Success Stories: Recent Episodes
Georgia Aldridge
Success Stories is a podcast created to search for the true meaning of success! With the help of some amazing guests, we'll be inspired by some incredible success stories and find out how we can better our businesses and mindset, to achieve what we think it means to be truly successful.
Mark Wright won The Apprentice back in 2014 and has since launched and built one of the most successful marketing companies in the UK, with Lord Alan Sugar as his business partner. In this weeks episode of Success Stories, Mark shares with us what he thinks have been the key factors to his business success and what his learnt from his mentors, including multi-billionare Grant Cardone.
For this weeks episode of Success Stories, I sit down with entrepreneur and investor Aaron Knightley to talk all about how he reached his success through education, growing a network of wealthy individuals and not following the governments systems has lead him to success.
Love Island is one of the biggest shows in the UK, but although everything seems glamourous and exciting, it comes with some downfalls too.
In this weeks episode, Coco Lodge from this years cast sits down to give us the honest truth about what it can really mean for your mental health to open yourself up to such critisism, trolling and backlash.
Owen Barrow is the co-founder of GoGetters, a local on-demand food delivery app. Despite working against huge competitiors in the field such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats & Just Eat, they are still managing to the pave the way with their passion to serve local resturants, rather than big chains, and provide five star customer service that is incompariable to the other platforms. In this weeks episode, we talk all about how GoGetters went from Owen & his co-founder taking manual text message orders and delivering themselves, to now being one of the big players in the app game.
What is a brand? Does anyone REALLY know? Could you actually define what it is?
Understanding what a brand Vs. a business is, is definitely something I have struggled with myself. But luckily for this weeks episode, we have the brand strategy queen herself, Imogen Pickering (owner of @sisterbrandltd), to give us a full masterclass on exactly what a brand is and why our business can never be successful without a bulletproof one.
This weeks guest has managed to create the life of her dreams coaching women on self love and business growth, even after making a huge investment in herself that went horribly wrong.
@selflove.lydia sits down to tell us all about her experience with toxic coaching culture and why she vows to change this narrative with her own programmes.
Illana Gambrill, the owner of an INSANE dance community DanceBox, has the most incredible story. From saving herself as a child from a toxic industry, surviving an eating disorder, leaving a marriage that everyone around her told her to stay in and going against the grain her whole life - today she sits down to tell me know she was able to come unapologetically herself and create the job of her dreams.
At such a young age, Jack Luckhurst is already at the top of his game. As Hair Stylist to the biggest influencer in the UK right now, Jack tells me all about how he worked his way to the top and how is not always as glamours as you think.
Carina Talla is a Ayurvedic Health & Healing Coach, who helps individuals to overcome any past trauma that may still be negaitively affecting their life, damaging their mental health or stopping them from reaching their full potential.
Whether it's something that we acknowledge or not, we all have past traumas that can impact the way we live our lives. So this epsiode is an important one for anyone who wants to learn how to let go...
Aaron Branch is the founder of Social Agendas, a successful digital marketing agency, as well as an investor & director at start-up DeliverMe, which was recently pitched to the dragons on Dragon's Den.
In this conversation, we talk all about the art of juggling multiple businesses and a family, how to prepare for the pitch of a lifetime and how his childhood experiences are what gave him the drive to strive for nothing but success.
Topics like breathwork, manifesting, energy, are all not things that I usually relate to. But on this podcast, it's important for me to have conversations with not just people who I have the same opinion as.
In this weeks epsiode, Jenna takes us through how to grow your confidence with things like breathwork, connecting with your intuition, manifesting and so much more... And guess what, if anyone is going to make me feel like I've got a bit of spirituality in me, its Jenna.
One of the number 1 questions that I get asked is: 'Is it actually important for me to show myself on my business page?'...
Which is always followed by: 'How can I grow my confidence to show myself on Instagram?'.
So this episode is all about answering those questions for you.
For this weeks epsiode, I sit down with the incredible Gaby Mendes, who is the founder and CEO of Talk Twenties. Talk Twenties is an online platform and podcast, there to teach us about all of the things we should have learnt in school! From credit cards, to mortgages, to relationships, sex and more!
Today you have a rare solo episode from me, talking all about how virtually anyone can earn abit of extra cash or a great wage from social media. Whether you've got a buisness, that doesnt currently have a great social media precense or you're thinking of starting one - I know you'll take some great lessons (and a kick up the bum) from this short episode.
Investing is something that we hear a lot about, but know very little about. The information never seems clear or understandable for the average jo, so thats why we've got @laura_ann_moore back for another podcast to tell us all about it and how we can get started with just £5!!!
In this weeks episode of Success Stories, I speak to the lovely Shoshanna, who started her page @thefairyjobmother (great name, I know!), to help people who struggle with all things careers!
Typically on this podcast, we speak about becoming business owners, but I thought this episode would be great for anyone who actually prefers to be employed, but perhaps wants to secure that promotion, higher salary or even brand new job!
This weeks conversation with Love Island's Sharon Gaffka is so important.
We speak about so many hard hitting subjects, from equality, to feminism, to gender steriotypes and her current campaign work around spiking.
Connie Simmons is an Influencer, Life Coach and now also adding Global Property Advisor to her CV... Not to mention that she does all of this with a toddler and another one on the way! In this weeks episode, she helps to put some of my fears to rest around being able to have a career, whilst also having a family.
This has got to be one of my favourite, if not my favourite podcast yet. This chat with money & mindset coach Laura Moore opens up so many thoughts about how the way we spend & manage our money, is a direct reflection of our self worth. We also talk about how it's women in the UK who are most likely to be in debt and why there is still such a stigma around women talking about their financial situation.
I found Jade when searching for 'social media tips' on YouTube one afternoon. After binge watching a bunch of her content, I knew I needed to have her on this podcast! Jade has grown to almost 50k subscribers in just over one year, by posting super helpful videos about social media, marketing and how to manage your side hustles. In this episode she talks me through her journey to becoming her own boss, reveals a bunch of social media hacks that you may not know about and lets me in on her thoughts around the 'hustle culture' movement.
Social media is taking over the world and instead of seeing that as a negative, why not build a 6-figure career from your own home with it?!
Sound easy? Usually when something sounds too good to be true, it is. But I'm a walking example of how possible it really is! I started taking on my first social media management clients in July 2021 and now in January 2022, I have already left my 9-5 and got myself a part time assistant. Join me & Bryleigh for a 3 hour course in London on how to become the best SMM. Head to my instagram for more details & tickets.
For this weeks episode, I speak to the lovely and super talented celebrity stylist - Ellis Ranson.
Although Ellis clearly has a talent for what she does, she lets me in on why she thinks success is 60% about your personality and 40% about your skill, as well as how she created her own luck within her career.
Whether your into fashion or not, I think we can all learn something from her super entrepreneurial brain!
New Year's Resolutions, do you love them or loathe them? If you loathe them, is it because they always seem to fail? Maybe that's because you've been setting them all wrong....
In this weeks episode, I speak about how to make sure your resolutions have the best chance of going to plan and why setting them is a great way to start your year.
I'm sure that myself and this weeks guest, Bryleigh Flack, are not the only two business owners that have a fear of losing clients. We understand that it can be really tough to say no and set boundaries with your clients, when this is your biggest fear!
As well as speaking about this topic, we also chat about juggling your business and your personal life. At just 23 years old, Bryleigh not only has a successful social media management business, but she is also a foster mum... which I think makes her all the more inspiring.
If you enjoy this episode, go check out Bryleigh's Instagram page @bryleighsocial.
For this weeks episode, I sit down with friend and fashion influencer Alisha LeMay, to speak all about how to become a successful influencer, the difference between building an audience and building a following, plus how she became the happiest version of herself.
These days, every market seems saturated, which makes becoming the best in your field even tougher.
Teki however, has totally disrupted the age old dental industry and made dentist appointments something that people actually WANT to go to! Being a client of his myself, I can see exactly why he has an impressive year long wait list.
Teki puts customer service at the forefront of everything he does and I think it's something that no matter where you are in your business, needs to be considered and can always be improved...
Poppy Johnson (@facesbypoppy) is a business mentor who teaches her clients how to 4X their current income and work less than they ever have before! Now, if that's not the goal - then I don't know what is!
In her first 6 weeks of business, Poppy generated a whopping £22,000... So, I thought she would be the perfect guest to teach us a thing or two about how we can LEVEL UP our businesses.
Finances - yes, this is something that a lot of us find boring... but, at the same time, money is one of the main factors that we work so hard! So we really should know how to manage it properly and get the absolute most out of all of our hard work. For this weeks episode, I sit down and chat to Emily, who is not your average accountant. She is young, fun and knows her stuff when it comes to how you can keep hold of as many of your pennies as possible!
For this weeks episode, I talk to the owner of a start-up sustainable supplements brand, Plant Supplements, about creating a product in an already super competitive market, the struggles of being a start up and how building a business and building a brand are two totally different things.
It seemed to happen over night, but I can assure you it didn't. Courtney, my best friend, is one of the most hardworking and discipled people I have ever met. By the age of just 25, she has transformed her career of being a personal trainer into a multi-million pound fitness app business, which ranked as the top grossing fitness app in the whole of the UK for a number of months. In this episode, we talk about the importance of looking after the customers you've already got and not just striving for more, as well as, being able to adapt and handle the challenges that being a business owner brings.
For this weeks episode, I got the chance to speak to the super entrepreneurial Grace Kennett, who has been an investor in the successful designer goods resale brand - Luxury Promise, since she was just 20 years old!
We talk all about being an investor and what that means, why being out of your comfort zone is the most important place to be and how to use your social media content to grow your brand.
This episode was a big deal for me to record. Opening up about my personal life is not something I'm used to, but I knew that to start this podcast, you lot would need to know a little more about me & my journey...
Welcome to my brand new podcast, Success Stories! This podcast is all about being inspired, learning new things and finding out the true meaning of success. With the help of some amazing guests, we'll hear some incredible success stories and learn how we can better our businesses & mindset, to stay on the path to becoming truly successful.