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The Ascent

Tenzing

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/100d. Total Eps: 18

T enzing’s podcast, The Ascent, lifts the lid on the inner world and workings of the top, private

equity backed tech entrepreneurs, CEOs, and high performing individuals. We get under the

skin of what motivates these inspiring high performing individuals and drives them to push

through adversity into success and back again.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - entrepreneurship
18/09/2025
#89

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Adie Shariff talks mindset frameworks and creating lasting change

Season 3 · Episode 3

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 52:38

Adie Shariff is a performance psychologist with over 25 years of experience helping teams and individuals operate at their best when it matters most. From elite sport to business and the military, his approach is grounded, practical, and built on proven frameworks. In this episode, Adie unpacks the five core mindsets of performance, how to align teams through structure and accountability, and how to make change stick. A must-listen for anyone serious about elevating performance.

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David Hopley OBE talks leading under pressure, building trust, and driving transformation

Season 3 · Episode 2

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 55:04

David Hopley OBE brings three decades of elite military leadership to the table - from commanding the UK Special Forces to mentoring leaders in business and sport. In this episode, he shares battle-tested insights on trust, decision-making under pressure, and the difference between managing and truly leading. Whether you're building a team, navigating challenge, or striving for high performance, David’s philosophy of creating meaningful step changes will leave you inspired.

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Keith Abel talks new markets, making mistakes and mangetout

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, February 8, 2021 • Duration 44:32

Guy has a lively conversation with the ebullient Keith Abel, founder of organic veg box trailblazers Abel and Cole, and, since 2014, Chairman and investor in Freddie's Flowers, a business which enjoyed exponential growth during 2020 and is accelerating plans for major expansion across the globe.

After failing his Bar exams, Keith started selling potatoes door-to-door in south London and grew Abel and Cole into a business worth nearly £40m in 2007. He sold a stake to private equity firm Phoenix that year, but profits plunged and, in 2010, control of the business was passed on in a debt-for-equity swap. He bought back in shortly after and managed to turn the business around again, before going on to lend Abel and Cole alum Freddie Garland £10k to start his eponymous flower box delivery business in 2014.

Keith’s is a rollicking tale of highs and lows, and his conversation with Guy is packed with invaluable learnings, from the value of door-to-door and face-to-face marketing versus digital and social, to exploiting a highly-engaged customer base to raise investment and grow a business, and how to convince someone that they simply have to have a product they never thought they needed.

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Caroline Plumb talks networks, playing devil’s advocate and Mongolian heritage

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, January 25, 2021 • Duration 45:15

Guy’s guest, Caroline Plumb, is a serial entrepreneur and CEO who founded rapidly-scaling FinTech business, Fluidly, after experiencing first-hand the pain point of managing cash flow in a growing business. Fluidly was named one of 2018’s ‘Hot 10’ European FinTechs by the FinTech50, and featured in WIRED’s Top 100 Hottest European startups.

Caroline’s first business, Freshminds, came into being just weeks after graduating from Cambridge, and in the intervening twenty years, she has - amongst an embarrassment of achievements - completed a stint as one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors representing the Professional Services sector, been appointed as a non-executive director to AIM-listed Mercia Technologies and awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List.

Guy’s interview with Caroline is, as you would expect, full of invaluable advice and learnings, not to mention some quotes to live by - our favourite being “if two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary”, courtesy of William Wrigley (he of the chewing gum fame).

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Bill Collis talks The Matrix, MBOs and software piracy

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, January 14, 2021 • Duration 35:08

Bill Collis, former CEO and President of visual effects software behemoth Foundry, one-time Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Tenzing Entrepreneurs Panel member, tells Guy about unwittingly finding himself creating FX for one of the most iconic films of all time… his passion for using maths and algorithms to solve real-world problems… how to take on software pirates and emerge victorious… the value gained from working with multiple private equity backers… and the joys of stepping back from CEO to take up chairperson roles.