Your Business Hour

Hosted by Chantal Baker

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Aug 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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September 1, 202653 min

182 - How to get content for your social media

Christina Moore is the founder and managing director of Don’t Skip Media and a Lovie Award-winning executive producer. Through Don’t Skip Media, Christina helps organisations apply the same principles used by BBC, Apple and others to their own content, making it easier to discover, easier to trust and more closely aligned with business goals. During our conversation, Christina shares with us how to discover content needed, to work on strategy and tactics. We find out how to know which platforms to use for your business as well. You can find Christina at https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinahmoore/ 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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

August 25, 202650 min

181 – Financial planning is not just for the wealthy

Naila has worked in Financial Services since 2007 in roles ranging from Private Banker to Wealth Manager. During our conversation Naila shares with us different types of possible investments and how anyone can benefit from these. All advice and examples provided are just for information purposes and should not be relied upon as an means for investment. Always seek professional independent advice before making any type of investment or financial planning. You can find Naila at www.akprivatewealth.com 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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

August 18, 202643 min

180 – The Orpheus Centre

Moira joined the Orpheus centre in summer 2016 and is the Chief Operating officer. She brings over 20 years of experience in fundraising, marketing and communications across the charity sector. Moira shares with us the stories of the Orpheus centre, what they do and how they help young adults as well as sharing with us their future plans. You can find our more about The Orpheus Centre at www.orpheus.org.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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

August 11, 202655 min

179 – Make your brand stand out

Kieran Cameron is the founding editor of Brand Cult, the UKs first award-winning print-only business newspaper and founder of House Of Cult Brands, a London design studio that creates bespoke newspapers for brands, campaigns and events. During our conversation Kieran shares with us how she was able to get big brands on board such as Virgin and Canva as well as how she makes her business newspaper stand out – not what you expect! You can find Kiran at www.brandcult.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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

August 4, 202654 min

178 – A framework for building sustainable businesses to establish investment

Andy Hooper is an investor, entrepreneur and international speaker passionate about helping e-commerce brands and SMEs scale globally. He has bought and sold many businesses and shares some great methods with us. Andy has developed frameworks like STEMS, OATS and GEP which he discusses with us and explains what they are. You can find Andy at www.linkedin.com/in/andyghooper/ 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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

July 28, 202654 min

177 - What can your business do to help itself with AI

Alex Leathard has a deep curiosity and love for solving complex problems. As an independent consultant, he helps organisations achieve meaningful data and AI success through a human-centric, ethical, and values-led lens. AI is such a complex area and many business owners are scared of it but in our discussion with Alex we look at ‘what is AI?’ ‘what can organisations do to help themselves with AI?’ and much more You can find Alex at www.hecaton.consulting 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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

July 14, 202652 min

176 – How to be a Rich Retiree

Hannah Martin is the founder of Rich Riteree, a website that helps women over the age of 45 prepare emotionally, physically and financially for retirement. Hannah has spent the last 13 years helping women balance motherhood with careers and start businesses on her website Talented Ladies club, growing a global audience of over 120,000 monthly readers. Hannah chat with us about how we can become a rich retiree and the four pillars of this, being health, monty, community and purpose and how we can achieve it. You can find Hannah at www.richretiree.com and www.talentedladiesclub.com 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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

July 7, 202653 min

175 - Your business is not too small to have the problems as big ones

Rich Marsh has a wealth of experience in the corporate world and various industries. It is this wealth of knowledge that enables him to help business in their growth. Rich explains to us money lessons and people handling that is applicable to any business size. You can find Rich at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcmarsh/ 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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

June 30, 202650 min

174 – How to work as a founder

Mark Milsted has over 30 years of high-level leadership under his belt and knows exactly what it takes to success in the B2B space. As the founder of Performance Method, he acts as a strategic partner and fractional commercial director to leaders looking to refine their revenue operations and commercial strategy. Mark shares many tips with us especially in how to work as a founder. You can find Mark at www.performancemethod.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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour

June 23, 202651 min

173 - How to have a difficult conversation

Richard Shorter has spent the last decade helping high-performance schools, elite sports environments and leadership teams face the conversations that most people run from. Now he brings that experience to the workplace, where leadership lives or dies in the heart of dialogue. During our chat we discuss confidence and resilience, development and growth and Richard shares some tips on how to improve these. Those hard conversations are always hard no matter how experienced you are and so this is a brilliant listen for anyone, not just business owners. You can find Richard at www.non-perfectdad.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.businesshour Facebook: @your.businesshour