The Penny podcast is for creatives, technologists and disrupters. It is where entrepreneurs share their stories about their business craft. Join us for some inspirational thinking and doing. From initial concept, to devising sustainable business models, building community, and keeping the lights on, everything is up for discussion. We delve into the structures, systems and disciplines entrepreneurs have had to put in place to underpin the big idea. We ask how they navigate the world we live in today, where the workplace is more concept than bricks and mortar. What rituals do they use to keep in the flow and how does creative practice support this? History: Originally created for the Goldsmiths University Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship Master’s degree students. It began during the pandemic as a platform for these entrepreneurs to document their creative process, discuss their business ideas and the impact of a crazy moment in history on the creative industries. It has now expanded to include a broader church of entrepreneurs and startups both in and outside the academic space.
Episodes
18 hours ago
18 hours ago
Welcome to The Penny Podcast, presented by Eva Keogan, founder of Home of Social. In this new episode we are joined by tech entrepreneur Cathy Long, who shares her story about Aposto and how her passion for wanting to make events safer following the Hillsborough disaster has taken her from campaigning at the Premier League to building an event technology platform.
Cathy launched Aposto in March 2020, just as the global pandemic closed down the world, and of course, the events industry. Listen in to find out how she navigated this pivotal moment and how her company has evolved over the last four years into an industry disrupter. Cathy shares her hard won insights about bootstrap marketing, being a female tech founder in a male dominated sector and how to leverage online and in person networking to build your brand.
Listen in for an inspiring story about triumph over adversity and lots more.
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
The Penny podcast is where creatives, technologists and disrupters share their exciting and inspiring journeys.
In this episode, we're delighted to bring you the story behind a disruptive fintech as we talk with our guest, fintech entrepreneur Pierre-Yves Rahari.
Following a successful career in Investment management and setting up a consultancy firm, Pierre-Yves is now the Director and Co-founder of A-Lab Solutions, along with Luuk Jacobs. Together they have brought the Reseo eBusiness ID solution, which is a digital passport for corporate investors, to the market.
Reseo aims to resolve the numerous issues of onboarding investment clients which include putting them through the rigmarole of validating their credentials and anti-money laundering checks, aka the AML-KYC process. While this kind of rigour is necessary, Pierre-Yves believes it’s time to do away with paper and digitalise the process. This in itself creates numerous benefits such as saving a great deal of time and effort and expediting new investments.
We talk about the business of doing business, and how his creative pursuits and psychology training are brought to bear in managing the startup, and all the challenges the business faces as a disrupter in the market on a mission to move the digital dial in the industry.
Follow Reseo on LinkedIn and website reseo.global – you can connect with Pierre-Yves on LinkedIn here.
Thank you for listening!
Produced and presented by Eva Keogan, Home of Social
Music Eva Keogan and Nicolás Ayala Ramírez
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
The Penny podcast is where creatives, technologists and disrupters share their exciting and inspiring journeys which are often non-linear and this story is no exception.
In this episode, we're delighted to be talking with creative entrepreneur Fiona McLoughlin, owner of Old Cow Clayworks, in Drumshanbo, Ireland.
She tells the story of her major career change and how she left her successful 20 year photographic and management career behind to realise her childhood dream of becoming a potter. She is now on the cusp of launching her own shop and working with one of the biggest new business success stories in Ireland – Drumshanbo Gunpowder Gin.
We talk about how she has developed her creative practice, the entrepreneurial support she has received and the skills she has needed to develop. We also learn about her brand story, how she approaches marketing and sales, and the work she has done in setting up her own studio.
Follow Fiona on Instagram oldcow_clayworks and visit her website oldcowclayworks.com.
Thank you for listening!
Produced and presented by Eva Keogan, Home of Social
Music Eva Keogan and Nicolás Ayala Ramírez
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Welcome to the Penny Podcast with Eva Keogan, who is joined by Adrian De la Court and Siân Prime from Goldsmiths University.
The Penny Podcast started in 2020 as a way for, people who were on the Masters for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship to document their entrepreneurship journey during lockdown and what a crazy time that was.
Here we are in 2024, the Penny podcast now is for creatives, technologists and disruptors. All the stories, all the background, all the exciting and gory innards of running your own business will be up for discussion.
We kick off this new series with a look at creative and cultural entrepreneurship and how it's moving with the times.
Thanks to our guests and enjoy the listen.
Additional notes:
Guardian articles about cuts at Goldsmiths
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/27/goldsmiths-university-of-london-redundancy-plans
Goldsmiths Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Home of Social www.homeofsocial.com
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Welcome to a special edition of The Penny Podcast. The theme is the Business of Creativity. It's a huge topic so the focus is going to be on the field of writing and the precarity of the individuals working in the sector.
Dr. Christina Williams joins us as the expert to drill down on the topic into the detail of the life of a novelist and how they make a living. She shares her valuable insight about what drives writers to write and what it takes to be a writer.
She has recently been awarded a PhD from CAMEo - Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, based at the University of Leicester. She is a lecturer in Media and Communications at University of West England.
An essential word on the soundtrack...
Collaboration makes everything sound better! Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her podcast recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' and turning them into notes, which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.
Credit where credit is due - please give thanks to Nicolás Ayala Ramírez, a former colleague on the MACCE course, for polishing up the soundtrack and giving it a professional touch.
This has been created as part of the The Business of Creative Industries module.
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Welcome back to the Penny Podcast and in this episode we meet Rosie Neave who is developing her new business called The Vertelle Project which you can find at www.Vertelle.co.uk or on instagram @rosieneave.
We talk about leadership, homeschooling hell, nature and finding blips of green in urban spaces, along with Rosie's fascinating new business which she is currently developing while spending an extended time away from the UK in rural France.
Thanks to Nicolás for polishing up the podcast soundtrack.
Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' and turning them into notes, which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
The Penny Podcast meets virtually with Eva in Notting Hill and Nicolás in Bow, E3. They talk about how Nicolás is navigating his masters in the UK, what set him on his path, music life in lockdown, music and culture in Bogota and staying happy.
Here are some Spotify playlists you might also want to listen to:
Top 50 tracks in Columbia
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbOa2lmxNORXQ?si=f72074062c2e4c2b
Curated by Nicolás
Columbian Indie music (great listen)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5IKmXrsFjWo4afvWcgXRXD?si=c9846423e97c4e1c
New British Indie music https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PROD83nc1CPm84x57cEd0
Curated by Eva
Lockdown Living it Up
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1dsxbMbNltGlgQhWgiDOpw
Please give thanks to Nicolás for polishing up the soundtrack.
Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' and turning them into notes, which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.
Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
The Penny Podcast meets virtually with Eva in Notting Hill and guest Cynthia Gregoire in Hampstead. Cynthia has completed her MACCE and is now pursuing her fashion idea, she tells us about the perils and pitfalls of lockdown, finding space in Cambodia and how meeting kindred spirit entrepreneurs at Goldsmiths has been life changing.
As referenced in the intro; things have changed slightly and Cynthia is now fighting for her Visa. Visit Cynthia's Just Giving page here to find out more and show your support https://bit.ly/3obHyoO
Please give thanks to Nicolás Ayala Ramírez for polishing up the soundtrack.
Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
In this podcast Eva and Linda meet with Leo (over Zoom), a part time masters student in his second year of study. He is a former journalist and now working to create a cultural bridge between his home country Brazil and the UK. With a global pandemic hampering the process somewhat, the group discuss how things are changing and the direction of travel for Leo as he navigates the new territory and switches to online.
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
In this episode - the first in the series of interviews with the MACCE 2020 cohort - Eva and Linda are in conversation with Canadian musician and London-resident, Emily Shapiro. She opens up about her journey, beginning with classical music and her evolution into solo improvisation during lockdown. We also talk about Global Entrepreneur Week, the joys of virtual study and the feeling of knowing each other, even though we have never met in person.