In this episode of Rebel In Progress, I'm joined by Peter Hopwood. Peter is an international speaker and TEDx coach who helps keynote speakers, TEDx speakers, professionals and entrepreneurs to tell more impactful stories. We speak about: - Where to start when building your confidence in public speaking - Accepting judgement and refocusing on delivering value - Self-awareness and learning from practice - Leadership communication and connection - Storytelling and seeing it as moments of emotion   To connect with Peter, you can find him on LinkedIn:   You can find more episodes of Rebel In Progress on our website at 

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Ep23, Peter Hopwood, International Speaker & TEDx Coach - Public speaking with confidence & storytelling through emotion

Note: This episode is for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Egbe Manton is a commercial lawyer and commercial director of Manton Legal Consultancy. In this episode, Egbe and I chat about the legal basics with regards to contracts. She shares her experience, thoughts and practical tips on: - Avoiding future conflict with co-founders and clients - Options available to those facing challenges around late or non-payments - How to contracts can help ensure a healthy client relationship - How she aims to do things differently in the legal profession - Rebellion in her corporate career and in her consultancy business Manton Legal Consultancy specialises in simple, affordable legal guidance for entrepreneurs and founders. You can find out more about Manton Legal at .

Ep22, Egbe Manton, Manton Legal - Startup legals & healthy client relationships

From here on out, my conversations with guests will be on all things rebellion in work and business. I'll continue to bring gripping and practical interviews with entrepreneurs, experts and creatives where we dissect the topics of creativity, innovation, authenticity and challenging the status quo.   The first-ever Rebel In Progress guest is Caroline Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Lifetise. It's fantastic to partner with Caroline of Lifetise to kick off the rebel chats as I fully believe she is advancing with the next generation of leaders that aim to be open around the realities of business. She shares the personal development involved in being an agitator and stepping into a leadership position. And her relationship with money; moulded by difficult circumstances which has fuelled her mission to help others with money planning.   In this episode we discuss: - Money - Being an agitator at work - Leading with authenticity and vulnerability - Redefining professionalism - Finding the best talent through an inclusive remote-working model - Challenging the status quo in the financial services industry - How being an outsider is an asset   To find out more on the financial planning tool, you can go to Lifetise's website .

Ep21, Caroline Hughes, Lifetise - Money, Authenticity & Being An Agitator

  My guest this week on Creative Connections is the coach for creatives, Tommy Ludgate of Brightly Image. She uses a blend of coaching, mentoring and teaching to help her clients overcome the challenges holding them back in their careers and lives.   Tommy is a certified coach, singer-songwriter and an experienced performer having performed with the likes of Paloma Faith, Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller. She also released an iTunes Top 10 Blues Album after winning a competition to record her songs.   In this episode, she talks about and shares her experiences on:   Techniques for handling fear and quietening your inner-critic Learning from the experience after being struck down by fear mid-performance Saying yes to opportunities as a career strategy The value of downtime and feeling worthy of it How rituals can aid your performance Tools to slow down to spark your creativity   Tommy mentions her Creative Wander walk that is designed to take you on a slow-paced walk to heighten your awareness that is perfect if you are looking to reconnect with your surroundings and refill your creative cup. You can download her resources for free, .   Connect with Tommy via her or on . For anyone struggling to overcome fear and want to explore what's holding you back, she is running a free live webinar on how to bust your limiting beliefs and find your creative magic, you can book your ticket, .   STARTUPS MAGAZINE PODCAST: from Startups Magazine -

Ep20, Tommy Ludgate, Brightly Imagine - Overcoming Fear & Rituals to Aid Performance

My guest this week on Creative Connections is the coach for creatives, Tommy Ludgate of Brightly Image. She uses a blend of coaching, mentoring and teaching to help her clients overcome the challenges holding them back in their careers and lives. Tommy is a certified coach, singer-songwriter and an experienced performer having performed with the likes of Paloma Faith, Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller. She also released an iTunes Top 10 Blues Album after winning a competition to record her songs.

    Episode 19 wth Ben Foulkes, MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby   My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Ben Foulkes, the MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby. Hoxby Futureproofing provides coaching and consulting services to help clients build their own future of work.   Hoxby is a purpose-led organisation made up of a community of freelancers that exists to create a world of work without bias and has been described as redefining the way the world works.   Ben is a business psychologist, has worked on innovations teams for Accenture and built a freelance business delivering lectures and business workshops for the School of Life around leadership development.   In this episode, we chat on the topics of futureproofing, creativity and leadership, and more specifically: Challenging work assumptions Exploring opportunities to build the future of work Leading a team through the shift to remote working Our changing relationship with work and the freelance economy Agility and building a multi-disciplined team   A big thank you to Ben for offering his time to speak with me on the podcast. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear how Hoxby is leading the way in the futureproofing sphere to refresh the way we work.   You can listen to the episode on and . If you want to find out more about Hoxby's futureproofing team and services, you can connect with them via their website, .

Ep19, Ben Foulkes, Hoxby - Futureproofing & redefining the way we work

www.rachelmatthewswriter.co.uk/post/hoxby    Episode 19 wth Ben Foulkes, MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby   My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Ben Foulkes, the MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby. Hoxby Futureproofing provides coaching and consulting services to help clients build their own future of work.   Hoxby is a purpose-led organisation made up of a community of freelancers that exists to create a world of work without bias and has been described as redefining the way the world works.   Ben is a business psychologist, has worked on innovations teams for Accenture and built a freelance business delivering lectures and business workshops for the School of Life around leadership development.   In this episode, we chat on the topics of futureproofing, creativity and leadership, and more specifically: Challenging work assumptions Exploring opportunities to build the future of work Leading a team through the shift to remote working Our changing relationship with work and the freelance economy Agility and building a multi-disciplined team   A big thank you to Ben for offering his time to speak with me on the podcast. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear how Hoxby is leading the way in the futureproofing sphere to refresh the way we work.   You can listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you want to find out more about Hoxby's futureproofing team and services, you can connect with them via their website, here. 

    Episode 18 of Creative Connections is with Nancy Evbuomwan, business strategist and the Founder of Unikable   My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is . Nancy is the high energy (and hilarious) founder of Unikable. Unikable specialises in business strategy, agility and empowering uniqueness.   Nancy is a speaker, strategist, agility coach and host of the podcast Better, Faster, Happier. She has experience working in tech, product, talent as well as startup business - she began her first entrepreneurial venture, Whisper London, back in 2012.   In this episode Nancy shares: Her experience of being an entrepreneur, the challenges and mistakes along the way The importance of strategy, agility and clear decision-making Her mission to help empower companies' uniqueness What it means for her to be 'unemployable' Process and automation tips with business growth in mind A huge thank you to Nancy for featuring as this week's guest. It was an absolute pleasure chatting with her and I hope you enjoy listening to our chat. If you did, please make sure to rate, review and subscribe as it helps others discover the podcast.   If you'd like to work with Nancy and Unikable, they are now accepting people onto the accelerator programme waiting list. The programme will help you to spot better opportunities, identify key problems, test ideas, offer solutions and build a strategy with the aim to grow an agile business. You can sign up .

Ep18, Nancy Evbuomwan, Unikable - Importance of biz strategy & being unemployable

www.rachelmatthewswriter.co.uk/unikable    Episode 18 of Creative Connections is with Nancy Evbuomwan, business strategist and the Founder of Unikable   My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Nancy Evbuomwan. Nancy is the high energy (and hilarious) founder of Unikable. Unikable specialises in business strategy, agility and empowering uniqueness.   Nancy is a speaker, strategist, agility coach and host of the podcast Better, Faster, Happier. She has experience working in tech, product, talent as well as startup business - she began her first entrepreneurial venture, Whisper London, back in 2012.   In this episode Nancy shares: Her experience of being an entrepreneur, the challenges and mistakes along the way The importance of strategy, agility and clear decision-making Her mission to help empower companies' uniqueness What it means for her to be 'unemployable' Process and automation tips with business growth in mind A huge thank you to Nancy for featuring as this week's guest. It was an absolute pleasure chatting with her and I hope you enjoy listening to our chat. If you did, please make sure to rate, review and subscribe as it helps others discover the podcast.   If you'd like to work with Nancy and Unikable, they are now accepting people onto the accelerator programme waiting list. The programme will help you to spot better opportunities, identify key problems, test ideas, offer solutions and build a strategy with the aim to grow an agile business. You can sign up here. 

  /    /   My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Katy Murray.    Katy leads Catalyst Collective, a boutique consultancy specialising in inclusion and diversity. She is a leadership coach who helps resource change-making women to step up without burning out.   She has coached 1000s of women over 20 years, worked in 35 countries and sectors as diverse as financial services, humanitarian agencies and global commercial companies. Her current work involves coaching CEOS, humanitarian leaders, activists and entrepreneurs.   She is also a speaker, writer, mastermind host and creator of , a series of small habits that help us create significant change in our lives over time.     In this episode, we chat about:   Being at our best and most creative (spoiler, it's not about working more hours) Listening to all types of data in decision-making, including your gut, intuition and emotions The learning curve when starting a business The conditioning of permission, comparison and scarcity  Rest and resilience to navigate challenges A huge thank you for Katy for speaking with me this week. It was an absolute pleasure chatting with her. I hope you enjoy the episode.   Connect with Katy You can connect with Katy via her website: , on Instagram  and LinkedIn here, .   You can also download Katy's Resilience Boost session with more on her  on her website, .

Ep17, Katy Murray, Catalyst Collective - Acting without permission & rest as a competitive advantage

 www.rachelmatthewswriter.co.uk/post/catalystcollective  @rachelmatthewswrites / @creativeconnectionspod   www.katycatalyst.com / @katycatalyst   My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Katy Murray.    Katy leads Catalyst Collective, a boutique consultancy specialising in inclusion and diversity. She is a leadership coach who helps resource change-making women to step up without burning out.   She has coached 1000s of women over 20 years, worked in 35 countries and sectors as diverse as financial services, humanitarian agencies and global commercial companies. Her current work involves coaching CEOS, humanitarian leaders, activists and entrepreneurs.   She is also a speaker, writer, mastermind host and creator of #PowerPractices, a series of small habits that help us create significant change in our lives over time.     In this episode, we chat about:   Being at our best and most creative (spoiler, it's not about working more hours) Listening to all types of data in decision-making, including your gut, intuition and emotions The learning curve when starting a business The conditioning of permission, comparison and scarcity  Rest and resilience to navigate challenges A huge thank you for Katy for speaking with me this week. It was an absolute pleasure chatting with her. I hope you enjoy the episode.   Connect with Katy You can connect with Katy via her website: www.katycatalyst.com, on Instagram @katycatalyst and LinkedIn here, Katy Catalyst.   You can also download Katy's Resilience Boost session with more on her #PowerPractices on her website, here. 

/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-hayward/ This week my guest is Lara Hayward. Lara is the lead on Creative Careers strategy at the University of Oxford and has previously worked as a lawyer for ten years in the healthcare, business regulation and sports sectors. Lara also participates in triathlons, is a qualified triathlon coach and has taken up acro-yoga which has led to her acceptance into circus school after a rigorous two-day audition process! Having worked in elite sport, healthcare and higher education, Lara has a keen interest in high-performing individuals and teams, personal development and creativity.   In this episode, we chat about:   Learning from high-performance environments Reconnecting with creativity Using the threads of her curiosity to guide her career Securing her place at circus school after an intensive audition process   Thank you to Lara for chatting with me. I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and if you do, please make sure to share it with a friend.

Ep16, Lara Hayward, Oxford University - Follow your curiosity & learning from high-performance environments

Creative Connections With Rachel Matthews is a business podcast where each week a creative entrepreneur or business owner is interviewed to unpick their business journey and share how they live a creative life.