40 Minute Mentor
By JBM, James Mitra
Your pocket sized career mentor.
40 Minute Mentor is on a mission to raise aspirations and inspire the next generation of category-defining Founders, through powerful career stories and inspirational mentorship.
From purpose-led Founders to Olympic champions; learn first-hand from today’s successful leaders on what it takes to be brilliant, all in just 40 minutes.
40 Minute Mentor is one of the UK’s top Business and Careers podcasts and can be found on all popular podcast platforms, including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.
40 Minute Mentor is on a mission to raise aspirations and inspire the next generation of category-defining Founders, through powerful career stories and inspirational mentorship.
From purpose-led Founders to Olympic champions; learn first-hand from today’s successful leaders on what it takes to be brilliant, all in just 40 minutes.
40 Minute Mentor is one of the UK’s top Business and Careers podcasts and can be found on all popular podcast platforms, including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.
Latest episode
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Replay: Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill - From Multi-Gold Medallist to FemTech Founder
“The importance of the team around you, having focus and discipline and the awareness of facing setbacks… it’s been great to bring the things I’ve learned from sport into the business world.” -
Replay: Mo Gawdat - Turning heartbreak into purpose and cultivating happiness in your career
“I was most unhappy at work when I was making the most money and the biggest amount of success.” -
Replay: Tessa Clarke - Sharing more and wasting less with Olio
“Globally, a third of all the food we produce each year gets thrown away. Meanwhile, 800 million people go to bed hungry, who could be fed with a quarter of the food we waste in the Western world.” -
Replay: Sir Clive Woodward - Coaching Champions from the Rugby World Cup to the Boardroom
“People often say to me, sport is different from business, it's not. Business is about delivering results through people.” -
An end of series message from JBM Founder and 40 Minute Mentor Host, James Mitra
“The reason we’re here today and growing faster than ever, is all because of you, so thank you so much for tuning in.” -
From selling scrunchies at school to exiting multiple Startups, with Debbie Wosskow OBE, Co-Founder of AllBright & The Better Menopause
“Every business that I’ve founded has been on the brink of disaster, and one of the big lessons is that the business you started is never the business you end up with.” -
From building a smarter way to find parking to personalised offices made simple, with Steve Coulson, Co-Founder & CEO of Kitt
“Paying people well and giving them lunches when they come to the office can be really good… but the best people are motivated by their growth and development.” -
Building the NASA of the Ocean in Stealth with Steve Etherton, President EMEA of DEEP
“We live on an ocean planet, and we have this strange relationship where we assume it’s all been discovered, but it actually hasn’t…” -
Breaking down barriers & building a sustainable fashion label, with Samuel Tholley of Hidden Pages and Rosette Ale, Founder of Revival
“I want to create my own space. I don't want to have to fit into someone else's whitewashed marketing… I want to create fashion that shows people like me.” -
The Rollercoaster Ride to Scaling a Unicorn, with Nicolas Brusson, Co-Founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar
“You’ll make mistakes but that doesn’t matter - it’s all about speed and growth, but at some point you’ll have to go and clean up the room.”
