The Workshop: Recent Episodes
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The Workshop is brought to you by MTAA. More than an Agency is a platform that seeks to create the largest possible value exchange between football and attractive, innovative and impactful opportunities.In this show, we bring on some of our key partners who have become thought leaders in their respective industries and areas of focus.Our hope is that we will be able to give you digestible and useful information to help inform you about topics of global interest.
Sean is a performance breath coach with over 25 years of teaching and coaching experience. He’s also the VP of business development at Airofit.
Airofit is a respiratory training system that improves athletes' performance through tested breathing exercises. The mobile app consists of various training programs (some of which created by Sean) that target different areas of your breathing like respiratory strength, vital capacity, and anaerobic threshold.
We talk about the advantages of breathe training and the role it plays in the life of elite athletes. We also talk in detail about Airofit, what it is, how it works, and what’s in store for this innovative company.
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Sahir Zaveri is the co-founder and CEO of King Children – a technology platform developed to rethink how we design, develop, and produce the products we buy.
King Children’s entire business model is designed around building a zero waste future. The three major causes of negative impact on our planet are inventory waste, production waste and CO2 emissions. They are committed to solving each of these problems and creating products that leave the world in a better place.
In this episode, we talk about Sahir's personal background and how that led to the company being founded. We also discuss the problem of an inherently wasting world, the advantages of King Children's business model, the importance of building a strong team, the power of influence, ongoings collaborations, and a look at the year ahead for Sahir and King Children.
Follow @king.children on Instagram, and download the King Children app to get a deeper understanding of the product.
Happy listening!
Loui Blake is a London-based entrepreneur, speaker and angel investor in the plant-based & sustainability space. Starting out in football & then nightlife, a switch to a plant-based diet in 2015 caused Loui to refocus his attention on businesses that have a positive impact on the world.
In this episode we talk in detail about his journey to become a serial entrepreneur, and how he was able to marry his passion and life goals into his businesses.
We go into opening Erpingham house, a group that includes the U.K's largest vegan restaurant - and how he used the community in a unique way to make the restaurant a success.
To learn more about Loui and his businesses, check out www.louiblake.com.
Enjoy the episode and feel free to reach out with any comments or queries!
In this episode, we speak to Victoire Cogevina. She is an ex-sports agent, a UN ambassador for gender equality, and the co-founder and CEO of Gloria - a new platform for football lovers. On the app players and fans alike can interact with each other, easily find awesome football content and share their skills and passion for the game from anywhere with the world. In this episode, we discuss what led Victoire to start Gloria, the purpose behind it, and the challenges to get it off the ground. We also deep dive into building vertical communities, co-creating a product with your users, the power of social media, and much more. You can find out more about Gloria on www.gloria.app, by following @gloriafootball on Instagram, or reach out to us to get an invitation to join us on the app!