Beyond The Balance Sheet

This week on Beyond The Balance Sheet by Raffingers, Host, Ashlee Bloom talks to John Maffioli, Founder of CLIC.co.uk & febe.co.uk, an online magazine which celebrates incredible business leaders to inspire people to drive change and achieve success. John started his journey as an accountant and became one of the youngest people ever to be internally promoted to the role of Director in a Big Four firm, due to his unique ability to win new revenue from brand new relationships. In this episode, John shares tangible tips that he has learnt from years of interviewing successful entrepreneurs on how to get your business to the next level, and talks candidly about the pitfalls he fell into on his own journey, and how that inspired him to launch his business. Selected Links From This Episode: Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ Connect with John - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-maffioli-04abaa66/ Connect with Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/ CLIC - https://www.clic.co.uk/ FEBE - https://febe.co.uk/ Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm. Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

Ashlee and Lee talk about the previous episode where Ashlee is joined by Nick Entwistle, Founder & Creative Director of the Bank of Creativity & One Minute Briefs. Nick built his business off the back of a side project at university, and now he has a reach of over a billion with brands utilising the OMB community for creative inspiration. Ashlee and Lee discuss the key learnings from the episode including the importance of community, and how to build an authentic tone of voice for a brand online.

Host, Ashlee Bloom is joined this week by Nick Entwistle, Founder & Creative Director of creative agency - the Bank of Creativity, and the founder of One Minute Briefs, the community of creatives that promotes brands and causes via social media by responding with instinctive ideas to daily advertising briefs. If you aren't one of Nicks 50,000+ followers on social media, then you might know him from one of his events, educational workshops with D&AD and the V&A or through delivering talks at agencies, universities and the likes of BBC, Glug and Pecha Kucha. In this episode, Nick talks to Ashlee about how to build a loyal online & offline community that people want to be part of, and talks through some of the amazing campaigns that him and his community have been involved in, such as directing the music video and social campaign that led to the NHS beating Justin Bieber to Christmas Number 1. Nick also shares his tips on how businesses can better utilise the world of social media, and talks through how he managed to develop his 'just for fun' hobby into a full-time business. Selected Links From This Episode: Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ Connect with Nick - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickentwistle/ Connect with Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/ One Minute Briefs Twitter- https://twitter.com/OneMinuteBriefs One Minute Briefs Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/OneMinuteBriefs/ One Minute Briefs LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oneminutebriefs/ Bank of Creativity - https://www.bankofcreativity.co.uk/ Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm. Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

A healthy work life balance is more important to founders and employees now than ever before. In this footnote episode Ashlee Bloom and Lee Manning talk about Ashlee's conversation with Hugh Thomas, CEO and Co-Founder of Ugly Drinks. In Hugh's episode he talks about managing your time wisely as a founder, and how it feels to take the jump from employee to business owner. In this footnote, Lee shares his tips on how he has managed to balance his work life and home life since becoming a Partner at Raffingers.

In this episode of Beyond The Balance Sheet by Raffingers, Host, Ashlee Bloom is joined by Hugh Thomas, CEO and Co-Founder of global brand - Ugly Drinks. Alongside his co-founder, Hugh set out to create a drinks product that had authenticity at the heart, and since launching the Ugly Drinks brand in 2016, the 100% natural fruit flavoured sparkling waters have landed shelf space in some of the worlds largest retailers. Hugh believes consumers deserve better from businesses, and in this episode talks to Ashlee about his mission to tackle the ugly truths in the world, including the brands fight against global gender inequality and they discuss how important it is for companies to have a purpose and a cause. Hugh also talks through his journey from employee to CEO, and shares advice on how to manage the mental load of being a founder. Selected Links From This Episode: Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers Connect with Hugh - https://www.linkedin.com/in/uglyhugh/Connect with Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/ Ugly Drinks- https://uglydrinks.com/Ugly Drinks Twitter- https://twitter.com/uglydrinksGirl Up- https://girlup.org/Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm.Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

In this week's footnote episode, Ashlee and Lee catch up on Ashlee's conversation with Matt Porter, Chief Executive at Professional Darts Corporation and Director at Matchroom Sport. Similarly to Matt's experience, Lee became Partner at Raffingers at a young age and discusses what it takes to be a good manager and a good leader. Ashlee and Lee also talk about how Matt changed the perception of the darts industry, and how hard it is to take a stagnant industry and move it forward.

How do you go from being the 'Media Guy' to Chief Executive with no prior experience? In this episode of Beyond The Balance Sheet by Raffingers, Host, Ashlee Bloom is joined by Matt Porter, Chief Executive at Professional Darts Corporation, Director at Matchroom Sport and former CEO of Leyton Orient F.C. Matt was a young Chief Executive, and talks to Ashlee about what he learnt from being in a leadership role from such a young age, the importance of having a great mentor, and how important it is to get your team on side as a manager. Matt also talks to Ashlee about how live sport was adapted when the pandemic hit, and the approach that has taken darts out of the pub, promoted it an entirely new way and pushed it onto the world stage. Selected Links From This Episode: Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers Connect with Matt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-porter-841a743b/Connect with Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/ Professional Darts Corporation - https://www.pdc.tv/Matchroom Sport- https://matchroom.com/Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm.Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

In this week's footnote episode Ashlee and Lee talk about Ashlee's conversation with Stefanie Sword-Williams, Founder, Author and Speaker at F*ck Being Humble. They discuss the importance of self promotion and why business owners and professionals need to change their mindset towards it. Lee also talks about why we need more women in leadership and how that change starts at home.