"Turn The F***ing Keyboards Down!" 🎹👇
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Release Date: 07/20/2025
"A Sale Isn't a Sale Until The Invoice is PAID..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Get the Late Payment Calculator: Find out more about the One Percent Club: In this episode: 0.00 - Introduction 1.04 - What impact does late payment have on small business owners? 2:59 - A sale isn't a sale until the invoice is paid 6.11 - Charging interest on late payments 10.41 - Prevention is better than cure 14.26 - You're not in the wrong to ask for your money! 16:22 - Will the Small Business Protections (Late Payments) Bill actually help small businesses? 18.22 - Paying tax on "profits" you haven't actually received! 20.15 - Sacking off work for a Friday afternoon at the...
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"I spend MONTHS outside of the UK - thanks to these 5 steps..."
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Craig Jukes spent 37 years in corporate life. Then, on a flight home from a holiday Kefalonia, Craig had one of those moments. Not a “quit your job tomorrow and go and live in a hammock” moment. A PROPER lightbulb moment. 💡 He realised he didn’t want retirement to be some vague, far-off prize at the end of another decade of work. He wanted freedom NOW. Freedom to work from anywhere. Freedom to travel. Freedom to spend the grim UK winter somewhere that didn’t require a big coat, central heating, and emotional support biscuits. He didn’t just dream about it. He designed it. Craig...
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"I learned to scale my business at the poker table"
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Sep Frijia describes himself as a poker player in an entrepreneur's body. Last summer, he was stuck at mediocrity in both his poker and business pursuits, but he decided to flip the script. By shifting his focus to long-term purpose rather than short-term wins, Sep transformed his approach and outcomes. He studied the game-changing strategies of blueprints, reflection, and incremental progress, applying them both at the poker table and in his business. His mindset evolved from chasing immediate results to playing the long game, becoming unapologetically all-in on his purpose and trusted...
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"I've edited more than 250 books.. and now written my own!"
Ambitious Lifestyle Business | The UK Small Business Podcast That Features REAL Business Owners
Jill French is a book coach and editor, who has edited more than 250 books, for fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoirs. And now she's written her own book too - a book that languished at the bottom of her to-do list for years - until she joined the , and made it happen. Jill leaned into the to help make this process easier - she used weekly accountability calls to maintain constant, never-ending progress towards the huge goal, and deal with any road blocks that stood in her way. She attended regular Coaching Calls - and always found a nugget or two to implement (and/or add to her Could Do...
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"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!
info_outlineRunning a small business in the UK is tough if you're a one-person band. But letting go of control to others is tough too - so what do you do?
Last month, I fulfilled a 30-year dream, and finally saw Pulp live in concert.
They were absolutely AMAZING - but there was one moment where the gig was almost ruined - by ONE person (and no, that person wasn't frontman Jarvis Cocker).
(You can watch this moment as it happened here...)