40 Minute Mentor Podcast

Your pocket-sized career mentor

Our popular podcast 40 Minute Mentor inspires the next generation of category-defining Founders. In powerful career stories from purpose-led Founders to Olympic champions; you’ll learn first-hand from today’s successful leaders on what it takes to be brilliant, all in just 40 minutes.

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03 Dec, 2025

Murvah Iqbal on scaling one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups and disruption a billion dollar industry with Hived

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26 Nov, 2025

Alan Cairns on hiring in hyper-growth & a guide to culture and performance

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Love for 40 Minute Mentor

“Just when I thought my go-to pods were cemented, 40MM came and disrupted it 🙌🏽”

For anyone in the startup/tech world, this is a must-listen podcast!

“The podcast brings on some really inspiring leaders, talks about relevant topics and offers practical advice.”

“The diversity of guests really keeps the podcast interesting and me personally engaged.”

“Love the 40MM, I often find myself pausing to take notes as there are so many golden nuggets”

“All the guests are so inspiring and James is always asking great questions.”

“I love to listen to these on my commute to work. They are so motivating and the variety of guests they have on keeps it interesting!”

“This was a fantastic podcast with such great insight from super informed speakers! Gave great advice on working in the Tech world!”

“The 40 Minute Mentor delivers so much valuable insights from highly insightful guests.”

We’ve featured incredible leaders including...

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Olympian and Founder of Jennis

Nick Jenkins

Founder of Moonpig

Alice Bentinck

Co-founder of Entrepreneur First

Grace Beverley

Founder & CEO, Tala & Shreddy

Eileen Burbidge MBE

Founding Partner at Passion Capital & Director at Fertifa

Timothy Armoo

Co-Founder & CEO, Fanbytes

Sharmadean Reid MBE

Founder & SEO of The Stack World

Suranga Chandratillake

General Partner, Balderton Capital

Debbie Wosskow OBE

Multi-exited Founder, Allbright, The Better Menopause

Mo Gawdat

Ex Chief Business Officer at Google X & Founder of One Billion Happy

As well as category-defining founders of unicorns and iconic brands, including...

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If you’d like to join our podcast as a guest, or would like to explore partnership options with us, please get in touch with Hannah at ku.oc.cmbj@hannah

Meet your podcast team

The 40 Minute Mentor Podcast is hosted by JBM’s founder, James Mitra, and produced by our Head of Marketing, Hannah Urbanek.