James and Stephen chat to Jessica Flinn about the growth of her jewellery businesses and how she's done things differently to the norm.

She tells us about her 20% rule and how it keeps the brand on its toes!

Plus we dig into some talk about where Sheffield is heading.

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James and Stephen head to Victoria Quays to visit Rebecca Knight at Ovo Spaces. On the agenda for discussion is how workspaces have changed, how businesses use their offices now, and what the workplace of the future might look like. It's great to hear more about Rebecca's journey as well, along with her role with the Sheffield Property Association, and to explore some other topics including the area around Victoria Quays and the impact of an office on business culture.

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Steel City Business UNCUT returns for 2025 and our first guest of the year is the awesome Hannah Duraid.

You may know her for The Great Escape, Gameshow Allstars, Sheffield Business Runners - or maybe one of the other many things she's involved in. Or maybe you don't know her at all yet.

Regardless, you'll learn something new about Hannah in this conversation with James and Stephen.

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James and Stephen meet Jan Gardner, Strategy Partner at Pavement Creative.

We explore Jan's journey including two spells at Jaywing among other roles.

Among the topics of conversations are home working - something Jan has been an advocate of since long before the lockdown days.

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Charlotte is celebrating 25 years in PR this year (congrats!)

So we got together for a look back over her career so far, including her perhaps inventing podcasting before it was a thing.

We discuss how things have changed and what the future of communications might have in store.

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James and Stephen chat to B2B sales and marketing specialist Rob Taylor.

It's not all sales and marketing chat though - they discuss Rob's niche in working closely with businesses in the lubrication space, his early working life in the music and entertainment industry, all things Sheffield, and his community Dads in Business.

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This episode was recorded at the offices of the wonderful Ride Shotgun.

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We're in Sheffield's start-up world for this episode of Steel City Business.

James meets Daniel Blaney to talk about the story of Ferrio, but also to discuss his role as organiser of the Sheffield Start-Up Meet-Up.

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Steel City Business heads in a different direction in this episode as we chat to Tim Neale about his journey to Rise & Shine.

It all starts with being told off for something he didn't do at junior school.

You'll here reference to another podcast James and Tim recorded together during this episode and you can find that here > https://player.captivate.fm/episode/85859c17-3a99-4db4-b259-0ecd94ef657f/

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