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The Tutor Podcast — 431 episodes

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1

Crushing Decision Fatigue: How Systems Can Save Your Sanity

2

Your Strategic Intent: Why Every Habit Needs a Destination

3

Everything, All in One Place

4

The Fork in the Road and the Banquet of Consequences

5

You Are an n1 Study

6

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

7

Zen and The Art of Guitar Tutoring

8

Right Time, Wrong Place - Contextual Cues

9

Why Every Tutor Needs One Single Master Notebook

10

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

11

Why Doing Less is the Secret to Making Way More

12

Talking To Yourself

13

What Gets You Out of Bed

14

LOCUS OF CONTROL

15

Focus on The Process

16

Hunting For Treasure

17

Haters and Crabs

18

Dump, Divide, Diarise

19

Brutal Self-Honesty

20

Into The Silence

21

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

22

Two Magic Words

23

Advanced Time Management for Beginners

24

Get Back on the Horse

25

On Mortality 2 - Leave Something Behind

26

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

27

Zero Days

28

Why You’re Not Rich Yet

29

The Fasting Miracle

30

Momentum

31

Becoming an Autodidact

32

The AI Elephant in the Room

33

Kaizen, For Life

34

The Japanese 5S System

35

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

36

Bouncebackability ... Resilience

37

Getting It Together When You Think You Might Have ADHD

38

When The Music Stops

39

Do The Clothes Make The Man? | Enclothed Cognition

40

Money Is a Myth

41

Yes, And ...

42

Fixing What You Didn't Break

43

The Myth of Perfection

44

How To Handle Rejection and Disappointment

45

Just As Far As The Lights Will Show You

46

The Way You Do One Thing

47

Who Do You Think You Are?

48

The Morning Set Up

49

My Life, My Rules

50

Right Place, Right People

51

What's Good About This - The Magic Question

52

The Fundamentals Matter: Even for The Special Ones

53

I'm Wrong About Everything

54

Boo, Reality

55

The Thinking Book Socrates and The Unexamined Life

56

When the Music Stops - Part Two

57

Running Out of Goals

58

Steppin' Into State

59

Shifting States

60

Make Today Matter

61

Lifetime Value of an Hour

62

A Fish Out of Water

63

It Is Not a Dirty Word

64

It Works For Me

65

Hacking the Dark Side

66

The Dark Side of a Strong Work Ethic

67

The Joy of Boring

68

The Elephant in the Room is Probably Me

69

Earning a Pound versus Saving a Pound

70

The Way of The Polymath

71

Ditch Your TO Do List, Try This Instead

72

Why Unconventional Wins

73

Make it Obvious

74

The Lost Art of Silence

75

Teaching Old Dogs

76

It's all about the cake

77

Awesome Special Missions

78

Environment V Will Power

79

Free Introductory Sessions

80

Brutal Self Honesty

81

New Year, New You

82

Christmas Time Again!

83

Build It On Paper First

84

Know Your Numbers

85

The Great Communist Budget and Labour's Lies

86

The Budget and The Rules

87

Be More Nina

88

Spoiling Magic

89

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

90

Push-Pull Motivators Part Two

91

Movers and Moti

92

Stop It

93

Life on The Edge

94

Becoming a Millionaire Guitar Teacher - Part 2

95

Becoming a Millionaire Guitar Teacher - Part 1

96

Into The Silence

97

Sales is not a Dirty Word

98

Work So Hard They Think You're Crazy

99

On Being Wrong

100

The Board

101

The Spark

102

Thinking With Your Hands

103

Money and Morality

104

OPM, OPE, OPK, OPN, OMG!

105

Stick To Your Knitting

106

Walk Away - The Ultimate Freedom and the Power of No

107

Timelining

108

Goals, Goals, Goals

109

You Always Pay Twice

110

Opportunity Costs

111

Escaping The Compliance Factory

112

The 30 Minute Book Guru

113

Death by Comfort Zone

114

The Flying Roast Duck Myth

115

The Risks of Having a Good Job

116

Holidays - My Own Private Hell

117

Anchoring Excellence, Silliness and Fun

118

The Right State

119

Plus and Minus Tracking

120

Flippin' Questions

121

The Lucky Overnight Success Myth

122

Six Years, No Parole

123

The People On The Bus

124

The Inner Moron Rides Again

125

Are We Having Fun Yet

126

Putting On The Motley

127

Consistency is King

128

Jacks of All Trades

129

Staring Into Space

130

The Business Ecosystem

131

Health and Wellbeing

132

Magickal Words

133

The Ten Minute Problem Solver

134

The Great Planning Getaway

135

Let's Talk About Teaching

136

The Comfort Trap

137

Sell It

138

One Man's Heaven

139

A Busy Fool

140

The Money in your Mind

141

DDWT Revisited

142

Exploring Effective Strategies: Eroding and Exploding Tasks

143

An Organised Idiot (My bloody Filofax, PART Two)

144

My Bloody Filofax

145

Jacking The RAS

146

The Art of Simple: How Teaching Guitar Can Change Lives

147

Perfectly Ridiculous

148

Looking After Number One

149

Early Birds, Night Owls and Vampires

150

Other People

151

Don't Worry About Worrying

152

Retirement or Not

153

What 100 Stupid Things

154

What To Say When You Talk To Yourself

155

Reliability - Do What You Say You'll Do

156

A Pocketful of Evil

157

Test Everything

158

Build Tomorrow Today

159

Two Students, Five Decades, One Problem

160

The RUSH Model

161

Tell Your Story, Warts and All

162

Fuggettaboutit

163

Intellectual Property & Copyright

164

Evil Genius Me

165

My Get Rich Slow Scheme

166

Energise Your Network

167

What's The Benefit ?

168

The Work

169

The You in USP

170

The Two Kinds of Work

171

Flex It...The Muscle of Individuality

172

Rapport Basics - Matching & Mirroring

173

Two Sides of Fear

174

Pause For Thought

175

What Drives You ?

176

Why Change is Hard

177

Looking After Number One

178

Bright Shiny Pennies

179

Blind Spot Council

180

Better than One

181

Silent Mode

182

Content V. Principle Teaching

183

New Year, New Start

184

Time Travel

185

Into The Vortex

186

Managing Parents

187

Pay Attention

188

Diligence

189

Managing Your Inner Moron

190

Absolutely Always, Sometimes

191

Skills and Beliefs – Which are Strongest?

192

Pacing and Leading

193

Pricing - How To Get The Best Price For Your Services

194

Teaching Creativity

195

The Great Escape

196

Branding For Beginners

197

It's Your Thing

198

Selling & Negotiating

199

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

200

Total Self-Honesty

201

Managing Your Emotions

202

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

203

Everything is a Mind-Game

204

I Do It To Do It

205

The Four Streams of Income. “BEEP Model”

206

Develop Another Business

207

Boo, Holidays

208

The Biggest Problem in Tutoring

209

The Encyclopaedia of Applied Fantasticness (Part 2)

210

The Locard Principle

211

Rudimentary Records

212

Reading and The Future

213

The DON’T DO list.

214

Inflation’s Double-Edged Sword

215

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

216

About Time

217

Time Boxing and Blocking

218

Routines and Habits

219

Big Picture Thinking and The Long Run

220

The Disruptive Question

221

Easy, Light, Smooth, Fast…and FUN!

222

Eliminate The Undesirables

223

The SAID Training Model

224

Free Initial Consultations

225

Your Elevator Pitch

226

An Unreasonable Ask

227

How To Write Anything

228

Mind Their Language

229

Your Thermostat

230

I Love Failure

231

The Money Mindgame

232

On Pricing

233

A Heartfelt NO

234

Self Honesty

235

New Year’s Resolutions Are SO Last year

236

The Christmas Show

237

Keeping Basic Records - Part 3 - Expenses and Everything Else

238

Keeping Basic Records - Part 2 - Sales

239

Keeping Basic Records: Part 1 - Purchases

240

Setting The Stage

241

Your Daily Journal

242

The Laws Of Human Stupidity

243

Changes

244

Know Thyself

245

The Remedials

246

Copyright and You

247

Talking to Parts - Unlocking Deep Resistance

248

How Goals Really Work

249

Building a Killer Work Ethic

250

Irrational Beliefs

251

The Wrench - When Students Leave

252

How to Grow

253

Limited Companies

254

Partnership Businesses

255

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

256

The Comfort Trap

257

Designing Failure

258

An Alternative To Windows

259

Windows 11 Is Coming, Be Afraid.

260

Play Pretend

261

Who Is Your Ideal Student?

262

Truer than True, Realer than Real

263

Never Be Perfect

264

Listen For The Helicopters.

265

Journaling and Gratitude

266

Money Mindset

267

Habits and Routines

268

Starting Out In Business.

269

Long-Range Planning

270

Essential Mind-games

271

Effective Enquiry Calls

272

ASSUME NOTHING

273

Entrepreneurial Trials and Tribulations

274

Coming Out of Lockdown

275

Choice of Business Structure

276

Master Your Money Mindset

277

DDWT

278

IF IT AIN'T FUN

279

TOTAL SPECIALISATION V. POLYMATHY

280

Keep on Growing

281

Yes, and...

282

The Mastermind Alliance

283

Staying Sane in Lockdown 3

284

Pause for Thought

285

The Great Windows Wind-Up

286

My Big Tick-list!

287

Goals and Planning for 2021

288

Look Back and Learn from 2020

289

Is This Truely Obsession?!

290

THE RULES AFTER LOCKDOWN 2.0 IN TIERS

291

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

292

Leverage - How to Get More with Less!

293

Keep Calm and Tutor On

294

Assume the Position

295

Everything is on YouTube

296

‘What’s good about this?’

297

Battling The Inner Moron

298

Utilisation - Everything Counts

299

Squirrels And Rabbit Holes- Unexpected Questions.

300

The Art of Vanishing

301

What's in the Box?

302

The Treasure Basket

303

What Makes a Pro?

304

Handling The Price Objection

305

What To Think About When You Think About Money

306

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

307

Winning The Morning Battle

308

Tutor, Mentor, Confidante, Friend

309

Staying Healthy, Staying Alive

310

The Course, Module, or Lesson Pitch

311

Structure Your Course

312

Transformation & The Purpose of the Course

313

Who Are They? (Know Your Punters)

314

Course Planning Week 2: Who Am I?

315

Build Your Online Course

316

Accountability Partners and Invisible Friends

317

Steal From Everyone

318

Hard Truths and Relationships

319

How to manage your time and income streams effectively

320

Surviving Lockdown Tips

321

How to Create Incremental Change!

322

The Brutal Two List Model of Warren Buffet

323

Covid-19 Government Support and Advice

324

Change or Die

325

Interesting Times...

326

Larks, Owls, Cows & Vampires

327

Self Sabotage

328

Quality Problems

329

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

330

Know Your Numbers

331

Time & Trust

332

Reflection And Self-Honesty

333

The Ten Minute Problem Solving Technique

334

Crunch Time For Self Assessment

335

Misfits And Mavericks

336

Back on The Chaingang - Tax Time!

337

Rethinking Resolutions

338

Adult Students, The Fun Bunch

339

Design Your Own Life

340

My Lovely Leaky Bucket

341

The Joy of Christmas, or Not....

342

The Habit Upgrade!

343

Unapologetic

344

The Money Talk

345

WonderVerbs for Teaching & Advertising

346

Two Ears – One Mouth?

347

3 Legs of Persuasion

348

Normal, How?

349

The Illusion of Overnight Success

350

Taking Breaks; Yes or No?

351

Master Your Emotions

352

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

353

Starting The Journey

354

When Would Now Be a Good Time

355

Running On Rails

356

Don't Doubt Yourself

357

Turn The Bloody Thing Off!!

358

Specialise and Diversify

359

The Opportunity Mindset

360

Mental Movies

361

Care Excessively

362

The Encyclopedia of Applied Fantasticness

363

ChinUp!

364

Create Your Master Plan

365

Price Whores & Special Requests

366

Certainty & Utilisation

367

Rethinking Rejection

368

Check Your Ego

369

The Autonomiser; Using Student's Resistance to Overcome Itself

370

Other People's Messes!!

371

Hypnosis, Teaching & Trance

372

Digital Disasters & Damage Control

373

Why Writing Things Down is Very Smart

374

Get Happy and Grin Like a Maniac!

375

Stories to Tell and Compel

376

The Importance of Frames

377

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

378

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

379

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

380

The Teaching Language Toolbox Part 1 - The VAKOG Model

381

#051 The Ugly Truth about Looking Good

382

#050 Never Whisper - Tell The World What You Do

383

#049 Getting The Buggers To Practise

384

#048 The Business Mindset

385

#047 The Joy of Scheduling

386

#046 How to Handle Your Enquiry Calls

387

#045 Courage!

388

#044 Interview With NLP Master John Cassidy-Rice

389

#043 All I Want For Christmas Is...

390

#042 Getting Organised

391

#041 What Makes You Special - Your USP

392

#040 Pensions and Life After Work

393

#039 Setting Your Stage

394

#038 Your Daily Journal

395

#037 - Passive Income for Tutors

396

#036 Wider Learning

397

#035 Entrenched Student Beliefs

398

#034 Your Elevator Pitch

399

#033 Holidays...The Upsides of Downtime

400

#032 Mood Hoovers and Time Vampires

401

#031 Shiny Penny Syndrome

402

#030 Stay Playful

403

029 - Time Management for Tutors

404

#28 The Talent Myth

405

#27 Killer Copywriting Part 3- Your Voice

406

#26 Killer Copywriting Part 2

407

#025 -Killer Copy

408

#024 - Thinking About Tax

409

#023 - Always Be Learning

410

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

411

#021 - The Value of Time

412

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

413

#019 - The 15 Commandments Pt.3

414

#018 - The 15 Commandments Pt.2

415

#017 - The 15 Commandments Pt.1

416

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

417

#015 - Your Big Fat Why

418

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

419

#013 - The Right Price

420

#012 - The Route To Success Is In Your Routine

421

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

422

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

423

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

424

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

425

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

426

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

427

#004 - Starting Your Own Tutoring Business

428

#005 - MONEY and The TRUTH about Money

429

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

430

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

431

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