S2 Ep5 Remi Harris MBE - On Tour with the Secrets of Success

Remi Harris MBE – London - Business Advisor and Author   Welcome to season 2 of the Secrets of Success Podcast, this week we are looking at finance with Remi Harris. We will hear about how to finance your career and make money from your music.  Remi is a Trainer and Business Advisor to the Creative Industries specialising in finance. Her book “Easy money” is the definitive UK guide to funding music projects. Remi was the General Manager of AIM – the Association of Independent Music.   While she was there, she created a mentoring programme and raised £750,000 to help set up AIM, the business. She studied for an MBA and created a mentoring programme, she delivered hundreds of training events and conferences and ran the day-to-day operations - a very busy and successful time for Remi. Remi has also been the Director of Operations at lobbying organisation UK Music. This organisation works across the music industry, is involved in governance and strategy at board level, and lobbies government on behalf of the music industry. She also created the first music industry equality and diversity plan. On this episode, Remi shares her success stories, how she received an MBE from Prince William at Buckingham Palace (while heavily pregnant) and her journey setting up her consultancy and the non-profit organisation young guns - https://www.ygn.co. YGN is a professional network produced by and for young people in the music industry.  It’s made up of entrepreneurs, executives and ambitious young people working in music with a ‘positive hustle’ mindset. Remi talks about why we find it so difficult to ask for money, access funding, managing debt and thinking of the future. She asks the question "How will we have enough money to live? How we can plan for the future and thinking about pensions! We talk about the emotional aspects of money, the role of community, sourcing money, crowd funding and how your friends and family are the main source of finance when supporting the majority of small businesses. We talk about tax, “Money Mindset”, VAT, taking control, making your finances digital and other life changing financial issues. "When artists become successful they become business leaders, YOU are the boss and you have to learn how to be the BOSS! Your staff support you and YOU have to learn to manage and drive this team – this can be challenging and is why we need to talk about money" reflects Remi. This is a hugely important conversation and Remi brings education, strategy, wisdom and insight into this space. Thank you Remi for your time and hospitality.   You can find Remi on her website: https://remiharrisconsulting.com Linked in Instagram Twitter Buy Remi's Book - Easy Money Join Young Guns Network: https://www.ygn.co   Many thanks to Abi Reddey for Production of this Podcast and managing lots of outside noises from lawn mowers, pigeons and howling winds! Please feel free to reach out to me Sally J Freeman on Instagram or email me [email protected].