How long are you going to be the best kept secret?
For a long time I believed that if the work was good enough, the work would do the talking. Do it properly, do it consistently, and people would turn up. Most of us build our businesses on that belief. It is the reason so many great operators stay quiet. The two guests below took that […]
Machines of Ruin and Loving Grace
I took four weeks off in the Philippines. My niece was being christened and I’d entered the Makati Half Marathon, so I went over with my family. Stepping away from the business felt strange and great at the same time. It turned out to be the reset I didn’t know how badly I needed. Before […]
Perth’s very own Walk of Fame. Are you on it?
I used to think PR was something you had to be “big enough” to deserve. That there was a line, and until you crossed it nobody was going to hand you a microphone, or a write up, or a room full of people who actually wanted to hear from you. Then one of my Design […]
The Conversation You Keep Putting Off
There’s a conversation I once put off for months. I told myself I was picking my moment. The truth is I was hoping the problem would pack up and leave on its own. It didn’t. It grew. And when we finally talked, the conversation I’d been dreading took 20 minutes and life changed for the […]
You Already Know What You’re Avoiding
For years I ran my business off one number. Whatever was in the bank account that morning. If it was up, we were winning. Then a tax bill landed that nobody had warned me about, and I realised I hadn’t been looking at my business at all. I’d been looking away from it. I did […]
Nobody Quits The Big Goal
Most people don’t quit the big goal. They quit the boring middle. The bit where the buzz has worn off, no one’s watching, and there’s no finish line in sight. I know that middle well. I used to live there. Not anymore. I changed my life by learning to stick to my goals, and it […]
When did you stop playing?
I’ve drawn on walls since I was about two. It followed me all the way through school, into studying art and graphic design, then a visual arts degree and a graphic design diploma. Somewhere along the way I learned to call my drawing and painting a hobby, something I rarely make time for, something I’d […]
The worst week turned out to be the best thing
When something in my business gets brutally hard, my first instinct is that I’ve done something wrong and perhaps this is just not meant to be… That I’ve missed a step, made a bad call, taken a wrong turn somewhere. I’m starting to think I had it backwards. Both men in this edition walked through […]
Episode #150 – 150 Confessions of a Business Owner
We just released Episode 150. For the first hundred and forty-nine, I sat across from someone and asked them to be honest with me. For this one, I asked them to be honest when no one was watching. We sent out a single anonymous box. No name. No way to trace it back. Two questions, […]
You will never feel ready
I’ve lost count of the ideas I sat on because I was waiting to feel ready. Waiting for the plan to be tighter. The offer to be perfect. The timing to be right. That moment never arrives the way you think it will. You just get older, and the idea gets quieter. Both men in […]
