About Average Jo Meets The UK's Everyday Entrepreneurs
Join me as I meet the UK's Everyday Entrepreneurs and uncover their detailed and honest accounts as to how they got started and whether it was all worth it. I don't mean big wig CEOs or multi-million pound businesses you can listen to on other business podcasts. We're going to hear from fun and fascinating businesses from quirky coffee shops, glampsites, bike shops, mobile saunas, boutique gyms, online Etsy shops, independent breweries and festival organisers.
I'm on a mission to find out their stories. How did they get started? How did they finance everything? Do they have a secret sauce? Do you really have to take big risks? What luck was involved? Do they have a work-life balance? Was it all worth it? So that you and I can be inspired to start something of our own.
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Hello all, here's another great interview with the lovely Kate Reynolds otherwise known as the Surrey Sleep Coach.
I think parents especially will be able to identify both with Kate’s story and the needs the coaching business she has set-up aims to meet.
Kate was working her way in her dream career in the travel industry, when along came her first child and to balance all the extra challenges she now had to juggle, she requested to go part-time in her existing role but was flatly refused which left her with some decisions to make.
Kate talks her through what led her to the world of Sleep Coaching, including her personal experiences, the new skills she’s had to gain to change career and how she’s established a business all around herself and what she can offer to parents of new babies and children.
Head over to surreysleepcoach.com and you can find out more about Kate and the various coaching packages she offers which Is all around helping families establish better sleeping routines that work for them using a holistic approach.
Thanks so much Kate – I’m sure there are many potential coaches out there that will find your story very inspiring and useful.
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12 Sept 2024
The Event-trepreneur
Hi Everyone, I hope you had a great Summer and we’re back with a fun and advice-packed episode with the Event-trepreneur Toby Burns.
Toby has not one but 4 business arms – The Silent Disco Company, The Cinema Hire Company, The Karaoke Hire Company and Flashbands – all brands where you can hire fun stuff for events.
Toby started his entrepreneurial life at the young age of 15 (actually probably younger!) and talks about how he went about making money hosting children’s birthday parties at the weekends whilst at still at school. He then moved into DJing before coming across the Silent Disco phenomena. We talk about his journey and how he managed to follow the money and the snowball effect that came from that.
It's another account of setting up and running a business that’s really detailed and honest. Toby covers so many aspects from tips for sourcing from China, managing tax challenges, his approach to competition, the importance of surrounding yourself with other likeminded people, managing a business with a family and so much more.
It was a real privilege to interview Toby in person and get all of his insights and anecdotes of his unique story – I hope you enjoy.
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25 Jul 2024
Life's a beach for this business owner!
This is the story of ex-GB and England Volleyball athelete Jake Sheaf and his company Deep Dish.
Deep Dish aims to bring beach volleyball and indeed beach life to all. It has 3 centres in the UK in Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and St Albans and also organises beach volleyball centred vacations to Gran Canaria, Portugal and Valencia in Spain.
This includes the popular Beach Tour which last year hosted over 2000 university students at the ultimate sporting escape to train and play and party.
Get the feel for Deep Dish immediately if you head to deepdishbeach.com (deepdish.com). It looks so much fun! And importantly it welcomes and has something for all ages and all abilities from complete beginners to Olympians.
Jake takes us through the challenges of managing and funding life as a professional athlete which included building up an informal version of Deep Dish alongside his pro-volleyball journey for quite some years.
He talks about how that period helped him to prepare for life as a business owner and then when he retired from the professional side of his sport, he turned to develop Deep Dish full time.
This was not long followed with some tough times like, anything centred around socialising and being together, during the pandemic, but then swiftly followed by a surge in success in recent years and the company has been growing rapidly ever since.
Now Jake is entering a new challenge, as by the time this podcast goes out, he’s going to be a Dad so congrats and good luck to becoming a father Jake and great to learn about your story up until this next chapter.
Another business set-up story to learn from and be inspired by folks.
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