Millennial Masters
A podcast featuring conversations with founders and leaders on business, growth, AI, and how modern companies adapt. Targeting people building businesses and leading teams, it offers practical insights and lessons from entrepreneurs. Hosted by Daniel Ionescu, each episode explores the strategies and challenges of today's evolving business landscape.
Episodes
The buyer in your head isn't your market 🎯 Ayse Guvencer
Being close to a problem can make you dangerously confident about the buyer. Ayse Guvencer calls this the domain expert trap: lived pain can narrow how you see the market.Ayse moved from agency work and roles at Google and Sage into advising early-stage companies, where buyer research kept exposing assumptions teams had treated as facts.Those assumptions can shape the product and sales story befor
The race to prove which space startups are real 🚀 Philip Hover-Smoot
Space startups can raise hundreds of millions before their technology ever flies. Philip Hover-Smoot thinks that can distort what investors see as real progress.Philip left Scout Space, where he’d been CEO, to build Atlas Cup, a spacecraft racing league designed to make rival teams prove what their technology can do in public.His bet is that performance can become proof before revenue arrives. Tha
You can’t run a business you don’t understand 📊 Lauren Pearl
You can hand finance to someone else, but you still need to understand what the numbers are saying. Otherwise, you can easily make big decisions without seeing what's really happening.Lauren Pearl learnt that the hard way after a finance-trained classmate diagnosed the family business in minutes. She now advises founders and teaches financial modelling at NYU Stern.Knowing the numbers later made i
Build less before you know more 🧪 Sophia Matveeva
You can build a tech company without becoming a developer, as long as you understand enough to work properly with the people building it.Sophia Matveeva, founder of Tech for Non-Techies, learned that after raising money for her first startup and hiring a technical team. She was the CEO, but when a developer started talking about building the back end on Ruby on Rails, she realised she had no idea
AI can build it. But should you? 🤖 Konstantin Klyagin
Konstantin Klyagin has spent more than two decades building software for other companies, and lately he’s also been fixing more of what AI helps people build.Through his agencies Redwerk and QAwerk, he sees what happens after the prototype looks convincing and real users start doing things you didn’t expect. Something that worked perfectly in a demo can suddenly fail on basic workflows, from payme
Success can break the business too ☕ Zain Peer
Getting more orders sounds like the answer until the business cannot keep up.Zain Peer found that out when London Nootropics appeared on Dragons’ Den, the UK version of Shark Tank. The website crashed, orders surged, and a business that had been manageable the week before suddenly had to cope with a completely different level of demand.It was the kind of attention they had been trying to create fr
Every tiny decision is costing you 🔋 Barry Cryan
Tiny decisions rarely feel expensive in the moment. One more email, one quick question from the team, one interruption you deal with before getting back to the work you were doing.Barry Cryan sees the cost of those interruptions differently. Through his company, Do More Better, he works with business owners to reduce how much work keeps flowing back to them and build systems that give them more ro
AI built the product. Investors still said no 💸 Vinnie Lauria
Building a startup has never been easier. Convincing someone to invest in it is a different problem.Vinnie Lauria has spent more than 15 years on the other side of that decision. As a founding partner at Golden Gate Ventures, he has backed companies across Southeast Asia after starting his own career as an entrepreneur.That gives him a useful view of what investors notice once a founder gets in th
Build like the buyer is already watching 👀 Luke Tobin
Luke Tobin built Digital Ethos from a startup into an international agency before selling the business in 2022.By the time the offer arrived, the real work had already happened. He had spent years building the team, tightening how the company ran, and making sure it could keep moving without him at the centre of everything.That's what a buyer is really looking for. They want to know the clients wi
The video isn’t your real problem 🎬 Dustin Schultz
Spending more on a video won't make your business easier to understand. That's the mistake Dustin Schultz sees all the time.Companies decide they need a better video, then jump straight into production before the message is clear enough to carry it. Dustin has spent 15 years building Union, a creative agency that helps businesses turn ideas into video that actually has a job to do.His view is usef
The shortcut always costs more 🧼 Kate Assaraf
Kate Assaraf built Dip to seven figures while turning down some of the growth channels most founders chase. She does not sell on Amazon, and she has not relied on Meta or TikTok ads. Instead, she built the business through independent refill stores, salons, and surf shops, one relationship at a time.On paper, some of those decisions look expensive. Kate believes the opposite. The shortcuts were th
Revenue can hide a broken business 📉 Nate Littlewood
Nate Littlewood has seen both sides of business growth. He started out in finance, then went on to bootstrap a seven-figure consumer brand, where the theory of growth met the much messier reality of running a company.That experience now shapes his work at Future Ready, where he helps founders understand what is really happening inside the business before growth makes the problems harder to see. Re
Relevance means presence 🌱 Hugo Pereira
Hugo Pereira thinks a lot of people are struggling with a version of work that no longer feels stable. He has spent the last decade moving through startups, scale-ups, international expansion, leadership, and now a portfolio career, while watching technology move faster than most companies or careers can comfortably absorb.That perspective makes this conversation especially useful right now. Hugo
Why builders make bad entrepreneurs 🧱 Matt Watson
Matt Watson has spent years building software companies, including Full Scale, where he helps businesses hire and manage software development teams. He is also the author of Product Driven, a book about turning product thinking into real business growth.That matters because Matt has lived close to the gap between making software and building a company people actually want. His warning feels especi
Don’t hire helpers, hire owners 👑 Gavin Bell
Gavin Bell built and sold a paid media agency by the age of 30. From the start, he wanted the business to become sellable, which forced a different kind of thinking around hiring, delivery, and how much still depended on him.One of the clearest lessons from his exit is that founders often hire help when they really need ownership. A helper takes tasks off your plate. An owner takes responsibility
Investors don’t fund ideas 💸 James Church
James Church sees what most founders miss about raising money. He works closely with companies going through the process, and the pattern is consistent. Founders focus on the pitch, the deck, and the story they want to tell. Investors are reading something else entirely.The decision starts forming long before the meeting. Your traction, your positioning, how clearly you explain the problem, and ho
Hire your army, don’t rent mercenaries ⚔️ Yannik Schrade
Yannik Schrade thinks a lot of founders are too casual about what they outsource. He is the founder of Arcium, building privacy infrastructure at a time when AI is making software easier to build, easier to copy, and more exposed than most people realise.His view is simple: If your edge lives in the product, the knowledge, and the way the team works together, you cannot keep giving that away and e
A good business can still trap you 🪤 Melissa Kwan
Melissa Kwan has spent years building, selling, and starting again. By the time she launched eWebinar, she had a much clearer idea of what she wanted this time and what she was no longer willing to compromise on. For a while, it looked like it was working. Then growth slowed, old habits started creeping back in, and she realised the problem was not just effort or execution. It started earlier.Some
AI doesn’t fix a messy business ⚙️ Ben Tasker
AI can be useful long before a business is ready to use it well. Ben Tasker sees what happens when companies buy the tools first and leave the harder work until later.Ben leads AI upskilling and reskilling at scale, helping tens of thousands of employees use these systems inside real organisations across data, product and workforce change.A licence won’t fix messy data, weak guardrails or poor tra
Proving the sceptics wrong 🌙 Michelle Bell
Michelle Bell did not stumble into this idea by accident. Before founding Cosmic Universe, she worked in journalism and SEO, watching in real time what people searched for, what they clicked, and what they kept coming back to. One pattern stood out. Astrology was not a side interest or a joke category. The demand was huge, the audience was engaged, and the market was much bigger than most people r
Why working harder stops working 🔁 Damon Flowers
Damon Flowers has spent more than 20 years building and scaling companies across eCommerce, SaaS, and coaching. He is a four-time CEO with two eight-figure exits, including growing one business from $3.5 million to $30 million in two years.In this episode, we get into the real reason growth starts to stall for a lot of founders. It is rarely effort. It is usually structure. Damon explains how to s
Your business still needs your voice 📣 Jess Jensen
Jess Jensen has spent more than 20 years working across brands including Nestlé, Adidas, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, right as digital marketing and social media started reshaping how businesses build trust. She now runs Copilot Communications, helping founders and executives build a public presence that supports the business instead of hiding behind the brand.In this episode, we get into why so many
The ego trap behind your £10 tasks 🪤 Gary Das
Gary Das built a seven-figure mortgage business with a team of 15. It still depended on him far more than it should have.Deals, decisions, and day-to-day problems kept finding their way back to him. The business had scale, but not separation. Instead of trying to patch it, Gary shut it down and rebuilt it properly. That reset led to the £10 task rule, a simple way to spot where your time is leakin
If your brand needs you, it’s broken 🔨 Joy Zarine
Joy Zarine is a brand strategist who works with founders whose businesses have traction but still lean too heavily on them.She sees the same pattern again and again. Growth is happening, but key decisions, messaging, and direction still sit in one place. When that person steps away, things slow down. Joy helps founders turn brand into something the business can actually use day to day, with cleare
Your network is worth more than money 🤝 David Homan
If you’ve ever raised capital, built partnerships, or tried to grow through referrals, you already know the pitch deck is not the whole story.David Homan has spent more than a decade building a global network of over 2,000 family offices, founders, and impact investors, with a clear system for turning introductions into funding, collaboration, and real business outcomes. As the founder of Orchestr
The true cost of scaling 🧱 Joshua Dziabiak
Joshua Dziabiak is the founder and CEO of Perigon. He started building businesses at 14 on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, teaching himself web design and turning it into a real company before most people finish school.He went on to build across media, ticketing, insurance, and data, seeing firsthand what it takes to start from nothing and what changes once a business is established, scaled, and no
I replaced my team with AI to survive 🛠️ Anjeanette Carter
Anjeanette Carter has built and lost more than one career. She started as an actor, moved into YouTube, then into writing, building serious income online before that model broke and forced a reset.Today, she runs Stratis Media, a copywriting and LinkedIn personal branding business for founders and CEOs. From the outside, it looks like a clean pivot. In reality, it came out of pressure, uncertainty
How to negotiate your next promotion 💸 Yota Trom
Yota Trom is an executive coach and promotion strategist who helps founders, leaders, and high performers ask for more, position their value properly, and stop getting overlooked.She spent years inside companies like Yahoo and Amazon, doing the long hours, staying quiet about money, and paying for it with burnout. Today, she helps clients increase their salaries, move into more senior roles, and b
AI can build your idea, but it can’t sell it (yet) 🎯 Simon Jenner
Simon Jenner is the co-founder of Million Labs. He has spent the last two decades building, breaking, and rebuilding startups, from selling his first business in his mid-twenties to helping shape the early UK accelerator scene and supporting the launch of more than 1,900 startups.What makes this conversation timely is what he is seeing now. AI has made it far easier to build. People without a tech
Be the CEO of your own health 🧬 Anmol Kapoor
Dr Anmol Kapoor is a cardiologist, founder, and investor focused on helping people take control of their health earlier, with better data, clearer signals, and far less guesswork.He started as a heart doctor in Canada and quickly saw the same pattern too often. Patients were doing what they thought was right and still ending up with heart failure, repeat heart attacks, and no real explanation unti
Building in a broken industry ⚖️ Nick Holzherr
Nick Holzherr has already built and exited once, then chose to start again. After appearing on The Apprentice in 2012, he built Whisk, a food AI company later acquired by Samsung, spent six years inside a global product environment, then stepped away to build from scratch again.His latest company, GitLaw, is an AI legal platform for founders, backed by a $3 million pre-seed round. What makes this
Speed beats perfect in the AI race ⏱️ Josh Payne
Josh Payne is the founder and CEO of Coframe. He never took a traditional route. Straight out of Stanford, he went into building, turning a pandemic project into a telemedicine company later acquired by Tata Group.He then co-founded Autograph and helped scale it during the NFT wave to unicorn level with major investors behind it. What stands out is the kind of problems he moves towards. He built G
Build a lean business with AI agents 🤖 Carly Meyers
Carly Meyers has one of those stories that sounds unlikely until you hear it properly. She started on London’s West End, performing in shows like Wicked and sharing the stage with Monty Python at the O2. Then one bad landing during an audition ended that chapter overnight.What followed was a full reset through waitressing, sewing custom clothes, working at the Apple Store, building a network marke
The future of SEO in the AI era 🔎 Harry Sanders
Harry Sanders did not start with a network, a safety net, or much room to get things wrong. At 17, he was sleeping under a bridge in Melbourne with a backpack and a laptop. A social worker gave him a plan. He followed it, taught himself fast, and built StudioHawk from scratch into one of the best-known SEO agencies in the world.Today, he leads a 140-person team across three continents and hires fo
Before you can have, you must become 🐦🔥 James Fleming
James Fleming had everything you’re meant to want: a senior exec role in oil and gas, the house in Dubai, the pool, the salary, the status. But he realised he wasn’t happy.Then life stepped in. A corporate reshuffle made him redundant, and overnight his three-year plan to start a business became a three-month deadline to survive.He and his wife launched The Power Within from their living room, sel
The office never died, expectations changed 🔁 | Joe Averill
Most people complain about the office, but Joe Averill built a business by rethinking it.He launched Level in the middle of a so-called office apocalypse: no co-founder, no funding and a young family depending on him. But Joe saw what others didn’t: companies still want space, they just don’t want old-school leases, hidden costs or landlord games.Before Level, Joe cut his teeth in Manchester’s tec
Less screen time, more lifetime 📍 | Lara Varjabedian
People talk about connection, but this week’s Millennial Master builds it. Lara Varjabedian is the founder of UBQT, a platform reconnecting people in real life.Before launching her startup, Lara spent 13 years inside the global corporate machine. Then she moved into the startup world, helping VC-backed companies scale at speed... until she realised she was ready to build something of her own.She b
Always free 💸 Buy time, not things | Jason Graystone
Most people chase money. Jason Graystone chases freedom.He’s not your typical wealth guru. Jason quit a safe career when his first child was born, blew £40k learning the hard way in the markets, and then built digital assets that went on to make millions. His philosophy is simple: buy time, not things.In this episode, Jason shares why financial freedom starts with mental freedom, what losing big e
When growth hurts 📈 Lessons from scaling to exit | Simon Penson
Simon Penson went from journalist to exited entrepreneur, building one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital agencies and selling it in a £20m deal to one of the world’s biggest advertising groups.In this episode, he opens up about the hidden costs of scaling, from early hires who become blockers, to the harsh reality of earn-outs that can make or break your outcome.Now through Scaled, Simon helps B
The cost of confidence: Why ambition isn’t a dirty word 🌱 | Lauren Currie
Confidence isn’t free. As Lauren Currie puts it, “as your confidence increases, you will lose people.” She’s built Upfront into a global movement helping thousands of women step onto stages, into boardrooms, and into leadership roles that were never designed for them.In this episode, Lauren shares the reality of building confidence as a muscle, not a finish line. We explore tall poppy syndrome, th
The culture rules that survive hypergrowth 🏗️ | Petr Kozyakov
Petr Kozyakov didn’t set out to build a crypto company. He set out to solve a problem. After struggling to make a simple cross-border payment, he realised the gap in how money moves, and turned that frustration into Mercuryo, a 300+ person fintech bridging crypto and traditional finance.He talks candidly about building a culture that survives hypergrowth, learning where not to waste energy, and th
How to survive crypto’s 24/7 grind 🧯 | Kevin de Patoul
Kevin de Patoul walked away from a secure consulting career to build Keyrock, a digital asset firm that’s now raised over $80 million and employs nearly 200 people worldwide. His mission is to create the infrastructure that will power the next generation of financial markets.In this episode, Kevin breaks down the lessons from scaling a startup at hyper-speed, navigating volatile crypto cycles, and
Focus on the fun stuff & the art of delegation ⏳ | Emma Mills
This week’s Millennial Master is Emma Mills, founder of MiPA.Emma started out answering calls and managing inboxes. Seventeen years later, she built MiPA into a seven-figure executive assistant business serving more than 500 clients. Along the way, she’s learned how to protect her own time, escape the bottlenecks, and build a culture that scales.In this episode, Emma shares the systems, mindset sh
Break the rules, build your brand 🚀 | Brad Mac
This week’s Millennial Master is Brad Mac, co-founder of Unreasonable.Most brands are burning cash on lazy ads and chasing the wrong metrics. Bradley McDonald (aka Brad Mac) thinks it’s time to do the opposite: cut the noise, go deep on what actually moves people, and treat creativity as a profit centre, not a gamble.He’s scaled Unreasonable into the marketing agency everyone’s watching, proving y
Pirate moves, bold bets & stubborn scaling 🏴☠️ | Gus van Rijckevorsel
Augustin ‘Gus’ van Rijckevorsel has built his career on bold bets and stubborn ambition.By his 30s, he’d launched seven companies: some collapsed in spectacular fashion, others scaled fast enough to put him on the radar of Europe’s top investors.Gus is the kind of founder who hacks the system, takes bets most would avoid, and believes the only real risk is standing still.Now, as CEO at Ultra, he’s
The cost of saying no: Slow growth, real freedom 🙅♀️ | Jordan Stachini
This week’s Millennial Master is Jordan Stachini, Founder of Co & Co.Jordan never planned to be an agency boss. She went from flying around the world in high-pressure marketing roles to starting a consultancy that, thanks to her “no BS” style and obsession with results, quickly snowballed into a boutique agency with clients across the globe.She’s honest about slow, sustainable growth, why she turn
The sport of entrepreneurship & the business of health 🏃♂️ | Andrew Steele
Andrew Steele is the founder who went from Olympic medal sprints to building startups with nothing but a risk appetite, relentless honesty, and a knack for ignoring the “safe” option.After a decade chasing medals, he fell into tech with zero business experience, helped turn DNAfit into a global health brand, stuck it out through an IPO, and is now back at it with Stride: a membership for people wh
Obsession, burnout, and work/life integration 🔄 | Tyler Dunagin
Tyler Dunagin never set out to become “the bathtub guy,” but that’s what happens when you turn burnout into a platform business and outpace almost everyone around you.After growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Tyler hustled his way from odd jobs to flipping houses, only to hit the wall.He rebooted, switched from working on homes to scaling businesses, and now runs Turnserv, one of the fastest-
The productivity trap killing your focus 🧠 | Archie Mackintosh
This week’s Millennial Master is Archie Mackintosh, founder and coach at TruProductive.Archie doesn’t look like your typical productivity guru, and he’s not. He went from falling asleep in lessons and nearly dropping out of Cambridge to obsessing over neuroscience and building a new playbook for getting things done.His approach skips the hustle and strips back the “just work harder” noise. Instead
How to be a confident presenter 🗣️ | Andrea Pacini
Every founder knows the pain: killer idea, flat pitch. The harsh truth? Most pitches fail not because of the product, but because the story gets lost in translation. I’ve learned this the hard way, and so has Millennial Master Andrea Pacini, presentation coach, author, and the guy behind Ideas on Stage.This week, we break down what actually builds confidence on stage (spoiler: it’s not talent). An
AI is killing mediocrity 🤖 | Oliver Yonchev
This week’s Millennial Master is Oliver Yonchev, founder of cocreatd.What does it take to break out of low-aspiration roots, ride the startup rollercoaster from failed indie rocker to Social Chain and then build a venture studio in the middle of an AI revolution? For Oliver Yonchev, the answer is relentless ambition, and a kinda toxic work ethic.In this episode we get into everything:* Building yo
Building fusion to fight cancer ⚛️ | Tom Wallace-Smith
Tom Wallace-Smith never planned on becoming a deep tech founder. He started out in nuclear engineering, working on the technology that powers Britain’s submarines, then took a left turn into startups via a Zoom call and a wild idea.Today, as co-founder and CTO of Astral Systems, Tom is leading a team building compact fusion reactors: not to power the grid, but to tackle one of the most stubborn bo
Growth is easy, keeping your culture isn’t ☕ | Lydia Snape
Ask any Millennial Master what really matters as you grow, and most will say the same thing: scale means nothing if you lose your soul.This week, I’m joined by Lydia Snape former rock band frontwoman turned hospitality entrepreneur, who set out to prove you can grow fast and keep your values.As owner of Warwick Street Kitchen, Lydia built a business around the radical idea that great coffee and gr
The business case for building a stronger body 💪🏻 | Tom Hutchinson-Smith
Ask any Millennial Master how they stay sharp, and nearly all of them mention some version of the same thing: movement.Whether it’s morning runs, strength training, or squeezing in walks between meetings, exercise has become a non-negotiable for high-performing founders and execs.This week, I’m doubling up: speaking with someone who’s in the business of keeping entrepreneurs sharp, and building hi
Why personal brand is your #1 sales strategy 🎙️ | Freddie Pullen
What happens when you quit a cushy job, sell your house, and move to Dubai with zero contacts?Freddie Pullen did just that and built The Healthy Entrepreneur brand from the ground up. Today, he helps entrepreneurs turn their story into strategy, using podcasts and positioning to build trust, create leverage, and land clients without the hard sell.This episode is for every founder who’s tired of ch
Farming is entrepreneurship at its most extreme 🚜 | Meagan Kaiser
I met Meagan Kaiser at Sustainability Week in London back in March, where she spoke about global trade, soy innovation, and the future of sustainable agriculture. I knew instantly I wanted to continue the conversation, but this time, for Millennial Masters.Meagan is a fifth-generation farmer, a trained soil scientist, and a board member at the US Soy Board. She runs a soil lab with global clients,
Startup lessons from the sauce aisle 🥄 | Liam White
The healthy eating revolution is here, and Liam White is on the frontlines.The ex-banker turned co-founder of Dr Will's is taking on Big Food with a simple mission: better ingredients, no shortcuts, no ultra-processed junk.In this episode, he breaks down what it really takes to build a challenger brand, stay ahead of the health trends, and scale without selling out.This one’s packed with real-worl
How to build global teams without the bloat ✂️ | Noel Andrews
Noel Andrews is the CEO of JobRack, a niche job board he spotted in a forum and turned into a global hiring service helping founders recruit top talent from Eastern Europe and South Africa.After 15 years in the corporate world, Noel left to start an interview coaching business, only to realise he couldn’t scale it. But it was in trying to solve that failure that he found the business he would grow
Success starts with what you stop tolerating 🧭 | Will Polston
This week’s Millennial Master is Will Polston, high-performance strategist and author of North Star Thinking.Will once believed money was the key to happiness. That belief made him rich early, but left him unfulfilled.After a life-altering “lightning moment” at a Tony Robbins event, he uncovered what was really driving him: the desire to help others unlock their potential.Since then, Will’s coache
Outworking everyone is a terrible strategy 💣 Mike Jones
From Afghanistan to burnout to Better Happy, Mike Jones has lived every extreme.After five years in military intelligence (including two tours with Special Forces), Mike chased fulfilment across Thailand, Nepal, and Australia… only to find himself building a business that drained the life out of him.In this episode, we unpack how hustle culture broke him, and how he rebuilt a business (and mindset
AI, Dubai, and pivoting without shortcuts ⚙️ | James Augustin (Particle Execution)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting serviceThis week’s Millennial Master is James Augustin, Founder of Particle ExecutionFrom launching a Pokémon lucky dip at school to building one of Dubai’s fastest-growing AI automation agencies, James is proof that grit, speed, and a
Pageants, purpose and overcoming anxiety 👑 | Jasmine Foley (Empress Media Academy)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting serviceWhat if pageants were less about looks and more about legacy?Jasmine Foley is International Ms 2024 and founder of Empress Media Academy, where she helps women build their brand, voice and confidence through pageantry.But behind
How to build a brand people actually believe in 🫗 | Rob Smith (Arrowtown)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service--------------Most brands try to fake authenticity, but Rob Smith built his on it.Rob and his brother James didn’t have a background in drinks, big investors, or industry connections. What they had was a gap year discovery in Ne
How to create your own opportunities from nothing 👨🏻💻 | Stefan Husanu (Pith & Stem)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting serviceStefan Husanu’s story is anything but conventional. Arriving in London with no qualifications and barely any money, he took whatever work he could find — hustling his way from construction sites to running his own business. But
To be exceptional, you have to be the exception 👸 | Amy Morris (Pop Up Global)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube— Millennial Masters is brought to you by Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting serviceWhat happens when Disney sends you a cease and desist? Most people panic. Amy Morris built a global entertainment empire.She went from performing on cruise ships to launching Pop Up Global, taking on an entire industry, rewrit
The insane grind of building a space startup 🛰️ Joshua Western
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:— Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service— Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedThis week, Millennial Masters takes you beyond the stratosphere with Joshua Western, co-founder and CEO of SpaceForge — the company making space manufacturing a reality.It
The mistakes that turned waste into a business 📦 Jack Good
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:— Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service— Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedThis week’s Millennial Master is Jack Good, founder and CEO of Reuseabox.What started as a scrappy eBay hustle selling second-hand cardboard has turned into a full-fledged
The biggest lie about sustainability ♻️ Alice Casiraghi
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:* Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service* Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedAlice Casiraghi is a designer in the circular economy, an expert in sustainable food systems and climate tech, and a master lecturer on how to rethink business for a greene
Self-awareness beats hustle every time 🏁 | Kamal Ellis-Hyman (Aim A Little Higher)
This week’s Millennial Master is Kamal Ellis-Hyman — a speaker, entrepreneur, and mentor who’s redefining success for young professionals through his business Aim A Little Higher. From a childhood of side hustles to building a business that empowers the next generation, Kamal’s journey proves one thing: self-awareness is the real game-changer.📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on
Why fair tax isn’t just charity, it’s good business 📈 | Kieran Jones (Freethought Group)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:* Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service* Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedThis week’s Millennial Master is Kieran Jones, CEO of Freethought Group, who’s proof that success doesn’t always come from rapid-fire growth. Starting his first business as
Scaling smart, selling big 🎺 | Nick Telson (Trumpet)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:* Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service* Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedThis week’s Millennial Master is Nick Telson, an entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcaster who’s rewriting the rulebook for startup success. After scaling Design My Night
Build fast, launch fast, fail fast ⏩ | Thibault Louis-Lucas
This week’s Millennial Master is Thibault (Tibo) Louis-Lucas, a serial entrepreneur who turned setbacks into stepping stones. From his early ventures and failures, to the breakthrough success and multi-million acquisition, Tibo has perfected the art of solving real problems and building products with impact.In this episode, Tibo shares his journey of rapid iteration, finding product-market fit, an
Culture will make or break your business 💎 | Gemma Price
This week’s Millennial Master is Gemma Price, founder of HubGem. From taking the leap into self-employment to scaling a niche business into a global success, Gemma explains how she navigated challenges with resilience and a culture-first mindset.In this episode, she shares her secrets for building a thriving remote team, mastering personal development, and redefining work-life balance as a parent
Why curiosity and people are the ultimate business hack 🦾 | Ryan Carruthers (AI Response Lab)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or 🎧 listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:* Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service* Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedRyan Carruthers is a serial entrepreneur whose journey spans trading PlayStation games as a teenager, scaling a Betfair tips empire, and building communities that thrive. B
The power of self-belief and overcoming the anticlimax of success 🌟 | Francesca McClory (FutureCloud Accounting)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack or YouTubeMillennial Masters is brought to you by:* Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service* Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedFrancesca McClory is a dedicated stay-at-home mum turned entrepreneur, who transformed her life through sheer self-belief.In this episode, Francesca shares her experiences of scaling her business, FutureCloud Accounti
Fatal startup mistakes and what entrepreneurs need to succeed 🛡️ | Michael Buckworth (Buckworths)
📺 Watch the full episode on SubstackMillennial Masters is brought to you by:* Jolt ⚡️ The UK’s top web hosting service* Offwork 🏖️ The employee perk that actually gets usedMichael Buckworth is a seasoned mergers and acquisitions expert turned entrepreneurial powerhouse. He traded the high-stakes of top law firms for the gritty realm of startups.With over a decade of experience navigating billion-p
How a train ride led to a healthier beer, and why community is the secret sauce 🍻| Harvey Armstrong & Sam Holmes (Prime Time)
📺 Watch the full episode on SubstackSam Holmes and Harvey Armstrong’s journey from a chance train encounter to launching Prime Time is a masterclass in friendship, resilience, and the power of building in public.Known for their stint on Made in Chelsea, Sam and Harvey brought their entrepreneurial journey to life on-screen and social media. This authenticity not only earned them a loyal fanbase, b
Don't chase your dreams, just follow them until they get tired and lie down 🎯 | Yehong Zhu (Zette)
📺 Watch the full episode on Substack Yehong Zhu’s story is a blend of journalism, technology, and entrepreneurial spirit. A Harvard graduate, she began as a business reporter at Forbes, uncovering market trends, before transitioning to Product Manager at Twitter, where she bridged media and tech.Now, as the founder of Zette, a Silicon Valley startup tackling paywall fatigue, Yehong is reimagining
Why the UK’s AI sector is stuck 🤖 Barney Hussey-Yeo
This bonus episode of Millennial Masters features a condensed version of Barney Hussey-Yeo’s evidence to the UK House of Lords inquiry on scaling AI and creative tech.Barney is the founder and CEO of Cleo, the financial AI assistant founded in the UK in 2016 and later scaled in the US. In this session, he lays out a blunt view of why the UK keeps producing talent, startups, and technical breakthro
He built his own way in 🎥 Dumi Siwo
Dumi Siwo built his way in. After moving from Zambia to the UK at 13, he ran into the same wall a lot of young people do. Getting a foot in the door was harder than it should have been, so he made his own entry point.That started with club nights, cameras, artists, DJs, and being close to where culture was actually moving. It grew into Firmative, a creative business that has gone on to work with A
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