The Small Business Sessions
Podcasts for small business owners 🎙️
Whether you're starting out or scaling up, the right advice makes all the difference. Enterprise Nation's podcasts cover everything from funding and marketing to legal must-knows and success stories – straight from UK entrepreneurs and industry experts. Tune in and get inspired!
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🎧 The Small Business Sessions
The Small Business Sessions is a weekly podcast from our business.connected training programme, in partnership with Vodafone Business, that shares practical tips and stories from inspiring entrepreneurs and digital experts.
Access free training in a range of digital business areas, from online marketing to AI and smarter working at www.enterprisenation.com/business-connected
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🎧 The Small Business Sessions: Founder Fails
The Small Business Sessions: Founder Fails is a podcast created in collaboration with Hiscox. In this series, we're sitting down with bold business voices to talk candidly about their biggest fails, unexpected lessons and the power of getting back up.
Whether you're a sole trader, scaling a start-up or running a growing enterprise, Hiscox business insurance can help. Their policies are built around your business to protect you from the real risks you face every day. Learn more about the cover available to you: www.enterprisenation.com/find-something/hiscox-business-insurance
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🎧 The Small Business Retail Sessions
The Small Business Retail Sessions is a podcast series from our Powering the High Street programme, in collaboration with EDF.
It explores the major challenges facing today’s retailers – from declining footfall, vacant storefronts, post-pandemic recovery and sustainability.
Whether you're a seasoned shopkeeper or a digital business ready to make the leap to bricks-and-mortar, Powering the High Street is your gateway to making a meaningful retail impact. Discover more at enterprisenation.com/poweringthehighstreet
The Small Business Sessions
Theo Paphitis: Dragons' Den, his dyslexia, the future of the high street and top tips for success | The Small Business Sessions
The Small Business Sessions, Enterprise Nation's podcast, is back for a ninth exciting series of inspiring entrepreneurial stories and expert business tips! The podcast is powered by the business.connected online training programme and our partner Vodafone Business.
Joining freelance journalist Dan Martin for the fourth episode is Theo Paphitis, Dragons' Den investor and entrepreneur.
As one of the UK's most high profile entrepreneurs, Theo is known as being one of the investors on BBC TV show Dragons' Den. He is also famous for turning around struggling high street brands like Ryman and Robert Dyas.
Theo does much to support small business owners, including through his #SBS Small Business Sunday community.
In a wide ranging and inspiring converation, Theo discusses his extensive entrepreneurial career with loads of insights and advice. Don't miss this episode!
Topics discussed in the episode include:
- His early entrepreneurial experience including running a school tuck shop.
- The impact of dyslexia on his entrepreneurial career.
- Transitioning from working as a tea boy to starting his own property finance company at age 23.
- How he has turned around struggling retail brands like Ryman and Robert Dyas.
- What is it like running high street businesses right now and what the government needs to do to support them.
- Stories from TV's Dragons' Den.
- Why he started his Small Business Sunday competition in 2010.
- Why he still gets imposter syndrome.
- What he thinks about AI.
- His top advice for business success.
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This episode is brought to you in partnership with Vodafone Business, the Nation’s Network*, as part of the business.connected campaign which helps small businesses embrace digital change and grow online.
Access free training in a range of digital business areas, from online marketing to AI and smarter working at www.enterprisenation.com/businessconnected
Listen to and watch previous podcast episodes at www.enterprisenation.com/podcast
*The Nation's Network: Vodafone - nation's most valuable brand, verified by Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable UK Brands Report 2024, and supporting the nation since 1984 through to 2025's major summer events. See full verification of the substantiation: www.vodafone.co.uk/TNN
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