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Business Brain Food
by Ben Fewtrell
Welcome to the Business podcast that gives you direct access to the worlds leading experts on everything you need to know to help you build a better business. Be the first to know about future shows, access free downloads and exclusive business content by subscribing at maxmyprofit.com.au today!Business Brain Food is the podcast devoted to taking you, and your business to the next level. It doesn't matter if you're brand new to business or you've been in business for many years, there's always something new you can learn to take your business to the next level!
Episodes
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BBF265: Getting heard in a noisy world
Summary Tom Schwab has had a varied life. He's going to tell us how to get the best out of podcasts and inbound marketing, but his back story is every bit as interesting. He spent time in the navy (and did a neat side hustle exporting custom-made shirts from Singapore!), managed a nuclear power...
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BBF264: Be bold enough to ask with Doug Morneau
Summary We have a seriously charismatic fella on the show this week. Doug Morneau is an expert email marketer, but he's also an expert storyteller. His book 'Three Big Lies: The real truth about renting email lists' became an international bestseller, and his interview with Ben is absolutely...
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BBF263: What separates the best from the rest
Summary This week we have a special coaching session from Ben where he tells us what separates the best from the rest. No guest, just half an hour of great business advice that he'd normally charge good money for. Ben has worked with some of the very best and very worst in nearly 20 years as a...
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BBF262: Removing the fluff from your sales process
Summary All the way from Denver Colorado we have Chad Sanderson giving us the lowdown on what "sales" really means. He's been leading successful sales and marketing teams for over 20 years, and although he his very charismatic and insightful, he'll tell you that good sales is about so much more...
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BBF261: How David Jenyns systemised himself out of his business
Summary We often talk about working on your business rather than working in your business, but how do you actually do it? David Jenyns will tell you how. David is the author of the book Systemology; a comprehensive guide on how a business owner can detach themselves from their day-to-day and…
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BBF260: The secret of success is not a secret at all!
Summary What a great character we have on the show this week. Dave Luehr's story is a truly inspirational one. He had it all with a million-dollar business and then he lost it. For many years later he was disempowered by a fear of failure, but eventually he understood how to use failure to his...
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BBF259: What it takes to be a 21x World Champion
Summary This week we give you all the tools you need to consistently perform your best. Our guest Sarah Taylor has truly been there and done it; transforming herself from an obese 40 year-old to a 21-time world-champion bodybuilder by the time she was 49. You're now going to hear how Sarah…
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BBF258: Health, Happiness and High Performance in business
Summary We go really deep in our conversation with Mark: a former AFL player who now empowers people and business to achieve top performance. Mark is trained in western health science and eastern medicine; he is a 3-time bestselling author and just for good measure, he is CEO of the Australian...
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BBF257: Selling is not a numbers game
TITLE BBF257 Selling is not a numbers game with Samantha Pickering Summary Strap yourselves in for a very insightful chat about marketing and sales with Samantha Pickering. She believes that compassion and creativity are the two key ingredients - not numbers and statistics. It was refreshing to...
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BBF256: Hire a Virtual Assistant the smart way!
Summary Remote working has never been more popular but how do you manage it properly? Anne and Mark Lackey certainly know how. Their company HireSmart Virtual Assistants has been transforming the productivity of their clients for years, saving them up to 75% on their payroll costs and saving them...
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BBF255: Can a business be owned by a Dog?
Summary We're speaking to a great character on this week's show. Ben Wyhatt tells us his crazy story of leaving the UK and pitching up to Australia on a whim. After working as a personal trainer he branched out into nutritional supplements, but he didn't stop there. One day he thought to himself,...
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BBF254: How to recruit your next sales superstar with James Michael
Summary Recruiting salespeople is one of the biggest challenges that a business owner can face, and to make matters worse, most of what we thought we knew about recruitment has been disproven as myth! Luckily we have someone on the show who can debunk the whole process and give you all the tools...
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BBF253: Why now is the perfect time to podcast with Drew Blackman
Summary On-demand media has never been more popular… it's time to get onboard. Drew Blackman tells us all you need to know about how to start a podcast and just how much they can do for your business. Drew is a particularly good man to speak to on this, given that it was this very podcast that...
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BBF252: Tax minimisation tips and traps with Brian Goodridge
Summary So many people don't want to think about tax until it's too late, but once you've listened to Brian Goodridge you'll be positively inspired to do something about your tax situation! Brian is a different kind of accountant. He's great at explaining the various different angles you can...
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BBF251: The Corona Slingshot with Steve Brossman
Summary One of our favourite guests returns for a truly inspirational conversation. Steve Brossman is a serious high achiever… what hasn't this man done? When a terrible accident put an end to his career as a professional sprinter, he dug deep to become a serial entrepreneur and eminent media...
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BBF250: How to create Valuable and Consistent content for Social Media with Ben Fewtrell
Summary In a BBF-special, our main man Ben shares his 6-part plan for repurposing content to keep your customers engaged with the minimum of fuss. Ben is an entrepreneur just like you, so he can deliver these pearls of wisdom in a simple form that you can easily copy for yourself. No technical...
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BBF249: Some ideas and Coronavirus Stimulus Explained with Ben Fewtrell
TITLE BBF249 Some ideas and Coronavirus Stimulus explained Summary In this special edition of BBF, our leader Ben Fewtrell outlines the potential opportunities for small business in these chaotic times. He calls it "Business as unusual". Nobody has said that you can't work, so if you have been...
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BBF248: Overcoming the hurdles to bring an idea to market with Kelly Lavery
Isn't it nice when someone has a big idea and backs themself to make it happen? Kelly Lavery tells Ben her truly inspirational story - a story that took her to the financial brink but out the other side as a famous inventor and successful businesswoman. Her invention, the Strucket, is now on sale...
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BBF247: Making money making people smile with Alexandra Watkins
This week we have an enlightening chat about freelancing and company branding with and absolute authority on the matter, Alexandra Watkins. As CEO of her own creative agency, Alexandra has worked with some very impressive clients such as Google, Amazon and Dunkin' Donuts. She has also written the...
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BBF246: Everything becomes easy when you break it into small pieces with Cham Tang
This week we get some great marketing takeaways from someone who's really been there and done it. Cham Tang is the head of marketing and co-founder of Authentic Education; a BRW Fast100-company no less. He is also a great friend of MaxMyProfit - we've done a lot of work with him in the past and…
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BBF245: How Trent Dyrsmid went from working in to working on his business in just 6 months
Trent Dyrsmid is a serial entrepreneur who knows all there is to know about process. He hasn't got this far by being a dreamer - he's got to where he is today by understanding every last detail. His Flowster app is designed to help other businesses get to the same level, so we talked to him about...
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BBF244: Achieving your goals in 2020 with Ben Fewtrell
This week we have our very own Ben from start to finish. Ben is on a mission to reduce the fatality rate of small businesses, so it's time for some free business advice from someone who has been inspiring business owners for decades. The main focus of Ben's advice today is goal setting: one of…
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BBF243: Soft skills make you strong with John Livesay
We loved John Livesay the last time he came on the show so it's great to have him back talking about one of the most important things in business: the elevator pitch. Known as "the pitch whisperer", John has travelled the world as a keynote speaker wowing Fortune 500 companies with tips and…
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BBF242: Sales and Marketing is your Bread and Butter with Andrew Raso
Andrew Roso gives us an insight into how to run a business with tight KPIs. Presiding over one of the fastest-growing digital media companies in Australia, he won the B&T Under 30 Entrepreneur award in April. He certainly knows what he's talking about! Listen up for how you can use a marketing...
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BBF241: Failure is the mother of success with Julie Ockerby
Julie Ockerby tells us a great story of how she saw a problem in everyday life and created a successful business that solved it. When her father got ill she was disgusted at the standard of elderly accommodation she saw. Having worked with luxury hotel groups and having been a nurse herself, she...
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BBF240: Fail fast to learn fast with Brent Grundy
What an interesting character we have on this week's episode. Brent Grundy has actually been branded "The Man Who Tried Everything" and as you will hear from the interview, it's a title he richly deserves! Brent's most successful venture is Flip Out International: a global children's play…
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BBF239: Start before you're ready with Bridget Carmady
Bridget Carmady lost her dad and her sister to skin cancer and then went on a mission to empower others to look after their skin. She started by making a cream to help her Dad alleviate the pain from his cancer treatment and eventually built up a highly successful international business, Clemence...
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BBF238: Growth is driven by advocacy with Tim West
Tim West tells us all we need to know about how to successfully franchise a business in double-quick time. In just three years his 12 Round Fitness concept has grown to over 80 clubs and is officially the fastest-growing boxing and fitness concept in the world. This amazing success story has come...
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BBF237: Be willing to do what other people aren't with Andrew Henderson
Andrew Henderson is a prolific globetrotter who has now made a highly successful business out of it. Using his experience of traveling and doing business in over 100 countries, he has some great advice for people who wish to change their lives and become global citizens. Andrew has a refreshingly...
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BBF236: Using your business to build people with Nicole Clarke Baines
We have a great friend of MaxMyProfit on the show today who is a shining example of what can be achieved in business with the right coaching. Nicole Clarke-Baines has built up and sold multiple businesses and nowadays she fronts up a weight-loss programme that serves 8 countries and has a team of...
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BBF235: Culture is everything with Tristan White
This week we speak to someone whose company is number one in BRW's list of the 50 best places to work. Tristan White really knows how to build a winning culture in his business. He is the founder and CEO of Physio Co and tells us the story of how he has managed to keep his 100+ employees happy…
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BBF234: Kicking goals in business with Dean Evans
Dean Evans tells us how he managed to turn a successful career as a soccer player for Perth Glory into a successful business career afterwards. Nowadays Dean runs Western Australia's leading soccer coaching centre, which is inspiring youth and adult players of all standards. In only two years of...
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BBF233: How hiring a Business Coach saved Todd Palmers business
Todd Palmer wouldn't be where he is today without the help of others, so he has made it his business to help people. He tells the inspirational story of how a business coach single-handedly saved his business and spurred him on to save other people's. Todd is now a leading business coach,...
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BBF232: Jim Penman shares why Success is about Character
We've got a bit of a celebrity on the show today. If you don't know the name Jim Penman then you might know his face from billboards and trailers all over Australia. Having started as a part-time gardener, Jim eventually built up Jim's Mowing to become the largest franchise chain in the whole of...
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BBF231: 1,852 little changes with Julian Mather
What hasn't Julian Mather done? Army sniper, international cameraman, professional speaker and now he empowers small business to film professional-quality videos using only their smart phones. It was great to talk to such a well-travelled man who has followed his heart and never taken the obvious...
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BBF230: From startup to over 1 Million customers with Julian Leach
Isn't it great when someone sees a problem and has the balls to set up a business to solve it? Our man Julian Leach did just that, and he tells us all about how you could do it too. It all started back in 2011 when Julian wasn't at home for the delivery of a book he'd ordered from the USA. He was...
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BBF229: Mindset, Mastermind and Mentoring with Jeremy Streten
This week we speak to a man who made that all-important step from being an expert in his field to being a successful businessman. As Ben joked in the episode, Jeremy Streten is one of the few lawyers that he actually likes! As well as being likeable, Jeremy has written a book that pioneers the...
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BBF228: How Conor built a business watching people eat
It's always nice to speak to a young entrepreneur who backed themselves and made a roaring success of it. This week we speak to Conor Reynolds; a millennial who saw the bad eating habits engrained into the workplace and went and did something about it. In just three years his Snackwize business…
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BBF227: From footy Shark to business Shark with Ben Lucas
This week we are given a fine lesson in teamwork and business success from Ben Lucas. Starting out playing Rugby League for the Cronulla Sharks, Ben went on to build up and sell six seven-figure businesses in the fitness sector, and as if that wasn't enough he decided to run 40 marathons just for...
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BBF226: How ZADI is seizing a gap in the marketplace with Adala Bolto
This week we speak to someone who saw a gap in the market and absolutely went for it. Adala Bolto created a fitness concept aimed squarely at young women that she felt were being marginalised by the big boys in the marketplace. She did so well that now the major market players are working with…
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BBF225: How Amber Renae went from bankrupt to online success with e-courses
This week we speak to a serial entrepreneur who's really been there and done it. Amber Renae went from building bridges as a civil engineer to building up three six-figure businesses, including a fashion label supported by none other than Paris Hilton. But this certainly isn't a story of serene...
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BBF224: How solving a problem led to building a business with Emma Lovell
Emma Lovell had a flash of inspiration on the plane one day that led her on the most incredible journey of entrepreneurship and TV fame, and she managed to do all this while being the mother of two small children. It was her children who inspired her to pioneer the Cozi Go: a canopy that protects...
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BBF223: There is light at the end of the tunnel with Ben Kooyman
Ben Kooyman is a fine example of what you can achieve with good planning and hard work. His Endeavour Brewing Company turns over 7 million AUD per year and can count our very own Ben as a super fan of their Amber Ale! Any new company can learn from the Endeavour story, especially how they have...
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BBF222: How Fabienne Costa went from selling at markets to worldwide distribution
This week we speak to a woman who took her business global from the most humble of beginnings. Fabienne Costa had an idea when sitting at her high school desk that she was going to make and sell her own jewelry, so eventually she went out and did it. Now she presides over YCL Jewels and…
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BBF221: A chat with one of Australia's Top 10 female entrepreneurs Stella Petrou Concha
This week we talk to someone who truly understands the humanity of entrepreneurship. Although Stella Petrou Concha has been named as one of Australia's Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs, she insists that failure was one of the main things that helped her get there. Today she presides over the REO…
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BBF220: How a marketing mindset will help your business grow with Allan Dib
Like many of us, our guest this week started out as a reluctant marketeer. Allan Dib is living proof that you can start from a very low base and make yourself a marketing guru if you follow the right advice. From being a self-confessed IT geek obsessed with his product, Allan used his newly...
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BBF219: Using yoghurt culture to grow a successful business with Michael Laps
This week we have a frank and inspiring discussion with Michael Laps: co-founder and strategy director at Yoghurt Digital. An expert in user-behaviour research and customer-data analysis, Michael also knows a thing or two about building a business from the bottom up. See some of Michael's top…
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BBF218: Celebrating 11 years of business success with Damian Kernahan
There is a massive gap between how businesses think they are serving their customers and how customers actually feel about the service they receive. This week we learn from someone who has made it his business to close that gap. Damian Kernahan is the main man at Proto Partners: a company that...
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BBF217: From 2 to a team of 30 in just 5 years with Julie Castle
This week we find out the secret to growing a business quickly and successfully with Julie Castle: the inspirational founder of Struber. Struber is an engagement consultancy business that specialises in the infrastructure sector, and as we will find out, they also specialise in growing a happy…
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BBF216: From 'word blindness' to 5 times best selling author with Lauren Clemett
It's not often we get to speak to a neuro-branding specialist, so it was a privilege to speak to one of the best in the business, Lauren Clemett. Lauren has 25 years of experience in the game, having worked for some leading agencies and nowadays with her own agency, The Business Propellor. She is...
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Welcome to the Business podcast that gives you direct access to the worlds leading experts on everything you need to know to help you build a better business. Be the first to know about future shows, access free downloads and exclusive business content by subscribing at maxmyprofit.com.au today!Business Brain Food is the podcast devoted to taking you, and your business to the next level. It doesn't matter if you're brand new to business or you've been in business for many years, there's always something new you can learn to take your business to the next level!
HOSTED BY
Ben Fewtrell
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