
Release Your Roar
Topics centre around your resilience as a leader in business. How to manage and lead teams effectively in the work place, build good relationships both in your personal life and work. Create an engaged team at work, a good work culture, developing succession in business, managing family businesses, starting a new role at work or new business, work life balance, managing divorce and developing personal wellbeing and wellness.
Episodes
18 episodes
How pen and ink drawing helped my Parkinson's
Bill Law, retired Construction Director, shares his story of how pen and ink drawing helped his Parkinson's(Photo courtesy of drawing by Bill Law showing the 3 bridges over the Tyne and surrounding buildings in the centre of Newcastle Up...
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Parkinson's - How Bill has led an active life with this incurable condition
Bill Law, retired construction director, talks to me about how he has managed to lead an active life over the last 12 years with Parkinson's.Bill developed Parkinson's in 2012 at 63 years of age, just before his retirement and shares his...
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25:34

Polar adventures and leadership
Michael Mitten, former CEO of Houghton International and now an acquisitions and merger consultant, explored the Artic North pole in 2009 and Antarctica in 2019. He shares with us his learnings of what Polar adventure taught...
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43:43

Singing Inspires
The dulcet tones of the Durham Business Group singing on board the wonderful Weardale railway, on our way back from Wolsingham to Stanhope on 26th November 2024. Length 53 secsSinging inspires, lifts the spirits and create...
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Leadership, Resilience and balancing tax advice
Listen to my discussion around leadership with Graham Purvis, MD of Robson Laidler, a business who in 2024 were awarded one of the Best Places To Work by the Sunday Times and they were the first organisation in the Nor...
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27:29

Inclusivity, Community, International trade, Conflict and Resilience
I am today joined by Ammar Mirza CBE, an award winning enterprise and innovation expert who has been involved in helping establish many businesses globally through design, development, delivery of accelerator and scale up programmes.Amm...
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37:24
Cummunicating in positions of authority and how to not take things personally
In this episode we are talking with Frederik Imbo, trainer, speaker, actor and football referee on the subject of how best to communicate in a position of authority, managing conflict and how to not take things personally.Frederik has b...
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Want to set up your own business and go it alone?
I am joined by Jon Chadwick who is Founder and MD of Durham Distillery and Durham Gin. Jon is going to share his story when he set up the business over 10 years ago. Durham Distillery distil and manufacture small batches of craft spirits, set i...
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31:00

Succession and growth in a family business
Family businesses are an integral part of our economy and in this podcast I talk to; Michael Mitten, CEO of Houghton International, who shares his story around succession and the challenges he faced in growing the family business to being the b...
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41:15

Key ingredients of a successful marriage or partnership
Interview with Jane Netts Psychotherapist and counsellor, to discuss what are the key ingredients of a successful long-term marriage or partnership. 41 minutes long and contains adult content.Covering:-1. &n...
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41:41

Conflict or Harmony in the Boardroom
How to manage conflict and create harmony in the boardroom.Nancy Radford mediator and trainer who specialises in conflict management, joins me to discuss how we manage conflict to create harmony with relationships at a senior level in t...
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A reassuring guide to the Divorce process.
How to understand and navigate your way through the divorce process with Emily Finn and Chris Longbottom of Clarke Willmott.1. Are people giving up too early in a marriage and have we seen increases since Covid? When do people con...
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41:14

Workforce Insights in Social Care
What would Martin Green OBE and Neil Eastwood do about recruitment and retention if they were Ops Directors Index ...
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42:31

Resilience
Layth Abdullah shares his experiences following a life changing bicycle accident and how he has moved forward with positivity and purposePlease Note there is some Adult content contained within 36 mins <...
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36:41

Culture
What can Western businesses learn from the recent occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and from within the British Army around culture and values. Interview with Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBE, former officer of the British Army.
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36:16

marketing strategy
Interview with Grant Leboff on marketing strategy: 41 mins 24 secs.Intro3 questions to ask your marketing team ...
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