Leila and Liz Willingham, hosts of the It Runs In The Family podcast A PODCAST hosted by a mother and daughter team and focusing on family businesses has reached listeners in 21 countries. It Runs In The Family, launched six months ago has reached number 17 among family business podcasts and 77 in the top entrepreneurship podcasts for Britain. It is hosted by Liz Willingham, founder and managing director of Liz Lean PR in Poole, and her daughter Leila, who is business and PR account manager at the agency. Guests have included chef, restaurateur and television presenter Marco Pierre White and his son Luciano; Warren Haskins, chairman of 100-year-old Haskins Garden Centres; Jill Stein and her son Jack of the Rick Stein business empire; and father and son Paul and Will Hendy of the Hendy Group of car dealerships.
Dorset Chamber has launched an initiative to offer respectful and confidential support from peers. The scheme, Got Your 6 – shortened to GU6 – is named after a term used by World War II fighter pilots, who protected the “backs” of fellow pilots in the vulnerable rear “six o’clock” position. Several chamber board directors, ambassadors and members, as well as chief executive Ian Girling, have qualified as mental health first aiders thanks to Ouch Training and are ready to become GU6 “champions”. The initiative is being supported by law firm Lester Aldridge. GU6 was developed by past president and board member Liz Willingham, who feels business leaders are often forgotten in conversations about mental health.
Jonny Frostick s post. Picture: LinkedIn The experience was familiar for Paul Tansey, managing director of Ferndown-based marketing agency Intergage. Around 15 years ago, at the age of 41, he was working 16-hour days, with the weight of the business on his shoulders as he combined the roles of managing director and sales director. More than once, he was still working when the morning birdsong started.
Paul Tansey of Intergage A routine medical check for the company’s insurer changed all that. After measuring his blood pressure, the nurse said there must be something wrong with the machine and got out another one.
Caron Khan, president of Dorset Chamber THE new president of Dorset Chamber has saluted the county’s “bold and brave businesses” at a historic annual general meeting. Caron Khan took the chain of office when the chamber held its AGM virtually for the first time, with nearly 70 members present via Zoom. The new president, a communications specialist who runs the Caron Khan Consultancy in Bournemouth, said: “The chamber’s place in the Dorset business community is more important than ever and its reputation has never been stronger. “There will be further challenges for businesses but there is now a glimmer of light at the end of a very dark tunnel as the Covid lockdown eases and vaccination programme rolls out.
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