On The Business Show on Marlow FM on 6th February 2025, my guests were Career and Executive Coach Tanya Ces Maneiro and business finance expert Sharon Cook, who joined me to talk about their work, and to discuss a range of business news stories.

“Boogie” was the link between the two tracks I played, the first of which was The Andrews Sisters with “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” - you can hear it at https://youtu.be/8of3uhG1tCI?si=K8vul3DfVOLbFJ3b .

Tanya then spoke about Vida Coaching and the work she does with individuals and directly with businesses, often helping them with outplacement support when making redundancies.

You can connect with Tanya via https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyacesmaneiro-careercoach/ and her website is at https://vidacoaching.co.uk/.

Sharon then spoke about her work with Choice Business Loans. Despite the company name, they don’t lend money! But they are experts on the breadth of business that do, and in many different ways, and Sharon talked about the pros and cons of some of those choices.

For more on Sharon see https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-cook-832397/ and their website is at https://www.choicebusinessloans.co.uk/ .

Her music choice was Oasis with “Wonderwall” because it’s just brilliant, and we played it for her team who were back in the office. Hear it at https://youtu.be/bx1Bh8ZvH84?si=J580XcHc9n-fyJDx .

Tanya and I both chose stories on the theme of pressures around working from home, or in the office. The stories were at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8yn0d310zo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9x0819417o and https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ew0jrjxz9o - see if you can work out who chose what! Can you trust people to work from home? Can you even trust them to work in the office??

We then played Tanya’s choice of music – “Manic Monday” by The Bangles, because if you don’t like Mondays, you know who to call! You can hear it at https://youtu.be/SsmVgoXDq2w?si=ck7Mmqo0L8vBdwhy .

Sharon’s story was https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm21eerq405o continuing the theme of f2f v remote working, but looking at banking hubs – are they part of the way forward for the High Street?

The last song was the second on the Boogie theme – T Rex with “I love to boogie” - hear it and see an interesting video at https://youtu.be/UU2xWNZntiU?si=zJWaJ36m2PgIUVHi .

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