Detouring

Alex started out in the kitchen and set up his first business (cafe/catering company) very early. After 10 years of working as a chef and struggling with side hustles for years, he managed to get a digital marketing company for coaches and consultants off the ground... to the moon, one might say!

Today we speak about the hospitality business, setting up a business from scratch, digital marketing and fatherhood.

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Find out more:

• To The Moon - Digital Marketing Services

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#digital #marketing #hospitality #entrepreneur #chef #food #coaching #business #fatherhood

• Donor's Choose: https://www.donorschoose.org/

More about Sarah:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/love_misssarah/
• OnlyFans (+18): https://onlyfans.com/love_misssarah_free/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahJuree

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#arts #education #business #entertainment

• The Ritz's Wimbourne House (aka William Kent House)
• Orcan Intelligence
• Panintelligence
• Harrogate's St Wilfrid's Football Club

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#sports #business #hospitality #restaurant #sales #technology

Steve Axford, The man behind the famous fungi footage on BBC's Planet Earth II and Fantastic Fungi and co-creator of Planet Fungi joins me on the first episode after the holiday hiatus to tell his journey.

Join us and listen to our conversation about mining in dangerous caves, the information technology sector in its infancy and the wonderful world of fungi.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• This is Colossal (and the original post that led to all this)
• The Kunming Institute of Botany (part of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• js13kGames

See more of Steve's work:

• on Instagram
• on Youtube

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#fungi #photography #timelapse #filmography #mining #technology #it #software

Abeja owner explains how she got into research in molecular biology and how after spending 20 years she decided to bring a piece of Granada to Manchester in the form of a tapas bar... just before COVID!

Ana goes deep into what a scientist does in the field of molecular biology and later into how she got inspired to set up her tapas bar business.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• ERASMUS;
• Hatch;
• Abeja / Instagram / Facebook

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#science #biology #research #foodindustry #restaurant #business

Special episode today with Melanie Parker, the founder of Graft Talent. She works a lot with talent that wants to move from whatever area they're working in into the technology sector.

Among her advice, she also describes her many twists and turns on her journey from being a hairdresser to founding her recruitment company.

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• The Open University;
• Northcoders;
• Google Digital Garage;
• freeCodeCamp;
• Leeds Becket University;
• Leeds Digital Festival;
• Udemy;
• TechUPWomen

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#technology #recruitment #hairdresser

From writing software, to project management, to writing about board games, to finally owning his own boardgame design company: Automa Factory, Morten describes his journey and gives a bit of insight into the board gaming industry and what's so different about solo board games..

In this episode, Morten also highlights how one really needs to look after their own mental health.

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• Thematic Solitaires for the Spare Time Challenged;
• Breaking Into Board Games;
• BoardGameGeek

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#boardgamedesign #softwaredevelopment #projectmanagement

She speaks of art and she creates it - Lana Pajdas tells me her story of how she started as an art historian to becoming involved in social media for heritage sites until she finally found her passion for illustration and education for illustration. You can follow her on her instagram.

#art #history #marketing

From dreaming of being a veterinarian to practising physiotherapy to setting up her interior design business (Culinary Architecture), Heidi walked me through her journey and, along the way, she gives a little insight into the many aspects of her careers, coupled with pearls of advice.

#health #design #business

This time I got to talk to Alice who started out in the backstage of the entertainment industry as a Stage Manager. She tells how that role got her to see the UK and also different parts of the world. After completing the Northcoders bootcamp, she now works as a Software Developer, wrangling code instead of props and actors.

#entertainment #theatre #softwaredevelopment #programming

Gabe Barrett joins me to talk about how he went from playing (american) football in college to doing charity missions with the homeless and how working with orphans in Honduras eventually led him to get involved with the board game community, first via the Board Game Design Lab (podcast & community) and later as a board game designer.

#americanfootball #football #charity #teaching #boardgames #boardgamedesign #podcast

Ellen Bryan recalls her time as a fresh recruiter, the pros and cons of owning her own recruitment business and how that allowed her to infiltrate the world of sales in the technology market. Finally she talks a little about her current role at Panintelligence and gives a few tips about getting into sales.

#recruitment #sales #business #entrepernourship

• Get Into Teaching

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#marketing #sales #art #education

Luke Jones elucidates how his love for the outdoors got him into marketing which then got him into programming. He also explains how Northcoders got him his first job and eventually allowed him land his position at Sky.

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• Codecademy;
• Leeds Mountaineering Club

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#marketing #softwaredevelopment #programming #outdoors

• Portuguese custard tarts;
• "Queijadas" - those cheese-based tarts;
• Fresh cheese - turns out you can get this here!

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#design #pastry

Greta Matulionyte tells us her journey from studying history, to restaurant management, to recruiter, to her current role as a software developer at Panintelligence.

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• Code First Girls

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#restaurant #softwaredevelopment #recruitment