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Welcome to Businesswise: The Voice of Business Networking in Swindon. Every fortnight we'll be sharing a new episode with you that features our members. In it, they'll share their highs, their lows, their networking experience and what it is that makes BusinessWise work for them. Join us as we show you why we're the Voice of Business Networking in Swindon! If you'd like to visit the group please email our secretary on [email protected] or to learn more about the group visit www.b ...
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Special Holiday Message: On the Spirit of the Season
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14:34Each year at this time, we pause to reflect on what truly matters — goodwill, responsibility, and the role we play as business leaders.This special episode draws on one of the great holiday narratives long shared across generations to explore the quality of help, hope, and leadership that still matters now. Whether you’re hearing it for the first t…
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Episode 33, Volume 6: LIFE MASTERY PART 3- ETHICS GRADIENTS
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29:22We have been discussing LIFE MASTERY in terms of handling discipline on self, but how about handling discipline with others? Is there tech to that? Well, to master life one would have to be able to handle ethics with others, and as you might expect, L. Ron Hubbard addressed this subject with precision. So here we go!…
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Review Episode: The Hidden Factor That Makes Outflow Actually Work
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24:03Outflow alone isn’t enough. To raise your inflow, you must raise the quality of your communication — and there’s one exact ingredient that most entrepreneurs miss. When you add it, you don’t just get more response… you get better response. This episode shook a lot of business owners awake the first time it aired. Don’t skip it.…
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Episode 32, Volume 6: LIFE MASTERY PART 2- SELF-DISCIPLINE
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36:12High-performing entrepreneurs talk about discipline constantly. The “entrepreneurship hype” bubble has burst. Today successful business owners believe in skill, work, consistency, and discipline. And just about everyone agrees on one thing, they can all use more of it! This episode gives you the LRH on the subject.…
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Episode 31, Volume 6: LIFE MASTERY Part 1
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37:08You have a business; can you have a life as well? Unfortunately, a business, often started to give you freedom, can crowd out things that leave a life feel incomplete. But you can master your life, you CAN control it. There is know-how to this, and this week’s episode is a great place to start.By wiseeastus
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Episode 30, Volume 6: THE MAGIC TOUCH PART 2
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28:29OK, let’s introduce you to THE MAGIC TOUCH PART 2. Learn how to part the waters! Learn how to wave a magic wand that opens up friendship and cooperation and allows you to get your message over to others!By wiseeastus
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Review Episode: GOAL MAKERS AND MANAGEMENT
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27:31Recently we have trafficked with some incredible “Goal Makers”, and I am making them all listen to this episode because they all need it. L. Ron Hubbard pointed out something so critical and so fundamental, but it is routinely missed, resulting in creative people working themselves to death with their goals unrealized. Now you will know why and wha…
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Episode 29, Volume 6: The Magic Touch – Part 1
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25:56We’ve all met those individuals who seem to have the Magic Touch. They walk into a room full of grumpy, resistant people — and somehow melt them with nothing more than a smile and a handshake. What is that magic? In this episode, you’ll find out — and discover how easily you can acquire it yourself.By wiseeastus
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Public relations isn’t just a business function — it’s a matter of survival. In the age of social media, a single false narrative can spread like wildfire — and suddenly, you’re fighting battles you didn’t start. To protect yourself and your group, the first step is to know exactly what you’re dealing with. This episode pulls back the curtain on Bl…
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Episode 28, Volume 6: OFFENSE AND DEFENSE IN PR
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30:07Public Relations isn’t optional—no more than sales or delivery. You may think you don’t need it… until someone uses PR against you, because there is offensive and defensive PR. In this episode, we’ll uncover the single missing factor that L. Ron Hubbard discovered that makes PR not just safe, but as precise and powerful as a Jedi lightsaber.…
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You need to understand PR thoroughly to achieve your full potential as an entrepreneur. That’s a fact. But it’s also true that there are liabilities to the subject and it has been severely perverted. To fully understand PR, you need to confront the dark side of “the force.”By wiseeastus
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REVIEW EPISODE: The Difference between Marketing and PR
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27:07Let’s take a deep dive into the all-important but neglected subject of Public Relations. First of all, you need to understand the difference between PR and Marketing or you are going to mess up and severely limit your expansion. For that reason we are going to start this series with a review of one of our most popular episodes.…
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Episode 26, Volume 6: WEALTH & FRIENDSHIP
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26:50The road to wealth and prosperity could be said to be made up of many things, hard work being one of them, being honest, being competent, but there is another factor we seldom give much care or attention to, and it may be the most important of them all. Make sure you listen to this one. This could be a life-changer!…
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When you are doing all the right things to bring about expansion and it is still not going right, then you still have that last tool you can use to save the day- ETHICS! But you better know what ETHICS is and how to handle it first!By wiseeastus
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Episode 24, Volume 6: AWARENESS & ABILITY
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30:46The past few episodes we have been unravelling what might be the greatest, most fundamental problem of them all: how to tap into the abilities of oneself and others, especially one’s execs and staff. This episode we go over the LRH data that brings this down to BRASS TACKS!!By wiseeastus
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Episode 23, Volume 6: YOUR HIDDEN SUPERPOWER
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24:05We have been going over the subjects of ABILITY and WILLINGNESS in recent episodes. But what do you think might be the ability senior to all others, the superpower that not only guarantees your survival, but the survival of others in your life as well. One might say this is a pretty important episode.…
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Episode 22, Volume 6: IGNITING WILLINGNESS
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27:46If you caught our last episode, WILLINGNESS & ABILITY, you now understand how these two forces work together. So here’s the real question: How do you ignite willingness in your employees to unlock maximum ability and drive success? Listen to this episode to find out.By wiseeastus
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Episode 21, Volume 6: WILLINGNESS & ABILITY
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28:29You’ve heard it said: “So-and-so is an able person.” Maybe you’ve wished for more able staff—or even questioned your own ability. Ability is a quality we all recognize and value. And you’ve probably also heard someone described as “very willing but not that able,” or “quite able but not that willing.” We instinctively measure people by these two qu…
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Review Episode: Finding Correct Cause Part 2
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18:49There are two indicators that rank above all others when it comes to locating where the trouble spots are in any group. Know them and DON’T IGNORE THEM!!By wiseeastus
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Review Episode: Finding Correct Cause Part 1
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25:50A vital skill every executive needs is how to find the true cause of a problem. If you use this simple system you can’t go wrong. This is a 2-part series on how to get to the bottom of things.By wiseeastus
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Episode 20, Volume 6: HOW TO SCALE YOUR BUSINESS PART4- EXPANSION FOR DUMMIES
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29:15Does expansion seem stressful, complex and perhaps not workable for you? Let’s make it simple. Here is our fourth in a series on how to correctly expand your business.By wiseeastus
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Review Episode: A SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL LAW
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25:14We are about to wrap up our series on how to correctly expand your business, but before we do we need to revisit a fundamental law we have not given enough importance to in our episodes. No law about management is simpler, no law about management is more powerful, and yet no law is so commonly ignored.…
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Episode 19, Volume 6: HOW TO SCALE YOUR BUSINESS Part 3- THE SECOND TECHNOLOGY
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23:46Though the term “to scale” has only come into use in a business context in the new millennium, the secrets to scaling a business are contained in the Hubbard managements system being developed since 1950. It starts with understanding that to scale one must master at least TWO technologies, and here is where we start discussing the second one.…
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Review Episode: Building Bullet Proof Confidence
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25:13It MUST be common knowledge that confidence is key to success, look how many people try to teach it! Let’s get you going on this and make it BULLETPROOF!By wiseeastus
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Episode 18, Volume 6: HOW TO SCALE YOUR BUSINESS Part2- AVOIDING A DEAD-END
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26:43If you have ever decided that your business is not “scalable”, that you have hit a dead-end in your expansion and you are just going to have to learn to live with it, that expansion is a struggle and basically impossible and who wants it, since it’s just more work for you, well, there is a reason for that dead-end, and you DON’T have to live with i…
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Episode 17, Volume 6: HOW TO SCALE YOUR BUSINESS Part1
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33:16If you have been wondering how to scale your business, or wondered if your business is scalable or not, or what “to scale” even means in the business world, and what LRH data covers this hot topic and buzzword, this short series of episodes is going to get all this cleared up. As always, let’s start with some fundamentals.…
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One of the interesting things one discovers when seeking truth is that it tends to be counter-intuitive at first. Once recognized, of course, things get much, much simpler, and one wonders how one could ever have bought into the untruths! This is one of the most fundamental of all, and solves pretty much anything and everything.…
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Episode 16, Volume 6: Time Management Part 5: FATAL ATTRACTION
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28:43There is a FATAL ATTRACTION that will cut across your ability to handle time. This is our last episode in this short series on TIME MANAGEMENT. If you have been listening, your time management is probably improving, but this episode puts it all together for you.By wiseeastus
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Review Episode: IMPORTANT DATA ON HOW TO GET FROM A TO B
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23:00I was recently in communication with an extraordinarily able WISE member who was struggling. Not common for this person at all. I helped him out with this very important and very commonly overlooked data from LRH, and remembered we did an episode on this way back at the beginning of time. We are going to take a short break from our TIME MANAGEMENT …
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Episode 15, Volume 6: Time Management Part 4: ATTENTION!
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27:38If you have been following this series of episodes on TIME MANAGEMENT then you have learned that to master time, you have to learn to master the cycle of action. But to master the cycle of action, you need to master something else, and that is the subject of this week’s episode!By wiseeastus
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Episode 14, Volume 6: Time Management Part 3: One word that puts you at cause over time
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23:32There is one word in the Hubbard management system that, clearly understood and applied, not only puts you at cause over time, it can practically put you at cause over anything. You have probably heard it, but make sure you really understand it.By wiseeastus
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Collaboration – 30 people in the room who are essentially your sales people with Danielle Holmes and Steve Munson
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24:37Today’s edition of the Businesswise podcast is hosted by Joe Tompkinson who is joined by Danielle Holmes from Black Nova, a professional IT Solutions company, offering website design, hosting and other IT services, and Steve Munson from ASF Creative who offer signs, marketing & design and print. After introducing what their individual businesses do…
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Review Episode: Time Management Part 2- How to Cut your Work in Half
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24:55This is a series on TIME MANAGEMENT. In it you can expect to learn many disciplines that will help you cause and control time, but this episode contains a “heavy rule” that will not only make an immediate impact on your time management but is also a fundamental to the rest of this series.By wiseeastus
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Episode 13, Volume 6: Time Management Part 1: Truth vs Lies
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28:22This is the first in a series of episodes on TIME MANAGEMENT. If you don’t have time to listen to it, you probably should. I guarantee that you have bought into some lies on this subject, let’s start off by giving you the truth.By wiseeastus
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Businesswise welcomes you to the meeting! with Sabrina O'Keeffe
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12:29Today Hannah Edwards is talking to Sabrina O’Keeffe of Charming Bee Accessories. Her business came about when Sabrina was out of work. Having always been crafty, she did a jewellery course and some workshops, then started making sterling silver jewellery, and absolutely loved it. Sabrina has only been an official member of Businesswise for around a…
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Episode 12, Volume 6: EVALUATING PEOPLE PART 3- PERSISTENCE
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30:36I cannot think of a more valuable personality trait than persistence. And none is more telling in establishing who to put on your team. And another thing, if you are a little weak on persistence yourself, you may have a hard time realizing greatness. Start cultivating it. This episode will help.By wiseeastus
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Review Episode: GREAT GROUP, GREAT LEADER
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22:08It is always interesting to hear someone being critical of a group they are leading. If you really look at it, it is so odd that you almost have to double-check your hearing. Who creates the group? The common denominator of great groups are great leaders. What might be the common denominator of poor ones? Let's face it, the better you understand an…
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I’ve been over that mountain – I can help hold your hand through this! with Ali Newnham and Jess Walters
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25:12For our Businesswise collaboration podcast today, Joe Tompkinson is talking to Ali Newnham and Jess Walters. Ali is the Operations Manager for MoovaHome selling houses, renting and managing HMOs. Jess works for Howden Insurance, local insurance brokers offering commercial and personal insurance. They both talk about the passion they each have for t…
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Episode 11, Volume 6: BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS: THE FIRST STEP
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21:45We started to answer this question in our last episode, ARE YOU IN THE RIGHT BUSINESS?, so let’s consider this as Part Two, where we tie some things together and outline your FIRST STEP in starting any business.By wiseeastus
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Episode 10, Volume 6: ARE YOU IN THE RIGHT BUSINESS?
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26:29What is the right business for you to be in, for you to get into today? Is the business you’re doing the right one for you? I think you might be surprised at our answer. But listen carefully, because there are some very important fundamentals from Mr. Hubbard that we are going to cover on this one.By wiseeastus
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Businesswise is a heart-led group with Fiona Da Silva Adams
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21:12Today Joe Tompkinson interviews Fi Da Silva Adams of Revolution Performing Arts. Fi talks about starting Revolution Performing Arts in 2007, and how it went from her working with her own children because there was nothing available for them, then gradually growing until it has ended up a full-time business providing after school performing arts clu…
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REVIEW EPISODE: Solving Problems Step One
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22:02Are you trying to figure something out? We are going to give you a couple of review episodes that we have never presented together, starting with this one and then we will put up another one in a few days that could be considered Step 2 in solving problems.By wiseeastus
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Episode 9, Volume 6: INCOME BOOSTER- HOW TO CAUSE REFERRALS
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31:05The object of these INCOME BOOSTERS is to give you the certainty that you can always CAUSE income to rise! Sometimes a member tells us that their business is built on “word of mouth,” and this is an explanation FOR why their business is down because “no one is referring” right now. Sort of “it’s all up to fate”. No, it’s not up to fate, it’s up to …
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We have clients countrywide but wanted to know more local businesses with Claire Brewerton
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17:19In today’s edition of the Businesswise podcast, Hannah Edwards talks to Claire Brewerton from The Virtual Business Centre, a telephone answering and call handling business. Claire explains why when she has a business that has clients country wide, she decided to join Businesswise. She has only been a member for a few months but is already enjoying …
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Episode 8, Volume 6: INCOME BOOSTER- FIVE STEPS TO MORE REFERRALS
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28:31I know of no means of generating new business that is more effective, faster, and lower cost than generating referrals. If you master this you will never have a problem with getting new customers, clients, patrons or patients. Learn these five steps well!By wiseeastus
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REVIEW EPISODE: A Basic on Raising Income
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26:22Lots of folks are going to teach you about how to make more money. It’s an important (and popular) subject. Some are excellent, some are harmless, some are kind of dumb. But whatever you learn regarding raising income, you are going to need this BASIC!By wiseeastus
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Businesswise is like having a whole load of business coaches in your pocket with Louise Muir Sage
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23:36Joe Tompkinson’s guest today on the Businesswise podcast, is Lou Muir Sage of Wellness Wiltshire, who is a relatively new member having only joined in February last year. Lou talks about her business, how she is a Reiki practitioner and also a meditation facilitator. She talks about how she has overcome her own struggles and now she wants to help o…
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Episode 7, Volume 6: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION PART 6- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DIV 6
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38:43I don’t think I have ever met a business owner who was not interested in “new business”. You want new customers, clients or patients? Let us introduce you to Division 6 of L. Ron Hubbard’s seven-division organizing board and let’s handle the heck out of that!By wiseeastus
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Episode 6, Volume 6: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION PART 5- WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR PRODUCT
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24:10I am willing to bet that the description you have given of the Valuable Final Product of your company or business is incomplete. A lack of a complete statement of your VFP and the process needed to get there is probably cutting your potential business in half. Here is the next installment on THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION.…
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We are all in the same boat – running a business and it helps you realize -you’re not alone with Barbara Leatham and Liza van Zyl
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23:35Joe Tompkinson hosts today’s Businesswise podcast, talking about collaboration with Barbara Leatham of Barbara Leatham Photography and Liza Van Zyl of Priory Heating. Liza has been a member of Businesswise for longer than Barbara and has in fact had the privilege of working with Barbara before she joined last year. Liza loves the fact that because …
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