Happy Millionaire is a brand-new podcast about building startups and having a great life. Hosted by Jay Radia, a UK startup veteran who has built businesses worth over £500m, and Dr Rupy Aujla, an OG podcaster and TV personality, beginning his own tech founder journey. The show features frameworks & principles for building a successful company whilst living a happy life, plus lots of laughs and banter! ⚡️ Listen on Apple ⚡️ Listen on other players

Energy vs time management, internal psychological conflicts and the 4 rules to being a dad are just a few of this episode’s highlights. Amrit is joined by Ross Shiel - currently SVP of Global Revenue at Infogrid, he formerly worked at Twitter and Stride.   Keep up to date with everything Startup Dads related on Twitter -  https://twitter.com/startupdadspod/   Check out Infogrid: https://www.infogrid.io/   This week’s Startup Shout-Outs:   Butter.us - software platform for engaging online...

An episode from our friends at Founders Uncut this week! We hope you enjoy... On the outside, it probably seemed that Tom was living his best life. The reality was very different. Tom grew Monzo from 0 to over 2,000 employees and was one of the youngest CEOs of a UK regulated bank ever. He raised over $500M on the Monzo journey and over 5 million people use the product they built at Monzo. Tom was also a co-founder of GoCardless. Today, Tom Blomfield is a prolific angel, and a visiting...

After a successful career in digital media, Jacob Waern became the CEO and founder of eduMe, a groundbreaking platform offering mobile training for desk-less workforces. Tune in to listen to Jacob’s fascinating takes on the importance of staying present with your team and family, the transition from corporate CEO to startup founder and how quick decision-making and transparency are vital when taking a company through prolonged crises.    Keep up to date with everything Startup Dads related on...

“One of the biggest differentials in success is the combination of curiosity and mental toughness.”  Welcome Piers Ridyard; the first crypto guest on Startup Dads. In today’s chat with Amrit, Piers talks about the importance of honouring your commitments as a CEO and a dad, the weight of your words and the power of separating your ideas from yourself. This episode gets pretty intellectual! Piers Ridyard is the CEO of RDX Works, the only decentralized network where developers will be able to...

“I genuinely believe that failure can become a superpower". Prior to founding Boost Technology, Mike was a co-founder and CEO of Zoona, one of Africa's earliest fintechs, having processed $2.5 billion of transactions, generated $26 million in income for 3,000 micro-entrepreneurs across Zambia and Malawi, and raised $35 million in investment. He is also the author of Failing to Win: Hard-Earned Lessons from a Purpose-Driven Start-Up. Raised in Calgary, he has lived in Ghana, Zambia, South...

“The definition of happiness is reality exceeding expectations.”  A lover of numbers and people, Reshma Sohoni is continuously excited to see hard work and game changing connections come together. Her team helps push early stage founders through those difficult early days into being household names. In today’s chat with Amrit, Reshma talks about giving up the CEO title, the zero sum versus positive sum delegation, how success changes you and engineering a legacy for your business. Reshma...

A guest that needs no introduction, Dan Murray-Serter! You may know him as host of Secret Leaders, the UK’s #1 Business Podcast, and co-founder of wellness company Heights. Alongside this he’s an angel investor, and he helps other founders succeed through his startup network Foundrs. In this episode, Dan explains how he discovered that feeding his brain with proper nutrition cured his chronic insomnia and paved the way for Heights. Amrit and Dan also explore how, not taking care of your own...

“Why am I so driven and ambitious? It’s because I’m in a job that I really love doing and I’ve got a big ambition for it.”  Operating as a bellwether for motivation and business, Polly McMaster exhibits a refreshing hunger for novelty and diversity while displaying a relentless dedication to offering options to women that ensure confidence and gravitas in all aspects of their lifestyle.   In today’s chat with Amrit, Polly McMaster talks about understanding yourself when making compromises as...

“You think a lot about what happens if it goes badly, but no one tells you about what happens if it goes well.”  Self-professed workaholic, Jimmy Williams has set out to build a team capable of turning the insurance industry on its head. He leads on strategy, people and investor relations, but loves rolling his sleeves up and diving into the business. In today’s chat with Amrit, Jimmy Williams talks about his views on remote work, the relationship with his co-founder and cultivating the right...

“You build much better relationships with people if you’re able to show a bit of vulnerability” . Proud to make a positive difference to the world we live in, Ruth Handcock is passionate about reducing the stress that people feel managing their finances by harnessing technology to improve access to financial services and financial advice. In today’s chat with Amrit, Ruth Handcock talks about work life blend vs work life balance, feedback loops and experimentation in startups and parenting and...

“We have really good quality time at the end of the day - that works for us as a family.”  In today’s chat with Amrit, Sam and Sophie talk about how to make family time, romantic notions versus practical reality, juggling glass balls and plastic balls and creating a business in the image of your clients. Sam Gordon and Sophie Eden are the co-founders of Gordon & Eden, an Executive Search & Interim Management firm that work closely with both early stage and corporate clients, helping...

“There's going to be an explosion of creativity now that the tools are available, the capital is increasingly available in various ways and I just call that the entrepreneurial age.” Globetrotter Gerard Grech, has been passionate about conceiving and building impactful products and services throughout his career. In this chat with Amrit, Gerard talks about the two biggest inhibitors of growth in startups, insights into different startup cultures from across the world, using your people teams...

Can you still succeed when profit isn’t your primary motivation? Today’s guest shows us that you can. In this episode she tells us how staying true to your purpose can do a whole lot of good for your bottom line, and in her case - a whole lot of good for the world. Tessa is the founder of Olio: the app that connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses, so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. In this conversation with Amrit they discuss how she built Olio from home...

Fred Destin is the founder of Stride.VC, a London-based seed-stage tech fund that is made up of a team of dedicated venture investors backing small teams of passionate entrepreneurs. He was also the lead investor and board member for companies such as Cazoo, Zoopla, Deliveroo, Pillpack, Integral Ads, Secret Escapes and others. His portfolio has a total enterprise value of more than $20BN. In this episode, Amrit and Fred explore using risk to help your children develop, ritual forming as a way...

Matt Reynolds is a founder, strength coach and family man. In this episode, Matt explains how it all gets done...with time left over at the end of the day.

Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and VC who’s founded multiple companies, runs an accelerator, and keeps coming back for more. In this episode, Amrit asks - why go through such a testing process of starting a company from scratch time and time again? Well, he’s also father to three kids, so is clearly comfortable with adapting to new challenges!

Welcoming our first startup mum this week… Rachel Carrell! Rachel is the founder and CEO of Koru Kids, a childcare tech startup. It was only when Rachel had her first baby that she realised how limited childcare options were in London. The idea for Koru Kids was born out of her frustrations! In this episode, Rachel and Amrit examine the many parallels between managing a team and bringing up kids, such as making sure they both have autonomy and purpose. Rachel also gives us some insights on...

Ben Hay leads operations at Collective Benefits, a rapidly-growing insurtech on a mission to make independent work, work for everyone. It’s a noble path, and one that found Ben rather than the other way round! In his chat with Amrit, Ben discusses the importance of generosity, building a great network and not being afraid to reach out for help.  Keep up to date with everything Startup Dads related on Twitter -  https://twitter.com/startupdadspod/ A Fascinate Production. 

"People don't rise to the level of their ambitions, they fall to the level of their routines." Self confessed routine obsessive Josh Wöhle has been optimising his routine for the past decade, to make the biggest impact possible on the world whilst maintaining a happy life.  In this chat with Amrit, Joshua explains how founders rarely scale as fast as their businesses, the importance of integrating some slack into your system, and gives us his useful definition for success as a...

Anastasia Lang is the CEO and founder of Creative X, a successful marketing analytics company born out of the e-commerce platform Hatch.co. Tune in to listen to Anastasia’s rich insights on moving between discovery, comfort and danger zones in the Startup journey, the need for flexibility of priorities between family life and business on a day-to-day basis, and the importance of changing perceptions on pregnancy and parenting leave in the Startup universe.  Keep up to date with everything...

Paul Wickers is the founder and CEO of Huggg, a b2b gifting startup that has made it easy for you to reward employees, customers and clients with gifts they’ll love. He’s also a dad to 4 kids. Tune in about what it means to create a leveraged version of yourself through your startup and the vulnerability that comes with, learning to embrace lack of mastery as a CEO and a crazy story about laptops in the labour room.  Keep up to date with everything Startup Dads related on Twitter -...

Father of three Saul Klein guides us through his journey in the world of entrepreneurship as an investor in Index Ventures, a VP at Skype and Co-Founder of venture capital firm Localglobe. He chats with Amrit about the importance of defining long term priorities, the high value of emotional soft-skills, and the entrepreneurial gene. Keep up to date with everything https://twitter.com/startupdadspod/ (Startup Dads related on Twitter) Check out https://localglobe.vc/ (Localglobe) This week’s...

Jonathan Wolf is the founder of Zoe, a health-tech start up that uses science and artificial intelligence to help people feel healthier and lose weight without dieting. Earlier in his career, he was also chief product officer at Criteo - helping to transform it from a 30 person startup to a Nasdaq listed company, bringing in over 1 billion dollars of revenue per year. Suffice to say this is a founder who really his stuff, and we’re blessed to have him here to share some of his knowledge and...