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Meditation, Garden Benches and Networking! Jun 10, 2024

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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 the family home, Owletts, a National Trust property.

She recently left the class room and, armed with Sanskrit GCSE (grade A!) she began teaching adults - how to read and write Sanskrit (the Devanagari Script).

She runs cacao ceremonies and wellbeing retreats in Kent and Gloucestershire.

Meditation is still her favourite thing to teach.

She trained in India in 2014 with Thom Knoles, and currently supports advanced meditators across Europe preparing for teacher training.

She is Director of Herbert Baker Furniture and co-founder of Lost Crafts CIC - supporting arts and crafts and wellbeing for Neurdiverse families.

She lives with her son and 2 dogs at Owletts, (a National Trust property) where her family have lived since 1783.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-baker-meditation/

https://www.vedicmeditationbycamilla.co.uk

https://herbertbaker.com

Networking Creatively with Claire Waite Brown Jun 03, 2024

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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 a network to support and promote artistic and creative facilitators who help adults to get creative. Membership is more than just a listing on a website, and includes access to monthly online meetups to connect with likeminded creative facilitators and suppliers.

www.creativityfound.co.uk

Apple Podcasts Creativity Foundand on all other podcast platforms

Instagram @creativityfoundpodcast YouTube @creativityfoundpodcast

Facebook @creativityfoundpodcast and Creativity Found group

Linkedin Claire Waite Brown Pinterest @creativityfound

Bentin from The Creative Collective May 27, 2024

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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.thecreativecollectivenetworking.co.uk

Today's episode is kindly sponsored by Sheena Whyatt of Kapow! Sheena is a fantastic coach for small business owners who has just created an online library of fantastically useful business books which can be accessed for just £5.99 a month 😊 . Visit https://heroes.kapowme.com/superchargeclub to get your library card now.

Podcasting helps with Know Like Trust - just like networking May 20, 2024

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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 groups - a new and, initially somewhat uncomfortable, experience!

As her business progressed, Debra - like so many of us - tried to find her niche. Starting her own podcast in 2018 marked a turning point in her services. Recognising the challenges and obstacles that we can face when starting a podcast, Debra now provides 3 distinct services: Podcast Start, Podcast Refresh and Podcast Connect.

Find out more about Debra at www.bridgeroadconsultants.com.

Learn more about the Podcast Connector and sign up as either a podcaster or a guest:

https://bridgeroad.ac-page.com/Podcast-Connector-Founding-Membership

Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levittdebra/

Listen to Debra's original podcast, Bridging Gaps - The Business Podcast https://modusevolvere.com/podcasts/ (note this podcast has now stopped but there are many interesting interviews available)

A German living in China and networking in Australia! May 13, 2024

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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 to delighted and confident by integrating coaching approaches, psychological theories and NLP in all of her coaching.

Additionally, she speaks, educates and writes about sexuality, intimacy, relationships, and mindset.

In China, she has established herself as the go-to Mental Health Specialist for expats, and in Uganda, she volunteers as Relationship Consultant in one of the biggest refugee camps.

Links

AnnaThellmann.com

https://annathellmann.com

Landing Page

https://intimacyacceleration.my.canva.site/

LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/in/annathellmanncoaching

Insight Timer

https://insighttimer.com/AnnaThellmann

The Slightly Rebellious Creative Coach May 06, 2024

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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

Go networking to build relationships not to do business Apr 29, 2024

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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 trust, loyalty and excitement in their brand.

Links:

Website: https://www.squarkdesign.com/

Discovery meeting: https://www.squarkdesign.com/contact/

Brand power Hour Q&A - Register your interest:

https://www.squarkdesign.com/brand-power-hour-qa-interest/

Just keep going - you never know where networking will lead Apr 22, 2024

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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 tech industry shines through her expertise in marketing strategy, crafting multi-channel campaigns, spearheading lead generation, forging powerful partner alliances, and ensuring seamless sales alignment across regions like the UK and EMEA.

Gemma is the host of the 'What's Sales and Marketing got to do with it' podcast which is on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3JVp9c8 and Spotify: https://bit.ly/46SFyrG

She is also a trustee of the Aleto foundation which exists to Identify tomorrow’s leaders irrespective of their race, gender, faith or ethnicity, and provide personalised opportunities and awards to accelerate development of those leaders for whom such support is not ordinarily available.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmaadair/

https://riadaconsultancy.com

https://www.aletofoundation.org.uk

Networking by remote from Sweden! Apr 15, 2024

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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 designing a children's book from scratch; she embraces the opportunity to collaborate and make sure the project works as a whole. After all, as she says, images are just the beginning!

Email: shanel@littleshygifts.com

Portfolio: https://shandwich-artist.carrd.co

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/shanelrichardson

Cultivating a great network with Jodie Newman Apr 08, 2024

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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 owner. Just ask her about how Polo mints can make you more creative.

Through networking Jodie has cultivated her own network of trusted suppliers and people she can recommend.

LINKS:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodienewman/

Web: https://www.thebusinessallotment.co.uk/

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