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Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Release Date: 07/06/2025
"I thought getting customers was everything - I was WRONG..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
A few years ago, John Lamerton was caught up in the relentless pursuit of new customers, constantly refilling a leaky bucket - promising the world but losing clients just as quickly as he gained them. Frustrated by the constant chase, he had a lightbulb moment: focusing on retention and obsessing over existing customers was the real key to unlocking sustainable growth - and profits. He shifted his mindset from acquisition to lifelong value, investing in his current clients and rethinking what business success really means. This intense focus transformed his business, boosting profits by...
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"I use HUMOUR to make me a better coach..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Meet Dr David Lowe. David had it all figured out - working a 5-day month, earning great money, enjoying a fantastic work/life balance, doing meaningful work for clients he loved. There was just one problem. His business model relied entirely on in-person training. And it was 2019. You and I know what's coming... But David didn't. He spent the next two years frantically scrabbling to "pivot" (is there a more 2020 word?) and keep paying the bills. Meanwhile, his kids remember "the Covid years" as a time when they finished their school work by lunchtime, and spent the afternoons building memories...
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"I was stuck - then DOUBLED my income..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
If you're feeling stuck in your business (and/or your life), this episode is for YOU. Three years ago, Mel Statner was working 12 hours a day (and sometimes 16!), finding herself exhausted, doing work that drained her energy. In a nutshell, Mel was stuck. Fast forward to today, and Mel works a 3 day week, having also doubled her income. Not by working harder, but because she found some instruction manuals for her operating system (her brain). Mel changed how she thinks... how she makes decisions... and how she leads her life. She's no longer stuck - she's thriving. Jason and I have worked with...
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"My business has felt like a JOB this year..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
It's beginning to look a lot like.. last year! The Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast 2025 Christmas special is here - and as usual, John and Jason are putting the world to rights (without getting political - honest!), summing up what's it been like running an ambitious lifestyle business for the past twelve months. Cost of living crisis? ✅ High inflation a worry? ✅ Bad news coming in the Budget? ✅ Yep, the big themes this year are VERY similar to the big themes of 2024 - the "doom and gloom" isn't going away (other than on the ALB podcast, where, just like Morecambe and Wise, we aim...
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"I fell off a roof - and fixed my business..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
In September 2018, Driving School trainer Dave Foster fell off a two story building. As he was falling through thin air to the cold concrete below, his life flashed before his eyes - and he had an epiphany. Until that moment, Dave was working 10-12 hour days every day in his business, and fully believed that "no one can run this business, except me." Faced with being unable to work for six months, Dave had no choice but to remove himself from the day-to-day operations, and instead work ON his business. And now, 8 years later, Dave has taken a "false exit" - running the business in an hour or...
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"Stay off drugs and don't eat lollipops from Florida"
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
I recently came across my all-time favourite review of my book - from my ten year old son. He's 16 now, so it really made me chuckle to see what the younger version of him made of a book that's aimed at ambitious lifestyle business owners, not ten year old kids!
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The 5-teabag Rule... 🍵
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
How do you make sure you stay hydrated throughout the day? By creating an easy-to-follow (and hard to forget) routine, of course! Taking a leaf out of my own book , I've created the "5 teabag rule", to make sure I remain well lubricated through the working day...
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"I'm sorry, that price is for new customers only"
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
"I'm sorry, that price is for new customers only" A guaranteed way to get my blood BOILING... 😡 In this snippet from my forthcoming book Retention First, I share the story of a completely fictional broadband company, called "Emerging Media", who decide to tax the loyalty of their best customers, and give the best offers to those people who've never spent a penny with them...
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My "favourite" 1-star reviews...
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Some of my "favourite" 1-star reviews: "smug look at how awesome the author is" "no help for small business owners unless they're already millionaires" "my god you have to wade through an awful lot of pointless rambling to get there" have attracted more than 2,000 five-star reviews.. yet it's the handful of negative ones that stick with me...
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Miracle Morning? 5am Club?
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Here's what happened when I tried to get up at 5am and follow Hal Elrod's "miracle" morning routine: It'd take a miracle for me to follow it again! THE morning routine doesn't matter. What matters is that you HAVE a morning routine - one that's 💯 designed for YOU...
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