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Welcome to the How It Is Podcast, where we tell you how it is!Dive into the realities of building a business, navigating the auto finance industry, and mastering compliance.
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The Brutal Reality of Becoming an Elite Swimmer (Burnout, Boarding School & Sacrifice) - Joel Knight (opens the original)
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Joel Knight shares the reality of life as an elite competitive swimmer, including the pressure of training inside a boarding school system, the hidden financial cost of chasing British and European honours, and the mental toll of pushing his body into overtraining.In this episode, Joel discusses breaking a British age group record and competing at the European Youth Olympics, what daily life was actually like as a swimmer at Millfield, and the moment his training stopped being about performance
SAMAs Winning Musician Built a £1.5M Company Using AI - Carina Bruwer (opens the original)
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How does a professional flautist with zero coding experience end up building a £1.5 million software platform using nothing but AI? In this episode of How It Is, John Rex sits down with South African keynote speaker, entrepreneur and open-water swimmer Carina Bruwer to unpack one of the most unlikely career stories we've covered on the show. Carina trained as a classical flautist from childhood, went on to win a SAMA (South African Music Award) with her instrumental crossover band Sterling EQ, a
Swimming through Jellyfish, Hypothermia and Electrocution - Carina Bruwer on Open Water Swimming (opens the original)
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What happens when the thing that nearly killed you is the same thing you go back to, again and again?In this episode of How It Is, South African entrepreneur, endurance swimmer, musician, motivational speaker and mum of three, Carina Bruwer, joins us for a virtual sit-down that goes from open water to open heart from advanced hypothermia and hallucinating the lost city of Atlantis mid-swim, to being electrocuted by a shark shield off Cape Point and stung by a jellyfish that left her temporarily
What employee benefits should your company have Vicky Jones on Death in Service, Mental Health Cover (opens the original)
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In this episode of How It Is, Vicky Jones from Pegasus Benefits returns to unpack what employee benefits actually do when life goes wrong from a death in service payout that let a colleague's husband keep their house, to the mental health and health cash plan cover most staff don't realise they have.Vicky talks through the real, human side of running a health insurance and employee benefits brokerage: the anxiety clients feel when dealing with insurers, why she benchmarks every client's cover ev
FCA Interview Advice (And Why You Shouldn't Use AI for Your Application) - Compliance Officer (opens the original)
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Applying for an FCA licence? Before you start your own application, meet the person who's helped hundreds of independent car dealers get through theirs.In this episode of How It Is, we sit down with Jade, a compliance officer at The Compliance Guys, who joined the company nearly four years ago with zero compliance background and a CV full of hospitality jobs.She walks us through why almost no car dealer can realistically complete their own FCA application, what it actually involves behind the pa
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