Flee Chavasse is the owner of Parker and Boots photography. She loves creating brand photography for business owners, as well as teaching children about photography, and being an NLP practitioner! Flee says she came to networking late but is glad she discovered it. www.parkaandbootsphotography.com    www.linkedin.com/in/feliciachavasse    https://calendly.com/fleephotography/photography-and-chats    https://www.instagram.com/parka_and_boots_photography    https://www.facebook.com/ParkaandBootsPhotography    Profile:  I have been passionate ..read more

John Wilson is the Founder of Honest Video, a full-funnel video marketing agency for corporate clients. Honest specialise in beautiful corporate videos and work with the likes of AQA, Bauer Media, Thomson Reuters, Roche, and Asahi. Recently, John co-founded Xplnr which produces animated explainer videos with fixed fees, streamlined processes, and a proven script model. Founded on delivering hundreds of videos for global companies. John is also the founder of the walk-and-talk community which is a series of events for founders in Surrey, London, and the South East that brings fou ..read more

Kelly Drewett is the founder of Kaydee Website and SEO Agency. Kelly started her business at the tender age of 19 and has been running it for almost 25 years! She now lives in France but networks with people back in the UK through online meetings which she loves. As well as helping businesses with their websites and SEO Kelly also trains people do be able to do some of the work themselves. Have a look at the Web Untamed website for more info. www.webuntamed.com www.kaydee.net This episode is kindly sponsored by ONLE - the network for people who like people! They are generously offering my list ..read more

Blake Caldwell is one of the co-founders of Brotherhood-UK, a coaching business that helps people (predominantly, but not exclusively, men) be the best they can be. Blake's background includes sport, sales and crisis intervention work for Children's Services. He's very keen on fitness and mental health, and wants to help as many people as possible to feel good about themselves and their lives. He recorded his side of this episode in his garden so you'll notice the birds in the background! www.brotherhood-uk.com ..read more

Nicola Auckland is a Business & Brand Photographer with a passion for the relationships formed between business owners, customer and brands.  After her corporate career ended during Covid, she turned her profitable side-hustle into fully fledged wedding photography business. Whilst she loved this, she knew something wasn't quite right (and it had little to do with the number of Ed Sheeran songs she had to listen to!) In January 2023 she took the decision to pivot her business, completely cut off her numerous wedding leads and exclusively offer business and branding photography.  ..read more

James West is the co-founder of ONLE Networking - the online business network for people who like people. He met his wife Kelly while networking and they built ONLE on the belief that most people can be trusted to network without the rules and protocols that get in the way of running a business. Based on his own experiences, James believes that the secret power of networking is to provide business owners with access to the meaningful connections that are vital to good mental health. ONLE currently has 350 members spread across 22 UK groups and two in the US - the latter helping prove that ..read more

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 cac ..read more

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 ..read more

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 jus ..read more

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 ..read more