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Hosted by John Guest · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 9 episodes
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Development Diaries is where real estate development's most influential leaders share their unfiltered career stories. Hosted by John Guest, founder of Henry James Search and the Rebels Community, each episode takes you behind the scenes with the innovators, change-makers, and visionaries shaping our built environment. From career-defining moments and sliding doors decisions to hard-won lessons and advice for the next generation, our guests reveal what really drives success in real estate development. We explore the challenges, celebrate the wins, and dig into what excites leaders most about the future of our industry. Subscribe to hear from managing directors, board members, and development leaders as they share their journeys from early career to industry leadership - and discover what makes exceptional development professionals tick. New episodes released regularly.
John Guest hosts Development Diaries, a business show with 9 episodes published.
Chris Hunt's path into property started with a business plan written for his dad and a £22,000 loan to buy and convert a house in Bristol. Not many people would back themselves like that straight out of a recruitment job
Anna Strongman is a fascinating guest. From studying history at university, to a scholarship in Japan working in economic policy, to walking the streets of Edinburgh with a clipboard, to spending nearly two decades helpi
Baerbel Schuett’s career is quite the rollercoaster. She set out for a career in a trade in Germany, ended up training as an architect instead, then took a leap to South Africa as a site architect - where a stalled proje
In this episode of Development Diaries, host John Guest sits down with James Coulsey, co-founder and director of Trigon DM - a B Corp-certified development management consultancy helping clients cut through complexity an
In this episode of Development Diaries, John is joined by Jonathan Smales, founder and CEO of Human Nature - the sustainable, community-focused developer behind Phoenix, a 685-home neighbourhood in Lewes, and one of the
In this episode of Development Diaries, John is joined by Chris Fleetwood, a man whose route into real estate began not in a lecture theatre but at a careers fair, in a 45-minute conversation with a chartered surveyor wh
In this episode of Development Diaries, host John Guest is joined by Sunny Johal, Development Director at Glenbrook and fellow podcast host - a man whose route into real estate is about as far from the traditional gradua
In this episode of Development Diaries, host John Guest is joined by Simon Harding-Roots, Regional Managing Director for the South at Muse, and formerly Managing Director of London at the Crown Estate and Executive Direc
In this episode of Development Diaries, host John Guest sits down with Harry Knibb, Vice President of Development at Oxford Properties and Non- Executive Director at the Academy of Urbanism, whose career spans project ma
In this episode of Development Diaries, host John Guest sits down with industry legend David Partridge, former senior partner and chairman of Argent and Related Argent, whose 35-year career has shaped some of the UK's mo
James Coulsey
Trigon DM
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Smales
Human Nature
1 appearance on this show
Chris Fleetwood
Redevco
1 appearance on this show
Sunny Johal
Glenbrook
1 appearance on this show
Simon Harding-Roots
Muse
1 appearance on this show
Harry Knibb
Oxford Properties
1 appearance on this show
David Partridge
Argent
1 appearance on this show
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Development Diaries is hosted by John Guest. The show is categorised under business (careers) and has published 9 episodes.
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