Something a bit different for you today. We’re looking at the almost taboo subjects of addiction, mental health and even eating disorder challenges facing high net worth individuals, business founders and senior executives.

And my guest, Janine McNab, is extremely well qualified to talk about these issues. She has worked across a diverse range of global high-growth sectors including travel, utilities, technology, and innovation before finding her home in healthcare some 6 years ago. She’s the Chief Operating Officer of Harbor London and Orchestrate healthcare where they tackle these issues with a multidisciplinary, medically led team of experts including Psychiatrists, therapists, nutritionists, addiction specialists, chefs, personal trainers, and wellness coaches.

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Jeremy Middleton is an inspiration to any UK entrepreneur looking to build a unicorn business.

After meeting business partner Richard Harpin when they both worked at corporate giant Proctor & Gamble, they took the brave step of leaving the regular pay cheque behind and setting up their own businesses.

There were plenty of challenges and false starts but they eventually founded a plumbing and heating company that morphed into HomeServe, now an international company and the UK’s largest home repair business. In 2023 the company was taken private by Brookfield Asset Management at a value of £4.1 billion.

In parallel my guest began his own consulting firm and has made investments in multiple SMEs where he offers patient capital as well as sound advice to the founders. He’s also been active in philanthropy through his own foundation and community enterprise fund as well as being a Conservative party candidate in several elections.

In 2012 he was awarded the CBE for services to charity and politics.

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You need to hear what AI expert Ziggy Kormandel says about the future in an AI world. A few spoilers:

“What took $1 million and three years we can now do in 2 months”.

“School is obsolete. The model is flawed, the gig is up!”.

“Privacy is dead. Live like there’s always a camera on you.”

“Our grandchildren will marry AI robots!”

Ziggy is president of Stayhealthy and its acquisition Augmently. Stayhealthy combines healthy lifestyle solutions using enhanced engagement technology with a global community wellness network, while Augmently creates hyper realism on mobile devices. He’s involved with at least five other companies and is now heavily into the theory and practice of Artificial Intelligence. All this and he now lives just down the road from me in Portugal.

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