Wholesome Business
Do you wish that business was about more than just making money? Do you want to learn how business can be an integral part of a happy and healthy life, and how it can be used to achieve positive change in the world? If that sounds good, then this podcast is for you!In each episode, the Wholegrain Digital team talk to positive and visionary entrepreneurs, executives and employees to learn the art of wholesome business. We discuss topics including green and sustainable business, workplace culture, values and motivation, empowering technologies, ethical business practices and the future of work.Wholegrain Digital is London's original WordPress web design agency and was founded in 2007 on the belief that business and web are powerful tools that can be used for good.
Episodes
12 episodes
Episode 12: B Corporations are Better Businesses
The B Corporation movement is growing fast worldwide and we are proud to have achieved certification ourselves earlier this year. We talk to B Lab UK community manager Kate Sandle to discuss the B Corp movement and attempt to answer many common q...
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Episode 11: Transforming the travel industry with eco-tourism
Nature tourism makes up 20% of the global tourism industry and is closely linked to eco tourism when managed responsibly. Ed and Tom host this latest podcast and meet Max Sinclair and Joe Stevens from the website www.ecocompanion.com, which aims ...
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Episode 10: The Future of Work and the Future of Everything with James Bidwell and Sophie Albizua
The nature of work is on the cusp of big changes as new technology changes how we collaborate with our colleagues, breaks boundaries of when and where we can work. It also replaces the need for human labour in some tasks but opens new opportunitie...
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Episode 9: The Challenges of Sustainable Innovation with Dennis Doerffel
Dennis started his career as an engineer officer in the Federal German Army, and during his spare time experimented with electric vehicles and batteries. Along with a group of friends Dennis founded V.E.R.A. in 1998, a club for electric vehicle en...
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Episode 8: How to win big name clients with LOVE
Wholegrain Digital founder and host of the Wholesome Business podcast recently gave a presentation at WordCamp London called How to Win Big Name Clients with LOVE.In this episode, Tom talks about his companies unique approach to sales that has bee...
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Episode 7: Mindful Business - Nick Begley of PSYT talks about mindfulness and its role in the modern world of work and life
Founder and CEO of psychological technology company PSYT, Nick Begley, joins Tom and Ed in the Wholegrain Digital broom cupboard. We talk about his journey into to his current business via his time as one of the early team members at Headspace, t...
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Episode 6: Working Collectively - Will Gardner talks about bringing people together and the future of work
Tom Greenwood and Ed Murfitt from Wholegrain Digital talk to Will Gardner, the CEO of popular millennial sustainability website Collectively.org about the origins of the project at the Davos World Economic Forum and the goal of bringing multinatio...
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Episode 5: Positive Energy - Richard Mardon discusses the business of wind power and the impact of government policy
Tom Greenwood and Ed Murfitt talk to Richard Mardon, Chief Executive of Airvolution Energy about his 15 years experience in the wind power sector, recent changes in government policy and the future of renewable energy in the UK.
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Episode 4: Eco-travel - Tom and Vineeta discuss wholesome businesses in Belgium and Germany
Wholegrain Digital founders Tom and Vineeta discuss the many inspiring examples of Wholesome Business that they found on their electric car journey through Belgium and Germany.The conversation includes electric car travel, renewable energy, eco-ho...
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Episode 3: Happiness is the new rich - Andrea Darabos on the overlap between happiness in our work and personal lives
Andrea Darabos is a business design consultant and founder of the company Lean Advantage. In this episode, Wholegrain Digital's Tom Greenwood talks with Andrea about the concept that happiness is the new rich, how business values need to be redef...
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Episode 2: Healthy Positioning - Ameet Bhakta on staying healthy at work and building a positive business
Ameet Bhakta is a posture therapist who runs the business Health Through Posture. Wholegrain Digital's Tom Greenwood talks to Ameet about the role of posture in tackling the root causes of chronic pain, especially for those in an office environme...
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Episode 1: Positive Values - Fabio Torlini on how to create a positive team culture and retain it as you grow
Fabio Torlini is UK Managing Director for WordPress web hosting company WP Engine and has over a decade of experience in managing fast growing teams in the technology sector while retaining a positive team culture.We talk to Fabio about the challe...
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