Summary
What help and support is available to people with a business dream? How do you develop the skills you need to run your own business? We hear from some entrepreneurs about the experience of turning their ideas into reality.
To share your experiences and any questions e-mail: [email protected]
Presenter Louise Cooper is joined by an expert panel:
• Lisa Wardlaw, College Delivery Manager, Young Enterprise Scotland • Julian Hall, founder, Ultra Education • Alison Edgar, The Entrepreneur's Godmother
Presenter: Louise Cooper Producer: Diane Richardson Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Alex Lewis
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? |
| 0:21.4 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.4 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:36.6 | Today, we're talking young enterprise. |
| 0:39.3 | It's been a tough year for young adults, hit hardest by the pandemic, most likely to have lost |
| 0:44.4 | work. But in this program, we'll be speaking to those who've decided to work for themselves |
| 0:47.9 | and start a business. In tough times, as Richard Branson once said, there are massive |
| 0:52.9 | opportunities and fortunes to be made. |
| 0:55.5 | So are you a young adult looking at the economic disruption caused by COVID and have come up with a great business idea? |
| 1:01.8 | What's holding you back? Fear, your age, funding, or maybe you just don't know where to start? |
| 1:06.9 | Our panel can help. Please email Moneybox at BBC.co.com with your ideas and experiences. |
| 1:15.1 | But first, let's talk to 20-year-old Blake from Birmingham. Hello, Blake. Hello. Hello. Good |
| 1:22.0 | afternoon and welcome to Moneybox Live. Let's go back. Thank you very much. Lovely to have you on. Now, let's go back to the first lockdown last March at the time |
| 1:30.9 | you were employed as a chef. So what happened? So basically, I was a chef at a restaurant in |
| 1:38.4 | Birmingham for about a year. And the first lockdown hit, I was working 12 hour days, six days a week and I had a side hustle on the side |
| 1:48.8 | named the Scranman. |
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