Business Conversations
In this podcast series, Michael holds Business Conversations with a different guest each time. All of his guests are experienced, professional, successful businesspeople in their respective fields. They share valuable insights and lessons learned from their individual path to success, and pass on useful insider knowledge from their area of expertise.
Any entrepreneur can both learn valuable practical knowledge and gain inspiration and motivation from listening to these conversations.
All Episodes from Business Conversations
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Episode 61 Why Focusing Solely on Sales Could be Killing Your Marketing Efforts
Why Focusing Solely on Sales Could be Killing Your Marketing Efforts: Chris is a true achiever, launching three successful businesses and publishing his first book in 2019. Despite his busy schedule, Chris always finds time to be a devoted husband and father of three, an avid golfer, and a beer connoisseur.
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Episode 59 Business Productivity, Processes and Reducing Risks
Business Producitivty, Learn how to use processes and reduce risks to create success in your business from Gareth, an experienced entrepreneur. Hear how TeamEasyCrane minimises costly mistakes and increases business productivity. Get the inside scoop on setting up and running a successful business, from the importance of having the right people in the right positions to the processes needed to ensure sustainability and success.
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Episode 58 POSITIVE ATTITUDE, what does this mean to you?
A Positive Attitude is an essential part of personal growth and success. Find out what attitude means to Ryan and how to develop a positive outlook in life. Learn how to make a conscious effort to develop a strong and positive attitude that can help you reach your goals and live a more fulfilling life. […]
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Episode 56 Abandoned at Birth and Now Earning a 6 Figure Income Hear the Inspiring Story on the Podcast!
Abandoned at Birth and Now Earning a 6 Figure Income, Railey's story will inspire you to believe that anything is possible. Even when you're abandoned at birth and feel like your life is over. Through hard work and resilience, she has turned her life around and now enjoys a six-figure income and the ultimate work-life balance.
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Episode 55 Revolutionising the Market: How Second-hand Phones Can Create a Sustainable Business and Protect Our Planet
Revolutionising the Market: After buying a second-hand laptop, it lasted only three months. Lisa's idea was to create a register for second-hand products to prevent devices from going to places like India or the nearest landfill.
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Episode 53 Unlock the Secrets to Finding Clients – A Comprehensive Guide to Success
Unlock the Secrets to Finding Clients: "Discover How Gareth Launched His Successful Business in Just One Month with the Help of Teameasycrane – Inspiration for All Entrepreneurs!"
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Episode 50 Are Entrepreneurs Born or Bred
Are entrepreneurs born or bred? It is often said that leaders are either born or bred, but what about entrepreneurs? In the United Kingdom, many successful entrepreneurs come to mind, such as Sir Richard Branson and Sir Alan Sugar. Meanwhile, in the United States, the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are some of the most remarkable entrepreneurs. As an entrepreneur, it's important to be confident in your abilities and take the initiative to make your dreams a reality.
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Episode 45 Harlequins Rugby Club – Life after Sport
Harlequins Rugby Club, the analogies between sport and business are commonplace. We talk about being at the top of our game, we toss ballpark figures around, we put the ball in someone else’s court. We have teams and coaches.
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Episode 42 Freelance Writing Career for Adult with ADHD
ADHD in Adults - Are you an entrepreneur? It’s a word we hear a lot, not least on this show. But it’s a word that can mean different things to different people. Michael’s guest this week is Marge Brown, and among the other topics of conversation she shares her definition of what makes someone an entrepreneur.
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Episode 41 Side hustle business – Formulating Success
Side Hustle Business: Have you ever wondered how to take the raw ingredients of a business and mix up a delightful success? This week’s guest, Lorraine Dallmeier has some great ideas to share based on her own experience of building a small side hustle into a multi-million-pound business.
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Episode 39 Putting your best foot forward
Episode 39 Putting your best foot forward - On today’s episode, Michael is in conversation with Sarah Gittins, an inspirational business owner who shares her journey to success and provides great insights for anyone wanting to create or grow their own business.
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Episode 38 Leadership in different settings
Leadership in different settings - In this episode, Michael is in conversation with King James, the pastor of Favour House Church. It may seem that he is an unusual choice of guest for a business podcast, but if you listen in you’ll find out why his message is relevant to leaders in all walks of life.
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Episode 35 Dealing with Crisis in the Spotilight
Dealing with Crisis in the Spotlight On today’s episode, Michael is in conversation with Ann Wright of Rough House Media who has an interesting personal business story, and great information for other business owners.
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Episode 34 How to sell your business
How to sell your business: There are a lot of buzzwords that bounce around in business, and companies are increasingly jumping on descriptions like ethical, sustainable, and inclusive to position themselves favourably. Today Michael’s Business Conversation is with someone whose business truly had to walk the ethical walk, while still making a profit. His guest, Sarah Hawke has a fascinating story to tell.
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Episode 33 Debt Collector, Cash, Risk and Embarrassment
DEBT COLLECTOR: Today Michael’s Business Conversation is with Clayton Coke of PRMS Ltd. And this conversation raises a number of topics of interest to all entrepreneurs but will be of particular interest to any business owner who is concerned about cash flow in their business. The saying “Cash is King” is not new, but it stays as relevant as ever.
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Episode 30 Messenger Boy To Business Owner
Today Michael’s Business Conversation is with John Hayes, a man who went from messenger boy to successful business owner.
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Episode 29 Valuable Startup Lessons Revealed
Startup Lessons: In today’s episode, Michael is in conversation with Rav Roberts. Rav is an entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of a digital health tech startup in London, called Pharma Sentinel Ltd. The business uses AI to predict, inform and prevent future health problems. It is designed to help people understand more about their own health and the medicines they use. It gathers anonymous data to improve its functioning and shares medical and pharmaceutical information from all around t...
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Episode 26 Cybersecurity in a world of risk
Cybersecurity: On today’s show, Michael talks with special guest Brian Altimus. Their main topic of conversation is something that affects all of us. It affects our businesses, no matter what size they are, and it affects us as individuals too.
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Episode 25 Success, dating, and films: One woman’s adventures in the screen trade
Success, Dating, Filming: On today’s show, Michael is in conversation with Delissa Needham. Delissa is an award-winning journalist; she’s produced over 600 hours of television and worked for production companies across the world. She’s worked alongside many well-known people, including Sir Ian McKellen, Keira Knightley, Colin Firth, and Graham Norton.
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Episode 24 Success and Failure: Lessons from Business and Basketball
Success and Failure: Lessons from Business and Basketball In this episode, Michael talks to Dr Wayne Wright—entrepreneur, inventor, company director, leading business coach and owner of the largest all-inclusive basketball club – The Maidstone Warriors.
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Episode 21 Business Recovery Plan – The Hopeful Journey out of Covid 19 Pandemic
Business Recovery Plan: Life Insights is a weekly video podcast, designed to encourage, inspire and equip people with the understanding that helps people live a fulfilled life.
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Episode 20 Developing your own Client Portal: is the expense worth it and how does it add value to your clients?
Client Portal: People have said that we are disrupting the Coaching Market. This means, we don't run with the pack; we do things differently and ensure our clients achieve the kind of results they never thought possible, through applying our proven methods.
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Episode 17 Camden High Street London A Vibrant New Look Lighting Up local Artists
Camden Open Air Gallery is a novel community art project leading Camden High Street London out of lockdown.Camden High Street London: COAG is inviting artists to create and install their work all over Camden. The open spaces of Camden are being turned into a 24hr art gallery with murals on shop shutters, walls and wooden installations.
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Episode 16 Coaching the Entrepreneur, Simple Truth, Reality Bites When You Don’t Plan
Coaching the Entrepreneur from an early age, on today’s podcast, we speak about a 90-year-old person who runs a marathon compared to a young entrepreneur before a certain age telling people he wanted to be a millionaire by the age of 25. The difference between the person who was able to run a marathon, some 26.2 miles at the young age of 90 and the young entrepreneur aiming for £1million comes down to the plan and goals.
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Episode 13 Hear How Morton Patterson Launched Books Talk Too, And Learned From The Costly Lessons
Getting the right people around you when starting a business is key to your success. On today's show, we hear from Morton
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Episode 12 Shakespeare Saved Me Big During Covid 19 Lockdown
Shakespeare saved me during lockdown when theatres were shutting down and the pandemic was going global. Entrepreneurs find a way to clear out the noise in their lives and push forward to make a difference. The early days are normally the hardest with no certainty and a serious lack of help. Help does finally show up, normally only when you are beginning to get noticed.
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Episode 11 International Women’s Day Are Leaders Born or Can They Be Taught With A Bright Mentor
International Women's Day and leadership go hand and hand together. You hear the question so often, "Are Leaders Born or are they Bred?" what are your thoughts? Hear Meera Das's thought-provoking story on today's show on what she thinks makes a good leader.
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Episode 9 Crowdfunding Is Just Part Of The Adorable Business Journey
Crowdfunding is just part of the story, Listen to the VIP Lady Maddy Alexander-Grout. Her story starts from when she gave birth to her first son Ben and she was housebound for 3 months, too afraid to go out of the house.
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Episode 8: Networking, Building an Awesome Business Network
Networking: Building Your Business Network: Imagine building a business network of over 4,000 people, and be able to share your best tips and secrets within the group. On today’s podcast John Coupland the founder of SELBN shares his lessons and stories about why he started the group and how it has evolved over the years.
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Episode 7 Microsoft Powerpoint Your Presentation Slides Suck
Microsoft Powerpoint: Has nearly put David Henson out of business until he harnessed the power of Powerpoint. If you have ever needed to present in front of an audience and thought it was a good idea to show slides on the screen. The Slide Presentation man - Dave Henson, has produced thousands of slides and can tell you a thing or two about when to and when not to use slides.
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Episode 5 Brother & Sister building a Netflix Style Health & Fitness Business
Fitness - Jonathan and Hannah-Ruth, a brother and sister partnership go into business and create their Netflix Style Virtual fitness business. They share personal stories and their BIG why Covid-19 changed their business plan and now things are looking bright and prosperous.
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Episode 4 Cycling Across Canada was absolutely crazy, writing a book was even harder
Cycling: We have Chris Lee on today's podcast show, speaking about his journey, coast to coast of Canada on a cycle. Cycling 4500 miles across the second widest country in the world was hard. Turns out, writing a book about it is even harder.
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Episode 3 Bitcoin is it an Attractive Investment?
Founded in April 2016, we are a UK based non-profit community of interest group, specialising in crypto asset & blockchain education. Our community is made up of professionals with deep technical and business expertise as well as laypeople, with the intention to learn and help others navigate this exciting and incredibly powerful technology.
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Episode 1 Michael Crane Live Podcast Premier Episode Be The Best You Can
Michael Crane: When is enough enough? One dark Monday morning, Michael sat in his office, with his head in his hands and said, "when is enough, enough?" He realised he needed to change and the time had come to pivot and take his business in a new direction, some people would say he was mad, he would say, when do you know you've had enough?
