In this episode, Build Your Brand Story founder, Lucy Eckley, shares her own journey from corporate career to communications consultant and how she helps people to day to create outstanding brands.

Hear how Lucy helps her clients organise their creative business and brand.

And how you can gain clarity and confidence with your brand and business by starting with your audience.

We discuss why everyone has an interesting story and how Lucy gets to the essence of who people, and their businesses, really are.

Listen to Lucy’s new podcast The Leading Story here.

Sue Stockdale is the first British woman to have skied to the magnetic North Pole.

Having been introduced to the world of coaching working with pioneers such as Sir John Whitmore, Sue brings executive coaching and new leadership thinking to charities and nonprofit organisations amongst many; with the aim of addressing some of the greatest humanitarian and environmental challenges of our time.

As well as carrying out a number of pro-bono activities as a coach, co-founder and podcast host for Access to Inspiration, She has a successful corporate career behind her, working with British Gas and also having worked with the United Nations.

More recently, I’ve had the pleasure to work with Sue on a number of projects including the Coaching in The Workplace virtual conference podcast, earlier this year, for the Association for Coaching.

Hear how Sue raised money and qualified to be the first British woman to reach the magnetic North Pole and what her that experience, and her life experience, has taught he so far.

[Free chapter download] Risk – all that matters

“Knowledge beats nagging every time” according to Emily and Paul, creators of the parent guide to GCSE.

Spotting a gap in a large market, ex-teachers, Paul and Emily, share their experience leaving the teaching profession to educate parents on how to best support their children going through GCSE.

Emily shares her story falling out of love with her teaching career and falling in love; because of a motorbike.

Emily shares how they managed a time of depression; leaving her career without a job to go to...

Learn how the couple manage their own family whilst running their own dream business community membership model.

And their best advice for stressed out parents…

Items mentioned in this episode (quick access):

[00:42] Introducing this episode on education and mental wellbeing with Emily and Paul.

[03:57] How Emily and Paul met - over a motorbike.

[05:10] Emily talks about leaving her a career and dealing with her depression.

[06:40] Paul shares his side of the story.

[09:08] Emily talks about how anti-depressants helped her initially.

[09:43] Applying for other jobs.

[10:45] Leaving without a job to go to.

[11:28] Where and how Emily got started with her new venture.

[12:30] How the idea for their business was born.

[14:25] Paul shares his side of the story and some of the challenges with teaching.

[15:53] Managing cash flow.

[16:50] Teachers running their own business.

[18:00] Developing confidence selling.

[21:03] Emily explains how they support parents towards supporting their teenagers.

[22:20] The B2 stealth system.

[24:27] Paul describes their success path.

[25:25] The challenges for kids taking exams today.

[26:26] Mocks are very much like a dress rehearsal.

[26:50] Sanity breaks for all.

[29:50] Paul describes NEA (what was coursework.)

[31:08] Resources for small children vs. teenagers.

[31:54] Their active Facebook community.

[32:57] How Emily made sense of vague government announcements for parents.

[35:16] Teaching skills for life.

[38:00] How their members become more independent learners.

[38:40] Doing a series on personal finance.

[39:54] Emily shares how their podcast has helped them to build up their knowledge.

[42:11] How they help those home schooling. The challenges with home schooling.

[44:18] Being effective at the desk.

[46:28] Emily and Paul’s guidance for anyone looking to make their own career leap.

[48:26] Building their website with their founding members.

[49:31] Paul talks about “Ask me anything.”

[50:18] Emily and Paul’s best advice for stressed out parents.

[50:48] Running a competition and Paul’s bespoke revision plan.

[52:17] Their proudest achievement so far.

[53:42] What’s next for Paul and Emily.

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Who expected the events of 2020?

Here we are 10 months in living with COVID, the shock of lockdown, and all sorts of new challenges and opportunities as creatives…

Furloughs, losing jobs, changing careers and new opportunities.

So to bridge the gap of a crazy 2020 so far, I invited back on to the show, small business growth expert, Neil Foley from the Business Growth Club, to understand how, for those interested in navigating their own venture, career or business,

Where to start and what the opportunities are...

I haven’t had much chance to catch-up with Neil since we spoke last year so I though this would be an ideal opportunity to capture our conversation live, so to speak, as I’m really interested to hear his thoughts and how recent events have impacted our world as creative beings and people interested in business, leadership and entrepreneurship.

Hear reasons to be optimistic and positive about the future.

...And how the barriers to creating a business in 2021 are breaking down.