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#30 Michael Duberry - Former Premier League Footballer & Elite Performance Coach

Michael Duberry was in the top 0.001% bracket of his profession in being a Premier League Footballer with a career that lasted 20 years.
 
Michael Duberry made 500 appearances for clubs including Chelsea, Leeds United, Stoke City, and Reading. Winning the English League Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and the European Super Cup sit proudly on my CV amongst many other personal accolades.
 
Michael was an elite performer... After retiring from football, Michael obtained the qualifications needed to become a top executive coach. He decided to specialize in elite performance, something he knows about firsthand and separates him from other executive coaches. Whether it be developing an individual to become an elite performer, making a group of people an elite performing team or creating an elite performance culture for an organisation. If individuals or companies want to become superior than the rest in terms of ability, consistency, results, performance, and success then they need to look no further.
 
Michael work under the umbrella of his executive coaching company Made Leaders Made Leaders were set up to make a difference to business life, business performance, and the business world through the development of people. There are so many parallels between the world of sports and business. Michael knows that being an elite performer, his successful career, life experiences, winning mentality, and Premier mindset can be used to help develop others. Michael works with everyone from CEO’s, and executive management to team leaders, helping to improve and develop individuals and teams. He uses his success in football, his wealth of experience, his professional qualifications as well as his valuable knowledge and successfully transfer it into others… So if you want to be an elite performer and become superior than the rest in terms of ability, consistency, results, performance, and success then look no further than working with Elite Performance Coach, Michael Duberry.

#29 Becky Holland - CEO BH&P on being relentlessly focused on helping brands transform their bottom line

Becky Holland is the Founder and CEO at BH&P, an innovative communications brand that enables businesses with purpose to accelerate growth without limits! After a long career working with top agencies and brands such as Microsoft, English Heritage, Marks & Spencer, NatWest, Santander, Corel, Dell, Schroders, Acer and many others, Becky changed things around a bit when she had children - consulting, financial management, and creating her own cake design and wedding cake business. Three years as marketing director of a leadership development business, gave Becky a passion for coaching, leadership development and the human-side of business, so she went back into the agency-side for a bit.
 
Becky knew she wanted to do work that really mattered - and working in business development for someone else's agency was never going to cut it. An opportunity arose in 2015 to branch out on her own, and started BH&P, at that time Becky Holland & Partners Ltd. The huge amount of hours she put into building the brand, purpose, and team, has allowed her to do work that truly stands out. Brands large and small have trusted BH&P over the past 8 years - highlights include launching The Business Finance Guide for ICAEW and The British Business Bank, winning a 12-agency pitch to set up and run Stay Energy Safe on behalf of the national charity Crimestoppers, running the most successful global growth campaign Epicor has ever seen, launching CBILs and BBILs at the start of the pandemic - and working with brands such as Purition, Sea Change Wines, TradeBridge, innova, IDS and Levell. With the support of my phenomenal and multi-award-winning Creative Director Claus Larsen, and her incredible team - Jim, Nav, Eleni, Jamie, Sophia, Ed, Hasan, Charlotte, Ela, and Petru - as well as an extended partner network that reaches South Africa, Canada, Columbia, the US, France and China, Becky, is relentlessly focused on creating growth for our clients, growing brand equity and establishing highly creative solutions that drive significant commercial success. Becky's true passion is for big ideas, brilliantly executed. Becky is a champion for equality and diversity and is super-excited that BH&P has recently applied for B-Corp status.
 
Becky states, "I am reminded daily - in good times and bad - of the need to keep doing things differently" This podcast is Becky's story about becoming who she was meant to become, the CEO of one of the most innovative marketing brands in the UK today.

#28 Louise Clark - The World Champion Powerlifting Grandmother

Louise Clark is a wife, mother, grandmother, and now a World Champion in Powerlifting. In a remarkable story where Louise started going to the gym in her 40's just to lose a little bit of weight, now at 56 has set new world records in Powerlifting and is the 2022 World Champion Powerlifter in her weight class.

#27 Lynda Cant - How Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) is saving lives

Lynda is a former company director and board member for a FTSE 100 company, executive mentor, author, speaker, and trained specialist in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She is also one of Marisa Peer’s trained and qualified RTT therapists based in Hampshire.

#26 Digger Wordsworth - There is life after death! I speak to Angels and have evidence of a higher realm

Digger Wordsworth - There is life after death! I speak to Angels and have evidence of a higher realm.
 
Is there life after death? Possibly the biggest question we have as humans. Perhaps a taboo subject, something people do not want to talk about, think about or even consider. But, Digger Wordsworth has a fascinating perspective to share. He has had first-hand experience in talking to Angels and in this show shares his evidence of their being in a higher spiritual realm. Digger has released a book that contains his conversations with Angels, which he discussed during this engaging and eye-opening conversation.
 
 

#25 Julian McBride - The horrific story of a Racing Car Driver Paralysed after an Routine Operation

Julian McBride is an incredible human being. A life-changing spinal operation in 2011 didn't go to plan and left Julian paralysed from the waist down. So why does he now consider himself to be one of the luckiest people on the planet? Julian is a 2022 motor racing championship contender – He has a significant disability in both legs, yet competes wheel to wheel with able-bodied drivers. An IT professional by trade, his boyhood dream of becoming a racing driver was ignited in 2011 following a devastating spinal injury. Only three seasons in, he finished third in Class A at the 2018 750MC Club Enduro Championship – using an adapted driving style. Supported by Geoff Steel Racing, he is coached by a top-level professional GT driver and the proud owner of a brand-new bespoke BMW race car.
 
Julian Mcbride
www.linkedin.com/in/julianmcbride/
www.julianmcbride.uk/about
www.tiktok.com/@julian_mcbride_racing
 

#24 Tatiana Cousins - The World’s Natural Strongest Woman

Tatiana Cousins - The World’s Natural Strongest Woman Tatiana Cousins is the current 4 x Britain’s Natural Strongest Woman and The World’s Natural Strongest Woman 2019 & 2021.
 
Tatiana Cousins https://www.instagram.com/tatianacousins/?hl=en

#23 Matt Garvey - CEO Diversity Role Models; Embrace difference, ending LGBTQ+ bullying

Matt Garvey, CEO, Diversity Role Models; On a mission to embed inclusion and empathy in the next generation with LGBTQ+, and end bullying in schools
 
Please note at the point of 29:00 for the remainder of the podcast there are references to suicide. If this is triggering or uncomfortable for you in any way, please kindly consider watching another show.
 
Matt Garvey As the CEO appointed in May 2022, Matt's role is to grow the footprint of the charity, support more schools and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. As an LGBT+ inclusion charity, Diversity Role Models are invited into schools and with their wonderful volunteer role models and through the power of storytelling they help pupils develop feelings of acceptance, inclusion and kindness towards LGBT+ and other groups.
 
Matt Garvey
www.linkedin.com/in/mattgarvey1973/
 
Diversity Role Models
www.diversityrolemodels.org/
www.linkedin.com/company/diversity-role-models/
 

#22 David Bloxham, CEO GCS Recruitment; From Cold Calling to Leading a £90M Business

David Bloxham, CEO GCS Recruitment; From Cold Calling to Leading a £90M business David Bloxham is a CEO who works with industry leaders to connect expert talent to innovative companies. David's passion is working with the leaders of innovative technology customers and connecting them with the expert talent they need to create the future. At GCS Recruitment they have done this for over 30 years, and they help their clients Employ the Future to Create it.
 
Topics covered: CEO, Recruitment, Loving what you do, Passion and Drive for success, Cold Calling, How to be a good CEO, How to move into a leadership, Sales and Sales leadership, Sales Development, Career Development, Customers, Customer Service, Sales Strategy, Business strategy
 
David Bloxham
www.linkedin.com/in/davidbloxham1
 
GCS Recruitment
www.gcsrecruitment.com
 

#21 James Rush, Co-Founder Inner Athlete; Setting up a gym, moving home & having a baby during COVID

James Rush, co-founder and Head Coach. James is a prominent figure in the local fitness industry with many years experience under his belt. He has become known for coaching within the sport of Strongman; coaching two world-winning athletes during his career so far. James is a qualified Nutritional Therapist with the College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM).
Topics Setting up a gym, nutrition, fitness industry, how to lose weight, opening a gym, impact of COVID on the fitness industry, working with your partner
 
James Rush
innerathlete.co.uk
info@inneralthese.co.uk