{"id":1423,"date":"2024-10-02T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:13:23","slug":"jodie-devlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2024\/10\/02\/jodie-devlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodie Devlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Jodie is the founder and CEO of an SME in Maidstone called Outreach Tuition. The business is almost in its 7th year so she says she is finally able to step away from it from time to time. She is passionate about business and looking forward to learning everything she can to enhance her business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Top achievements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Becoming a fully qualified teacher<\/li>\n<li>Starting my own successful business<\/li>\n<li>Starting my MBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h3>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>I live locally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>What are your motivations for undertaking an MBA<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>To learn everything I can about business and apply it to my own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>What are your future aspirations?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Taking my company nationwide or overseas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>What is your best advice for those wanting to progress in business?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Get lines of credit set up that you can use at a later date, otherwise cash flow will kill your business as soon as you rapidly grow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do what you love and success will follow.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jodie is the founder and CEO of an SME in Maidstone called Outreach Tuition. The business is almost in its 7th year so she says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2024\/10\/02\/jodie-devlin\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[263916],"tags":[9875,249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}