People with interesting hobbies are typically the type of people I want to spend time with. Jack in the office has an enviable trainer collection and collects pin badges and comics. He’s also really into house plants, Fallout games and assorted themes of trinkets. Jack is into a lot of…

Tell us a bit about your backgrounds? Ngozi: I worked for an oil company for 16 years, as a project manager and in various different roles. In 2016, I was signed off with work-related stress and anxiety, which led to depression. That preempted a total evaluation of where I was…

Being vulnerable is hard. Especially at work. If I asked you what you’re afraid of, would you laugh it off and talk about the things that used to give you nightmares when you were six? Or the big things — death, or the death of a loved one. …

Tell me about Parley… When we started Parley for the Oceans in 2012, we saw plastic as a design failure; something that we must let go of. We began creating material from ocean plastic debris and trash which we collected in remote areas of the world. We trademarked it as ‘ocean plastic’ and collaborated…

Andrew Beattie for Spring I’ve spent the large part of my career working for myself now. The first couple of years of that, literally working on my own with very little other human contact, were some of the loneliest of my life. I was just getting started and I sat…

Tell us about Can Cook… We started with a community café, asking it it could work, and could it make money? The answer was no, quickly. But, as part of that, we realised that people couldn’t cook. They’d ask us how you make salmon and noodles. That was our first lesson — the difference cookery…

It took me years to really understand my own purpose and the purpose of my work. It only really landed with me a few years back whilst sat at the back of a workshop we’d helped to facilitate in The Sandon, a pub a short walk from the hallowed turf…

By Luca Sabia for Ethos magazine: issue 15| October 2021 Crowdfunding is the perfect medium to start building an audience, proving a concept and carry out your market research — and that’s before you even get to the money, says Luca Sabia. Here’s how… Money and people. According to business…

Nathalie Molina Niño is the CEO of BRAVA Investments and the author of LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs. A technologist and coder by trade, she helps women make an impact in the world of work. Andrew Beattie caught up with her to find out more… Tell us about the work that you do, and who you do it for. I’m the CEO…