We're in the Boston Tea Party on Gloucester Road in Bristol. Laptops open, kids screaming, freelancers with headphones in. This is where it all started for Jason Nichols.

Jason is an exited founder, business coach, and the calmest person in any room full of entrepreneurs. He built New King's Coffee from a single observation on an easyJet flight and ran it for nearly a decade before selling.

In this episode, Jason opens up about what it really took to leave corporate life, why he spent a full year building a brand nobody had validated, and the moment a career coach spotted something in his eyes that he couldn't see himself. He shares four pillars every founder needs - Context, Clarity, Capability, and Conviction - and explains why motivation is not enough to survive the hard years.

Topics we covered with Jason include:

- The book that gave him permission to leave corporate life
- Why he launched a coffee brand knowing nothing about coffee or business
- The year of "drifting" that led to his 52-week planning breakthrough
- What coaching 200 entrepreneurs taught him about why businesses fail
- Why ideas people are about to have their moment (thanks to AI)
- The difference between motivation and conviction - and why it matters

His C-Word: CONVICTION.
Jason Nichols: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonnicholsnkc/
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Up on a hill in Greenwich Park, you can see all of London laid out below you - The Shard, Canary Wharf, the Thames - millions of people heading to work. For Kirsten Hurley, that view is a daily reminder of what is possible. And of how much the world loses when it fails to support its carers.

Kirsten Hurley is the founder of Better Leaders Consulting and a former MD who built a team of 30+ consultants across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She also happens to be a sibling carer for her two severely autistic twin brothers.

In this episode, Kirsten tells us what happens when the mental load of caring becomes unsustainable alongside a high-pressure leadership role - and what it takes to build something new on the other side of that.

In this episode we cover:

- Why 600 people leave employment every single day because of caring responsibilities
- The real difference between coaching, mentoring, and training - and why it matters which one you reach for
- Why "experiment" beats "transformation" every time you are trying to change
- What has quietly regressed in the world of DEI - and what the language we use at work reveals
- The living company handbook that let anyone in the business raise an issue
- What it really costs a business when the high performer is also carrying an invisible load at home

Kirsten's C-Word is CARING.
Find Kirsten on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hurleykirsten/
Kirsten's company Better Leaders Consulting: https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-leaders-consulting
Carers UK: https://www.carersuk.org
Employers for Carers: https://www.employersforcarers.org

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Chapters:
00:00 - Welcome to Three Founders Walk Into A...
02:20 - Kirsten's Place: Greenwich Park In Spring
05:57 - From Salesperson To MD To Founder - Kirsten's Career Story
08:35 - Being A Carer Alongside A Leadership Role
09:18 - Building A Team Of 30 Across EMEA
14:22 - What She Has Learned About Replenishing Your Batteries
22:43 - Wankonomics Comedians about Company Values
29:33 - Her Clients - Women In Tech And Fintech Sales Teams
34:00 - Women In The Room - What Has Changed And What Hasn't
36:31 - The Language We Use In Job Descriptions (And Why It Matters)
41:12: - 600 People Leave Work Every Day Because Of Caring
- The C-Word: CARING

Three Founders Walk Into A... is hosted by Helen Wingrove-Sanders (HFBAC) and Emma Campbell (The Coaching Point).

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This week, three founders walk into a wild camp at dusk.

Boots off. Cup of tea in hand. Looking back down the ridge we've climbed - and up at the summit still ahead.

Our guest this week is Gerwyn Tumelty - CEO of Coron Projects, ex-Royal Navy, chartered engineer, and a man who has genuinely climbed a few mountains to get here.

Gerwyn built Coron Projects from the ground up in 2022, after years of contracting, a serious health challenge, and a crisis point that forced him to finally ask the question his friend put to him early on:

"Why do you actually want to do this? Because if it's just to grow something - go to B&Q and buy a plant."

He talks about:
- Building a fractional project leadership team that now numbers nine people
- The moment health forced him to stop hiding and start asking for help
- His BBC Wales feature on trigeminal neuralgia and men's mental health
- Writing a chapter for the newly launched book "Untold and Retold" on World Book Day 2026
- His two services - Ascent (contract and consultancy) and Basecamp (training and coaching for engineering SMEs)
- Why connection isn't just a nice word - it's the thing that keeps your battery charged

His C-Word? CONNECTION.
And it lands.

Coron Projects: https://www.coronprojects.co.uk
Gerwyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerwyn-tumelty/
Buy the Untold and Retold book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Untold-Retold-Unblocking-stories-Stories/dp/1919480307

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