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The Midlife Entrepreneur

Jo Glynn-Smith

Business & Entrepreneuriat

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/13j. Total Éps: 59

The Midlife Entrepreneur is the podcast for women who are building businesses later in life. Hosted by Jo Glynn-Smith, career transitions expert, coach and entrepreneur, who works with founders every day, each week Jo sits down with a different business owner to unpack the real stories, turning points and hard-won lessons behind their ventures.

The show also features the 15 Minute Masterclass, where seasoned experts share practical advice designed to help entrepreneurs at every stage. Honest, inspiring and genuinely useful, this is the show that proves it is never too late to back yourself.

Top 15% of podcasts globally and charting on Apple's Entrepreneurship category. New episodes every Tuesday.

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EP58: 15 Minute Masterclass: 3 Ways to Turn One Area of Expertise into Multiple Income Streams with Abbie Bennington, Wine Expert & Founder of Vintage People.

mardi 20 octobre 2026 • Durée 15:47

This week Jo speaks with Abbie Bennington, a wine journalist, broadcaster, educator, and founder of Vintage People, about three ways to turn one area of expertise into multiple income streams. Abbie’s first advice is to hone in on what you’re genuinely good at and enjoy, sharing how she left BBC television news, retrained at Leiths, and discovered she excelled in wine exams. Second, she stresses building credibility over time through formal qualifications, including completing the WSET Diploma and training as a WSET certified educator, which strengthened her confidence and authority. Third, she recommends creating something you own, describing how she combined her wine expertise with her political journalism background to launch Vintage Politics, a non-combative podcast pairing conversations with “wines of their life,” and using it as the basis for growing a wider community and ecosystem.

00:00 Welcome to Masterclass

00:37 Finding Your Expertise

02:40 Career Leap of Faith

04:07 Credentials Build Trust

07:39 Own Your Platform

09:00 Vintage Politics Origin

12:20 Ecosystem Expansion Vision

13:19 Wine as Storytelling

14:55 Final Recap and Farewell

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Edited and produced by Jo Glynn-Smith 2025.
Recorded at Eight Works Podcast Studios, 1 Dysart Street, London, EC2A 2BX
For bookings: eightworks@eightclub.co.uk

Jo Glynn-Smith is an entrepreneur, professional coach, writer, and speaker from London, she is an expert in career transformation and change.

Instagram @jojoglynnsmith and @themidlifeentrepreneur

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EP57: Katherine Swift, Founder of OMGTea, one of the first people to bring premium Japanese matcha into the UK market.

mardi 13 octobre 2026 • Durée 40:34

Jo Glynn-Smith interviews Katherine Swift, founder of OMG Tea, an early importer of premium Japanese matcha to the UK. Katherine’s entrepreneurial drive began in Manchester watching her mother run a seamstress business, later working in events and at Breast Cancer Now on a multimillion-pound appeal, where she met Professor Michael Lisanti and discovered matcha’s potential. She launched OMG Tea from her Brighton kitchen table in 2014 and it has since become a leading UK premium matcha brand, certified B Corp and Soil Association organic, with Great Taste recognition and major stockists including Selfridges, Whole Foods, Holland & Barrett and Ocado. Katherine recounts a demanding 2018 Dragons’ Den experience, the emotional aftermath, and lessons in resilience and financial due diligence. She explains matcha production, quality consistency, and why premium matcha should be drunk straight, and discusses education, sustainability, logistics, subscriptions, and growth, including AIYA’s 2023 investment after a long-term partnership.

00:00 Show Welcome

00:30 Meet Katherine Swift

02:13 Dragon's Den Invite

03:39 Behind the Scenes Filming

05:30 In the Den Pressure

08:11 No Deal Fallout

12:52 Lessons and Resilience

14:41 Finding AIYA Partner

16:28 Matcha Explained

18:19 How to Drink Matcha

20:26 Matcha in Food Trends

22:01 Retail Growth and Stockists

22:40 Breaking Into Retail

23:06 Instagram Matcha Boom

24:44 Staying True Amid Competition

26:09 Premium Positioning Values

28:02 Dreaming of a Matcha Shop

29:00 Warehousing Logistics Stress

EP56: 15 Minute Masterclass: 3 Ways to Build a Business People Talk About with Olivia Falcon, Founder of The Editor's List, the UK's leading cosmetic concierge service.

mardi 6 octobre 2026 • Durée 15:34

Jo interviews Olivia Falcon, beauty journalist and founder of The Editors’ List, a UK cosmetic concierge service that advises clients on trusted surgeons, doctors, and wellness practitioners. Olivia shares three ways to build a talked-about business: create experiences rather than transactions (including an annual London event offering mini treatments and face-to-face expert consults, grown from small garden gatherings over 10 years); don’t try to appeal to everyone, develop a clear point of view, say no often, and build trust through a focused niche; and give people stories they’ll tell their friends, prioritizing word of mouth and quality over quantity in a luxury, fee-for-time model with no kickbacks. She warns about wasting money on questionable growth services, discusses careful, responsible AI use with sensitive client data, notes recent growth driven by mainstreaming of cosmetic procedures, and emphasises avoiding burnout by taking breaks and asking for help.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

00:34 Advice One Create Experiences

02:30 Start Small Stay Patient

03:57 Advice Two Niche and Trust

06:45 Advice Three Word of Mouth

07:44 Luxury Model No Kickbacks

08:57 Trusted Guidance and AI

10:49 Recap Three Key Lessons

12:50 Turning Point and Growth

14:28 Burnout Kindness and Outro

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Edited and produced by Jo Glynn-Smith 2025.
Recorded at Eight Works Podcast Studios, 1 Dysart Street, London, EC2A 2BXFor bookings: Jo Glynn-Smith is an entrepreneur, professional coach, writer, and speaker from London, she is an expert in career transformation and change. Instagram and @themidlifeentrepreneur

EP55: Marielle Wyse, Founder of Wyse London, the contemporary womenswear brand known for joyful, luxury, wardrobe essentials.

mardi 29 septembre 2026 • Durée 41:04

This week Jo Glynn-Smith interviews Marielle Wyse, founder of Wyse London, launched in 2014 from five cashmere jumpers after a TV production career and a separation at 49 prompted her to rethink finances. With no formal training and a small loan from her father, she took her designs to a factory, sold £15,000 of stock at a June trade fair, repeated it in November, and saw sales grow from 15 to 75, later building a business now with six UK stores, 170,000 Instagram followers, and over £18 million turnover with no outside investment. Wyse says COVID drove major growth by dropping wholesale, selling direct via honest Instagram content, and navigating chaotic stock demands, growing fivefold from about £2M to £10M. She describes post-COVID pressures, losing money after hiring “experts,” opening her first store in Marylebone, focusing on customer experience for midlife women, prioritizing fitness, adding a CEO for structure, and shifting from pre-orders to holding more stock while emphasising kindness and team development.

00:00 Welcome and Subscribe

00:30 Meet Marielle Wyse

01:54 From Mum to Founder

05:42 Leading Left Field

08:18 COVID Growth Surge

10:20 Chaos and Customer Connection

15:35 After the Boom Lessons

17:41 Opening Physical Stores

21:05 Design Structure and Teams

22:04 What She Loves Now

23:04 Just Do It Mindset

23:25 Founder Leadership Challenges

26:21 Building Trust and Safety

27:38 Surviving a Tough Market

29:36 Energy Fitness and Rest

31:43 Hiring a CEO for Structure

33:31 Three Two One Reflections

37:40 Kindness and Proud Wins

EP54: Claire Burrows, Founder of Air & Grace, the footwear brand created around the idea that women shouldn't have to choose between style and comfort.

mardi 18 août 2026 • Durée 45:41

This week Jo sits down with Claire Burrows, founder of London footwear brand Air & Grace, to discuss building a business in midlife by solving the style-versus-comfort problem. Claire shares how redundancy pushed her to launch in 2014 after 20+ years in buying, design, and product development, funding early work with her life savings, renting out her home, and borrowing money. She explains developing the patented Tender Loving Air technology with technologist Kevin Ban, including setbacks like rejecting the first production run, running out of money, and later winning a Metro Newspaper competition that enabled a pivot from a failed wholesale plan to direct-to-consumer via Shopify. Claire describes learning marketing, e-commerce, and cashflow management, using consumer events to drive early sales and feedback, and later refocusing online. Her advice highlights investing in legal support and knowledge, keeping teams lean, and trusting red flags earlier.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:47 Redundancy Sparks the Leap

02:39 Finding the Comfort Gap

04:25 Building the First Prototype Team

08:02 Naming Air and Grace

09:21 First Product and Early Setbacks

12:51 Tender Loving Air Tech

15:03 Funding and Cost Realities

16:38 Pivot to Direct to Consumer

19:24 Shopify Site and Winning Investment

21:04 Learning D2C Marketing and Finance

22:40 Money Mindset Shift

22:57 First Hire Milestone

23:22 Selling Comfort Online

23:42 Consumer Events Playbook

25:30 Trade Show Chaos Story

26:18 Online Focus Tipping Point

EP53: 15 Minute Masterclass: 3 Ways to Innovate when Everyone is Copying You with Melisse Shaban, CEO of Aramore skincare, a US based longevity science company.

mardi 11 août 2026 • Durée 16:54

This week Jo sits down with Melisse Shaban, CEO of Aramore, a US-based longevity science company, to share three ways to innovate when everyone else is copying you in a low-barrier, noisy market. First, Melisse advises pursuing technical innovation by identifying unmet, unknown, or evolving needs, and reframing familiar problems (such as “longevity” versus “anti-aging”) while staying open to new formats and delivery systems across categories, from GLP-1s and peptides to sleep and recovery tools. Second, she stresses being honest and authentic in a world where it’s hard to tell what’s real, arguing that trust and truth-telling drive meaningful innovation. Third, she recommends constant discovery—looking in unexpected places, staying curious, and using practices like affirmation—while remaining focused and credible, as Aramore does by targeting cellular health in skin through long-term science.

00:00 Welcome to Masterclass

00:34 Why Copycats Win

01:04 Unmet Needs Drive Innovation

01:27 New Longevity Mindset

03:46 Formats and Recovery Trends

04:56 Authenticity in Noisy Markets

07:24 Brave Truth Tellers

08:11 Discovery and Self Belief

12:02 Aramore Inside Out Skin

14:08 First to Market Focus

15:18 Science Led Differentiation

16:13 Wrap Up and Subscribe

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Edited and produced by Jo Glynn-Smith 2025.
Recorded at Eight Works Podcast Studios, 1 Dysart Street, London, EC2A 2BX
For bookings: eightworks@eightclub.co.uk
Jo Glynn-Smith is an entrepreneur, professional coach, writer, and speaker from London, she is an expert in career transformation and change. Instagram and @themidlifeentrepreneur

EP52: Antonia Philp, Paediatric Nurse & Co-Founder of Nursem, the award-winning skincare brand created on a hospital ward.

mardi 4 août 2026 • Durée 46:58

This week Jo speaks with Antonia Philips, a pediatric nurse and co-founder of Nursem, an award-winning handcare brand created to solve the cracked, bleeding hands caused by constant handwashing with harsh antiseptics. Antonia shares how she and her husband Jonny spent seven years researching and testing products (including Manuka honey) while raising three children and continuing her nursing career, eventually moving to flexible bank shifts after burnout. They discuss finding support through the Newcastle Science City incubator, standing out in a saturated skincare market, listening to customers via a 2,000-person testing panel requiring 90% approval, and scaling a small team as they aim to enter grocery. Antonia explains the Nursem Promise, donating a month of free handcare per product sold, with 700,000 promises delivered and a million targeted by 2027, and reflects on working with her husband, managing energy, and planning for an investor exit without losing purpose.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:50 Balancing Nursing and Business

04:15 Staying Connected to Nursing

07:31 Handwashing Damage Explained

09:01 Searching for a Real Solution

11:46 Building the Formula and Testing

14:57 Packaging and Early Feedback

16:13 Funding and Incubator Support

17:07 Launch and Giving Back

18:38 Burnout and Energy Management

23:36 Sleep and Support

24:13 Running as Therapy

24:24 Standing Out in Skincare

25:58 Customer Led Product Expansion

27:40 Working With Your Spouse

31:36 Team Growth and Grocery Plans

33:38 Exit Pressure and Purpose

39:59 Three Two One Reflections

EP51: 15 Minute Masterclass: 3 Ways to Avoid Burnout with Rosie Nixon, Coach, Founder & Best Selling Author.

mardi 28 juillet 2026 • Durée 15:26

This week Jo speaks with Rosie Nixon, coach, founder of Rosie’s Reinvention Retreats and author of The PRO Method, about three ways to avoid burnout before it derails you and your business. Rosie explains burnout as a workplace-based syndrome where demand outstrips recovery, often showing up as insomnia, irritability, anxiety, overwhelm, low motivation and reduced creativity. Her three tips follow the PRO framework: first, Pause—calm the nervous system through micro-pauses like getting outside, breathwork (count four in, hold two, release six), or exercise, and take longer time away if needed. Second, Reflect—get curious about what’s happening, name emotions, clarify what matters now, and identify unmet needs and values. Third, Organise—map small, values-aligned steps forward, including letting go of responsibilities, work or relationships that no longer serve you.

00:00 Welcome to Masterclass

00:34 What Burnout Looks Like

02:11 PRO Method Overview

02:31 Pause to Reset

07:19 Reflect with Curiosity

09:36 Organise Next Steps

12:21 Reinvention Mindset

14:33 Book and Farewell

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EP50: Vivien Wong, Co-Founder of Little Moons, the brand that's turned a niche product into a global obsession.

mardi 21 juillet 2026 • Durée 44:54

This week Jo sits down with Vivien Wong, co-founder of Little Moons, to discuss how the brand introduced mochi ice cream to the UK in 2010, grew from restaurants into FMCG, and scaled after going viral on TikTok during the pandemic with user-generated “Tesco adventure” videos that drove immediate purchase. Vivien shares the operational strain of a sudden “hockey stick” demand surge—COVID hiring constraints, machinery limits, and supply shortages—plus lessons on maintaining quality, retailer relationships, and culture while expanding into more supermarkets and selling in over 38 countries. She explains how her father’s cancer diagnosis prompted her to leave a city finance career, why she self-funded through five years of restaurant sales, and how she and her brother managed a sibling partnership. Vivien reflects on burnout, the impact of private equity bringing in a CEO, investments in coaching/therapy/training, and announces Mini Moons launching exclusively in Sainsbury’s.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:43 TikTok Viral Breakthrough

03:47 Scaling in a Pandemic

06:56 Pivotal Leap from Corporate

09:08 Building with a Sibling

12:21 Perfecting Mochi from Scratch

14:39 Landing Yo Sushi Deal

16:42 From Restaurants to Retail

19:51 Hiring and Letting Go

22:30 Burnout and Better Boundaries

25:07 Learning to Slow Down

25:26 Working On Business

25:42 Flavor Trend Hunting

26:36 Stepping Back With CEO

27:43 Trusting Leadership Team

28:47 Favorite Flavors Origins

29:47 Three Two One Segment

30:45 Coach Versus Therapy

EP49: 15 Minute Masterclass: 3 Ways to Attract more Clients using TikTok with Kate Waterfall Hill, Leadership Coach, Author & Creator of 'Linda the bad manager'.

mardi 14 juillet 2026 • Durée 16:37

This week Jo sits down with Kate Waterfall Hill, a leadership coach, author, podcaster and creator of 'Linda the Bad Manager', to share three ways to attract more clients using TikTok. First, Kate advises making TikToks and shifting mindset by recognising that business owners and decision-makers are on the platform, then creating content that educates, entertains and engages without feeling high-handed. Second, she recommends finding a repeatable format that fits your brand, testing different styles, and sticking with what works rather than constantly switching when early posts get little engagement. Third, she stresses that consistency beats perfection: record and edit on your phone, repurpose across platforms, batch record, and keep showing up, noting that in her first year 97% of revenue came from TikTok and that visibility matters more than going viral.

00:00 Welcome to Masterclass

00:34 Tip One Mindset Shift

01:41 Facing TikTok Fears

03:35 Linda Origin Story

05:05 Building Linda Universe

06:18 Tip Two Find Format

07:11 What Is Linda

08:40 Sticking With It

10:03 Tip Three Consistency

10:23 Repurpose and Batch

11:25 Results and Revenue

14:38 Final Recap and Close

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