Episode 362 – Pay the Price with Steven Adjei

Episode 362 - Pay the Price with Steven Adjei

‘A lot of writers tend to shy away from the gritty parts of [entrepreneurship], the pain parts, the price part. I thought, Why not, I’m going to go for it. So I did.’ If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll know about the price that you pay each day to sustain your…

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Episode 361 – Tame Your Tiger with Catherine Erdly

Episode 361 - Tame Your Tiger with Catherine Erdly

When you run a small business – especially a retail business – it can feel very much as if a tiger has not just come to tea, but moved in. It’s always hungry, often unpredictable, and it makes you feel a little, well, nervous.  Luckily, Catherine Erdly is an expert…

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Episode 359 – Gloves off with Liam Black

Episode 359 - Gloves Off with Liam Black

‘You need a higher level of challenge and truth telling if you have set the bar high for yourself and your organization.’ Liam Black has become known as the ‘gloves-off mentor’ for his no-nonsense, straight-talking way of supporting social entrepreneurs and purpose-driven leaders. When the work you do matters so…

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Episode 358 – Staying the Distance with Catherine Baker

Episode 358 - Staying the Distance with Catherine Baker

‘We’ve all been missing a trick, because sport has been showing us day in, day out, not just how to improve, perform and achieve, but how to do so on a sustained basis, in a way that ensures that we can consistently deliver results when it matters.’ Catherine Baker qualified…

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Episode 357 – Top Tips from the IPG Spring Conference

Episode 357 - Top Tips from the IPG Spring Conference

The Independent Publishers’ Guild annual Spring Conference is one of the highlights of the year for the book industry. I seized the opportunity to speak to six movers and shakers in the world of books to put to them the questions that you’d have asked if you’d only had the…

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Episode 356 – WorkJoy with Beth Stallwood

Episode 356 - WorkJoy with Beth Stallwood

‘Work fits into this bigger thing that we call life. And if you are more joyful in work, that will spill over and you will be more joyful in life.’ You may not have used the terms ‘WorkJoy’ and ‘WorkGloom’ before, but I bet you immediately know what they mean,…

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Episode 355 – The School of Life with Sarah Stein Lubrano

Episode 355 – The School of Life with Sarah Stein Lubrano

“People don’t just pick up a book once, read it, put it down, and then that’s the end of their relationship with that idea…. we can move in a person’s life in multiple ways.” Sarah Stein Lubrano describes The School of Life as ‘a modern press’: books are vitally important,…

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Episode 354 – The Valentine’s Special

Episode 354 - The Valentine's Special

This is a podcast about business and business books. You might think this is unpromising territory for talk of love: but you’d be wrong.  No hearts and flowers here, but real, thoughtful, passionate insights into what it means to be in relationship with those we work alongside, how we express…

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Episode 353 – When the Dust Settles with Lucy Easthope

Episode 353 - When the Dust Settles with Lucy Easthope

‘Seeing somebody need you, seeing somebody in pain, is not necessarily traumatizing: not being able to help them is a moral injury that is traumatizing. So I also wanted to challenge ideas of what hurts.’ Most of us run away from disaster. Similarly, we try to avoid painful emotions.  For…

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