Hope and Patience

The only course I went on was the YouTube course, the YouTube school of life.

Tskenya Frazer's business is one which is helping breakdown the barriers for LGBTQ+ fashion. It’s a gender free multi award-winning vegan footwear brand specialising in larger sized feet and has been featured in Vogue, The Economist, BBC Women's Hour, The Guardian and Drapers to name but a few. You’ll discover our guest to be a remarkable woman aged only 27 and with her purpose oozing out of every pore. She is also midst writing a book about the landscape of Black British business.

In this episode we chat about how and why TSKENYA shoes was created, market research in Starbucks, the personal challenges Tskenya has faced, juggling a side hustle with many other roles including writing her book, working for MTC, a VC for Ada Capital and carer for her mum. I ask what it will take for her to make the leap to go full time with her much talked about and respected brand, where the shortfalls are for the younger generations to run their own businesses, how the Prince's Trust literally saved her life and loads more. By the end of the episode I could see Tskenya becoming a potent leader on the level with Michelle Obama and Arianna Huffington. She is one incredible woman as you will discover.

My book recommendation: Fortune Cookie Principle ~ Bernadette Jiwa

Tskenya's book recommendations: Your Silence Will Not Protect You ~ Audre Lorde & Hunger ~ Roxanne Gay

Chocolate: Crunchie bar

Quote: 'We can choose to create of our lives an accident or adventure.' ~ Anonymous

TSKENYA Shoes Insta: @officialtskenya Tskenya's personal insta: @tskenya

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My phone lit up with everyone saying, "Are you okay, are you okay," at five o'clock to then eight o'clock at night, "My God, I've just seen you on The X Factor adverts." I had to turn it off. I couldn't cope with it for about 24 hours.

Stewart Roberts has had quite a journey in his life. A journey which has led him to become a founder of a community-based charity where hairdressers donate their support to the homeless. They have 600 volunteers, near to 68 projects on the go and have delivered around 40k pockets of joy in the form of haircuts for homeless souls since they started back in 2014. Their sponsors include the National Lottery Community Fund, affiliates include the British Beauty Council and L’Oreal and this year the charity won the Marie Claire UK Hair Awards 2021 Special Jury Prize which is a special recognition for helping others. Their Global ambassador is none other than the Game of Thrones star Lena Headey.

We chat about what triggered Stewart to create his charity, losing his hairdressing business and the grief with it, the challenges of the pandemic on the charity and also the homeless, the serendipity of life as his business went into insolvency and what happened the same day to open a huge door, how he has attracted his sponsors, affiliates and ambassadors, why he contemplated 10 ways of killing himself at a dark stage in his life, why the Gideon bible is by his bedside and much more. P.S. The odd whistle and phone ringing is Stewarts parrot!

My book recommendation: The Practice: Shipping Creative Work ~ Seth Godin

Stewarts's book recommendations: Gideon Bible

Chocolate: Peppermint Aero

Quote: ‘The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place we can go as we are and not be questioned.' ~ Maya Angelou

Haircuts4Homeless Insta: @haircuts4homeless

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I think in the beginning, the first pain was, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, and then it was a lot of accumulating knowledge and just learning and trying out different things until I found my way. Then the next pain was, I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, but I'm not really getting enough clients. That then turned into testing out different offers, creating funnels learning about just how to attract clients instead of just growing my audience.

Carla Biesinger has created a business which quite literally moves countries as, and when she does, which until the pandemic included Mexico, New York City, Barcelona, Berlin, and finally Lisbon. She's an early adopter of life as a digital nomad and in her words, a freedom-driven entrepreneur. From a love of food, our guests ended up becoming an Instagram expert and online course creator with her immensely popular course, Instagram Secrets to Success, and has choked up a following of over 45,000. An audience of over 100,000 subscribers and most recently added the role of business mentor to her brand.

We chat about the how's and why's she went from the world of restaurants to the world of instagram, the growing pains and challenges of converting followers into clients, why she has potentially now found her home for a while, where the pandemic affected her business, where her strengths were, her thoughts on social media and in particular instagram, how she copes with stress, where she has had to have hope and patience and much more.

My recommendation: Three Little Birds ~ Bob Marley

Carla's book recommendation: Super Attractor ~ Gabby Bernstein

Chocolate: Lindt Dark Chocolate Orange

Quote: Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all ~ Ernest Shackleton

Carla Biesinger Insta: @carlabiesinger

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Our Series Special is the next episode and then we are taking a bit of a summer break. Hope and Patience will be back in the autumn. To be the first to catch Series 4 hop onto the follow/subscribe button or keep an eye out on our socials/newsletter announcement. I will be busy working on a new project, reading and chilling and also conjuring up more fab guest for Series 4. Have a wonderful summer, make sure you take time for you and if you haven't managed to keep up to speed with all the episodes in this Series there are a few months for you to dip in and catch up! Thank you for joining the chat at Hope & Patience. You are absolute treasures.

Keep an eye out for our special episode out next week here I get to chat with the Founding Director of a charity which is very close to my heart and who I volunteer for.

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A few facts* on food waste which may shock you ...

• Over 1/3 of all food produced globally is wasted.
• The annual value of food wasted globally is $1 trillion, and it weighs 1.3 billion tonnes
• All the world’s nearly one billion hungry people could be fed on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the US, UK and Europe

Our guest for this episode is Tessa Clarke, co-founder with Saasha Celestial-One of the global food-sharing app Olio. (Olio has just moved into non-food items and home-baked items too.)

These women are on a very focused mission to prevent food waste with sharing, create communities and sustainability.

Hear Tessa’s driver, how she and Saasha did a boot-strapped pilot, what makes Tessa tick, her favourite chocolate (of course!) and much more.

My book recommendation: Jail Birds Mim Skinner

Tessa’s book recommendations: The Lean Start Up Eric Ries & The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick

Chocolate: Lindt dark chocolate mint

Quote: 'Fearlessness is like a muscle, I know from my own life, that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me’ Arianna Huffington

*Sourced: Olio website (all referenced)

www.olioex.com Insta: @olio.app FB: @olioapp Twitter: @OLIO_ex Linked In: @OLIO

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S2. E6.

With Julian Metcalfe, Founder Itsu & Pret a Manager

Our guest on S2 E6 is a serious mover and shaker, a pioneer, a man with perseverance and guts. He has influenced how we eat in so many ways, and I bet you he will continue to do so. His latest creation is a robotic store of the future. Yes, seriously, robots making nigiri and maki.

‘Itsu started because a friend of mine said, "Please come to Japan with me for a week," an art dealer friend, and I remember Virgin were offering two tickets for the price of one. This was years 20, 30 years ago. I said, "Okay, fine, I'll go to Japan.’ The rest is history.

Join Julian and I to explore what makes him tick, his key to success and much more.

My book recommendation: Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon Dr Rahun Jandial

Julian’s book recommendations: ‘Oh the Places You Will Go’ Dr Seuss

Chocolate: Julian is not a chocolate fan and opted for Itsu’s seaweed thins instead

Quote: ‘Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour'. Words: Rumi

www.itsu.com insta: @itsuofficial

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