Best Rather Inventive Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 8: From EA to CEO, Entrepreneurship with Emilie Givens 48:32

15d ago48:32

48:32

Emilie Given, CEO of She's a Given virtual assistance agency, shares her journey from being a medical assistant to Executive Assistant, to starting her own virtual assistant agency. She emphasizes the importance of work-life balance and helping business owners enjoy their lives outside of work. Emily discusses the crisis of consciousness in the fut…

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Episode 7: The Future of Learning 47:16

29d ago47:16

47:16

In this episode we meet Cameron Elliott, the country manager for Good Habitz, an online Learning platform. Cam shares his career journey and the mission of his current employer, who focuses on self-development and utilizes self-assessments to create personalized learning journeys. We discuss the importance of human skills, such as adaptability, com…

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Episode 6: Conscious Leadership with Indira Kennedy 58:11

2M ago58:11

58:11

Join me and Indira Kennedy as we explore the evolution of conscious leadership and personal development over the past 20 years, emphasizing the shift towards spiritual intelligence (SQ) and the importance of self-mastery, values, and individual purpose. In this episode we delve into the role of leaders in facilitating personal development, the impa…

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EPISODE 5: Talking Men's Mental Health 37:26

11M ago37:26

37:26

We welcome guest Nick Mair, from Men's Mental Health Pack, a Mental Health First Aid practitioner using his own battle with "the black dog" to help others navigate and manage their mental health. Nick is on a mission to be a beacon of hope, to show men, and all of us, how to be open and honest with ourselves and those close to us. In this episode w…

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EPISODE 4: Outcomes Over Hours with Tina Paterson 35:30

11M ago35:30

35:30

In this episode we welcome Tina Paterson, founder of Outcomes over Hours, and Author of "Effective Remote Teams: How to Lead Yourself & Your Team to Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes without Burnout". Tina and I discuss the burnout experience that woke her up to the realization that work shouldn't be so hard, and certainly wasn't something that should…

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EPISODE 3: Exploring the Employee Experience 40:39

12M ago40:39

40:39

Join Matt Shaffer and I as we discuss the keys to engaging employees, what it really takes to be a leader, and the role purpose plays in understanding your self, and utilizing your skills.By Kendra Parker

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EPISODE 2: Inside the brain: Exploring Neurodiversity with Julia Armet 37:54

12M ago37:54

37:54

Join me for an exploratory conversation inside the brain, as we talk to Julia Armet about neurodiversity and the role it plays in the workplace of the future.By Kendra Parker

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EPISODE 1: A Conscious Business Revolution with Peter Matthies 39:29

12M ago39:29

39:29

Join me for a discussion with Peter Matthies, former venture capitalist turned founder and CEO of The Conscious Business Institute. After having completed the 10 month Master Program through Peter's learnings, I've launched this little podcast to help amplify the voices of Peter, and those who are on a mission to share their wisdom and insights. Th…

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Introducing The Like-Minded Radicals 4:36

1y ago4:36

4:36

Ready to start a workplace revolution? I know I am! And I'm guessing when you think about it, that you too believe there must be an easier, more enjoyable way to work. If so, join the movement and follow along as we explore how to find more fulfillment and satisfaction in the job you're in, and how you can possibly design a better role for your sou…

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Going on Pause - Dan Barker 3:51

1+ y ago3:51

3:51

This is going to be a fairly quick one because I've decided to put the podcast on pause for the time being. Press play to find out why. On that note, let me give you some great news about the new “Thriving Three Counties Mastermind Community” that we've launched this year. What is it all about? Thanks for asking! Well in short, we're a group of ge…

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Rather Inventive Marketing Interview - Ben Kinnaird 58:25

1+ y ago58:25

58:25

This week we're going to turn the tables. I was very lucky to be invited onto a podcast with Ben Kinnaird, who runs a company called Rather Inventive Marketing. It's quite cool what he does. He essentially runs a sort of private podcast, which he puts out to his club members, and his club members are his clients. We had a lot of fun, and covered a …

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Work Life Balance - Dan Barker 12:57

1+ y ago12:57

12:57

Does Work Life Balance Even Exist? Just a few of my thoughts on the whole work life balance thing that partly came about from one of our mastermind community meet ups. If you're interested in the group then give me a shout and I'll give you all the details. Remember, you can find links to all the episodes and show notes over at www.danbarkerstudios…

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Goal Setting - Dan Barker 11:21

1+ y ago11:21

11:21

81 - Goal Setting It's that time of year when we think about what’s important to us and what we want to achieve. Most of us try to set goals, but are we achieving them? Drawing from personal experience and that of mentors, Dan believes there are ways to accomplish goals which are more effective than others. As we launch into the new year, it’s good…

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This will be big - Dan Barker 8:59

1+ y ago8:59

8:59

Episode 80 Welcome to the Thriving Three Countries podcast with Dan Barker. Conversations with inspiring business people throughout the three counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. Dan is flying solo in today’s episode but it’s because he wants to let you know about the new “Thriving Three Counties Mastermind Community” that…

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Spotting Opportunities To Make A Difference - Jon Johnson 1:08:00

1+ y ago1:08:00

1:08:00

If you've heard the story of me finding my niche in photography a number of years ago, you'll have heard about today's guest, Jon Johnson already. While battling myself, trying to make the photography business work so I could leave my day job, I decided to ask on LinkedIn what struggles people had had when working with commercial photographers. Jon…

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Rise And Thrive - Molly Collinson And Love Coles 56:40

1+ y ago56:40

56:40

Molly Collinson and Love Coles' business is based in Malvern and provides a full compliment of offerings based around three pillars of health - well-being, movement and nutrition. They offer a plant based kitchen, a studio with a full schedule of movement classes and an ethos around helping everyone in their community to thrive and improve their li…

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Zero to Xero Hero - Ian Jarvis 48:04

1+ y ago48:04

48:04

I've had a pleasure of watching Ian Jarvis transition from employed to running his own accountancy business, as we both took the plunge around a similar time, in 2018. Since then, Ian's client roster has grown at an incredible rate - and for full disclosure, I'm one of them! Ian is always been ahead of the curve when it comes to technology and ways…

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How To Light Up Your Life - Simon Wallis Smith 1:04:02

1+ y ago1:04:02

1:04:02

After falling out of love with his career in IT, the work, the commute and the drain on family life, Simon Wallis Smith decided to take the plunge and buy an existing business in a completely different sector - antique lighting. Armed with no experience in retail or lighting, but the motivation to make positive changes in his life for himself and h…

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Solid Growth - Dan Lewis 59:43

1+ y ago59:43

59:43

Dan Lewis returns to the show after being one of the very first guests on episode 3. Dan has built a thriving estate agency business in Worcestershire over the last 4 years and continues to develop both himself and the business, which is built on solid foundations and a commitment to fantastic customer experience. https://freeagent247.com/ https://…

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Striving for Quality - Dan Cooke 49:58

2y ago49:58

49:58

Dan Cooke is an engineer with a passion and skill in business, a combination which exists, but in my experience can be rare. We've been working with him and the business he manages for a couple of years now and in that time I've watched him help grow the business through hard work, enthusiasm, dedication, a few all-nighters and a commitment to deta…

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Thriving on Curiosity - Stuart Wilkes 1:13:07

2y ago1:13:07

1:13:07

With a career spanning over 30 years, Stuart Wilkes is now firmly planted in the complementary worlds of business, technology and marketing. He's worked in diverse roles such as hardware and software engineering, product design, product management, product marketing technology leadership and content creation. As a child, he was surrounded by entrep…

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From Submarines to Luxury Food Hampers - Simon Veal 1:14:53

2y ago1:14:53

1:14:53

Simon Veal's past experiences include serving in the Royal Navy on nuclear submarines for over 20 years, trekking mount Kilimanjaro, running the London marathon, skippering a yacht around the Greek Islands and what he describes as 'a number of interesting jobs' - which I'm looking forward to hearing more about! He now runs a luxury food hamper busi…

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You Can Make The Change - Ant Stevens 1:00:49

2y ago1:00:49

1:00:49

Ant Stevens is the co-founder of Ledbury Real Ales - a local brewery, based just outside of Ledbury. The beer is sold mainly within a 15 mile radius of the brewery, allowing him to meet one of his main aims of creating a local product for a local market. He's a born and bred a Yorkshire man, who says real ale is in his blood. His passion for beer h…

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Enthusiasm and Hard Work - Chris Wilkins 1:11:12

2y ago1:11:12

1:11:12

Chris Wilkins started his retail career and the young age of 15 in sports retail and on leaving school went to college but found it was not for him. While working Saturdays in the sports shop he made the decision to pursue his passion of sales and customer experience. Having worked through the ranks in sports retail he moved to Vodafone in 2006, qu…

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It's All Meant To Be - Graham Baylis 1:03:13

2y ago1:03:13

1:03:13

Graham Baylis is based in Hereford and is an SEO expert. Anyone who's been networking in the area recently will recognise him and his props...especially the tickling stick! All will be explained! https://somltd.co.uk/ https://serendipity-online-marketing.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbaylis/By Dan Barker

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Grow from the Opposite View Point - Helena Mitchell 1:20:20

2y ago1:20:20

1:20:20

Helena has worked in all aspects of the performance industry from TV commercials and voiceovers to UK tours and choreography. She loves comedy and enjoys using her natural comedic timing within comedy improvisation shows and stand up comedy routines. She describes herself as an intuitive, reliable and efficient performer who is easy to direct and w…

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Best of...How to Be Brave and SCALE - Sonja Leeson 57:54

2+ y ago57:54

57:54

A look back at our chat with Sonja Leason - who was a homeless single mum at 17, Managing Director by 30, #1 best selling author by 36 and property investor at 37. She’s a #1 best selling author of A Woman's Work, a book that was written to help more women into business. The book knocked Elon Musk off #1 and Simon Sinek off #2! Her podcast, Struggl…

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Giffords to Guru - Pete Sen 1:01:55

2+ y ago1:01:55

1:01:55

Pete Sen is a co-founder of Gifford's Circus, a multi- instrumentalist/composer and director of an award winning music Tuition company called The Music Guru. After spending a year playing the Irish bars in Paris with a thrash trad folk band called 'Fionn', he returned to England where he earned a degree at the London College of Music. In 2000, he w…

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Words Mean Business - Catherine Every 54:17

2+ y ago54:17

54:17

Catherine is a B2B copywriter and founder of Pippin Copywriting Ltd. She writes for businesses of all shapes and sizes from one person consultancies to multinational corporations. She started her career in marketing and was a marketing manager for several publishers, the most famous of which was Oxford University Press. She moved to Herefordshire i…

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The Best of...Jack Wratten 1:05:46

2+ y ago1:05:46

1:05:46

We're looking back at the motivation episode with Jack, who shares his experiences in business and what drives him to do what he does every day. Jack Wratten is an entrepreneur and founder of Bloom Space in Malvern, and the Bloom Incubator, helping people plan, start and grow their businesses. He has a ton of experience starting and scaling multipl…

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The Story Behind It All - Dan Barker 55:36

2+ y ago55:36

55:36

It all has to start somewhere and this is the story of how Dan, our host, found himself at the helm of his own thriving business in the three counties - Dan Barker Studios. From his days at Airbus in Bristol, to moving to Herefordshire and setting up his company, Dan talks about what he's learned along the way - like all the guests so far in this s…

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Best of - Alan Clarke 1:13:51

2+ y ago1:13:51

1:13:51

This week it's one of our best of episodes where we get the chance to bring you one of our favourites from the back catalogue of episodes so far... Alan Clark of Exponential Coaching was episode 36, talking about how to gain optimum clarity. After a 22-year leadership career with Boots UK and Boots Opticians, Alan left in the summer of 2017 to foll…

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Keeping It Clean - Katie Alcott 1:01:56

2+ y ago1:01:56

1:01:56

Katie is an award winning social entrepreneur, innovator and global changemaker with a passion for creative ideas that deliver social impact. At the age of 25, she founded Frank Water, a pioneering social enterprise based on the concept of water for water, whereby the profits from bottled water sales go to clean water projects. Having raised over £…

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Create Your Roadmap to Success - Paul Holmes 1:11:26

2+ y ago1:11:26

1:11:26

If you've listened to episode 52 of the podcast with Ian Woodley, the name of today's guest will be familiar to you. Paul Holmes is Managing Director of PCH Business Consultants, based in Swindon and has almost 30 years business and engineering experience including a number of FTSE100 organisations. He's been involved with Manufacturing, Operations…

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Playing with NFTs - Tom Alcott 1:18:09

2+ y ago1:18:09

1:18:09

Tom is a serial entrepreneur, who since 1997 has founded or co founded 5 start ups including a training company, a social network analytics company, an international clean water charity, a gourmet spice traders and most recently BlockMark Technologies - a high tech digital certificate company. Since early 2018 he's been exploring NFT's, or Non-Fung…

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Risky Business - Nick Tudor 1:02:22

2+ y ago1:02:22

1:02:22

In 2012, Nick Tudor co-founded his company D-RisQ, based in Malvern, which produces automated formal methods verification tools for systems and software which support compliance to many standards. He was an RAF Officer Engineer for 20 years and has a BEng in Electrical Engineering. In 2000, he gained a MSC in Software Engineering, and became the se…

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It's A Kind of Magic - Richard Parsons 1:04:09

2+ y ago1:04:09

1:04:09

There are only a few full-time, professional magicians in the country and we tracked one down who's based in Gloucestershire. Richard specialises in close up magic at weddings, corporate events, Christmas parties and Trade Shows. In a career spanning over a decade his highlights include performing in Venice, Italy… Madrid, Spain and in 2019 on stag…

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The Power of Niching - Dan Barker 25:47

2+ y ago25:47

25:47

The first solo episode! In this episode, Dan Barker discusses his thoughts and shares his experiences with finding and developing a niche for his video production and photography business. www.danbarkerstudios.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbarkerstudios/By Dan Barker

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Purposeful Content Marketing - Scott Nelson 1:01:47

2+ y ago1:01:47

1:01:47

Scott is the founder of MoneyNerd, a personal finance website that helps people in financial difficulties. In his previous life, he worked in financial technology where he was responsible for launching websites and mobile apps for loan and credit card products. Last year he moved out of central London and now manages a remote team from his office i…

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Building A Dream Outdoor Leisure Brand - Daniel Walton 1:02:22

2+ y ago1:02:22

1:02:22

Having grown up in Sheffield and studied at University in North Wales, Dan has always had a love of the outdoors and adventure. And after many years working in the Outdoor Industry, he founded his company, Worcestershire based OLPRO in 2011, in order to set about changing the boring world of camping and campervans. With his company OLPRO, the main …

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Educating Our Future Risk Takers - Matt Atkinson 1:08:16

2+ y ago1:08:16

1:08:16

Matt is a tech entrepreneur based in Malvern who runs multiple businesses, primarily focussed on mobile connectivity, Internet of Things (IoT) and data networking. He's very community minded and recently set up a new networking group for technology companies called the Malvern Technology Network, with the aim of improving the local community, econo…

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Focus. Beliefs. Possibilities - Ian Woodley 58:37

2+ y ago58:37

58:37

A year after appearing on episode 1 of the podcast, Ian Woodley joins us for a second time to reflect back on a busy year of growth in his business. We discussed what Ian has learned this last year, and what his plans are moving forwards into 2022. https://www.brandstilo.co.uk/ https://www.stilotouch.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-woodley/…

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Developing Tech with a Deep Purpose - Jack Miles 1:06:59

2+ y ago1:06:59

1:06:59

Jack was recognised in the 2020 honours list for his work with an MBE. He's a medical doctor who's spent most of the last decade splitting his time between delivering primary care in the UK and emergency and humanitarian care in the developing world. He has an interest in efficient workplace systems and enjoys applying lessons learned from operatin…

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Why Start a Podcast? Rich Hurst 1:29:33

2+ y ago1:29:33

1:29:33

Rich is a former radio presenter of almost 20 years in the commercial sector. He runs his own podcast and his own production company helping others get theirs set up and keeping them going. He's a communications professional and a host on the side, working as an event compere and stadium announcer at West Bromwich Albion. www.giftedgab.co.uk https:…

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IMC Podcast 37: Reviewing your Google My Business profile 9:39

2+ y ago9:39

9:39

A clip from a joint webinar with Heidi from Minx Media where Ben goes through how to review and optimise your Google My Business profile.For show notes: https://ratherinventive.com/blog/imc-podcast-37-reviewing-your-google-my-business-profile👋 If you found this podcast interesting you might like my Marketing Club. Join to receive regular tips and a…

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Discovering a Passion for Wellbeing - Dave Rogers 1:05:32

2+ y ago1:05:32

1:05:32

Dave is a strategic business leader with over 25 years experience working across numerous industries. Having spent the last 16 years in the hospitality sector, where he's currently Head of Finance at Marston's PLC in Wolverhampton, he's developed a people-focused passion for wellbeing and personal development. Outside of the day job, he coaches, me…

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Performance Based Marketing - Faye Alexandra Smith 1:05:44

3y ago1:05:44

1:05:44

After working with larger agencies began to feel too impersonal, Faye decided to start her own business to offer a bespoke service catering to the smaller independent business sector, where she could have a close working relationship with her clients. Prior to this, she had built an established career in events and marketing where she was able to d…

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IMC Podcast 36: Why you should be doing customer testimonials 6:03

3y ago6:03

6:03

Ben & Clare discuss why every business should be gathering customer testimonials.https://ratherinventive.com/blog/imc-podcast-36-why-you-should-be-doing-customer-testimonials/👋 If you found this podcast interesting you might like my Marketing Club. Join to receive regular tips and advice on marketing, video and the web and Pro Members get access to…

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How To Go Niche - Paul Chester 57:45

3y ago57:45

57:45

Paul Chester is a business owner based in Worcester and runs the seasonal and niche company "Three Counties Christmas" Having trained at university in Bristol to become a teacher which he did for five years at a local school. After 5 years, he then made the transition to running his own business. www. threecountiescrhistmas.co.uk https://www.linked…

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From Corporate To Charity - Ruth Allsopp (live) 36:03

3y ago36:03

36:03

Ruth grew up in Worcestershire and settled back in the county after studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Huddersfield University. She built her commercial career at a local cyber security software company - Titania , where she worked for 9 years, and became VP of Operations. In 2011 she became a founding member of the Worcestershire …

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