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E370 | James Ashford, 8-Figure Founder: The Person You’re Protecting Is Destroying Your Business

Published 2 July 2026

I sat down this week on the pod with James Ashford He built GoProposal from nothing. No funding, no outside

E369 | PolyAI’s Nikola Mrkšić: The Companies Ignoring AI Are About to Be Wiped Out. Is Yours One of Them?

Published 18 June 2026

Companies Ignoring AI Are About To Be Wiped Out This isn’t a prediction. In Nikola Mrkšić’s words, and he has

E368 | 60% of Revenue Gone Overnight. From £1.5m to £10 million.

Published 4 June 2026

Matthew Duhig - CEO & co-founder of FX Digital.

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E367 | He started at 45. By 48, he was standing at an ATM staring at £2 million.

Published 21 May 2026

Simon Woodroffe founded Yo Sushi, launched Yo Hotel, appeared as an original dragon on Dragons’ Den, performed at Edinburgh Festival,

Scott Walker - Kidnap Negotiator - Scale To Win with Dominic Monkhouse

E366 | 300 hostages. 100% back alive. Here’s what he learned.

Published 7 May 2026

Scott Walker spent 20 years as a kidnap for ransom negotiator. 300+ cases across every major continent. Pirates. Terrorist groups.

Effective hiring test to filter candidates quickly and improve recruitment quality.

E365 | The hiring test that weeds out half your applicants instantly

Published 23 April 2026

Luke Tobin has had three exits in three different industries, the largest of which was Digital Ethos, a performance marketing

Paul Adamson

E364 | He rebuilt a yacht company from zero, then got diagnosed with cancer

Published 9 April 2026

Paul Adamson spent 25 years sailing yachts around the world, having taught himself business by running a sailing school during

Lee Smith, business expert, discusses growth from £200k to £2m without extra marketing.

E363 | Lee Smith: from £200k to £2m without spending a penny on growth

Published 26 March 2026

Lee Smith went from DJ to jeweller to running IT firms, discovering mergers that changed everything.

Founder who lost everything in a bad deal, then grew a million-person following.

E362 | This founder lost everything in one bad deal, then built a million-person audience

Published 12 March 2026

Eric Partaker’s career looks like a cheat code from the outside. McKinsey, early Skype team. Multi-billion dollar exit to eBay.

Alex Cooper

E361 | Alex Cooper: The guy who built UK COVID testing now knows what your customers are thinking

Published 26 February 2026

This founder’s path makes no sense on paper…  History degree at Oxford, trader in the City, and then one day

Steve Phillips

E360 | How to use AI to double your revenue (without hiring anyone)

Published 10 February 2026

Steve Phillips started Zappi in his back garden with a bottle of wine, and twelve years later, he’d scaled it

Gerry Tombs

E359 | How do you build a leadership team that can run the business without the founder?

Published 30 January 2026

Build a leadership team that can run without the founder by designing for ownership, not status. Keep the team small,