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The M&A ZingM&A Zing (Ep. 10) – The Exiteer Playbook: Rachel Murphy on 8× Exits, NHS‑App & “The Grafter”Welcome to M&A Zing - the weekly show for acquisition entrepreneurs, search funders, and hold‑co builders across the UK & Europe.
🎧 THIS WEEK’S GUEST
Rachel Murphy – two‑time tech founder (Progressus & Difrent, both exited), NHS‑App delivery lead, Ukraine aid volunteer, psychedelic‑retreat advocate (!) and now CEO of *The Grafter*, where she helps founders get “growth‑ready, raise‑ready, exit‑ready.”
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⏱️ Timestamps
[00:00:12] Intro & show mission
[00:00:32] Guest intro – who is Rachel Murphy?
[00:00:56] Rachel’s quick hello
[00:01:22] Search‑Fund / ETA news
• Hambro Capital (CH) search fund launch
• Search Rights Capital Partners investor...2025-04-1644 min
Buying Online Businesses Podcast8 Figure Business Exit Strategies with Rachel MurphyWhat if achieving an 8-figure business exit was the worst thing for a business owner's mental health? In this incredible episode, Jaryd Krause interviews Rachel Murphy, an accomplished entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the digital and health services industries. Rachel is a public speaker and health tech advisor who has founded and sold two companies, including an award-winning digital service firm that led major projects for the NHS and other public sectors. During their conversation, Rachel shares her journey as a business owner and the challenges she faced when selling her companies. She...2024-10-0237 min
Beyond 8 FiguresBuilding a Sellable Business from Day One with Rachel Murphy, The GrafterWhen I sold my last business, I struggled because I wasn't prepared from the beginning. Having a clear exit plan, knowing my business's value, and keeping important documents organized would have made a major difference. I wish I met Rachel Murphy back then because she had a solid strategy from day one. She built relationships with potential buyers early, focused on revenue growth, and understood the importance of brand strength.But now you can learn from her and make your future exit as smooth as possible! About Rachel MurphyRachel Murphy is a successful e...2024-09-2537 min
Sovereign AFReclaiming American Sovereignty✨In this episode, we discuss how to reclaim American Sovereignty! 😱✨What is more important than learning how to reclaim your sovereignty?!✨Our guest is Ela Mukosiej and boy does she have an interesting story to tell!! 😳✨Ela Mukosiej is a sovereignty coach with nearly three decades of experience as a professional basketball player and collegiate coach. She’s an international award-winning athlete with dozens of awards.Ela initially came to “the land of the free” in 2004 on an athletic scholarship. She played for Jefferson College, Missouri and Seton Hall Universit...2024-02-211h 12
Edge MoneyE 41 Vision Board أهدافيWhat if you did your goals for this year in a difrent way? Can you set your 5 or 10 years goals?
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WHAT THE SHIT PODCASTLadies NIght WTS JeopardyTune In As Another Set Of Contestants Go Head To Head For Bragging Rights As The ladies have a night featuring Jay and Zay and Difrent. Who Gonna Win. Come For The Laughs, Stay For The Mayhem. . #whattheshitpodcast #blackpodcastnetwork #blackpodcasts #facebook #podcast #subscribe #whattheshit #bizboost #youtube #live2023-11-121h 48
Big Risk Energy with Roei SamuelThe Identity Crisis After Selling A Business | Rachel Murphy, Founder of The GrafterSelling your business can leave you feeling lost as it's such a huge part of your life and identityAt least that’s how Rachel Murphy ChMC FBCS felt after she sold Difrent (now TPXimpact) for £13.3million at the height of lockdown in September 2020Now, she’s helping other founders grow, scale and exit their businesses through her recent venture The Grafter and recently launched 'The Founders Journey' which helps business owners with the mental impact of exiting 🙌Rachel joins Roei Samuel in another intense, honest and open conversation in this episode...2023-09-1350 min
Hot Topics!Are Black People Entitled to Things?Welcome to Hot Topics! Our guest Difrent Caldwell returns to the podcast to help Gabrielle Crichlow answer the following question - "Are Black people entitled to things?"Gabrielle and Difrent delve into the topic of entitlement and reparations for Black people. While they acknowledge the entitlement to reparations, they believe it's unlikely to come from the government. Instead, they emphasize the need for Black communities to focus on building their own resources and businesses. Mental health and education reform, supporting Black-owned businesses, and prison reform are suggested as ways to achieve this. They also touch on the idea...2023-08-161h 23
TAKE THE STEP#10 WHEN LIFE TRYS TO KNOCK YOU OUT!In this episode i go over about life and the chain of events that happens to all of us in a day to day. That chain of events is call life and we all handle it difrent. The decisions we make everyday can be a step foward or backwords. Somwtimes we can feel like we have all the control in our life.. not that we dont cus we do. And sometime it feels like life is trying to K.O. you out!2022-06-1742 min
Lururating pet storyyou might have a difrent point of view hope you liked it and i hope you did the 5 secont chalenge bye see you next time 2022-04-1605 min
The Opinionated PodcastInterview with Activist/ Author DifrentWe speak to author/ activist Difrent about her book What If a Controversial Paradigm Shift. This book is intended for mature audiences and a person with a open mind because it talks about serious subjects matters such as What If George Floyd was white and the officer who had his on neck was black. Please listen to episode with a open mind and don't be afraid to leave a comment all are welcomed. 2022-03-2247 min
SARDismsEpisode 025: Rachel Murphy, CEO of DifrentOn this episode we’re speaking with Rachel Murphy CEO of Difrent. Rachel has quite the history with the NHS and since leaving the organisation, she has brought her passion for user needs, service design and actual delivery together for clients across several industries.Rachel Murphy is a public speaker, health tech advisor, and CEO of award-winning digital services company, Difrent. In just 1,000 days, Rachel built and sold Difrent, which has become a diverse workforce delivering national services. Those services include transforming the NHS Jobs platform and building the Covid Home Testing service to get frontline workers ba...2021-10-0739 min
Fly With UsEpisode 120 What If? w/ guest DifrentEpisode 120
What If? w/ guest Difrent
MM: You can be what you want to be
SCA: Meditate
BS put yourself in the other persons shoes
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patreon.com/FlyWithUsPodcast
2021-10-0532 min
DifrentInteroperability and the tech debt hangoverThe interoperability conversation continues in this episode as Randal is joined by Rachel Murphy, Hassan Chaudhury, and Professor Sultan Muhmud. Listen as they discuss interoperability, renegade Trusts, and what organisations are looking for on an international level.
02:20 Interoperability challenges within the NHS over the years
04:40 What it looks like at a local level
07:40 Countries with similar issues and those we could learn from
11:15 The fundamental first step to ensure we are improving interoperability across systems
17:20 Hassan's work in the Department for Internation Trade
23:25 Successful innovations with interoperability2021-03-2432 minDifrentNHS: Empower the personRachel Murphy and Randal talk about Rachel's days on NHS Digital's Empower the person programme. Including point solutions and Rachel's favourite subject, interoperability.
00:55 Rachel's role within the programme
05:50 How long the NHS Digital role lasted
10:29 How you get started with a programme of this size and delivering outcomes
13:35 The first big win for Rachel during the programme
14:50 Memorable challenges and overcoming them
22:10 The pandemic and point solutions
22:50 Things to consider when undertaking such a programme
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Recorded by Difrent's C...2021-03-1625 min
Lessons In Product ManagementThe Best Products Come From Focusing on Customer Outcomes, featuring Randal Whitmore Head of Growth @ DifrentHere's what we discussed:
What Difrent does as an organization
Randal's role as Head of Growth
Where Randal started his career and how he transitioned into Product Management
How Difrent helped to quell the COVID storm in the UK
The massive challenge that Randal was given to solve and the 7-day window he had to do it
How the team approached the challenge and the massive team it took to tackle this hairy problem
The process of developing and validating the MVP
Why you'll likely always have to make some assumptions and why it's important to call those...2021-01-0436 minTAKE THE STEP3.1 The time i got lost & what i learn from itIn this episode im goin to go over the time i got lost in the woods. What i learn from it? What i do difrent now!. What i keep in my backpack as an emergency kit!2020-12-2247 minDifrentFinding the definition of purposeEveryone has been through quite a lot this year, For Difrent, it has seen an acquisition by The Panoply Group.
Jo sat down with Rach and Neal (Panoply) to chat about 2020, what's been learned in 2020 from the good and the bad to hope in 2021.
02:03 What has gone well
06:30 Handling a business during a pandemic
08:53 What didn't go so well in 2020
10:40 What has been hindered by the pandemic
13:40 The differences between buying face to face and remotely
17:50 What's to come in 2021
29:06 What does 2021 hold...2020-12-2134 minDifrentDiversity: Are we getting the basics right?With Covid-19 still front and centre across the globe, diversity hasn't been far behind. This pandemic has shone an even harsher light on the inequalities people are facing on a daily basis that can't be ignored any longer.
From social mobility, gaps in representation, to accessibility, we pose the question: are we getting the basics right?
Enjoy the conversation as we engage with our panellists, Rachel Murphy, Nadira Hussain, and Dr Sam Shah and their take on the state of play and where to go with it all. This continues not to be one-sided though, wa...2020-11-1250 minDifrentBuilding high-performing digital delivery teamsTeams across Healthcare organisations are increasingly leaning into technology to help them deliver services, often at scale and with pace, that will have a positive impact on the lives of patients, clinical staff, and citizens.
But, the question is, how do you mobilise and lead a high-performing digital delivery team, especially during a pandemic, where ‘remote-first’ is fundamental and digital services are paramount to service users?
Listen as we engage with our panellists, Rita Brockless, Dr Sandeep Bansal, and Difrent’s Daniel Leakey and their wealth and breadth of experience in building high-performing delivery teams in Hea...2020-11-0545 minDifrentConducting User Research During a LockdownTake a listen to our User Researcher's, Merissa Brown, Erin Grey, and Steven Palmer as they talk to Randal Whitmore about what it's like to conduct User Research during a lockdown while working on the NHS Jobs platform. Hear about the inevitable tech woes that become part and parcel of the experience as well as asking the big question - has User Research helped in delivering on the project?
01:06 Organisations we’re working with but is it more about the candidates?
04:00 What are the problems we are trying to save and the vi...2020-10-2745 minDifrentDiary of a CEO: July to September 2020Diary of a CEO: July to September 2020
Listen as Rachel updates on the crazy last few months and gets honest about what an acquisition really entails!
What went well?
01:20 A scientific approach to bidding and remote pitching
03:43 Difrent’s acquisition by The Panoply Group
07:04 Face-to-face meetings with staff and clients
08:15 Watching Nic Carney and Merissa Brown at the Socitm graduation and Rachel’s relationship with Socitm’s, Nadira Hussain
What hasn’t gone well?
09:40 The pandemic rages on and t...2020-10-0823 minDifrentLaunching a health tech service in a PandemicWe're back and the world has definitely changed!
In our first episode of 2020, Rachel Murphy sits down to chat with Randal Whitmore, Jay Heal, and Andrew Larcombe who were part of a team launching an NHSX service during the early lockdown stages of Covid-19.
The delivery was completed in just a month, an incredibly short amount of time for a national service to go live.
Read Fighting COVID-19 with NHSX, getting key workers back to the frontline in 8 days
Watch Difrent Talks: Delivering national COVID-19 response services in 8 days
2020-07-0723 min
Friendly Potential RadioEp 194 pt.1 w/ Asymmetrical (IT)Asymmetrical is the boss of Italy's Raw Culture, which has been releasing essential ruffness since 2016. He is also a wild producer and DJ, with releases out on Dionysian Mysteries and Dusky Adriatic. These include solo works, and unknown and known projects including Fauna53 and Distorted Portrait. He is also a resident with the 01 collective in Rome and, with the pseudonym John English, he is part of the Knick Knack Yoda squad. For this ep, he's sent us a transmission that is jammed with beasts and belters.
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Rawmance - Panam Club Resource [La...2020-04-141h 00Difrent2019 Fireside ChatDifrent has gone from strength to strength and much growth has happened throughout the year. Jo sat down with Rach and Steve to chat about Difrent in 2019, the successes and learnings, and the aims for 2020. Ultimately, will they be able to sum up this year and the next in three words?
• Highlights of the year
• Rach stepping back from the business for medical reasons
• What it was like for Steve to lose Rach as a teammate
• What has been learnt in 2019
• Where Difrent finishes this year and is it where they...2019-12-1928 min
Murphy CorpDan Leakey - Business ChangeRach gets on a call with Dan Leakey, recently appointed Business Change Director for Difrent. This guy is passionate and driving change with everything he does. Listen out for a few stories of past roles which do include a mention of a Duck house!
Here are some of the questions Rach fired off:
What does Business Change mean to you
Where in your career have you achieved Business change
What challenges did you come across
What was the lasting legacy
What makes you want...2019-10-0230 minDifrentSilicon Slopes: Old school to startupRachel Murphy attended and spoke at Silicon Slopes in Utah on the 31st of February.
She spoke about her history of coming up through the old school business way to the new ways of startup.
She also talks about the work Difrent have done over the last twelve months.
Song: Fredji - Flying High (Vlog No Copyright Music)
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Video Link: https://youtu.be/ueOi5slIU2E2019-08-1418 minDifrentDiary of a CEO: days 80-120Welcome back to Rachel's CEO Diary, days 80-120.
We jump straight into what's been going on over the last 40 days including:
What's gone well
Opening up NHS BSA with Overseas
NHS Jobs private BETA with a shout out to Scott Smith for the open show and tell as part of NHS Digital's Service Manual.
A number of key hires to help us bolster our senior capability
Not so well
Frameworks drying up
Hiring into perm gaps...2019-08-0622 minDifrentDataTalks: Data into DigitalRachel Murphy attended and spoke at a DataTalks event in London on the 27th of June. She spoke about data and how spanning her 20 year career, it has informed every transformation she's been a part of.
Here's the video too https://youtu.be/fCuvErvILXw.2019-07-0515 minDifrentDiary of a CEO: days 40-80 part2Welcome to Rachel's latest instalment of Diary of a CEO, part2 To keep it punchy, we broke it up into two parts. Listen to Rach talk all the things that haven't gone well in her last 40 days and what's coming up for the next 40 days:
Getting personal
Discovery work and the learning curves
Leaders Director continues
Strategic partnerships are a must
Progressing NHSX conversations
Jumping into public speaking
Mentoring and being mentored
Strategy implementation continues
London Tech week and our own events
Our Business development manager's dare
2019-05-0215 min
DifrentDiary of a CEO: days 40-80 part1Welcome to Rachel's latest instalment of Diary of a CEO.
To keep it punchy, we broke it up into two parts. Listen to Rach talk all the things that have gone well in her last 40 days:
GDS assessment passed for NHS Jobs
Good engagement with NHSX team
Next phase for British Psychological Society
Advisory Board announcement
International Women's Day presentation
Implemented Slack
Getting approached by people wanting to work for us
Bringing help in to QA our bidding a...2019-04-2917 min
ParadigmsStephan Said – “this is borderless” docu-seriesStephan Said is a musician, singer/songwriter/rapper and a person of conscience. He has started a project called this is borderless which is a video docu-series and media platform that features and connects people who are changing the world. Stephan travels to places where people are struggling and makes music with them. You can watch the videos on YouTube. The most recent is We The People.
Stephan and Baruch discussed the project, and the role people can play in making things better.
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Music by: Bokanté & Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley, Step...2018-10-2959 min
Dif'Rent | DrumSquad DJs | RockStarDJs | Slip N Slide DJsDj Dif'Rent PowerHour 01.3101. Intro - DjDifRent.com
02. Bad Chick - French Montana ft Jeremih
03. Show You - G-Unit
04. Cat'n Off - Jay N Fresh
05. SYU - Dj E Feezy ft Plies, Trina, Super J, Young Star
06. Ayo - Chris Brown ft Tyga
07. Know Your Name - Trevor Jackson ft Sage The Gemini
08. Can't Trust Thots - Wash ft French Montana
09. Hotel - Kid Ink ft Chris Brown
10. Somebody - Natalie La Rose ft Jeremih
11. 711(Dif-Rebellion Remix) - Beyonce
12. Rap Up - Skillz
13. Good Vibes - Trev Rich
14. Want Some More - Nicki Minaj
15. Juggarnauts - #3hree
16. All About The Money - Troy...2015-01-261h 02
Dif'Rent | DrumSquad DJs | RockStarDJs | Slip N Slide DJsDJ Dif's Night Before Christmas - Holiday favoritesDJ Dif's Night Before Christmas
1. Intro-Dif's Night Before Christmas
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas-Luther Vandross
3. Let it snow-Boyz II Men
4. Let it snow-Dean Martin
5. This Christmas-Chris Brown
6. This Christmas-Donnie Hathaway
7. Mr. Grinch-Dr. Seuss
8. Santa Baby-Eartha Kitt
9. Someday at Christmas-Justin Bieber
10. I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus-Jackson 5
11. All I want for Christmas is you-Mariah Carey
12. The Christmas Song-Nat King Cole
13. Feliz Nevidad-Celine Dion
14. White Christmas-The Drifters
15. Rocking around the Christmas Tree-Branda Lee
16. Christmas in Holllis-Run DMC
17. What do the lonely do at Christmas-The Emotions
18. Mistletoe Me-Isaac Hayes
19. Baby it's cold outside-Bing Crosby and Doris Day
20. Silent Night-Temptations
21. Outro-DJ Difrent...2014-12-2455 min
Dif'Rent | DrumSquad DJs | RockStarDJs | Slip N Slide DJsDj Dif'Rent PowerHour (radio/clean)1214DJ DifRent PowerHour 120714
01. Mind Right - TK n Cash
02. Beat Up The Block - Dorrough Music ft Lil Boosie
03. Maybe - Teyana Taylor ft Pusha T, Yo Gotti
04. Trina Speaks
05. F**k Love - Trina
06. Drumma Boy Speaks
07. Try Me - Def Loaf
08. We Good - Def Loaf
09. Love Don't Live Here No More - Ghostface Killah ft Kandace Springs
10. Not For Long - B.o.B ft Trey Songz
11. L.A. Love (La La) - Fergie
12. Came To Do - Chris Brown ft Akon
13. The Water Dance - Chris C-PO Porter
14. Dif'Rent Break
15. All or Nothing - 3hree...2014-12-0759 minDif'Rent | DrumSquad DJs | RockStarDJs | Slip N Slide DJsDj Dif'Rent "PowerHour" Music Mix 110114 (64 minutes)DJ DifRent POWERHOUR 110114 - djDifRent.com
01. All I Need Is You - Lecrae
02. Dreams Come - RichGang ft True, Yo Gotti,Ace Hood,Mack Maine, & Birdman
03. Ass Drop - Wiz Khalifa
04. You Playin - Jae Murphy ft The Game, Eric Bellinger, Problem
05. Certified Freak - Baby Bash ft Baeza G Curtis
06. Face Down - Dj Mustard ft Lil Wayne, Big Sean, YG & Boosie Badazz
07. Bitches - City Shawn ft D-Lo
08. Dj Dif No Mediocre Break
09. Maino Speaks - MP3WAXX.com - Dj Dif PowerHour
10. Motivated - Problem
11. 2Chainz Speaks - DrumSquadDjs
12. Flexin On My Baby Mama - 2Chainz
13...2014-11-121h 04
Dif'Rent | DrumSquad DJs | RockStarDJs | Slip N Slide DJsDj DifRent - #HeartbreakDifDj DifRent - #HeartbreakDif
1. Intro - www.DjDifRent.com
2. Party Girls - Ludacris ft Jeremih, Wiz Khalifa, Cashmere Cat
3. 3005 - Childish Gambino
4. Next - Sevyn Streeter ft Kid Ink (remix)
5. DOA - Mr Midas ft TC Crook
6. Sexy Body Verse Simmonds ft Kid Ink & Eric Bellinger
7. South Central Love - Dom Kennedy
8. One Time - Young Money ft Lil Twist, Tyga & YG
9. You Got Me - Courtney Noelle ft Wiz Khalifa
10. "Estelle" speaks - www.EstelleDarlings.com
11. Make Her Say (Beat It Up) - Estelle
12. Pu**y So Amazing - Emanny ft Joe Budden & Joell Ortiz
13. Dj Dif'Rent "I...2014-05-271h 05
Sasquatch ChroniclesSC EP:14 Bigfoot Hunt Gone Wrong & a Hunters EncounterThis week we bring you the - 'Bigfoot Hunt' Goes Wrong, Ends With Man Shot, Three Arrested. We also bring you Danny, Danny wrote the show and said "hi wes and woody i listen to your shows everynight at work and it gets me by the night my granfather and i had taken a trip to tenn we were in the smokeys and i was probly 11 years old so we are in the smokey mountains and we were staying in this little motel and behind it was pine trees straight up the mountain well my grandpa and one of...2014-02-0750 min
Dif'Rent | DrumSquad DJs | RockStarDJs | Slip N Slide DJsDif'Rent aka Mr Im On the List PRESENTS: The A Listwww.COLORAZZi.com
Track-List
01. Intro - www.GoDifRent.com
02. Motto - Drake feat. Lil Wayne
03. Drumma Boy Speaks
04. It Mine I Spend It - 2Chainz
05. Nightmares Of The Bottom - Lil Wayne
06. Gushy - FAME
07. I Wanna - 50 Cent ft Tony Yayo
08. FOLLOW @DifRent @ RockStarDJsINC
09. I Aint The One - Ludacris ft. 2 Chainz
10. Young Doe Speaks
11. Im About Money - Young Doe
12. Left Lane - Cabby ft Young Joc
13. Racked Up - Young Dro
14. Gettin to the Money - Mr Midas ft 504Gunna
15. Red Bottoms - Trina
16. P.S.A DJ Dif'Rent AKA MR IM ON THE LIST
17. Tat My...2012-01-031h 15