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Hosted by Ben Glimmerveen · business · EN · 37 episodes
GRAFT is a podcast that strips away the glossy veneer of success to reveal the true stories of determination, resilience, and hard work that drive remarkable achievements. Hosted by Ben Glimmerveen, each episode features in-depth conversations with individuals who've built their success through sheer graft, exploring the challenges, sacrifices, and lessons learned along the way.
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Signup to Generate a PitchGRAFT is a podcast that strips away the glossy veneer of success to reveal the true stories of determination, resilience, and hard work that drive remarkable achievements. Hosted by Ben Glimmerveen, each episode features in-depth conversations with individuals who've built their success through sheer graft, exploring the challenges, sacrifices, and lessons learned along the way.
The Graft Podcast is hosted by Ben Glimmerveen. The show has published 37 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include ""I Haven't Got Time for Cancer" - 85 Marathons, Hidden Depression and Refusing to Stop | Sally Orange MBE" (17 September 2026, 55 minutes), ""Boxing and My Wife Saved My Life" - Jamie Moore on Boxing, Resilience and Starting Over" (3 September 2026, 50 minutes), and "Wisdom from a 103 Year Old, Our Oldest Ever Guest! Life Advice from Dennis Field" (6 August 2026, 40 minutes).
The Graft Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 37 episodes.
Booking probability for The Graft Podcast is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Graft Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Graft Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Graft Podcast are Business & Management Consulting and Photography, Polling & Other Services. The Graft Podcast has a business audience.
Ben Glimmerveen hosts The Graft Podcast, a business show with 37 episodes published.
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Sally Orange broke her leg at 16, her boyfriend went off with her best friend while she was in hospital, and she failed her A-levels twice. It took her six years to get into physiotherapy. The same university that...
Episode #11
Jamie Moore grew up in Salford with no boxing gym nearby and no obvious way out. A friend rang him at 13 to say one had just opened around the corner — the first night it opened. He went. He stayed for seven years. He...
The Graft Podcast
Dennis Field was born in 1923, three miles from Windsor. He served in the Marines during the Second World War. After it ended, he tracked down his eventual wife Joan on his motorbike across post-war Britain — using...
The Graft Podcast
Ian Carter was 57 when he noticed something was wrong. The anxiety about seeing his golf mates. The mistakes at work he'd never made before. The arguments he couldn't stop starting. By 2024 it was confirmed: frontal...
The Graft Podcast
Tim Heatley was fired from every retail job he ever had, failed at being a lawyer, and sold his mates' artwork at university rather than get a part-time job. Then he bought a derelict house for less than it would cost...
The Graft Podcast
Dar Barrow was back on Graft to talk about chapter two: chemotherapy. The surgery was hard. What came after it was something else entirely. This conversation covers the side effects nobody prepares you for - frozen...
Episode #6
GIVEAWAY TIME... 😴 Comment "SLEEP" below to be in with a chance to win a Leep ring Winner will be announce on Tuesday 16th June at 7pm GMT on our Instagram page - @graft.podcast --- Simon Neave spent 36 years building...
Episode #5
<p>In 2017, Darren Edwards was three-quarters of the way up a 500ft rock face in North Wales when the ground beneath his feet gave way. A four-foot chunk of limestone collapsed. He fell with it. His best friend Matt...
Episode #4
<p>Matt Cowell's relationship with gambling began with a Simpsons fruit machine in a hotel games room in Newquay, aged ten or eleven. He'd saved up fifty pounds from his paper round. By the end of the holiday, he had...
Episode #3
<p>Sara Davison is a five-time best-selling author and the UK’s leading divorce coach, but her expertise wasn’t born in a classroom - it was forged on her bathroom floor. </p><p>Overnight, Sara’s life as she knew it was...
Episode #2
<p>Matt Wing spent 32 years as a high-performing, "functional" drinker. To the outside world, he had it all—a successful career, a loving family, and a rigorous fitness regime. </p><p>But inside, he was living in a...
Episode #1
<p>David Smith MBE is a Paralympic Gold Medallist, former British athlete across multiple disciplines, and a man now living with brain and spinal tumours.</p><p>From representing Great Britain across karate, sprinting...
Episode #11
<p>TRIGGER WARNING: talk of a physical attack that resulted in a death. </p><p><br></p><p>On 4 April 2012, Jane Openshaw’s husband, Phil Sheriff, attended a corporate event in London. Hours later, he was fighting for...
Episode #10
<p>From faxing press releases at midnight to leading one of the most profitable arms of the Matchroom empire, Matthew Porter has spent over two decades shaping the business of modern sport.</p><p><br></p><p>Now Chief...
Episode #9
<p>At 12 years old, Mark Long was told he’d be blind by 16. Three decades later, he’s a personal trainer, life coach, and advocate - proving how far resilience, humour, and relentless graft can take...
Episode #8
<p>From being outed by the press in the 1990s to becoming one of the UK’s leading voices in equality and culture change, Jacqui Gavin BEM has lived through the headlines, the backlash, and the breakthroughs, and turned...
Episode #7
<p>When public speaker Dar Barrow went on holiday to Menorca, the last thing he expected was to come home with bowel cancer. Fit, healthy, having just ran an ultra marathon(!) he had no symptoms, no family history, and...
The Graft Podcast
<p>From the skies to the council chamber, Sally Holland’s path to public service wasn’t planned. A former Virgin Atlantic Cabin Service Director turned twice-elected Mayor of Congleton and Cheshire East councillor...
Episode #4
<p>From garden kickabouts in Congleton to signing with Manchester United at just 12, Keira Barry’s football journey has been anything but predictable. Now 20 and currently on loan to Sunderland AFC Women, Keira has...
Episode #3
<p>When her dogs were stolen, Charlotte Robson hit a breaking point - then chose a different path. </p><p>Today she’s a motivational speaker, Positive Psychology coach, and co-founder of The Authentic Girls Club...
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The Divorce Coach
retired US Air Force Dental Officer, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, Certified QDRO Specialist, Military Divorce Financial Specialist, founder of Sand Oak Divorce Solutions, Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife
sports promoter, chairman of Matchroom Sport, Matchroom Sports
OBE, Matchroom Sport
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