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At On The Rise, we’re celebrating professional stories and turning the spotlight on young, inspiring individuals to share their advice and perspectives, just a few years into their careers. OTR is produced by the team at video recruitment platform gigl. Gigl is on all platforms @getgigl, where you'll also find clips and extra content from these episodes.
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Clara Warner is a freelance beauty therapist who set up her own business after being furloughed from her spa job in a hotel due to the pandemic. We talk about how she decided to move to London to pursue her beauty career, being furloughed, voluntarily leaving her job at a top hotel spa to set up her business, and much more. We talk about this and m…
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Our guest this week is firefighter Tom Longo. He serves in the White Plains Fire Department in Westchester County, New York, and graduated the Westchester Career Fire Academy in 2017. We speak to Tom about his training, what it means to be a firefighter, promoting public safety in America right now, and what he’s learned so far in his journey.…
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Our guest this week is investor and fashion entrepreneur Jeremy Luzinda. At the age of 24, he already has a wealth of experience under his belt and a really driven mindset to improve and build upon the experiences he has so far. We talk how, at just a few years out of university, he navigated his way to becoming MD of an energy company, then an ear…
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This week we're bringing you a few of our favourite clips from the podcast so far, featuring our guests from episodes 1 to 4: Ilektra Vasiloudi, Carolina Barbosa, Leanne Richardson and Mark & Jack Gaisford. Have a safe and happy Easter weekend, and we'll see you next week for a conversation with another exciting guest. On The Rise is produced by th…
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This week we're very excited to welcome Mark & Jack Gaisford, father & son and founders of RedSprout Media and V21. They have an incredible established following on LinkedIn with a combined 85,000 followers and their video content on the platform has reached hundreds of thousands of people. We talk video, LinkedIn, being authentic and honest online…
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Our guest this week is Leanne Richardson, who’s a world traveller, mentor and business owner. She left school at 16 to go straight into work, then in her early twenties decided she didn’t like the 9-5, and wanted to travel, which is what she has been doing for the last decade until the pandemic hit last year. We talk about this and many more topics…
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Carolina Barbosa is a Social Media Marketing Executive at Social Agendas Marketing. In 2019, she came to the UK from Portugal, starting her Master's degree in Marketing Management at De Montfort University and graduating in 2020. We were really interested to hear how she entered the industry and why exactly it was her dream to come to the UK since …
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Ilektra Vasiloudi is a Clinical Research Assistant at St Thomas' Hospital in London. When she turned 18, she came to the UK to work and study, starting her undergrad course at Bournemouth University in 2018, then graduating her Masters in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine at UCL in London. We talk about her career in the NHS so far and many more…
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