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Jazz Shapers features interviews with founders - business shapers – who, like the shapers of jazz, soul and blues have defied convention, broken the mould and gone on to achieve great success. In each episode host Elliot Moss persuades a business pioneer to reveal their motivations, their character and how they deal with challenges and opportunities. A Jazz FM production.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Elliot Moss turns founder biographies into practical conversations about leadership, marketing, resilience, and the messy transfer of skills between careers.
Jazz Shapers keeps returning to a useful founder question: how does someone turn experience from one field into judgment in another? Elliot Moss uses biographical interviews to connect Jeff Kofman's move from reporting to building Trint, Anthony Fletcher's passage from chemistry…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical conversation about empathy, brand, and growth.
Maya Mufarek's turn on Jazz Shapers is a tidy business story with a human spine. Elliot Moss keeps pulling the conversation back to what shaped her: psychology, empathy, and a multicultural background that helped sharpen how she reads people.
A security founder story shaped by service, family, and the habit of staying useful.
Alex Bomberg's story is rooted in service more than posture: fostered by parents who opened their home, shaped by an older brother, the army, and work that moved from regiment life to palace duty to security.
A founder story about cleaner taste, personal conviction, and building a category from lived experience.
Amanda Thompson's path into alcohol free wine comes through clearly: a plant based, no sugar upbringing, a media career, then a turn toward cleaner sparkling wine.
A founder story that treats discipline, confidence, and struggle as one conversation.
Scott Harrison's story fits what Jazz Shapers does best: a founder turns a personal wake-up call into a business. It starts with double glazing, school-run self-recognition, and a New Year resolution that became the Six Pack Revolution.
A founder story that links science, doubt, and time as parts of the same problem.
Anthony Fletcher’s route runs from chemistry and lab research into entrepreneurship, and the episode keeps that turn grounded in Innocent, Graze, and Believe in Science.
A founder story shaped by one early maths tutor and a long route into tutoring.
Naz Nankali's story works best when it stays close to its starting point: a child who needed help in school, then found maths through a tutor and later built Power Tutors for people facing similar struggles.
A candid founder story about ownership, self-belief, and rebuilding after outside money changed the terms.
Lemon Fuller's path is not the clean founder myth people often expect. The episode moves from her years as a singer, songwriter, and dancer with artists such as Beyonce, Avicii, and Justin Bieber into the first stretch of Lemonade Dolls, then into the harder part: outside money,…
A career ladder gives way to a more practical map of how work can change.
The episode follows Helen Tupper as she takes a practical problem seriously: what happens when the old career ladder no longer fits the life and work people actually have?
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
Elliot Moss interviews William Konkwamba and Tom Riley about their entrepreneurial journey building windmills and the Moving Windmills Project in Malawi.
Elliot Moss interviews Radha Vyas, co-founder of Flashpack, about her entrepreneurial journey and building an adventure travel company.
Sandrine Zangferon starts with a yellow chair.
Marketing starts with people.
Alex Bomberg, founder of International Intelligence Limited, discusses his unconventional path from expelled student and army veteran to security entrepreneur.
Elliot Moss interviews Amanda Thomson, founder of Thomson & Scott and the non-alcoholic wine brand Naughty.
Elliot Moss interviews Scott Harrison, founder of The Six Pack Revolution, who shares his journey from being bullied and battling bulimia for 30 years to creating a global fitness program.
Elliot Moss interviews Anthony Fletcher, founder of Believe in Science, who aims to transform junk food using science, starting with healthier doughnuts.
Elliot Moss interviews Naz Nankali, founder of Power Tutors, who shares her journey from struggling with dyslexia in Ukraine to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the UK.
Elliot Moss interviews Gush Munday, founder of global brand design agency Bulletproof, who shares his journey from immigrant childhood struggles with racism and education to building a successful business.
Lemon Fuller, founder of inclusive lingerie brand Lemonade Dolls, shares her journey from performer to entrepreneur, driven by a mission to boost female confidence.
Helen Tupper, co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, discusses the concept of squiggly careers as an alternative to traditional ladder-like career paths.
Carol Shanahan, co-founder of Synectics Solutions and chair of Port Vale FC, discusses her journey from leaving school without qualifications to building a successful software company.
Jeff Kofman, an Emmy-winning war correspondent turned founder of speech-to-text company Trint, discusses how his journalism career shaped his entrepreneurial journey.
Elliot Moss interviews Matthew Jones, founder of Bread Ahead bakery and school, about his journey from leaving school at 15 to becoming a chef, launching his first business Flower Power City Bakery, and building Bread Ahead.
Host Elliot Moss interviews Mary Bonsall, founder and CEO of Flex Legal, about her journey from struggling to find a training contract to building a platform connecting law firms with on-demand legal talent.
Elliot Moss interviews co-founders of data security company Egress about their entrepreneurial journey.
Elliot Moss interviews Max Dubiel, co-founder of Black Sheep Coffee and Redemption Roasters, about his entrepreneurial journey and coffee businesses.
Elliot Moss interviews Molly Johnson-Jones, CEO of Flexa, about her journey from investment banking to founding a platform for flexible work transparency.
Elliot Moss interviews James Gordon, founder of Digico and CEO of Audiotonics, about his entrepreneurial journey in the live sound and audio technology industry.
Elliot Moss interviews Tim Fung, founder of Airtasker, about his entrepreneurial journey and building a digital marketplace.
Elliot Moss interviews Mike Welsh, founder of BlackCircles.com, about his entrepreneurial journey from tyre fitter to successful online tyre retailer.
Elliot Moss interviews serial entrepreneur Charles Dunstan about founding Carphone Warehouse and Talk Talk.