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How a 25-Year-Old Built a $50M Brand With Ugly Ads | Javi Zavala

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He Sold a Million-Dollar Brand to Bet on a Nasal Strip | Sam Posthuma

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Investigating The Billion-Dollar Peptide Industry

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He walked away from a £1m per month business to build D.Louise even bigger | Jack Zambakides

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You can sell your company for £ multi-millions and still get nothing - consumer brand deep dive...

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Quitting millionaire investment banking career to start a £ 9-figure cat food brand | Marco Pacifici

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The real dichotomy of founder freedom

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Trying out new versions of our best selling product - founder product development process

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The freedom to create your own founder loneliness & isolation

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Cernucci founder reveals everything about the journey from zero to £100m+ | Fred Buckley

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The realities of being an ADHD founder - risk taking, obsession, intensity & being misunderstood...

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Audit your inputs

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I left my role at Spacegoods...

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The road to a sub 2:50 marathon...

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3 founders debate the honest realities of building brands in 2026 | The Midnight Pod Episode 80

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This is the most important new product we have EVER launched! Showing you BTS of launch campaign

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The honest truth about the last 12 months

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I got a formal diagnosis. Here's what's actually wrong...

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I've been hiding real health problems while running an 8-figure ££ brand as a solo founder...

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Admitting the dark reality of my extreme burnout after years of 24/7 work with zero rest - Ep 114

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Come with me from Dubai to London Office for Board and Team meetings + BTS on brand update - Ep 113

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The extremely exponential cost of complexity as you scale - tough lessons from 2025 - Ep 112

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This is the single most important thing in your entire business as a founder - Ep 111

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How did Spacegoods perform in 2025? What are my goals for 2026? - Ep 109

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Very deep in the trenches, what no one else shares on the internet - Ep 108

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Literally all I do is work in this chapter of life, raw update from the trenches building - Ep 107

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Extremely Honest Q&A - Ep 106

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The messy middle part of building a scaleup brand past 20 employees - everything is hard - Ep 105

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Reflecting on limiting beliefs, the founder mindset paradigm and entrepreneurial worldview - Ep 104

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The Single Biggest Mistake I've made as Spacegoods founder over the past 3 years - Doc Ep 103

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How my role as Spacegoods founder has changed from day one to now, 0 to £20m+ run-rate - Doc Ep 102

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The Mission Critical Importance of Your Environment If You Want To Be Successful - Doc Ep 101

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Consumer Startup Fundraising Q&A: Pitch Decks, VC, Teams, Lifestyle Funding & Exits - Doc Ep 100

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Raising Money £££ For Consumer Brands Explained (Angels, VC, PE, My Experience + Story) - Doc Ep 99

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Extreme Logic: The Mental Framework To Change Your Life - Doc Ep 98

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Back to Bali Lock-In: BTS My Founder Productivity System (KPI Dashboard + Ai Tools) - Doc Ep 96

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A Simple Work From Home Day in The Life Scaling Spacegoods to £50m - Goblin Mode - Doc Ep 95

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Meeting Gymshark CEO, Spacegoods BTS Office Tour & Intro to Some of the Team - Doc Ep 94

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In Paris for our Investor AGM - Comparison to £300m revenue, £250m exits and perspective - Doc Ep 93

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Very Honest Car Chat - Recent £££ Wins, Challenges, Painful Lessons & Reflections - Doc Ep 92

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Stay Paranoid - Doc the Journey Ep 88

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So Busy I Get Nothing Done, So Ambitious I've forgotten how to have fun - Doc the Journey Ep 87

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Remote vs In Person, My Founder Role, Hiring an MD, Personal Brand Debate - Doc the Journey Ep 86

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Mountain Top Run with the Boys in Cape Town, Rock Bottom Physique & Fitness - Doc the Journey Ep 85

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I Flew to Cape Town Last Minute for NYE at My Friend's new Insane Mansion - Doc the Journey Ep 84

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Momentum & an Ambitious Network & Environment Is The Most Important Thing - Doc the Journey Ep 83

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Things Feel a Bit too comfortable right now, I need to push way way harder - Doc the Journey Ep 82

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Some thoughts in Emirates First Class with the OG Spacegoods Team Member - Doc the Journey Ep 81

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Some Reflections on Location, Life & Growth on a Cosy Sunset Yacht Trip - Doc the Journey Ep 80

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Scaling Spacegoods from Zero to £12m and Lessons Along the Way, Supercar Q&A - Doc the Journey Ep 79

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I'm Homeless so I Came to Dubai - What Does a Typical Day in Life look Like? - Doc the Journey Ep 78

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Hiring 7 New Roles and Some Thoughts on Interviewing & Hiring in General - Doc the Journey Ep 77

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A Review of Black Friday Weekend Numbers £££ and Scaling Up - Doc the Journey Ep 76

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What Got you Here Won't Get you There - Doc the Journey Ep 75

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Reflecting on the Ambient Sense that I Need to be Doing & Achieving Way more - Doc the Journey Ep 72

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Finally Hitting £1m per month, Consumer is REALLY hard & Life Moves by Quick - Doc the Journey Ep 71

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Rogue Sofa Q&A and General Chat from a Barcelona Apartment - Doc the Journey Ep 70

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An Update on Scaling, Hiring, Product, Lessons & Focus - Doc The Journey Ep 69

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Selling the Brand, UK v Overseas, New Brand Ideas, Advice to Myself - Q&A - Doc The Journey Ep 68

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You Need to Keep Everything as Simple and Focused as Possible, Always - Doc The Journey Ep 67

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A Few Thoughts on Perspective & Comparison in Life - Doc The Journey Ep 66

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Back in Bali, Calling Myself Out, Committing to the YouTube Once Again Lol - Doc The Journey Ep 65

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A Car Update about What's Been Happening Recently - Doc The Journey Ep 64

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I've Had a Very Important Realisation About The Last Few Years... Doc The Journey Ep 63

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Got a Small Office, Big Ups and Downs in March, Am I Happy in London? - Doc The Journey Ep 62

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I Raised £2.5m Seed Funding from Top Tier European VCs, Here's Why I Did it - Doc The Journey Ep 61

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A BTS Breakdown of the Spacegoods Team Structure as an £8m run-rate Brand - Doc The Journey Ep 60

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A Very Honest Update on Regret, Feeling Like a Failure & Painfully High Standards - DTJ Ep 59

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Goals for 2024 - Hitting £10m, Hiring New People & The Next Chapter - Doc the Journey Ep 57

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Where Have I Been? Spacegoods 2023 £££ Numbers in Review and lessons learned - Doc the Journey Ep 56

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You Have to Be Mad to Play This Game, But I Still Want to Build Brands - Doc the Journey Ep 55

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Scaling to £1m Per Day & Proper Financial Strategy - Seamus & Connor | The Midnight Pod Episode 79

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30 Years Building Businesses, Lesson and Advice - Steve Bolton | The Midnight Pod Episode 78

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Creating & Growing the Ultimate Offline Brand in 2023 - Hector Hughes | The Midnight Pod Episode 77

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It's Been a Very Rough Month, Making Tough Decisions and Back to the Basics - Doc the Journey Ep 54

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Raising $22m to Buy & Build Future Brands - Laurence Booth-Clibborn | The Midnight Pod Episode 76

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Nationwide Retail Launch, New Website & an Honest Update on Scaling in 2023 - Doc the Journey Ep 53

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A Rogue QnA In a Krakow Hotel with 24 Yr Old Founder of $15m Skincare Brand - Doc the Journey Ep 52

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We are All Making It Up as We Go & The True Price of Failure in This Game - Doc the Journey Ep 51

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Top 10 Things I Learnt Scaling to £2m+ In The First Year with A New DTC Brand -Doc the Journey Ep 50

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The Grass is Always Greener? Letting my Standards Slip & Setting New Goals - Doc the Journey Ep 49

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Almost Everyone is Lying, Moving Out & Focus will Make or Break Your Biz - Doc the Journey Ep 48

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An Update on Life & Business - New Products, New Hires, Leaving London & more- Doc the Journey Ep 47

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From Legal Career to Brand Building and Making Movies - Brad Morley | The Midnight Pod Episode 75

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I'm Sick of Everyone Ripping My Brand - The Downside of Building in Public - Doc the Journey Ep 46

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The Man Behind all of Your Favourite Creator’s Brands - Shan Hanif | The Midnight Pod Episode 74

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I Don't Want to Run a DTC Brand - Doc the Journey Ep 45

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Building a £ Multi-Million Agency & Education Empire - Jordan Platten | The Midnight Pod Episode 73

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From Corporate Banking to Bedding Brand & Dragons Den - James Higgins | The Midnight Pod Episode 72

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Building Brands, Agencies & Travelling The World - Jem Bourouh | The Midnight Pod Episode 71

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From Drawing Logos to Building Brands my Entire Adult Life | My Story so far - Doc the Journey Ep 44

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From Drop shipping at 18 to $15m Skincare Brand at 24 - Jordan Smyth | The Midnight Pod Episode 70

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Back to Bali, Meeting Pod Fans, Feeling Guilty for Enjoying Things Too Much? - Doc the Journey Ep 43

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Scaling & Exiting a Jewellery Brand for 7 Figures at 22 - Simon Bjorn | The Midnight Pod Episode 69

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Building a 7-Figure Biz at 21, Principals in Marketing & Frauds -Zarak | The Midnight Pod Episode 68

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Pool Party (Midnight) Social Club is Now a Real Thing, Here's the Details - Doc the Journey Ep 42

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From Finance Career to Leading Cult London Gym Founder - Nick Denby | The Midnight Pod Episode 67

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The Toxic Work Mindset I've Developed Recently & Remembering Why I Started - Doc the Journey Ep 40

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Dominating the CRO Agency Space, Twitter Growth & Life - Carl Weische | The Midnight Pod Episode 66

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What Is It Really All For? Reflecting now the Honeymoon Period is Over - Doc the Journey Ep 39