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Geoff McDonald, Ideas Architect
by Geoff McDonald, Ideas Architect, Business Strategist and Designer
Making sense of experience
Episodes
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Alan Silcock – Five Gifts Flourishing
Geoff McDonald Alan Silcock – Five Gifts Flourishing GeoffMcDonald.com Geoff McDonald interviews author Alan Silcock about his new book, Five Gift Flourishing in episode 116 of the Ideas Architect podcast. Show Links Alan Silcock’s website – Following Forsyth Alan Silcock interviews Geoff…
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Deep Minimalism with Geoff McDonald
Geoff McDonald Deep Minimalism with Geoff McDonald GeoffMcDonald.com Deep Minimalism Deep Minimalism is the topic of Geoff McDonald’s next book. It’s what you get when you apply the principles of Minimalism to all (or at least, more) areas of your life. The first slice of this topic is shaping as…
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Heart Leadership with Ian Berry
Geoff McDonald Heart Leadership with Ian Berry GeoffMcDonald.com Heart Leadership In his latest book, Heart Leadership, business mentor and leadership expert Ian Berry talks about the progress from the mind of leadership to leading with the heart. It’s an interesting update on leadership styles…
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1000 Blog Posts – Podcast
Geoff McDonald 1000 Blog Posts – Podcast GeoffMcDonald.com 1000 blog posts – today! It’s official. Today – this very blog post – I have now written and published 1000 blog posts on this website. Three cheers for me! Yes, That’s a bit self-indulgent and I’m proud of this result – that’s a lot of...
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Sandi Givens – Find Your Courageous Voice
Geoff McDonald Sandi Givens – Find Your Courageous Voice GeoffMcDonald.com Sandi Givens Sandi Givens runs an online program for women across the country called Find Your Courageous Voice. Her passion is to enable more people to have courage and authenticity in their conversations. Sandi is also…
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Do More With Less
Geoff McDonald Do More With Less GeoffMcDonald.com Do More with Less Do More with Less is episode #111 of the Ideas Architect Podcast. Here is the video and transcript… Are you stretched to your limits? Are you just hanging on? Life is fast – keeping up with all the software updates is tough let...
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Bill Jennings: Valuable Conversations
Geoff McDonald Bill Jennings: Valuable Conversations GeoffMcDonald.com Bill Jennings, Time and Space Bill Jennings runs Time and Space – community events for secondary schools that help mums and dads and mentors have conversations with young people that they wouldn’t normally have. It’s all about...
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Project Passion – Ship Smaller Sooner
Geoff McDonald Project Passion – Ship Smaller Sooner GeoffMcDonald.com Project Passion One of the big ideas in Project Passion is borrowed from the work of Scrum and the Lean Startup: the MVP. This is to overcome one of the big mistakes many of us make in our projects is to pursue perfection. We...
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Carolyn Tate – The Purpose Project
Geoff McDonald Carolyn Tate – The Purpose Project GeoffMcDonald.com Carolyn Tate – The Purpose Project Carolyn Tate is an author, educator and community builder. She has written five books with her latest being The Purpose Project. (Her purpose is to write books that truly matter.) She is also an...
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Marty Wilson – More Funny, More Money
Geoff McDonald Marty Wilson – More Funny, More Money GeoffMcDonald.com Marty Wilson Marty Wilson is Australia’s funniest motivational speaker. He followed the traditional career path from Pharmacist to Advertising Copywriter to Stand-Up Comic – well not so traditional – to become Australian Comic...
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Mark Molony – Mindfulness and Productivity
Geoff McDonald Mark Molony – Mindfulness and Productivity GeoffMcDonald.com Mark Molony – Intention and Attention Mark Molony is a coach, counsellor and educator. He is the co-founder with John Bruna of the Mindful Life Program. Over the past 30 years, Mark Molony has spent a lot of time watching...
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Toby Marshall – Lead Creation Strategies
Geoff McDonald Toby Marshall – Lead Creation Strategies GeoffMcDonald.com Toby Marshall – What’s Hot in Marketing and Lead Generation Toby Marshall is the founder of Lead Creation – a B2B marketing agency that does both the strategy and the implementation of the marketing. Toby and his team…
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Melanie Colling: Purpose Driven Projects
Geoff McDonald Melanie Colling: Purpose Driven Projects GeoffMcDonald.com Melanie Colling: Connect and Grow Rich Melanie Colling runs Purpose Driven Projects to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses through projects. For me, that’s an instantly curious topic – lots of people are talking about...
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Tim Graham – Build a Fit Business
Geoff McDonald Tim Graham – Build a Fit Business GeoffMcDonald.com Tim Graham: Integrity Group Fitness Tim Graham runs a group fitness centre in Ballarat, Victoria called Integrity Group Fitness. Traditionally, gyms and the fitness industry have focused on short-term results through boot camps…
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Georgian Benta – Build the Gratitude Habit
Geoff McDonald Georgian Benta – Build the Gratitude Habit GeoffMcDonald.com Georgian Benta: Build the Gratitude Habit Georgian Benta is an entrepreneur and podcaster based in Romania. He is the host of The Gratitude Podcast which has had over 30,000 downloads. Georgian’s vision is to inspire...
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Taruni Falconer – Cross-Cultural Leadership Habits
Geoff McDonald Taruni Falconer – Cross-Cultural Leadership Habits GeoffMcDonald.com Taruni Falconer Cross-cultural communication expert Taruni Falconer helps people work in other cultures or come to Australasia. Her role is to help them navigate their new cultural landscape and work settings....
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Geoff McDonald – The Ideas Architect
Geoff McDonald Geoff McDonald – The Ideas Architect GeoffMcDonald.com Geoff McDonald: The Ideas Architect In this special 100th episode we turn the tables as Suzanne Mercier interviews The Ideas Architect himself Geoff McDonald – we talk about podcasting, board games, Book Rapper, Project Passion...
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Brett Jarman – Expert Leverage with Teams, Systems, Content
Geoff McDonald Brett Jarman – Expert Leverage with Teams, Systems, Content GeoffMcDonald.com Brett Jarman Brett Jarman from Help Me Leverage talks about two powerful ways to Expert Leverage so you can earn more and work less: Build systems to automate your actions; and Build teams to leverage…
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Project Passion: Inner Goals Over Outer Goals
Geoff McDonald Project Passion: Inner Goals Over Outer Goals GeoffMcDonald.com Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash Inner Goals One of the reasons that we fail to complete our projects is that we focus on inner goals and not outer goals. Have you ever considered that you might be working on the...
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Business Strategy Rules Rule
Geoff McDonald Business Strategy Rules Rule GeoffMcDonald.com Business Strategy Rules The big challenge around Business Strategy Rules and Project Design is to plan just the right amount. My first career was as an architect. Our role was to plan every single thing before any construction started....
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Business Coaching: Don’t Fix Problems
Geoff McDonald Business Coaching: Don’t Fix Problems GeoffMcDonald.com Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash Business Coaching In my experience working with clients and business coaching, I find they usually know what they want. The big three are: More clients and more money Get more done in less…
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Wes Towers: Five Website Trends for 2017
Geoff McDonald Wes Towers: Five Website Trends for 2017 GeoffMcDonald.com Wes Towers Wes Towers is the principal of Omnific Design, a website design and development company based in Melbourne, Australia. They love to work with underperforming existing websites to improve their ability to generate...
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Jon Yeo: Presenting and Speaking TEDx
Geoff McDonald Jon Yeo: Presenting and Speaking TEDx GeoffMcDonald.com Jon Yeo Jon Yeo is an Executive Speaking Coach who has worked with over a thousand people to communicate a more powerful and influential message. He is the curator and license holder of TEDx Melbourne, which has created some…
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How NOT to Plan Your Project
Geoff McDonald How NOT to Plan Your Project GeoffMcDonald.com Plan Your Project The traditional message about how to plan your project is flawed. You’ve probably heard the old adage: to fail to plan is to plan to fail. And, if you only plan you will also fail. We are told to plan our project by...
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Project Passion Introduction Part 2
Geoff McDonald Project Passion Introduction Part 2 GeoffMcDonald.com Project Passion and How to Bring Your Ideas to Life Project Passion focuses on how to bring your ideas to life. But how do you do that? If only it was as easy as going to Mcdonald’s and putting in an order… This would guarantee…
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Project Passion Book Introduction
Geoff McDonald Project Passion Book Introduction GeoffMcDonald.com Whilst I read a lot of books, I’m also writing them too. I’ve already written and published six books and I’m currently writing a new one around Project Passion. Project Passion is our Group Coaching Program. It’s all about how do...
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Best Books 2016
Geoff McDonald Best Books 2016 GeoffMcDonald.com The Best Books 2016 What are the Best Books 2016? I love learning. And, I love to learn by reading books. Each year I aim to read 50 books – that’s one book each week. And, I’m pleased to say this year I made it! Through Book Rapper, I am known for...
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Seven Rules of Project Passion
Geoff McDonald Seven Rules of Project Passion GeoffMcDonald.com Project Passion – The Seven Rules Project Passion is all about the big ideas we have every now and then. But, most of them are wasted because we do nothing about them or we fail to finish building them. This can cost us time, money,...
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Andrew Melville – The Weave
Geoff McDonald Andrew Melville – The Weave GeoffMcDonald.com Andrew Melville is an Auckland based communications expert. He is a master storyteller and facilitator who has worked as a journalist, radio broadcaster, University lecturer and community leader. His life’s work has been all about...
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Ailsa Page Marketing Expert
Geoff McDonald Ailsa Page Marketing Expert GeoffMcDonald.com Ailsa Page Marketing Expert Ailsa Page marketing expert for small businesses helps them find and keep customers. She is the author of The Year I Owned A Wine Shop and The Shoe String Marketing Kit. Also, she has been a judge on the...
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Yenny Stromgren – Everyday Light Warriors
Geoff McDonald Yenny Stromgren – Everyday Light Warriors GeoffMcDonald.com How do you find your passion in life? Yenny Stromgren found hers by accident. Yenny Stromgren Podcast Interview A Swede living in Australia. Yenny Stromgren originally came Down Under to pursue her photography career. And,...
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Corrinne Armour: Fearless Leadership
Geoff McDonald Corrinne Armour: Fearless Leadership GeoffMcDonald.com In this episode of the Ideas Architect Podcast, we’re talking with Corrinne Armour about Fearless Leadership. Corrinne is in the business of helping leaders get out of their own way. And, she is on the warpath against wasted...
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Speakers Business Models
Geoff McDonald Speakers Business Models GeoffMcDonald.com What is a Speakers Business Model? A speakers business model is a way of operating a business for a professional speaker. Every business has a business model. It’s how you run your business. Popular examples include a retail store or an...
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The Business Model Manifesto Podcast
Geoff McDonald The Business Model Manifesto Podcast GeoffMcDonald.com Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash – https://unsplash.com/@ashkfor121 Why do we need a Business Model Manifesto? The Business Model Manifesto reflects one of the most important things in business right now. The right…
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Zoe Freeman – Digital Marketing Strategy
Geoff McDonald Zoe Freeman – Digital Marketing Strategy GeoffMcDonald.com What are the phases that the web has passed through and where are we going next? Zoe Freeman This is the gist of the conversation we have with Digital Marketing and Strategy Consultant Zoe Freeman. Zoe’s career has passed...
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Simple Strategy Guide
Geoff McDonald Simple Strategy Guide GeoffMcDonald.com Simple Strategy sounds obvious. But, most strategy is not strategic. That’s the view of world strategy expert Richard Rumelt in his bestselling book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. At best most strategic is merely a good plan – whilst this might...
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Ideal Work Trends
Geoff McDonald Ideal Work Trends GeoffMcDonald.com Whilst most of us spend our days sitting at the desk slaving away at a computer, there are three significant workplace trends that suggest this might not be your future. And, alternatives are already here. Mobile Everything From Visual to…
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How to Sell Your Service – 13 Sneaky Easy Ways
Geoff McDonald How to Sell Your Service – 13 Sneaky Easy Ways GeoffMcDonald.com Image: Christina Rumpf on Unsplash.com How to Sell Your Service How to sell your service is the killer question for all thought leaders, business experts and service providers. In this post we share 13 sneak easy ways...
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7 Ways to Measure Your Progress
Geoff McDonald 7 Ways to Measure Your Progress GeoffMcDonald.com One of the keys to achieving your strategic outcomes is to measure your progress. Through measuring you gain feedback on what is working and what is not allowing you to adjust your tactics. In this episode of the Ideas Architect...
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5 Reasons You Need a Uniform
Geoff McDonald 5 Reasons You Need a Uniform GeoffMcDonald.com One of the eight primary elements of Ideas Marketing is the artifact. And, one of the most under rated artifacts in terms of branding building, attracting a tribe and community and personal image is a uniform. And, I’m not talking…
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Where Are You Out of Date?
Geoff McDonald Where Are You Out of Date? GeoffMcDonald.com Bob Dylan once sang in his voice of sand and glue*, ‘The Times They Are A Changin’. And, that means we need to change too. If we don’t we may fall behind, lag our customers and find ourselves out of date. In this episode (#76) of the…
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Business Fitness Podcast
Geoff McDonald Business Fitness Podcast GeoffMcDonald.com How fit are you? How fit is your business? Whilst we tend to think of ‘fitness’ as part of exercise, it’s also a useful measure to judge the performance of our business. Just as fitness leads to good health, a lack of fitness can lead to…
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Coffee and Four Innovation Lessons
Geoff McDonald Coffee and Four Innovation Lessons GeoffMcDonald.com Some of life’s simplest pleasures can provide the greatest opportunity if we’d just take a moment to explore them. Today, in the spirit of Jerry Seinfeld we look at coffee as a filter for innovation. This is episode 74 of the…
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Overcome Content Saturation
Geoff McDonald Overcome Content Saturation GeoffMcDonald.com The greatest opportunity of our era is the chance to publish our thoughts and share them with the world via the internet. The inevitable consequence of giving everyone content creation tools is saturation. We’re all now dripping wet in...
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Keith Keller – Crack the Twitter Code
Geoff McDonald Keith Keller – Crack the Twitter Code GeoffMcDonald.com Do you get Twitter? And, I don’t mean do you know what it does. Instead, I mean do you get Twitter such that you can use it to produce real, concrete and tangible results in your business? In Episode 72 of the Ideas Architect...
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Mark Molony – Mighty Mindfulness
Geoff McDonald Mark Molony – Mighty Mindfulness GeoffMcDonald.com In Episode 71 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we talk with Mark Molony about mindfulness and it’s usefulness to help you lead the way in life and at work. Mark Molony Mark Molony has worked with thousands of people from many…
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Nadine Parkington: Digital Strategy
Geoff McDonald Nadine Parkington: Digital Strategy GeoffMcDonald.com In Episode 70 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we talk with Nadine Parkington about creating digital marketing strategy in the face of dramatic technological change and disruption from global competition. Nadine Parkington Nadine...
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Ian Berry – Simplifying Leadership
Geoff McDonald Ian Berry – Simplifying Leadership GeoffMcDonald.com Ian Berry In his corporate life, Ian was a State Manager for a Financial Services company overseeing 200 people and sales in excess of $100 million. Since leaving the corporate world Ian has become an expert in the leadership...
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Irma Zimmermann: Online Branding
Geoff McDonald Irma Zimmermann: Online Branding GeoffMcDonald.com Irma Zimmermann In this episode of the Ideas Architect podcast we talk with Irma Zimmerman. Irma has international experience in graphic design, advertising and creating brand identities. Currently she is based in Melbourne and…
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Business Measures to help you stay on the right track
Geoff McDonald Business Measures to help you stay on the right track GeoffMcDonald.com Business measures are crucial for helping you work out if you are on track, off track or you’ve completely lost track. In this article, we share seven things you might like to measure to ensure you’re focused…
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