Ep2, Viviana Stecconi, WellFitBox - Start a business on a budget & we are all creative
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Release Date: 12/10/2019
Ep23, Peter Hopwood, International Speaker & TEDx Coach - Public speaking with confidence & storytelling through emotion
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
In this episode of Rebel In Progress, I'm joined by Peter Hopwood. We talk about public speaking, leadership communication and moments of emotion to guide storytelling.
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Ep22, Egbe Manton, Manton Legal - Startup legals & healthy client relationships
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Egbe Manton is a commercial lawyer and commercial director of Manton Legal Consultancy. This episode is for business owners that struggle with the legal aspect of the business. Egbe shares practical contract tips, how to ensure a healthy client relationship and how she aims to do things differently in the legal profession.
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Ep21, Caroline Hughes, Lifetise - Money, Authenticity & Being An Agitator
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Caroline Hughes is the CEO of Lifetise, she shares her relationship with money and her role as an agitator in work.
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Ep20, Tommy Ludgate, Brightly Imagine - Overcoming Fear & Rituals to Aid Performance
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on Creative Connections is the coach for creatives, Tommy Ludgate of Brightly Image. She uses a blend of coaching, mentoring and teaching to help her clients overcome the challenges holding them back in their careers and lives.
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Ep19, Ben Foulkes, Hoxby - Futureproofing & redefining the way we work
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Ben Foulkes, the MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby. Hoxby Futureproofing provides coaching and consulting services to help clients build their own future of work.
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Ep18, Nancy Evbuomwan, Unikable - Importance of biz strategy & being unemployable
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Nancy Evbuomwan. Nancy is the high energy (and hilarious) founder of Unikable. Unikable specialises in business strategy, agility and empowering uniqueness.
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Ep17, Katy Murray, Catalyst Collective - Acting without permission & rest as a competitive advantage
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Katy Murray.
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Ep16, Lara Hayward, Oxford University - Follow your curiosity & learning from high-performance environments
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
This week my guest is Lara Hayward.
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Ep15, Jess Salamanca, Banana Scoops - Creative problem solving and crafting the perfect supermarket pitch
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week is Jess Salamanca, the Founder of Banana Scoops. Banana Scoops makes ice cream from creamy bananas and other natural and plant-based ingredients with no additives, preservatives, refined sugars or sweeteners.
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Ep14, Anne Ditmeyer, Creative Consultant - Design-thinking & create your own rules
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My Creative Connections guest this week is Anne Ditmeyer, an American creative entrepreneur based in Paris. She is a designer, creative coach and consultant, and founded her blog Prêt à Voyager (translation: ready to travel) in 2007 to explore the intersection of design and travel. She attributes her successes to her platform saying it remains the best business card to this day.
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Viviana Stecconi is the founder of WellFitBox, the subscription box that is more than a beauty box. Their mission is to get you feeling happier and healthier in your mind, body and soul. Each box features handpicked goodies from healthy food and drinks, natural beauty and fitness products to motivational gadgets. https://wellfitbox.com
Viviana was an interior designer who moved to the UK from Italy to study. She has over 10 years of experience in the creative industry and currently works a full-time role at a global creative agency. Viviana was also a competitive ice-skater and has qualified as a personal trainer.
This week she talks me through how she started the company with a five thousand pound budget in personal savings and Why in the first few months she prioritised buying the best-branded products for £23.99 and selling the boxes for a profit as little as £2.
She shares how she wouldn’t have been able to take the brand where it is today without leaning on friends and colleagues. She encourages others to ask for favours as you’d be surprised that people more willing to help than you would think.
She talks me through how she held herself accountable to launch in the beginning stages and is open with talking about her motivations for starting a business. She shares her experience of needing a creative outlet as a distraction from trying to have a family, and when things didn’t work out, she needed to focus her energy elsewhere.
During my research, I found a colleague’s description of Viviana, “Viviana is unstoppable. She makes things happen like no one I’ve ever met. Viviana is fun, fast and furious. Her pace is unbelievable. Strategic brain, positive attitude, charismatic personality, efficient organisation, and outstanding output.”