How I Failed: Losing $1.5 million on someone else’s dream, with entrepreneur Simon Squibb
Simon Squibb is a multi-millionaire entrepreneur and angel investor. After being homeless at 15, he has gone on to found 19 businesses and invest in 76 companies to date. After selling his business to...
24 Nov 202215min
How 7 interviews changed my life - our 200th episode, with Dan Murray-Serter
This is Secret Leader’s 200th episode! Over the last 5 years we've featured over 50 unicorn leaders and household names such as Monzo, Slack, Duolingo, Brewdog, Lastminute.com. In today’s episode host...
22 Nov 202256min
How I failed: So close to achieving my dream and then walking away, with Emma Sexton
In 2013 Emma set up strategic brand agency Hands Down in her spare bedroom, on her laptop, with just £1,000 in savings. She’d never run a business before and had been an employee for the past twenty y...
17 Nov 202215min
The biggest problem in business - property legend and Yoo Co-Founder John Hitchcox
John Hitchcox is the Chairman and Founder of Yoo Group, the property company behind the £1.3 billion pound regeneration of Olympia London and considered by many the global leader in the branded reside...
15 Nov 202235min
An Uncommon Criminal - Bad Money X Secret Leaders
This a new one for us - we've just launched our first true crime show at Kindling Media (we make Secret Leaders). It's called Bad Money and it's about the Hong Kong gangster, Big Spender. Obsessed wit...
14 Nov 202227min
How I failed: Half a million in debt and living in my car, with Founder Konrad Bergström
Konrad Bergström is the founder of Swedish electric boat manufacturer X Shore and Zound Industries, the Swedish tech giant that sells consumer electronics for Marshall Amplification and Adidas. But b...
10 Nov 202213min
'I was 5 the first time I heard the word drugs': Nikki Wicks, CEO of The Body Coach and brother of Joe Wicks.
Nikki Wicks is the CEO of The Body Coach and the older brother of Joe Wicks. Joe, aka The Body Coach, is a household name. He’s a fitness coach with a massive online following and the author of one of...
8 Nov 202242min
How I failed: ‘Never go in with the idea of money first’, with Founder Kurt Davis.
Kurt Davis has spent twenty years in Silicon Valley and Asia, working in venture capital and business development for technology startups, focusing on deals with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Spoti...
3 Nov 202211min
