Sam Smeaton
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276 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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So would you mind maybe giving a bit of an overview, I guess, on who you are and what you do?
Nice.
Lots going on then.
Yeah.
And now coming up through the family business, like, was that always the plan for you?
Were you always going to get into the freight forwarding and logistics side?
Or was there like a moment where you were like, okay, this is the career path I'm going to go down?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You want to carve out your own identity as well, right?
And working in the family business, like there's definitely a lot of pros to that.
Obviously, it's a familiar environment, but there's probably some challenges, I guess, as well.
In your view, like what are some of the main challenges at working in a family business?
And talk me through like, what's the journey since day one, when you actually officially joined the business, you know, full time capacity to now, what's that journey been like in terms of the actual role or the responsibilities that you're doing?
And they don't make it easy, right?
I think that's like one of the...
of the challenges and and what i hear constantly is just the actual ability to go down that pathway and become a licensed customs broker is really difficult especially at the moment where there is a massive shortage of brokers and we obviously need more so what do you know like specifically what you actually need to do in order to become a licensed customs broker i think like people listening would find that that interesting in terms of what you actually have to do
Yeah, that makes sense.
And for people coming through, you know, like we're always talking about that next generation of talent coming through and I'm constantly having conversations with my clients about
what do we do to get younger people interested in freight forwarding or logistics more broadly?
What do you say to some of those younger people that are maybe just leaving school or in uni and thinking about a career path?
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