Best Nicholas Francis Podcasts (2025)

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S9, Ep 1 Yiming Ma on the Future of Censorship 43:13

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Fiction writer Yiming Ma joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new novel These Memories Do Not Belong To Us. Ma, who was born in Shanghai and visited China frequently after immigrating to the U.S. and Canada, talks about how terrifyingly easy it can be to live in a society in which censorship is the default, and the …

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Podcast #142: Are pension transfer woes really over? A conversation with Anthony Rafferty, CEO of Origo 17:57

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This week on IFA Talk, we’re getting into one of the biggest talking points in pensions – transfers. For years, they’ve been a bit of a nightmare. Slow processes, endless paperwork, frustrated clients… we’ve all heard the stories. But are those days finally behind us, or is there still work to be done? Sue Whitbread, Editor here at IFA Magazine, an…

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Do You Even Need SEO? Unfiltered Truth with Jeff Collins 18:24

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✅ Do You Even Need SEO? Unfiltered Truth with Jeff Collins 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 In this episode of The Art of Kaizen for Entrepreneurs, we bring in SEO veteran Jeff Collins—whose resume includes leading Purple Mattress’s rise to search dominance—to cut through the noise. J…

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Relationship First Marketing The Blueprint for Agency Growth Francis Volpe 40:00

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✅ Relationship First Marketing: The Blueprint for Agency Growth | Francis Volpe 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 Meet Francis Volpe, head of content creation at Why Not You Media, whose journey from professional stuntman to social media strategist reveals the power of purpose over mot…

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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, John Stapleton, Mary Elizabeth Dodd, Claudia Cardinale 27:34

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Matthew Bannister on Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the architect who designed the international terminal at London’s Waterloo Station and the Eden Project. John Stapleton, the TV presenter who fronted Watchdog with his wife and ITV’s breakfast and daytime shows. His friend Greg Dyke pays tribute. Mary Elizabeth Dodd, the physiotherapist who pioneered new …

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Meet Kaizen the 1% agency that's changing how businesses approach digital marketing. 13:47

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✅ Meet Kaizen—the 1% agency that's changing how businesses approach digital marketing. 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 We're not your typical marketing agency. We're business owners, data scientists, creators, and copywriters united by one mission: growing revenue for every business …

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Talking Business #33 Interview with Michael Horin from Clarity Aged Care Advisors 38:27

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Follow my socials on: twitter.com/leongettler https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin.com/in/leongettler instagram.com/leongettler website: leongettler.com Call me at 0411 745 193 or email me at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8, Ep 52 Caleb Gayle on Black Settlers in the American West 43:58

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Journalist Caleb Gayle joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State, which recounts the efforts of Edward McCabe, a Black settler who became a prominent politician in the late 1800s and spearheaded a mission to establish a majority-Black state in the A…

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Community Over Camera The Key to Video Marketing 28:32

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✅ Community Over Camera The Key to Video Marketing 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 What happens when you realize that staying "out of sight" means being "out of referrals"? Vikram Rajan built VideoSocial after discovering that even confident public speakers struggle with the consiste…

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Podcast #141: What do advisers and paraplanners want and need from retirement planning? With Morningstar Wealth's Steve Coleman and Steve Owen 21:49

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Retirement income planning has always been front and centre for advisers and paraplanners – and it’s evolving fast. In this week’s episode of IFA Talk, Matt and Sue are joined by not one but two expert guests from Morningstar Wealth:  Steve Coleman, Head of Product, and Steve Owen, Head of Proposition. Together, they explore what advisers and parap…

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From 3 Books to Bestseller: The Marketing Strategist Behind 350 Book Launches | Keren Camou 36:57

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✅From 3 Books to Bestseller: The Marketing Strategist Behind 350+ Book Launches | Keren Camou 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 Meet Keren Camus, the serial entrepreneur and neurolinguistics expert who has launched over 350 books and transforms authors from "real-life influencers" into…

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M&PI Podcast #19: Supporting clients with complex mortgage needs, with Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries’ Laura Sneddon 15:01

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Now live: The latest Mortgage & Property Investment special edition of IFA Talk explores how advisers can best support clients in complex or evolving circumstances. In this episode, Jenny Hunter and Meg Bratley are joined by Laura Sneddon, Head of Mortgage Sales and Distribution at Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries. With over 20 years’ experience…

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Robert Redford, Barbara Harvey, Rosa Roisinblit, Stuart Craig 27:49

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Matthew Bannister on: Robert Redford, the film star who believed his striking good looks could be a curse as well as a blessing. Barbara Harvey, the mediaeval historian who revealed fascinating details of the lives of the monks of Westminster Abbey. Rosa Roisinblit, one of Argentina’s Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo who finally tracked down the g…

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Donald Trump in the UK, meditating on Star Wars and why the Religious life still appeals to so many 40:17

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Ruth Gledhill of The Tablet and Liz Dodd, a sister of St Joseph of Peace, discuss the visit to the UK this week of US President Donald Trump, the Royal family, a recent Star Wars retreat in Ireland – and why people are still attracted to the Religious life.

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Talking Business #32 Interview with Jennifer McCloy from Baseline. 37:57

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Follow my socials on: twitter.com/leongettler https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin.com/in/leongettler instagram.com/leongettler Website: leongettler.com Call me at 0411 745 193 or email me at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8, Ep. 51 Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire 56:24

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Writer Omar El Akkad joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his recent nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, which was just nominated for the National Book Award in nonfiction. El Akkad talks about developing the arc of the book, which addresses how Israel’s genocide in Gaza led to his “br…

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Podcast #140: Cutting through the chaos to streamline advice tech, with Pilot Financial Systems' Nicholas Ryan and David Mills 18:41

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If you’ve ever felt like the tech in your advice business is more of a hindrance than a help, you’re not alone. Multiple systems that don’t talk to each other, endless rekeying, and the same tasks repeated in five different places, it’s a frustration most advisers know all too well. In this week’s episode of IFA Talk, Jenny Hunter and Sue Whitbread…

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The Duchess of Kent, Giorgio Armani, Valerie Pearlman, Rick Davies 27:31

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John Wilson on: The Duchess of Kent, who stepped back from royal duties to teach music in primary schools. Giorgio Armani whose suit designs help define the look of the 1980s and beyond. Valerie Pearlman who made legal history by being the first judge in the UK finish a trial via fax machine and video link from her hospital bed. Rick Davies, who so…

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Talking Business #31 Interview with Francis Prince Thangasamy from Lumen Technologies. 37:56

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Follow my socials on: twitter.com/leongettler https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin.com/in/leongettler instagram.com/leongettler Website: leongettler.com Call me at 0411 745 193 or email me at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8, Ep 50 Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico 47:16

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Novelist Jessica Francis Kane joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new novel Fonseca, which fictionalizes writer Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1952 trip to Mexico. Kane talks about imagining Fitzgerald in her mid-thirties, before she had become a novelist, when she was living a financially precarious life and editing a jour…

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Podcast #139: Helping advisers build successful partnerships with MPS providers, with L&G’s Francis Chua 19:23

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In this week’s IFA Talk podcast, we’re exploring model portfolio services (MPS), asking what really makes for a successful partnership between an MPS provider and an advice business. It’s a subject that remains front of mind for many advisers and wealth managers, especially as the MPS market evolves and client expectations continue to grow. To lear…

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A-Players and SOPs: The Foundation of Agency Growth | Alec Winter 48:34

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✅ A-Players and SOPs: The Foundation of Agency Growth | Alec Winter 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 Meet Alec Winter, founder of Creators Collective, who went from living in his mom's basement after a failed VR startup to building a 45-person marketing agency dominating niches like a…

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TEI Podcast #6: Navigating tax-efficient planning in an era of rising taxes with Diana French from Triple Point 15:07

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In this month’s special TEI (Tax-Efficient Investment) special edition of IFA Talk, Matt and Jenny dive into the topic of tax-efficient planning during a time of rising taxes. With taxes on the rise, new rules bringing pensions into the inheritance tax net, and clients increasingly looking to advisers for clarity, the landscape has never been more …

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Joe Bugner, Ann McManus, Angela Mortimer Barrett, Frank Strang 27:52

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John Wilson on Joe Bugner, the heavyweight boxer who fought the titans of the sport from Henry Cooper, Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier. Ann McManus, the writer for Coronation Street who went on to be one of the founders of Shed Productions that created hit drama series such as Bad Girls, Footballer Wives and Waterloo Road. Angela Mortimer Barrett, the…

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The Revenue Flywheel: From Operations to Retention | Italo Leiva 51:47

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✅ The Revenue Flywheel: From Operations to Retention | Italo Leiva 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "Failure isn't failure unless you quit." In this episode, we sit down with Italo, founder of Pedal, who transformed early business disappointments into a revolutionary approach to reven…

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Talking Business #30 Interview with Marc Washbourne from ReadyTech 37:17

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Follow my socials on: twitter.com/leongettler https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin.com/in/leongettler Instagram.com/leongettler Website: leongettler.com Call me on 0411 745 193 or email me at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8, E49 Patrick Ryan on ‘The Good Heart’ of Buckeye 47:19

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Fiction writer and editor Patrick Ryan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his debut novel, Buckeye, which traces two generations of two Midwestern families connected by a secret. Ryan recalls the coincidental conversation that informed his portrayal of one character’s experiences with disability in World War II-era Oh…

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Podcast #138: Rethinking PII with Lee Robertson on BareRock’s mission to reward quality advice 17:53

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Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) might not be the most glamorous of topics but it’s a crucial one for every financial advice firm. In this episode of  IFA Talk, we’re taking a fresh look at it with someone who knows the advice profession inside out. Our guest is Lee Robertson, now Non-Executive Director and Head of Strategic Partnerships at B…

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NI&P Podcast #16: Providing understandable and valued protection advice, with LifeSearch’s Debbie Kennedy & Homeowners Alliance’s Paula Higgins 20:04

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In this month’s special New Insurance & Protection episode of IFA Talk, we shine a light on client protection, something which concerns all of us in the industry. Joining us to discuss this are LifeSearch’s CEO Debbie Kennedy, and Homeowners Alliance’s CEO and Founder Paula Higgins. The two have worked together recently on some fascinating research…

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Beyond Food: Creating Memorable Experiences for Restaurants | Shardul Kiri 25:20

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✅ Beyond Food: Creating Memorable Experiences for Restaurants | Shardul Kiri 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "You can have amazing food and a bad experience, and customers will never return." In this value-packed episode, Shardul Kiri, founder of Cultivate Hospitality, shares the cou…

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David Richardson, Doris Lockhart Saatchi, Dame Annette Brooke, Byron Rogers 27:51

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John Wilson on: Broadcaster David Richardson who was for over 60 years a leading voice in the farming community Doris Lockhart Saatchi, the Art collector who along with her former husband Charles Saatchi transformed the UK art scene in the 80s and 90s Dame Annette Brooke who for 14 years was the Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole By…

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Beyond Business Cards | Dustin Mack 38:31

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✅ Beyond Business Cards | Dustin Mack 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "I've never seen so many 6'4", 250-pound grown men crying on the curb than in door-to-door sales." In this compelling conversation, Dustin Mack reveals how the emotional resilience built through years of sales reje…

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Talking Business #29 Interview with Nicholas Woodward from Pack & Send 36:44

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Follow my socials on: twitter.com/leongettler.com https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin,com/in/leongettler instagram.com/leongettler Website: leongettler.com Call me at 0411 745 193 or email me at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8, Ep. 48 Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books 49:25

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New York Times book critics Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss their recent article, “Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American Road Trip Books Next,” which they co-authored with their fellow critic Dwight Garner, and which includes books published after Kerouac's On the Road. Th…

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Podcast #137: The Real AI Opportunity? Better workplace culture! With Jenny Segal and Annabel Gillard 21:35

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This week on IFA Talk, we’re flipping the script on one of the biggest topics in financial services – AI. But rather than talking about how it can help you churn through work faster, we’re asking something a bit deeper: what if the real power of AI is actually about creating better workplaces? Joining us for this thought-provoking episode are two b…

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S8 Ep. 47: Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories 51:43

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Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be published in three decades. Boggs recalls how finding Baldwin’s only children’s book in a Yale library as a college student led him to track down the volume’…

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Beyond Vanity Metrics: The Path to Social Media Success | Scott Eddy 35:42

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✅ Beyond Vanity Metrics: The Path to Social Media Success | Scott Eddy 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "People take time out of their day to comment on how beautiful your swimming pool is, how delicious that meal looks—and you don't have the audacity to say thank you? Weren't you tau…

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Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter 27:37

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John Wilson on: Actor Terence Stamp, the Oscar nominated 60s screen icon who went onto play many villains in his later film career Baroness Stephanie Shirley, the pioneering computer scientist and founder of her own software company Kay Dunbar who founded the Ways with Words literary festival which ran in Devon for 30 years Eric Midwinter was one o…

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Why This Marketing Agency Thinks Like Scientists, Not Salespeople | Nathaniel White Joyal 43:53

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✅ Why This Marketing Agency Thinks Like Scientists, Not Salespeople | Nathaniel White-Joyal 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "Our specialty is in failing the least, but it's still a lot of failure. To run good tests, you have to have failures." In this test-driven conversation, Nathan…

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Talking Business #28 Interview with Matt Masson from CT Partners 38:29

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Follow my socials on: twitter,com/leongettler https://wwww.facebook,com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin.com/in/leongettler instagram.com/leongettler Website: leongettler.com Call me at 0411 745 193 or email me [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Podcast #136: Succession planning for business owners under the new IHT rules, with Bishop Fleming's Peter Ball 19:52

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In this week's episode of IFA Talk, we dive into the world of taxes, following changes to IHT rules. Recent changes and potential further tightening of the IHT rules mean that some families could face a shockingly high combined tax burden on a business owner’s estate. When you factor in Corporation Tax, Dividend Tax and IHT, in some cases the overa…

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Five Pillars of Recurring Revenue | Jonathan Mentor 42:31

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✅ Five Pillars ofRecurring Revenue | Jonathan Mentor 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "If you haven't gone through that three, four, five-month period where you're thinking 'How am I gonna eat?' you're not ready. That's where you get all your stripes." In this electrifying conversatio…

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Jim Lovell, Biddy Baxter, Razia Jan, Iris Williams 27:53

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Matthew Bannister on Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. Biddy Baxter, the editor who left an indelible stamp on the children’s TV show Blue Peter. Sarah Greene pays tribute. Razia Jan, the Afghan/American who founded a school for girls in Afghanistan after 9/11. Iris Williams, the Welsh born singer whose career…

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Talking Business #27 Interview with Bob Huber from Tenable 38:33

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Follow my socials on: twitter.com/leongettler https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcast linkedin.com/in/leongettler instagram.com/leongettler Website: leongettler.com Call me at 0411 745 193 or email me at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S8 Ep. 46: Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots 44:41

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Journalist Will Bardenwerper joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America, which explores the consequences of Major League Baseball cutting 40 affiliated minor league teams, each one only as expensive as an average Major League salary. He explain…

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Bridging Marketing & Sales for B2B Jacqueline Basulto 34:31

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✅ Bridging Marketing & Sales for B2B | Jacqueline Basulto 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 “In B2B, it's almost always that there's a disconnect between the marketing team and the sales team. Most of the time, they've never even met." In this practical conversation, Jacqueline Basulto…

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Podcast #135: Making the most of your first client meeting with Melissa Kidd, Director, Speaker and Soft Skills Specialist 17:14

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In this week’s episode of IFA Talk, we’re shining a spotlight on one of the most important and often overlooked parts of the advice process: the first client meeting. Joining Jenny and Sue for the chat is the fantastic Melissa Kidd, Director, Speaker and Soft Skills expert, who’s on a mission to help advisers make the most of that all-important fir…

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Why 'What's Old is New Again' in Tech Marketing Courtney Kehl 20:47

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✅ Why 'What's Old is New Again' in Tech Marketing | Courtney Kehl 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 In an era of diminishing attention spans and increasing technological complexity, successful B2B tech companies are returning to something surprisingly traditional—emotional connection w…

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Dame Stella Rimington, Sylvia Young, Sir Jamie McGrigor, Joan Anderson 27:51

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Matthew Bannister on Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to be Director General of MI5, who made the service more open and accountable. Sylvia Young, whose drama school turned out countless stars of stage, screen and music. Sir Jamie McGrigor, the Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands, who introduced a bill…

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Award-Winning Social Media Success: Jake Hay of PopShorts 36:16

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✅ Award-Winning Social Media Success: Jake Hay of PopShorts 👇👇@kaizenmarketing8420 🙏🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscribe, & Share 🧡 💠 "We see an average of 60% efficiency in our paid media spends when using influencer content." In this data-driven conversation, Jake Hay of PopShorts reveals how the most successful influencer…