Episode 349 – Work/Life Flywheel with Ollie Henderson

Episode 349 - Work/Life Flywheel with Ollie Henderson

‘I’d done a lot of reps before I started writing the book, and that helped enormously.’ Ollie Henderson would like to talk to you about work-life balance. Specifically, he’d like you to understand that you will NEVER reach a state of perfect equilibrium, so why beat yourself up about it?…

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Episode 331 – Forget the First Million with Lucy Cohen

Episode 331 - Forget the First Million with Lucy Cohen

If your natural style is more seat-of-the-pants than perfectly planned, you’ll love this unapologetic take on writing from Lucy Cohen – lying on a settee, writing from the heart, ideally after a large glass of red wine.  But don’t be fooled: there’s nothing insubstantial about her take on the realities…

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Episode 296 – Unprepared to Entrepreneur with Sonya Barlow

Episode 296 - Unprepared to Entrepreneur with Sonya Barlow

‘What’s the worst that can happen?’ It might not sound like the most positive of mantras, but that simple question lies behind Sonya Barlow’s astonishing success: one of 2020’s Most Influential Women in Tech, a top 50 BAME entrepreneur, LinkedIn’s Changemaker 2021 for Gender Diversity and Inclusion and Marie Claire’s…

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Episode 294 – Built on Rock with Michael Buckworth

Episode 294 - Built on Rock with Michael Buckworth

“Talk to anybody who will listen about your idea. That’s the way that you improve it.” Michael Buckworth is an anomaly: a lawyer who’s also an entrepreneur. He founded the only UK law firm working exclusively with startups, and he’s the author of Built on Rock: The busy entrepreneur’s legal…

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Episode 262 – No Filter with Sarah Frier

Instagram has had a massive impacting in shaping our culture over the last decade – it’s redefined our measures of success and celebrity. It’s easy now to see it as somehow inevitable, but in No Filter, winner of the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2020, Sarah Frier uncovers the…

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Episode 236 – Unpacking stories with Shuhrat Ashurov

Episode 236 - Unpacking stories with Shuhrat Ashurov

  The best business books include powerful stories that get across key points in a memorable, engaging way. What if we could make those stories accessible to more people, more easily? That’s the vision that prompted Shuhrat Ashurov to create Storypack, a microlearning app that gives people in business access…

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Episode 235 – Misadventures with Gayle Mann and Lucy-Rose Walker

Episode 235 - Misadventures with Gayle Mann and Lucy-Rose Walker

‘Failure can be quite a deceptive word… misadventures feels like a much more forgiving word that allows you to go off and try stuff.’ Gayle Mann and Lucy-Rose Walker have supported thousands of entrepreneurs in their work with Entrepreneurial Spark and beyond, and if there’s one thing they’ve learned it’s…

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Episode 221 – Writing like a journalist with Rachel Bridge

Episode 221 - Writing like a journalist with Rachel Bridge

‘Ask yourself continually: is this boring me?… Because if you’re bored writing it, there is no chance that anybody is going to want to read it.’ Former Enterprise Editor of the Sunday Times, Rachel Bridge cheerfully admits that she has the classic journalistic characteristics: a short attention span and incurable…

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Episode 200 – The Bicentenary Episode

Celebrate with me – The Extraordinary Business Book Club is 200 episodes young! So along with the Best Bits of the last few (absolutely brilliant) conversations, there’s some reflection on what that means, and why it matters. The bicentennial best bits are all about curiosity, experimentation, getting feedback, failing and…

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Episode 162 – How to Have a Happy Hustle with Bec Evans

Episode 162 - How to Have a Happy Hustle with Bec Evans

‘[The principles behind the book were those of] the lean startup: build, measure, learn, which meant running experiments, testing stuff with users and iterating and improving… treating it as a whole series of prototypes.’ In writing her first book – How to Have a Happy Hustle – Bec Evans drew…

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