Building Back Better Podcast: Recent Episodes
Luke Murfitt
Global Ambassador Luke Murfitt, MD Integrity Cleaning, Entrepreneur of the Year 2019, chats with business people about the pandemic and how they have survived the pandemic, what they have done to thrive and what advice they have for other business people, during these challenging times.
Our Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt, hosted Bob Hayward, an author, speaker and consultant. Having written 5 bestsellers and started 7 companies, Bob, among many other things, talked about the importance of the right mindset in business. Listen to the whole conversation on our Spotify, or Apple Podcast for free.
Our Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt, hosted Dr Kay A M Weijers, the owner of kayandco. Their conversation started with music and the importance of music throughout Kay's career and private life. As a talented flute player, she used to play in an orchestra!
However, she used her musical skillset and used it for business purposes. She says that music taught her to listen, to participate in a conversation with her co-speaker actively. She also used music to awaken and emphasise empathy in communication with her clients.
But the most intriguing part of the conversation they had was about (lack of) motivation. Kay offered answers to questions we've all encountered. To learn how to find and use your passion as a tool to keep you going, to learn how to rely on your passive experience and how to unlock your "peak experience", listen to the full podcast for free on our website, Spotify or Apple Podcast.
Contantin Singureanu, the Founder and Managing Director of Pufferr, joins our Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt, on his latest podcast episode. Constantin is an intriguing chess champion. He is also a writer, having written 4 books so far. They discussed the importance of innovation, where Constantin talked about many practical ways he used innovation to show. To learn what are the most common mistakes of understanding marketing and all the things that changed regarding marketing in the past decade, listen to the podcast for free on our website, Spotify or Apple Podcast.
Join Luke Murfitt to hear more from the money expert Jasmine Birtles on cryptocurrencies and whether economies dealing with money with no backup have a future. Join their discussion to learn more about the best ways to keep your money. You can find the latest Building Back Better podcast on our UKBIA website, but you can also listen to it on Spotify and Apple Podcast.
Jasmine Birtles, a money expert, the owner of moneymagpie.com, joins our Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt on his latest addition to the Building Back Better podcast. Jasmine is an amazing person, having written 38 books so far. She talks about the importance of investing and getting informed about the stock market. In the podcast, she breaks down multiple myths on investments. To hear everything in detail, head to our UKBIA website and listen to the podcast for free. It is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcast.
Luke Murfitt hosts Julien Lefort, a resilience and success coach from Future Minds. They touched upon the relationship between working on inclusion and improving efficiency, the importance of structure and hierarchy in business. Julien explained how his experiences affected his way of communicating with his co-workers. To learn more about his intriguing path, listen to the blog on our UKBIA website for free or head to Spotify or Apple Podcast.
Theo Millward, the CEO of FranScape talks to our Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt about dealing with unfavourable positions in a successful way. Overcoming the feeling even the most successful entrepreneurs face sometimes - despair. Theo explains what drives him and what his goals in life are, leading him to great places. He dwells on the importance of failing and learning how to learn from it. Hear how he described it - listen to the full podcast free on our website, or find it on Spotify or Apple Podcast.
Luke welcomes back Nick Warren to dig deeper into the art and science of business storytelling.
The conversation combines 21st-century neuroscience, ancient wisdom and hard-won experience.
This episode lifts the lid on Luke's experience telling his story, and the difference it's made to his business and brand.
Our Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt, is back with another great Build Back Better podcast episode. His guest was Abid Khan, the Co-Founder of Riverdale Insurance and the honoured Co-Founder of UK's award-winning Business Networking platform Chutney and Chat. Listen to what the man known as "The People Connector" had to say about his extensive experience in the business.
In this week's Building Back Better podcast, Luke has been speaking to a truly fascinating guest: Bruce Halai-Carter, Social Entrepreneur at Ethstat Ethical Stationery CIC. Ethstat put all their profits into social and environmental causes, and Bruce is a wonderful spokesman for the cause of social enterprise with some incredible insights to share. Click below to hear his conversation with Luke!
We're starting the new season with a very special edition of our Building Back Better podcast. Normally it's our host, Luke Murfitt, who's asking the questions - but this time, he's the one in the hot seat!
Coach & Development Consultant, Amantha King, is the interviewer this week - and she does a great job in helping Luke to share his inspiring story!
Luke embodies all the values we hold dear at Awards International, and it's always a privilege to hear him outline his unique perspective on business - and life. Click below to listen for yourself!
In this week’s podcast, Luke has been building up the Dons by interviewing two key players in the Awards Ceremony: Mark Colbourne, our host for the day, and Sam Moinet, our keynote speaker. They discuss the importance of resilience in both life and business, and what we can expect at the awards on Thursday!
In this week's episode, Luke has a very special guest: Roger Camrass, Research Director of CIONET UK. At MIT in the 70s, Roger was one of the early designers of the internet, and since then, he's been helping organisations explore the possibilities of the digital world. Find out his predictions for where the tech revolution will go next!
In this week's Building Back Better podcast, Luke speaks to his most precocious guest yet! Mehul Chopra is a young entrepreneur who started out selling confectionery at his school. Now, aged just 16, he's founded TEIYU UK, an organisation helping aspiring entrepreneurs develop essential skills and take the risks required to succeed. His is a fascinating story - click below to listen!
Would you like to know the three steps to use when looking at emerging technologies and to identify the opportunities and risks they pose? Based on his experience over several years as an independent consultant, Gary Nuttall shares his journey that led to the development of his simple Educate – Explore – Evaluate framework:
• Educate – Learn the basics about how new technologies work
• Explore – Understand where the technologies are already being used
• Evaluate – Explore the risks and opportunities for your industry or firm that the technology offers
Building Back Better Podcast host Luke Murfitt discusses with Gary the coping strategies we need in order to understand and utilise the technologies that are changing faster and faster in our commercial and personal lives.
Join Luke Murfitt and the Building Back Better podcast as we talk to Success Coach, Amantha King. You'll learn about :
• The 4 zones of action and how you move through them to grow your business.
• Why your customers need to know your values and how you bring them to life.
• The power of your brain and how you can use your strengths to overcome obstacles.
• The 3 areas that every business owner /leader needs to know.
Hear how Amantha uses simple tools and techniques to enable her clients to build world-class teams and businesses that build back better. And how you can too.
How can we use the future to build back better?
Renowned futurist Rohit Talwar is interviewed by Global Ambassador of Awards International Luke Murfitt.
Topics explored:
- The key drivers of change that leaders need to be aware of.
- Why we need future-focused leaders (FFL)
- The key attributes of FFL
- How to develop FFL
- How can FFL stay on top of a changing world?
- How to bring future insights back into the organisation?
- Key challenges FFL face when trying to deliver change and how to overcome them.
- Four key takeaways/advice for those who want to become FFL.
Rohit Talwar is an award-winning global futurist, business advisor, writer, and professional speaker. His clients range from global businesses and SMEs to governments and international institutions.
He advises businesses of every size on how to anticipate and prepare for the critical factors that could shape the future and explore how they might interact to create different possible scenarios.
He then helps those organisations develop strategies and leadership abilities that prepare them for a range of possible Futures.
He believes that the pandemic and its aftermath have highlighted the importance of developing future Focused leaders.
Rohit is the author and co-editor of 6 books on the emerging future.
He is currently focused on delivering programs to create future Focused leaders and helping them prepare for major disruptions such as the rise of the crypto economy, artificial intelligence, and the fundamental disruption of every industry sector.
The Global Ambassador of Awards International, Luke Murfitt, interviews Rohit Talwar on we can all build back better.
Mitali is a seasoned business leader and runs her own business coaching practice from London. She works with startup founders, SMEs and business leaders at large corporates in business growth and leadership development.
With over 20 years of rich and versatile experience in Strategy, Sales & Marketing Operations, Process Excellence, IT consulting, and Program Management, Mitali is a coach who has a proven track record. The majority of the work experience is with global companies like PwC, Microsoft, GE & GoDaddy, where she has been a high potential talent and has held senior leadership roles across India, UK and EMEA. She has been instrumental in building scalable processes to support business growth and leading and coaching teams to deliver results and customer impact.
Mitali is the recipient of the London Coach Award– for Best Client results 2017 & 2019 and won the UK Coach of the year for Best Client results. Her success story has been published in leading publications like Daily mail and BFA.
Out of 18,000 business coaches, Mitali Chopra is part of the World’s No.1 Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches program, an elite group of international coaches being mentored by Marshall himself.
Mark Colbourne MBE is no ordinary international keynote speaker ! Because he is also a former World & Paralympic Cycling Champion.
Luke Murfitt talks to the olympian for the Building Back Better Podcast on what proves to be a inspirational interview!
Mark overcame a near fatal paragliding crash and went on from breaking his back in 2009 to breaking world records on the velodrome track at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
What is it like to be the CEO of Awards International right now? Building Back Better, this week Luke welcomes back Neil Skehel, CEO of Awards International for an update on how the UK Business Awards is going how Awards International survived and thrived and their plans for the future. Find out Neil’s words of advice for business; 1. There is no problem to which we cannot find a solution. 2. The importance of trust and 3. Embracing change.
His name is ‘Alex (Big Gunz) Diesel’.
He is the British bodybuilding champion, and number three in the world in the heavyweight division which was Mr Olympia World Championships.
Alex Diesel talks about the discipline focus and desire required to be a champion. Alex also uses his experience in coaching and training A wide range of elite professionals from musicians, to sports stars to business owners to other bodybuilding competitors. And has created a brand called, Kill Your Excuses!
His name is ‘Alex (Big Gunz) Diesel’.
He is the British bodybuilding champion, and number three in the world in the heavyweight division which was Mr Olympia World Championships.
Alex Diesel talks about the discipline focus and desire required to be a champion. Alex also uses his experience in coaching and training A wide range of elite professionals from musicians, to sports stars to business owners to other bodybuilding competitors. And has created a brand called, Kill Your Excuses!
In this week's episode, Luke speaks to Carla Crocombe, Founder and Managing Director of Safety Rocks, about how we can make training programmes more engaging - and how we can manage risk in the workplace.
Gustavo Rota, Self Made entrepreneur, share the insights of an enriching and passionate business and personal life starting from scratch as an expat, and how he sees the way to stay motivated through set backs and unexpected life changes.
Join him at build back better this inspiring TRUE story on how to build you life continuously through the proposed changes of the LIFE’s Seasons.
Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE talked about being on boards, the important things to look for, to expect and ways on which to get on boards and tells us why Corporate Britain needs to become comfortable with having uncomfortable conversations, why they need to have the difficult dialogues, and why through this pandemic Britain has the choice of being bitter or being better.
This week's Building Back Better Podcast is with Founder and Lead Consultant at Think Wow, Rebecca Brown.
Join Luke Murfitt and the Building Back Better podcast as we talk to Copywriter and Speechwriter, Nick Warren. You'll learn:
- Why your customers are wired for story
- The 3 authentic elements you MUST include
- The 2 stories that matter in every sale
Hear how Nick used simple tools and techniques to help Luke unlock his own story, elevate his brand ... and build back better. And how you can too.
Luke and Timothy Britt from Marshall Centre discuss how the business is surviving the Covid-19 pandemic, and the steps they’re taking to thrive in the new normal.
In the latest episode, Luke chats with Miranda Cain, Elev-8’s Managing Director, and Rob Clarke, Director of Growth. They will take us through their story of setting up the business during the pandemic, their fears and the silver linings and lessons along the way.
MD and Founder of Student Breakthrough, Sam Moinet, takes us through his incredible journey and we discover how he has managed to achieve his highest level of sales during the last quarter. It’s packed with advice and tips for everyone from this visionary with a young business.
Episode #4 : Build Back Better Podcast with TV / Radio personality , Journalist and Expert in Business and Money advise Jasmine Birtles
CEO and founder of Awards International, Neil Skehel talks to Luke about how Awards International, operators of the UK Business Awards, survived and thrived in the pandemic. Neil gave Luke numerous insights and tips for growth in 2021.