Progress in Practice Podcast
The Progress in Practice Podcast brings together successful service-based business owners for honest, high-impact conversations about growth, purpose, and the lessons learned along the way. Each episode is just 20 minutes of real wisdom from people who've built something worth talking about, brought to you by The Trusted Team. Listen in, and take something useful away every time.
Episodes
11 episodes
Season 1: No Mission Reaches Orbit by Accident: From Rocket Scientist to Career Coach with Amanda Regan
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Amanda Regan, founder of Ignite Your Career- a coaching practice helping high-performing mid-career professionals reposition their careers deliberately so they can step into ...
Season 1: Stop Fearing the Fall: Building an AI-Powered Marketing Platform from the Ground Up with Charles Maloney
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Charles Maloney, founder of ClearView — an autonomous sales and marketing intelligence platform designed to automate up to 85% of the manual execution behind SEO, paid ads, a...
Season 1: Trust Your Gut, Follow Your Love: Building a Luxury Interior Design Business the Unconventional Way with Annie Allison
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Annie Allison, founder of Allison & Co — a luxury interior design studio working on high-end residential projects across the UK and Europe.Annie's path into interi...
Season 1: Doing It Right Since 1998: Fee-Based Financial Planning, Cash Flow Modelling, and the Power of Doing What You Love with Paul Spires
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Paul Spires, founder of Sound Financial Planning — a firm he built from the ground up in 1998 with a clear mission: to give clients proper, fee-based financial planning at a ...
Season 1: From Human Robot to AI Pioneer: Cutting Through the Noise on Vertical AI with Chetan Joshi
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie sits down with Chetan Joshi, founder of coglateral.ai, a specialist firm helping business owners, entrepreneurs and financial services firms move from AI experimentation to real-world execution.<...
Season 1: Stop Settling, Start Leading: Championing the People Who Run Businesses from the Inside with Michelle Hoskin
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Michelle Hoskin, founder of Standards International and the Business and Operations Management Network, known as BOMSMichelle shares how nearly three decades of workin...
Season 1: Turning Complex Cases into Yeses: Building a Specialist Mortgage Business with Ross Jones
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Ross Jones, founder of Home Financial and Evolve Commercial Finance.Ross shares how his business was born out of adversity, why he is passionate about helping...
Season 1: Beyond Compliance- Using Your Numbers to Build a Better Business with Steve Price
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Steve Price from Inspire, an accountancy firm with a very different approach.Rather than simply helping business owners stay compliant, Steve and his team focus on hel...
Season 1: Health, Performance & Longevity: Building a High-Performance Life with Claire Fudge
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Claire Fudge, founder of Fourth Discipline, clinical dietitian, performance nutritionist, and elite athlete.Claire shares how she helps business professionals, founder...
Season 1: Integrity Under Pressure: Navigating Complex Deals & Building Resilient Businesses with Bhavik Shah
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Bhavik Shah, founder of Providus Capital - a specialist in complex, time-sensitive property finance.Bhavik shares how his business supports developers facing ...
Season 1: Stop Being the Bottleneck: Matt Baird on Outsourcing, Optimising, and Getting Your Life Back
In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading sits down with Matt Bird from Accelerate Advisor Solutions to explore what it really takes to grow a professional services business without sacrificing your time, team, or sanity...