Want To Take Your Business Global? Real Advice From UK Founders Who Did It
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This episode of High Performance is in partnership with The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and The UK Export Academy.
In the special episode, Jake Humphrey leads a powerful roundtable conversation exploring the real challenges and rewards of expanding your business internationally.
Featuring voices from the UK Export Academy and a range of inspiring UK entrepreneurs, the episode dives into practical advice, cultural insights, and personal stories from those who've successfully taken their businesses global.
The UK Export Academy is a free training program designed to help UK businesses expand into international markets, increasing their reach and profitability by tapping into new overseas customers.
If you would like to know anything else about taking your business global, or to sign up to the free UK Export Academy, click the link here: great.gov.uk/campaign-site/global
This episode features Mark Burkett, Trade Advisor at the UK Export Academy, Raj Theper, Adviser at the UK Export Academy, Laura Ward, founder of EXEAT, Lyndsay Mitcheson, founder of Neo Walk, Saul Parker, co-founder and CEO of The Good Side, and Elizabeth Lamb, Managing Director of The Data Escape Room"
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| 0:00.0 | If you love high performance, next week's episodes are available early, exclusively on our high performance app. |
| 0:06.6 | Out now, an emotional conversation with Newcastle and England striker, Callum Wilson. |
| 0:14.4 | Hi there, welcome to a one-off exclusive episode of the High Performance podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | This episode is in partnership with the Department of Business |
| 0:21.4 | and Trade and their absolutely incredible UK Export Academy. Now, growing businesses overseas is |
| 0:27.6 | something that I've been excited about and interested in for a long time. So when the opportunity |
| 0:31.7 | a few weeks ago came up to partner with the UK Export Academy, I was so keen to make it happen. |
| 0:37.1 | Because I believe the world |
| 0:38.0 | has never been smaller. The opportunities have never been greater. But actually, the amount of |
| 0:42.3 | information has never been so overwhelming. So over the past couple of weeks, if you listen to this |
| 0:47.8 | show regularly, you'll know that I've been chatting to experts from the UK Export Academy |
| 0:52.2 | itself and business owners across the UK who are all at different |
| 0:55.7 | levels of international trade. But for today, for this special episode, we've got something a little |
| 1:00.3 | bit different. A live conversation in front of a live audience. Hello, live audience. |
| 1:06.5 | There they are. There's 6,000 of them in this room. There's 40 carefully hand-picked members of the audience today. |
| 1:13.5 | And we're hoping for them and for you listening at home, we can give you as much value, |
| 1:17.4 | as much insight and as much information as possible to help you take your business to the next level. |
| 1:22.9 | The kind of information that I honestly wish was available to me a few years ago, |
| 1:27.4 | but I can't do this on my |
| 1:28.8 | own. So not only am I joined by a couple of experts from the UK Export Academy, but also some |
| 1:35.3 | entrepreneurs and some business owners who have all experienced what it's like to grow overseas. |
| 1:40.8 | So welcome, everybody. Please put your hands together for our awesome panellists today. |
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