Business Without Bullshit brings candid, no-nonsense conversations about the world of business. Join us as we break the rules, challenge the status quo, and share unfiltered insights with entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators. This is your space for bold ideas and likeminded conversations - minus the buzzwords. Tune in for refreshing perspectives and real talk every episode, every Wednesday at 7am.
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Straightforward conversations about a range of business topics and issues commonly handled by Oury Clark experts. Hosted by author and 'Money Week' financial writer Dominic Frisby.
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EP 388 - May's quiz round up sees Daniel Priestley and Fernando Sordo Madaleno play the game to see if they think Brexit, Crowdfunding, Lobbying, Client Lunches, Paying for Top Talent and Diversity Quotas and are business or just complete tosh! *For Apple Podcast chapters, access them from the menu in the bottom right corner of your player* Spotify…
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EP 387 - We’re going back to the future this week with the excellent Akshat Rathi and his optimistic take on climate change. Akshat is a Bloomberg Senior Climate journalist, and the author of Climate Capitalism: Winning The Global Race To Zero Emissions. We spoke to him about his book, and: Why climate solutions investment needs to be made in the d…
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Premier League Nutrition with Thomas Robson Kanu
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1:01:27EP 386 - This week we revisit our chat with Thomas Robson Kanu, who pivoted from a top level premier league and international football career into entrepreneurship, setting up family business the Turmeric Co. Based on a formula that he and his father developed to aid his recovery and pain relief (he was pain free in six weeks of consistent consumpt…
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To be an architect you need to be much more than an artist
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1:00:38EP 385 - Our guest this week is Fernando Sordo Madaleno, a third generation architect working in the family firm Sordo Madaleno. Originally from Mexico City, Fernando is now based in London, spearheading the firm’s expansion as an international architecture studio. As well as discussing life in the family business we had a fascinating chat around a…
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Britain Should Become Entrepreneur Island.
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1:19:23EP 384 - This week Daniel Priestley discusses how we build a new role for Britain post Brexit (yes, we dropped the B-Word in 2025). Basically Britain faces a choice between being that, a lapdog for the US or the sixth best Scandinavian country. The way he says it, it makes sense. Particularly when he is talking about how hard it is now to grow a bu…
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Big Tech Companies treat humans like batteries. We are just there to power their profits
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1:13:53EP 383 - Jonathan MacDonald is back on the show and keener than ever to get you interested in Ethical Tech. We discuss why now, more than ever, people need to be given the tools, and moral frameworks to inform their interactions with increasingly opaque technology. How things like social media are seemingly set up to keep us amused, distracted and …
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QUIZ - Labour Government - Business or Bullsh*t?
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8:57EP 382 - April's quiz round up sees Alex Edmans, Anand Menon and Psyfer play the game to see if they think Brexit, Labour Government, GDPR, Crowdfunding, Lobbying Client Lunches and are business or just complete tosh! *For Apple Podcast chapters, access them from the menu in the bottom right corner of your player* Spotify Video Chapters: 00:00 Is i…
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Sometimes You Can Have Too Much Diversity
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1:19:22EP 381 - This week we talk to Alex Edmans about how you make decisions in a world full of misinformation. Alex is a Professor of Finance who has written and spoken extensively about subjects such as ESG (why those three letters don’t belong together) and why cognitive, rather than demographic diversity is a better indicator of business success. He’…
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Business Without Baggage #1: Doing Business With The French, what they don’t teach you in school.
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1:27:02EP 380 - This week we're trying a cultural experiment - to start an occasional series called Business Without Baggage that helps people understand the nuances of doing business across different cultures. To kick us off, we invited accomplished French corporate Lawyer and expert on cultural intelligence Olivier Lopez onto the show. We asked him to e…
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Business vs. Bitcoin or Business vs. Bullsh-tcoin. You decide.
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1:01:21EP 379 - Our guest this week is artist and bitcoin evangelist Psyfer. He wants to get you all high on the Hope-ium that Bitcoin (not any other crypto-currencies, they are all Sh*tcoin apparently) are the way to end inequality and injustice. We weigh up the pros - it’s decentralised and accessible to everyone. The cons - it’s a scary mystery to most…
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Hot Button Issues Bingo: Immigration, Brexit & Trump. Tariffs, China & Russia (oh my!)
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1:03:41EP 378 - Political scientist Anand Menon joins us this week to talk about the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the choices facing the UK in a rapidly changing world. We discuss how we all need to redraw a mental map of the “Western Alliance” as a result of the Trump administration, how the UK government is walking a diplomatic tightrope betw…
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EP 377 - March's quiz round up sees Ben Askins, Alex Depledge MBE and Brad Burton play the game to see if they think GDPR, Angel Syndicates, Crowdfunding, Client lunches and ChatGPT are business or just complete tosh! Chapters: 00:00 Welcome to Business or Bullshit Quiz 00:57 GDPR 02:26 Angel Syndicates 04:13 Crowdfunding 06:07 Client Lunches 07:01…
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Britain’s best business podcast meets the UK’s #1 motivational speaker Brad Burton
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51:23EP 376 - Our guest this week freely admits to have totally made up the idea of the UK having a #1 motivational speaker (to be fair, it’s not a chart rundown show we would watch anyway). Brad has some interesting things to say about how getting your belief and your attitude right is the key to success. He also has practical tips on how to create tha…
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The UK’s problems can’t be solved with a sound bite - we need a 40 year strategy
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1:08:26EP 375 - The conversation ranged far and wide with Alex Depledge, CEO of Resi and newly coined “Tech- Sis”. It took in her frustrations that no-one wants to have a long term conversation, how the short term news cycle is killing politics and why increasing polarisation is killing informed debate and damaging society. She came out to bat for the Lab…
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EP 374 - This episode is probably not for everybody, in fact it’s probably not for 99.55% of people. But if you are a non-dom, know a non-dom or just want to understand what a non dom actually is then this is the episode for you. I guess if you’ve ever wondered what happens when a bunch of tax law experts hijack a podcast studio - and one of you mi…
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EP 373 - This week we sit down with Jon White, a professional kayaker, engineer, business leadership coach and occasional rock climber, who would probably be doing none of those things if he hadn’t lost his right arm and both legs stepping on an I.E.D. in Afghanistan in 2010. Jon is fascinating on how calm acceptance (and the royal marine value of …
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Think Net Zero is a bunch of woke cr*p? You’re dead wrong. It’s an economic opportunity.
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1:03:38EP 372 - Our guest, Ben Askins, is pretty convincing when he says that being green is one of, if not THE biggest commercial opportunity of the century. Ben is a serial entrepreneur, now scaling Green-Tech start-up Gaia, so he knows his onions. Our chat gets stuck into culture wars, and culture warriors, and why we need to get our heads out of short…
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