If you fear failing you will limit your success. At Failing to Succeed we believe that failing is part of the journey. The sooner we embrace it and view it as a stepping stone to success, the sooner we all thrive. Let’s turn failing on its head and enjoy the journey.
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Talking embarrassing dating failures with your Dad
This week I've invited my Dad on the podcast to talk dating failures. We've both been dating for the past couple of years and on this episode we share our hilarious stories. I ask my Dad if he knows all the well known dating terms (spoiler, he doesn't have a clue!) and we share a lot of laughs. Hope you enjoy it!
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9 Aug 2023
West Beach Challengers - Stop dieting, start eating your way to healthy with personal trainer Katie Grover
In this episode we chat to personal trainer, Katie Grover, who is redefining the way women train. Instead of restricting calories, portion sizes and pushing people into the gym she's asking us to add extra foods to our plates! What a revelation. She focuses on resistance training and moving our bodies, no matter what that looks like for us. She's all about getting us to love the bodies we're in because it's the only place we're going to live! Check out here 6 week programme, here https://westbeachfitness.com/ (https://westbeachfitness.com/)
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22 Jul 2023
UNAJI&co - turning dreams into reality
We're back with Season 3 and we're in conversation with the Unaji & Co brothers Lemuel and Emmanuel. They create wearable art that's been seen on the likes of Kojey Radical and have collaborated with Depop, Adidas and Yosqi to name a few. We talk about turning your dreams into a business and what happens when they things to try to achieve to don't get first time round. Enjoy!
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25 Oct 2022
Jess Young - how to deal with toxic people in the workplace
The week I'm joined by the fabulous Jess Young, a London based nail artist, model, music producer, DJ, and founder of Boys In Polish. She has a mission to use her creative aptitudes to make the world a better place. Having started her nail art journey from a young age of ten years old and honing her skills and experience at WAH Nails (now known as The Stack World), Jess is now taking the world by storm with her music (her single Fathers is out now) and an upcoming short film.
We're talking all things toxic in this episode. Toxic people, toxic workplaces; how to recognise them, what to do when you're in one and how to get yourself out of one. We're talking about the importance of finding your community, especially as a young creative and making sure you get the support you need. With that in mind, we've listed out some recommendations of exciting communities to get involved with;
Where Black, Brown & underrepresented creative minds come to connect https://www.instagram.com/babesonwavesclub/ (https://www.instagram.com/babesonwavesclub/)
DYNA is an inclusive space created for female, trans and non-binary people in music, with an emphasis on people of colour https://www.instagram.com/dynaldn/ (https://www.instagram.com/dynaldn/)
ESEA Music, a music networking platform for East and South-East Asian artists and creatives) - https://www.instagram.com/esea_music/ (https://www.instagram.com/esea_music/)
A Whole Orange Matchmaking is matchmaking events for the LGBTQ+ community - https://www.instagram.com/awholeorange.matchmaking/ (https://www.instagram.com/awholeorange.matchmaking/)
Amica App, a wonderful app for solo travelling women - https://www.instagram.com/amica.app/ (https://www.instagram.com/amica.app/)
AZEEMA is a community exploring women and non-binary folk within the WANA+SA regions, diaspora and beyond - https://www.instagram.com/azeemamag/ (https://www.instagram.com/azeemamag/)
Muslim Sisterhood is a creative community centering muslims - https://www.instagram.com/muslimsisterhood/ (https://www.instagram.com/muslimsisterhood/)
Girl get a real job, conversations around entrepreneurship, money and finance - https://www.instagram.com/girlgetarealjob/ (https://www.instagram.com/girlgetarealjob/ )
Female Founders Lounge - Content, Community & Events for ambitious, kick-ass female founders https://www.instagram.com/femalefoundersloungescotland/ (https://www.instagram.com/femalefoundersloungescotland/)
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28 Jun 2022
Krystyna Blonski - growing a pizza empire
Pizza lovers out there! Ever been so upset about your favourite restaurant closing down that you decide to take it over and keep it running? Well, I spoke to Krystyna Blonski who did exactly that. Her local pizza takeaway was closing down, she couldn't get pizza anymore so with no experience in the industry at all she took it over and expanded it to SEVEN restaurants. Incredible. But then when her brother goes missing the business begins to fail and she ends up losing it all. Now consulting for exciting new food tech start up, Krystyna tells us what failures she learned the most from. You won't want to miss this one.
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6 Jun 2022
Gethin Nadin - HR influencer predicting work trends
This episode I'm joined by the amazing HR influencer, Gethin Nadin, to chat about what the future of the workplace looks like. He's an award winning psychologist, best selling author and Chief Innovation Office for all things HR. With remote hybrid working becoming the new norm we look at what that actually means for employees and employers and Gethin give us his predictions for what the future of work will really look like and the failures that he sees companies making.
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24 May 2022
Emma Nuata - trusting in the process
Welcome back to season two of Failing to Succeed. The podcast that embraces failure because it's in the failing that we find our true success. Emma Nuata joins us for an inspiring first episode. Top job at The Guardian, beautiful kid, married, gorgeous house, but something still didn't feel right. So she moved to Mallorca. We join her after running her first retreat to talk all things diet, health and wellbeing and turning your life around even if you think it's too late.
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2 Nov 2021
The Happiness Index
From farmer to CEO I spoke to The Happiness Index co-founder, Matthew Phelan, to see what's made them so successful. But, you know the drill by now, I asked him to chat me through his first company, The 4 P's, to work out why that one is no longer going and how it made way for the super successful Happiness Index. Join us to chat all things failure in the last episode of the series. For more episodes go to failingtosucceed.co.uk
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18 Oct 2021
Louise Hedges
Louise Hedges is an extraordinary business coach and founder of PIP - People Inspiring People. In this episode we cover one of her businesses that completely failed to get off the ground, what she learned from it and how it helped her on her journey. Having had many successful businesses it was so interesting to get to speak to her again as she uses the best analogies in business that are always so funny you can't forget them! This episode includes how a business is like giving birth and how we can all learn to not wear black bras under white tops.
For more episodes go to failingtosucceed.co.uk
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8 Oct 2021
VinylBox
In this episode I chat to Oli about leaving full time employment to co-start his first venture, VinylBox, which is a Vinyl subscription service for music lovers backed by Universal Music. We spoke about how it's always the things you least expect that take up most of your time and sometimes it's timing makes all the difference. Started under a year ago, the pandemic isn't holding these guys back one bit. Check out failingtosucceed.co.uk for more episodes.
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19 Sept 2021
Limitless You
Ever thought you were in the wrong career but didn’t know how to make the change? Rachel has switched careers and industries not once or twice, but three times. We chat about what it feels like to take the plunge into a totally new thing, the fears and failures along the way and ultimately how she’s made it work for her, now drawing in a five figure profit in under a year. For more episodes go to failingtosucceed.co.uk
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5 Sept 2021
The Blackboard Artist
The Blackboard Artist is responsible for the signage of some of the biggest companies in the UK; Soho House, The Ned, The Hoxton, Glastonbury, to name a few. We spoke about how Michael started with an online clothing business to eventually becoming The Blackboard Artist and working with some of the biggest brands in the world. Join us as we chat fashion, finance and failures.
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19 Aug 2021
The Soulstice Collective
These brothers are a force to be reckoned with. From starting a festival whilst both working full time, and then having to pivot their entire business model during the pandemic, these guys know a lot about having to adapt and make failures work for them. Find out what they feel they’ve sacrificed the most and how to get those coveted tickets by clicking the link below.
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