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The Tutor Podcast — 441 episodes

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Resistance is USEFUL

2

Kill Yourself to Save Your Life

3

Into the Comforting Silence

4

Shokunin, The Way of The Master Craftsman

5

The Shrinking Book - Error Journals

6

Just Say No

7

The Failure Manual

8

Death in The Comfort Zone

9

The Daily Shutdown

10

Crushing Decision Fatigue: How Systems Can Save Your Sanity

11

Your Strategic Intent: Why Every Habit Needs a Destination

12

Everything, All in One Place

13

The Fork in the Road and the Banquet of Consequences

14

You Are an n1 Study

15

The Psychology of Luck: Why You're Not as Unlucky as You Think

16

Zen and The Art of Guitar Tutoring

17

Right Time, Wrong Place - Contextual Cues

18

Why Every Tutor Needs One Single Master Notebook

19

How to Write Your Own Self-Talk Script for Instant Confidence

20

Why Doing Less is the Secret to Making Way More

21

Talking To Yourself

22

What Gets You Out of Bed

23

LOCUS OF CONTROL

24

Focus on The Process

25

Hunting For Treasure

26

Haters and Crabs

27

Dump, Divide, Diarise

28

Brutal Self-Honesty

29

Into The Silence

30

Planning Beyond the Plan: Avoiding the ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Trap

31

Two Magic Words

32

Advanced Time Management for Beginners

33

Get Back on the Horse

34

On Mortality 2 - Leave Something Behind

35

On Mortality 1 - You're Gonna Die, Deal With It

36

Zero Days

37

Why You’re Not Rich Yet

38

The Fasting Miracle

39

Momentum

40

Becoming an Autodidact

41

The AI Elephant in the Room

42

Kaizen, For Life

43

The Japanese 5S System

44

Celebrating 400 Episodes: How The Tutor Podcast Became a Lifeline During Uncertain Times

45

Bouncebackability ... Resilience

46

Getting It Together When You Think You Might Have ADHD

47

When The Music Stops

48

Do The Clothes Make The Man? | Enclothed Cognition

49

Money Is a Myth

50

Yes, And ...

51

Fixing What You Didn't Break

52

The Myth of Perfection

53

How To Handle Rejection and Disappointment

54

Just As Far As The Lights Will Show You

55

The Way You Do One Thing

56

Who Do You Think You Are?

57

The Morning Set Up

58

My Life, My Rules

59

Right Place, Right People

60

What's Good About This - The Magic Question

61

The Fundamentals Matter: Even for The Special Ones

62

I'm Wrong About Everything

63

Boo, Reality

64

The Thinking Book Socrates and The Unexamined Life

65

When the Music Stops - Part Two

66

Running Out of Goals

67

Steppin' Into State

68

Shifting States

69

Make Today Matter

70

Lifetime Value of an Hour

71

A Fish Out of Water

72

It Is Not a Dirty Word

73

It Works For Me

74

Hacking the Dark Side

75

The Dark Side of a Strong Work Ethic

76

The Joy of Boring

77

The Elephant in the Room is Probably Me

78

Earning a Pound versus Saving a Pound

79

The Way of The Polymath

80

Ditch Your TO Do List, Try This Instead

81

Why Unconventional Wins

82

Make it Obvious

83

The Lost Art of Silence

84

Teaching Old Dogs

85

It's all about the cake

86

Awesome Special Missions

87

Environment V Will Power

88

Free Introductory Sessions

89

Brutal Self Honesty

90

New Year, New You

91

Christmas Time Again!

92

Build It On Paper First

93

Know Your Numbers

94

The Great Communist Budget and Labour's Lies

95

The Budget and The Rules

96

Be More Nina

97

Spoiling Magic

98

The Endless Game of Helping People - Why 1 to 1 Never Gets Old

99

Push-Pull Motivators Part Two

100

Movers and Moti

101

Stop It

102

Life on The Edge

103

Becoming a Millionaire Guitar Teacher - Part 2

104

Becoming a Millionaire Guitar Teacher - Part 1

105

Into The Silence

106

Sales is not a Dirty Word

107

Work So Hard They Think You're Crazy

108

On Being Wrong

109

The Board

110

The Spark

111

Thinking With Your Hands

112

Money and Morality

113

OPM, OPE, OPK, OPN, OMG!

114

Stick To Your Knitting

115

Walk Away - The Ultimate Freedom and the Power of No

116

Timelining

117

Goals, Goals, Goals

118

You Always Pay Twice

119

Opportunity Costs

120

Escaping The Compliance Factory

121

The 30 Minute Book Guru

122

Death by Comfort Zone

123

The Flying Roast Duck Myth

124

The Risks of Having a Good Job

125

Holidays - My Own Private Hell

126

Anchoring Excellence, Silliness and Fun

127

The Right State

128

Plus and Minus Tracking

129

Flippin' Questions

130

The Lucky Overnight Success Myth

131

Six Years, No Parole

132

The People On The Bus

133

The Inner Moron Rides Again

134

Are We Having Fun Yet

135

Putting On The Motley

136

Consistency is King

137

Jacks of All Trades

138

Staring Into Space

139

The Business Ecosystem

140

Health and Wellbeing

141

Magickal Words

142

The Ten Minute Problem Solver

143

The Great Planning Getaway

144

Let's Talk About Teaching

145

The Comfort Trap

146

Sell It

147

One Man's Heaven

148

A Busy Fool

149

The Money in your Mind

150

DDWT Revisited

151

Exploring Effective Strategies: Eroding and Exploding Tasks

152

An Organised Idiot (My bloody Filofax, PART Two)

153

My Bloody Filofax

154

Jacking The RAS

155

The Art of Simple: How Teaching Guitar Can Change Lives

156

Perfectly Ridiculous

157

Looking After Number One

158

Early Birds, Night Owls and Vampires

159

Other People

160

Don't Worry About Worrying

161

Retirement or Not

162

What 100 Stupid Things

163

What To Say When You Talk To Yourself

164

Reliability - Do What You Say You'll Do

165

A Pocketful of Evil

166

Test Everything

167

Build Tomorrow Today

168

Two Students, Five Decades, One Problem

169

The RUSH Model

170

Tell Your Story, Warts and All

171

Fuggettaboutit

172

Intellectual Property & Copyright

173

Evil Genius Me

174

My Get Rich Slow Scheme

175

Energise Your Network

176

What's The Benefit ?

177

The Work

178

The You in USP

179

The Two Kinds of Work

180

Flex It...The Muscle of Individuality

181

Rapport Basics - Matching & Mirroring

182

Two Sides of Fear

183

Pause For Thought

184

What Drives You ?

185

Why Change is Hard

186

Looking After Number One

187

Bright Shiny Pennies

188

Blind Spot Council

189

Better than One

190

Silent Mode

191

Content V. Principle Teaching

192

New Year, New Start

193

Time Travel

194

Into The Vortex

195

Managing Parents

196

Pay Attention

197

Diligence

198

Managing Your Inner Moron

199

Absolutely Always, Sometimes

200

Skills and Beliefs – Which are Strongest?

201

Pacing and Leading

202

Pricing - How To Get The Best Price For Your Services

203

Teaching Creativity

204

The Great Escape

205

Branding For Beginners

206

It's Your Thing

207

Selling & Negotiating

208

Wealth - What it Is, and What it Ain't

209

Total Self-Honesty

210

Managing Your Emotions

211

Opportunities Are Everywhere. Listen, Connect People, Join The Dots

212

Everything is a Mind-Game

213

I Do It To Do It

214

The Four Streams of Income. “BEEP Model”

215

Develop Another Business

216

Boo, Holidays

217

The Biggest Problem in Tutoring

218

The Encyclopaedia of Applied Fantasticness (Part 2)

219

The Locard Principle

220

Rudimentary Records

221

Reading and The Future

222

The DON’T DO list.

223

Inflation’s Double-Edged Sword

224

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

225

About Time

226

Time Boxing and Blocking

227

Routines and Habits

228

Big Picture Thinking and The Long Run

229

The Disruptive Question

230

Easy, Light, Smooth, Fast…and FUN!

231

Eliminate The Undesirables

232

The SAID Training Model

233

Free Initial Consultations

234

Your Elevator Pitch

235

An Unreasonable Ask

236

How To Write Anything

237

Mind Their Language

238

Your Thermostat

239

I Love Failure

240

The Money Mindgame

241

On Pricing

242

A Heartfelt NO

243

Self Honesty

244

New Year’s Resolutions Are SO Last year

245

The Christmas Show

246

Keeping Basic Records - Part 3 - Expenses and Everything Else

247

Keeping Basic Records - Part 2 - Sales

248

Keeping Basic Records: Part 1 - Purchases

249

Setting The Stage

250

Your Daily Journal

251

The Laws Of Human Stupidity

252

Changes

253

Know Thyself

254

The Remedials

255

Copyright and You

256

Talking to Parts - Unlocking Deep Resistance

257

How Goals Really Work

258

Building a Killer Work Ethic

259

Irrational Beliefs

260

The Wrench - When Students Leave

261

How to Grow

262

Limited Companies

263

Partnership Businesses

264

Sole Trader Business Structure - Do’s and Don’ts.

265

The Comfort Trap

266

Designing Failure

267

An Alternative To Windows

268

Windows 11 Is Coming, Be Afraid.

269

Play Pretend

270

Who Is Your Ideal Student?

271

Truer than True, Realer than Real

272

Never Be Perfect

273

Listen For The Helicopters.

274

Journaling and Gratitude

275

Money Mindset

276

Habits and Routines

277

Starting Out In Business.

278

Long-Range Planning

279

Essential Mind-games

280

Effective Enquiry Calls

281

ASSUME NOTHING

282

Entrepreneurial Trials and Tribulations

283

Coming Out of Lockdown

284

Choice of Business Structure

285

Master Your Money Mindset

286

DDWT

287

IF IT AIN'T FUN

288

TOTAL SPECIALISATION V. POLYMATHY

289

Keep on Growing

290

Yes, and...

291

The Mastermind Alliance

292

Staying Sane in Lockdown 3

293

Pause for Thought

294

The Great Windows Wind-Up

295

My Big Tick-list!

296

Goals and Planning for 2021

297

Look Back and Learn from 2020

298

Is This Truely Obsession?!

299

THE RULES AFTER LOCKDOWN 2.0 IN TIERS

300

Where Do You Want To Be In 10 Years Time? Timelines

301

Leverage - How to Get More with Less!

302

Who’s doing better than I am?

303

Keep Calm and Tutor On

304

Assume the Position

305

Everything is on YouTube

306

‘What’s good about this?’

307

Battling The Inner Moron

308

Utilisation - Everything Counts

309

Squirrels And Rabbit Holes- Unexpected Questions.

310

The Art of Vanishing

311

What's in the Box?

312

The Treasure Basket

313

What Makes a Pro?

314

Handling The Price Objection

315

What To Think About When You Think About Money

316

Work Absurdly Hard, So You Can Do What Most People Can't

317

Winning The Morning Battle

318

Tutor, Mentor, Confidante, Friend

319

Staying Healthy, Staying Alive

320

The Course, Module, or Lesson Pitch

321

Structure Your Course

322

Transformation & The Purpose of the Course

323

Who Are They? (Know Your Punters)

324

Course Planning Week 2: Who Am I?

325

Build Your Online Course

326

Accountability Partners and Invisible Friends

327

Steal From Everyone

328

Hard Truths and Relationships

329

How to manage your time and income streams effectively

330

Surviving Lockdown Tips

331

How to Create Incremental Change!

332

The Brutal Two List Model of Warren Buffet

333

Covid-19 Government Support and Advice

334

Change or Die

335

Interesting Times...

336

Larks, Owls, Cows & Vampires

337

Self Sabotage

338

Quality Problems

339

Social Media - Free Mega Marketing Opportunity, or Black Hole of Time

340

Know Your Numbers

341

Time & Trust

342

Reflection And Self-Honesty

343

The Ten Minute Problem Solving Technique

344

Crunch Time For Self Assessment

345

Misfits And Mavericks

346

Back on The Chaingang - Tax Time!

347

Rethinking Resolutions

348

Adult Students, The Fun Bunch

349

Design Your Own Life

350

My Lovely Leaky Bucket

351

The Joy of Christmas, or Not....

352

The Habit Upgrade!

353

Unapologetic

354

The Money Talk

355

WonderVerbs for Teaching & Advertising

356

Two Ears – One Mouth?

357

3 Legs of Persuasion

358

Normal, How?

359

The Illusion of Overnight Success

360

Taking Breaks; Yes or No?

361

Master Your Emotions

362

Go Invisible. How Lockdown Days Spike Productivity and Grow Your Vision

363

Starting The Journey

364

When Would Now Be a Good Time

365

Running On Rails

366

Don't Doubt Yourself

367

Turn The Bloody Thing Off!!

368

Specialise and Diversify

369

The Opportunity Mindset

370

Mental Movies

371

Care Excessively

372

The Encyclopedia of Applied Fantasticness

373

ChinUp!

374

Create Your Master Plan

375

Price Whores & Special Requests

376

Certainty & Utilisation

377

Rethinking Rejection

378

Check Your Ego

379

The Autonomiser; Using Student's Resistance to Overcome Itself

380

Other People's Messes!!

381

Hypnosis, Teaching & Trance

382

Digital Disasters & Damage Control

383

Why Writing Things Down is Very Smart

384

Get Happy and Grin Like a Maniac!

385

Stories to Tell and Compel

386

The Importance of Frames

387

I'm a Guitar Teacher - Get Me Out of Here!!!

388

The Teaching Language Toolbox Part 3; The Language of Effective Questions!

389

The Teaching Language Toolbox Part 2 - Pacing & Leading& Complex Equivalence

390

The Teaching Language Toolbox Part 1 - The VAKOG Model

391

#051 The Ugly Truth about Looking Good

392

#050 Never Whisper - Tell The World What You Do

393

#049 Getting The Buggers To Practise

394

#048 The Business Mindset

395

#047 The Joy of Scheduling

396

#046 How to Handle Your Enquiry Calls

397

#045 Courage!

398

#044 Interview With NLP Master John Cassidy-Rice

399

#043 All I Want For Christmas Is...

400

#042 Getting Organised

401

#041 What Makes You Special - Your USP

402

#040 Pensions and Life After Work

403

#039 Setting Your Stage

404

#038 Your Daily Journal

405

#037 - Passive Income for Tutors

406

#036 Wider Learning

407

#035 Entrenched Student Beliefs

408

#034 Your Elevator Pitch

409

#033 Holidays...The Upsides of Downtime

410

#032 Mood Hoovers and Time Vampires

411

#031 Shiny Penny Syndrome

412

#030 Stay Playful

413

029 - Time Management for Tutors

414

#28 The Talent Myth

415

#27 Killer Copywriting Part 3- Your Voice

416

#26 Killer Copywriting Part 2

417

#025 -Killer Copy

418

#024 - Thinking About Tax

419

#023 - Always Be Learning

420

#022 - Testimonials why they are important, how to get them and how to use them

421

#021 - The Value of Time

422

#020 - From Shipyard Plumber to Corporate Lawyer with Chris Plumley

423

#019 - The 15 Commandments Pt.3

424

#018 - The 15 Commandments Pt.2

425

#017 - The 15 Commandments Pt.1

426

#016 - How to Illicit Your VALUES – The Deepest Essence of What Makes Us Go

427

#015 - Your Big Fat Why

428

#014 - How To Use DBS Checks To Gain A Competitive Edge & Increase Your Prices!

429

#013 - The Right Price

430

#012 - The Route To Success Is In Your Routine

431

#011 - An Overview of Company Structures that are Available to Those in Tutoring/Teaching Business

432

#010 - Know Your Market! Tailor Your Brand And Discover The Lifetime Value Of Your Preferred Customers.

433

#009 - GDPR for Tutors: What you must know about the new data protection laws, and how to protect your business from unlimited fines

434

#008 Dr Simon Martin, The Amazing Bodger in StoryBodger telling tall tales, tarradiddles and stories that make you think

435

#007 The 10,000 Hour Rule: Why It is Wrong, and Why it Matters to You.

436

#002 - Neil talks about FEAR, which is the most common obstacle that stop you in your tracks.

437

#004 - Starting Your Own Tutoring Business

438

#005 - MONEY and The TRUTH about Money

439

#006 - Hybrid Careers, Side Hustle as the Americans say

440

#003 - DDWT: The Second Secret Golden Rule in Tutoring Business

441

#001 - Neil Cowmeadow, the maverick peripatetic Telford Guitar Teacher, shares his past 19 years experience to a prolific tutoring business