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How does our upbringing dictate our current situation and future aspirations? How do we bottle the ingredients that create success? What are the childhood influences that really shape someone’s future? How can we raise kids to be confident, positive, creative and resourceful? What can we do about it as adults? These are all questions the Clever Tykes team is working hard to get to the bottom of. To do this we are interviewing people we admire. The line-up includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, sports ...
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We are so excited that today is the launch date of the brand new book - How To Raise Entrepreneurial Kids. You can find the book and accompanying resources here: https://clevertykes.com/book This episode is presented by Clever Tykes cofounder Jodie Cook. Here's the transcript: Hello and welcome to the Clever Tykes podcast – creating useful people –…
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After announcing our brand new book How to raise entrepreneurial kids, Daniel Priestley and I were inundated with questions about it, so we recorded this episode to answer them. Topics include: When the book will be available to read If this book is only for pushy parents Our collective expertise for writing this book The difference between a child…
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I’m super excited to announce the launch of a brand new book! How to raise entrepreneurial kids is a brand new book that I have written with Daniel Priestley, a friend and co-author whose work I admire. It will be released in autumn 2020. Ahead of that, we recorded this podcast episode in which we discuss the book and the inspiration behind it. The…
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After recording 17 interviews with 17 amazing guests, we started to see trends between their childhood influences. Listen to this season one summary episode to find out the 6 trends that came up several times. Revisit each episode using the link below: Craig Donaldson, CEO of Metro Bank Jessica Wheeler, principal of Elmhurst Ballet School Jordan Da…
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Sara Davies MBE is the founder and creative director of Crafter’s Companion, which designs, manufactures and sells its craft-related products to customers across 40 countries and employs more than 200 people worldwide. She established Crafter’s Companion while studying at York University. In 2016, Sara was presented with an MBE in Her Majesty’s Bir…
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Carrie Green is the founder the Female Entrepreneur Association (FEA) and the author of the international bestseller, She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur. FEA is a global network of over 600,000 women from around the world. Carrie set it up after feeling isolated running her first successful …
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Decision-making frameworks for a successful career and lifestyle. Katrina Owen is an ecosystem engineer at GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. She accidently became a software developed whilst pursuing a degree in molecular biology! Katrina is also the creator of Exercism, a platform for code practice and programming mentorsh…
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The importance of attention to detail when creating a global sports brand Benjamin Banks is the CEO and founder of SBD Group. Started in 2013 under the name SBD Apparel, the company develops superior strength clothing and equipment with world class athletes, coaches and health professionals. The products are made in the UK, predominantly in SBD’s f…
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The making of a mayor Andy was elected as the first mayor of the West Midlands in May 2017. Prior to that, he was the managing director of British retail giant, John Lewis, where during his tenure at the top he oversaw a 50% increase in gross sales to over £4.4bn, a doubling of the number of stores and the growth of the company's online business. A…
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From buying a badge-making machine to hiring 100 people. Charlotte heads up the creative and marketing at Awesome Merch - a custom print and merchandise business she co-founded way back in 2005, when business partner Luke and she went off to university in Leeds. Since then, Awesome Merch has gone from 2 people in a bedroom, to over 100 people in tw…
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From no electricity on Sundays to technology that saves lives. Jeremy is a geek and an entrepreneur. He runs a range of technology businesses ranging from an education platform that’s helped over 200,000 learn to code, to using artificial intelligence to improve outcomes during heart surgery. In this episode, recorded face-to-face from Austin, we d…
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How a “yeah, why not?” attitude shaped a career in TV and comedy. Phill Jupitus is a stand up and an improv comedian. He’s also an actor, a performance poet, a cartoonist and a podcaster. Phill was a team captain on the BBC 2 show "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" for 19 years. He regularly appears on other panels shows including QI and within the last mo…
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From teen eBay power-seller to a global internet entrepreneur. Deepak Tailor is the founder of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk. He started his first website aged just 16 from his bedroom and his sites now reach over 1 million consumers every month. He has featured on the BBC show Dragons Den, been voted young entrepreneur of the year and has written & publis…
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How changing school 6 times prepares a future CEO. Paul Faulkner is CEO of Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, former CEO of Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest football clubs and board member for organisations including Cure Leukaemia, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Sport Birmingham… all before the age of 40! In this podcast we discuss growi…
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The value of adversity and travel on a career developing others. Oona Collins is the CEO of Potential Plus International and an executive coach with 25 years experience of developing emotionally intelligent leaders and high performing teams. Her work has taken her all over the world, coaching people of all different nationalities in senior and high…
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From washing neighbours cars to becoming a bestselling author Graham is the author of three books, including the global best-seller “How to be a Productivity Ninja“, and is the founder of Think Productive, one of the world’s leading providers of personal productivity training and consultancy, with offices all over the world. In this podcast we disc…
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From teenage publicity stunts to multiple businesses and an honorary doctorate. Mike Bandar is a founding Partner of Turn Partners, a start up studio focused on the acquisition, turnaround and creation of digital businesses. In 2017 he received a British Empire Medal for ‘Services to Young Entrepreneurs in the West Midlands’ as well as being awarde…
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From an enterprising household to an enterprise nation. Emma Jones MBE is the founder of Enterprise Nation and small business advisor to the UK government. She received her MBE in 2012 for services to enterprise, speaks fluent Japanese and is on a mission to make the UK the most enterprising nation. In this podcast we discuss how Emma’s first exper…
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Schoolboy negotiator to Dragon’s Den success story Jordan Daykin is the CEO of Gripit, a £20million business that he started with his grandad when he was 13. Jordan successfully secured investment from Deborah Meaden on Dragon’s Den when he was 19, making him the youngest person ever to do so. In this podcast we discuss how leaving home and school …
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Creating ‘thinking dancers’ at world-leading dance school. Jessica Wheeler is the principal of the prestigious and world-renowned Elmhurst Ballet School, and has been since 2010. Under her leadership the school has received glowing OFSTED reports, record-breaking exam reports, and even received a royal visit! After studying contemporary dance at Tr…
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From pub cellar boy to award-winning bank CEO. Craig Donaldson is the CEO of Metro Bank, a role he has held since the bank’s inception in 2009, having previously worked in many financial services roles including at BT, Barclays, HBOS and RBS Group. In 2017 Craig won the ‘Most people-focused CEO’ award at the HR Excellence Awards. Originally from Su…
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