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Ferg and Mark get together in the new Podcast Studio Glasgow to discuss how Talking Shop Media has progressed over the last year or so and what lies ahead in 2022. Learn more about us.

In this episode, Talking Shop Media co-founder Fergus Reid chats with Louise Hunter about her journey from the Financial Time to becoming  Managing Director of the Democracy.

Learn more about Louise here and about the Democracy and Culture Foundation here.



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Talking Shop Media co-founder Fergus Reid is joined by author, poet, business leader and mindfulness coach Martin Stepek. Martin takes us through his journey from studying law to running his famous family business, and onto the world of being in the moment, helping us through some inspirational nuggets to place ourselves in the now.

Learn more about Martin's mindfulness coaching here.

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We speak with Stuart McFarlane and chart his life from being regularly suspended from school, being sacked from his first job through to opening the Old School Barber shop and the mindset and ethos that have shaped his life.

Find Stuart and the Old School here.

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We speak with Jo Halliday, CEO of Talking Medicines, and explore her life at school and university, then her diverse career working for Coca Cola and then in the alcoholic beverage world as a marketer. She shares her insights into the route marketers should take in order to be great at it, plus she shares her insights on "taking the leap" for anyone pondering going into business for themselves.

Find Jo at Patient Metrx and Talking Medicines.

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In this episode, Mark is joined by Jim Hopkins, owner of Spirit of Alba. Jim tells an amazing story from Kirkintilloch to Czechoslovakia onwards to Sofia and how he became involved in the whisky industry after a career as a historian, teaching in Bulgaria. Jim also opened a shop in the middle of a pandemic and shares his lessons from this. 

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