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222 Founders stories shared. This final summary of the year is just to say a big thank you to all the Founders365 guests, listeners, and supporters.  Season two is inbound with new guests, more stories, and more insights to share.  It has been one hell of a year and being able to share 222 stories with you has been an honor. I am truly thankful to every listener for supporting Founders365.    ---- Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Sam Watson Jones is Co-Founder and President of Small Robot Company and a 4th generation arable farmer. Small Robot Company is on a mission to help farmers feed the world whilst regenerating the planet. Their sustainable farming robots Tom, Dick and Harry will deliver Per Plant Farming for the world's biggest food crops. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Amna Akhtar is a leader, author, mentor and advocate for a better quality of living, especially for women of colour. Professionally, she is the Co-founder and Creative Director of GirlDreamer , a social enterprise that supports women of colour personally and professionally to tackle social inequality. Her work has led to GirlDreamer becoming one of the “Top 50 most exciting, innovative and disruptive creative companies in England” and “Most Influential Leadership Development Enterprise 2020 - UK”, whilst she has personally been acknowledged as one of Birmingham’s “30 under 30”. In her personal time, Amna advocates for holistic and purposeful living, her mantra “I can & I will” has seen her through some of life’s tough challenges and her dreamer mindset has always ensured she never settles and always strives for greatness in all she pursues. Amna holds intentional living at the core of all she is and does and considers herself to be the ultimate ‘GirlDreamer’. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Camille Lurton is a former content producer turned entrepreneur. After working for a couple of years in the digital industry from large corporations to small businesses between the U.S and Hong Kong, she decided to take the leap and start her own company at the age of 27. Pixl Media was born out of both frustration for the current video content industry and the need for radical change. Settling first in Hong Kong in 2019, Pixl just recently expended to London where it is now based and operates between Asia and Europe. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Jeroen Corthout is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast-growing startup companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically and then actively helps you to follow up. It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top-rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Tessa Clarke is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO • Share More, Waste Less, a free app tackling the problem of food waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. Since launching 4 years ago, 2.5 million people have joined OLIO and together they’ve shared over 9 million portions of food taken 27 million car miles off the road  and saved 1 billion litres of water Tessa started her career as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group and then spent 10 years as a digital Managing Director in the media, retail and financial services sectors. She met her co-founder Saasha Celestial-One whilst they were studying for their MBAs at Stanford. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and about ‘profit with purpose’ as the next business paradigm. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Salmo Visa is an online service in the form of a web app, it is designed to help UK immigrants prepare/organise their visa applications faster and easier, without the need of hiring a lawyer. Amber Perng is a Taiwanese product designer who initially moved to the UK as a student. After graduating from Central Saint Martins, she co-founded a design studio, Meahe Design and began the entrepreneurial journey. In 2019, she applied for her latest visa and faced an enormous struggle in the application process. After spending £3,600 on a lawyer, thinking that this would make life easier, she quickly realised the lawyer didn’t do anything more than what she expected or did already. Feeling furious about this situation, the idea of Salmo began to grow in her mind. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Kim Antoniou is an award-winning tech entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Auris Tech Limited, inventors of a unique voice recognition engine designed to work specifically with children’s voices. It is the engine behind the award-winning, and government accredited reading platform, Fonetti - the world’s first children’s listening bookshop App, developed in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh and available in the AppleStore and soon, the Google Play Store. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Sohn set up Drink JIN JIN in 2019 and launched in 2020. New drink brand JIN JIN has launched its cultured fruit and vegetable drink concentrate as it looks to bring the ancient Asian drink to the UK. Packed full of probiotics and complex enzymes from more than 35 raw and natural ingredients, JIN JIN is a fermented drink containing living beneficial bacteria which supporting gut health which helps introduce balance to the body's functions. Low in sugar content, JIN JIN is a great alternative to sugary soft drinks and a gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan ingredient for every occasion. Unlike fermented tea-based kombucha ready to drink products, JIN JIN is a cordial, similar in consistency to honey and it’s recommended to mix 1 part (20ml) of the concentrate with 10 parts water (still or sparkling). The drink can also be added to smoothies, or used as a mixer in your favourite cocktail. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Neil Laughton is a former Royal Marine Commando, Special Forces veteran and helicopter pilot. He is an entrepreneur who founded a group of companies in the construction industry, built the business to £40m turnover before selling up to a FTSE 100 company. Currently, he is Managing Director of an experiential training company, Chairman of the Scientific Exploration Society and Founder of the Penny Farthing Club. Neil is passionate about travel, sport and adventure. He has organised and led 50+ expeditions on 7 continents by land, sea and air. He climbed Mt Everest with Bear Grylls, circumnavigated the UK & Ireland on a jet-ski and he piloted the world's first road legal flying car on a 10,000 km journey from London to Timbuktu. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Dan Hudson lives and breathes gigl and oversees all areas of what the business does. He has 16 years experience in recruitment, having worked in exec search, agencies and finally as global head of recruitment for a US bank. Today he's on a mission to change the future of work and put people not paper at the centre of the application process. Dan has always been highly entrepreneurial, starting his first business (a butchery at 12 years old), by 14 this have diversified into chicken farming (eggs) and he has never really stopped. Away from work, Dan is sport and business mad. He cycles, runs, is an Ironman, plays rugby, golf and much more. He loves to learn how businesses work/run and take this knowledge to help develop gigl. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Blake is the founder and CEO of easyGuide; a UK Startup 100 travel technology company that enables locals and tourists alike to discover and instantly book tickets to exciting activities and experiences around the world. Prior to launching easyGuide, Blake graduated from Cass Business School in 2012 as a Sir Stelios Scholar with a Masters in Banking and International Finance and progressed to pursue a career in finance where he spent 6-years building an investment management firm in London. Blake’s latest venture with Sir Stelios aims to create an end-to-end customer journey across the tourism industry whilst leveraging the strength of the easy brand which serves over 100 million customers per year through household names including easyJet and easyHotel. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Leigh Ashton is the author of iSell, a speaker, trainer and coach...and the founder of The Sales Consultancy. She works with Sales Leaders and their teams to develop a Sales Growth Mindset culture enabling them to meet and exceed targets. Her programmes develop Sales Leaders and Sales Teams to think and perform at a higher level and her clients include NatWest, Harrods, Wright Medical, AVEVA, Motorpoint, British Airways…and many more. She is known for increasing sales...and leaves people feeling confident, motivated and inspired to go beyond their comfort zone…and achieve greater sales success! Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Salman Khan is the co-founder of Kwick Doctor and is a 40-year old information technology expert who has been working in the healthcare sector for two years now. He joined Pac after returning from the UK and offered to help through his app Kwick Doctor that connects the public to consultants, doctors, pharmacies, laboratories and even delivers prescriptions at your doorstep. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Elliot Reeves is a highly accomplished broadcaster, speaker and advisor, as well as creator of The Elliot Reeves Show, host of 13 Minutes with Elliot Reeves and founder of Inspired Edinburgh; a pre-eminent video production and media company centred around a world-class online talk show and top 20 UK ranked Philosophy podcast. He has interviewed everyone from TED Global speakers and Orwell Prize winning writers, to record-breaking adventurers and international athletes. Additionally, he was worked with Scotland’s most respected institutions, organisations and leaders, including the likes of Prof Norman Drummond CBE, Sir Bill Gammell and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Ray Blakney is probably like every other award-winning Filipino-American entrepreneur who grew up in Turkey and lives in Mexico that you know. He started his first business, with his wife as a business partner, in 2008. Since then he has bootstrapped multiple 6 and 7-figure online businesses. Most of this was done from home in his superman pajamas. He and his businesses have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Boston Globe and other top publications. Ray has also been a speaker at multiple conferences around the world. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365  

Rakesh Shah is the founder of Thrive Growth Partners, a firm which specialises in providing straightforward and impactful advice that helps take ambitious young businesses to the next stage. A key area of focus is helping technology and sustainability businesses get investor-ready so they raise their next round successfully. Rakesh also provides part-time CFO services, partnering with businesses over the long term to help them scale. Since launching in February, Rakesh helped Rightcharge raise their seed round and is currently working with several startups who are actively fundraising, with several companies launching rounds in the new year. Prior to Thrive Growth Partners, Rakesh was Finance Director of Highview Power, a cleantech / sustainable energy tech startup. While FD, Rakesh helped the business raise tens of millions in funding, grow from team significantly and expand into multiple geographies. Before moving into the startup world Rakesh held various roles at large corporates, most recently Engie and Publicis Group. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

James Kerslake, originally from NZ, has been a lifelong city worker with a side hustle. It was always his dream to build something for himself - the reason he left his homeland - and he has spent two decades exploring various business ventures, learning a lot of hard lessons along the way. Relentless and unwilling to give up, the idea for Tom Savano Cocktails appeared to him one day whilst enjoying a mojito in the garden, and he knew that this time, something felt different. James had spent most of his life travelling to beautiful places, enjoying special moments such as sunsets on the strip of Ibiza listening to music from Cafe del Mar. These moments are what grew into the seed of Tom Savano, the cocktail brand which seeks to recreate all your most memorable travel experiences, through incredible, craft drinks. Having now launched the brand around his day job, he's slowly approaching the point in his twenty-year career, when he will walk away from it for good, to fulfill his dream of creating something for himself that will be remembered. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365

Habil started Cajuu in 2018 with the aim of adding value to cashews. For over 40 years Habil's family have been working with farmers across southern Tanzania to ethically source the finest cashews. Habil started bringing this amazing product over to the UK and has worked to create a range of vegan, cashew-based snacks with vibrant and unique flavours. Cajuu is now in over 80 stores across the UK and EU and growing rapidly! They also have plans to launch many new flavours and other cashew-based products, watch this space!   Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.

Asma Bandey is the Founder of Kashmiri Tea House - a Botanical Cold Brew Tea company that makes ready to drink Elixirs for people who are looking for natural alternatives to coffee. She is an advocate of Mindful Drinking & Mental Health awareness, and in addition to launching a Cold Brew Tea range; has been growing a community of like-minded people through her IGTV series "Mindful Drinking, Wellness & Anxiety" which features discussions with mental health professionals on a wide range of topics. Her journey from the corporate world to entrepreneurship was one rooted in necessity. After a decade in B2B sales, Bandey found herself burnt out, caffeine sensitive and living with regular anxiety and chronic sleeplessness. Her search for a natural, healthy, gently caffeinated beverage turned up empty and so she decided to reach back into her Himalayan roots to blend & brew the kind of drink she needed. As it turns out, it's a drink a lot of people needed too. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies.