Alice Benham: Why founders should take messy and uncomfortable actions

<p><b>It&apos;s time for episode three in season six of the Small Business Sessions, Enterprise Nation&apos;s podcast powered by the </b><a href='https://www.enterprisenation.com/business-connected/'><b>business.connected online training programme</b></a><b> and our partners Vodafone Business, Builder.ai and JP Morgan.<br/><br/></b>Joining freelance journalist <a href='https://www.enterprisenation.com/get-connected/3da53e8f-dan-martin/'>Dan Martin</a> for the third episode is business and marketing strategist <a href='https://www.alicebenham.co.uk/'>Alice Benham</a>.<br/> <br/>Alice had an early start in the world of work after leaving school aged 16 to run a team of Christmas elves. When she was 17, Alice became a freelance social media manager. </p><p>Alice has since gone on to launch a successful podcast, run retreats, work with hundreds of one-to-one clients and be featured in top publications like Forbes and Business Insider.  <br/><br/>In the episode, we discuss why young people should consider entrepreneurship as a career, the secrets to business growth, powering your marketing strategy and why taking uncomfortable actions is vitally important.  </p><p>----<br/><br/><b>The business.connected hub is a free online training programme of workshops, webinars and e-learning modules designed to help businesses go digital, adopt new technology, and stay safe online. </b> <br/><br/>To find out more, go to <a href='http://www.enterprisenation.com/businessconnected'>www.enterprisenation.com/businessconnected</a><br/><br/>To listen to previous podcast episodes, go to <a href='http://www.enterprisenation.com/podcast'>www.enterprisenation.com/podcast</a></p>