• Building Resilience on the Entrepreneurship Journey

    Building resilience and flexibility for strong sustainable social enterprises. Creating a business that supports founders rather than drains them and making change even in the midst of crisis.  Grace Quantock’s talk on Building Resilience: Social Enterprise Series sold out. Being aware of her international base, the limited number of tickets at Hay and the accessibility needs of many supporters, Grace has created this online event on Resilience in Business to make the building of resilience accessible to all. Online lecture recording, Hay Festival Speech Video Excerpt, Your Entrepreneurship Journey PDF of exercises and resources by Grace Quantock of Your Entrepreneurship Journey Document. Loading…

  • Living With Disability and Starting A Business: It Can Be Done!

    I live with disability. I receive government benefits. I work and own two companies. I am not the stereotypical face of “Benefits Britain” * but I am a part of its reality. My business is my story. Those who have been following me for a while have seen the beautiful growth of the Trail Blazing Wellness movement. From struggling to live to actually being able to – and then allowed! – to work (my first business email was titled, “I’m Legal, Celebrate With Me”) and finally, managing my professional business load with a fluctuating condition. It has been a long, arduous, yet wonderful journey, one that is still new and different every single day. (Click to…

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    Business Rocket Fuel – My Experience with Web Fuelled Business Boot Camp.

    Honestly? I signed up for the Web Fuelled Business Boot Camp because my grant advisor told me to. And then my business advisor told me to. And they were very very right. They are of course, terribly clever and have been doing this a lot longer than me. So I listened and Linus (my husband, for new readers) and Bertie (the dog) and Cassie (newbiepreneur in start up, kindly PA-ing for me) all got dressed up and had a road trip to Bristol. No, I didn’t make Cassie hammer holes in the business cards on the drive down, Linus did it last night. Although they are accessorised with ribbon and…