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The Mindset Mentor, Angela Cox meets the most inspirational, successful and engaging CEOs, Leaders and Professionals, defining and unlocking the secrets of success, exploring the ‘Make it Happen’ Mindset, resilience, authenticity and courage. Angela will tease out the lessons learnt by her guests and how they have dealt with the highs and lows along the way. An uplifting and insightful listen that will leave you with fire in your belly.
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Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which sees Angela interviewing Sam Bramwell, Solutions Director at Microsoft.
About our guest
Sam has over 20 years experience in the IT and telecoms industry. Starting out just as the telco bubble hit our planet, Sam was fortunate to travel the world on the back of 3G working in startups, VC consultancies, SI’s & telco’s in a variety of roles from Marketing, Alliances and Business development. In 2006 She and her partner, Christophe made the decision to return to the UK to start their family. As an Ovarian cancer survivor at the age of 27, the path to having a family was a little unusual, but thanks to modern science and the kindness of others, she is a proud mum to two children aged 13 and 11 – Scarlett and Louis. She joined Microsoft in 2008 and has had a fantastic career to date, starting off in the Anti-piracy team, then becoming Chief of Staff for the UK CEO and now running & growing a fantastic business supporting public sector organisations. Sam is passionate about social justice and a keen advocate of Diversity, Inclusion and equality. She chairs the Women @ Microsoft UK community and is part of the global leadership team for the Worldwide community. At the moment she is championing Menopause in the workplace to ensure older women feel supported through this important life stage. Sam is also a trustee for a Charity Called Creating Better Futures, which aims to educate and feed orphaned and impoverished children in Zimbabwe.
About the Show
What a breath of fresh air this show delivers. If you are craving authenticity, you’ll receive it in spades.
Sam opens up about her battle with Cancer and subsequent experience with egg donation and all of the emotional roller coaster rides that came with it.
Angela & Sam explore vulnerability in leadership and how hard it can be to show when you work in a corporate environment.
Sam explains she is a hippy at heart and is eloquent and generous sharing her lessons learnt, challenges and pom pom moments which we are sure will leave you wanting to cheer her on too!
An amazingly strong woman with heart.
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela 121 or for her corporate offer visit
To find out about online programmes and the Projext Me Academy Membership Group visit
Http://mindsetmentor.podia.com
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing John Ainsworth.
About our guest
Experienced Financial Services professional with 30 years experience with a demonstrated history of working in financial services, business transformation and the outsourcing industry. Highly skilled in Business Transformation, Operations Management, People Management and Contact Centres. John is an operations professional with a track record of delivering operational improvement and customer satisfaction.
In his spare time John likes to spend time with his family, travel and play golf.
About this show
John and Angela have worked together before so the rapport is there and it makes for a deeper conversion.
John opens up about the different organisations he has worked for and why ATOS is helping him flourish because he is able to share his opinions and this is actively encouraged.
He honestly shares his experience with a mental health challenge and what this led him to understand about himself, and how to take care of his wellbeing.
The pair discuss how to engage people and how to build a culture around empowerment and integrity.
John has even trained as a life coach which obviously kept Angela on her toes.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela 121 or for her corporate offer visit
To find out about online programmes and the Projext Me Academy Membership Group visit
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela intreviewing Orega CEO, Zach Douglas
About our guest
Orega is the UK’s leading independent serviced office provider with 18 locations across the UK.
Established in 2000, by Zachary Douglas and Paul Finch, Orega has almost two decades experience developing a unique approach to serviced offices.
The very first Orega business centre opened its doors in 2001. Since then, Orega have established a reputation for creating contemporary working environments with a focus on delivering unrivalled customer service to all of our clients.
About this show
Zach says one of his proudest moments is starting Orega over 20 years, he was in a good corporate job but felt there was more to life. He wanted to make decisions for himself and make a difference to people. The early start up years were difficult but looking back at a company that now employs over 90 people, operates up and down the country, has won awards, is a fair and decent employer and delivers great customer service makes him proud.
His early life after school was completely different to now. For nearly 10 years his day job was a boat builder and his night job was playing in rock bands. In his 20's he went to night school to study business after struggling at school with dyslexia, that in those days went undiagnosed.
Zach is a keen cyclist and Orega are sponsors of a Uganda charity that supports 240 children. Every year they raise funds by cycling over 450 miles around different countries. The money they raise supports the children in the charity for another year.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Zach https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-douglas-3846271/
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela 121 or for her corporate offer visit
To find out about online programmes and the Projext Me Academy Membership Group visit
Http://mindsetmentor.podia.com
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Prerna Goel, Head of Customer Experience at Clearbank.
About our guest
Prerna Goel is a senior operations executive who has over 17 years of experience in banking, technology and payments across India, US, Canada and UK. She was awarded Electronic Transaction Association forty under 40 in 2020, a global recognition for pioneers in the world of payments.
She has co-founded Vriksh Impact Partners, a boutique investment and advisory firm curating early stage plant-based businesses in India and Clinica Fai, a eye and face enhancement clinic offering state of the art oculofacial aesthetic services to patients globally.
Additionally, Prerna works at ClearBank®(London) as Head of Customer Experience, where Prerna is responsible for delivering a smooth experience across the customer lifecycle. Being one of the initial members of the ClearBank® team, she has helped the Bank mobilise its license in 2016 to grow into one of the leading disruptors within the banking and payments industry. Prior to ClearBank®, Prerna was the Head of Payment Operations at Metro Bank, (London), driving excellence across the bank's entire payment journey, from process refinement to product delivery.
Before Metro, Prerna worked at Capital One where she delivered numerous transformational projects and traversed various countries (US, Canada and UK). It was at Capital One that she pioneered the UK business risk office’s implementation of LEAN culture across organisation-wide processes. It was also during her time at Capital One that Prerna set up the Digital Operations function in Toronto and led the Canadian Customer Acquisition Operations team through significant growth and expansion. Prior to an internationally diverse experience at Capital One, Prerna spent five years in Leveraged Finance at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Toronto) and three years as a software developer at Texas Instruments (Bangalore). Prerna laid the foundation for her career at BITS, Pilani (India) where she received her BEng (Hons.) in Computer Science, followed by an MBA (Finance) at Smith School of Business (Queen’s University), Canada.
While not working, you can spot her enthusiasm for new adventures as she hikes through unexplored parts of the world with her cherished camera in hand and her dogs, Picasso and Dali, in tow.
About this show
Prerna talks about her schooling in India and how she came first in the state for her 12th year (equivalent to A-levels) in over 3 million students! It was the first time for someone in her school and it was the point in her life where she realised she could achieve something big and significant.
She talks about her 40th birthday bucket list and how 2020 has put a pause in her plans. She says it is important to have a bucket list, not because it motivates you to achieve certain things but it also teaches you how to deal with disappointment if you do not achieve it.
Prerna talks about how it is never easy to put yourself out of your comfort zone. When she started her own business she worried whether people would want to listen to what she had to say and offer.
She says lockdown has given us all the time to focus on our inner thoughts that we don't usually get the time for. Time to reflect on your own life and your own choices. Her motto is we should all take a leap of faith, what's the worst that can happen.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Prerna https://www.linkedin.com/in/goelprerna/
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
You can purchase Angela’s book, Enough here...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-proves-achieve-anything-believe-ebook/dp/B07D3RZH8J/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585036301&sr=8-4
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Ruth Penfold, Launchpad BP.
About our guest
Ruth has spent the past few years building technology businesses from a People standpoint (Shazam and Onfido) is now working with Launchpad, BP's new business builder. Powered by plants, water and joy, Ruth believes passionately in the emerging role of People practice within businesses, and sees a huge opportunity to help businesses tap into creating the right environments for the people of tomorrow, whilst retaining the people for today.
About this show
Ruth says her proud moments are more about feelings and sharing your truth with others and that other peoples actions are her inspiration.
She talks about how as a child her thinking was that she was not good enough and that led her to enter into a toxic relationship that lasted until her 30's. It was after that relationship ended she started to trust herself with the decisions she was making and made a total commitment to herself.
Ruth feels that you don't have to have a leadership role to be a leader, lead from where you stand, lead on issues that matter to you, find your voice in other ways. Start wherever you are.
Her biggest lesson she has learnt over the last 10 years, is that she is great just as she is.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Ruth https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthpenfold/
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
You can purchase Angela’s book, Enough here...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-proves-achieve-anything-believe-ebook/dp/B07D3RZH8J/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585036301&sr=8-4
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Lou Banks, CEO, Rising Vibe.
About our guest
With 25 years of experience in operations and business coaching, Lou Banks is Founder and CEO of Rising Vibe Ltd and has developed one mission – to use emotion to drive change. It’s about being ok, with not being ok. It’s about building trust so that we feel safe to share how we really feel. It’s about feeling better so that we do better. Getting to grips with emotion is the game-changer that can allow us to reach our true potential. Lou speaks to the individual. An articulate, high energy communicator, she gets right to the heart of the issue, unafraid to challenge and quick to inspire. She makes real connections with real people, challenging mindset to enhance performance, balancing soft skills with a heavy dose of reality.
About this show
Lou talks about being in the British Gymnastics team when she was 14 and how the mindset of that time has carried forward into her business career.
She says that she "fell" into the corporate world after first starting out as an aerobics instructor. A PA at B&Q was the first port of call and Lou describes herself as someone who always challenges, a trait that was not always well received.
Lou says her biggest lesson is when things go wrong, think about what could go better. It doesn't have to be a big change, she says that 1% of change is often enough.
Championing men through her ’call out the men’ brother brand, Lou is committed to ensuring men don't get left behind when it comes to emotional wellbeing.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Lou https://www.linkedin.com/in/lou-banks-30172b18/
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
You can purchase Angela’s book, Enough here...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-proves-achieve-anything-believe-ebook/dp/B07D3RZH8J/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585036301&sr=8-4
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Dean Noble, Cyber Security Expert.
About our guest
A cyber security professional with 20 years’ experience defending organisations, their staff and their customers from cyber threats.
Dean has analysed and assessed the security of multiple organisations, across multiple sectors, including some of the largest financial institutions in the world and gone on to implement security improvement programmes, significantly improving the security of those organisations.
In his spare time Dean likes to travel, enjoys outdoor pursuits and occasionally mentions that he did an ‘Iron Man’.
About this show
Dean admits that he finds it hard to be proud of what he has achieved, he sets himself a challenge but always thinks he could do better. He says his wonderful wife is the one who reminds him and without her support he would never have achieved competing in an Iron Man.
Fear of failure is at the forefront of his mind, sharing his goals and ideas with the people around him are what keeps him motivated.
Dean says that every Monday morning he wants to wake up and look forward to going into work. The beauty of being a contractor means he can do just that. He says that he can choose to do what he wants to do and is very fortunate.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Dean https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-noble-ncs-ltd/
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
You can purchase Angela’s book, Enough here...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-proves-achieve-anything-believe-ebook/dp/B07D3RZH8J/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585036301&sr=8-4
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Bea Wray, Renowned Speaker and Best-Selling Author.
About our guest
Bea Wray’s constant faith, carefree optimism, servant’s heart and a strong sense of commitment, paired with a relentless determination are qualities that led her to be a forerunner of female empowerment.
Despite earning degrees from both Harvard Business School and Emory University, when her 18-year marriage failed, Bea found herself confused, shouldering $700,000 of personal debt, and struggling alone to take care of and financially provide for her three young kids. Bea never gave up or admitted defeat.
After years of hard work, Bea dug herself out of debt and has wowed the corporate world with leadership, organizational and sales talents. Today she is a coveted speaker, author and business consultant.
About this show
Bea talks about how she decided to take 4 children on her own for 90 days travelling across Australia and says that she has more guts than sense.
When working in publishing she never imagined she would publish a book herself as she knew how hard it was but with the help and advice from a friend, that she first thought was the wrong advice, she ended up with 3 publishing deals.
Bea says that sometimes what may seem like a problem in your life can turn out to be one of your greatest successes.
When Bea was asked how she faced all the adversity she did with a smile on her face, her response was “well I can’t do it with a frown.”
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Bea http://www.linkedin.com/in/bea-wray-ab6a6717
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
Angela's online courses http://mindsetmentor.podia.com
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Helen Kings, Managing Director, Touchstone.
About our guest
Helen is Managing Director at Touchstone, an award winning residential property management company, and also non exec director of Cirencester Housing. Prior to working in the residential real estate sector, she worked in a number of facilities management roles at Compass Group.
Helen has a specialist interest in building communities, housing management and client interaction, with an overarching focus on customer experience. She is an experienced director, and has recently completed a certificate in Company Direction with the Institute of Directors.
Helen is also a member of the British Property Foundation Residential Board. She was also recently recognised as a “Leading Light” for kindness in leadership, a RESI Trailblazer, and was a finalist at the 2019 Women of the Future awards.
About this show
Helen ran a kid’s summer camp in her late teens and one day realised she didn't have enough money to pay the staff wages. This was the moment that made her determined to learn how to operate a business. A graduate scheme in Aldi gave her this grounding and this focussed mum of two, is now proud MD of Touchstone.
Helen credits her parents for being great role models. Her Mum, was a teacher and always showing kindness, volunteering and supporting others, which Helen herself continues to do. She describes her Dad has a humble man, who she knew went off to London to work but had no idea what he did. The day she visited him at work and saw what a successful business looked like was the day that confirmed that she wanted to do the same.
She talks about not winning sales bids and how soul destroying that can be but that you pick yourself up and move on.
Helen says she definitely has moments of imposter syndrome and has a mantra that thoughts are not reality. She says she acknowledges the worry and moves on. As a perfectionist, she knows she can ruminate on decisions far too long so that sometimes ‘done is better than perfect’.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Helen https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenlouisekings/
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
You can purchase Angela’s book, Enough here...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-proves-achieve-anything-believe-ebook/dp/B07D3RZH8J/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585036301&sr=8-4
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mindset Mentor Meets Podcast which hears Angela interviewing Ben Coomber, Performance Nutritionist and Fitness Educator.
About our guest
Ben is a Performance Nutritionist (CISSN), coach (S&C), international speaker and fitness educator. Ben has the UK’s #1 rated podcast Ben Coomber Radio, has coached 1000s of people, has consulted and worked with everyone from pro athletes to kids playing sport, educates the nutrition coaches of the future at The BTN Academy, has worked with companies like Sky TV, O2 and Twinnings Tea, has been a headline speaker at Body Power, SFN and Be Fit for many years, and continues to try educate and innovate in the world of fitness. This all stemmed from his journey as an obese teenager wanting to better his health, body and mind.
About this show
Standing up in his office, Ben is like a energy powerhouse as he provides an honest account of the time building his business, the lessons he has learnt and the adversity he has faced.
As a new Dad, he is well and truly experiencing the change curve and his way of combining parenting with other responsibilities is refreshing. He believes it's impossible to have success in all areas of life when a big change happens and it's the acceptance of this that has helped him to thrive.
His path to running the thriving business and number one podcast has not been without it's share of squiggly lines and it's heartening to hear how his resilience has helped him to find his way back on course each time.
A man known for his knowledge and expertise in the fitness industry was once an obese teenager and like many, he had a turning point. He left boarding school and wanted to be an actor. The rejection during this phase made him look very closely at himself and decide to focus on becoming the best version of himself.
An uplifting and inspiring half hour.
Follow Ben http:www.instagram.com/bencoomber
About the Host
Angela Cox, Mindset Mentor is an award-winning behavioural change life coach. She works with leaders and professionals helping them to stop being stuck, build the belief and unleash their absolute potential.
To find out more about working with Angela visit http://www.angela-cox.co.uk
To follow on social media
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacoxmindsetmentor
http://www.instagram.com/mindset_mentor_angela_cox
http://www.facebook.com/mindsetmentorangelacox
Angela's online courses http://mindsetmentor.podia.com