Your Business Hour

Hosted by Chantal Baker

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May 2026

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Your Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as considering the latest topics in business and finance. New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on: Instagram: @your.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

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May 26, 202643 min

172 – Fundraising for St Piers School and College in Lingfield

Hannah Welton is part of the fundraising team, raising funds for St Piers School and College in Lingfield and her role also includes building relationships with the local community. St Piers is a specialised school for children and young people living with special educational needs and some also have epilepsy.Hannah shares some amazing stories about the school, the college and some of the pupils. It really is an amazing environment. She informs us of some of the events they have coming up and how you can get involved too. Find out more at www.stpiers.org.ukYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

May 19, 202643 min

171 – How AI can help business owners scale smarter

Ritam Gandhi is the founder and director of Studio Graphene, a digital product studio that partners with growth stage businesses to design and build AI-native digital products. In today’s world AI is in every business, no matter how big or small it is. Ritam embraces this and explains how each business can use AI to help it grow and some tips on how you can include AI in your business. Ritam explains to us how a business owners gets started and what it does in order to build AI-native digital products.Find out more at www.studiographene.comYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

May 12, 202651 min

170 – Importance of collaborations and how to do them

Gary is the owner of The Missing Linke which is an agency that focuses mainly on sport.Verena heads up the Kit Funder project through My Club Group.These two individuals have collaborated and are building an amazing initiative that supports grassroots sports in the community.We discussed various matters including the importance of collaborations and how to build collaborations in order to allow your business to grow.Find out more at www.myclubgroup.com/kit-funder/Your Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

May 5, 202650 min

169 - An essential listen for all SMEs in Surrey

Charlotte Webb is a project manager at Surrey Chambers of Commerce, where she leads the Source in Surrey initiative – a programme dedicated to helping local SMEs connect, collaborate and grow through stronger supply-chain relationships and community-driven networking. Source in Surrey run some amazing events that collaborate training and networking. Without these two essential skills your business may find it difficult to grow. Listen to the podcast to find some tips in growing your business and in networking as well as how to get onto these training courses.Find out more at www.surrey-chambers.co.ukYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

April 7, 202650 min

168 – Starting and building a bespoke fashion label

Liane Spencer-Graham has always wanted to be a fashion designer since a young age. She has been able to gain a wealth of experience in the fashion world which has enabled her to start her own fashion label.Her business does not follow the normal structure of a fashion label and so her ideas are different to the norm. Her sustainable fashion label has meant that every part of her product is sustainable as well as being timeless.You can find our more at https://loreleilondon.comYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

March 31, 202654 min

167 - Two strangers start an award winning community micro pub

Ash and Ian had never met before, one day fate brought them together and they started a micro pub in Warlingham, Surrey – Ales On The Green. Their passion for their community is what brought them together.Our chat discovers how they met, how they structure their business and their aims and ambitions. Their stories are truly entertaining.You can find out more about what they do by subscribing to their newsletter at https://alesonthegreen.comYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

March 9, 202647 min

166 - Unlock who you truly are and lead from that place

Will Steel is a transformational leadership coach, author of Free To Lead and the host of the Free To Lead podcast – where entrepreneurs, founders and world leaders uncover what’s truly holding them back and step into the power of authentic leadership.Will shares details of his coaching and discusses with Chantal matters that may be holding her back from writing her book – it does get interesting!You can find out more at www.willsteel.comYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

March 2, 202649 min

165 - Turning a business around from an ‘at risk’ centre with poor reputation to a 5 star award winning centre

Fiona Tothill is a ‘hands on’ proprietor of Kingsmead Equestrian Centre which she has run with her family for nearly 14 years. Through our chat with Fiona you can hear her passion, her love of horses and her natural ability to talk and understand the horses. Such insightful and touching stories were also shares.You can find out more at www.kingsmeadhorses.co.uk Your Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

February 23, 202652 min

164 - Fail, pivot and scale – grow your business

Matteo Turi is a finance leader, investor and bord advisor who has spent nearly two decades working with businesses at pivotal moments of growth.Matteo shares his experiences from being on both sides of the table to enable a business to grow. Matteo explains his High Valuation Triangle, a model he applies to the five stages of business: startup, scale-up, stagnation, crisis and exit.You can find Matteo at www.youtube.com/@matteoturiYour Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour

February 17, 202653 min

163 – Setting up a niche business

Emma Regan is the founder of Strength & Bloom, a women’s strength and wellness brand based in Surrey. In chatting to Emma we learned about how she started her business, how her passion about cutting through noise in women’s health has also led to her a podcast, retreats and much more. Emma shares her stories, benefits of opening a gym and why she decided to start a women’s only gym. I love Emma’s quote of ‘training for my older body'.You can find out more at www.andbloom.uk Your Business Hour podcast is hosted by the founders of Champ Consultants, Chantal and Matthew Baker. They are both accountants and bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and business tips to their chat. They interview guests who tell their business stories, as well as consider the latest topics in business and finance.New podcasts are released weekly on a Tuesday and you can follow us on:Instagram: @your.businesshourFacebook: @your.businesshour