Ep4, Liana Fricker, The Inspiration Space - Owning your ambitions & the first 3 years of a startup
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Release Date: 12/22/2019
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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This week’s episode is with the Founder of The Inspiration Space, Liana Fricker. The Inspiration Space is a community that helps women to grow, scale, or start a small business. https://theinspirationspace.co
The Inspiration Space joined forces with a digital accelerator, Growing Together, hosted and supported by the University of Winchester. This allowed The Inspiration Space to combine the nationally recognised business mastermind workshops with their model of peer-to-peer support and community meet-ups.
Liana is the dynamic spirit that brings people together to connect the dots, using her knowledge from launching new brands, selling ideas and managing multiple clients.
Her professional career in London started in Fashion PR, and she later moved into advertising, after hitting burnout she moved to the suburbs to start a family and found herself feeling unfulfilled after the novelty of the new experience wore off.
She tells me how consulting for a startup in California changed her outlook on business. She saw first hand how entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are confident in their ideas and ambitions, even when they aren’t earning any money, but the end goal keeps them going.
Entrepreneurship is all about getting people to the field and solving this big problem that is burning inside.
This is what later led her to start The Inspiration Space, a place for women to make a meaningful connection as they progress their businesses, acquire knowledge and establish new relationships.
The Inspiration Space helps solve the problem for wanting a career change later in life, the Open University is not the only option in this new revolutionary wave of work.
I ask her what common hurdles she helps those in her community overcome, and she describes what the first three years of launching a startup are all about.
She endorses the mindset of dreaming big, being vocal about your goals and aspirations to earn money. She says how important it is to put yourself in the right entrepreneurial environment to drown out the doubters because innovation is more important.
You can only innovate when you realise it’s okay to be a round peg in a square hole. But don’t mistake a lack of purpose in traditional employment with the desire to start a business - they are two very different things.