It’s time to feed your enterprising soul! When you work for yourself or run your own business what you need is something to lift your spirits. To make you laugh but also to make you think. So welcome to The Enterprise Iain Show featuring: “ Coffee Scones & Enterprise Therapy” “ The Entrepreneur’s A to Z “ And “ Pizza Wine & Enterprise Therapy” This show is the antidote to management speak and corporate chat. With over thirty years working with people who’ve always wanted to start and run the ...
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Lockdown! Now I Sell Bread from my Kitchen Window!
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Karl Simmonds started making sourdough bread as a hobby during lockdown. Then someone asked for one, an another, and another. Now he makes 60 loaves a day which he sells from his kitchen window. So when does a hobby become a business? Come and hear more about how Karl grew his business Flat & Brown Bakehouse in Port Rush, Ireland.…
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I Lost My Voice But Found The Violin
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"Greg Lawson is a violinist, composer and conductor who has explored music from many genres. The GRIT Orchestra - He took Martyn Bennett’s album GRIT and presented it at the opening night of Celtic Connections 2015. He won the The Scottish Trad award for event of the year 2015. The long term aim of The Grit Orchestra is to offer an opportunity for …
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The Best Way To Succeed in Business - Be Yourself!
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Jackie is a trail blazer. She started her first business in her 20's at a time when women were very much in the minority of entrepreneurs. She helped set up the first women in enterprise centre, The Wellpark Centre in the early noughties, she went on to establish Women in Business network and now runs Growbiz.…
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Corporate Man Reveals All. Yes You Can Be Enterprising
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Corporates get a hard time of it, and rightly so for not being enterprising. Alan Meldrum is a bit different. Join me and the crew as we hear what corporates can teach entrepreneurs. PS Its funny!Oleh Kevin Kelway, Fiona Colquhoun, Matthew Clarke, Alan Meldrum, Enterprise Iain, Mike Flat
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Meet the wonderful Eona Craig who is encouraging young people to develop the skills they have and what they love to do and the they CAN start their own business.Oleh Enteprise Iain, Kevin Kelway, Matthew Clarke, Adam Scott, Mike Flat, Fiona Colquhoun, Eona Craig, The Articulate Gallery
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Pregnant, Furloughed, Redundant, Start Up
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After 8 years with M&Co, Alyson was made redundant, which came as quite a shock. From the shock of redundancy Alyson now is one of many people running their own business from her kitchen. She started Shorties Biscuit Co a personalised buscuit company. She is even happier than she would have imagined as she is doing something she loves and is in con…
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As a business Louise and Christopher are used to adapting. How have they adapted their business model during the Covid crisis? What tips for success do they have for us? And of course, back by popular demand is the latest update on Kevin's root canal treatment. And who's at the door?Oleh Enterprise Iain, Nomad Pizza, Louise Olivarius
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I Kept Getting Sacked. So I Made Puppets Instead.
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Join us for Wine O'Clock, root canal treatment, popping out for ice cream and much, much more ....Oleh Mike Flat, Kevin Kelway, Adam Scott, Mari Jones, Picture to Puppet, Matthew Clarke, Enteprise Iain, Fiona Colquhoun
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This is wonderful story of inspiration, determination and positivity. Brexit came along and forced Kulli to take stock - she changed her career and is now a business coach. Listen in whilst we join Kulli on her story from her early days growing up in Estonia to moving to the UK in 2004 and making a fulfilling life here.…
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Do What You Love Not What You Loathe
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In this episode I want to talk about people having confidence in themselves and then I will move into a special topic which I will reveal during the podcast so tune in!! Susan was in the corporate world of hospitality for about 10 years. She loved it - but she had a sense that there has got to be something more to life than this. It felt that every…
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No One Told Me I Could Be My Own Boss!
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Do you feel the pressure to get a qualification and then get a job, feel you are letting people down if you don't. Is being self employed seen as a viable career? When the enjoyment is overpowered by the burden of the job, perhaps it's time to change? Scotland's Enterprising Schools are helping to change the world by helping children being enterpri…
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My Mother In Law Turned Me On To Gin & I Started A Business!
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When we first met Rubina on the Enterprise Island Challenge Bradford 15 years ago, she wanted to have her own business running open top bus tours. She now makes an award winning gin, Curio Spirits - in Cornwall!!! Tune to for a few laughs, inspiration and to hear how Rubina got from bus tours to gin!!!…
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Prison Was My Enterprise Inspiration
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"I’m quite proud of myself. I’m completely unemployable. The fact that I am unemployable means that I have to employ myself. So if I have to employ myself I am going to do something makes me happy and hopefully makes a few other people happy a long the way." Rachael BrownOleh Matthew Clarke, Adam Scott, Enterprise Iain, Kevin Kelway, Flat Mike, Fiona Colquhoun, Rachael Brown
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Is it important to dress appropriately when you run your own business? Well that all depends on what you mean by appropriate doesn’t it. What we wear says so much about both ourselves and the image we want to project. Just look at the latest picture of Dominic Cummings and his hat and wooden staff. Today’s podcast goes back to late 80s and involves…
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That’s also the moral of my latest podcast “How Kylie saved my business with the aid of some carrot cake”. I’ll explore what it’s really like to innovate and the risks that come with it. You may want to listen with a beverage of your choice and a slice of high quality carrot cake! If you really want to get into that 80s mood, I’d also suggest permi…
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It’s always fascinating to find out why people started their business. Sometimes we love running our businesses even more than we hoped or expected - and we benefit in ways we hadn't foreseen! And that’s certainly the case for my guest this week Matthew Clarke of Distilled Films. One of the things we forget, and certainly it’s not realised by many,…
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I’m not sure about you but, and I’ve done it many times, the whole process of finding and raising money is pretty draining. It can also be expensive, especially when lawyers and accounts get on board, so I wish Scottish Edge had been around years ago when I was on the funding hunt. Actually, looking back, I didn’t want just money, I wanted support.…
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Business Plans? Really? If you are starting a business and don't know where to begin. Do you really need a business plan? Does it put you off even before you have begun? Iain and Deedee discuss the obsession with business planning that people have. Useful Links Deedee is an author of books including "The Wee Guide to Scottish Women", "I Love Tunnoc…
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Entrepreneurs' A to Z - H is for Hacking
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Does a small business need to worry about cyber crime and hacking? Absolutely! You will be amazed at the size of the hacking business world wide and how it affects small businesses. If you are a small or medium business trading online and you are not sure what you are doing, and don’t have a cyber security or IT specialist, then this is a must list…
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I Started My Business During Lockdown!
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Enterprise Iain is joined today by Alex Fleming who has started a new business - during lockdown! What challenges has she found with this unusual timing? Links Alex Fleming: alex@4thebenefitofall.com 4 the Benefit of All - https://www.4thebenefitofall.com/ Share the love If you’ve enjoyed the Enterprise Iain Show please help us by sharing the love …
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The Enterprise Iain Show Short Sometimes it’s good to get cross. It can lead you to do creative things like starting my new podcast series The Enterprise Iain Show. So thanks to the unnamed CEO who called me a sme and unwittingly helped me find my enterprise voice! Let’s face it small and micro businesses are the backbone of our economy. They’re re…
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The Entrepreneur’s A to Z - A is for Advertising
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Iain and Catrina have a frank but fun conversation about advertising your product or service. Topics include: What is the difference between a promotional campaign and an advert? How can you promote your brand? How can you find out what your customers really think about you? What effect has the Coronavirus had on how you promote your business? Inva…
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