The Beautiful Business Podcast

Aug 27, 2024

Season 2 Agencies Purpose Strategy

The Secret Formula Behind DixonBaxi’s 24-Year Creative Reign

Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi, the creative masterminds behind DixonBaxi, share their journey of nearly three decades navigating the world of design and branding.

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Aug 13, 2024

Season 2 Growth Leadership Strategy

Exploring Jellyfish’s evolution and the biggest ever UK independent agency sale

Rob Pierre shares the secrets of his success, and discusses what it takes to scale a boutique agency into a global powerhouse

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Jul 30, 2024

Season 2 People Leadership Purpose

Navigating Leadership in a Changing World: Building Values-Driven Businesses and Modern Challenges

Leadership coach and mentor Chris Parry opens up about the trials and triumphs of building a values-driven business

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Jul 16, 2024 at 00:00 AM

Season 2 Agencies Growth Purpose

Inspiring the next generation of creatives and leaving a lasting legacy

Dines, co-founder and creative director of Studio BLUP talks about creating a multi-award-winning creative powehouse.

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Jul 2, 2024 at 07:35 AM

Season 2 Agencies Growth Strategy

Building the Future: Agency Growth, Acquisitions, and Innovative Models

Simon Barbato, founder of Mr B and Friends shares his incredible journey of building an agency and the strategic moves that led to significant milestones.

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Jun 18, 2024

Season 2 People Purpose Leadership

Radical candor, mastering feedback and building trusting relationships

Amy Sandler, the lead coach and podcast host at Radical Candor, reveals the secrets behind her remarkable journey.

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Jun 4, 2024

Season 2 Agencies People Leadership

Embracing future-facing leadership in the age of AI with Nikki Gatenby

Nikki talks about creating a positive workplace culture and discusses the hot topic on everyone's lips: the power of AI.

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Feb 29, 2024

Season 1 Purpose Agencies

Balancing profit and purpose: An agency approach

Gavin Willis from Search Seven explores the fusion of profit and purpose in business.

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Feb 21, 2024

Season 1 Agencies Growth

From vision to reality: Building and scaling an international agency

Ritam Gandhi, the founder of Studio Graphene, shares his decade-long journey of navigating the challenges of international growth.

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Feb 14, 2024

Season 1 Leadership

The Now and Future Leader

In this episode with Stephen Moffitt from We Are Atmosphere, we look at how to create visionary leadership amidst global uncertainty.

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Feb 7, 2024

Season 1 Leadership

Leading Yourself Before You Can Lead Others

Dene Stuart, founder of The Exceptional Leader Academy, explains how learning to lead before leading others is essential because it lays the foundation for effective leadership.

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Jan 31, 2024

Season 1 People Agencies

Creating a B Corp culture in a global agency

Listen to this episode to learn more about B Corp certification and its impact on a global agency's culture.

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Jan 24, 2024

Season 1 Strategy Growth

Navigating tomorrow: Building adaptable businesses in an era of change

Stephen Moffitt from We Are Atmosphere talks about building adaptable businesses, overcoming fear of change, and the practical steps you need to take for success.

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Jan 17, 2024

Season 1 Leadership

Leveraging time as a leader

In this podcast we share insights on how to embrace vulnerability, cultivate essential soft skills, and leverage time for sustained success in business.

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Jan 11, 2024

Season 1 People Agencies

Embracing diversity: How to navigate multicultural marketing

Tomasz Dyl of GottaBe! Marketing tackles the issue of diversity and how agencies need to better understand and connect with their multicultural audiences.

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Jan 3, 2024

Season 1 Consultancies

Disruption in the consultancy industry

Chris Shaw from We Are Atmosphere talks about creating disruption in the consultancy world and overcoming challenges in a saturated market.

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Dec 21, 2023

Season 1 Agencies Growth

Starting an agency at just 17!

In this episode we discuss how starting out very young, taking risks and learning from mistakes, can help build a strong and resilient business.

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Dec 13, 2023

Season 1 Agencies Growth

The Agency Journey - Growing from 0-8

Nikki Lindgren from Pennock shares her early experiences as well as her learnings from creating successful business growth and team culture.

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Dec 6, 2023

Season 1 Consultancies Leadership

Leadership In An Uncertain World

Chris Shaw from We Are Atmosphere discusses the dynamics of leadership in today's world, reflecting on the importance of inspiration and authenticity in leading teams.

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Dec 1, 2023

Season 1 Leadership Agencies

How To Succeed as a Female Founder in Agency Land

Nikki describes the unique challenges and advantages of being a female-led agency, especially in an industry where male-led organisations still dominate the landscape.

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Nov 15, 2023

Season 1 Profit Purpose

Balancing Profit with Purpose: Building Beautiful Businesses

How can businesses maximise profit while remaining purposeful? Professor Edmans explains the idea that businesses guided by purpose not only contribute positively to society but also make sound economic decisions.

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Nov 8, 2023

Season 1 Leadership Purpose

Bridging the Gap Between Corporates and NGOs

Helen Neal shares her extensive background in working with large organisations and offers invaluable insights into her journey from corporate roles to establishing her agency.

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Nov 1, 2023

Season 1 People Strategy Growth

Getting real about collaboration

Megan Taylor explores the complex nature of collaboration, shedding light on the misconceptions and challenges often associated with this buzzword.

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Oct 25, 2023

Season 1 People Strategy

Befriending Chaos: Embracing Creativity and Connection

Nila Matthews from Awakening Flow dives deep into the topic of embracing chaos and how it relates to creativity, impostor syndrome, and building authentic connections.

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Oct 18, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Agencies

Navigating Transparency and Progress in Sustainability Communication

Helen Neal explores the world of sustainability in the communication industry and how every business should play their part.

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Oct 11, 2023

Season 1 Leadership Growth

Transitioning to leadership: Embracing change and owning the future

Megan Taylor shares her experiences and insights on the challenges and opportunities that come with transitioning to leadership, particularly as a young woman in a predominantly male-dominated field.

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Oct 4, 2023

Season 1 Strategy Growth

Unlocking your optimal self and navigating ‘flow’

Nila, a practitioner in the field of neurophysiology and emotional resilience, shares her expertise on how understanding our nervous system and tapping into the concept of "flow".

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Sep 27, 2023

Season 1 Profit Strategy

Strategically building your business with exit strategies in mind

Alistair Wells shares his insights on running a business with an exit in mind, drawing from his experiences helping businesses through the exit process.

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Sep 20, 2023

Season 1 Purpose People

Design thinking: Transforming culture, creativity and collaboration

Kerry Tottingham shares her journey from being a jobbing artist to venturing into the world of charity management and ultimately founding A Brilliant Thing.

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Sep 13, 2023

Season 1 Purpose

Powering a green revolution: Running an ethical energy company

Doug Stewart explores his remarkable journey of setting up an ethically driven electricity and gas supplier that aims to transform the way we think about energy consumption in the UK.

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Sep 6, 2023

Season 1 Profit Strategy Growth

Navigating investment: Challenges and opportunities in today's market

Tim Evans from Creative UK dives into the ever-evolving landscape of the creative industry and the challenges faced by businesses.

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Aug 30, 2023

Season 1 Strategy Consultancies

Authenticity, alignment, and building a modern firm

Alistair Wells, founder of Tend Legal, explores the fascinating journey of building a modern law firm that people genuinely want to work for.

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Aug 16, 2023

Season 1 Purpose People

Creating supportive workplaces: Navigating grief and bereavement

Amelia from Suicide&Co discusses the often-overlooked issue of dealing with grief in the workplace.

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Aug 9, 2023

Season 1 Consultancies Strategy Leadership Growth

Stop, collaborate and listen - Creating a culture of connection and change

Kerry Tottingham discuss the power of collaboration, sharing insights and examples of successful collaborations that have bridged the gap between corporate-driven and not-for-profit-driven organisations.

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Aug 2, 2023

Season 1 Profit Strategy Growth

Unlocking funding in challenging times: Strategies and insights

Tim Evans from Creative UK talks about how they are a strategic partner rather than just an investor, working with creative businesses.

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Jul 26, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Agencies

Nurturing a purpose-led business

Richard Thomson from Kaptcha shares his experiences in building a purpose-led business.

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Jul 19, 2023

Season 1 Purpose People

Breaking the silence: How suicide awareness can transform business

Amelia from Suicide&Co shares her personal journey and the significance in addressing mental health in the workplace.

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Jul 12, 2023

Season 1 Profit Growth Leadership

Scaling Your Business: Building great businesses through great teams

Chieu Cao discusses the challenges and key points of growth when scaling a business and how leaders can effectively manage and nurture their teams through these transitions.

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Jun 29, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Agencies Leadership

Communicating with integrity: Building authentic brands

Nicole Green from Catch shares her insights on communicating with integrity in business and emphasises the importance of intentionality and authenticity.

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Jun 21, 2023

Season 1 People Leadership

Leading with empathy: Unlocking the challenges and benefits

Trenton Moss explores the challenges and benefits of empathetic leadership and how it can transform team dynamics and performance.

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Jun 14, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Agencies

The power and perils of pro bono projects

Richard Thomson delves into the world of pro bono projects and their impact on both businesses and teams.

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Jun 7, 2023

Season 1 Growth Strategy

Scaling for success: Unleashing performance growth

Chieu Cao looks at the art and science of scaling the commercial performance of a business and the key drivers of growth.

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May 26, 2023

Season 1 Leadership People

Understanding Gen Z's challenges for business leaders

Jen Swain dives deep into the importance of business leaders being aware of the challenges faced by Generation Z and explore the benefits and challenges of employing this unique generation.

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May 24, 2023

Season 1 Strategy

The power of systems thinking for a sustainability strategy

Alison Puente from Project Rome investigates how systems thinking offers a holistic approach to understanding and resolving complex sustainability challenges.

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May 17, 2023

Season 1 Purpose

The power of stories - making a documentary of your social impact

John Gilbert delves into the transformative power of storytelling and how it can be harnessed to create a compelling documentary that showcases your social impact.

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May 10, 2023

Season 1 Leadership People

How to grow and retain a loyal and empowered team for the long-term

Alex Holliman talks about building an empowered and loyal team and how he's has put in place real benefits for his employees to help them in both their personal and professional lives.

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May 2, 2023

Season 1 Agencies Purpose

The power of communicating with purpose

Jo Swift discusses the noise around purpose at the moment and how cynicism is growing towards businesses that are possibly greenwashing their messaging.

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Apr 25, 2023

Season 1 Leadership

Why business leaders should be fully immersed in insight and engagement

Jen Swain explores the power of data insights for businesses and why leaders need the pieces between the data to make better decisions.

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Apr 19, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Strategy

The power of the ‘7 P’s’ and the PQualizer

Nikki Gatenby talks about the 7 Ps that underpin truly purpose-led businesses, using the PQualizer, a system to help to keep the Ps in balance.

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Apr 11, 2023

Season 1 Leadership

Mentoring and why it's essential as a leader

Natalie Haigh talks about the power of mentoring and offers some of the methods she uses with her mentees.

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Mar 31, 2023

Season 1 Purpose People

Achieving net zero in a remote working world

Matthew Stibbe talks about his remote working principles that have allowed his business to strive for net zero status.

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Mar 29, 2023

Season 1 Consultancies Purpose

How to create client service superheroes

Alex Holliman speaks about how he and his team are on a mission to creative a positive impact for their clients and for the planet.

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Mar 22, 2023

Season 1 Agencies Leadership

Unlocking the power of conscious leadership

Martin Palethorpe talks about the power of conscious leadership. Conscious leadership emphasises self-awareness, mindfulness, empathy and an ethical and purpose-driven mindset.

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Mar 15, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Growth Leadership

Why self development needs to be part of your sustainability strategy

Alison Puente explains why investing in yourself is essential in order to keep developing and evolving your career, regardless of your age or position.

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Mar 8, 2023

Season 1 Leadership People Purpose

The role business leaders must play to inspire change and enable action

Nikki Gatenby explains how leaders are in a unique position to galvanise the energy of those around them and therefore have a duty to play their part in making the world a better place.

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Mar 1, 2023

Season 1 Agencies Purpose

From redundancy to creating social good

John Gilbert talks about the journey he’s been on from being made redundant to setting up eski - an award-winning creative media and marketing agency which has the primary goal of achieving social good.

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Feb 22, 2023

Season 1 Leadership Strategy

The future of work and what leaders need to think about right now

Jen Swain talks about the the future of work and about how leaders need to have a landscape view of a huge number of areas - from economic growth to thinking about the new generation.

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Feb 15, 2023

Season 1 Purpose Consultancies

Understanding how to tell your purposeful story

Matthew Stibbe talks about the journey of certification (B corp, Investors in People) and how going through the process of certification is much more important than the destination.

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Feb 8, 2023

Season 1 Leadership Growth

Looking after yourself as a leader

Natalie Haigh shares her incredibly powerful mental health story. Natalie’s story has some key learnings for all leaders and high-achievers out there.

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Feb 1, 2023

Season 1 People Consultancies

Bringing emotional intelligence into the world of work and beyond

Trenton Moss discusses what emotional intelligence is and why it’s one of the most important skills of business life.

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Jan 18, 2023

Season 1 People

Finding, attracting and keeping the right talent in your business

Tom Hardcastle talks about how he attracts and keeps the right team members at his business, Ninety.

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Jan 11, 2023

Season 1 People Leadership Consultancies

The power of culture when building a Beautiful Business

Carla and Imogen from FizzPopBANG talk about the power and importance of culture.

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Dec 21, 2022

Season 1 Agencies Consultancies

How to succeed without exclusivity

Gail Hoban chats about and how instead of trying to be inclusive in our communications, we should actually be aiming not to exclude anyone

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Dec 7, 2022

Season 1 Leadership Purpose

Leadership lessons and pursuing purpose with passion

Ellie Hale explores her motivations, what she's learned about leadership, the challenges she's faced, and how she's overcome them.

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Nov 30, 2022

Season 1 Leadership Growth Agencies

Leading with inclusivity and driving change through communications

Nicole Green chats about how we can create an environment that is welcoming and celebrates the fullness of every person both in the workplace and in our marketing communications.

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Nov 23, 2022

Season 1 Consultancies Strategy

Overcoming tough times with powerful business values

Trenton Moss shares stories and knowledge on how strong values helped him get through the rollercoaster ride that is entrepreneurship.

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Nov 16, 2022

Season 1 Consultancies People

How to create a business that engages your team

Carla and Imogen from FizzPopBANG talk about their top three engagement drivers that will supercharge your business.

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Nov 9, 2022

Season 1 Purpose Consultancies

How service-based businesses can help save the planet

Learn how service-based businesses can become carbon-neutral and thrive. 'It's not hard, you just have to commit,' says Nick Dean.

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Nov 2, 2022

Season 1 People Agencies Growth Leadership

How to build a beautiful team for future success

Marcus Hemsley talks about the importance of finding the right clients and team members to enable your business to succeed, and why following the money won't always get you where you want to go.

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Oct 26, 2022

Season 1 Strategy Growth

Being tenacious in pursuit of the best possible product

Sameer Vaswani talks about how he overcame many challenges in his pursuit to create the tastiest, healthiest, most sustainable chocolate at B Corp certified Prodigy Snacks.

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Oct 17, 2022

Season 1 Growth

Scaling your impact

James Sancto, CEO of We Make Change talks to us about how achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 will be a good start towards creating a fairer society.

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Oct 12, 2022

Season 1 Leadership People

Leading with authenticity

Cathy Moseley from Boundless Activated Snacking talks about the importance of keeping sight of your goals and looking after your team.

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Oct 5, 2022

Season 1 Purpose Strategy

Giving back - the business benefits of taking on pro bono projects

Gail Hoban from Gas Studio talks about how they formally donate 5% of time every year to pro bono projects.

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Sep 27, 2022

Season 1 Consultancies Purpose Strategy

Attracting and engaging clients with a defined purpose

Tom Hardcastle from social enterprise Ninety talks about how they donate 90% of distributable profit to good causes, 10% to staff.

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Sep 14, 2022

Season 1 Leadership People Consultancies

Nurturing teams and creating strong culture in your business

Lisa Seagroatt discusses why a healthy workplace culture will future-proof any business in terms of attracting and retaining good talent.

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Sep 7, 2022

Season 1 People Leadership Agencies Purpose

Standing by your values, and employee wellbeing for sustainable success

Chris Todhunter from Studio Republic talks about being a purpose-driven agency, the benefits of standing by your values and how employee wellbeing is integral to sustainable success.

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Aug 30, 2022

Season 1 People Purpose

Making volunteering time more effective for businesses

James Sancto, CEO of We Make Change talks us through how the team built a network of ChangeMakers, connecting skilled people with social enterprises across the world.

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Aug 24, 2022

Season 1 Consultancies Purpose People

Why business leaders should help create joy and unity in our local communities

Olivia Sibony shares why businesses shouldn't rush in to help their local communities like ill-informed knights in shining armour, but rather listen carefully in order to deliver value and not just impose what we think is the best thing to do.

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Aug 17, 2022

Season 1 Purpose Leadership

Creating the UK's first plastic negative chocolate bar

Sameer Vaswani talks about how running a successful confectionery manufacturing operation in Lagos, Nigeria led him to want to disrupt the chocolate industry and take on the big brands.

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Aug 3, 2022

Season 1 Purpose Agencies

The path to net zero carbon emissions for business owners

MarcusHemsley shares an inspiring story of how not being able to breathe during a nasty bout of Covid led him to pledge to plant one million trees, and ultimately co-found The Million Tree Pledge.

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Jul 26, 2022

Season 1 Purpose People Agencies Leadership Profit

Building workplace culture and delivering impact

Listen to Nick Dean explore the balance between profit and purpose and the idea that if you set authentic values and have the right footing from the start, you will attract the right people and build a strong shared culture, which will ultimately see you succeed.

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Jul 19, 2022

Season 1 Profit Purpose

Balancing profit and purpose: Finding opportunities to save the planet

Olivia Sibony talks about balancing profit with purpose, and how we should be looking to turn the climate challenge into an opportunity to make better business choices.

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