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The Extraordinary Business Book Club — 401 episodes

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Episode 492 - Writing is resistance

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Episode 491 - Future-Fit Innovation with Barbara Salopek

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Episode 490 - Asking the wrong questions

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Episode 489 - Books and learning with Amy Cantin

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Episode 488 - The 10th birthday podcast party

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Episode 487 - Measuring Inclusion with Paolo Gaudiano

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Episode 486 - Going All In at the London Book Fair

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Episode 485 - People Glue with Helen Beedham

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Episode 484 - Hope is a Strategy with Ian Pettigrew

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Episode 483 - Relentless with Chris Lovett

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Episode 482 - Giving writers a voice with Kevin Anderson

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Episode 481 - Social anxiety at work with Becky Westwood

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Episode 480 - Under pressure

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Episode 479 - Startup Different with David Sinkinson

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Episode 478 - Bridging the Gap with Catherine Xiang

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Episode 477 - Autonomous with Henry King

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Episode 476 - A New Year invitation: explore more

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Episode 475 - A Christmas pause

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Episode 474 - It's Not Magic with John Amaechi

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Episode 473 - Story-Centred Leadership with Zoë Arden

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Episode 472 - Cut-Through with Dominic Colenso

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Episode 471 - AI in publishing with George Walkley

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Episode 470 - The emotional labour of writing a book

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Episode 469 - Rebrand Right with Rachel Fairley & Sarah Robb

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Episode 468 - Another Door with Eleanor Tweddell

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Episode 467 - Smart Conflict with Alice Driscoll & Louise van Haarst

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Episode 466 - Behind the scenes at the Frankfurt Book Fair

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Episode 465 - Don't Be Yourself with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

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Episode 464 - Writing and community with Parul Bavishi

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Ep 463 - Getting booked as a speaker with Maria Franzoni

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Episode 462 - Perfecting your pitch with James Spackman

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Episode 461 - The Disruptors with Sally Percy

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Episode 460 - Shaking things up

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Episode 459 - Beyond Belief with Mike Porteous

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Episode 458 - Healing-Centred book launch with Kerry Tottingham

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Episode 457 - The Work We Need with Hilary Cottam

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Episode 456 - We Need New Leaders with Charlotte Otter

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Episode 455 - Best business books with Todd Sattersten

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Episode 454 - From spark to flame

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Episode 453 - The business of being a writer with Jane Friedman

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Episode 452 - Creative Velocity with Leslie Grandy

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Episode 451 - Collaborating with AI with Georgia Kirke

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Episode 450 - The one about conversations

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Episode 449 - The origin of the series

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Episode 448 - Gen Z career tales with Drs Schuster & Oxley

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Episode 447 - The 2025 LBF edit

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Episode 446 - Book publicity with Marissa Eigenbrood

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Episode 445 - Both/And Thinking with Wendy Smith

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Episode 444 - Writing as a team sport with Petra Molthan-Hill

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Episode 443 - Now We're Talking with Sarah Rozenthuler

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Episode 442 - Creating Glue with John Dore

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Episode 441 - Building on answers with Claire Pedrick

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Episode 440 - Self-discovery, clarity and growth

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Episode 439 - The Sky is No Limit with Per Wimmer

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Episode 438 - The truth about passive income with Kate Toon

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Episode 437 - Design not decisions: new New Year thinking

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Episode 436 - Marketing for Introverts with Jenny Procter

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Episode 435 - Double Your Price with David Falzani

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Episode 434 - Learning to promote a book with Lucy Ryan

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Episode 433 - Writing for Busy Readers with Todd Rogers

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Episode 432 - Ruthlessly Caring with Amy Walters Cohen

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Episode 431 - The Power of Culture with Laura Hamill

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Episode 430 - Human & artificial intelligence in writing

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Episode 429 - Do Start with Dan Kieran

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Episode 428 - getAbstract at the Frankfurt Book Fair

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Episode 427 - Coaching for Performance with Tiffany Gaskell

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Episode 426 - Kind with Graham Allcott

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Episode 425 - A Year of Creativity with Sue Unerman & Kathryn Jacob

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Episode 424 - How AI will change your life with Patrick Dixon

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Episode 423 - Nonfiction stories with Anna Faherty

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Episode 422 - Detox Your Culture with Colin D. Ellis

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Episode 421 - The Audacity Spectrum with Alina Addison

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Episode 420 - The Road Less Traveled

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Episode 419 - Add Then Multiply with David B. Horne

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Episode 418 - Thoughts on winning with Cath Bishop

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Episode 417 - How to get a book deal with Hasan Kubba

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Episode 416 - Your AI Survival Guide with Sol Rashidi

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Episode 415 - Strategy and writing with Henry Mintzberg

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Episode 414 - CEO Secrets with Dougal Shaw

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Episode 413 - The Neurodiversity Edge with Maureen Dunne

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Episode 412 - Success Frames with Rob Hatch

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Episode 411 - How to get on podcasts with Michelle Glogovac

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Episode 410 - The ethics of business & writing

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Episode 409 - First-Time CEO with David Roche

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Episode 408 - Higher Ground with Alison Taylor

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Episode 407 - Languishing less with Corey Keyes

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Episode 406 - Talking business books with Meredith Norwich

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Episode 405 - The insider's guide to London Book Fair

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Episode 404 - LinkedIn mastery with Louise Brogan

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Episode 403 - Disrupting HR with Lucy Adams

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Episode 402 - The BRAVE Leader with David McQueen

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Episode 401 - Pushing through discomfort

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Episode 400 - Ask me anything!

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Episode 399 - Ice Cold Leader with Errol Doebler

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Episode 398 - AI and book publishing with Sara Lloyd

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Episode 397 - The Life Brief with Bonnie Wan

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Episode 396 - More Sales Please with Sara Dalrymple

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Episode 395 - Bright sparks & damp squibs with Sir John Tusa

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Episode 394 - New Year thinking for business book writers

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Episode 393 - The Emotional Overdraft with Andy Brown

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Episode 392 - Board Talk with Kathryn Bishop & Gillian Camm

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Episode 391 - Publishing for Business with Naren Aryal

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Episode 390 - Writing = Business

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Episode 389 - Social media strategies with Luan Wise

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Episode 388 - Writing powerfully with John Simmons

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Episode 387 - Build a Better Business Book with Josh Bernoff

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Episode 386 - How to Write a Self-Help Book with Ginny Carter

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Episode 385 - Disruption in Action with Adrian Hornsby

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Episode 384 - Motivation with Catherine Stothart

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Episode 383 - Find your 9others with Katie Lewis & Matthew Stafford

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Episode 382 - Book marketing with Karen Williams

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Episode 381 - The Modern Maverick with Ed Haddon

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Episode 380 - All about the Voice

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Episode 379 - Revolting Women with Dr Lucy Ryan

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Episode 378 - How to Fund the Life you Want with Robin Powell

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Episode 377 - The Writer's Voice with Anne Janzer

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Episode 376 - Do Deal with Richard Hoare

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Episode 375 - Semiotics & structure with Rachel Lawes

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Episode 374 - Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni

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Episode 373 - Rethinking creativity with Dennis Sherwood

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Episode 372 - In the Moment with Neil Mullarkey

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Episode 371 - Conscious Inclusion with Catherine Garrod

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Episode 370 - The agony and the ecstasy

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Episode 369 - The Leap to Leader with Adam Bryant

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Episode 368 - Centennials with Professor Alex Hill

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Episode 367 - The Solutionists with Solitaire Townsend

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Episode 366 - My Back Pages with Richard Charkin

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Episode 365 - Idea stewardship with Melissa Romo

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Episode 364 - Smart Career Moves with Susan Doering

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Episode 363 - But Are You Alive? with Eloise Skinner

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Episode 362 - Pay the Price with Steven Adjei

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Episode 361 - Tame Your Tiger with Catherine Erdly

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Episode 360 - Leaning in

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Episode 359 - Gloves Off with Liam Black

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Episode 358 - Staying the Distance with Catherine Baker

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Episode 357 - Top Tips from the IPG Spring Conference

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Episode 356 - WorkJoy with Beth Stallwood

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Episode 355 - The School of Life with Sarah Stein Lubrano

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Episode 354 - The Valentine's Special

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Episode 353 - When the Dust Settles with Lucy Easthope

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Episode 352 - Business Model You with Tim Clark

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Episode 351 - Collabor(h)ate with Dr Deb Mashek

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Episode 350 - What Matters

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Episode 349 - Work/Life Flywheel with Ollie Henderson

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Episode 348 - Written with Bec Evans and Chris Smith

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Episode 347 - Slow journalism with Rob Orchard

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Episode 346 - Exploratory Writing with Alison Jones

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Episode 345 - Glow in the Dark with Mark Leruste

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Episode 344 - STOP with Sarah Sparks

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Episode 343 - Decoded with Phil Barden

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Episode 342 - Don't Fix Women with Joy Burnford

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Episode 341 - Branding with Matt Johnson and Tessa Misiaszek

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Episode 340 - The joy of constraints

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Episode 339 - Positively Purple with Kate Nash OBE

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Episode 338 - Crafting Connection with Felicity Dwyer

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Episode 337 - Corporate clowning with Em Stroud

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Episode 336 - Ten Year Career with Jodie Cook

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Episode 335 - Fortitude with Bruce Daisley

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Episode 334 - Marketing Strategy with Jenna Tiffany

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Episode 333 - Ethics in finance with Dr Kara Tan Bhala

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Episode 332 - Dark Social with Ian MacRae

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Episode 331 - Forget the First Million with Lucy Cohen

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Episode 330 - Writing energy

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Episode 329 - Crazy Busy with Zena Everett

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Episode 328 - Buy This, Not That with Sam Dogen

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Episode 327 - Rebuilding with Sara Tate

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Episode 326 - Tech Trends with Bernard Marr

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Episode 325 - Change Makers with Katy Murray

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Episode 324 - Energize with Simon Alexander Ong

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Episode 323 - Exposure with Felicity Cowie

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Episode 322 - Sales Coaching Essentials with Mark Hayes

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Episode 321 - Storytelling for Business with Rob Wozny

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Episode 320 - We can do hard things

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Episode 319 - TEDx Tips with Catherine Sandland et al

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Episode 318 - The Power of Regret with Daniel H. Pink

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Episode 317 - Supercharge Me with Eric Lonergan and Corinne Sawers

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Episode 316 - The Crux with Richard Rumelt

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Episode 315 - Because I Can with Tim Bradshaw

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Episode 314 - Just Ask! with Graham Eisner

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Episode 313 - PR on a Beermat with Louise Third

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Episode 312 - Free-writing with Peter Elbow

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Episode 311 - Accountability with Brian Moran and Michael Lennington

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Episode 310 - Where do you get your ideas?

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Episode 309 - Fearless writing with Robert Kelsey

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Episode 308 - The Future of Time with Helen Beedham

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Episode 307 - Invisible Work with John Howkins

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Episode 306 - In/Action with Jinny Uppal

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Episode 305 - Things that authors learn (around the campfire)

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Episode 304 - Things that editors love

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Episode 303 - Writing a handbook with David Grayson

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Episode 302 - Writing it all down with Cathy Rentzenbrink

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Episode 301 - The serendipity mindset with Dr Christian Busch

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Episode 300 - The writer's network

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Episode 299 - A Twixtmas meditation

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Episode 298 - The commissioning editor's view with Eloise Cook

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Episode 297 - The 12-week Year for Writers with Trevor Thrall

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Episode 296 - Unprepared to Entrepreneur with Sonya Barlow

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Episode 295 - Book production secrets with Jo Bottrill

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Episode 294 - Built on Rock with Michael Buckworth

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Episode 293 - The Long Game with Dorie Clark

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Episode 292 - Lunchtime Learning with Lucy Ryan

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Episode 291 - The Art of Questions with Michael Leckie

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Episode 290 - The Best Bits: Words have power

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Episode 289 - Medium, message and meaning with Jeremy Kourdi

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Episode 288 - Why weren't we taught this at school? with Alice Sheldon

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Episode 287 - Writing and happiness with Megan Hayes

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Episode 286 - Things that editors hate (and how to avoid them)

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Episode 285 - Inclusive AF with Jen O'Ryan

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Episode 284 - The Art of Enough with Becky Hall

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Episode 283 - Exponential with Azeem Azhar

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Episode 282 - Author-speakers with Bobbie Carlton

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Episode 281 - Mental fitness with Jodie Rogers

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Episode 280 - The Best Bits: The joy of business books

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Episode 279 - Wot the Book! with Leanne Hamley

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Episode 278 - Boring2Brave with Mark Choueke

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Episode 277 - Making Workshops Work with Penny Pullan

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Episode 276 - The thousand-day lessons

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Episode 275 - Born Digital with Robert Wigley

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Episode 274 - Breaking rules with Jackie Fast

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Episode 273 - Work on your Game with Dre Baldwin

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Episode 272 - Three Peaks Leadership with Philip Levinson

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Episode 271 - You Lead with Minter Dial

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Episode 270 - The Best Bits: Writing what you need to learn

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Episode 269 - Own Your Day with Diana Marsland and Julie Nerney

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Episode 268 - Effortless with Greg McKeown

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Episode 267 - The Family Business with Keel Hunt

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Episode 266 - Ahead of her time with Judy Piatkus

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Episode 265 - Struggling with Grace Marshall

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Episode 264 - Toxic with Clive Lewis

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Episode 263 - Lead Beyond the Edge with Frederique Murphy

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Episode 262 - No Filter with Sarah Frier

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Episode 261 - Let's Play with John Williams

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Episode 260 - The Best Bits: Finding courage

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Episode 259 - Just doing it with Drew Ellis

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Episode 258 - Launching While Female with Susanne Althoff

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Episode 257 - Happy Ever After with the $7 Millionaire

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Episode 256 - Make Your Own Map with Kathryn Bishop

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Episode 255 - Experimenting with Steven Van Belleghem

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Episode 254 - Influence with Sara McCorquodale

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Episode 253 - Nine Types of Leader with James Ashton

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Episode 252 - Leadership and love with Yetunde Hofmann

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Episode 251 - Project Future with Rob Kerr

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Episode 250 - The Best Bits: Questions & answers

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Episode 249 - Powered by Purpose with Sarah Rozenthuler

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Episode 248 - Reflective practice with Gillie Bolton

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Episode 247 - Speaking to the future

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Episode 246 - Shaping and shifting with Jonas Altman

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Episode 245 - Sorting the spaghetti with Dave Coplin

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Episode 244 - Purpose Ignited with Dr Alise Cortez

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Episode 243 - Bookshop.org with Jasper Sutcliffe

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Episode 242 - Making the world shut up with Uri Bram

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Episode 241 - Infinite Leadership with Dr Pippa Malmgren

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Episode 240 - The Best Bits: The Writing Lab

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Episode 239 - The Long Win with Cath Bishop

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Episode 238 - Attention! with Rob Hatch

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Episode 237 - People Stuff with Zoë Routh

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Episode 236 - Unpacking stories with Shuhrat Ashurov

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Episode 235 - Misadventures with Gayle Mann and Lucy-Rose Walker

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Episode 234 - Being Less Zombie with Elvin Turner

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Episode 233 - Loving your imposter with Rita Clifton

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Episode 232 - Lessons from the Virtual Writing Retreat

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Episode 231 - The Writer's Process with Anne Janzer

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Episode 230 - The Best Bits: The Journey of Writing

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Episode 229 - Authors and events with Sasha Frieze

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Episode 228 - Busy@Home with Tony Crabbe

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Episode 227 - Mission: To Manage with Marianne Page

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Episode 226 - Relationships at work with Richard Fox

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Episode 225 - Leader with Katy Granville-Chapman and Emmie Bidston

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Episode 224 - 65 Roses and a Trunki with Rob Law

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Episode 223 - Smoke and Mirrors with Gemma Milne

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Episode 222 - Future-Proofed with Tom Cheesewright

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Episode 221 - Writing like a journalist with Rachel Bridge

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Episode 220 - The Best Bits: Whole Self Writing

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Episode 219 - Jigsaw writing with Patrick Dunne

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Episode 218 - Being a Change Superhero with Lucinda Carney

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Episode 217 - The Master Plan with Chris Wilson

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Episode 216 - Step Up Step Back with Elsbeth Johnson

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Episode 215 - Soft Skills Hard Results with Anne Taylor

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Episode 214 - The Human Edge with Greg Orme

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Episode 213 - Watertight Marketing with Bryony Thomas

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Episode 212 - The Monday Revolution with David Mansfield

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Episode 211 - The Simplicity Principle with Julia Hobsbawm

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Episode 210 - The Best Bits: Resilience

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Episode 209 - Resilience and writing with Jenny Campbell

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Episode 208 - Writing short books with Hassan Osman

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Episode 207 - Treating your writing like a business

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Episode 206 - Crazy ideas with Celia Gaze

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Episode 205 - Loonshots with Safi Bahcall

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Episode 204 - The One About Fear

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Episode 203 - Personalization with Rob Baker

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Episode 202 - Unfair Advantages with Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba

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Episode 201 - Hype Yourself with Lucy Werner

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Episode 200 - The Bicentenary Episode

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Episode 199 - New Year Special: Goal Setting

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Episode 198 - The Top Ten Reads of 2019

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Episode 197 – Audio first with Karen Williams

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Episode 196 - Finding what works with Helen Winter

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Episode 195 - Practical Inspiration Author Day takeaways

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Episode 194 - Starting Up with Richard Hall and Rachel Bell

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Episode 193 - People Powered with Jono Bacon

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Episode 192 - Why are we Yelling? with Buster Benson

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Episode 191 - Your Business, Your Book with Ginny Carter

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Episode 190 - The Best Bits

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Episode 189 - Podcast publicity tips with Kelly Glover

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Episode 188 - From our Frankfurt correspondent

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Episode 187 - 10 top tips for reading business books

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Episode 186 - Talking Business Books with Andrew Hill

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Episode 185 - Fear, Money, Purpose with Nancy Youssef

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Episode 184 - True Profit Business with Karen Skidmore

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Episode 183 - Free Range Humans with Marianne Cantwell

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Episode 182 - Leadership and Language with Chris Hirst

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Episode 181 - Improv and business with Norm Laviolette

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Episode 180 - The Best Bits

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Episode 179 - Creative Thinking with Chris Griffiths

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Episode 178 - Believe Build Become with Debbie Wosskow and Anna Jones

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Episode 177 - Powered by Change with Jonathan MacDonald

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Episode 176 - Future Fit with Andrea Clarke

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Episode 175 - Plain Speaking with Charlie Corbett

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Episode 174 - Work Fuel with Colette Heneghan

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Episode 173 - The book of the future with Tom Cheesewright

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Episode 172 - Writing and creativity with Harriet Kelsall

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Episode 171 - Writing and AI with Chris Duffey

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Episode 170 - The Best Bits

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Episode 169 - Improv and writing with Neil Mullarkey

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Episode 168 - The Numbers Business with Della Hudson

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Episode 167 - The Learning Imperative with Mark Burns

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Episode 166 - Defining You with Fiona Murden

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Episode 165 - Work the Future Today with Whitney Vosburgh

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Episode 164 - The Reality Check

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Episode 163 - All In with David Grayson

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Episode 162 - How to Have a Happy Hustle with Bec Evans

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Episode 161 - Mindfulness for Leaders with Dr Audrey Tang

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Episode 160 - The Best Bits

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Episode 159 - PR for Humans with Mike Sergeant

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Episode 158 - Always Time for Coffee with Kate Minchin

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Episode 157 - Reflections on the London Book Fair

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Episode 156 - Funny Business with Brendan Barns

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Episode 155 - The Amazon effect with Natalie Berg and Miya Knights

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Episode 154 - Upskilling with Chris Watson

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Episode 153 - New narratives with Anjali Ramachandran

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Episode 152 - Blinkist - finding books with Niklas Jansen

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Episode 151 - Design, creativity and joy with Niki Schafer

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Episode 150 - The Sesquicentennial Best Bits

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Episode 149 - Building out the brand with Graham Allcott

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Episode 148 - Disrupting Yourself with Whitney Johnson

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Episode 147 - The Children's Fire with Mac Macartney

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Episode 146 - The Reading and Writing Resolutions Special

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Episode 145 - The Mother of All Jobs with Christine Armstrong

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Episode 144 - The Post-Truth Business with Sean Pillot de Chenecey

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Episode 143 - The future of work with Alexandra Levit

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Episode 142 - The Crucible's Gift with Dr James Kelley

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Episode 141 - Lead Like a Coach with Karen Morley

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Episode 140 - The Best Bits

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Episode 139 - Being the champion of your book with Pete Williams

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Episode 138 - Talking out the book with Elaine Halligan

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Episode 137 - Making the Boat Go Faster with Ben Hunt-Davis

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Episode 136 - The Leadership Lab with Pippa Malmgren

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Episode 135 - Be More Pirate with Sam Conniff Allende

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Episode 134 - Real Confidence with Michelle Sales

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Episode 133 - Ghostwriting and Frankendrafts with Derek Lewis

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Episode 132 - Design your life with Ayse Birsel

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Episode 131 - An Unforgettable Launch with Michael Brown

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Episode 130 - The Best Bits!

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Episode 129 - Happy Money with Elizabeth Dunn

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Episode 128 - Writing and speaking with Hugh Culver

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Episode 127 - Leading Through Uncertainty with Jude Jennison

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Episode 126 - Writing backwards with Andrew Davis

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Episode 125 - Getting social with Michelle Carvill

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Episode 124 - Finding your story with Martin Norbury

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Episode 123 - Becoming a Superhero with Sarah Windrum

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Episode 122 - The Paula Principle with Tom Schuller

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Episode 121 - Reaching Out with Molly Beck

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Episode 120 - The Best Bits!

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Episode 119 - Writing to change the world with Euan Semple

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Episode 118 - Longitudinal writing with Sarah Kessler

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Episode 117 - Creativity and collaboration with Roger Mavity

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Episode 116 - Collaborative Advantage with Paul Skinner

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Episode 115 - After the Awards with Campbell Macpherson

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Episode 114 - High-Fidelity Publishing with Barbara Gray

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Episode 113 - Friend of a Friend with David Burkus

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Episode 112 - Apology-free writing with Denise Duffield-Thomas

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Episode 111 - Unsafe Thinking with Jonah Sachs

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Episode 110 - The Best Bits!

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Episode 109 - Books and business models with Steve Scott

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Episode 108 - The story behind This Book Means Business with Alison Jones

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Episode 107 - Playful publishing with Jurgen Appelo

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Episode 106 - The Business Book Awards with Lucy McCarraher

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Episode 105 - Report from the frontline of independent publishing

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Episode 104 - Collaboration & design with Edgar Papke & Thomas Lockwood

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Episode 103 - Writing down the music with Elaine Gould

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Episode 102 - Pre-suasion with Robert Cialdini

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Episode 101 - Hiding in the bathroom with Morra Aarons-Mele

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Episode 100 - The Centenary Celebrations!

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Episode 99 - The Culture Code with Daniel Coyle

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Episode 98 - Doughnut Economics with Kate Raworth

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Episode 97: Publishing from all sides with David Roche

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Episode 96 - Turning talks into books with Miranda West

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Episode 95 - Content marketing & books with Joe Pulizzi

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Episode 94 - New Year, New Writing Habits

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Episode 93 - Christmas Special 2017

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Episode 92 - Trusted with Lyn Bromley & Donna Whitbrook