Steel City Business

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.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

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.Steel City Business is brought to you by conversational marketing experts Sound Media.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

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.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

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.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

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.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media and supported by The Kurious.This episode was recorded at the offices of the wonderful Ride Shotgun.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

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.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media and supported by The Kurious.This episode was recorded at the offices of the wonderful Ride Shotgun.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

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/Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media and supported by The Kurious.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

Maria Vardy joins James Marriott and Stephen Kenwright to talk all things agency in this episode of Steel City Business Uncut.Maria's had a long career in marketing dating back to the early 90s and we probe how things have changed - and interestingly, how they haven't.Among other topics of conversations are the rise of the fractional role, avoiding paralysis by analysis, and whether mega agencies are on a problematic path.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media and supported by The Kurious.This episode was recorded at the offices of the wonderful Ride Shotgun.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

Mattress Online has been going for more than 20 years.In that time, ecommerce has changed entirely, and the sleep industry has been through something of a revolution as well.Join CEO Steve Adams as he takes us a fascinating journey through the last two decades, including all the ups and downs including one moment where a simple coding error led to half the business' pages being wiped off Google.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media and supported by The Kurious.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business

Prepare to geek out a little bit in this episode, as James goes to meet Andy Jeffries, head of projects at Stream 7, a Sheffield based streaming business.We discover how much the lockdown years accelerated the development in the space, as well as finding out what kind of projects they work on - from annual company conferences to streaming live surgery in hospitals.Steel City Business is brought to you by audio marketing experts Sound Media and supported by The Kurious.Find all episodes and loads more about us at steelcity.business and get in touch by email to james@steelcity.business