of growing and scaling and managing a business. As an entrepreneur, what I've found is that it's more the risk-taking the big-thinking and the strategy of the company that I'm responsible for. The funny thing is, most of the great entrepreneurs haven't written courses, they haven't written MBAs, and you can't teach what it takes to be a great entrepreneur, because a lot of it is instinct. A lot of it is huge, unsustainable risk-taking that wouldn't make sense if you saw it written in a course. I've never been to university, I don't have any formal education or degrees, or any of that sort of stuff. Listen, I haven't done it, but that's not to say that it doesn't work. I think knowledge is power and information is really key to success. Now, a lot of people do have degrees and have been successful, a lot of people don't, it's more just what's inside you as an entrepreneur: are you driven? Can you work consistently? Are you prepared to take big risks? Do you understand the industry or the business that you're in? That's the key – doesn't matter about what degree you've got. You can have a degree, you cannot have a degree, that's not a dictator of success. What is, is are you an expert in what your field is. If you are an expert, and you've got good work ethic, and you will stay in your industry long enough, you will eventually be successful. Great. You've said in the past that it's your bullish attitude that helped you get through The Apprentice. I wonder how your level of bullishness was at the beginning when you applied versus at the end of the show. Mark: I've always had a healthy distribution of confidence, I would say and that confidence, some would describe as arrogance. I would say healthy confidence has given me a bullish strength and approach in business generally, throughout my whole career, whether it's been in interviews, on The Apprentice, in business deals – and that confidence in either negotiating a deal, winning The Apprentice, is so powerful. I believe the key to higher performance is high self-confidence, high self- belief. Before you start working on other things, you need to really work within yourself to be confident. If you believe in yourself, and what you're selling and what you're doing, other people will buy into that, whether that's your employees on the journey, whether that's a banker to give you a loan, whatever it might be, that self-confidence is so important. I think I carried this air of confidence in from day one of The Apprentice through to the final and Lord Sugar and the other judges could sense it and I think also the other candidates could sense that and it's a pretty powerful tool in The Apprentice, but in business as well. And in your profile, when the series was broadcast, and under ‘what are your worst business skills?’ it says, ‘I have no bad business skills’. Would you see those still true now, with hindsight? Mark: Haha, you've really done your research. I mean, you do say some things on there that you look back and you get a bit of a tingle of embarrassment because you say some crazy stuff to be entertaining on the show. But, do I have any bad business skills? Listen, there's always things I can improve on. But I would say my gift in life is business. I'm passionate about business. I love business. I've studied every facet of it from small, medium, large, great entrepreneurs of all time. Listen, some people can play a musical instrument like you've never heard, some people can run 100 metres in ten seconds and under. My gift that I got was being brilliant at business. And that's my thing. I'd like to say I have no bad attributes – I'm sure other people would challenge that, but it's the thing I love in life. And I believe as well that you took forward this absolute commitment to business, to your business and to creating it and making it a success. But it reached a point where you were extremely stressed, burnt out, even to the point where one of the Lord Sugar’s aides approached you and said, ‘When's the last time you took a break, went to the gym. Tell us about getting to that point and how you felt. Mark: Listen, I think when you create a start-up business, I think the start-up journey is the hardest area of business. I own businesses at all different levels of turnover size, staff numbers and investment levels. For me, the hardest journey was that ‘zero’, starting a company, registering at Companies House, and going from zero to whatever. It's so tough. In the first two years of my business, I pretty much didn't have a day off. I wasn't sleeping enough, I wasn't eating well, I was drinking too much. It was because the work that was required in terms of stress levels, hours and just general demand of creating systems and processes in the business, signing up customers, keeping those customers happy, employing staff, getting equipment, getting investment. It was a very hard process. I gave up my life for the first three to four years for the business. The first two I wasn’t in existence to people who knew me. And I was working every hour that God gave, and it was tough. It was really tough. It wasn't good for my health. It wasn't good for my relationships. We talk a lot about work life balance, okay? You can love business, you can love what you do. But you do need to find time. It’s no good – as Lord Sugar's advisor told me – being the richest guy in the graveyard, and just dropping dead at work one day. You need to be able to create a life that you can live healthily. That was that was hard-hitting advice from a billionaire’s advisor. They’re saying that so it must be true, I thought. So, I've made more time to have a bit of balance in my life, so that the success is sustainable. Anna: I suppose it can be a cultural thing, especially in the UK. I mean, there's this real pressure from various different places, very much social media included in that, you need to keep going, keep hustling all the time. So I'd imagine that's not exactly helpful. Mark: You're right, we live in a culture of Instagram, of social media, where you go on there and you hear that if you work 100 hours a week, that's the way to get a million pounds and all of this stuff. A lot of the people that are saying this don't have a million pounds, point 1. Point 2 is you can work 100-hour weeks, but for how long can you do that? Oh, and Sugar is very proud of telling people that he is a multi-billionaire who is only at work Monday to Friday. He's never worked a weekend in his 50-year career. And I think that is really powerful because he's got the proof of the pudding. He is successful, he is famous, he is wealthy, but he has work life balance. And he'll tell anyone who listens. ‘I don't work weekends, I work Monday to Friday, and I work harder than anyone Monday to Friday.’ In my head, I know on Friday evening, as I'm driving home, that is it, my brain switches off, I spend time with my wife and my family. Then on Monday morning, I'm back to it. I think giving yourself in your brain that time to recharge, to relax, to create ideas, but also to spend time with your loved ones and just switch off. Burnout is a is a real thing. It's the same with a light – if you leave it on all the time, it'll eventually burn out. Your mind, your brain and your body are exactly the same. Sleep debt and all of those things are real, legitimate causes for business owners not making it. One of the things that we've noticed in this lockdown, and one of the things that's been key to many small business owners – often by necessity – is that when their physical buildings have closed, they've really amped up their digital marketing and their online presence. But now, as trading restrictions are beginning to ease, they're moving back into their bricks and mortar businesses. How would you recommend that they keep up that momentum of their online presence with their existing resources as they move back to bricks and mortar? Mark: Well, there's been a lot of good lessons in the pandemic, and I'm speaking purely from a business perspective. On the health side of it, it's been terrible, there's no doubt about that. But from a business perspective, it has shown us the good industries, the good businesses. It has also shown us areas where we can improve our business. It’s because a business that is reliant on a singular location that cannot trade because of something like a health pandemic, probably isn't a great business, so we need to be online. Yes, having a shop and a store is a great customer experience, and something that we should never lose. But we need to have a blend of both. And when, if you've got good systems and processes, you can have the best of both worlds: a customer in-store experience, a high street experience, and also an online 24 hours, seven days a week business. You should actually be more profitable and more dependent with your business. But it comes back to systems and processes. The problem with online is that it never switches off. And that means as human beings where we can go in and check out an ecommerce store 24/7, we can check the Google Ads 24/7 and all of this stuff, but you've got to have people, processes and systems so that you still work normal hours. Anna: Absolutely. What kind of things do you have in mind? What kind of systems? Mark: I use tools for social media posts, scheduled tools, I use software to check all my marketing campaigns, suggest changes and do low-level stuff automatically. All my email marketing campaigns for my econ businesses are done weeks in advance, and it's all just scheduled into software. So rather than sitting there at eight o'clock, ten o'clock, nine o'clock on a Saturday or a Sunday, it's all done on the Monday ready for the Saturday. It's just using tools and technology to make sure that we're actually working. I hate this phrase, but I'm going to use it now: working smarter, not harder. Just making sure that we're doing stuff, just not working 24 hours a day because the internet allows us to. Is there anything else you'd like to add before we before we go? Absolutely not. I think it was it's great that there's podcasts like this. All I would say, to any business people out there that are listening to this is get yourself a mentor. If I've learned anything through my process of business, it is surrounding myself with great businesspeople that has enabled my success. Deals and success falls off other successful people, but to knowledge falls off them. And generally, when a business owner or an entrepreneur is failing, it's not through a lack of resource or finances – it’s lack of knowledge. And it's podcasts like yours and having a good mentor that really help people get over the goal line. So yeah, that's really it. And I think it's going to be a good time ahead. Where would you recommend finding a mentor? Mark: Well, there's this amazing tool called LinkedIn. Anna: Ah, yes – I’m familiar! Mark: And what I recommend is a good mentor is someone that's been there, done that and bought the T-shirt. And I always recommend someone that's either business or industry specific. You can go on to their LinkedIn, follow them on social media, see where they're speaking next, where's their next event, where's their next conference and go there, track them down and ask them to coach you, mentor you, even if that's through giving them equity in your business or paying for their time. Knowledge really is the key to scaling up a successful business. And if you've got the right people at board level of your company, it's very hard for that company to fail. And it's been a big lesson for me on my journey, and I hope that helps other business owners as well. How much equity would you suggest? Mark: It depends how great the mentor is. I mean, I've got Alan Sugar, and I gave him 50 per cent. I mean, the most amount of equity you'd want to give any shareholder is probably 50 per cent, 49 per cent, and you probably want to come back from there. For someone that's just going to attend board meetings, you're probably looking at five per cent-ten per cent. If you're looking at someone significant, that's going to be, taking an active role, 30 per cent. But it depends on the size of your business and the size of their input as well. Anna: That sounds like a good place to wrap up, so I will leave it there. But thank you for coming on the podcast, Mark. It's been fab. Mark: Thank you so much for having me. You can find out more about Mark at climb-online.co.uk. You can also visit SmallBusiness.co.uk for more on digital marketing and the pros and cons of business education. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and on Twitter @smallbusinessuk (all lower case) and subscribe to our YouTube channel, linked in the description. Until next time, thank you for listening.
Welcome to Fight 10 of The Fighting G.O.A.T with co-hosts Arjun Chipalkatti AKA Mystic Chips & Somesh Superhuman Kamra!Round 1 of this episode covers UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs Prochazka and the weekend in MMA. In Round 2 we have Niraj Puran Rao, the only Indian candidate from the show 'The Apprentice'. They talk about his journey in the show, how he came into the MMA business, One Championships, and much more. The last round - Round 3 has predictions from UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs Dillashaw and more.Stay tuned, interact and get the chance to win some exciting prizes/exclusive merchandise!You can follow Chatri Sityodtong on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook:(https://twitter.com/yodchatri)(https://www.instagram.com/yodchatri/)(https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001565101686)You can follow Niraj Puran Rao on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook:(https://twitter.com/PuranNiraj)(https://www.instagram.com/nirajpuranrao/)(https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1117324902)You can follow The Apprentice on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook:(https://twitter.com/TheApprentice)(https://www.instagram.com/apprenticeone)(https://touch.facebook.com/hashtag/theapprentice)You can follow One Championship on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook:(https://twitter.com/ONEChampionship)(https://www.instagram.com/onechampionship/)(https://touch.facebook.com/ONEChampionship/)You can follow Arjun & Somesh on their Instagram handles: @arjun_chipalkatti & @somesh.kamraYou can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.
Meet Andrew Morello - our latest BWC Guest. What happens when you get three creative, successful and entrepreneurial friends together to chat about life, work and everything in between?In our latest BWC episode, OITC’s Theo & Christian chat to their life long friend and awarded entrepreneur, investor, author, and the winner of the first Australian Apprentice - Andrew Morello. The boys discuss working hard through a COVID landscape, their past business successes and failures, recession proofing, and even get a little personal about loss and life.We'd love to hear your feedback, so please leave a rating/review to let us know what you think!Click here to watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68UxW0QNaHIClick here to find out more about what we do or to get in touch: https://outintheclouds.com/Follow us on all our socials to catch the latest!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq66V_ncdXu0V5uD-Q3yw7wFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/outintheclouds/LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/outinthecloudsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/outintheclouds/?hl=en
In this episode, the Amish held a rally for Trump! Never, have I ever heard of that happening. Kamala Harris likability factor having impact on Biden voters. Clinton emails making for some very interesting reading.
Episode 93 of Real Black News is a special black business focus featuring entrepreneur Dr. Randal Pinkett, the first and only black winner of The Apprentice, plus Chairman and CEO of the multi-million dollar research, consulting, and data analytics firm BCT Partners. Randal discusses everything from the lack of support he received when publicly denouncing Trump in 2016 when he first ran for president, to sharing tips for entrepreneurs on what they need to do in today’s racial climate. He provides advice from his book Black Faces in White Places on how Black professionals can better maneuver in all White spaces, and the management needed behind failed diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. While former investment banker and CEO of Kids Who Bank, Jatali Bellanton, shares info on Black-owned Venture Capital firms. Other topics include Breonna Taylor, Emancipation Day, Black women in politics, and more than one good news story.
This is the fourth episode of the Tiger Heart Chats podcast featuring Tiger Heart CEO Sanj Surati and the winner of The Apprentice 2014 Series 10 Mark Wright. Recorded on Monday 4th May 2020.Mark Wright is an award-winning, influential entrepreneur and self-taught digital marketing specialist, renowned for his success in winning BBC's The Apprentice. In securing the winners title, Mark went on to find and develop one of the UK's fastest growing digital marketing agencies, Climb Online, in partnership with Lord Sugar. On this podcast, Mark and Sanj focus on how to be a successful in our current era and focus on Mark's trajectory from being a fitness trainer from a small town in Australia to becoming the CEO of one of the fastest growing SEO businesses in the world. What we spoke about:Amvigo Networking BusinessWarren Buffet – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_BuffettThe Only Way Is Essex - https://www.itv.com/hub/the-only-way-is-essex/1a9310Dyslexia Personal Training Sales & Marketing Google – www.Google.comDigital Marketing Google Ads SalesSearch Engine OptimisationThe Apprentice - Series 10 2014 - https://bbc.in/3ceR9ErLord Sugar - https://twitter.com/Lord_SugarEmirates - https://www.emirates.com/TikTok – https://www.tiktok.comGroupon - https://www.groupon.co.ukReality TV pressure Mental Stress Twitter – www.twitter.comStarbucks - https://www.starbucks.co.ukClimb Online – https://climb-online.co.ukTravel Industry Brighton SEO - https://www.brightonseo.comHolographic Technology Climb Con – https://climbcon.comSelf help Piers Morgan - https://twitter.com/piersmorganEmirates Holidays - https://www.emiratesholidays.comAmara Interiors - https://www.amara.comForbes 30 under 30 list - https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-wright/Entrepreneur of the year - https://bit.ly/3cevgFkFerrari - https://www.ferrari.com/Mercedes - https://www.mercedes-benz.com/Silverstone - https://www.silverstone.co.ukF1 - https://www.formula1.comMark Wright - https://twitter.com/MarkWright_Places:Australia – Armidale - BrisbaneGermany – Berlin UK – London – Victoria - Hammersmith - Mayfair The White Ferry House - https://www.publove.co.uk/pub-the-white-ferry-victoria/China New Zealand Advice: Don't get bitter, get better Strategy – Have a plan – Be a nerdHave applied discipline Stay grounded Concentrate and knuckle downWhen pitching, be simplistic in your discussion Collaboration is so important Give to your sector – You will benefit from Don't do it for a trophy Mark Wright Links:https://www.instagram.com/mwright_10/https://www.twitter.com/Mark_E_Wrightwww.climb-online.co.uk www.climbcon.com Sanj Surati & Tiger Heart https://www.instagram.com/sanjsurati/ https://www.instagram.com/tigerhearttech/ https://www.twitter.com/sanjsurati/ https://www.twitter.com/tigerhearttech/You can listen to the Podcast on the following links: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiger-heart-chats/id1507957892?uo=4 Google: https://bit.ly/2znRXIKDeezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1048492Don't forget to share: #tigerheartchats Tiger Heart would like to thank our post production partner GLPro who are a fantastic local content developer helping small businesses and SMEs develop the right content for their campaigns. GL Pro are offering free consultations via the following link: www.GLPRO.co.uk/TigerHeartChatswww.tigerheartlondon.comTiger Heart is an innovation agency that specialises in emerging technologies set up by Digital Atelier Sanj Surati. Sanj is an award winning multi-disciplined Digital Atelier with over twenty years of experience within the music, fashion and luxury industries. London-based Sanj has been working within digital and technology since 1998. He has seen the cultural shift in human habit and behaviour as we all evolve into digital consumers. Some of his successes have been burgeoning, ground breaking and, more importantly, culturally relevant.
Amy shares drama from her house last night as she thought she woke up to a burglar at 2 a.m. We celebrate 'Throwback Thursday' with special guest Clint Black. He talks about his biggest 90’s hits, being named one of 'People' magazine's sexiest people and 'The Apprentice'. Plus, Arkansas Keith joins us for some fish talk! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Hosted by multiple iTunes Top 10 podcaster James Burtt, Building The Brand is in-depth conversations with the entrepreneurs, founders, marketing and brand experts, PR specialists, CEO’s and CMO’s who have built some of the countries most successful companies and brands. This week on the show we welcome entrepreneur and winner of BBC’s The Apprentice Joseph Valente - he shares how he managed to turn around his life after being expelled at the age of 15 and embarked on a journey that took him from plumbing apprentice to the ultimate apprentice when he successfully won the biggest business contest on the TV in 2015. Joseph is an open book in this episode where he discusses: * The power of the law of attraction * How he sets and chases goals * Deciding to sell the service industry rather than waiting for business to come in * How he achieves based on practical targets mixed with unwavering belief * How The Apprentice actually works * Buying his shares back from Lord Sugar * Scaling up after going back to solo * Eventually Selling the brand to a bigger investment company * Moving into helping trade based business owners * Joseph’s desire to bring back the art of being a gentleman The mission of our show is to create a sense of inspiration and aspiration for our community of likeminded go-getters who are the influencers, innovators, creators, makers, builders, crafters and doers who form the next big wave of entrepreneurial success and Joseph’s story will definitely motivate entrepreneurs and business owners at all levels of building brands.
In this fascinating episode, Matt and Dan are joined by the hugely controversial media personality and author Katie Hopkins. Katie is a former contestant from 'The Apprentice' who famously quit the show when she was down to the final 3. She has since gone on to be a very controversial figure with her strong views. She was a finalist on 'Celebrity Big Brother' and has also appeared on 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here'. Throughout her career, Hopkins' social media presence and outspoken views, specifically regarding UK politics, social class, migrants and race, have attracted controversy, criticism, media scrutiny, protests and petitions. Hopkins has developed a reputation for disputes with public figures on Twitter. In this episode Matt, Dan and Katie talk about: Why Katie feels the need to be so brutal with people and if this is the best way to get her point across. Katie's views on losing weight Mental health and the negative impact of online trolling and bullying How Katie feels about the way she was portrayed in the BBC Three Jesy Nelson documentary Katie's battles with epilepsy and her military background Mainstream media portal of Katie and dealing with being hated by many This is a very honest episode featuring Katie Hopkins like you've never seen her before. The episode may challenge current beliefs around Katie and also yourself. Please subscribe, download, rate and review our Podcast: iTunes - http://bit.ly/richinsuccess Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/user-124595234 Follow Katie Hopkins here: https://twitter.com/KTHopkins You can follow Rich In Success at: https://www.facebook.com/richinsuccess https://twitter.com/richinsuccess https://www.instagram.com/richinsuccess/ Rich In Success is a podcast hosted by cousins Matt Hall (actor/singer/multiple business owner) and Dan Ramsden (health & wellbeing coach). They are on a journey to define exactly what success is and how to implement this into your daily life. Each week they interview inspirational guests from all walks of life including successful athletes and famous actors to experts in health and millionaire entrepreneurs. Are you ready to learn, grow and take your quality of life to the next level? Join them on their quest of self discovery every single week and learn from the very best.
Yes, great start to December as United win against Spurs at Old Trafford, this was breathless display from United and it felt strange, when I think of how lost they can look against sometimes lesser opposition. Inconsistency is the hallmark of young teams, of course. So, too, the inability to kill off opponents, as United had failed to do with Spurs as the interval neared. So it was that a sublime Ali touch-and-finish meant his team were back level in a contest that should already have been over. Mourinho did not gloat over the equaliser. Solskjær, meanwhile, berated the fourth official. It meant the second half was a test for United – and their manager. They passed it admirably, thanks primarily to Rashford, who won and then converted the crucial penalty for a ninth league strike of what may prove the watershed season of his young career. In the buildup Solskjær had spoken of the need for patience and how victories can speed up the development of his side. This result has to galvanize both the team, the coaching staff and give the manager some respite from the pressure of those calling for his head at the first sign of a blip. As for Mourinho, the newfound humbleness should mean the greeting of his first Spurs loss with the grace of, well, the Humble One. I also note that the 'Last Task' on #TheApprentice is a sure sign we are nearing the real run in for #Christmas as the dreaded interviews will make compelling viewing next week. Alongside my take on these I have also included a music mix which naturally enough given it is December starts to include some Christmas themed tunes. There is of course an opportunity for you the listener to comment back, ask questions or even request music through the unique Voice Comment link. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ateachersstory/message
"In a system that's unequal, corruption is not just the way we swim, it's the water we swim in..."The F-Word, Laura Flanders' bi-monthly commentary.Help us thrive and not just survive, by becoming a member you'll unlock additional audio extras and more. https://Patreon.com/theLFShow
Der er ny realitydronning i byen. Hun hedder Tine Hagemeister og er vært i TV2 Zulus helt nye 'Nøglen til succes'. Et rpogram hvor 12 unge danskere kæmper om et job som ejendomsmægler i Marbella, Spanien. Det minder en smule om 'The Apprentice' og vi er top begejstrede. Vi taler også om 'Ex on the beach' (Kanal 4, DPlay) - i den nye sæson uden knald. Det giver til gengæld plads til andre historier. Og så runder vi kort den nye sæson af Robinson Ekspeditionen (TV3), tjekker op på 'Landmand søger kærlighed' (TV2) og endelig taler vi om Luna og Anders situationen i 'Gift ved første blik' (DR1).
Join Dr. Gene and False in a journey into the paranormal, as they explore the history behind the Winchester Mystery House! Sarah Winchester oversaw never-ending construction on her house for 40 years, find out why in this spine tingling tale. Bonus- We have a new king of the jews, our very own president Donald J. Trump, join our hosts for hard hitting analysis as to why that title may not be everything that it seems.Show Link:https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/sarahs-story/Leave us a message at : (601) REA-LMS1 (601-732-5671)Twitter @bridgingrealmsInstagram @bridgingrealmsprojectE-mail us at bridgingrealms@gmail.comIf you leave a 5 star review with your favorite conspiracy theory or one that you've come up with yourself, we might just read it on the show!
NSFW (Needling Stars For Whiskey): Bill Frost (SLUGMag.com & X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (workin' in the boiler room) talk new NBC shows with actual brown people (Bluff City Law, Sunnyside), obligatory Game of Thrones recap, the last of Into the Badlands, Archer: 1999, TV Death Watch 2019: Final Predictions, When Calls the Heart hangs up on Lori Loughlin, coming soon: Jessica Jones, Rasslin' News, potential Friends spin-offs, RIP Busy Tonight, The Apprentice on Tubi and What to Watch Harder (Lucifer, Klepper, Sneaky Pete, Agents of SHIELD, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics & Men, What We Do In the Shadows, Happy!, United Shades of America, Cobra Kai, Veep, Barry, Game of Thrones, iZombie, DC CW TV and Billions). Drinking: The Boilermaker Series No. 3 bourbon whiskey finished in Kiitos beer barrels from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Sugar House Distillery.
NSFW (Needling Stars For Whiskey): Bill Frost (SLUGMag.com & X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (workin' in the boiler room) talk new NBC shows with actual brown people (Bluff City Law, Sunnyside), obligatory Game of Thrones recap, the last of Into the Badlands, Archer: 1999, TV Death Watch 2019: Final Predictions, When Calls the Heart hangs up on Lori Loughlin, coming soon: Jessica Jones, Rasslin' News, potential Friends spin-offs, RIP Busy Tonight, The Apprentice on Tubi and What to Watch Harder (Lucifer, Klepper, Sneaky Pete, Agents of SHIELD, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics & Men, What We Do In the Shadows, Happy!, United Shades of America, Cobra Kai, Veep, Barry, Game of Thrones, iZombie, DC CW TV and Billions). Drinking: The Boilermaker Series No. 3 bourbon whiskey finished in Kiitos beer barrels from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Sugar House Distillery.
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Bill Rancic joins me to talk about being an entrepreneur and provides tips on how to start and grow your small business.
Find your voice - Episode 17- "Wonderfulness of Life" - Louise Blyth #17 Part 1Tagline: "Be the captain of your fate and master of your soul"Louise Blyth, is an incredible lady who has experienced losing the love of her life, George Blyth tragically from cancer. With cancer now affecting 1 in 2 families it is a common occurrence so many of us face in our day to day life. But unlike any other story Louise world took a massive turn upon the sad death of her spouse and soul mate.Experiencing a supernatural event during his last few days Louise beliefs, perceptions, outlook and whole world had been turned around where she found herself finding, what she describes as "the greatest love all of us could ever know"A 2 part special episode, this incredible story does not lean on an emotional tale which will have you in tears of sadness, despite its tragic theme. Instead, tears of happiness seeing someone recover from grief and finding a bigger purpose and understanding of her being in the world takes over the story's narrative and leaves you feeling rather refreshingly happy that in such a sad circumstance someone can continue their life in a positive, fulfilling way.Now a widow of 2 children, Louise has created The Wonderfulness of Life which focuses on, Happiness being a choice and a state of mind.I am sure you will all agree this story truly warranted two episodes and if anyone can take anything positive away from this, it is to cherish all the moments we have with our loves ones and find blessings in whatever cards we are dealt in life.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Website: https://www.thewonderfulnessoflife.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-blyth-207a7a49Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderfulness_of_lifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/louise.Blyth83Have an awesome day#JustDeuIt #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so before I begin thisannouncement I just want to say amassive massive massive thank you toevery single one of you who havelistened to this show I also want to saya massive thank you to anyone who haspreviously listened to his show and lefta review because it's your reviews thatI've helped us get into the news and notworthy on iTunes now this is no smallfeat this is actually an incredibleachievement and the more I research itthey're more proud I actually feel butmore importantly I'm so proud of myguests and I'm so grateful that theywere able to share their journey but I'malso so happy to have such loyallisteners like yourselves to reallysupport this movement and that's exactlywhat it is it's a movement it's abouttrying to inspire people try and put apositive beacon of light into the worldand really try and get everyone to livetheir best life combat their excuses andreally change their perception andmindset so without rambling on too muchwe have a really really excitingtwo-part episode coming up for you nownow this is actually our first evertwo-part episode and conscious of yourtime which is obviously our biggest andmost important commodity I'm gonna jumpstraight into this one okay so I justwant to start by thanking Louise for hertime and coming onto the show today toshare her story which I'm sure you'reall gonna find absolutely inspirationalso Louise how are you doing todayI'm good thank you I'm good fantasticfantastic so I just want to say thankyou I appreciate you and I'm reallylooking forward to this one so this wasactually a recommendation from somebodyelse you may haveone heard previously on a podcast it'sepisode number fourteen and it's my betdaily Rylan it's something that I urgeall of you to check out because it wasactually within the first four hours itgot the most number of listenstraightaway so it's a great hit and I'drecommend you all going back to thathowever moving on now we have anotherfantastic guest in Lewis so Louise Ithink it's really important for thelisteners to understand your story andunderstand a little bit about yourselfas well if you if you wouldn't mind ifyou could just kind of give us aninsight into yourself a little bit aboutyour journey and what basically bringsyou here today yeah no worries so and ifI'm completely honest I never thoughtthree even four years ago that I wouldbe someone that would be sat beinginterviewed on a podcast talking aboutthe subject that I'm going to bring tothe table today which is lossbereavement and life after livingthrough sort of that kind of trauma soso my story is from nottingham fromrobin hood that's where i kind of growup grew up and spent my childhood had afantastic childhood my parents reallysort of put myself over the first I waskind of one of those people at schoolthat was not really super cool but alsoI hope not too much of a mega geek andyou know you did did the normal stuffkind of growing up going into nightclubsprobably too young being carried out ofnightclubs after having drink too muchso my friends before say probably tooyoung and went away to university at 18where I studied French and actuallylived abroad for a year when I was 19which was quite young and that was Isuppose my first experience if I'm beingbrutally honest of life if that makessense so in terms of really realizingthings around loneliness relationshipsbeing able to kind of go it alone and dothings for yourself because essentiallywhen you're on your own in a foreigncountry you have no one else to rely onother than yourself and I and so thatwas that was really really kind of bigexperience in my life and graduated inin 2006 probably like many so you reallyexpect it about what life had to offerme and had one of these huge plansaround what I thought I was gonna be andwhat car is thought I was gonna driveand what house I wanted to have hadn'tmet kind of anyone special at that pointthere's been a few a few boys but no onewho'd kind of really made me sort of situp and take notice and in 2006 I wasaccepted on to a training scheme agraduate training scheme and that waskind of a supposed to start of where mylife really really started to change soI I started there in September and on myfirst day in fact before my my first dayon the induction day I met George who Iwould fall in love with and marry so wewere part of a group of about 30 peoplehe will join together and we had a greattime it was like being at university youknow me we were there training togetherliving together all became really reallygreat friends but he was the guy thatkind of more than anyone else you knowwas not never first I on any level I youknow I remember thinking oh my gosh thisguy's so confident you know he's reallysort of sure of himself but we justbecame really great friends and we usedto would talk all the time and then itwas that that Christmas so this is theSeptember when we started our job and itwas that Christmas when we actually kindof had our first kiss so he'd he'dreally really raison he said when hefirst were in the business oh well I'mgonna be I'm gonna be in Edinburgh soI'm gonna have a hub burn a party andwe're all gonna come to Edinburgh andhave this holiday party and I rememberthinking oh my god who is this guy likethey're so confidentso anyway true to his words you knowfour months later there we all were sortof twenty or so others at his flat in inEdinburgh and that's kind of whereGeorge and I had our first kissNew Year's 2006 2007 and after that youknow my life my life changed in aninstant I know for people that arelistening that of maybe you know you'vemet someone that they know that theywon't spend the rest of their life withwhen you meet that special person youknow really it is everything that you'veever hoped for it is kind of like themovies and the songsand it's it's truly beautiful it's areally amazing experience and we knew weknew from the outset that we hadsomething special I think that often youdo you know it was more than just afriendship it was a kind of deeprespectful sort of love it was it was itwas powerful you know and so we kind ofwent on living our lives together youknow as what happens when you meet theperson that you want to spend your lifewith you know you stop being you stopbeing as our lives became more and moreintertwined so we we lived apart welived togetherwe vented together we bought a housetogether his kind of his career wentfrom kind of great amazing as he kind ofcharged through the ranks from corporateperspective we were engaged in 2010 wewere married in 2011I felt pregnant we had off this babyquite quickly which was just a hugeblessing and we it gave birth to of thisson in 2013 so for all intents andpurposes we were the couple that thathad it all we were probably the peopleand I hugely recognize this that peoplelook to in kind of discipline oh howthey got this you know like they'vethey've met young they've both got goodjobs they're doing really well hopefullythey thought we were nice people youknow we had we had a nice house we drovenice cars we had a you know we had wedecided we wanted to have a baby and itjust was easy we got pregnant and I hadno problems with my pregnancy so youknow we were on to a good thing life waslife was really really great and then wedecided to have another baby and I gotpregnant very easily again and shortlyafter office and was born we moved houseso we relocated back to Nottingham surebecause by this point we're living downsouth because that's like the street sirI paid gold and then whilst I waspregnant with our second son George justhad this overwhelming feeling which Ican come back to and talk about somemore and as we kept kind of maybe deeperinto the interview there that we had tomove that we had to move back to myhometown andum so we we bought a house when I wassix months pregnant and moved after ourson was just born to me with an 8 weekold baby at that time that's when Georgestarted to be presenting with symptomsthat just weren't you know wasn't welland we couldn't get to the bottom of ithe was wrong he constantly had a cold hewas always tiredhe was really rundown he had low reallyreally low energy levels and because ofthe stage and the circumstance of ourlife in that we had two incredibly youngchildren Zoey at this point you know wehad a three-month-old baby and atwo-year-old son and you know justNewhouseGeorge was commuting to London from ourhouse and Notting Michelle it is a bigcommute you know said not you know notfor the faint-heartedwe just continually put it down to thefact that this is what life is in yourseason and you know you try and haveyeah we're rundown you know this ishaving kids everyone whinges about thetiredness and the exhaustion which is ayou know it's part of the territory ofyou know you don't live with yourchildren but it just didn't sort of seemto get better and there was thiscontinual niggle that was there andessentially basically we pursued it andto cut a long story short of how weactually came to this conclusion wedecided to send George for a colonoscopywhich is a process where you basicallyhave a camera put up your bottom it'snot that unpleasant so he went off andhad this procedure and I mean this iswhat our life was like at this point intime our and so he decided to have thisprocedure in London because he rememberhim saying to meyou know I'm so busy at work what I cando is I can go to work and then I can dothis after work and I can come back andI can still behave at that time wegenuinely didn't think that there was abig you know big big reason to beconcerned all of the health careprofessionals had said to us there's nota reason to be worried he's so younghe's 33 it's definitely not gonna bebowel cancer and basically that day thatyou had the colonoscopy which was thethe 9th of December 2015he called me I was at home literallykind of quite literally walking aroundthe Christmas tree and my little boyanswer and with a little Senate nurse weputting all my fairy lights out thinkingwow you know life's amazing this is grayand he called me and that phone call wasthe moment that just shattered my lifebecause having your husband ringing andsay the words I've got cancer ah it wasjust it felt like a time-space continuumand I yeah it was just hideous and Iremember saying to him oh my god shecan't know this already how do you knowlike it can't be which was actually theroute that I went domine when he told uswas exactly the route that all of ourfriends went down afterwards when weactually had to then tell them the newswhich was just as difficult as himhaving to tell me and I know now thatthat's the kind of psychologicalresponse in terms of you know plausibledenial you want to commercialise withwhat you're hearing and you want somehowto be like this isn't true this thiscan't be the case this isn't us you knowdo you not know who we are today and Iremember you know being on the phonewith George and crying and him saying tome it's fine like he'd managed to havethe force I mean this is the kind ofincredible guy he was he'd had theforesight to call my parents tell myparents what happened before he ran meso he could say to me after he told meI've got cancer your mum and dad are onthe wayyour mum doubt of coming over andthey're gonna be here any minute andthey're gonna be they're gonna be herethey're gonna scoop you up and I'm on myway back from London it was just so soso kind and so thoughtful which was justwho he was to his coreso that was December 2015 and our livesin that instant you know I often jokedwith people and say I sing the song fromFresh Prince of bel-air oh it's probablyshows the kind of generation that I amit was you know this Oriole upside downbecause in that instant it was my lifewas flipped turned upside down and yeahit was just everything that we knewabout our life was thrown thrown on thefloor but then that you know that wasn'tthe end that was the beginning of a newlife and a new existence which went onfor 11 monthsso we then lived in a season of stagefour bowel cancer so when George wasdiagnosed he had metastatic bowel cancerwhich is basewe can circle of lingo for the fact thatthe cancers bad and it spreads todifferent parts of your body and inGeorge's case it spread to his liverwhich is not good news obviously it'sone of our major organs that you need tofunction so George then lived through Ithink it was eight rounds ofchemotherapy followed by six weeks ofreally intense radiotherapy followed bya season of kind of watch wait let's seewhere this where these horrible cellskind of come back then he did a hugehuge surgery in the summer which issomething called the liver resectionwhich is essentially where you getchopped open and all of your liverthere's got cancer and chopped out whichis kind of just the most epic surgeryyou can imagine before he did that hecycled around London and raised a lot ofmoney for bowel cancer UK and then hesaid I remember him saying to hisoncologist you know just before he hadthis liver surgery I'm gonna I'm gonnado more bike riding and then this sortof all looking at him like he wascompletely mental eight weeks to the dayafter he'd had his liver resection hecycled from London to Paris releasedmore funds for Bar Council UK and thenshortly after returning home from thatboat ride he started complaining againfeeling unwell and we you know wegenuinely thought that we were on thesort of positive track with this diseaseand literally eight weeks the day afterhe'd stood in front of the eiffel toweryou know holding his bike you know inthis kind of really momentous epicphotograph that I've got of him he wasdead so he he went downhill incrediblyquickly and peacefully passed away onthe 18th of November 2016 so I was 33and I had a three year old and a tenyear olds and yes it was incrediblyincredibly hard yet was incrediblybeautiful and a moment of glory that Inever expected at the moment of hispassing so I suppose that was a realgame-changing moment when he died whichwas just absolutely beautiful andthere's no other word to describe itwhich is I suppose why my story's a bitdifferent because I think probably mostpeople are going to be expecting me tosay and then it was himyes and then it was all for and I lovethis season of grief and and it has beenand it was all of those things but itwas equally really beautiful because oftheir the way in which George died andwhat happened to all of this at themoment of his death which I'm sort ofreally excited to talk some more withyou about say and just stunned that lastbit and which we will touch on just in afew moments time I can tell that youwere going to have that response justfrom the way you were explaining yourjourney and everything that you've beenthrough so but when I think of concernwhat it's done to my family it becomes amore of an emotional thing and it'squite like even when you talk about itlike demeanor and everything changeswhen you say you can see that you'veactually found the silver lining in thisin this journey that you've had to takeand I just find that incredible so I'mlooking forward to hearing just a bitmore about that have balls and knowabout how it was one not only incrediblyhard but also incredibly beautiful Imean I'm taking notes here because Idon't want to miss anything and I'm surelisteners I probably think ask her thisask her this because it's so fascinatingbecause what you've literally describedis a fairy tale story and it's kind of astory that I suppose when we grow upthere's there's a thing and I was I wasdoing a speech recently and I was sayinghow you know how we go to school andyeah you get your results and then yougo to secondary school then you have theI love is then you go to university thenyou get married and you have kids andthen you retire at 65 it's almost likesomewhere in a in our subconscious Isuppose we reprogram to believe we'rejust going to lift or 65 wheneverything's just gonna fall in placeand then what happens it comes in boomit hits you how is he so hard yeahthat's why people struggle and I justthink yeah it's a I'm grateful thatyou're sharing this story because itwould just wake people up yeah I'm veryfortunate that nothing like that hashappened to my wife or myself at thismoment but I do try and live as if thatcould happen tomorrow oh yeah it wouldthat the nightmares that couldpotentially happen so oh you mentionedthat you've been travelling for a yearas well not obviously generate so wheredid you travel so I didn't travel so Ilived I mean sorry you lived you liveyeah yeah yeah and I said friendshipUniversity and I lived in fret in FranceI actually lived I need to be honest I'dlove to go back now as a 35 year old anddo I did then I lived in the noirWeinbergwhich at the time as a 19 year old hebasically like drinking wkt blue it wascompletely lost of me as like a kind ofcultural experience but it was part itwas part of my my studies in terms ofwhat I had to do to kind of learn thelanguage but yeah that was that wasinteresting and it's been reallyfascinating actually as I've taken sometime particularly this last year becauseI've been taking some time out of workto actually I'm writing a novel actuallyso I'm writing the story of what whathappened to is in that in detail becauseI'm really mindful that to try and relayit in you know an hour even in two hoursit doesn't do it justice which is whyI'm writing the story of exactly youknow all of the twists and turns and thebeauty of what unfolded but essentiallyyou know I've really realized that thatexperience that I had in France wasreally formative and actually wasequipping me with skills that I wouldneed kind of in the moment of George'sdeath and it was also interesting inthat some of the corporate experiencesthat I'd had as well so often you knowpeople always saying it's very clicheisn't it you know when you're having adifficult time people often say stuff toyou like you know this all happens for areason or you know it's in difficultywhere you learn and you know what Ihugely believe in both of those pointsbut actually when you're in thathardship and you're in that season ofstruggle and people say that to you ifI'm being brutally honest sometimes itfeels like a slap in the face becauseyou just you just feel kind of like wellyou don't know what is to be in thesituation I'm in and how do you knowthat I've been positioned for such atime as this but I think you have to Ithink you have to come to thatconclusion yourself I don't think otherpeople can kind of impart that wisdominto you and it's taken me to livethrough the experience of my husband'scancer and his death to wake up to lifedoes that make senseand I now look at all of theseexperiences that I've had the good andthe bad and go wow like I was being liketrained I was being because I waspositioned into that set ofcircumstances the reason why thathappened was to serve me later and whenyou start to reflect that in that wayyou often see that you've done that youdid do some really great learning in meseasons of struggle and they and theyhave served to make you a more full kindof person that can then cope and be moreresilient in times that will be eventougher may be that you face in thefuture say yeah this interesting I justlove that I just love your perspectiveon things and I think because I believeeveryone gets these potential lessonsand I call it potential lessons becauseyeah it's what they take from it reallyand yes that you mentioned resilience aswell and yeah I I've hadI mean I'm day two you know and I feellike I've had some ups and downs as wellin my life which I'm sure every singleperson has yeah the grass is nevergreener on the other side yeahabsolutely yeah I mean that's one of thereasons for this podcast but I'mgrateful now especially in hindsight ofall the adversity and everything thatI've been through because now whensomething trivial happens say forinstance in my day job or you got a flattire or something that would normally Isuppose dress me out five six years agoyeah yeah it just doesn't faze mebecause in the grand scheme of things doyou know what I mean you you snotabsolutely 100% yeah I'm interested inthis novel Azure which i think is gonnabe fantastic because like you said wecan't touch on everything within thisshort amount of time but I think justfrom listening to the opening 15-20minutes people are going to be veryinterested in hearing more about thismyself included and I think you're notalone in what you've experienced but I'msure that you're very unique in terms ofhow you've change your perspective and Ithink if you can hopefully help otherpeople who have maybe been through asimilar situation to maybe look at it inthe way that you said so I want to goback to that bit where you mentioned howincredibly hard it was oh but then alsoincredibly beautiful if you yeah yeah solet's talk about the hardship and thestruggle first I think you have you seethat fully fully understand that thenunderstand the beauty if that makessense you have to source it in thedarkness to feel to feel the light whichsounds quite cheesy but I think it's youknow that's kind of essentially the theheart of this story and you know thatmoment that if we go back to the momentthat I described to you earlier when youknow George was diagnosed with cancer itwas hideousand I often say to people actually thatis when my life changed and that is whenI started to grievebecause that was the moment that ourlives changed forever at that point wewere obviously still hoping there Georgewas gonna live to tell the talebut even if he had lived to tell thetale he would have been living to tellthe tale with the with the scar ofcancer and I think this is the part ofcancer that is so widely misunderstoodpeople want to treat it like a diseasethere is a heart problem or anorthopedic problem which is you know yougo to the hospital you have somemedicine and you get better and yourlife's all okay again and actually thereality of cancer at any stage that youget it is that it alters the check thatyour mindset and the course of your lifeforever because it fundamentally makesyou realize your own mortality in a waythat you've never had to realize itbefore and it also therefore because ofthat makes you live your life verydifferently it makes you live your lifein fear it also makes you live your lifewith joy because you appreciate and havesuch a broader perspective for theamazing and wonderful variety of whatyou see in everyday life because it isyou know that is where you live and inin the everyday not in the holiday thatyou've got planning for six months timeor the night out that you're reallylooking forward to a couple of weeks andand cancer really has a way of sort ofshifting your perspective and I think Ithink this shift of perspective isuniversal but obviously I think from myown experience is not fertile for anyoneelse he's impacted by this disease butwhat's interesting is you know once youkind of take some time to let the newssettle which you have to do and you getnews that big you know I remember forGeorge and I we had the classicfight-or-flight response and we actuallychose flight so we ran away essentiallyto the yorkshire dales which was whereGeorge's mother lived and basicallyspent sort of two or three days almostin hiding trying to figure out what wewere gonna do so yeah we we ran away tothe oxidase and there we sort of liketried to look at the situationpragmatically so both of this had sortof a spaceman entrained in the corporateworld because of the circumstances inwhich wewhich was on this kind of managementtraining scheme unit we'd both beenthrough quite vigorous corporatetraining so we've done all of the youknow separate the people from theproblem how do you make a decision allof that kind of stuff and actually wekind of said you know what we've got tokind of implement some of these skillsthat we've been taught in terms offacing this this beast that is cancerand that and that's kind of what wechose to do so when we actually sort ofapproached it as if it was almost acorporate problem and and I and I feellike I'm I'm I'm even laughing as I saythis because it because essentially thisis what we had to do we had to look atit as not a black dark disease that wasgonna claim our life we had to look atit as a unwanted guest that maybe movedinto our house which is how it fell andthen it was kind of like what what we'regonna do in this and once a guesthow are we gonna how are we gonna makeyou feel part of the family and then wedon't really want them to be here butaccept the fact that they are gonnaprobably eat our table now for theforeseeable future and we can't makethem leave they're only gonna go whenthey want to you know so we we looked atyou know what we could do and one of thefirst things actually that we did wasand it was George's this is alldifferent by George not by me was hesort of said well I'm not having cancerand I remember saying to him what areyou talking about you know you've gotcancer like we can't we can't get rid ofit just like that and say no what I meanis I'm not I'm not calling it cancer I'mnot I'm not going to be named as havingcancer because there's a lot in the nameI mean there's even a you know there'sthe beautiful Shakespeare quote of youknow if Rose has anything else you knowI can't I can't remember it and thebaton but it's about you know if it wascaught if it was still called over butit was cannot call the rose but it stillsmells so sweet and that same that samethinking and that same mindset is sotrue cancer because the problem is isyou say cancer to people and peoplethink death because people are so scaredof death and actually the reality thesedays is one and two people will getcancer and also lots of people havecancer and go on to live reallybeautiful long lives also have cancerand live really successfully with cancerfor a good number of yearsbut we all have this fear you know it'sessentially the Millennial tuberculosisthat you get cancer and it's literallylike then the Grim Reaper is their dooryeah so George George said to me fromthe from the outset I don't want cancerI'm not gonna have cancer I'm gonna havea project name so we we we were sort oflike I was like okay so it was it waslike a awesome cheesy episode of TheApprentice we were driving north and hewe were there thinking of names andevery name I came up with which I can'tremember any of the names I actuallycame up with he he was beating ofdallying no that's awful that's that'shorrendous I kind of thought I can'thave this then he said out of nowhereInvictus what about Invictus andhonestly when he said that name it wasliterally like a thunderclap in the carit was amazing like it shot wavesthrough my heart and I was like that'samazing I was like why do we both knowthis name a week googled it and we'relike oh it's an aftershave and then wewould you know laughing joking whichagain is another you know like that is areal great way of building resilience soit sounds so awful and crude to say butto try and find the fun and the smilesand the everyday humor in amongst youknow this car crash that is your life isso important because you're stillyourself when you still find the samethings funny and you like eating thesame sweets and the same places eventhough you've got cancerI remember we're in fits of laughter bekind of like you know why on earth haveyou chosen an aftershave advert this isjust really cheesy but then when we wentfurther into it we found out thatactually the original naming conventionsare coming from this amazing poet and byErnest Hemingway which actually I nowhaving a frame on my wall at home andthe line the closeout line of the poemis this really sort of like thunderousclothes which basically says I'm thecaptain of my fate and I am the masterof my soul and those words we were justlike they were literally like boom toour hearts we were like yes okay this isit now we we are not having cancer sowe're having sort of project and victorsand that was the start of is Isuppose time to refrain what washappening to is but that also didn'tmean that what was happening to uswasn't horrible you know like there'slots of cancer there is hideous there isabsolute sleep deprivation becauseyou're so anxious about everything thatyou you go to bed and you can't sleepand you're wide awake you wide awakethere's there's an easier because ofthat because you're so exhausted you'reand you're trying to keep the show onthe roadyou can't remember sometimes the mostsimplest of things there's the the hugeimpact that it has on your daily life Imean essentially I was still onmaternity leave you know we had an eightmonth old baby so I was supposed to bethe one that was being looked afterbecause I was up at night you know stillwith a baby that didn't really know youknow day from night if I'm beingbrutally honest yeah and you know then Ihad to switch roles into this personthat wasn't just caring for atwo-year-old and a eight month old itwas also caring for a guy he was theretwo three who had cancer which for himwas just as difficult as it was for mebecause he was the the dad he was thefather figure of the family he wanted tobe able to provide and support his wifeat his children and the reality of thecancer treatment that he had was there Imean he had really really top-drawerchemo which was like I remember themsaying the hospital is it's pretty muchlike we're putting bleach in your veinsand he had it every 11 days so he didn'thave much downtime between treatment youknow he'd go on it he'd go on his go andhave his infusion and actually he thenhad to come home with a with a bottleattached to him which is a type ofchemotherapy that lots of bowel cancerpatients if anyone who's had bowelcancer is listening will be familiarwith and you then basically take thepump it's called a pump home with youfor three days so that was you know thatwas a man mindful in itself because wehad to explain to our kids what wasgoing on that they couldn't jump ondaddy and it wasn't ever that we keptanything secret from our children butyou know our oldest child was two yearsold you know how do you explain to a 2year old dad daddy's got cancer thathe's got this medicine on him I meanactually and that is what we explainedto him and we had to explain what thewords meant to him but you know theydon'tat that age they don't understand whatit means they it means nothing to themyou know for all intensive purposes forthem it was like daddy had a bottle ofCal Poly attached to him you know theydidn't get the severity of it and it wasreally tough and it brought up a lot ofstuff for me around you know what do Ido in terms of work so obviously I wasoff work on maternity leave I actuallywent back to work because I felt so muchpressure because I was thinking you knowI don't we'd have no idea how long thiscancer journeys gonna go on for and eventhough both of our employers were justthe most supportive employers B couldhave ever asked foryou always have that niggle in the backof your head that actually if this goeson for six years seven years are theystill going to be this supportive andlist understand a and I remember sayingto George you know I've got to go backto work George because we might be in aposition where we're only rely you knowwe're relying upon my salary and youknow you can't work which he neverreally wanted to face into so I wentback to work and even when I talk aboutit now I genuinely don't know how I didit I went back to work with aone-year-old just three year old and ahusband with cancer and was kind ofdoing my job as well as commuting toLondon and you know running a house youknow it was absolutely exhausting andexhausting in a way that makes your souleight you know it wasn't just it wasn'tjust sort of tired of the way thatpeople say I'm tired you know it wasexhausting and it was the relentlesssort of tsunami of it all because theway that cancer works is you kind of itis it's a long boil disease you know itisn't a disease there you know it goesit doesn't go away like an orthopaedicyou know injury like I said previouslyand it and it's it's always theresimmering in the background and everynow and again you get these huge wavesthat crash over you and they sometimesabsolutely come out of nowhere and it'sabout then how you how you protectyourself and what you what you do - Isuppose build that resilience and that'swhat we learn in that 11 monthsessentially initially it was like wewere all at sea we have no idea what thehell we were doing and gradually as theyearwent on we built that resilience muscleand we learned the techniques aroundwhat is it that's gonna help us and weknew that there were certain things thatfor us as a family he with the thingsthat work but that took some time tofigure out it wasn't like the next dayafter George I can't sir we went yeahthis is this is what we have to do thistrick is it yeahno no so it was so hard it was so sohard so hard yeahfirstly what a wonderful person hesounds like and I just in yourrelationship the way you were justfeeding a feature then you had thiswhole story behind Invictus Sol Invictusfor me initially yeah Paco Rabanne it'sthe which is what I remembered but alsothere's a film money as well yes andit's happened to feed on conquerable soWowyeah you actually said it in this momentthat's what I was feeling and I wasgetting almost goose thinking yeahthat's it how you guys have done it andit just shows the power of like thehuman will and the importance that wordsbecause just by changing that nameyou're not you're not necessarily sayingto listeners here listen let's brushcancer under the copy and pretend it'snot here what you're saying is okay weacknowledge it's here and some dayswe're facing it but we're gonna justface it in a more positive way to helpus move forward and I think that'sreally really yeah the way you've donethat and in terms of exhausting I meanwe all sit here myself included andwe'll have a 14 hour day or a 12 hourday we've been asked to do some overtimeand we feel you know what I'm tired I'mtired and here you are with no actualchoice with your back against the walljust showing how powerful the human mindand body in sync how much we're actuallycapable of doing and that also goes sexywhen you mentioned George who did thatrunning I mean who in their right mindif you think about it from a logicalperspective things after being choppedup I'm go go go raise money wait youknow you know what there are what Iwould say is I follow some reallyinspirational people on Instagram andparticularly love the the three womenand who created the you me Big C podcastand Rachel blance or sadly passed awayin September last year and I follow Ifollow the girls actually that do thatshow on Instagram and they ones a cancersurvivor one one is living with stagefour cancerthey are always out exercising andactually what I would say is it heyfor you to realize that your body isfragile and that you have to look afterit to want to look after it sometimesand actually the irony is is that Georgeactually was a fitness fanatic evenbefore he had cancer so he was on thesepeople that would go to gym gym and Iwould always be like what are you doingbut I had to say since he has had cancerand obviously lost his life to cancerit's made me go as well you know yourbody is so precious you have to lookafter it you have to be mindful of whatyou're putting in it in the way in whichyou're using it in the way in whichyou're nurturing it because it's it'sprecious to you and it's your onlyrocket ship you're not going to getanother one so you have to look after itand I think incredibly there is thismindset amongst the cancer community ofI am gonna do the stuff that like youknow that we run a 5k or run a marathonbecause almost as well you know everyoneknows the healing benefits of fitnessit's it's proven right so there is thismindset of just you know well I am whatI want to do this mentally even morethan I've ever wanted to do it so I doyou think it's crazy but I also thinkyou know not taking anything away fromGeorge because it was incredible what hedid but I also think you'll find thatthere are lots of people who areimpacted by cancer that also have thatabsolute mindset of no I'm gonna go forit I'm gonna raise this money I'm gonnago and do this and I think you're rightand I think but this is kind of what Iwant this podcast to do is not letsomebody have to suffer with cancer seesomebody also for with cancer to reallyunderstand what they're actually capableof because we're so much we're livingjust in the comfort zone all the timeand health and fitness is one of mybiggest passions so yeah I've alwaysbeen into it but then when I went touniversity was it was more about vodkacommands and hangovers sure yeah it wasthat kind of stuff for generallyspeaking up when I was about 25 I thinkthat's when cancer came into into myfamily only affected my own cause yeahand one of the things I started doingthen was really taking my health andfitness seriously so I blogged onpersonal training since then I'vetrained over like three 400 clients andI always know my analogy is I know thecircumstances for instance similar toGeorgia where you can be healthy you canbe doingright and then it's just not meant to beI can just come for what I always tryand do is just put the odds in my favorand I always tell all my clients justput the odds in your favor you know whenyou lift some weights or you do any sortof CV exercise cardiovascular you'reyou're you're reducing the chances of ofillness and that's kind of what I do soevery single morning without fail andunless some literally on my deathbedsorry or I'm traveling I'm training andI don't have to enjoy it but for me youknow it's 4% on my day just afteryourself and you touched on somethingthere by what you put into yourself andI think it's important for the listenersjust to know it's not just physicalconsumption like food and water it'salso what you say in your monitor yeahabsolutelyso the project Invictus that kind ofstuff is it's empowering and if you canjust so I just think there's this Icould talk about what you said now foranother five hours because I'm surepeople are going to pick up on thank youthank you for sharing all of that what Ineed to move it forward just slightlyotherwise we'll have a six hour podcastbut what definitely can get you back onso nice obviously change quite quitesignificantly now yeah yeah and it'ssomething that you obviously you'renever prepared for what is a day likefor yourself now and what I want to askmore in particular is obviously life'staught you so much so quicklyalready are there certain habits ortraits that you maybe do on a dailybasis that you think people listeningcould potentially benefit from yes so Imean the part of the story that haven'tgot into and maybe isn't one for thedates move maybe at halftime is the whatactually happened when George died whichin which I suppose was the absolutebeautiful firework finale to this wholeyear so if you imagine this 11 monthswhen George had cancer was like us itwas a slowly learning how to overcomeadversity and build resilience in a waythat I'd never had see before and thenwhen we realized that you know the endwas nigh when he was told there wasnothing that they could do and he wasgoing to die but weyou know how long it was going to be andwhat that what may or may not look likeand how painful it may be and all thoseother things that was the moment whereif I'm really honest and being reallyreally vulnerableI hit absolutely rock bottom because Ikind of when I don't know what to do nowyou know like all of this other stuffthat we've taught ourselves this far interms of you know finding three thingsevery day to be thankful for doingexercise you know renaming things tomake them feel more palatable you knoweating well to make sure we're we knowwe're making our bodies feel as great aswe can sleeping where we can in amongstnear the chaos of TV and children all ofthose things that other sort of thingsif you pick up any book on on resilienceand how to and how to kind of you knowbuild and and and work that muscle theyjust didn't work and I I remember justthinking oh my gosh like what what do Ido and it was it was awful and it meantthat we were both in a reallyemotionally low state which as I'm sureagain lots of people will identify withwhen you're in that place what happensis you lash out or the people that youlove the mostso we're in this hideous set ofcircumstances which was you know we knewthat George was gonna die and we hadwhat was probably the biggest row Ithink we ever had of our whole marriageour whole relationship because I wasreally angry at him and actually youknow what I was actually angry about himwhat I thought I was angry about him wasnot what I was angry about at him at allI was actually angry at him because hewas dying and that's what I now realizewith hindsight you know I was at I wasangry about him about something thathe'd said to us mom or not said to hismom but that wasn't you know and I'vegone back and rabbit reaction man thatwasn't the reason the reason I'm socrossed with him was because I was angrythat he was leaving me that he was gonnadie that he was not going to be here tobring up my kids that I was gonna haveto do life on my own in a way that I'venever ever expected to and that night Iwent out I literally ran out of thehouse into my car it sounds Hollywooddramatic and it actually was a littlebit that way and I got in my car and Idrove it was dogevening it was raining and I didn't knowwhat to do and I just felt lost reallyreally lost and in that moment Iremember thinking in my head where am Igonna go who do what who should go andsee if it goes to my mom and dad I couldgo see like my aunty best friends who'sthe person that I need that who do Ineed and I was I was sort of trying allthese people in my head to see if theyfitted with it the way I thought in myheart and none of them felt that theyworked and actually at that point intime was seeing a psychologist and Ithought do I bring her like do I go seeher I couldn't even bring myself to gosee my psychologist he was the personthat really you know I employed to sortof be the person I could take all thesethings to so I decided it in that momentthat I needed to go to a church and thenI was kind of like right really go to achurch and if I'm honest again I thinkit was rooted in some level of utopianmemory that I've got from childhoodprobably movies like home alone whereKevin goes to church and yeah has thatlike magical moment when he's missinghis mummy you know I was right I'm gonnago to church and tried that and to go toa church on this like rainy Octoberevening at about I think it must havebeen about five o'clock everywhere I waslocked her and I was so angry oran Ican't tell you how angry I amI was literally raging so I remember Ipulled my car over on a hard shoulderand I and I said at least she got out mycar and I screamed and at this point intime I was not a person of faith sothere is a purpose behind me telling youthe story and so I pulled over my carand I literally got out of my car it wasraining I was screaming and I literallyit was like I was boxer in a ring that Iwas a mad okay and I literally screamedat the universe if you are real if youare real you have to bleep bleep bleepbleep show me there was a lot of swearwords yeah I was crying I was crying somuch you know I couldn't even reallyspeak I was coughingit was awful I got back in my car andGeorge text me two words that just saidcome home and then I just wrote backokay he wrote back I'm not planning ordying anytimeSene and i just hysterically burst intotears and went home now that that momentwas a absolute another kind oflife-altering moment but it wasn'tlife-altering in that exact moment ifthat makes sense because then whatunfolded in this or three weeksfollowing on from me going out andhaving this moment where I went for itand said to God you know you are realit's now or never because I don't knowwhere else to turn it and God had neverbeen someone a force and an energy thatI had ever looked to previously but Iwas I felt like I had nothing left in mycup I had no place else to gohe was the only viable option left forme to go to and what then happened andwhat unfolded around George's deathwhich we maybe don't have the time todiscuss today was just supernaturallyunbelievably beautiful he died the mostglorified beautiful miraculous deaththat was completely driven by sort ofthe Holy Spirit just moving in andtaking residence in his room okay peopleI'm just gonna play the out role now forthis part of the show but the nextepisode should be available straightaway on your feed whether you using iOSor Android and I hope you enjoy thisjust as much as you've enjoyed thisfirst part of this incredible story fromLouise I know the next part certainlygave me goosebumps especially when shespoke about the supernatural stuff thatshe experienced and I hope you enjoy ittoo and once again thank you for allyour support and if you do get a chanceto leave this interview at the end ofthe show I'd certainly appreciate itthank you so much and remember thispodcast is absolutely free so all we askin return is for you to share this witha friend and drop us a five star reviewover on iTunes have an awesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It’s a full house and a cat (word to Smokey) this week, as we start down the road to 300 episodes in earnest. Anthony has a problem with security guards at one of our lunch hangs, well they have a problem with him. Blessings up to the homie Alex Trebek as he battle’s pancreatic cancer. Gabe’s wife did not appreciate our Louis CK episode. We try and revisit it and hope to set the record right for those who did not appreciate our original take but really just start going off about politics for a moment, but we try and steer the ship and correct course. We leave that serious conversation to chat about Wrestling and how multiple wrestling superstars would appear to be wildin’ out on-line when in reality, it’s a work and we know it. We then have a small music chat and a bit of parenting talk. Tatum l TAYREL713 l Lunchbox l Gabe DOWNLOADS l RSS l Apple Podcast l Google Play l Spotify l TuneIn l Facebook l Twitter l YouTube l Stitcher l Email l Amazon Wish List l Merch l Patreon PHONE l 216-302-8763 #Comedy #Culture #Podcast #200PublicSquare #DansBasementStudio #Heinens #Racism #RacialProfiling #AlexTrebek #Jeopardy #TheApprentice #LouisCK #MeToo #SexualAssault #BelieveVictims #Wrestling #WWE #RondaRousey #RomanReigns #Wrestlemania #BeckyLynch #CharlotteFlair #NiaJax #ChildishMajor #Woo$ah #BillieEilish #HotOnes #Solange
Episode Two! Grainne McCoy, first made her mark on the well known show #TheApprentice, a true Boss Lady and definitely a force to be reckoned with. From the show she has come on leaps and bounds by releasing her own line of beauty products, setting up her own Make Up and Beauty Awards and generally just being and all round BAD ASS!
There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes in the making of our favourite movies and TV shows, and this week we got to talk to someone who fills a very important role: casting director! Shannon McCarty has worked in the industry for 17 years, mainly in the unscripted/reality show aspect, working on such shows as The Real World, Supernanny, Best Ink, The Biggest Loser, and most recently on Netflix’s Nailed it! Emily and Elisabeth get a chance to ask her what all goes into casting, what the process is like, and how it’s been working on a variety of different shows over the years. If you’ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes, you won’t want to miss this interview!
There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes in the making of our favourite movies and TV shows, and this week we got to talk to someone who fills a very important role: casting director! Shannon McCarty has worked in the industry for 17 years, mainly in the unscripted/reality show aspect, working on such shows as The Real World, Supernanny, Best Ink, The Biggest Loser, and most recently on Netflix’s Nailed it! Emily and Elisabeth get a chance to ask her what all goes into casting, what the process is like, and how it’s been working on a variety of different shows over the years. If you’ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes, you won’t want to miss this interview!
Ereka Vetrini was introduced to audiences when she was part of the first season of The Apprentice. She's now a TV Host, Lifestyle Expert, Brand Spokesperson, Producer, Blogger and proud mom
The midterms are like trick-or-treating... when it's all done, you dump out your bag and see what you got. And while we were hoping a Blue Wave would bring full size candy bars for everyone, we got our fair share of raisins. More than that, depending on your definition of "fair." Cognitive Dissidents Michelle March, "The Black Voice of Reason" Tymon Shipp, and Dr. David Robinson take an in-depth look at our holiday haul, democracy being marketed as "vote fraud," and why the guy from 'The Apprentice' is acting more like 'Big Brother.' It's your weekly dose of newsy infotainment... Get Dosed!
This week the team look at 'The Cry' (BBC1 21:00 30th September), 'Serial' (Podcast Out Now) & 'The Apprentice' series 14 (BBC1 21:00 3rd October) They also discuss 'George Shelley: Learning To Grieve' (BBC), 'Drowning In Plastic' (BBC4), 'This Country' (BBC), 'More Perfect' (Podcast), 'The Good Place: The Podcast' (Podcast), 'The Two Shot Podcast' (Podcast), 'Mark Kermode - How Does It Feel' (Book), 'American Vandal' (Netflix) & 'Mystery Road' (BBC) There's also a COG pick from The Apprentice, Kay gets pulled up on her review by the star of the show and there's a little Bodyguard spoiler chat at the end. Not bad, eh?Don't forget to review the podcast on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and give us your POG picks:Boyd HiltonKay RibeiroJohn HarrisNote: all opinions and conjecture are ours alone and may not be based on fact. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Is there anything to the Omarosa tell all? What does this say about the White House staffing process and the people in power living off of our tax dollars.
Is there anything to the Omarosa tell all? What does this say about the White House staffing process and the people in power living off of our tax dollars.
Has Omarose unhinged our political process? Could she have created a primaried president
Has Omarose unhinged our political process? Could she have created a primaried president
We're joined by Special Guest Beans to chat all things LoveIsland & Kardashian. What even is Reality TV and what does it say about society?
In this episode of the "Rymie" pop culture roundup podcast, Ryan Alkire (@TheRealRyAlk) and Armin Mahramzadeh (@ArminMahram) discuss Michelle Wolf's controversial White House Correspondents’ Dinner routine, the upcoming YouTube series 'Cobra Kai', and the film project 'The Apprentice'.
We're Back!!! After significant radio silence ( our studio broke, so yes, we are allowed to make a radio joke!) Reality Check is back for 2018 and we couldn't be more excited! Join us as we discuss the new season of 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' Australia, reflect on the days when the only big decisions Donald Trump could make was figuring out which contestant to fire on 'The Apprentice' and Georgia's wacky reality tv segment returns!Let us know your thoughts on the shows discussed on this week's episode or,recommend any shows you would like discussed on the podcast, by sending us an email at realitycheckpod@gmail.comFind us on social media at:Instagram: @realitycheckpodTwitter: @RealityCheckAUYour hosts are Georgia Higgins and Katherine PowellMusic by Kevin McLeodGraphics by Harry Carter
Claude Littner is Lord Alan Sugar's eyes and ears on The Apprentice. For this episode of In Reality, he tells Mirror Online showbiz reporter Vicki Newman what it's really like to follow the candidates as they fight to be Lord Sugar's next business partner. He reveals his favourite moments of the series, what makes a great candidate and why he loves being a part of the show so much. Claude also talks about the first ever double victory in the show's history and working with the England Rugby team for Canterbury’s Individually Strong, Unbreakable as One campaign. #Apprentice #TheApprentice For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
The Apprentice's Karthik Nagesan joins Mirror Online showbiz reporters Vicki Newman (@vicki_mirror) and Kyle O'Sullivan (@kyle95osullivan) as he gives his verdict on Lord Alan Sugar's latest candidates. The Big K lets us in on some behind-the-scenes secrets, including what time everyone really wakes up and why he thinks Lord Sugar has a personal joke writer. Karthik also dishes the dirt on his time in the Celebrity Big Brother house and tells us his plans for the future, including which of his former housemates he's getting acting lessons from #theapprentice #celebritybigbrother For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Yes this was a weird pick, but Anthony had a very good (and nefarious) reason for picking it. Its a doozy. We talk about Lil Jon, Donald Trump and Bohagon.
Yes this was a weird pick, but Anthony had a very good (and nefarious) reason for picking it. Its a doozy. We talk about Lil Jon, Donald Trump and Bohagon.
Entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist Lord Alan Sugar joins us in the studio this week. Lord Alan Sugar is perhaps best known for his appearance on the hit TV show, 'The Apprentice' in the UK. From humble origins growing up in Hackney, London, he started selling car aerials from the back of his van as a teenager. He founded Amstrad in 1968, and by 1980 it went public on the London Stock Exchange, the value of the company doubling every year during the 1980s. In this interview he talks about the realities of filming the Apprentice, the tips and techniques he uses to get ahead in business, as well as his key early influences. A riveting interview with an enigmatic figure.
'The Apprentice' is back on our screens, but is it good for your career and bad for business? Also what lessons can be learned from the process itself and from the performance of Lord Sugar's candidates? Find out this and much more in this edition of the Career Codex podcast. Please note, the podcast contains an interview I did on BBC Radio Nottingham - the interview starts with comments from Aaron Dicks, owner of Impression, I then follow and give my thoughts representing business in general. If you like what you've heard, please share with friends and follow at www.facebook.com/careercodex
It's LADIES NIGHT on Real Talk Sports! The women take over the studio.at the earlier time of 6:30PM. Our invited guests include: - Rushia Brown former Women's Pro Basketball star, founder/president of the WPBA (Womens Pro Basketball Alumnae) and CEO of ServCom Intl. -Tisha DeShields former Univ. of Tennessee track star, entrepreneur and mother of 4 including Houston Astros OF Delino DeShields,Jr and 2013 Naismith HS Girls Natl HS Player of the YR Diamond DeShields. -Maureen Guest-Fitness expert, Radio show host, and mom -Bill Rancic- 1st season 'The Apprentice' ,Host Quickbooks 'Small Business Contest' And of course we'll talk about Falcons, Hawks, Lebron James, and more. Listen on air at WIGO 1570. Online (CLICK HERE) or on your mobile device via the Tunein Radio app. Call in and join the conversation 404-361-1571 Follow us on Social Media @TALKSPORTSATL Thanks and God Bless
I had the AMAZING opportunity to interview Bill Rancic, Season 1 winner of The Apprentice. Not only is he an entrepreneur, he's an accomplished author, speaker, restaurateur, husband and father.Bill and I chatted about the 30 year anniversary of dot.com as well as an awesome contest from Verisign of which he happens to be one 4 expert judges.
I had the AMAZING opportunity to interview Bill Rancic, Season 1 winner of The Apprentice. Not only is he an entrepreneur, he's an accomplished author, speaker, restaurateur, husband and father.Bill and I chatted about the 30 year anniversary of dot.com as well as an awesome contest from Verisign of which he happens to be one 4 expert judges.
Andrew Morello Australia's first 'The Apprentice' winner and Head Business Development Manager at Yellow Brick Road shares his business success tips in this 20 min awesome interview.
In this Halloween edition we discuss, new BBC1 drama The Missing, a triple firing on 'The Apprentice' and Gary helps his elderly neighbour.
Tim Dowling fell into journalism by mistake; he is not an ambitious man, never was, never will be, but he's fascinated by what it means to be desperately driven to succeed. He talks to those who have ambition searing through their veins. Today he meets Saira Khan, business woman and runner-up in the tv show The Apprentice, who claims to have been ambitious since she was a small child. Growing up in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, the oldest of four children of Pakistani immigrants, she set her heart on doing better than her parents, having financial security and learning the confidence to do whatever she wanted. Starting out as a town planner, she found her natural place in the sales team of a biscuit manufacturer. Since her appearance on 'The Apprentice', she went on to run her own business, and is now also a TV presenter and motivational speaker. Saira's also a mother. She talks candidly about wishing not to be a pushy parent and about her need to curb her ambitious streak where her children are concerned. Saira and Tim discuss the merits and drawbacks of ambition: does it lead to happiness and fulfilment or a never-ending nagging discontent and anxiety? Producer: Lucy Lunt.
This week we are looking at the Bible in the book of 2 Timothy which contains Paul's instructions to Timothy, his "Apprentice" in dealing with churches and this book contains Paul's encouragement to be Faithful and pointers for Timothy to be a good worker of God in perseverance. This is part 4 of 'The Apprentice' series
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