The Ideas Lab Podcast

Seven Years Ago Emma Johnson started the blog singlewealthymommy.com and it's now the number 1 blog for single mothers around the world and the largest single mum community in the world.

Emma's blog is now a six-figure business with 200,000 monthly page views and an entire team supporting it.

But I want to know is how she got here, and what her advice would be to somebody who is starting a blog today, and wants to have the same kind of success.

All information and links available at: https://theideaslab.org/emmajohnson

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This is a special episode of The Ideas Lab Podcast. I want to talk about what it's like to be somebody with lots of ideas and lots of interests.

A particular personality type that is sometimes referred to as a Scanner, a Renaissance Man or Woman and also a Polymath.

Lots of Entrepreneurs are of this type but it does bring its issues.

• Do you have varied interests that don't often group together very neatly?
• Do you have more ideas than you can possibly execute in one lifetime?
• Do you find that you love learning the gist of something. You get just into a topic and then as soon as you've got a feel for it you move on to something completely different?
• Do you find the idea of a one-track conventional career absolutely horrifying? (Because it will bore you to death!)
• Do you find that you are better at starting things and not so great at finishing things?

If you answered to yes to any of the above, and you want to or already do run your own business, then this episode is for you.

There is also a special training coming up specifically for people like you (Scanners, that is!) . Please use the link below to join me live.

theideaslab.org/scanner

John.

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If you have ever tried to change a habit in order to improve your life and it hasn't worked or it's felt like really hard work, then perhaps understanding Shahroo Izadi's 'The Kindness Method' may well be the approach for you.

Shahroo Izadi is a behavioural change specialist, speaker, coach and author of The Kindness Method.

The Kindness Method shows how by being kind to yourself you can really make a big difference to addictions and bad habits.

So whether it's something around food, exercise, smoking, drinking or something else, if you follow the process of The Kindness Method, you can make a big difference without feeling like you are having to have incredibly strong will power, and without being cruel to yourself.

Unsurprisingly it's a very appealing concept and the book has been very successful reaching top spot in a number of categories.

What I like specifically about Shahroo is that everything in The Kindness Method is based on real experience. She has made transformational changes in her own life and also helps others too. Shahroo provides relapse prevention coaching and support groups in a recovery house for young women.

The work she does has also drawn the attentions of BBC radio, the Telegraph and Red magazine to name a few.

All links and notes at: https:theideaslab.org/shahroo

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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are set to change the way we live, work and do business radically.

I wanted to speak to somebody to get a kind of beginners guide to Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies and find out how it works, why we should care and how we go about buying some Bitcoin if we want to take a chance on in investing in some.

So I am delighted to have Marc Warne on this episode of the podcast. Marc runs the trading platform Bittylicious.com, which he designed from the beginning to be as easy to use as possible for beginners.

And he's great at explaining the principles of cryptocurrencies to the complete novice.

I hope you enjoy this episode - please feel free to share it with those who you also think may be interested.

For show notes and links please head to: theideaslab.org/marcwarne

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If you love the creative process of making videos and you are wondering how you can turn that into a 6 or even 7-figure business then this podcast is for you. I met Paul Xavier 2 years ago in Bali and since then he has created a business that now turns over more than $3,000,000.

And he has helped video creators and video production agencies to earn more than $27,000,000 last year alone.

So I wanted to ask him about the shifts in mindset he had to make to get a successful business going really quickly and the same kind of principles he applies with his clients and how video creators can escape 'starving artist syndrome' and build a real, lucrative business around what they love doing.

All links and resources available at: theideaslab.org/paulxavier

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This is a special episode of The Ideas Lab Podcast. I wanted to talk about the fast way to start your own successful business - a question that gets consistently asked in my day to day work with entrepreneurs.

This short but powerful episode bases itself on everything I've learnt in the past 15 years, and through helping thousands of entrepreneurs establish their own businesses both here in the UK and across the world.

So if you haven't started your own business yet but you'd love to work for yourself then this episode is for you.

All show notes are available here: https://theideaslab.org/faststartbusiness

Get John's Mini Video Series 'Creative Niching for Entrepreneurs' here: theideaslab.org/creativeniching

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If you dream of creating a successful startup then this episode of The Ideas Lab Podcast is for you.

Steven Hess is a Trustee of Startup Learning Program (SLP) and Program Lead in London.

SLP is one of the world's first startup incubator programmes and now has one of the largest not for profit entrepreneurial communities in the world.

Steven is a great person to tell us the difference between startups that succeed and the 70% of startups that go on to fail.

Full show notes available at theideaslab.org/stevenhess

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Stony Grunow runs a successful tech startup in New York. He has about 20 staff around the world supporting him and he's got the number 1 app in several categories in a particular B2B space that he will describe in a moment.

What I find really interesting about Stony's story is how he started at the beginning with no business idea, playing around, just doing something he knew he could do, and let it grow organically into first a consultancy and then into software.

So if you ever want to create an app or want to run a tech start up I think Stony's story is incredibly inspiring and makes it very approachable. I hope you enjoy it.

For full show notes and links please head to: theideaslab.org/stonygrunow

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I'm here in Greenwich village in New York City today and I'm here to meet Josh Spodek.

Josh is a fascinating character. He was a former astrophysicist and then became an entrepreneur, and now he is a lecturer in Entrepreneurship and leadership at New York University.

Josh has acheived a lot of other things. He is a bestselling author, he has a second book coming out this month called Initiative, he's a TedX speaker, daily blogger, and he has an award winning podcast called Leadership and the Environment.

Now aside from all these things I am fascinated by these daily rituals he has. In fact he lists them in his email signature, where he does things like he blogs every single day whatever happens. He gets up within one minute of waking up, every single day, and makes his bed. And he does dozens of burpees, a particularly brutal form of push up, every single day, no matter what state he is in.

It's these kind of habits that have built him to the point where he can acheive remarkable things, so there seems to be a link between them. I want to find out, as somebody who doesn't have great self discipline myself, I want to find out how he's done that and why they matter, and how this adds up into writing successful books and creating successful businesses, so I hope you enjoy it.

For full show notes and links please head to: https://theideaslab.org/joshuaspodek

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Lots of people have the mistaken belief that branding is simply about the name of your company and your logo.

But it's much bigger, and much more important than that.

Get branding right and you can attract a tribe, grow your business, and even change the world.

That's why I'm so pleased I got to speak to Louise Graham. Louise is a Breakthrough coach - helping stuck purpose-driven entrepreneurs breakthrough on mission, message & momentum.

She has spent her entire career in branding and marketing and in this episode Louise brings branding to life with some great stories and some practical tips.

Full show notes and links at: theideaslab.org/louisegraham

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