Indie Club Podcast with Tom Kozacinski

#14 From humble beginnings to building sales consultancy in London with Alberto Ares

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Alberto Ares Alberto began his career in technology sales in his early twenties to fund his university degree in Economics. Before founding Rev-Engine, Alberto held various sales and strategy roles for various organisations in the IT industry, including world-class advisory and research firm Gartner, where he focused exclusively on helping CEOs of emerging tech providers grow, Alberto also has worked for high growth technology startups and leading cloud businesses and holds a track record of success as well as numerous promotions in sales. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-ares-43594435/ WEB: https://www.rev-engine.co.uk Alberto writes about all aspects of selling. Sign up for the newsletter: Visit https://blog.rev-engine.co.uk ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

#13 Power of building a community with Sebastian Monadjemzadeh from cFinder

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Sebastian Monadjemzadeh Sebastian has the standard background of modern western society. Two parents that immigrated to Sweden from completely different countries; mother from Finland and a Persian father, he was born with three passports and an identity crisis. He is coping with all this by constantly trying to challenge his intellect and finding fun new sparring partners to discuss politics, philosophy and the latest Ricky Gervais show. Sebastian has a problem with corporate BS so naturally, he is now working with a start-up called cfinder. A community and marketplace for freelancers in tech. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-monadjemzadeh-73562a57/ WEB: https://cfinder.com/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

#12 SaaS Marketer Extraordinaire with Tom Hunt from bCast

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Tom Hunt Tom is the founder of SaaS Marketer and bCast. He loves tequila, the internet and his puppy Bear. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhuntio/ WEB: https://saasmarketer.io/ WEB: http://bcast.fm/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

#11 Building community that supports the mental health of freelancers with Matthew Knight from Leapers

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Matthew Knight Matt is a creative strategist and innovator, with over 25 years of experience in creative, technology, brand and product, and running teams which deliver progressive and impactful work. He is also the founder of Leapers.co - a community for freelancers, with the aim to create awareness, discussion, prioritisation and adoption of positive behaviours to support your mental health at work when you’re self-employed. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thinkplaymake/ TW: https://twitter.com/thinkplaymake WEB: https://www.leapers.co/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music, Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation, David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!

#10 Creative building a Tech Startup with Dan Parry of Tectonic

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general. Episode guest - Dan Parry Dan Parry is a creative (though he hates the term). A non-technical technical person. And a Co-Founder of a customer insights business he started with his brother and friend. Falling in love with Nintendo at a young age, Dan decided early on that he wanted to make videogames. But after struggling with coding, he took a different direction. And now? Well, he builds businesses and helps founders overcome challenges they've navigated and overcome. Over the years, Dan has also come to become very interested in building apps without code. He still dabbles in a little game development, too. LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkparry/ TW: https://twitter.com/yodanparry/ WEB: https://tectoniclondon.com/ ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY: Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers. We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way. Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation: Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/ Connect with Tom on Social Networks: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo About Tom: Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. London based Product Design Consultant, speaker, Techstars mentor and stand-up comedian with over 14 years of experience across the digital and organisational landscape. Tom is a founder of Indie Club and is a strong advocate of Freelancing and Remote work, also, Creative Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, sharing stories from his experience and other people on a similar journey. He fancies himself to be a well-organised problem solver and a storyteller. You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/ CREDITS & THANKS: Stuart De Ville - Background music Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!