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Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast — 251 episodes
"A Sale Isn't a Sale Until The Invoice is PAID..."
"I spend MONTHS outside of the UK - thanks to these 5 steps..."
"I learned to scale my business at the poker table"
"I've edited more than 250 books.. and now written my own!"
"I thought getting customers was everything - I was WRONG..."
"I use HUMOUR to make me a better coach..."
"I was stuck - then DOUBLED my income..."
"My business has felt like a JOB this year..."
"I fell off a roof - and fixed my business..."
"Stay off drugs and don't eat lollipops from Florida"
The 5-teabag Rule... 🍵
"I'm sorry, that price is for new customers only"
My "favourite" 1-star reviews...
Miracle Morning? 5am Club?
"It's ALL about time happiness..."
"Don't work, Don't Earn"?
The danger of thinking TOO small...
Vision Boards: Woo-Woo or Science Backed?
What's the One Percent Club, and why should you care?
FREE: 90-Day Plan Masterclass
Working on a Saturday?
Now What?
My ideal job description...
The ten questions I ask myself every week
Neurodivergent Business Owners make BETTER Business Owners...
The 80/20 Principle: Happiness Islands
What are you optimising for?
"Turn The F***ing Keyboards Down!" 🎹👇
Customer Retention: The "Existing Customers Only" Offer...
Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs summed up the secret to their success in one word.
"I Took My Side Hustle Full Time..."
My last 90-day plan
No Hurry, No Pause?
Feedback Loops in Business = A Better Business
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
"I Quit My Job - and Moved my Business to SPAIN!"
My goals went to 💩...
Do you REALLY wanna be the best?
Eat the damn marshmallow! 😋
A lifestyle business is a REAL business
1,000 ways to say the SAME thing...
The Hedgehog Concept: LIVE Coaching
Stop trying to WIN the internet...
Ronseal and Farting Horses...
28 programmers, Bill Gates, and a secretary...
Start where you ARE
"My business works for ME, not the other way around.."
The 5/25 Rule...
Doors Close 9pm THIS MONDAY...
The first £177,835.50 is the HARDEST...
My Sliding Doors Moment...
My (Self-Published) Book Will Earn Me Several MILLION Pounds
"I sell very expensive high-tech shovels to people in a gold rush..."
Retention First: an (early) sneak peek
One Percent Club Doors Are NOW OPEN
36 ways you could improve your business THIS WEEK
What if EVERYTHING Went Pete Tong?
The Best Client You've EVER Had
"I'm the best at every thing, but can't do EVERYTHING..."
Are YOU a fish out of water? 🐠
8 hours, 48 minutes and 38 seconds
John does some amateur psychology...
Which is best? Inbound or Outbound Marketing?
The ONE thing to achieve in 2025...
"I'm an Influencer... for my OWN business!"
The biggest mistake I ever made...
BEWARE... of Spreadsheet Economics!
Do the work ONCE...
Are you an explorer or an exploiter?
Christmas Special: "Let's not get political..."
A £10 discount, or a £2 glass of wine?
Do you want to be the biggest? Or the ONLY?
I listen to dead people...
A Little Less Leverage?
"It's only a business - it's not your life..."
The FIVE Magic Ingredients for Success
The £350,000 question
Is a £20k client worth a first-class stamp?
Avoid This Mistake: Tapping for Business...
How to Make Your Dog (and Yourself!) Live Longer With ONE Simple Tweak.
"I SACKED my business partner..."
Why I'm BANNED from playing Monopoly...
£13.51
Smoke and Mirrors..
Mr car was STOLEN - and I was GRATEFUL!
"I do life AND business on MY terms..."
"I have a no d***heads rule..."
"It's the end of the world as we know it..."
I made a deal with Dave Grohl...
My advice? "Go get a job at Starbucks!"
7 Ways to KILL your Small Business - for FREE!
"Screw this, I'm moving to Fuerteventura..."
Walt Disney's weekly email...
5 tips for hiring an A-player
The £5,000,000 View...
Running a small business is like playing Snakes & Ladders...
"When you're a one-person band, you can do what you want..."
Sales vs Marketing - the PERFECT blend
"Just copy the right people..."
What IS an ambitious lifestyle business?
"I trebled my business in the past few years..."
"I sold my £2.6m business - for £1,000..."
"I Never Wanted to Run a Business..."
"I Still Struggle With My Work/Life Balance..."
Pinch, Punch...
"We're just normal people with a really NICE life..."
Charlie Munger's 12 Principles for Small Business Owners
"I am REALLY disappointed when other people don't do their part..."
"I grew my business by 75% last year... and it nearly broke me!"
"I want EVERYTHING I do to have an impact..."
TWO pieces of TIME-SENSITIVE information...
"I REFUSE to take no for an answer..."
"Exit Strategy for Small Business"
How to Exit Your Business (and STILL own it!)
"I've got a 120-year plan - including climbing Everest!"
"To live longer, get stronger..."
"I was hospitalised due to overwork..."
"Our 100th Episode..."
"I made ONE decision - and it changed my life..."
"I'd advise people NOT to join the One Percent Club..."
"I lost my dream job - and created my dream business..."
"Why this Money Mindset book is my book of the year…"
"How To Grow a Small Business Into a Large Business..."
"I hid under a table during a military coup..."
My ALL-TIME top 10 business books.
"I broke my leg - and FIXED my business..."
My Top 10 Customer Service Books
My Top 10 Business Strategy Books
My Top 10 Productivity Books
My Top 10 Positive Thinking Books
"We're getting too old for this sh*t..."
My Top 10 Leadership Books
My Top 10 Sales Books
My Top 10 Marketing Books
My Top 10 Motivational Books
"I just want to play golf and have holidays without worrying about money..."
Top 10 Self Help Books
"I beat 30,994 people and cried on national TV..."
"I've made family fun my day job..."
"I don't want to work for anyone else..."
"I tried to drive my car off a bridge..."
The Lazy Way: Evergreen Assets Audiobook Preview
Deadlines make 💩 happen: An Evergreen Assets Teaser
Why doesn't my burger look like the picture? An Evergreen Assets Teaser.
Gordon Ramsay is simple. An Evergreen Assets Teaser.
Using emotional blackmail to get reviews? An Evergreen Asset Teaser.
Joe Bloody Wicks MBE - An Evergreen Asset Teaser
How to make £1,997 (+vat) DISAPPEAR! An Evergreen Assets preview
Evergreen Assets - FREE chapter of the OFFICIAL audiobook
Michael couldn't work 8 hours a day if he tried
"I built a property empire in 15 minutes"
#ALB84 - The Christmas Special 2021
FREE chapter of John's NEW book (and a LIVE reading)
ALB83 – The man with the BEST podcast voice
#ALB82 - John Warrillow
#ALB81 – Alun missed the memo regards 1% weekly gains
#ALB80 - Summer Special
#ALB79 – Why Sarah Lamerton closed the doors after just 18 months
#ALB78 - A ticket to Italy please
#ALB77 - Dan Harrison
ALB76 - "I thought if I worked harder, everything would be alright..."
Ask Me ANYTHING: The Answers...
ALB75 - Mummy by Day, Business Owner By Night
More isn't better. BETTER is better.
ALB 74 - THE NINE-YEAR OVERNIGHT SUCCESS
#ALB73 – The man who keeps people connected….. Tony Smith
#ALB72 - Christmas Special 2020
#ALB71- Danny Harris the man with the 6-year plan
#ALB70 - The man who proves "You can have your cake and eat it"
#ALB69 - Meet the One Percenters
#ALB68 The Ghost of Business Past
#ALB67 - Rupert Bassadone "The Greatest Cadman"
#ALB66 - John Risby
#ALB65 - Karlie Somerville
BBC Interview 5
DON'T BUY MY BOOKS...
#ALB64 - Paul Burton the man who had Plymouth queuing for cardboard sunglasses
How I'm going to 5x my business this year
#ALB63 – The man who walked away from a £5 million business
#ALB62 – Natasha Conway, the lady who creates ads that make people buy stuff
BONUS MINIPOD - Sticky the Stick Insect, stuck on a sticky bun..
BONUS MINIPOD - What are you going to DO?
#ALB61 - Probably the least boring book coach in the world
BONUS MINIPOD - Why TODAY is the best day of xmas...
BONUS MINIPOD - Can a book brainwash you?
BONUS MINIPOD - A lesson from "Fat John"..
BONUS MINIPOD - "But I'm NOT a morning person!"
BONUS MINIPOD - What you eat between Christmas and New Year DOESN'T MATTER...
BONUS MINIPOD - "A NORMAL BLOKE FROM PLYMOUTH"
BONUS MINIPOD - You'll NEVER change your life until...
#ALB60 - Christmas Special 2019
#ALB59 - The teachers who chose sanity over salary
#ALB 58 – The PE teacher who climbed a mountain (or six...)
#ALB57 - The man who stood on an IED
#ALB56 - The Japanese Trainspotter
#ALB55 - The Black Belt Wedding Singer
BBC Routine Machine
#ALB-54 Routine Machine
#ALB53 - John's first business mentor and coach
#ALB52 - With Elaine Colliar
#ALB51 - With Carly Freemont
#ALB50 - With Jason Shiers
#ALB49 - With David Aggiss and Tom Boulden of Three Sixty Mortgages
#ALB48 - First Podcast of 2019 - New Year Special
#ALB47 - Christmas Special 2018 with John Lamerton and Jason Brockman
#ALB46 - How Tracy Irwin runs a UK business from Sunny Spain
#ALB45 - Elvis isn't dead... and neither is print media - Alan Marriott
#ALB44 - How Jon Monks DOUBLED his sales, whilst working HALF as hard
#043 - The LAST EVER Big Idea Podcast...
#042 - How a subscription model could GROW your business
#041 - How to SPECTACULARLY fail your way to success...
#040 - Take a simple idea (and take it seriously...)
#039 - The KING of Routine.
#038 - Gerald Ratner, Hot Cross Buns and Sweaty Assets
#037 - How Neville Wright turned 37p (and his Dad's ladder) into a £100 million empire
#036 - The 8 Year Old Collecting Mentors...
#035 - You can't handle the truth!
#034 - Review of the year
#033 - How I became a Fat Ducker...
#032 - Apple v Samsung, and is Jeff Bezos REALLY an evil b*****d?
#031 - Positive Thinking, Follow up & Shoe Dogs
#030 - Make £££ Stuffing Envelopes...
#029 - HOW TO WRITE (AND SELL!) A BESTSELLING BOOK
What I learned crashing my car at 120mph...
#027 - Tools of Titans Takeaways - 14 tips from Tim Ferriss' MONSTER of a book
#026 - Deadlines, Deadlines...
BIPC E25 - Don't p*ss on my Crocs
#024 - Gary Vaynerchuk, Ryan Deiss, and a jar of pesto.
#023 - Marketing to Schools, launching a restaurant, and posing as Wonder Woman...
#022 - What do you need?
#021 - Holiday Lessons
#020 - Juggling Business and Parenting
#019 - Goals, vision, and making sh*t happen
#018 - Affiliates and Referrals
#017 - Networking
#016 - Newsletters
#015 - Peter Jones was WRONG - Designing a Lifestyle Business
#014 - Do you want fries with that?
#013 - I should be so LUCKY - the myth of "luck" in business
#012 - Bloody Staff! - Finding them, Hiring them, Keeping them, Firing them.
#011 - Am I In The Right Business?
#010 - Telling Fear to F*** Off...
#009 - Dissection of a Marketing Campaign
#008 - Multiple Streams of Income
#7 - The ONE Thing That Transformed Our Businesses
#6 - The 5 Magic Ingredients
#5 - 90 Day Goal Setting
#4 - Work / Life Balancing
#3 - Do you want to build a snowman?
#2 - Desire Gets Things Done
#1 - Be Careful Who You Listen To