The SuperJam Adventure Reaches The Magic Kingdom...

At the weekend, I visited my old pal Mickey Mouse at Disneyland Paris.  He loves SuperJam*.

I was very kindly invited by European Study Tours to speak to 1,600 British school kids who were on an amazing business studies and ICT school trip.

After I went on the roller coasters, I spoke in a massive Disney auditorium to the students; sharing with them the amazing adventure that I have been on over the past few years.  I told them the story of how I took my Gran's recipe from the kitchen table to the shelves of Waitrose and other massive supermarket chains.

The students enjoyed the talk and were generous enough to laugh at my awful jokes.  They made me feel like a celebrity by queuing up for about forty five minutes to have their pictures taken with me!

Thanks again to European Study Tours and all of the pupils on the trip.  See you next time Mickey!



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*dear Disney lawyers, i'm just kidding.

More talks on 'The Adventures of Jam Boy'

I've very gratefully been invited to speak at a variety of events over the coming months.  I figured I should pop them onto the blog, incase you fancy coming along.  Some of the talks are at conferences that you need to buy a ticket for.

28th January: 'Enterprise Spotlight' at the University of Hertfordshire, 6pm-8pm.

2nd February: 'My Life is my Business' event at Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, 11am-4pm.

3rd February: Strathclyde University SEN event, All Bar One, Glasgow, 7pm-10pm.

1st March: Disneyland Paris, European Study Tours, all day.
6th March: Scottish Youth Parliament, Lanarkshire
10th March: Use Your Loaf event, Durham, all day.
11th March, CIPD Conference, Perth, all day.
17th March, Philip Allen Updates event, London, all day.
24th March: San Juan University, Puerto Rico
25th March: Columbia University, New York City
30th March: West Cheshire College, Chester
16th April: Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

Hope to see some of you there!



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Various talks on 'The SuperJam Adventure'..

Throughout November and December, i'll be sharing the story of how SuperJam grew from my Gran's kitchen to the supermarket shelves. You'll be able to come along and hear me speak at the following places:

Friday 6th Nov - Swindon: New College, 12pm-3pm

Tuesday 10th Nov - Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University (The Lemon Tree, 6.30pm) Students only.

Tuesday 17th Nov - Middlesbrough: The King's Academy, 12pm-3pm

Thursday 19th Nov - Kansas City, USA: Global Student Entrepreneur of The Year Awards

Tuesday 24th Nov - Manchester: Philip Allan A-Level student conference

Wednesday 25th Nov - Loughborough University, 7pm

Thursday 26th Nov - Glasgow: Scotland Food & Drink Forum

Tuesday 1st Dec - Lancaster University, 6pm

Wednesday 2nd Dec - Merseyside: Pensby High School

Friday 4th Dec - Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Tobermory High School

Sat 5th / Sun 6th Dec - Edinburgh: Foodies Festival

Tuesday 15th Dec - Edinburgh: ChangeWorks Waste conference

It's going to be a crazy couple of months and i'm really looking forward to meeting all of the people who come along to my talks.

Hopefully see you there!

Talking about motivation on BBC Scotland...

I'm becoming something of a regular on BBC Scotland these days.

You can listen to a nice little chat we had this morning about motivation and achieving what you want in life here. . The part where i'm nattering is about fifteen minutes in.

I think that the entrepreneur's ability to motivate themselves to get up every morning and bash on with their idea is one of the big factors that separates the ideas that work from the ones that don't. It took Dyson hundreds of attempts at building the dual cyclone before he eventually came up with his now world famous vacuum cleaner. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to motivate themselves to get up every day and think about vacuum cleaners.

I've managed to motivate myself to get up every morning for almost six years and think about jam; mostly because I love the stuff and also since I have been able to always think in terms of where i'm aiming to get in the long run. It doesn't matter if today doesn't work out too good, as long as everything on the whole is moving towards where I want to go; transforming the world of jam!