Veritas Language Solutions offers translation and language services to businesses and academic institutions worldwide. With over 2,000 specialist linguists and 100 language pairs at their disposal, they are uniquely placed to provide you with the best quality service.

They have passion for language and communication, and a deadline driven, client-centred approach, making us your ideal language services provider. Documents in their care go through a three-tiered translation, editing and content verification process, to create a perfect final product. They accept and produce texts in whatever format you wish, and work on both PC and Mac with all major alphabets and scripts.


Sharon Stephens lives in Swansea and is one of the Directors of Veritas. She is former Senior Welsh Tennis Champion and has a First Class Honours degree in Spanish/Italian>English translation from Swansea University. She has lived and worked in North America and Spain for many years and has two daughters of 1 and 4 years.

Rachel Bryan also lives in Swansea and is the other Director of Veritas. She has a First Class Honours degree in Italian/Russian>English translation from Swansea University, and a real passion for language and attention to detail. She has travelled and worked extensively in Europe and South America and has a 4 year old son in a Welsh-medium school in Swansea.

The business was only formed in June 2009 but is already picking up new business and academia clients from around the world. Sharn Stephens said "We can't believe it. We don't really advertise but word-of-mouth has taken us on a roller-coaster ride. We thought we'd be struggling and indeed we have. Struggling to manage the huge amount of work that we have secured. We have now revised our plans and are able to maintain the high standards that we set ourselves. Listen to Sharon and Rachel on the 7th january Show and watch out for more.

If you have translation work just go to their website by clicking here. They are just an instant away through the magic of the Internet.


Lead Wales, funded by the European Social Fund through the Welsh European Funding Office, offers free leadership and management training, coaching, masterclasses and experientials to the value iof £10,000 per head to owner managers of SMEs in the Convergence Area of Wales.


Jo Ashburner has a lifetime of business experience behind her and was the Wales Regional and UK National Business Woman of the Year 2006. She created the NooNoo affordable eco brand for small children which selling into such retailers as Fenwicks & The John Lewis Partnership. The story of NooNoo's success, fired by Jo's ambitions and actions will hopefully be a future conversation on In Town Today, but for now Jo is fired up and the driving force behind LEAD Wales.

With the first cohort starting within weeks we were pleased to speak with Jo Ashburner who is also the Business Development and Marketing Manager for LEAD Wales and can be contacted on tel: 01792 606 738 or e-mail at j.f.ashburner@swansea.ac.uk.



We were pleased to talk with Hannah Preedy of Discovery at Swansea University. DISCOVERY aims to
•enrich the lives of people in Swansea in order that they may fulfil their potential as empowered individuals and as members of groups and communities, offer new experiences and opportunities through a broad range of student lead activities in the community to increase mutual understanding and equality and to actively
•support students to be aware of their personal development and the impact on themselves and the lives of others through their involvement in community based activities.

Hannah Preedy is the Assistant Manager and talked about some of the activities. We are hoping that we will be able to talk with students at a later date about some of the projects they have been involved in.


With over 15 years experience in training, management & consultative roles, Carol Dodsley is a leading Inspirational Life Designer, International Author, workshop presenter & speaker, who specialises in helping you create rock solid foundations as you build your business. Carol helps you to stop simply surviving and making do and takes you by the hand as you create and build your business with the potential to take empowered actions and create succesful results for yourself and your clients. Carol is the founder of Choose Changes, Ultimate-confidence and has created teh UBPBM(TM)Ultimate Business potential and Belief Model programmes as well as founding The Guild Of Excellence - the most effective and successful collaborative and educational networking concept of the future.

You already have everything you need to achieve your dreams and goals, now is the time to learn how to tap into it and live with ultimate self-esteem, confidence, passion and fun.

Carol has a book and CD now available and these ae obtainable on-line. Carol also has plenty of interesting free and otherwise stuff on her websites. Check it out and I'd recommend signing up for her newsletter.


http://www.ultimatebusinesspotential.com/

http://choosechanges.com

We shall be having Carol on the Show again with plenty of hints and ideas to help you make the most out of your life.










And finally a big thank you to Prab Chadha of Gadget Angel who took the plunge and opted in as the first live guest . This was a little nerve racking and initially I didn't find him on my control panel. His contribution was really excellent and he will be returning as a regular contributor each week. So if you have a particular gadet you'd like some help with or advice about how a technology works then Prab is your man.
You can see his site at http://www.mygadgetangel.com/



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