Small Business, Big Network Liz Drury

Blake Caldwell is one of the co-founders of Brotherhood-UK, a coaching business that helps people (predominantly, but not exclusively, men) be the best they can be.
Blake's background includes sport, sales and crisis intervention work for Children's Services.
He's very keen on fitness and mental health, and wants to help as many people as possible to feel good about themselves and their lives.
He recorded his side of this episode in his garden so you'll notice the birds in the background!
www.brotherhood-uk.com

Nicola Auckland is a Business & Brand Photographer with a passion for the relationships formed between business owners, customer and brands. 
After her corporate career ended during Covid, she turned her profitable side-hustle into fully fledged wedding photography business. Whilst she loved this, she knew something wasn't quite right (and it had little to do with the number of Ed Sheeran songs she had to listen to!) In January 2023 she took the decision to pivot her business, completely cut off her numerous wedding leads and exclusively offer business and branding photography. 
She now offers personal branding photography to solopreneurs, branding photography to small businesses and corporate headshots to larger companies who prefer to have a photographer on-site. she also offers e-commerce product photography in a studio setting for her business customers with an online store. 
You can find out more by visiting her website and LinkedIn profile.
 https://www.nicolaaucklandphotography.co.uk/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaaucklandphotography/
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James West is the co-founder of ONLE Networking - the online business network for people who like people. He met his wife Kelly while networking and they built ONLE on the belief that most people can be trusted to network without the rules and protocols that get in the way of running a business.
Based on his own experiences, James believes that the secret power of networking is to provide business owners with access to the meaningful connections that are vital to good mental health.
ONLE currently has 350 members spread across 22 UK groups and two in the US - the latter helping prove that geography is no longer a limitation of networking.
Experience "the business network for people who like people" by booking a complimentary visit to an ONLE networking group. Use the discount code: SBBM to claim your free £10 online meeting visit:
https://theonle.network/meeting-calendar

Camilla is a Vedic Meditation expert, based in Kent, UK
Camilla trained as a primary school teacher in 2000 and learnt to meditate when she was an Assistant Headteacher in an inner city London school. 
After meditating, she worked as a gardening teacher in the Eden Project, a chef and cooking teacher in Sydney and then returned to the UK to live in the family home, Owletts, a National Trust property. 
She recently left the class room and, armed with Sanskrit GCSE (grade A!) she began teaching adults - how to read and write Sanskrit (the Devanagari Script).
She runs cacao ceremonies and wellbeing retreats in Kent and Gloucestershire. 
Meditation is still her favourite thing to teach.
She trained in India in 2014 with Thom Knoles, and currently supports advanced meditators across Europe preparing for teacher training. 
She is Director of Herbert Baker Furniture and co-founder of Lost Crafts CIC - supporting arts and crafts and wellbeing for Neurdiverse families.
She lives with her son and 2 dogs at Owletts, (a National Trust property) where her family have lived since 1783.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-baker-meditation/
https://www.vedicmeditationbycamilla.co.uk
https://herbertbaker.com

Claire Waite Brown is the founder of the Creativity Found podcast where she interviews people about being creative in later life.
She has also built the Creativity Found website to help grown-ups find their creativity by listing courses, workshops, events, books, products and subscriptions with creativity at their heart.
In addition she has created a network to support and promote artistic and creative facilitators who help adults to get creative. Membership is more than just a listing on a website, and includes access to monthly online meetups to connect with likeminded creative facilitators and suppliers.
www.creativityfound.co.uk
Apple Podcasts Creativity Found and on all other podcast platforms
Instagram @creativityfoundpodcast YouTube @creativityfoundpodcast
Facebook @creativityfoundpodcast and Creativity Found group
Linkedin Claire Waite Brown Pinterest @creativityfound  

Martin Whiskin and Ben Bowles (collectively known as Bentin) are the founders of The Creative Collective (TCC), an online networking group for people in creative industries.
Their motto is 'collaboration not competition' and their meetings regularly attract 30+ attendees which suggests it's an approach that works!
Find out more at:
www.thecreativecollectivenetworking.co.uk
Today's episode is kindly sponsored by Sheena Whyatt of Kapow! Sheena is a fantastic coach for small business owners who has just created an online library of fantastically useful business books which can be accessed for just £5.99 a month 😊 . Visit https://heroes.kapowme.com/superchargeclub to get your library card now.