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Small Business, Big Network is the podcast for small business owners who want better results from their networking. I'm Liz Drury, a freelance voiceover artist who knows that if you're not working as much as you'd like, then networking could help! The show is a mix of bite sized episodes on networking basics, and interviews with business owners who are successfully using networking to grow. There are lots of inspirational stories that will encourage you to get started or to keep going on you ...
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Flee Chavasse is the owner of Parker and Boots photography. She loves creating brand photography for business owners, as well as teaching children about photography, and being an NLP practitioner! Flee says she came to networking late but is glad she discovered it. www.parkaandbootsphotography.com www.linkedin.com/in/feliciachavasse https://calendl…
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John Wilson is the Founder of Honest Video, a full-funnel video marketing agency for corporate clients. Honest specialise in beautiful corporate videos and work with the likes of AQA, Bauer Media, Thomson Reuters, Roche, and Asahi. Recently, John co-founded Xplnr which produces animated explainer videos with fixed fees, streamlined processes, and a…
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Kelly Drewett is the founder of Kaydee Website and SEO Agency. Kelly started her business at the tender age of 19 and has been running it for almost 25 years! She now lives in France but networks with people back in the UK through online meetings which she loves. As well as helping businesses with their websites and SEO Kelly also trains people do …
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Blake Caldwell is one of the co-founders of Brotherhood-UK, a coaching business that helps people (predominantly, but not exclusively, men) be the best they can be. Blake's background includes sport, sales and crisis intervention work for Children's Services. He's very keen on fitness and mental health, and wants to help as many people as possible …
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Nicola Auckland is a Business & Brand Photographer with a passion for the relationships formed between business owners, customer and brands. After her corporate career ended during Covid, she turned her profitable side-hustle into fully fledged wedding photography business. Whilst she loved this, she knew something wasn't quite right (and it had li…
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James West is the co-founder of ONLE Networking - the online business network for people who like people. He met his wife Kelly while networking and they built ONLE on the belief that most people can be trusted to network without the rules and protocols that get in the way of running a business. Based on his own experiences, James believes that the…
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Camilla is a Vedic Meditation expert, based in Kent, UK Camilla trained as a primary school teacher in 2000 and learnt to meditate when she was an Assistant Headteacher in an inner city London school. After meditating, she worked as a gardening teacher in the Eden Project, a chef and cooking teacher in Sydney and then returned to the UK to live in …
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Claire Waite Brown is the founder of the Creativity Found podcast where she interviews people about being creative in later life. She has also built the Creativity Found website to help grown-ups find their creativity by listing courses, workshops, events, books, products and subscriptions with creativity at their heart. In addition she has created…
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Martin Whiskin and Ben Bowles (collectively known as Bentin) are the founders of The Creative Collective (TCC), an online networking group for people in creative industries. Their motto is 'collaboration not competition' and their meetings regularly attract 30+ attendees which suggests it's an approach that works! Find out more at: www.thecreativec…
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In 2015, Debra decided to leave the corporate world and do something. Exactly what she was going to do was somewhat unclear! She decided to focus on smaller businesses and see if she could use her experience to support them. Having set up a website, she realised that she needed to get the message out which led to her joining various networking grou…
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Anna is a Sexual Intimacy Expert and Your YOU Coach, operating from China where her focus lies in helping women who’re disappointed, disconnected and detached in their relationships accelerate their intimate connection with their partner with her INTIMACY ACCELERATION 3 Step System. She has helped 100s of women shift from desperate and frustrated t…
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Tom Jepson is a coach for creative people who describes himself as being slightly rebellious and also quite nerdy! Tom's background is in the design industry as both an employee and a freelancer, so he understands the issues that creative business owners face. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomjepsoncoaching/ https://www.tomjepsoncreative.com…
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Branding is all about creating an emotional connection between the brand and their ideal customer. When that prospective customer encounters your brand, it should create an instant feeling. That feeling if done correctly should grow and turn that customer into a customer for life. That’s exactly what Squark Design help business owners to do – build…
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Gemma Adair is the founder of Riada Consultancy, a marketing expert who helps businesses unlock their marketing potential. With an impressive 20-year marketing journey, Gemma has worked for and with some of the world's largest tech giants, including Accenture, Microsoft, Avanade, AWS, Ricoh Europe, and K2 (Nintex). Her deep understanding of the tec…
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Shanel Richardson is a British artist based in Sweden who creates memorable images for memorable projects through the use of illustration, animation and 3D, and she's passionate about helping companies think in creative ways when it comes to their image and marketing. Whether it's sketching out characters and ideas in a rapid sketch-session, or des…
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The Business Allotment is run by Jodie Newman, author of Build Your Business on Ideas (published by Icon Books). From her furniture design MA at the RCA, through a decade spent in marketing, Jodie has since built her business for the last twenty-one years on the belief that great ideas grow businesses and that creativity makes you a better business…
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Barbara Gill is a specialist in marketing creative businesses and has a passion for marketing strategy and email marketing. Barbara founded Barbara Gill Marketing in 2020 with a mission to help businesses without a marketing department to take control of their marketing and reach their ideal clients and customers. Barbara is also a co-founder of th…
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Rayhaan is a Chartered Accountant and the founder of Sidekick, an accountancy firm specialising in providing outsourced accounting and CFO support to business owners. Focused on helping clients make more money and pay less tax, Sidekick distinguishes itself by prioritising client service above all else. This foundational philosophy ensures that eve…
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Matthew Hunkin is a branding expert and runs Valhalla Branding. He has found that being clear on your branding helps with your networking too. If business is a battlefield, then brand is your most powerful weapon. To be victorious, you need a clear strategy, the right weapons, and good people on your side. That is where Valhalla comes in. Matt will…
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Bryan Clayton isn't just another CEO; he's a visionary and a groundbreaker. As the mastermind behind GreenPal, an innovative online marketplace dubbed the "Uber for lawn care" by Entrepreneur magazine, he's revolutionizing the way homeowners connect with local lawn care pros. Boasting over 200,000 active users, GreenPal pulses with thousands of tra…
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Clare Fuller has spent 30 years working as a palliative care nurse and has now set up her own business called 'Speak for me'. She helps people negotiate the tricky topic of advanced care planning, to ensure that at the end of their lives they get what they want and need as far as possible. She is also the host of the 'Conversations about advanced c…
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Dan Knowlton and his brother Lloyd run Knowlton Marketing, an agency which specialises in 'advertainment'. Dan is on a mission to rid the world of 'crap marketing' and encourages businesses to invest in marketing that actually makes their customers feel something. Networking is something Dan feels he got wrong at first, by going to the wrong places…
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In 2011, Rachel MacLynn took a leap of faith. Following a series of serendipitous events, she founded matchmaking agency Vida (now known as Maclynn) in London and never looked back. Rachel is a Chartered Member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and holds a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology. Her own values around int…
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Joe Gallant is a creative guy living in Kent, England with his lovely wife, Naomi, their daughter and a little dog called Kobe. He’s a keen musician and a big sports fan following various sports both English and American. His passion is helping people and organisations to find their voice online, through effective branding and custom website design…
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Phil Tyreman is the most controversial personal trainer on the internet. Incisive and irreverent, his material makes some apoplectic with rage. However, it’s beloved by hardworking and underappreciated family men who are brave enough to engage with challenging ideas, and bold enough to put those ideas into action. He publishes a free daily email ne…
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Ella started out in the mortgage industry in the USA, but after the financial crash of 2008, began building a career focused on helping people. As a specialist advisor for a charity, she worked with many employers facing tribunal claims, most of whom had a poor awareness of their legal duties, or how to tackle HR issues effectively. Ella wanted to …
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Hi – I’m Becky Ray, CEO and High Performing Cultures Consultant at Culture Kick! I’m an engineer, turned H&S Professional turned Culture Change expert and I love nothing more than bringing my experience and expertise into businesses to help enlighten them on how they can improve their culture where their people feel excited to show up to work and p…
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What do you need when you move cities, countries or start a new business? You need a network. After a corporate career in 2 of the 5 largest UK banks Julie Taylor moved to The Netherlands in 2018 as a trailing spouse. Now on her second business, Buzz Business Networking a B2B network of English-speaking businesses that have monthly in person meet u…
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With over 29,000 hours of practical marketing experience, Lenny has worked in the marketing and design industry for over 18 years for several European corporate companies. The Covid pandemic presented an opportunity to move away from employed work and into the arena of self-employment. Three years later, Lenny is the founder and director of Marketi…
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Alison Carter is a life coach who helps people who are dealing with change in their lives - often a career change in midlife. Her background is in retail as a buyer for Selfridges and later John Lewis. When she used to network for her employer she found it something of a chore, but now she's doing it for herself she finds it inspiring and energisin…
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Elizabeth Pearson is the founder of Simple Successful Stocks. As a financial educator she helps women who want to understand money and get it working for them by investing, yet struggle to know where to start and who to trust. She gives them the knowledge and confidence to invest in the stock market themselves and take charge of their financial fut…
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John has spent 3 decades in the digital trade credit space beginning when it was analogue ! He has experience with household brands like Coco-cola, MLC Life, Lend Lease and Microsoft but feels most at home in the SME [ small to medium sized ] business sector. He has led sales teams and built and sold 2 eight figure businesses including a trade sale…
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Justin Nelson started in Real Estate at 16 years old as an Inside Sales Agent and Marketing Director for a Real Estate company based in Denver, CO. At 19 he pursued his Real Estate License and within 3 years had taken over the team which led him to launching his own Real Estate coaching company. 3 years ago Justin launched Sphere Rocket VA to help …
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Liz Villani is founder of #BeYourselfAtWork, an organisation which partners with workplaces to create a new narrative around the role that work plays in our lives to boost energy, performance and results. Her company allows and encourages people to be their authentic selves and see work as an opportunity to make a unique difference. Liz is the crea…
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Karen Campbell is the founder of Karen Campbell Marketing and Hotsy Totsy - a networking club for women in London. She also works with Small Business Britain, heading up the f:entrepreneur campaign. Her first experience of networking wasn't a good one, involving a woman with a large bosom and a business card, but now she loves getting wonderful bus…
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The independent coffee company, CafePod was founded by entrepreneur Peter Grainger, 12 years ago. Peter had been frustrated by how difficult and expensive it was to buy Nespresso pods and felt that consumers deserved more choice and access to quality coffee at home. He became aware that it was possible to produce Nespresso-compatible pods but that …
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Tim Calise is an advisor to start businesses in service industries and the founder of the Product to Profit Framework. Tim has founded and grown a number of businesses, and now helps other entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Networking has been the bedrock of Tim's success and he believes that surrounding yourself with others who have comp…
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Estelle Cartlidge is the founder of two businesses - Making the Grade which matches students to tutors, and My Biz Solution which is an all in one package that helps small business owners with the day to day running of their business. Estelle wasn't a fan of networking at first but she's a real advocate for it now. She says everyone feels daunted a…
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Dave Castro, entrepreneur and creator of the IceBrekr app, seeks to empower people to meet key new connections on their own terms wherever their ideal kind of people gather. Dave has also co-founded a healthcare software company acquired by Dr Oz's ShareCare corporation and has worked in the software industry for over 20 years. Dave has always been…
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Marie Paterson is a wellbeing trainer and coach providing both online and in-person services. She started her working life as a secondary school teacher, teaching Biology and Science. Following the arrival of her two daughters and a move to the east coast of Scotland she joined the Health Service and worked in Organisational and Staff Development. …
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Amy Atkinson is a social media and digital marketing coach specialising in working with small to medium-sized service based businesses. Having worked for over 12 years in this field growing FTSE 100 companies customer bases and sales, she wanted to work with those smaller companies to help them see huge growth too. Amy reached a full client roster,…
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Karen Webber is a marketing coach and strategist. As the owner of Goodness Marketing, Karen helps small businesses with big hearts do marketing that feels good, does good and gets good results. Before starting Goodness Marketing in 2017, Karen worked as a marketing director for a marketing agency. Previously she worked in various editorial and comm…
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Mark Drager, AKA the Badass Brand Architect, is a 5th generation entrepreneur who helps other entrepreneurs with B2B businesses sell more, faster, and easier. The Founder & CEO of SalesLoop, Mark didn't take the usual route to become an authority in the world of marketing. Starting his entrepreneurial journey in 2006 with zero experience, he launch…
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Emma Briggs is the owner of the digital marketing agency EDB Digital, With over 17 years of experience in the marketing industry she has worked with start-ups to multi-national companies to build their brand and push their services and products in front of the right audience. She specialises in social media management and lead generation where she …
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Maria Morgan is founder of Esker Fields a range of natural skincare products. Having become ill with work related stress Maria became interested in all things holistic when she found conventional medicine was unable to help her. Maria is a trained Professional Aromatherapist, Bio Energy therapist and Reiki Master. Maria first set up a holistic busi…
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MSA Skincare is a natural organic vegan skincare brand that is eco friendly and plastic free. Suprina offers luxury vegan skincare products and facial experiences to give her customers a more holistic approach to their skincare journey. Her mission is to make self care enjoyable but easy on the planet, with quality products that celebrate the skin …
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