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Alan Wick

Entrepreneur | DO Radio Presenter, Miracles Happen Here

Alan Presents Miracles Happen Here with Jon Kaye on DO Radio. Tune in to listen to this week's show.

Alan Wick’s story begins with rebellion: a kid who hated school, fell in love with drumming, and genuinely believed his band was headed for stardom. When the record deal never came, he spotted a different opportunity: supplying sound equipment to other musicians. A move that quietly set the course for the rest of his career.

What followed was a remarkable arc. Alan became a live sound-engineer for The Jam, then founded Turbosound, the audio company that went on to serve acts from Pink Floyd to Ella Fitzgerald and even win a Queen’s Award for Export. Later, after selling (and eventually buying back) the business, he shifted into a new chapter: helping founders build companies with purpose, creativity, and heart.

Today, Alan works as a coach and advisor to entrepreneurs, driven not by scale for its own sake but by the belief that business can be a vehicle for meaning. A perspective shaped by decades in music, technology, and a life-altering health scare that reshaped what success really means to him.




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Confessions of a Money Obsessive
Alan WickBusiness
Alan Wick has been starting, growing, and occasionally turning round businesses since flares were first in fashion, and somehow, he’s still at it. After failing to become a rock star, life took him into the world of business. The founder of five comp...

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