In this episode of The Independent Minds Michael Millward meets Stuart Davis, joint founder of the comfortable and super sustainable children’s shoe brand Dubs Universe.

During lockdown Stuart became a stay-at-home Dad to his young daughter. He was struck by how rapidly she was growing both mentally and physically. Like every parent he also saw how quickly she grew out of clothes and shoes.

Stuart explains to Michael the steep learning curve he faced when he was inspired to create a new children’s shoe company. Everything from manufacturing techniques to biology!

Now Dubs Universe is operating successfully, so Stuart explains his plans for the future and the level of investment that will be required to achieve his goal.

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Have you got a will?

If you haven't you could be creating work for people like Ryan Gregory.

Ryan is the International Director at Finders International who are probate researchers. He spends his time at work tracing heirs to estates, property and assets.

His job made him a star of twelve series of the BBC TV programme Heir Hunters.

In this episode of The Independent Minds Ryan explains what it is like doing your profession when your office has become a TV studio.

How Ryan and his team had to adapt the way in which they worked to meet the requirements of daytime TV.

Ryan and Michael do agree that appearing on a hit daytime TV show like Heir Hunters which is shown on a prominent channel like BBC1 does raise the profile of a business.

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Next time you are involved in a buying process you might experience a different selling approach from the salesperson.

How that new approach will look is explained in SELLING IS SERVING: which author Nick Staab describes as a Master The Art Of Selling Ethically With Confidence And Conviction.

In this first episode of The Independent Minds with two guests, Nick explains to Michael Millward what serving means in the context of selling. They explore how the ethics that customers expect sales people to adhere to are changing and what this means for sales people.

Michael also talks to Suzanne Jenkins a graduate of Nick’s Elite Sales Academy training programme.

Suzanne describes the challenges of being a solo-entrepreneur life coach and her dread of having to sell to clients were overcome by what she learnt from attending the Elite Sales Academy.

Suzanne was so inspired that she joined the Elite Sales Academy coaching team, and contributed to the book

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Find out more about both Michael Millward, Nick Staab, Suzanne Jenkins and the Elite Sales Academy at Abeceder.co.uk

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