In this episode of Glasgow Business Gameplan, host Stephen O'Donnell sits down with Andy, the visionary behind Athlete Focused. Andy shares his journey from a background in sports science to building a successful business. He emphasizes the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people and the power of team-driven growth. Andy discusses …

In this episode of Glasgow Business Gameplan, hosted by Stephen O'Donnell, we sit down with James Rooney, owner of AC Roofing & Cladding and a professional golfer. James shares invaluable insights into running a successful construction business, focusing on cash flow management, communication, and the importance of balancing growth. He also discuss…

In this episode of Glasgow Business Gameplan, host Simon O'Donnell interviews Simon Hannah, Managing Director of JW Filshill, a leading wholesale business in Scotland. Simon shares invaluable insights on how aligning company culture with business strategy drives success and empowers employees. He reflects on his leadership journey, emphasizing the …

Andrew Dobbie advises entrepreneurs to embrace authenticity and transparency in their business practices. He emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself and one's values, which in turn helps build trust and loyalty among clients and employees. This episode provides valuable insights into the challenges and strategies of running a successful …

Gavin Mochan emphasises the importance of focusing your efforts in a startup. He highlights the challenge of balancing various aspects of the business, from market research to fundraising, and adapting to new responsibilities outside his previous expertise. Gavin's intrinsic motivation, driven by personal experiences, including the loss of his moth…

In this episode of "Glasgow Business Gameplan," Stephen O'Donnell interviews Poonam Gupta (OBE), the influential leader behind PG Paper. Poonam shares her invaluable advice: have a purpose and don't dwell on the negatives. She highlights her key learning on the importance of building relationships that will grow your business and emphasizes resilie…

Join Stephen O'Donnell in this episode of "Glasgow Business Gameplan" as he sits down with Alan Anderson, the leader of TSF Finance. Dive deep into Alan's journey and discover why managing cashflow is the cornerstone of any successful business. Alan shares his candid insights on the importance of cultivating the right culture and the persistent cha…

In this episode of "Glasgow Business Gameplan," Stephen O'Donnell interviews David MacNeil, the visionary leader of CastleBay Investments. David emphasises the importance of having a growth mindset and shares his key learning: having a clear purpose for the business. He also discusses the common challenge of underestimating the time and cashflow re…

In this episode of "Glasgow Business Gameplan," Stephen O'Donnell interviews Ev Foster from Keller Williams. Ev discusses the challenge of helping people understand that there's a different way to do things and shares the crucial insight that there indeed is a different way to approach business. Throughout the conversation, Ev emphasises the import…

In this episode of "Glasgow Business Gameplan," host Stephen O'Donnell interviews Alan McKee from MCM Solicitors. Alan shares his essential advice: always have a plan! He discusses the challenges of growing a team and transitioning to people management, emphasising the importance of having a great team around you and not going it alone. Alan also h…

In this episode of "Glasgow Business Gameplan," Stephen O'Donnell interviews Fiona Jackson, the inspiring force behind SalonWise. Fiona emphasizes the importance of keeping your standards high and shares her experience with the challenge of managing time when starting a business. Learn about her biggest insight: the necessity of having different re…

Chet Sandhu is a former international drug smuggler, author, renowned podcast guest and founder of Alpha CBD+ In November 1999 he was arrested at gunpoint in Alicante Airport and subsequently charged with smuggling the largest haul of black market steroids in Spanish history, valued at more than half a million dollars. Sentenced to four and a half …

Dr David Hamilton is a bestselling author, international speaker, award winning columnist and educator. With a PhD in organic chemistry and background in the pharmaceutical industry, he became inspired by the placebo effect and left to write books and teach people how to harness their mind and emotions to improve their health. He’s since written 10…

James W. Jesso is a Canadian-born author, public speaker, educator, storyteller, podcast host and psychonaut. His work is inspired by his healing path through depression, substance abuse, and trauma, and focuses on translating the profound insights of the psychedelic experience into a higher quality of life, for both the individual and society. Sin…

Konstantin Kisin is multi-award winning comedian, podcaster, writer and social commentator. He made international headlines in 2018 by refusing to sign a “behavioural agreement form” for a London university gig which prohibited jokes about religion, transphobia, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism as well as seven other 'isms' and insisted that all h…

Andrew Dobbie is the Founder and Managing Director of MadeBrave; a multi award-winning brand led creative agency based in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, that makes brands bigger, bolder and stronger. Launched in 2012, he left his previous job with a two week old baby and just £1,000 of personal savings in the bank. Fast-forward to the present day a…

Peter Hitchens is a award winning journalist, author, broadcaster and renowned conservative polemicist. Having spent in excess of 40 years in Fleet Street, he has been a specialist reporter on education, labour and industry, politics, defence and diplomacy, as well as a resident correspondent in Moscow and Washington. After being shortlisted in 200…

Lisa Williams is a world renowned psychic medium, author, speaker, healer, and spiritual teacher. As a child, she began to realise that she had an ability to “see” things that others couldn't. This would become her gift. In 2004 she was discovered by American television host, media mogul, and creator of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, Merv Griffin. …

Alan O’Mahony is a renowned personal trainer, fitness and fat loss expert, former professional muay thai fighter and podcaster. He specialises in helping busy men over 30 get in shape and rediscover the joy in training. He’s made a name for himself as one of the premier trainers in the UK, recognising early in his career that the real needs of his …

Stephen Jenkinson is a Harvard educated theologian, culture activist, educator, and creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School. For years he headed the counselling team of Canada’s largest home-based palliative care programme and he was assistant professor at a prominent medical school. Working with hundreds of dying people and th…

Bob Keiller CBE is one of the most highly regarded and well respected figures in Scottish and British Business. He is the former Chief Executive of Wood Group, a multinational energy services company which generates in excess of $10 billion in revenue, employs more than 55 thousand people and operates in over 60 countries. In December 2015 he assum…

Gavin Oattes is an International Keynote Speaker, two time Bestselling author, and the Owner and Managing Director of Tree of Knowledge, one of the UK's most exciting people development organisations whose vision is to inspire the world. His book 'Shine' recently turned one, and it is the 12th biggest selling personal development book of the last 1…

In this episode Sandra discusses being a woman in the IT field, what we need to do to create more women in technology leadership, and how we can work to ensure all of our students have the opportunities and exposure to technology that will allow them to some day change the world.By Brian Costello

Sandra discusses her start in education, her pioneering experiences with education technology while working in the US Virgin Islands, and her passion for providing students with an opportunity to shape the world of tomorrow through experiencing technology today.By Brian Costello

Shaun Attwood is a speaker, best-selling true crime author, podcaster, YouTuber, educator and activist. After becoming a stock-market millionaire in the 1990's he moved to the US State of Arizona, where he became deeply involved in the bubbling rave scene, and went on to mastermind an international drug smuggling operation, importing and distributi…

Daniel Euan Henderson is one of Scotland’s leading content creators and social media influencers with a pan-platform following of more than 2 million subscribers. His speciality is positive, amusing and inspiring short form female friendly viral video content, covering everything from depression and anxiety to female periods, with the goal of empow…

In Part 2 we continue Katherine's Journey toward becoming an administrator, her incredible ability to build communities, connect, and also find love through the many incredible things she's done through Social Media.By Brian Costello

Katherine talks about her early beginnings in education and the challenges of teaching in a classroom and a community where she was one of the only people who didn't speak Spanish. In Part 1 she talks about the classroom experiences that shaped her future career.By Brian Costello

Josh Littlejohn MBE is a speaker, philanthropist, and one of the UK’s leading social entrepreneurs, having raised over £7 million for charity and significantly impacted the issue of homelessness in Scotland. In 2011 he set up The Scottish Business Awards, the largest awards dinner of its kind in the whole of the UK with past keynote speakers such a…

Andrew Dobbie and I talk about the development of his problem solving nature from his earliest moments of realizing he wanted to be a teacher, to his incredible project that has been changing technology usage for schools and empowering students for the past few years. Learn from his wisdom andBy Brian Costello

In this conversation was talk about reading, the quirks of middle schoolers, and the difficulty of being a parent and the real guilt we feel as educators. Lauren talks about her experiences as a mom, teacher, and parent of a young special needs student. This episode is filled with amazing advice, laughter, and heart felt stories.…

In The Edumatch Story, Dr. Sarah Thomas, the founder of Edumatch talks about building the community from idea to one of the largest international grass roots movements for educators and one of the best places to connect and grow.By Brian Costello

Jimmy Naraine is an online entrepreneur, international speaker, bestselling course creator and adventurer. He has more than 105,000 students from 194 countries enrolled in his courses on online learning platform Udemy, where he specialises in areas such as confidence, social skills, wealth creation and productivity. His straight talking approach an…

During Brent's Journey we discuss transitions, creating meaningful shifts in culture, the power of names and the power of sharing our stories. Brent has just released his own book Stories of EduInfluence and has a great podcast, Teaching Tales.By Brian Costello

Peter Sage is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, bestselling author, philosopher and teacher. Having cultivated a large global following, he has become one of the world's most sought after experts in human behaviour and his insights are renowned for causing profound and lasting shifts that have allowed tens of thousands of people to live…

A great conversation with educator, speaker, and future author Micah Shippee. Micah shares his journey and we talk about how to recover from disappointments in your career.By Brian Costello

Tommy Sheridan is a proud father, proud socialist and a former member of Scottish Parliament. He was a leading figure in negotiations to establish the Scottish Socialist Alliance in 1996, which then evolved into the Scottish Socialist Party in 1998. He became the convenor of the party in the same year and was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1…

Sam Conley is a body transformation specialist and one of Ireland’s most sought after fitness coaches. He boasts one of the longest lists of client success stories because he understand the challenge more than most having gone from a 21 stone compulsive over eater, to a 14 stone competitive bodybuilder, winning Mr Body Transformation Ireland and Eu…

This brief edition of the Teacher's Journey Podcast is a self reflection on my year in 2018, things I am excited to focus on in 2019, and my One Word: JoyBy Brian Costello

In this episode Dr. Will Deyamport shares his full circle journey from film maker, through education and into becoming a documentary film maker. Through all this we discuss the idea of the Eduprenuer, someone who can both make an impact and an income through education.By Brian Costello

Jason Auld is a two-time record breaking extreme unicyclist and a founding member of Team Voodoo, one of the world’s first extreme unicycling display teams. The team began in 2008 to promote the esoteric sport to the masses, and to make a sustainable living out of a passion for street unicycling and self expression through urban athleticism. He's p…

Rachelle shares her passion for challenging herself, learning new things, and interesting perspectives from law school to becoming an author.By Brian Costello

Professor Harald Haas is Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh, and is the initiator, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi Limited, as well as the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Center. In his 2011 TED Global talk “Wireless Data from Every Light Bulb”, he first introduced and coined the term ‘Li…

Allyson shares her stories that build to her incredible journey toward the Path to Serendipity. You can find out more about Allyson at www.allysonapsey.comBy Brian Costello

Listen to John Wick (Dr. Wick Ed.) share his story that takes us from managing a movie theater, to building and creating a brand new school as principal. John's story takes him from the classroom to an EdTech company creating learning games that respond to user's brain waves, and back to the classroom again. This podcast ran a bit long, but John sh…

James English is a podcaster, documentary maker, comedian, model and former star of Glasgow based reality TV show Glow. His ‘Anything Goes Podcast’ features the hard hitting real-life stories of Sports People, Comedians, Actors, Criminals, Porn Stars, and Politicians as he explores topics from murder, depression and suicide, to sex, love, and comed…

In this podcast we talk to Grove City College professor Dr. Sam Fecich about her experiences in transitioning to higher education as a teacher of teachers. She also talks about her inspiration to write her new book Edumagic!By Brian Costello

Garry Fraser is a BAFTA award winning film director, writer, producer, rapper, social entrepreneur and the founder of Wideo Media, an independent digital media social enterprise that uses creativity as a way to engage with the most hard to reach in society. Renowned for his gritty, real life, urban documentaries, he caught the attention of industry…

Jo Caulfield is a multi award winning stand-up comedian, comedy writer, host, actress, and crime fighter. Best-known for her legendary one-woman shows, she is “one of the finest female comics at work”, and has worked on some of the biggest shows, and with some of the biggest names, in British comedy. She’s been a regular guest on Mock The Week and …

Sara Sheridan is a bestselling writer and author most famous for the Mirabelle Bevan series, cosy crime noir mysteries set in 1950s Brighton, as well as a series of historical novels based on the real-life stories of late Georgian and early Victorian explorers. Her first book, Truth or Dare, featured in the Sunday Times Top 50, was nominated for th…