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HIPCASTHIP Biz 16 with Charlie Nelson from Fundi SignsHello and thank you for listening to this latest episode of HIP Biz, the podcast where our roving business writer, Damien Pestell meets local business owners to find out how they find meaning in their work and what their journey has been to creating a business they love. This week Damien met up with traditional signwriter and generally good bloke Charlie Nelson. Damien first met Charlie while he was up a ladder, since then he has learnt more about his life and been intrigued by the choices he has made. Damien has a personal interest...2023-01-2037 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 17: Charlie Nelson from Fundi SignsHello and thank you for listening to this latest episode of Be Your Business, the podcast where I meet local business owners to find out what they have learnt in their career and why they do what they do! This week I was excited to meet up with traditional signwriter and generally good bloke Charlie Nelson. I first met Charlie while he was up a ladder, since then I have bumped into him on a regular basis and slowly learnt more about his life and been intrigued by the choices he has made. I must...2022-12-1937 min

Big Sky Adventures12 | Leaving the corporate world to set up a business with Damien PestellMy guest for today’s episode is Damien Pestell. Damien is a Writer, Storyteller and Entrepreneur. Since 2015 Damien has founded two start-up businesses. The first - Community Oven was a social enterprise which brought people together through food and helped to form community. He then went on to set up and run ‘Street Food Trailers’ a business which manufactured custom food trucks and helped people change career into street food, creating new food brands. In this episode, Damien shares his story – from a graduate scheme in the corporate world to leaving it all to start up a busine...2022-12-0839 min

HIPCASTHIP Biz 15 with Ned and Charlie Braxton from Brewing BrothersThe latest episode of HIP Biz is now available, hosted by our roving Business Editor Damien Pestell. In this series we tell the story of the people behind our local businesses, finding out how and why they created their business. This week Damien travels by bicycle (and up a very large hill) to meet the fabulous Brewing Brothers, Ned and Charlie Braxton at their sparkly new brewery up on the Ridge in Hastings. They talk about their first job as publicans, managing their family owned pub in East Sussex and the fondness they have for...2022-10-2745 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 16: Ned & Charlie Braxton from Brewing BrothersHello and thank you for tuning in to this latest episode of Be Your Business where I meet local business owners and find out how they created their business and what they love most about it. This week I travel by bicycle (and up a very large hill) to meet the fabulous Brewing Brothers, Ned and Charlie Braxton at their sparkly new brewery up on the Ridge in Hastings. They talk about their first job as publicans, managing their family owned pub in East Sussex and the fondness they have for those formative years, where they made...2022-10-0545 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 15: Jen & Hayley from Plant the SeedIn this episode of Be Ypur Business, I meet Jennifer McNeil and Hayley Roe, founders of the wonderful Plant the Seed, an exciting new vegan food business based in Hastings. In this episode we talk about the rise of veganism and how to do it in a balanced way. How Jen became a vegetarian at 16 before going vegan in her twenties and how Hayley converted after they met. I find out how Plant the Seed was born from a passion to make vegan food more healthy and accessible and how starting their business in lockdown...2022-05-2633 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 14: Michael Wooton from Judges BakeryIn this episode of Be Your Business, I meet local baking legend Michael Wooton, owner of Judges Bakery in Hastings old town, to explore how he fell in love with bread from a young age and being the custodian of one of the country's oldest working bakeries, which first started baking loaves in 1826. We talk about growing up in Hastings and the special community it has, why the old town feels like a village and his passion for his hometown. We explore Hastings` unique culture and why he thinks the influx of people coming to the town...2022-05-1140 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 13: Corie and Griffen from 1 SocietyIn this week's episode of Be Your Business I meet Founder Corie and Distribution Manager Griffin from Hastings based mens grooming company 1 Society. A business with a fun culture and an uplifting story to tell. I speak to Corie about leaving his home in Peterbrorough when he was 18 and moving to the other end of the country, leaving everything he knew behind. Living for six years in a caravan in rural Sussex to be a farmer and his process of working with depression. I talk to Griffen about emigrating to souht coast England from Montreal...2022-04-2830 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 12: Giles Perrin from St Leonards GroceryIn this episode of Be Your Business I speak to Giles Perrin the charismatic owner of the St Leonards Grocery, a local fruit and veg shop selling fresh local produce, which has become part of the fabric of the local community. Giles wears several hats and is also the Principal and founder of Claremont school, an Independent Day & Boarding school. I find out about Giles` early life, and how he spent his childhood in and around the school that his dad set up, Bedes in East Sussex and 19 weeks of the year at their holiday home on...2022-04-1239 min

Be Your BusinessEpsisode 11: Ed Johnstone from The Sussex PeasantIn this episode of Be Your Business I talk to Ed Johnstone founder of The Sussex Peasant about how he created an innovative Mobile Farm Shop business which champions and sells local produce from Sussex. Re-connecting people to the local food and food producers. Ed started his career as a Headhunter in London and acknoledges that he followed his peers early on in his career. It didn't take him long to realise that he didn't like sitting at a desk all day and he started to consider what he would really like to do with his life. ...2022-02-1043 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 10: Francisco Prieto from Machi's BarbecueIn this episode of Making a business I talk to London-based entrepreneur Francisco Prieto about his journey to creating Machi's Barbecue a Street Food business selling authentic Argentinian Asado in the heart of London. Francisco left Argentina at 5 years old when his parents moved to London. But his family ensured that even though he was living in England he knew he was from Argentina and so made certain that he grew up with the culture and way of life of his birth, with home-cooked food and a life shared with family and friends. Here Francisco t...2021-12-0154 min

HIPCASTHIP Biz #10 Speaks to Tim B'VardHello, I'm Damien Pestell from Be Your Business and welcome to this episode of HIP Biz where I speak to local business owners about how they have created a successful business they love, what matters most to them and what they have learnt on their journey so far. This week I speak with Tim B’Vard who runs the fabulous Bavard Bar, a regular event on the south coast which combines Tim’s love of nonsense with stories from local residents about anything they choose. In this episode I find out about Tim’s journey from t...2021-11-0246 min

HIPCASTHIP Biz #9 Speaks to Olga MamonovaHello, I'm Damien Pestell from Be Your Business and welcome to this episode of HIP Biz where I speak to business owners about how they have created a successful business they love, what matters most to them and what they have learnt on their journey so far. This week I speak with Olga Mamonova who owns and runs Kino Teatr, an arts venue in the heart of St Leonards with her husband Russell. The Kino opened its doors in 2014 but the building first opened as a cinema in 1913. Olga talks about rescuing this hidden gem...2021-10-2146 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 9: Olga Mamonova from Kino TeatrNow available! The latest episode of my podcast series ‘Making a business’. In this series I talk to local entrepreneurs about their journey to creating a business they love and how they’ve found themselves along the way. This week I speak with Olga Mamonova who runs Kino Teatr, an arts venue in the heart of St Leonards which opened its doors in 2014. Olga talks about rescuing the old theatre which first opened as a cinema in 1913! When she discovered it, it was being used as storage space for a bathroom shop but now the Kino ha...2021-10-2047 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 8: Hassan Gemei from Liban CoastHello, I'm Damien from Beyourbusiness.co.uk and welcome to this episode of Making a Business where I speak to business owners about how they have created a successful business they love, what matters most to them and what they have learnt on their journey so far. This week I speak to Hassan Gemei who owns Liban Coast a very successful Syrian restaurant with his wife Sennah. The restaurant was founded in 2013 from Sennah’s love of cooking her native food and has grown organically from a market stall initially to an established and thriving restaurant on th...2021-10-0554 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 7: Imogen White from Hello Polly CopywritersImogen White is one half of Hello Polly Copywriters, a dynamic copywriting duo setup during lockdown to help businesses communicate their messages clearly and concisely through their written content.Imogen found her love of writing 15 years ago when she embarked on a personal project about a local historical object. The object captivated her imagination so much it became central to the first of her published children’s books.In this episode we talk about how her work was born from a love of creating something new which engages people through stories and I discover how it...2021-09-2122 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 6: Mia Preston from Pod CentralMia Preston recently opened her latest business venture Pod Central, a Japanese style compact hotel in the heart of St Leonards. Pod central provides high quality overnight accommodation at a budget cost with energy saving technology making it a more sustainable hotel model.Mia has had a fascinating career which has balanced a sharp intellect and keen thirst for understanding ‘how things work’ with a big heart and a desire to care for and help those who are less fortunate than her.She started with an engineering degree following her love of making and b...2021-09-1359 min

HIPCASTHIPbiz #5 speaks to Mary Barrett of Little Fusion KitchenDamien Pestell met and interviewed Mary Barrett who is the owner of Little Fusion Kitchen, a fusion pop-up in The Jenny Lind pub, Old Town - Hastings. Mary bravely decided to start her own business in the middle of lockdown. As circumstances had it, she was working part-time in the pub and they realised they needed a kitchen to keep operating under the new government guidelines in Dec 2020. Seemingly 5 mins later the kitchen, which was a disused staff room had been gutted and fitted out with a kitchen and M...2021-09-0312 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 5: Mary Barrett from Little Fusion KitchenI met and interviewed Mary Barrett who is the owner of Little Fusion Kitchen, a fusion pop-up in The Jenny Lind pub, Old Town - Hastings. Mary bravely decided to start her own business in the middle of lockdown. As circumstances had it, she was working part-time in the pub and they realised they needed a kitchen to keep operating under the new government guidelines in Dec 2020.5 mins later the kitchen, which was a disused staff room had been gutted and fitted out with a kitchen and Mary was operating a take-away and eat in s...2021-09-0110 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 4: Nicki Oloyede from Missy Mop FabricsNicki Oloyede is the founder of Missy Mop Fabrics, a sustainable fabric company based in Hastings. The business is named after the nickname Nicki’s mum gave her when she was a girl after her 'wild & crazy hair'. Launched in 2019 the company sources and sells leftover fabric from the fashion industry, which would have otherwise been sent to landfill. Nicki has Nigerian and German roots and had a colourful childhood surrounded by adults wearing clothes from these cultures with interesting colours and different styles.In this episode I talk to Nicki about her vari...2021-08-1328 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 3: Alice Hull from 55 PrintsAlice Hull is the co-founder of 55 prints, a screen printing startup based in St Leonards. We met in her studio amongst the printing equipment and smell of inks to speak about how she started her own business & what her journey has been like so far.In this episode we talk about how she found screen printing and that initially she didn’t really know what it was or why she was doing it. She trusted it though and has since found that she loves it! Her daily work involves liasing with artists to develop their pro...2021-08-0531 min

HIPCASTHIPbiz #2: Damien meets Lisa Driver of Booyah VitalityIn HIPbiz #2 podcast Damien speaks with local entrepreneur Lisa Driver from @booyah_vitality about starting her business in the middle of lockdown, the importance of food as medicine and creating a community business with the whole family involved! Lisa Driver is the founder and Managing Director of Booyah Vitality, a wellness drinks company based in Hastings. Booyah was born out of the pandemic which gave Lisa the impetus she needed to take the plunge. Lisa is a keen ambassador for “food as medicine” and has worked in the health industry since 1995 as a naturopathic nutritionalist and...2021-07-1620 min

Be Your BusinessEpisode 2: Lisa Driver from Booyah VitalityLisa Driver is the founder and Managing Director of Booyah Vitality, a wellness drinks company based in Hastings. Booyah was born during in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic, it was the impetus which enabled an idea to manifest. Lisa had lost a lot of her clients and her husbands work vanished overnight. I spoke to Lisa about what happened next and the inspiring story of what can happen when you take action and follow your passion.Lisa is a keen ambassador for “food as medicine” and has worked in the health industry since 1995 as a natu...2021-07-0520 min

HIPCASTHIPbiz speaks to Penny Williams of Blush BeautyDamien Pestell speaks to local entrepreneur Penny Williams who is the founder of Blush Beauty, she found meaning in her work using beauty to give people confidence! It was always a dream of Penny's to work with makeup since she was 6. She is passionate about beauty not being frivolous or superficial but an amazing source of goodness and happiness. She works with brides to be at their weddings and other events. Penny is also an accomplished artist who re-discovered her love of painting during lockdown. She created a new business selling her work when the events industry g...2021-06-1932 min

Bodhisattva Conversations with...Bodhisattva Conversations with Damien PestellDamien Pestell has lived many lives in his thirty nine years.He has been exploring himself and life though business and spirituality.He was an accomplished rugby player throughout his twenties.He has travelled the world.He worked in the City in two huge organisations - Intel and BT . Damien then went on to own and sell two businesses - Community Oven and Street Food Trailers.Throughout his life there has been the constant theme of spiritual investigation, including travel to India and a 'nine day vipassana meditation'I...2021-03-2747 min