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0:00 Intro
3:57 Adrians hobbies and facts
5:25 The Mounbatten Internship scheme
14:55 Creating your own work experience
20:39 Corporate and investment banking journey
23:00 How to get a job and be different
28:47 Gamestop and Bitcoin investing
30:20 Ringfence bank
30:59 Self certifying mortgage
33:52 Creating your own job again and doing property
45:13 Benjamin and Cole Properties
47:54 Face2Face vs online consulting in a covid world
49:26 Ramsay and White and financial compliance
53:08 Cutting out the middleman and disrupting way of work
55:37 Benjamin and Cole Properties continued
1:00:33 Covid, Clubhouse and benefitting from lockdowns
1:02:26 Bypassing the status quo and Giving value / Berkeley homes partnership
1:06:18 Golden tips for inventing your own job or business
1:13:00 Final announcements and outro
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Adrian has worked for UBS Investment bank at 22, was in New York as part of the Mountbatten Internship scheme after graduating university in Birmingham where he studied Business Studies. Since then Adrian has been a Financial Consultant where he has worked internationally for the largest Investment Banks, Consultancy Practices and Payment companies in the world such as RBS, Accenture, HSBC, Visa, Bloomberg and Deloitte .
Previous roles have included Implementation, Relationship Management and Sales in Banking, Consulting and Fintech. The largest project Adrian has worked on was a Financial Conduct Authority led regulatory change project (Banking Reform Act 2013) worth £1 billion with 2,500 employees with 26 work streams where a Tier 1 Bank had to move their clients from their Investment bank to a Retail and Corporate ring fenced bank.
Now Adrian has moved on to be a Financial Protection Advisor where he offers advice to clients on their protection needs such as life insurance, critical illness cover, income protection, family income benefit and business insurance. He’s also involved in the property investing field.
IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER
*How to get out of your own way and create a job when they aren’t hiring
*Adrian’s highs and lows of his decorated career in Banking and Finance
*Top tips for your professional and business life
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