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S09E05 – The Hidden Half Of Business Success
Angela Duckworth revises Grit, a photocopier sinks a water project, and 17th century London pays seven shillings for a label, all pointing to the same lesson: plan for the half of success you can’t see. Dr Angela Duckworth spent years…
S09E04 – Is Your Business Leaving A Mark?
From a keyboard warrior calling Steve a snooker player, to a comedy dry cleaner called Touching Cloth, this episode asks whether your business name is doing you any favours, or just quietly touching cloth of its own. A lamb ad…
S09E03 – Questions Arising From Women In Business
Our phones tax our attention daily, and the smartest small business marketing lesson from this episode comes from two women at a networking event who simply asked better questions. A group of 1970s kids react to modern life in a…
S09E02 – Take Your Profit First
Mike Michalowicz reckons you should pay yourself before you pay anyone else, and Steve and David spend an episode working out whether that’s financial wisdom or just your grandmother’s envelope system with better branding. Steve and David spend this episode…
S09E01 – The Answer Economy Raises Important Questions For Your Business
Google used to hand you a list. Now it hands you an answer, and Steve and David unpack what that quiet swap is doing to our brains, our buying decisions, and our businesses. Pete Blackshaw’s forthcoming book, The Answer Economy,…
S08E09 – Are You Talking To Me? Social Media Marketing In The Angertainment Era
From Ed Koper’s anatomy of online rage to Clive Palmer’s tone-deaf TV ads, this episode maps the eight ways social media tries to hijack your brain, and hands small business owners a calm, clear path through. Ed Koper’s book Angertainment…
S08E08 – If You Are Not Engineering Your Time In This Age It Will Be Engineered For You
David Epstein’s Inside the Box makes the case that constraints are a gift, and this episode arrives at a moment when Google has quietly stopped pretending your website matters to them. David Epstein’s Inside the Box argues that the freedom…
S08E07 – When You Lose, Don’t Lose The Lesson
From a donkey that refused to stay buried to a Ford ad that would need trigger warnings in 2026, Steve and David explore John C. Maxwell’s How to Get a Return on Failure and why your worst week in business…
S08E06 – Working With Your Whole Brain Costs Peanuts
From Jill Bolte Taylor’s four-character brain map to the timeless emotional archetypes of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, this episode reveals why your best business decisions start with knowing which part of your brain is currently running the meeting. Jill Bolte…
S08E05 – The Recession Response Episode
When the word “recession” lands, most businesses freeze, and Mike Michalowicz’s deceptively short book reveals why that freeze is the most expensive response of all. Steve whispers the word “recession” in a dark alley at the top of this episode.…