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The Push is a podcast for senior marketers eager to hear honest perspectives from peers who tell it like it is. We speak directly to your day-to-day reality and don't bother with superfluous tactics you don't need.
We understand that senior marketing is uniquely frustrating.
We bring together senior marketers to candidly share stories, analogies, strategies, and mental models they've used.
You can use these conversations to:
No empty buzzwords. No listicles. No generic advice.
Whether you’re in-house, agency-side, or a consultant, you’ll leave feeling empowered to speak up and lead with confidence.
The Push is hosted by Jack Ferguson, a Brand Strategist with 15 years of marketing and brand experience across 20+ industries.
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S3 E75: The First 2.5 Years as a Marketing Consultant: Setbacks, Clients, Growth, and Reality
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Oct 11, 2026 |
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S3 E74: Crocs, JCPenney, and MoviePass's Discount Vulnerabilities: Cannibalisation, Dependence, and Profit Erosion
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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S3 E73: Where Marketers Thrive: The Four Growth Stages and the Marketer Suited to Each
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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S3 E72: What Marketers Wish They Could Say
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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S3 E71: Brand Strategy Reddit: Five Companies in a Trench Coat, Brand Drift, and Positioning Problems
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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S3 E70: When Great Marketing Execution Still Fails: Understanding Buyers, Markets, and Risk
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May 19, 2026 |
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S3 E69: The Ontology of Brand (Pt 3): Building Distinctive Assets and Smashing Your Brand
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May 05, 2026 |
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S3 E68: The Ontology of Brand (Pt 2): Strategy Outputs, Decision Infrastructure, and Scenario Modeling
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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S3 E67: The Ontology of Brand (Pt 1): How It’s Measured, First Principles, and Why Buyers Buy
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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S3 E66: Where Marketers Contribute the Most Value: Identifying Demand and Innovation
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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S3 E65: Why Costco Engineers Against Impulse Purchases, How Honey Collapsed in One Video, and the Quantum Shift Marketing Needs
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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S3 E64: Using AI to create Audio Brand Assets, Magnum ASMR, and Sonic Spillage
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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S3 E63: How 150 Brands Achieved Disproportionate Growth, Making Bluetooth a Household Name, and The Category Fallacy
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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S3 E62: Play-Doh’s former VP of Marketing, Leigh Anne Capello, on the brand’s distinctive scent, future thinking, and sensory branding
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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S3 E61: Evolved Brand Building: The Case for Immersion as the Multiplier
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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S3 E60: Christmas’ Brand Heritage: Ritualistic Architecture and How Brands Culturally Embed
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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S3 E59: Positive Wastage: The Brand Growth You Didn’t Intentionally Create
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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S3 E58: Building Your Personal Brand as a Marketer: Job Proofing Yourself and Navigating a Tactic-Obsessed Marketplace
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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S3 E57: One Brand, 28 Retail Stores Launched: Marketing Tactics Are Overrated; What Really Drives Growth
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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S3 E56: How Marketers Are Made: The Origin Story of Two Professionals Who Didn’t Plan This
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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S3 E55: Career Doubt in Marketing: Setback Stories, and How to Persevere (with Chanel Clark)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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S3 E54: Rogue Brand Building Stories feat. Bumble, Red Bull, and Jeep
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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S3 E53: Marketers vs Scope Creep: When Projects Unravel, and How to Hold Them Together (with Ben Reeves)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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S3 E52: How Play-Doh’s brand distinctiveness was discovered, not created
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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S3 E51: The Friends Theme Song: The Perfect Distinctive Brand Asset
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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S3 E50: Lessons from 50 Podcast Episodes: Production Costs, Most-Downloaded Episodes and How Podcasts Attract Clients
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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S3 E49: Marketing’s Turbulent People Puzzle: How Recruiters Win While Marketers Burn Out (with Gerard Doyle)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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S3 E48: Should You Bother Making Your Brand Unique?
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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S3 E47: When Marketers Market Themselves: The Pressure to Be Perfect and Why Self-Promotion Feels Unnatural (with Chanel Clark)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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S3 E46: The Marketing Objectives Paradox: Promises Get Remembered
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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S3 E45: Marketers vs. Client Beliefs: Why Alignment Outperforms Persuasion (with Ben Reeves)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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S3 E44: The Referral Drought: A Service Portfolio Issue, Not a Promotion Problem
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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S3 E43: Marketing Spend vs. Agency Overheads: How Pastries, Drinks Trolleys, and Ticket Clipping Bloat Your Invoice (with Gerard Doyle)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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S3 E42: Uber, Kit Kat, and Laptop Bags: A Simple Way to Explain Differentiation and Distinctiveness to Stakeholders
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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S3 E41: When Marketers Hit Burnout: Navigating Boundaries, Workload, and Identity (with Chanel Clark)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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S3 E40: Queensland, Thrills, and Brands: How To Explain Positioning to Stakeholders
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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S3 E39: When Marketing Is Reactive: You Ship, You Pivot, You Drift
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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S3 E38: Short-Term B2B Sales: A Go-To Playbook
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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S3 E37: Proving Brand Drives Growth: Metrics That Change Minds (with Chanel Clark)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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S3 E36: When Marketing Transparency Backfires: Share Outcomes, Not Ammo
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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S3 E35: The Theatre of Pitching: How Agencies Win, Lose, and Burn Budget (with Gerard Doyle)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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S3 E34: Brand Building Buy-In: What Changes Stakeholder Minds
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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S3 E33: 6 Marketing Campaigns That Backfired: When Interdependencies Break (with Ben Reeves)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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S3 E32: Marketing Partnerships: More Than Business Tinder
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May 27, 2025 |
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S3 E31: A Brewery Isn’t a Pub: How Company Competency Shapes Marketing
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May 13, 2025 |
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S3 E30: Why Your Marketing Job Feels Unsatisfying
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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S3 E29: Not-So-Rapid Fire Q & A: Senior Marketer Edition
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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S3 E28: Same Goal, Different Game: Promoting Products vs. Services
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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S3 E27: Marketing to Your Boss: Let’s Pull Teeth!
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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S3 E26: Peddling Poison: When the product sucks, can marketing save the day?
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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S3 E25: Effectively Selling Marketing Expertise; Tales, Tactics, and Frameworks!
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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S3 E24: Breakup Advice for Marketers; When to Leave Your Employer
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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S3 E23: Pricing Debate: How high is too high?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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S3 E22: Lessons from 22 Podcast Episodes; Building Parasocial Relationships, Crafting Stories, and Repurposing Content Effectively
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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S3 E21: Taming unrealistic expectations (The marketer’s survival guide (Pt 2))
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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S3 E20: Taming Unrealistic Expectations: The Marketer's Survival Guide (Pt 1)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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S3 E19: Could the Fyre Festival Work for B2B SaaS?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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S3 E18: The Hidden Costs of Bad Customers! Are You Losing Money?
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Growth Playbook: Lessons from Zoom, Netflix, Hubspot, Figma…..and Travolta 🤔
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Why Your Marketing Isn’t Delivering Quick Wins
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Outsource Your Marketing Wisely: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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How to Slash B2B Sales Cycles and Manage Investor Expectations
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Unusual, Effective Marketing and Sales Tactics for B2B Companies
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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So, you're getting ghosted after the demo?
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Is CAC A Waste Of Time For Mid-Sized Companies?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Should you hire a lead gen agency?
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Ask your customers these questions to make more money!
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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What should a startup's marketing budget look like?
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Who the F*$^ do we target?
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May 28, 2024 |
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Marketer: Can we hire a product positioning consultant? CEO: Why???
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May 14, 2024 |
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CEO: What marketing and sales metrics should I be tracking?
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May 07, 2024 |
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Product Manager: I'm not talking to customers. CEO: F&$*
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Marketing and Sales: We don’t know what to do!!! Help!
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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'Our startup is under board pressure to make sales. Help!'
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Marketing: "We want to focus on branding." Sales: "How about No??"
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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A Short Story: How I Got My First Customer
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May 02, 2022 |
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Decoupling, Waking up at 3am, and Filling The Void, with Toby Jenkins
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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First Hires, Working Exclusively With People You Like, And How You Make Sure You Get Paid, with Cameo Ashe, Founder of Lemonade Beach
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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A Short Business Story: What It's Like To Be On The Bottom Of A Social Media Pile On
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Riding the Tech Startup Rollercoaster, Managing Chronic Fatigue, and Surviving a Sharp Downturn, with TalentVine Founder Justin Falk.
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Buying a Business at 22, Rejecting Luck, and Walking a Mile In Someone Else's Shoes with Dan Scougall, Founder of Next Level Taxation
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Doubling Your Revenue, When Niching Goes Wrong, and How Forgiveness Grows Your Business, with Mitch Hills, Founder of Mastered Marketing.
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Starting a Company During Covid, Improving Financial Literacy in Business Owners, and Refusing To Wear Ties with Morgan Wilson, Founder of Creditte
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The 3 Year Rule, Persevering When You Want To Shut Your Business, and What Your Startup Will Do For Your Personal Growth, with Switchnode Co-Founder Nathan Smith.
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Teaching 1 Million Kids How To Play Chess, and Achieving Success Against The Odds, With Chess Mates Founder Ash Reddy
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Surviving Covid In Hospitality, Early Business Lessons, And Knowing What Advice To Take, with Snag Studio Founder Sala Rankine
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Finding Your Voice, Going Viral on TikTok, and Voquality, with Voice Coach Sally Prosser
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Profit By Design, Customer Centricity, And Segmenting Your Customers on What They Value, with Mark Hocknell
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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You're Not Selling What You Think You Are, Outsmarting The Incumbents, And Sales Meetings Gone Wrong, with Gavin Tye, Founder of Sales Market Fit
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Building A Business As A Teenager, Firing Your Customers, And Becoming An Author, With Jason Andrew, Co-Founder of SBO Financial
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Why Marketing Plans Are Dead, Saas, Sass, And Building A Consulting Business With Louise Flynn, Co-Founder Of Bright Canvas
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Building 3 Companies, Succeeding Young, and The Importance of Healthy Living with Sarina Eggers, Director of Business Kitz.
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Navigating The Travel Industry During Covid, Chaotic Clients, And Creative Startup Tactics, With Jack Buscombe And Gauranga Magriplis of Airshare
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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A near death experience, manifesting your own redundancy, and a year of no buying with Rachel Smith
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Selling your house to bet it all on a Startup, earning no revenue for 6 months, and lessons learned from 2 deployments in the army with Tim Walmsley
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Closing Down 2 Tech Companies, Challenges Hiring Agencies, And The Benefits Of A Distributed Team With Holly Cardew
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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A Cold Calling Nightmare, Getting Promoted Before You're Ready, and Business to Enterprise Selling with Gavin Tye
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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When your world falls apart, the pain of losing clients, and the art of leadership with Sonia McDonald
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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A Challenging Experience on Stage, How Facing Your Fears Is Overrated, And How Enmeshment can affect your career with Jack Ferguson
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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When the GFC hits, Logistical Nightmares, and when taking on a big industry goes wrong with Gerard Doyle
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Children, Juggling 3 Major Roles, and when Public Speaking Goes Wrong with Sharon Hunneybell
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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When Relying on Others Goes Wrong, Questioning Whether You Are On The Right Career Trajectory, And The Importance of Strong Hires with Demetrio Zema
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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Bouncing back from Bankruptcy, the Imposter Syndrome, and the struggle of maintaining culture as your company grows with Chad Renando
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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Discontinuing a Tech Startup, The Solopreneur Life, and deciding not to do medicine with Dr Emily Vertege
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Fil Cristaldi on why you shouldn't do what your clients ask, awkward on-stage experiences, and the struggle of managing your pipeline.
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Matt Tomlins on why he isn't seeking a mentor, why he doesn't rely on anyone else, and what it's like to try to have someone try and kick you out of your own company.
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Paul Bennetts on making Superannuation interesting, why Ideas are underrated, and how he partnered with High Profile Investors.
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Justin Falk on Starting a Business in an Industry you haven't worked in, Micro KPI's, and rebelling against society's expectations.
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Philip Sheen on Mental Health in Business, the Evolution of the Music Industry, and the Art of Storytelling
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Apr 08, 2017 |
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Toby Jenkins on Negative Visualisation, Seeking Discomfort in Partnerships, and his experience as an Olympian
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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Mark Hocknell on Customer Centricity, Net Promoter Scores and Managing Your Team.
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Mar 01, 2017 |
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David Kaity on using psychographics to profile your customers, writing a book to educate the market, and why you don't need a Real Estate agent to sell your house.
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Feb 25, 2017 |
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Rhonice Ferguson on what school is for, why strikes are often unproductive, and the importance of encouraging men to become teachers.
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Feb 08, 2017 |
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Graeme Ferguson on how stress nearly wrecked his career, why you shouldn't give second chances and timeless principles learned from 40 years in the workforce.
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Holly Tattersall on Women in Digital, Embracing Salesmanship, and the Diversity Catch 22
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Jan 25, 2017 |
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Matthew Kelly on the difficulties of building a company when you‘re not a salesman, firing a rockstar employee, and the importance of iterative marketing.
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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Nicholas Heaney on the dangers of outsourcing Tech, dealing with social stigmas and the rollercoaster of raising capital.
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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Chris Macaulay on how the Lean Startup Failed him, the pain of multiple pivots and the art of Enterprise Sales.
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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Gail Creighton Davies on communication skills learned through adversity and growing up in Northern Ireland
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Dr Glen Richards on Financial Adversity, Surviving within your own company and Entrepreneurial Seizures.
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Steve Baxter on Shark Tank, The NBN and the state of Entrepreneurship
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Oct 26, 2016 |
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Joe Fox on Marketing Ad Spends, Branding and Managing Stress
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Oct 19, 2016 |
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Paul Davies on B2B Sales Tactics
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Oct 05, 2016 |
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Dr Catherine Ball on the future of Drones, Innovation Fusion and turning down Q and A
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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Mitch Hills on Starting a Business at 16, Building an App without investment and knowing when to quit
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Tanya Williams on Tradigital Marketing, conquering Self Doubt and the role your Digital Footprint plays in your Career
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Sep 04, 2016 |
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Tres West on Lean Startup, Chasing Investment and how the Startup Ecosystem Operates
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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Nathan Hoad on Coding, Internal Communication and Productivity
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Jun 18, 2016 |