You've got to be in it to win it and you've got to be in it to affect change. Herman is joined by a leader, member of the social-economic task force and chair of independent education, Stephanie Boyce. Together they discuss how to achieve your goals whilst remaining your authentic self, why you need to use failure as a lesson and how to utilise the law of attraction. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You're not limited by your backstory. You're not limited by what you've gone through. You are only limited by what you believe in your ability to achieve. 

• It’s important to remain your authentic self throughout your journey and not conform to fit in. 

• You’ve got to be in it to win it and you've got to be in it to affect change. To succeed you need to understand your areas of influence and that you’re impacting change is clear, that you’re pragmatic it's clear that you're proactive in achieving your goals. 

• Do not look at failure with a negative connotation to it. Subscribe to the law of attraction and to positive thinking because often in life it’s mind over matter and your attitude will determine your outcome because if you can believe it, you can achieve it. 

• A lot of times the difficulties or the challenges you face are mental and they're emotional. You need to break free from the past and your limiting beliefs because there’s nothing wrong with where you came from. 

• When we achieve, there are usually celebrators and there are detractors. There will always be naysayers, there'll be people who will celebrate you and there will be people who won't celebrate you. It’s part of the walk of life.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I'm driven by purpose and I absolutely believe in what I do. That's the driver, that is what keeps me going even when I'm tired.”

“We have all faced discrimination in our lives but we may not have recognized it.”

“I am standing on the shoulders of giants. I'm standing on the shoulders of all those who have gone before me.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM’s mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Stephanie Boyce is a leader, commissioner and trustee. She's a member of the social-economic task force. She's a director, a chair of the independent education appeal panel, as well as being the president of the law society for England and Wales.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Do you ask yourself powerful questions or just the easy ones? Join Herman in this episode with Simon Alexander Ong, a coach, speaker and author, as they discuss purpose, the difference between success and fulfillment and how you become who you truly are.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Many of us are exhausted. But not because we are doing too much but actually because we are doing too little of the things that matter to us and that we enjoy.

• The financial crisis of 2008 was a catalyst for Simon to utlise and monetise his interest and skill of talking and helping other people.

• Growing up, Simon felt he had to achieve via traditional routes. His aspirations were based on other people’s ideals and values, not on what he desired in himself. But he wasn’t even aware of this until he was much older.

• If you shift your perspective and mindset, you can recognise that you have much more control over your life than you think. You can start by taking control over your own thoughts and gaining and understanding of what made you who you are.

• Success and fulfilment isn’t the same. You may look successful to others but this doesn’t mean you are fulfilled. Purpose is knowing why you are doing something and having clarity about what is important and what matters to you.

• Failure is an event not a person. You have to detach yourself when you make mistakes, they don’t define you as a person. You instead need to seek the lesson in every experience.

• When you evaluate the most successful people and leaders in the world, they aren’t usually the smartest but they know how to have the energy to sustain success.

BEST MOMENTS

“When we all live better stories, not only does that contribute to a powerful legacy but also to a more meaningful life”

“Reality is simply living in the freedom of your thinking, your thoughts are like a colours on a pallet, you are the one holding the brush”

“It’s so important to change your relationship with your past”

“You don’t have to be an entrepreneur to demonstrate entrepreneurial skills”

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM’s mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Herman is joined by Eric D. Collins, prolific serial investor, CEO, author , TV presenter and tech expert. He has rubbed shoulders with the Obama’s having previously served on Barack Obama's Small Business Administration's Council on Underserved Communities. He  co-founded Impact X Capital, a venture capital fund designed to aid entrepreneurs across Europe particularly people from underrepresented communities, with a particular focus on people of colour and women. In 2021 he began presenting Channel 4’s reality show The Money Maker., in which he offers his expertise to struggling small businesses.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Eric would describe himself as a Southern American, which informs his personality on ideas of politeness and politics, a middle child and an introvert.
• Eric has been writing his latest book “We Don’t Need Permission”. The book is a manifesto to encourage black people to build businesses that make money to a large extent and then employ lots of other black people to then supplement financially all the other empowerment tools available.
• The effect of the Church and its long reaching remit and influence to improve the lives of its members and the greater community inspired Eric’s engagement with contribution and enrichment of the world around him. It fosters community engagement and the importance of collective action.
• Your life partner can make or break your ability to take risks, invest and work by supporting you in your decisions. If you have someone with who is excited about outward possibilities then your journey will be enhanced and enriched.

BEST MOMENTS

“Thank you for that introduction it is always interesting to hear someone describe you. You can also say that I am a terrible but avid tennis player.” – Eric

“What we need to do is we need to actually create businesses that are the scale of Google and Uber. That will then make the world a very different place because we’ll have so much more resources and more influence over the agenda of the world beyond ourselves.” – Eric

“What has been the main thing that has really fuelled your passion to create justice, to make the playing field level?” – Herman

“We actually believe that we have a lot of gifts and that we need to be doing something worthwhile with those gifts.” - Eric

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM’s mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Herman is joined by Daniel Alexander, a multi-award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, editor, and writer who has worked with BBC, BFI, ITV, Sony, MTV, Apple, Channel 4 and more. Daniel shares his extraordinary journey. Explaining how wanting to help young people led to him discovering that he could tell stories that inspired using the moving image and the career he has today.

Daniel is passionate about what he does and works tirelessly to ensure that more people can access the industry and get their voices heard. Especially those who would normally be effectively locked out because of the way things traditionally worked.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We all tend to define ourselves by our careers, the truth is your identity is about who you are, not what you do.
• Collaboration is a powerful way to learn, explore your talent and possibly inspire others at the same time.
• Representation is vital, especially for young people, it opens their eyes to the fact that something is possible for them too.
• Not having the resources others have forces you to think differently and find a way to still achieve fantastic results despite the obstacles. It builds resilience.
• Often, the closer you get to what you are trying to achieve, the harder it gets. You can start to self-consciously procrastinate and self-sabotage.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I´m trying to find out who is the best version of me.”
“Representation allows you to dream a dream that you may not even dare to dream without it.”
“Sometimes it's in a struggle, it's in the fire that you develop your true character. And you know, the difference between riding life at 60% or riding life 100%.”
“Every day I am battling with imposter syndrome.” 

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Daniel Alexander is an award-winning director and filmmaker based in Birmingham, UK. Daniel is a BAFTA crew member and sits on the board of the region's industry screen body, ‘CREATE CENTRAL'. Daniel was also part of the Screen Skills industry advisory task force team and was also recently made an Associate Artist of the REP theatre company. 

He has worked with and created films for multiple large content companies, including the BBC, ITV, Apple, and Sony. Daniel works tirelessly to open the door for passionate people who desperately want to work in the film industry but are not able to follow the traditional paths to a media career.

CONTACT DETAILS 

Website: https://www.danielalexanderfilms.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielalexanderfilms/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dafilms

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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In this episode, Herman is joined by the Vice President of IBM Cloud, Andrew Diaper. Join an insightful discussion as Andrew shares his journey and how his idea of success has changed over time. Learn how to take control of your life, why it's important to reflect and change and how to allow your talent to flourish.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We are all talented in so many different areas, but sometimes we don't allow our talent to flourish because it's a skill outside of work.

• Society brainwashes us to believe we all have to earn more, be more successful and be recognised and you can often lose yourself. In reality, you need to take a step back and realise you're successful and that your idea of success can change over time.

• Most people probably never realised that they could be who they already were on the inside. You have to manifest what you desire in life.

• If you want to take yourself, your career and your personal development to the next level you have to be aspirations, tenacious, dedicated and committed with your whole self. You need to have that fire in your belly.

• In order to reflect and grow you need to take control and be accountable and understand when to own up to making a mistake and learn from it.

• Once you build up a network of people with skills in all areas and on different levels you need to keep the connection because you've done the hardwork.

• If you want to be happy, successful, driven and motivated, you need to embrace positively endurance.

BEST MOMENTS

“The hardest challenge I had was having the courage inside to make some really big changes.”

“Growth is more about your team, It's more about helping others.”

“I want to be challenged and I want to learn new skills, but that is difficult and many people don't want to seek out new challenges.”

“Sometimes you need to recalibrate. step back and reevaluate what makes you happy.”

“Learn to be a bit more humble and considered.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Andrew Diaper is the Vice President of IBM Cloud EMEA and leads the sales and business development strategy, focus and activity for IBM's Cloud growth and strategic engagements with the Financial Services and Regulated industries within EMEA region.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdiaper1970/

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Herman is joined by Rara Plumptre, a serial Ambassador for companies including UMBRA international, Finito, Forte Financial Group, Under One Sky, KidsOut and Brimoncourt Champagne among many others. Rara shares her extraordinary journey from dealing with grief to a new chapter in her life helping the homeless and supporting women going through divorce. Her love of people and deep compassion shines through in this revealing conversation. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A few people are fortunate enough to find their path early enough in life to be focused their goals. Most people will discover theirs along the way and will find theirs through adversity or a life changing event.
• Aligning what you love with your career means that no matter where your journey may take you, that passion will never leave you and will occasionally remind you that it's still there. 
• The word ‘Safe' is one of the most powerful words in our language. We all strive to feel safe whether it be physical or metaphorical. 
• Having a mentor from an early age makes such an impact on your life and can set you off in directions you'll probably never recognise unDl much later on. 

BEST MOMENTS 

“I'm lucky enough to say that I'm old enough that we could walk into jobs and not have to send your CV to a hundred people in the hope that you would get one”
“I feel here new many words that one can say that I really connect to now is basically confidence, community, connection and conversation.”
“I think when you have a shock of some sort, it pulls you up and you have to survive.”
“You'll never have any money because you'll always give it away.”
“As soon as you get something that's happened to you, it almost reflects on you too. You want to give it back immediately.” 

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Known as Rara since her brother couldn't say Alexandra, Rara has one of the most fascinating paths that in her own words consists of three stages. As an ambassador, she has a passion to help the homeless and women and children in crisis who don't feel safe in life/ through divorce or different circumstances. She has a deep alignment with fashion (It's in her jeans) and is also a singer/ songwriter. 

CONTACT DETAILS 

hQps://uk.linkedin.com/in/rara-plumptre-b80a7022 

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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You need to be prepared to risk something because if you risk nothing, then you actually risk everything. Herman is joined by an international speaker, two-times best selling author and a leading property investor, Samuel Leeds. They discuss the entrepreneurial mindset, the science of making a deal and how to achieve financial freedom. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Once you understand the science of making a deal you'll secure your first investment and that's always the hardest one. But once you've done it once you can do it again and again, that's something that isn't taught in schools and every child needs a mantle. 

• If you want to be a leader and you want to be an entrepreneur, you need a lot of courage and willingness to do whatever it takes. To succeed you need to be prepared to risk something because if you risk nothing, then actually you risk everything.

• There are two types of income, active income and passive income. Financial freedom is where you've got a recurring income from a systemised setup and that income covers your living expenses.

• Not everyone was meant to be an entrepreneur, but if you've got an entrepreneurial mindset then that skill set needs to be encouraged as opposed to oppressed.

• People can be intelligent in multiple ways, emotionally intelligent, spatially intelligent, interpersonal intelligence and spiritually intelligent and when children are deemed as ‘not smart' often it's because they have an entrepreneurial mindset or proclivity and this desire to do things differently. 

BEST MOMENTS 

“My business right now is turning over between £400,000 and £1 million every single month and I've been fortunate that I've been able to impact hundreds of thousands of people.

“It's very easy to just follow the traditional route of going to school, getting good grades, getting a job, buying a house and paying down the mortgage. That's the safe way to play it.”

“I'm constantly learning and constantly growing because I think there's no better investment than in yourself.”

You can't have business development without personal development first.”

“If I want to grow a big business, I've got to become big first.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Samuel Leeds is an international speaker, two-times best selling author and a leading property investor. 

 Samuel had a spiritual experience in 2007 which resulted in him leaving his job to pursue ministry and become a property investor. Within a few short years Samuel was able to retire through his property business, but instead of retiring, he established Training Kings, a support network for Christian entrepreneurs. This rapidly became a nationwide organisation with branches all over the UK. 

Samuel wrote his first book 'Do the Possible, Watch God Do the Impossible' which became an Amazon Best Selling Book within a matter of weeks. He went on to write and publish 'Buy Low Rent High' which explains exactly how he built a property portfolio from nothing, and how anybody can achieve financial freedom within 12 months or less.  

Today, Samuel is the CEO of six successful companies as well as owning over £1M of property throughout the UK. He has inspired tens of thousands of people across the world to invest smarter and to live better. 

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.property-investors.co.uk/

https://www.samuelleeds.com/

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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In today's episode, Herman is joined by the founder of The GFA Exchange and The Cludean group and the president of Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce, Joel Blake OBE. Together they discuss what it takes to be a founder, how to master your emotional intelligence, why you need to embrace the challenges you face in life and how evolution is everything.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Don't underestimate people because when you've got your own perception of people you don't know the journey they've been on.

• A good founder is somebody who has an idea and is willing to take action to bring the idea to life. Everyone has this view that entrepreneurs are reckless but in reality, they take calculated risks driven by a passion and a vision that started their journey.

• Everything is about evolution, if you try to achieve your goals based on your current self, you're actually limited in your own potential, if you're not evolving, you're, you're not growing. You need to be willing to learn, transform and be nurtured.

• You've got to understand the emotional intelligence of embracing growth and what that really means for you as an individual person, if you can master this then you can learn how to adapt to changes and the ups and downs of the journey.

• Embrace the challenges on your journey and always aim to add value because if you can add value it means what you're trying to achieve is possible.

BEST MOMENTS

“Being a founder is understanding the end goal and striving to achieve it.”

“I came out in terms of quantity to be supporting my community, but I've known that in order to support my community at scale, I may not be involved in my community as much”

“I'm going to have to transform, evolve and be willing to learn about the good, the bad and everything in between.”

“If you're not growing, all you're doing is stagnating. I always felt that evolution was the way in which I was going to be able to achieve.”

“You have to adapt yourself to the journey and that's something that takes a lot of mental, emotional and physical challenges.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Joel Blake is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The GFA Exchange, an award-winning fintech startup for the financial services sector. Joel is the President of the Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce and the Founder of The Cludean Group a multi-disciplinary B2B consultancy, that works with cross-sector organisations, to help them innovate their inclusive business support programmes and strategies.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelblakeobe/

www.gfaexchange.com

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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In today's episode, Herman is joined by producer, director, mentor and founder of ‘Fast Track to Fearless' Tracy Forsyth. Together they discuss Tracy's journey from actor to leader, what it means to be a self-critical overachiever and how to be fearless.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• The self-critical overachiever loves big challenges, being scared and achieving their goals so they can move forward and never look back but as they're overly self-critical they don't value the success of their achievement and will subsequently look at other people and compare themselves negatively to them.

• Self-doubt and self-criticism wastes a lot of energy and often you'll find yourself worrying about what you don't have rather than celebrating and enjoying what it is you do have.

• Being fearless is having the understanding of yourself and the confidence to know that wherever you are, you know who you are, even when you're not surrounded by your tribe or in an environment where people don't get you.

• Do not limit yourself,  so many times people limit themselves and create an obstacle for themselves in terms of their mindset. So being fearless is about being honest about who you are, what environment you like, what lights you up, what drains you, and what you truly want.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I've been able to use the experience and expertise I've gained in my television career along with coaching skills to empower, enlighten and enhance other people's journeys through life.”

“I exist to help self-critical overachievers ditch the self-doubt and the criticism that they have of themselves.”

“If I can change the lives of a number of people who then go on and change other people's lives, then I will die a happy woman.”

“I would dismiss the 99% positive and focus like a laser on the 1% that wasn't right.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://fasttracktofearless.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations. Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

ABOUT THE GUEST

Over the years, Tracy Forsyth has found that limiting beliefs are often the only thing holding us back from the careers we deserve. So, she's combined her real-world experience with her passion for helping high-potential leaders to create the fast and focused curriculum, "Fast Track to Fearless".

As a professionally certified Executive & Leadership Coach (CPCC, PCC), Tracy helps high-potential talent step into authentic, conscious leadership roles and enjoy a purpose-led career.

CONTACT DETAILS
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tracyforsythcoach

https://fasttracktofearless.com/

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Suki Fuller is Herman's guest in this episode and talks about growing up, her identity and the world of possibilities she is a conduit for in her industry

She is a competitive strategic advisor, analytical storyteller, an acclaimed keynote speaker and her eclectic 16-year career within strategic intelligence and technology has taken her from the US Department of Defense to teaching students in China.

Suki discusses how her skills and expertise have developed through her different experiences and places and how her strategic approach and knowledge of technology mean she is a leading voice in her area of expertise

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• As an intelligence analyst, I tell the story of data
• Things can happen that elevate people and things can happen that can push them into the dirt
• There has always been an identity of strength and defiance
• I was always an outlier and it's continued throughout my life
• You look different and sound different but it's about not changing for others
• I enjoy educating people and helping them to understand how to use technology
• It's important that people understand both the long term ramifications of safety tech
• People sharing pictures of their children online combined with facial recognition technology means companies are building databases to market to your children before they are 18
• When you share and all the disparate data is joined together it forms a perfect picture of who you are
• When people are sharing on social media they are giving away little pieces of themselves
• and anyone can join the information together in real-time
• All your cards are giving nuggets of information about where you are in your life
• From the profiles you have online companies know all about you and your preferences
• Facebook and Twitter are now considered to be traditional platforms and many young teens don't use them

BEST MOMENTS

‘I was good at solving problems'

‘You give away so many little pieces of information about yourself'

‘I know that I'm original and no one else in my field has the experience I have'

‘There is always potentially something different you can do that will be beneficial for more people'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

Finding Your Path Podcast

Suki Fuller LinkedIn

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations.

Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS

Every Child Needs A Mentor website

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Herman's guest is Lord Dr Michael Hastings CBE. He is the Professor of Leadership at the Stephen Covey institute and Former head of citizenship at KPMG international and discusses

his journey and commitment to his purpose - to speak up for the poor and bend the power of the prosperous to the potential of the poor

He explains why if we could live by a different perspective based on equity it would be possible to create a more open clear-sighted society. This is  a fascinating insight into the man behind the title and what really matters to him

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There is nothing more important than speaking the reality of where you are with others
• When we speak with each other we can share great stories of encouragement and uplift
• I wanted to be actively involved in the mind-changing opportunities for other generations
• I like people and they kinda liked me because I like people
• I became a commissioner for racial equality directly by the invitation of the Home Secretary ringing me up and asking
• I got to know people on the inside because I was campaigning for things that everyone appreciated
• I spent a lot of time listening to and appreciating people, not seeing what I could get from them just wanting to be friends
• The pursuit of knowledge needs to nourish and grow our inner being
• I've learnt that your reputation
• The reason for having privilege is to show others the way in
• If you have a title use it to give others access, take them on the journey with you
• We are not born with a fear of others or prejudice we take it on
• My purpose, to speak up for the poor and bend the power of the prosperous to the potential of the poor is the driving force of my decision making
• I hope I'll be remembered for giving myself away and helping point others to the gateways of opportunity

BEST MOMENTS

‘I was the conduit and there to build the bonds'

‘I want to do the work that serves others'

‘If you can open a door, open it for them'

‘I hold very dear to my being that every turn allows another round of others to benefit'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

Finding Your Path Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations.

Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS

Every Child Needs A Mentor website

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Author, educator, and poet Casey Bailey is with Herman talking about how he combines his very different passions.

Casey discusses how important and powerful it is to play a part in other people's journeys of transformation and how anyone's journey is made up of many inspirations and defining moments

This is an inspirational listen and an insight into how we need to understand and see young people beyond the constraints of their environments and support them in accessing opportunities and changing their narrative

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I try not to define myself I'm just a soul on life's journey
• A lot of people go a long time writing and sharing poetry before they call themselves a poet
• There is nothing that is so rewarding as teaching
• The journey can be transformational for them and they don't even recognise who they were when they started their journey
• To play a small part in their journey is massive
• There are lots of defining moments in your life and there are some decisions that need to be understood so you can effectively move past them
• Changing other's lives and influencing others through your contribution is really powerful
• People told us that people like us didn't walk in worlds like this
• Grime Boy is about friendship, loss, and the environment we grow up
• We look at people where I come from as having no aspirations or not being ambitious
• We need to look at the environment, access to it and how it shapes people and who they wanted to be
• The aspirations aren't low they are just negative aspirations
• It's about them being able to see beyond the constraints of their environment
• When we write them off it makes it easier for us to deal with it
• When we see people in those situations as human we know we have a role to play

BEST MOMENTS

‘My two prominent personas have merged and seep into everything I do'

‘You don't have to want to write poetry you can just want to listen to it'

‘We felt that we had to change who we were or change our aspirations

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.everychildneedsamentor.com/about-us/

Finding Your Path Podcast

Casey Bailey website

ABOUT THE HOST

Herman is the visionary behind ECNM's mentoring vision and services with over 20 years of mentoring experience across the community, music, and the education sectors. Through his mentoring work, Herman has won multiple awards and he is passionate about making mentoring high quality and accessible for all young people.

Herman leads on business strategy, the development of strategic partnerships and pioneering new mentoring initiatives and innovations.

Besides leading ECNM, Herman is a father of three daughters, enjoys watching Formula One, loves cooking for his family and is even known to write a rap or two.

CONTACT DETAILS

Every Child Needs A Mentor website

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Jas Rohel is the Founder and CEO of The Education Awards and the Education Expo, bringing Business and Education together.  Alongside the awards night, Jas works with numerous event sponsors to develop and implement projects in education that directly contribute back to the outstanding work of teachers and educational organisations. Jas is also a Chamber Council Board Member at Solihull Chamber of Commerce.

In support of her drive to create more business links in the education sector, Jas is a radio presenter for The Education Show and Talking Business on Solihull Radio. On air, she discusses a vast amount of business and education topics and interviews key leaders from across the industry.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Business strategist and all-round disruptor Ketan Makwana has been working on business growth, strategic management and talent development for over 20 years.

Ketan has extensive expertise in Tech, Electronics and Healthcare, with a passion for people and processes Ketan has worked across all business levels within enterprise eco-systems including economic policy advisory to governments and ministries across the globe.

As CEO of Enterprise Lab, Ketan is the visionary behind the company’s mission to develop better people and better businesses for better economic outcomes.

Ketan is also an energising and inspirational international speaker on the subjects of mindset, growth, innovation and the power of disruption; he has engaged audiences across 5 continents and 42 cities.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Harriet Green is the former Chairman & CEO, Asia Pacific at IBM. She is a global executive with extensive, multi-channel business leadership experience, having lived and worked on four continents. She was CEO of both Thomas Cook Group plc and the leading high service technology distributor Premier Farnell plc. Harriet is on the advisory council for King’s College London, Board Member at Red Badger and Executive Chair of Mission Beyond. She was awarded an OBE in 2010 for services to industry, and most recently named one of Fortune's most powerful women internationally in 2019.

Harriet's activity can be followed daily on LinkedIn and Twitter.

www.linkedin.com/in/harrietg

twitter.com/harrietgreen1

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Professor Kerensa Jennings FRSA is a digital impact specialist, senior adviser at BT, a Trustee and Company Director at the Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST), and Visiting Professor of Media, Strategy and Communications at the University of Huddersfield. She is also a bestselling author and award winning strategist, and chairs the DCMS Tackling Loneliness Network Digital Inclusion Group.

Kerensa was previously CEO of the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA), an international programme aiming to help address the digital skills gap. She launched the programme in 2017 and by the time she left the Royal Household to join BT, it was being used in more than 100 countries. More than 6 million of the skills and educational courses have benefitted jobseekers, school children and SMEs.

Before this, Kerensa spent many years as a TV producer and the BBC's Head of Strategic Delivery. Her work on the BBC's Make it Digital strategy earned the Innovation Enterprise Chief Strategy Officer's Best Innovation Award. Kerensa has been selected among the most influential women in UK tech for the last four years by Computer Weekly and represents BT on boards, at major events and in the media.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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FINDING YOUR PATH with Dan Ilett

Dan is an expert in global marketing and digital product growth. He has advised IBM, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Samsung and Cisco and others on messaging and go-to-market strategy. He has led digital banking transformation for Virgin Money and Thomas Cook. He implemented a major cornerstone of the UK Government’s China-trade strategy, launching the UK-China TechHub.

Dan is an award-winning tech and business journalist who has written for the Financial Times, the Economist Group and many other publications. As a founding member of Coindesk.com and Greenbang.com, Dan has created award-winning media products in emerging trends.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Sue is the parenting expert on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ programme, offering practical guidance to bringing up happy, confident, resilient children from toddler to teen.

Sue is the parenting expert for Disney Family UK, regularly appearing on BBC Radio, Sky News and LBC, all whilst working with brands and organisations as a Parenting Consultant.

Sue is the author of the Amazon bestseller 'Parenting Made Easy - How To Raise Happy Children' as well as 'Raising Happy Children for Dummies' - one in the famous black & yellow series.

Hermans LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanstewart/

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Called 'The Expert's Expert' David's work has been featured in a range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fast Company, and Forbes.

Born in Michigan, David lived in Guatemala with a tribe of Mayan Indians until he was eighteen years old, after which he moved to the United States. His educational background is in ancient languages and theology, and he’s taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He also owns RockBench Publishing Corp., a traditional and electronic publisher of courageous, sharp thinking.

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Dr. Rhianna C. Rogers is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (History and Anthropology) and coordinator of the Global Indigenous Knowledge (GIK) program at SUNY Empire State College. She teaches in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the School of Arts & Humanities, the School for Graduate Studies, and the Center for International Education. Rogers has won awards for her innovative approach to teaching and learning, including the 2020-2021 & 2019-2020 SUNY Empire Provost Innovation Award, the 2018-2019 Explorations in Diversity & Academic Excellence Award (EDAE), and the 2017-2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Rogers is co-founder/PI of SPEC/Buffalo Project, an award-winning, comprehensive, action-based diversity program focused on upskilling populations to inform solution-making efforts in college and community environments (2010-present). Based on the success of this program, Rogers was invited to speak at the 12th Annual United Nations (UN) - Geneva Forum in the International Conference on Inclusive Education and Project Based Learning for Peace and Development (Dec. 2020).

She received a certificate in Ethnic Studies, a B.A. in Social Sciences (Anthropology Major and History Minor), an M.A. in History, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies (Anthropology, History, and Linguistics Concentrations) from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Rogers is an Open SUNY Fellow in academic innovation (2014-present) where she won the inaugural 2015 Open SUNY COTE Online Effective Practice Award and was a finalist for the 2021 and 2018 awards. She also offers collegial support as a SUNY Tools of Engagement Project (TOEP) Fellow in OER academic innovation where she won the 2015-2016 SUNY TOEP Best Peer Mentoring and Support Award.

She was the inaugural Rockefeller Institute of Government-Ernest Boyer Presidential Fellow and the Spring 2020 Center for Law and Policy Studies Internship director (2019-2020) as well as the inaugural coordinator of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies for the college (2017-2019) and the convener for Interdisciplinary Studies (2014-2017).

Rogers is a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA) with over a decade of field and museum experience. She has worked in both academic and tribal archaeology as well as in historic preservation and museum studies. Rogers has conducted research and taught in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Cyprus, Lebanon, Mexico, Ecuador, Spain, and Puerto Rico.

Spec project info:

https://specollective.org/
https://twitter.com/specollective
https://opencollective.com/spec

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