Its All BS Podcast

Its All BS Podcast

By Billy-Ray StokesBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Its All BS Podcast episodes

  • Easter Sunday

    - Lexi barging into our room at 3am
    - Beau's last day
    - Easter Sunday with the fam
    - The Marshmallow Experiment expanded
    - The kids getting into maths
    - Lazlo Polgar
    - Getting more clear on my vision

    28 min
  • Easter Saturday

    - The default kindness of our kids
    - Conversations with other business owners about the changes I want to enact in the business
    - Today being blown out because of unforeseen hiccups
    - Seeing people I didn't expect at the shop and why I love that
    - Talking with Bec about what it means to live life well

    26 min
  • Good Friday

    - Clarifying yesterday’s decision to bin the short clips
    - My goal for being someone who's actions are all intentional
    - Using the process of iteration to plan and review my days
    - Spending time with the family & why cardboard boxes are better than toys
    - Looking at making some big changes in the business, but need to speak with lawyers first
    - Messages from the team & people coming back to work with us
    - Unpacking my approach to health and seeing Ben over Easter

    20 min
  • Launch Day

    - Holly's first day trading
    - Bragging about our kids
    - The beauty of the relationship between child and parent
    - Being scared to launch the podcast
    - Turning my focus back on my "customers"
    - Being aware of my default ways of thinking
    - Setting means of measuring my progress

    13 min
  • Home Birth

    I reflect on the journey of becoming a father and what it was like adapting to having a new purpose in life. I discuss how the experience of having a home birth shaped my understanding of what the birthing experience is meant to look like.

    56 min
  • Future Growth

    I realise that I am the bottleneck in my own business and discuss the gaps in my leadership skills. One of the girls in our team is about to launch her business. 

    33 min
  • Becoming a Business Owner

    How we adapted our approach to a new kind of business. We were forced into a position to build a real business. I reflect on the nature of working with family. We get the team aligned and things start running smoothly.

    30 min
  • Drive Through Begins

    We move out of our shared location on Hannan St. I reflect on the changes in the dynamics of the move from the hole-in-the-wall model to the drive-through model.

    30 min
  • Property Funding

    I reflect on the journey of funding the purchase of our Boulder Road premises. I discuss the influence of my impact as a father. I reflect on the pressures of Covid on us individually and on the business.

    30 min
  • Consolidation

    We close the cafe and reconsolidate into our original location on Hannan St and went back to the good ol' days.
    I reflect on Covid and the decisions we made in the peak of the chaos.

    36 min

About Its All BS Podcast

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This is a real-time documentation of growing and scaling our business while documenting the hurdles and successes along the way.

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