Episode 507 - Finding your voice with Dr Claire Handby
'Get started. Accept that you need to write and get something out of you. That's the feeling to notice and then respond to it however it sho...
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The Extraordinary Business Book Club
Alison Jones, publisher and book coach, explores business books from both a writer's and a reader's perspective. Interviews with authors, publishers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, tech wi...
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Episode 506 – The Frankfurt Book Fair debrief
'Now that we have AI to give us all the answers, who needs books, right?' It's a question that everyone who writes, publishes or sells nonfi...
Episode 505 - Speaking success with Alex Merry
' Reps can help you improve your ability to speak, and you can be the person creating those reps.' If you're seeking success as a speaker, w...
Episode 504 - Resilient Optimism with Michelle Gielan
' You can continually be choosing optimistic behavior even when you're not feeling optimistic.' Michelle Gielan is a positive psychology res...
Episode 503 - What book awards do to and for authors
'You can be both disappointed for yourself and delighted for other people at the same time.' Book awards are great for visibility and credib...
Episode 502 - Beyond Belief with Nir Eyal
'I don't write what I know, I write what I want to know.' You know Nir Eyal. He's an authority on behaviour change and human potential, a re...
Episode 501 - Effective with Melissa Swift
'It's just this kind of ordinary zone of getting done the things you need to get done and making sure your work has the impact it's supposed...
Episode 500 - The quincentenary episode
'Books are made by humans, for humans, in conversation with other humans, and they are still the best vehicle we have for sustained thought....
Episode 499 - Personal branding with Chris Ducker
'The publishing of the book actually is not the finish line, it's the start line.' Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, three-times bestse...
Episode 498 - Contagious Confidence with Julie Smith
'Confidence can fuel good performance, doubt can sap performance.' Julie Smith's first book, Coach Yourself Confident , focused on the indiv...
Episode 497 - Going faster still with Ben Hunt-Davis & Harriet Beveridge
'We worked really hard to create "me too" moments rather than "so what" moments.' Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? is a phrase that has ente...
Episode 496 - Likeable Badass with Alison Fragale
'The art of building your own status with your audience is to convey to as many people as you can, as often as you can, hey, I really care a...
Episode 495 - The streak effect
'Today is day one of whatever streak you choose to commit to.' Something a little bit different this week, as I celebrate an unusual milesto...
Episode 494 - Incorruptible with Eric Ries
'The more successful an organization is, the more valuable it is as a target. So the more golden the goose, the more the temptation to butch...
Episode 493 - The natural advantage
'Really paying attention to nature seems to shift something more fundamental... writing can begin to feel a little less effortful and a litt...
Episode 492 - Writing is resistance
'Unlike the washing up, which I'm perfectly happy to delegate to a machine... I don't WANT to delegate my writing, because that's how I thin...
Episode 491 - Future-Fit Innovation with Barbara Salopek
' Being creative means having a deep knowledge about anything that you do, because this helps you then to connect those things into new thin...
Episode 490 - Asking the wrong questions
'...The very human tendency to focus on the thing that we think is the problem but isn't actually the thing that needs our attention.' In wr...
Episode 489 - Books and learning with Amy Cantin
'Readers don't finish books that make them feel impressed by someone with a lot of experience or success. They finish books that make them f...
Episode 488 - The 10th birthday podcast party
'If there's one thing that this podcast has reinforced for me over the last 10 years, it is that books and the people who write them matter....