Hello and welcome to RadEO a podcast by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs. It is hosted by Ross Drakes. In this podcast, we share the stories of EO entrepreneurs, their personal stories, some insight into their entrepreneurial journey and the lessons from how they think about their business today.
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When did the work stop being fun? You’re still showing up, still delivering, still telling everyone you're fine, while something underneath has already gone. Ross sits down with Dr Manuel (Manny) Astruc, a board-certified psychiatrist, EO member, and the founder of Your Next Act, to talk about what burnout actually looks like before it looks like burnout. Manny has lived this. He crashed in 2008,…
Sometimes, you hit a ceiling in your business, and it’s got nothing to do with the market, the team, or the model. And everything to do with you. Talie Smith has spent 25 years leading organisations through complex change. When COVID hit, her business came close to going under, and the personal work she did first is what turned it around. We got into her Design Therapy methodology, which surfaces…
Don Hache has started, scaled, acquired, and exited eight companies across North America over three decades. Long before AI was a talking point, he was building industrial automation systems with fuzzy logic and robotic vision. The question driving all of it has never changed: why is it done that way? In this conversation, Don and Ross explore the framework at the centre of Don's work. Founder.…
Most founders don't have a growth problem. They have a clarity problem. Dan Grech is a serial entrepreneur who has built six startups, from selling candy at 14 to a $15 million exit. He was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism team, created and sold Miami's first podcast company, testified before Congress on AI and small business, and had a company recognised as a Minority-Owned Business of…
Catherine Hover built a multi-location paint-and-sip business from scratch, pivoted through COVID, exited on her own terms, and is now building Palette, a female-focused co-working community in Saratoga Springs, New York. She calls herself a purveyor of fun, and she means it. In this episode, Catherine talks about using joy as a competitive advantage, the moment becoming a girl mom of four…
Morné Smit learned the hard way that the "show up and throw up" approach to pitching is dead. After an accidental start in a soul-crushing cold-calling job, he realised that actively ignoring traditional sales training was the only way to build real trust. He discovered a simple truth: selling does not work because nobody actually wants to be sold to. Every buying decision is an emotional decision…
We often fall into the lazy thinking that family businesses are easy to hand down. Stephen Shortt lived the messy reality. He grew up in two family businesses and nearly walked away from it all just to save his relationship with his parents. In this episode, we talk about escaping that trap and surviving succession without burning down the family home. We unpack the "five Ps of successful…
We are standing at the edge of the biggest technological shift of our lifetimes, and most businesses are reacting with lazy thinking. They adopt shiny new tools without a strategy, leading to a chaotic web of shadow AI and disconnected agents. In this episode, I sit down with Jason Rhoades, founder of Meaningful AI, to cut through the noise. We unpack why building mediocre software is a necessary…
We often get trapped in the lazy thinking that offering more services equals scaling. Mike Bodkin lived this. He grew his digital marketing agency, Giant Propeller, by saying yes to everything from email to media buying until the business hit a hard plateau. In this episode, we talk about escaping the generalist trap, navigating the inevitable tension between co-founders, and finding a lucrative…
In this special episode, Ross Drakes is joined by his part-time co-host Rich Mulholland, founder of Missing Link. They discuss the seismic shift AI is causing in service businesses and why the old adage "execution is everything" no longer holds. Rich argues that we are entering the era of "Tiny Epic Businesses," where the goal isn't headcount, but revenue per human. They explore how to turn…
