Why Small Business Matters

About Why Small Business Matters

Why Small Business Matters from Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University provides a platform for successful small business leaders to tell their stories, offer advice and unravel what it means to be a successful modern SME. Brought to you by the Help to Grow Management delivery team at Northumbria University, Small Business Matters takes a casual but inciteful look behind the scenes with contributions from rising entrepreneurs and leaders of established small businesses that have been trading for many years. It will find out what gets them up in the morning, how they've navigated the challenges of the pandemic and their vision for small business in the region, the country and across the globe. For more info on Help To Grow visit Northumbria.ac.uk/HelpToGrow (Northumbria.ac.uk/HelpToGrow)

Publisher

Northumbria University

Category

business · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jul 2021

Latest episode

15 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 50 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Finding Focus In A Distracted World! Glenn Stephenson, Fluid Focus

   Host [Host Name] interviews Glenn Stephenson, co-founder of Fluid Focus, about overcoming smartphone distractions and cultivating digital wellbeing for enhanced productivity.

2. 

   30 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Explaining the Making Tax Digital changes! With Dan Hogan and Aaron Shaw from Starling Bank

   In this episode, we delve into the implications of the upcoming Making Tax Digital legislation with Dan Hogan and Aaron Shaw from Starling Bank. They share insights on how SMEs can prepare for this significant shift in tax reporting, moving from annual to quarterly submissions. Discover how their journey with Ember led to innovative solutions aimed at simplifying accounting for small businesses, and learn about the tools that can help ease the transition to digital record-keeping. Also learn how you may already have all the tools you need for this new era, already at your fingertips! See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

3. 

   26 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Into the Dragon's Den - Robson & Robson Part 2

   Entrepreneurs Dan Robson and Joe Robson recount their decade-long journey building a creative agency and ultimately securing investment on Dragon's Den for their SeedCell technology in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Finding Focus In A Distracted World! Glenn Stephenson, Fluid Focus

Published 15 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You look at that over a year, it's about 94 days a year will be spent scrolling. And over a typical lifetime, you're up towards nearly 28 waking years when you factor eight hours of sleep in. So what has, and just to conclude, sort of happened quite subtly and then suddenly is the phone features in every waking moment. We wake up, a cheeky scroll in the morning. It might feature in our commute on the way to work. It might feature throughout our workday, into the evening, maybe even at the dinner table and in bed at night. It has just become sort of all-consuming and it's sort of stolen those moments of boredom, solitude, curiosity. […]

Who has been a guest on Why Small Business Matters

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• Glenn Stephenson
• Dan Robson
• Joe Robson
• Rachel Clark
• Liam Toms

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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Quality

52

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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