Episode 344 – STOP with Sarah Sparks

Episode 344 - STOP with Sarah Sparks

‘We are designed for acute episodes of stress, but what we’re not designed for is chronic episodes of stress. That’s stress after stress after stress, and that’s what most people are living with, day in day out.’ Looking back, Sarah Sparks can see that her body was trying to tell…

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Episode 325 – Change Makers with Katy Murray

Episode 325 - Change Makers with Katy Murray

“How do I discover my change making contribution, and how do I do that in a way so that I don’t fry myself in the process?” The balance between stepping up to make an impact in the world and stepping back where necessary to protect our own wellbeing and energy…

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Episode 301 – The serendipity mindset with Dr Christian Busch

Episode 301 - The serendipity mindset with Dr Christian Busch

They told Christian Busch that it would be ‘academic suicide’ to do his PhD on the science of luck. But it turns out that luck isn’t a random force at all: the results may be unpredictable, but the process of becoming luckier is a simple matter of creating more connections…

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Episode 270 – The Best Bits: Writing what you need to learn

Episode 270 - The Best Bits: Writing what you need to learn

It’s one of the great paradoxes of business books that they’re written by experts, but the process of writing them is itself what builds expertise. In this Best Bits episode nine recent guests reflect on how writing their book changed them – often in unexpected ways.  Judy Piatkus on the…

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Episode 266 – Ahead of her time with Judy Piatkus

Episode 266 - Ahead of her time with Judy Piatkus

‘I think we’re going to have another watershed moment… there’s going to be business pre-pandemic and business post-pandemic. And I wonder how many business books are going to feel out of date.’ As a woman founder in publishing, Judy Piatkus is one of my heroes. Working from home long before…

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Episode 263 – Lead Beyond the Edge with Frederique Murphy

Episode 263 - Lead Beyond the Edge with Frederique Murphy

‘The reason why I was able to write it in 12 weeks is that I mapped out my entire book, sticky note by sticky note… And then I was relentless. I just went one word per sticky note and built the whole thing.’ For someone who comes alive on the…

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Episode 217 – The Master Plan with Chris Wilson

Episode 217 - The Master Plan with Chris Wilson

Just occasionally, you have a conversation that rocks you to your core. One of those conversations that shows you how little you really know of life, how blind you are to your own privilege, and how feeble your excuses are. This is one of those conversations.  Chris Wilson was facing…

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Episode 176 – Future Fit with Andrea Clarke

Episode 176 - Future Fit with Andrea Clarke

‘The discovery process is everything. It’s the whole project.’ Andrea Clarke describes the three months she spent writing her book as being in ‘a pure content vortex… I felt like I was on a natural high.’ Discover why, and maybe catch some of her energy and enthusiasm to reignite your…

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Episode 170 – The Best Bits

Episode 170 - The Best Bits

A few of the stand-out moments from the last few Extraordinary Business Book Club episodes –  this week we’re asking…. why? Why write a book, when it’s so damn hard? Here’s why. Mark Burns on the stones in the reader’s shoe Bec Evans on treating your book as a prototype…

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