Welcome to Spoke. Deep conversations with interesting people about subjects that matter. Join Jonny McCormick and a new guest each week during the season and be a 'fly-on-the-wall' during interesting conversations on a whole host topics like online community building and the fight against modern slavery. You'll get a unique insight into a subject that's close to our guests' heart and hear a little bit about what makes these incredible people tick. You can connect with Spoke on instagram and ...
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Summit is committed to helping you reach the summit of your leadership potential. Some episodes will feature experts and thought-leaders and others will simply introduce a 'thought for the day' to provoke you. Summit also has a publication on Medium https://medium.com/summit-plus
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Talking to players and managers about their careers.
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This week we spoke to Jonny Drury about how he got involved in Welsh Football, he also speaks about his time at Newtown and we also get his thoughts about the Welsh Premier League.
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This week we spoke to Terry Mccormick, who’s played at Connah’s Quay, Bala, Aberystwyth, Conwy and Rhyl. Terry tell us in depth about his career, funny story about getting sent off for Bala, story involving Peter Hoy, and Nev Powell phoning him every summer to sign for him. Maybe Terry will come out of retirement again...…
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This week we spoke to former Bangor City, Aberystwyth and Cefn Druids defender Peter Hoy about his career and his future plans.
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Tonight I spoke to CPD Y Rhyl 1879 new manager Gareth Thomas. Talking about his plans for the football club and looking forward to the challenge ahead.
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This week we were joined by Bangor 1876 director of football Iwan Williams. We talked about his time at Caernarfon, leaving Caernarfon for Llandudno, his time at Llandudno and now joining Bangor 1876 and the plans for the club.
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This week we spoke to Shrewsbury & ex Wales International David Edwards about his career so far and that summer in France for the Euro 2016, and his future plans!
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In this episode we talk about the dressing room at Bangor City, moving on to TNS, and then signing for Colwyn Bay.
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In this episode we talk about how he played in the Welsh System, playing for Rhyl, Bangor and TNS.
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In this episode we talk about winning the Welsh Cup and the MG Cup, we also talk about the FAW coaching, being on the same course as Chris Wilder and future plans.
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In this episode we spoke to Jay about his plans he had for Connah’s Quay, we also spoke about the progression the club have had over the last couple of years, and also preparing for Europe.
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We spoke to Brighton & Wales forward Kayleigh Green about her career so far. The togetherness with the Wales national team, and also learning Welsh and her future plans.
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We talk about Michael younger days playing in the WPL, talking about Europe and why he decided to join Connah’s Quay, he’s not surprised Connah’s Quay are doing so well, and why he re-signed for Prestatyn, and a few fire questions.
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In this episode we talk about playing in Europe, Bangor 1876 and future plans.
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We spoke to Johno about his time at Bangor City, he decided to join Bangor permanently after getting released from Tranmere. He turned down trials from league two clubs to sign for Bangor.
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Today we spoke to Chris Hughes who is the manager of Cymru Premier side Newtown. We also spoke about his time at Prestatyn and also his future plans.
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We speak to Craig about his time at TNS, managing in Europe, Hartlepool, short spell at Bangor and going as a number 2 at Connah’s Quay.
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Our first ever episode with Colwyn Bay manager Craig Hogg. When recording the episode Colwyn Bay were in the English system (Feb2019). We also spoke about the European experience with Llandudno and also talking about his coaching.
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In this episode, is like a Q&A and talks us through his life apart from football. Spending time with his Family and also being a teacher.
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An in depth chat with Rob Evans, talking about his time at Wrexham, how he had to be in Essex for 7:00am to sign for Billericay, also his time at Warrington and now currently at Curzon Ashton. He also turn down opportunities to sign in the Welsh Premier League but doesn’t rule it out in the future.
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Tony talks through about coaching out in Latvia, doing his coaching badges in Scotland and Wales. There’s a few tech difficulties in this episode, I do apologise!
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We spoke to Mike Jones about his current football career. We also spoke about the season Guilsfield have had.
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Increased collaboration in decision making with Matthew Handley
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In this episode I'm joined by Matthew Handley a designer and facilitator who helps teams and organisations inject more collaboration into their decision making. He works with large companies to help them make decisions quickly.
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The invention of chess and exponential growth
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Is exponential growth always a good thing? It's certainly sold as the holy grail, the thing we should all be aiming for. But, perhaps the story of how chess was invented will cause us to reflect on this.
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Building trust and alignment in teams with Mark Dawson
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In this episode Mark Dawson shares how to build trust and alignment in teams. He speaks about why diversity is normally a pre-requisite for high-perfoming teams and he provides some practical, top tips for how you might go about building trust and alignment in your teams. We'd love to hear from you you can contact me about anything in the episode, …
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We spoke to Frank about his days at Borough United. The Welsh Cup run when they beat Bangor, Hereford and Newport, and their European Football with trips to Malta and Slovakia.
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CLOSING OUT SEASON 2 | Jonny McCormick | Season 2 Episode 10
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I can't believe it was 10 weeks ago that we started Season 2 and here we are at the final episode! This episode is just me (again!) answering some questions that were submitted via our Instagram. Thank you so much for listening along in Season 2...hope you stick around for when Season 3 launches.By Jonny McCormick
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ARCHEOLOGY, BROCHS AND THE NORTH COAST OF SCOTLAND | Kenneth McElroy | Season 2 Episode 9
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In this episode, I'm joined by Kenneth McElroy one of the founders of the Caithness Broch Project. In our discussion, Kenneth explains what a broch is, why they're important, why heritage tourism is important for more remote areas of Scotland and gives his musings on archeology in general. It's a great conversation. If you don't know what a broch i…
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INSIDE THE VAULT - THE PERSON BEHIND IRELAND'S ONLY DEDICATED LUXURY WATCH BOUTIQUE | Nico van der Horst | Season 2 Episode 7
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This week on the show I'm joined by Nico van der Horst. Nico started Pride and Pinion - Ireland's only dedicated luxury watch boutique - with modest loan from the bank and a plan to buy and sell watches. Since then he's gone on to open the Vault, Pride and Pinion's first shop inside the Merchant Hotel in Belfast. In our show Nico talks about his vi…
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HELPING OTHERS GET INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD USING YOUTUBE | Dr Simon Clark | Season 2 Episode 6
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This week we have Dr Simon Clark on the show. Simon is a Youtuber with a PhD from the University of Exeter. He spends his time on Youtube sharing about science, maths, and helping students get into elite universities like the University of Oxford where he completed his undergraduate and master's degrees. Simon's Youtube channel Simon's Twitter acco…
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A TEAPOT SALESPERSON TURNED VENTURE CAPITALIST | Michael Howe | Season 2 Episode 5
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Michael Howe, a co-founder of Campus Capital, shares in this episode his journey from being an overstocked teapot salesperson to founding one of the most innovative venture funds around today. Michael along with his co-founder Samantha started a venture fund that operates traditionally in many ways, raising money from institutional and high-net-wor…
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Summit is a new podcast dedicated to helping you reach the summit of your leadership potential. In each episode, host Jonny McCormick, will sit down with a thought leader to discuss a subject like creating compelling cultures, leading through change, or creating an organisational strategy. Summit is brough to you by Rosseau.…
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THOUGHTS FROM A 10 YEAR OLD | Noah McCormick | Season 2 Episode 4
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This episode is a bit different. For a start, it wasn't necessarily planned! I sat down and recorded a brief conversation with my youngest brother and we chatted through funny nicknames (Stinky Poo McGrick), his thoughts on Brexit and what he believes are some of the 'big issues' in the world today.By Noah McCormick
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Following from Caernarfon Town successful season last year we now look ahead to this season, we talk about pre season and the season ahead. We also talk about his brother Neal Eardley enjoying his time at Lincoln and the Crowley brothers and lastly we talked about the coaching conference.
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In this episode we sat down with Sean Eardley and talked about Caernarfon Town from last season and what he thought on their return to the Welsh Premier League.
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BUILDING A START-UP | Krystyn Harrison | Season 2 Episode 3
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In this episode, I am joined by Krystyn Harrison, CEO of Prosper. Prosper is an app based coaching service helping people navigate their careers. They can provide coaching on things like landing your dream job, scoring a promotion or even just leveling up your leadership ability. Krystyn is a multi-business founder and in this episode, she shares a…
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In this episode we talk about last season and the upcoming season. As he targets success at Rhyl.
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WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A MAGAZINE | Daniel Giacopelli | Season 2 Episode 2
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In this conversation Daniel Giacopelli, Editor of Courier Magazine shares what goes into making magazines work as a business. He also talks about the state of media today and gives some hints at where Courier might go in the future.By Jonny McCormick, Daniel Giacopelli
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LIVING LIFE ON YOUR OWN TERMS & BUILDING A BUSINESS THROUGH INSTAGRAM | Sara Tasker @meandorla | Season 2 Episode 1
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It's an absolute delight this week to be joined by the one and only, Sara Tasker. You might know her as @meandorla on Instagram or elsewhere. You might also know her as the author of #Authentic the book or the host of the podcast by the same name. Or, maybe as one of the co-hosts of Letter from a Hopeful Creative. Sara is a busy bee online and it's…
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Intro to season 2 | Season 2 Episode 0 | Jonny McCormick
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Lyra McKee - GoFundMe legacy fundraiser Wow…it’s been a while. I’m finally ready to start launching season 2 episodes and I’m really excited to share them with you. We’ll launch season 2 on 27th June which is exactly one year after our first official episode aired, with Mel Wiggins in the guest seat. And, in fact we’re going to launch with two epis…
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Q&A CLOSING OUT SEASON 1 | Jonny McCormick | Season 1 Episode 10
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👌🏼✌🙌🏼 A bit of a different one this week to close out Season 1 as I'm joined by...no-one! It's just me. I thought a nice way to close out season 1 would be to answer some of the questions from you, the audience. So I hope you enjoy this brief episode. I'm currently busy in the throes of planning Season 2 and already have 4 interviews booked for the…
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