All Things Business - The Podcast
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Episodes
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Ben & Frazer: What’s Going On and What’s Coming Up? | Ep 27
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Ben and Frazer share their thoughts about what's coming up in the next few months.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Head Coach Mark Jackson: Inside MK Dons | Ep 26
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
The first episode of All Things Business - The Podcast 2023 is here! 🎙
Frazer Arnott ventured out to host our first episode of the year at the spectacular Stadium MK, home of MK Dons Football Club, where he was joined by Head Coach Mark Jackson.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Episode 25 | Celebrating and recognising the very best of Northamptonshire
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
For the last time in 2022, Ben and Frazer are back. In this episode of All Things Business The Podcast they celebrate and recognise the very best of Northamptonshire from the recent NBEA and NEA awards.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Episode 24 | Ben and Frazer are back!
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Guess who has done another Podcast!!!
Yes, that's right, Ben Thomas and Frazer Arnott sat down and discussed literally everything All Things Business UK and GIANT.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Episode 23 | Maintaining Resilience as a Business Owner With Richard Osborne
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
In this episode of All Things Business - The Podcast, ATB Sales Director Frazer Arnott is joined by the founder of #UKBF and #BDGroup, Richard Osborne, to discuss maintaining resilience as a business owner.
Richard talks us through how he’s grown not only as a person but as a businessman and an entrepreneur throughout his career. He shares his advice for anyone looking to start a business and explains why he thinks it's important to accurately paint a picture of how hard running a business can be.
He talks us through his own business, Business Data Group and his reclaimed ‘baby’ UK Business Forums, an online business community with around 500,000 members. He guides us through the moment in February 2003 that led him to found UK Business Forums.
He emotionally shares his ‘Why’ in his life and briefly touches on his childhood and the ways his early life experiences drove him in his entrepreneurial journey.
Both honest, and insightful, this episode is one not to miss.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Episode 22 | All Things Half Year Review
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
All Things Business Managing Director Ben Thomas and Media and Content Manager Frazer Arnott reflect on the last eight months across Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and London. Join us as a fly on the wall for a conversation between two close friends and colleagues as they trade their highlights of the year so far, their favourite parts about coming to work and discuss the upcoming Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards and Northamptonshire Education Awards. Ben and Frazer end by looking forward to what the rest of the year holds, including the upcoming World Cup in Qatar.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
In this episode of All Things Business - The Podcast, we are joined by two guests Martin Carmody, Managing Director of Stratos Creative and Rebecca Covington, Marketing Manager at Woodfines Solicitors. We talk with Martin and Rebecca about the art of branding and what sort of timeline you should be working to for your marketing including mastering the balance between proactive and reactive marketing. Our guests also share what they learned from the biggest mistakes they have made in their careers so far as well as cover some of their favourite campaigns and brands they have come across throughout their lives. We finish with some advice from our guests for anyone who finds themselves embarking on their own creative marketing journey.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Episode 20 | Women’s Football Legend Kelly Smith MBE
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
In this episode, Kelly Smith MBE joins All Things Business Managing Director Ben Thomas for an in-depth look back over her life and career thus far. Kelly played a pivotal role internationally in four European Championships, and two World Cups, playing for Arsenal, England and in the USA. She talks to Ben about what it was like being a young girl growing up in England wanting to play football, her career highlights, what she considers her best ever goal and her reasons for leaving England to play in America. Kelly also gives her thoughts on the current female talent in the sport as well as her expectations for the UEFA Women's Euros this summer. Ben and Kelly finish up with a selection of fun quick-fire questions. All this and more
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Episode 19 | Rugby Legend Steve Thompson MBE
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
In this special episode of All Things Business - The Podcast, guest host and Managing Director of All Things Business Ben Thomas is joined by England Rugby and Northampton Saints legend Steve Thompson MBE for a hard-hitting and honest conversation between two friends. Steve talks to Ben about what Northampton means to him, with personal anecdotes of his childhood in the town. How his brain injury, the result of head injuries during his successful rugby career, has affected his life, including his mental health struggles and his inability to remember some of the most special times in his life. Steve also talks about his new partnership with occupational health service provider Medigold Health, the release of his new autobiography and what he hopes to achieve moving forward. All this and more.