Curiosity Key - listen to innovators, change-makers and curious thinkers making the world a better place

Susanna Lawson is a woman on a mission and so far has grown a tech start-up of 2 people from a spareroom in Manchester to a multi-million pound, award winning company with over 85 employees. Susanna didn't come from a tech background but found a way to turn her idea to solve a problem into a globally adopted tech platform called OneFile, she shares her story in this great interview.

If your children asked you if you're working on something that will make the world a better place what would you say? This is the driving force for best selling author and entrepreneur Daniel Priestley Dan was curious to support entrepreneurs to stand out, scale up and make a dent in the universe and as a result founded Dent Global. He joins me to talk about using business as a force for good, why starting a business is a bit like planning to rob a bank, predictions for the future of business and more

With over 100 different marketing disciplines out there how do you know how to build an effective strategy for you and your business and how do you know who to work with when you're ready to outsource and get help from the experts? Stephen Knight is the founder of Pimento, a virtual marketing agency that works with over 200 specalist agencies, freelancers and consultants around the world and joins me on this podcast to talk about how to create a successful marketing strategy.

Ben Findlay and his brother were on a mission to change the way the world buys and sells its industrial machinery - that was until tragedy struck and Ben lost his brother suddenly to cancer. In this episode Ben shares his incredible story around how, despite a major personal setback, he turned an idea and opportunity into reality, found investment and is working towards the vision him and his brother started years before.

Lee Robertson had a vision to launch a new solution to the market. Instead of hiring a team of developers to bring his vision to life, Lee set about and researched what was already available on the market and partnered up with a software provider to whitelabel a solution he could use himself. Lee and I talk about his journey from idea to reality and why branding is so key when launching a new product. Lee also shares some of his most successful marketing strategies that you can use yourself.

What do you think happens when two entertainers from the North East of England come together to develop and launch their own tech start-up as a means to solve their own marketing challenges? In this episode I speak to the wonderful Rob and Kennedy, Founders of Response Suite and The Email Marketing Show. We talk about lots of things in this interview from learning how to get better at marketing to launching your own marketing software tool, from running out of money and the various mistakes you make when launching a tech start-up to launching a profitable product that creates a pipeline of prospects for your software and more. This is an episode you’re NOT going to want to miss. Show notes are available on my website: http://www.charliewhyman.com/podcast/ (www.charliewhyman.com/podcast/)

Clare Stead is an incredibly inspirational and motivated educator who's on a mission to help parents create well rounded, happy, confident children that love to learn via the medium of play.  Clare has developed an app that parents can use in the first 1000 days of their child life from conception to birth. The app delivers daily activities with references to the science behind it benefitting both the child and the parent. Clare shares her journey from idea to MVP and then to product and how she's using a B2B model to reach more people. 

In this episode I speak to Jonathan Thirkill who has a relentless enthusiasm for providing memorable customer experiences through marketing.    He started his software company to solve a problem he faced whilst working full time as a web development manager - he couldn't find a good enough solution so decided to develop one himself.    Jonathan has a great story to tell about how he launched his tech-startup Boostify and he shares his insights around what it takes to develop your own software from scratch and how to create a great product by developing around the needs of the customer instead of making assumptions.

Scott Leiper is the founder of innovative new card game Cognitize by Imaginocity - a tool that encourages people to transfer their learning into cohesive action.  At the time of recording we are experiencing a whole new way of doing things and interacting with others and in this episode Scott and I explore ideas around how you can adapt, pivot and thrive. 

Tim Wade is a global conference speaker who motivates teams to embrace and lead positive change. In this episode of The Curiosity Key podcast, Tim shares awesome tips to help business owners and leaders to:  better engage their people increase their public profile to grow their business  increase their personal productivity and...  be like Batman!  Find out more in on this episode.