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Backable
by Tim Krotiris
If you could listen to every conversation within the walls of a High Performance Business Growth Consultancy, do you believe you could improve your business? At worst, could you at least reinforce your own opinions, optimise ideas and use some insights to accelerate your performance each day? This is the next best thing. Covering key business ideas from areas including leadership, partnerships and the realities of business challenges. What does it really take to grow? Access insights from the Philotimo Performance Centre, industry experts, quiet achievers and business builders sharing their experiences.
Episodes
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The Business That Got You Here Has to DIE
We sat in a pub in Carlton working out how to make our first $1 million, charging $60 a week for social media. It was a lot of clients, and that plan had to die so the business could grow. TK says most businesses rebuild their model 4 or 5 times on the way to $20 to $40 million. In this episode:...
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Radical Candour or a Licence to Be Rude?
Some owners use honesty to clear the air. Others use it as a licence to be rude. Tim and Elana work out which one radical candour has become, then turn the spotlight back on the one person who can’t step out of it: the owner. Elana opens with a question from a book she’d been reading: is radical...
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How 1 Dead Plant Can Change Your Business
It started with a dead plant. Years ago we began a simple game: remove one thing from the business every day. Day one was the plant. By day ten it was a bench full of junk. Eventually it led us to our client reporting, which was thorough, took our team half the week, and was read properly by…
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You Built It Alone. You Don't Have to Grow It Alone.
Every big jump in our business came right after something broke: a client, a person, or an idea we were holding too tight. TK and Elana talk about the move every growing business has to make, from lone wolf to wolf pack. Why the thing you're holding onto is often what's holding the business back....
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They Lost a Million Dollars and Doubled Down
“I think you need an internal arrogance. When you commit to something, you're all in on it, not half in. Fear is confining your ability to make the right decision.” - TK A team of 20-year-old founders lost a million dollars and doubled down anyway, and it worked. In this raw, unscripted episode,...
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The Speedboat Advantage: How to Out-Decide Your Competitors
Right now, the business landscape is exhausted. Between rapid AI shifts, economic uncertainty, and post-COVID adjustments, business owners are hitting a massive wall of decision fatigue. But in this solo episode, TK explains why this industry-wide tiredness is actually the greatest commercial...
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The $8,000 "Freebie": Why Free Lead Magnets Attract the Wrong Clients
In this episode, TK breaks down the exact moment he flipped the script on his agency's lead generation model: taking a high-value resource they used to give away as a free lead magnet, putting an $8,000 price tag on it, and watching client conversion rates actually increase. If you are currently...
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Stop Paying Someone to Keep You Scared of AI
Her rates halved in four years. Not because she got worse. Because nobody's buying what she thought she was selling. Episode Summary This one's for business owners who built real skill over years and are now watching the price for that skill quietly drop — while people with a fraction of the...
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Quit the Tactic, Not the Whole Business
There's a theory that says the smartest thing you can do is quit. TK and Elana spent the episode arguing about whether that's true — and landed somewhere neither of them expected. EPISODE SUMMARY This one's for the business owner lying awake wondering if it's time to walk away. TK and Elana —…
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You Are Not Your Business, Even If It Fails
Some people lose a business and never talk about it again. TK messaged a stranger going through exactly that this week, mid-liquidation, heartbroken, and it cracked open a story he's never told on the show before. EPISODE SUMMARY ( If you've ever lain awake running the numbers, wondering whether...
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Stop Running A Business That Can't Run Without You
Only one in ten businesses that survive ten years ever actually sell. Most owners never ask that question until the day it's the only one that matters. Episode Summary: TK breaks down why so few businesses ever exit — and why building without a clear endpoint means spending your best years…
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He Called His Biggest Competitor. They Taught Everything
Some people stay stuck for twenty years. Others compress a career into two. TK and Nigel get into why — and it isn't talent, luck, or timing. Episode Summary A business partner of TK's picked up the phone and cold-called a competitor ten times his size. Not for a favour, not for a deal — just to...
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Make Yourself Redundant to Grow Your Business
Would you run your business differently if this was your last year doing it? TK puts that question to Nigel straight after the Australian end of financial year, and the answer changes how you think about scaling, hiring, and your own role entirely. EPISODE SUMMARY This episode is for Australian...
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Putting Your Business In The Way Of Opportunity
This episode is for small business owners who look at a competitor with the exact same offer, the exact same market, and the exact same opportunities, and can't work out why that competitor is growing while they're stuck. TK and Nigel open up a real conversation about the moment two identical…
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Reframing Failure: The Habit That Builds Stronger Businesses
Most business owners are carrying a label they never chose: failure. TK and Nigel pull that label apart and show why the businesses winning right now aren't the ones avoiding failure — they're the ones who stopped calling it that. EPISODE SUMMARY This episode is for business owners who feel like...
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Business Overwhelm Ends the Moment You Find This One Domino
There's one moment that ends business overwhelm — and it's smaller than you think. Nigel and TK dig into why your brain buries the one change that actually matters, and how to find it before it finds you. EPISODE SUMMARY This episode is for business owners who feel like everything needs to change...
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How to Turn Hard Work Into Results That Grow Your Business
Most business owners aren't failing because they're not working hard enough. They're failing because they're working hard on the wrong things — and calling it commitment. TK breaks down why activity without outcome is just procrastination wearing a business suit. EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode,...
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Business Preparation: Why the Warrior Sleeps With a Sword
TK opens with a saying he loves: the warrior who sleeps with a sword looks foolish every night but one. This episode is about what that actually means for your business — and whether "being ready" and "just being busy" are the same thing at all. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click...
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You're Not My #1 — And Why That Made Everything Else Possible
What does it actually look like to build a business with the person you love — not the highlight reel version, but the real one? The date nights that buckled under the weight of cash flow conversations. The shared office, shared vision, and the quiet fear that in chasing something great, you…
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How High Performers Run a Business
What does elite sport actually teach you that business school can't? For TK, the answer isn't what most people expect. It's not tactics or tenacity — it's the experience of being around specialists who see what you can't see in yourself, competing against people who push you to levels you'd never...
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How to Use Fear to Build a Stronger, Bolder Business
What separates business owners who break through from those who stay stuck? TK has watched hundreds of transformations over the years — people who came in shaking at the thought of spending $100 on advice, and came out the other side driving their favourite car, running a business they love. The...
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The Comeback Was Always The Plan
Five years ago, TK and Nigel went quiet. No announcement. No farewell episode. Just — gone. That was the point. In this episode, they come back to explain the decision that felt, at times, like the riskiest thing they'd ever made. Why they walked away from a proven model. What they were building...
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How Often Do You Review Your Guiding Principles?
This week TK reflects on how the practice of regularly reviewing and questioning his guiding principles and daily routines has positively impacted his business journey and dives into the benefits of regularly scheduling the time to do so for any business owner looking to achieve a higher level of...
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Sometimes The Best Way Forward IsTo Take A Step Back
Business and personal and growth very rarely comes in a linear fashion and sometimes on that journey we can view some of those growth moments as a setback or a step backwards but what if the quickest way forward is actually to take that backwards step. Today TK is once again joined by Philotimo…
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Levelling Up On Your Business Growth Journey
This week on the podcast TK reflects on the growth journey many entrepreneurs face. Diving into the challenges that growth can place on a business and its systems he looks at the frustrations of the learning path many of us face as we grow. Join the Backable Community: Podcast Member’s Facebook...
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Could Vulnerability Be Your Biggest Strength?
This week TK explores how to promote and manage positive change in your business and life Drawing together concepts we have discussed in earlier episodes such as your minimum viable performance and the power of vulnerability Tk outlines an approach that will not only make change easier to…
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The Four Non Negotiables That Promote Peak Performance
As Melbourne once again finds itself in extended lockdown in her face of a new COVID outbreak. Tk turns to look at self-management and the important non-negotiable pillars we must maintain or put in place to ensure continual improvement and fulfilment not only during these times but in the face…
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Leveling Up On Your Business Journey
Building a business can be a long journey and business growth most often does not come in a linear fashion but rather in fits and starts. Today TK delves into the key elements and practices needed to create or maintain motivation in your entrepreneurial journey particularly at that point when the...
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5 Things You Need To Know On The Road To Your First Million
Achieving a 1 mIllion dollar turnover is a big achievement for many in the SME space and it can be a daunting task for some business owners particularly for new entrepreneurs who have not reached this milestone before. Today TK takes us through the five things both you and your business must know...
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The Real Power Of Your Brand With Rhys Gorgol
Today we revisit a classic episode of Backable where Tim sits down with Rhys Gorgol Founder and creative director of Melbourne-based creative Agency TCYK. In this re-edited and remastered episode, TK and Rhys delve deeper into the value and benefits a well-considered brand brings to a business…
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What is the Value Of Your Values?
Most small businesses are built on a set of values, values that in the beginning will closely reflect those of the business owner but as the business grows and evolves so to must those values to reflect and support the company culture and future growth. In today’s Solo-Cast TK reflects on a...
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Are You Grinding Or Changing Your Gears?
The last 12 months have been a time of immense and ongoing change and whilst the scale may be different, change is something that all business owners are inherently familiar with. Today TK looks at how to manage change as Australian businesses try to find some sense of normalcy as we reopen. He...
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Should You Be Making A Profit In Your Business?
This week Tim and Nigel sit down to ask the question “Should you be making a profit in your business?” The answer is not as straight forward as you may think. We discuss the difference between being self-employed or a freelancer and owning a business and Scale strategies for both. Finding the...
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Broken Salespeople with Red Stafstrom
This week Tk is joined by Red Stafstrom host of the Broken Sales People Podcast. Red shares his journey from door to salesman in some of Americas toughest neighbourhoods to successful sales trainer and host of the Broken Salespeople Podcast. He tells of the pivotal and painful moment that…
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Strong Connections With SquadCast Co Founders, Zach Moreno & Rock Felder
In this episode, TK is joined by Zachariah Moreno and Rockwell Felder the co-founders of SquadCast.fm. We find out how these two high school friends brought their two disparate but complementary skillsets together to build the intuitive audio and video recording platform that is taking the…
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Going All In With Ryall Graber
This week TK is joined 2019 Ms Fitness International titleholder, 9 time IFBB Fitness Champion and founder of Ryfit International Ryall Graber In this episode, Ryall opens up about the toll that success and her own drive placed on her in 2010 leaving her, outwardly at the peak of her career but...
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The Million Dollar Mindset with Clare Wood
This week Tim sits down with Clare Wood, Business Coach, Money Mentor and host of the extremely successful Clare Wood Podcast. We discuss how the stories you have been telling yourself about money are holding you back, how to achieve the right mindset around money and wealth to unlock the next...
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How We Bootstrapped a Multinational Business With Designhill Founder Rahul Aggarwal
Tim sits down with Rahul Aggarwal, Co-founder of Designhill a unique online marketplace created to overcome the challenges faced by business owners in outsourcing high-quality creative solutions and designers who have been looking for creative freedom. We discuss the pro’s and con’s of…
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Top Performance: Creating More Freedom Through Structure
Freedom is something that all entrepreneurs crave and it may seem antithetical but the greatest freedom can be only be achieved through structure. The world's top performers in any endeavour be it business or on the sporting field, all adhere to structured routines to increase performance. In...
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Are You Saying Yes To No?
Steve Jobs once said it is only by saying “no” that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. But saying no is not something that comes naturally to most entrepreneurs particularly in the early days of a business. In this episode Tim and Elana breakdown the process of saying…
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Gaining Capital with Chad Willardson
Today Tim is joined by Chad Willardson, founder and president of Pacific Capital, a wealth management firm in Southern California and author of the book Stress Free Money: Overcome These 7 Obstacles to Find Financial Freedom. We discuss the lessons Chad learned from his time with Merrill Lynch…
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Are Your Efforts In The Right Areas?
Effort is an essential business and continual consistent effort even more so but what if these efforts are producing diminishing returns or not achieving what we set out to? There comes a time in any business when we must move the focus from effort to outcome if we are looking to change the game....
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Are You Investing Enough In Your Business?
Businesses eat cash, and if you are looking to grow your business you are going to have to feed it on an ongoing basis. Today Tim and Elana focus on SME owners out there who are self-funding their business growth and facing all the challenges and opportunities that go along with it. They ask the...
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Embrace Your Inner Weirdo
We live in a time of business celebrities. Society has created a picture of what success looks, sounds and acts like and many SME owners take on these attributes. During their own journey but what if this is the thing that is holding you back? What if letting out that little inner weirdo that…
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Courage In Leadership
Your one role as a leader is to make decisions. Often you will have to make those decisions without all the information you require or make a choice that files i the face of what others or the market recommends. It is at times like these that you as a business leader must deploy your most vital...
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In Search Of The Game Changers
As business owners, we all have dreams of landing that ‘one client’ who is a game-changer. That one client who could change the journey of your business; change your future. But how do you get ‘The One’? How do you show The One that your business is the game changer THEY need to work with? And…
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Building the Foundations For Growth
One thing that 2020 gave us was a shared global experience. As business people, we need to ensure we have come out the other side stronger and better prepared to achieve our goals. In our first episode for the year, Tim and Elana share the high-performance habits and principles they have learnt...
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What Would You Do If You Chose To Start Again in 2021?
2020 has been a wild year. Whether you have become stronger because of it or not, it has certainly been a rollercoaster and offered many of us the opportunity to reflect upon where we are at, and where we are going. In the final episode for year, Tim and Elana sit down to discuss what they would…
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Backable Gifts to Upgrade Your Business in 2021
As 2020 draws to a close the team take the opportunity to reflect on the lessons we have taken from it and in the spirit of the season share the gifts this unprecedented year has given us and that we will take into the new business year and beyond. Happy Holidays everyone, stay safe, take care…
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Finding Peace in your Process
Are you currently not where you think you want to be? (Read that again)! Where you’re at is a reflection of your current ability and decisions. We all feel that we’re smarter than the next person - that we know more and can do more - but are we just unlucky or perhaps we haven’t had the same...
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If you could listen to every conversation within the walls of a High Performance Business Growth Consultancy, do you believe you could improve your business? At worst, could you at least reinforce your own opinions, optimise ideas and use some insights to accelerate your performance each day? This is the next best thing. Covering key business ideas from areas including leadership, partnerships and the realities of business challenges. What does it really take to grow? Access insights from the Philotimo Performance Centre, industry experts, quiet achievers and business builders sharing their experiences.
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Tim Krotiris
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