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Ambitious Lifestyle Business

John Lamerton & Jason Brockman

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Are you a small business owner who likes to think BIG? Then this podcast is for YOU. It's a place where AMBITIOUS business owners learn and share SIMPLE, PRACTICAL tips and advice to help their businesses GROW with ONE purpose... TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE LIFESTYLE THEY WANT. Whatever that means for YOU... Maybe you want to earn £100k a year? Maybe you want to spend more time with friends and family, or travel more? You might want to give up the Day Job, or completely change direction in your ...
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Running a small business is like playing Snakes & Ladders - just as you feel you're about to win the game, you land on a snake.. and find yourself almost back where you started. There are ladders in this game though - and if you know where to find them, and how to increase your chances of landing on one, you're more likely to beat your competition.…
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Running a small business is like playing Snakes & Ladders - just as you feel you're about to win the game, you land on a snake.. and find yourself almost back where you started. There are ladders in this game though - and if you know where to find them, and how to increase your chances of landing on one, you're more likely to beat your competition.…
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Suzy Watson, founder of Explore Norfolk UK, discusses her experience with various online businesses, including network marketing, selling dog collars, and weight loss pills. Suzy emphasizes the importance of passion in building a successful business and highlights the need for authenticity. She also talks about her membership of the One Percent Clu…
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Suzy Watson, founder of Explore Norfolk UK, discusses her experience with various online businesses, including network marketing, selling dog collars, and weight loss pills. Suzy emphasizes the importance of passion in building a successful business and highlights the need for authenticity. She also talks about her membership of the One Percent Clu…
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Meet Phil Allen. Phil blows stuff up for a living. 💥 His company, Entertainment Effects provides special effects, pyrotechnics and water features to live sport, music, TV and corporate events. Flames 🔥 Confetti Cannons 🎊 Fountains ⛲ Smoke Machines 🌫 Phil is our guest on the Ambitious, Lifestyle Business podcast this month, where we discuss: 📈 How P…
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Meet Phil Allen. Phil blows stuff up for a living. 💥 His company, Entertainment Effects provides special effects, pyrotechnics and water features to live sport, music, TV and corporate events. Flames 🔥 Confetti Cannons 🎊 Fountains ⛲ Smoke Machines 🌫 Phil is our guest on the Ambitious, Lifestyle Business podcast this month, where we discuss: 📈 How P…
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Dr. Matt Warner joins the VCW to talk about being fired from Grace College in Winona Lake, IN for what he describes as unspoken political expectations. Outside activists found old social media posts by him (involving posts about LGBTQ, Black Lives Matter and criticism of Tucker Carlson) and they pressured college board members to let this professor…
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Meg Wise joins the VCW hall to talk about her experiences at John MacArthur's Church in Los Angeles County, CA. She talks about their response to the COVID pandemic and the scandal involving MacArthur publicly shaming a woman whose husband was sexually abusing their kids. Follow Meg Wise: On X/Twitter: _nomadic_soul Read A Deconstruction Chronicle …
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Kris Oldland launched 1927 Media in 2013 and over ten years, built his primary brand Field Service News to be a global leader in the field, before disaster struck - and Kris was forced to sell the business - worth £2.6million at its peak - for £1,000. In this powerful episode, Kris bears all and tells us: 💬 The key mistakes that he made leading to …
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Kris Oldland launched 1927 Media in 2013 and over ten years, built his primary brand Field Service News to be a global leader in the field, before disaster struck - and Kris was forced to sell the business - worth £2.6million at its peak - for £1,000. In this powerful episode, Kris bears all and tells us: 💬 The key mistakes that he made leading to …
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Burn this episode to the top blank CD on your spindle and throw it in your anti-skip discman, because writer and podcaster Jason Kirk joins the VCW hall to talk about his new novel, Hell is a World Without You, a coming-of-age story set in early 2000s evangelical youth group culture, and chock full of the rapture anxiety, purity culture, retreats, …
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Mick Walker has been making award-winning videos for major brands around the world for over 17 years. He's all about keeping video production simple and accessible – something he calls 'Video Made Simple.'. In this episode, you will hear: 💬 Why Mick "never wanted to run a business". 💬 How "coming clean" about owning a lifestyle business changed eve…
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Mick Walker has been making award-winning videos for major brands around the world for over 17 years. He's all about keeping video production simple and accessible – something he calls 'Video Made Simple.'. In this episode, you will hear: 💬 Why Mick "never wanted to run a business". 💬 How "coming clean" about owning a lifestyle business changed eve…
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Co-Host of the Holy Post podcast, Kaitlyn Schiess stops by the VCW hall to talk about her new book, The Ballot and the Bible. She discusses points of American history and how the Bible was interpreted on multiple sides of an issue by Christians- sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, and sometimes for really ugly evil. Support the show on Patreon: …
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With Israel's brutal war against Gaza still raging, Dr. Alice Rothchild and Abby Brockman join the VCW hall to talk about the horror of Israel's war, to talk about their interactions with Palestinian people and the hospitality they experienced as well as speaking about their perspectives on Jewish faith and values. Read Dr. Rothchild's articles: Th…
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Pastor Trey Ferguson joins the VCW hall to talk about Theologizin' Bigger, his new book out now. We talk about theology and imagination, Biblical inerrancy including the 1978 Chicago statement, an Ark in Kentucky and much more. Get Pastor Trey's book right here: https://www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/theologizin-bigger/ Listen to The New Living Treys…
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Part 2 of the big annual pre-Oscars dive into our favorite movies of the year and the Oscar nominees. Part 2 covers the top 7 films on each our our top 10 lists, which we'd started going through toward the end of Part 1. Jeffrey Overstreet returns and brings with him new VCW guest Dr Mary McCampbell, an author, professor, and speaker who focuses on…
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Austin Newberry is the owner and CEO of Logspan - a timber building manufacturer based in Scotland. Austin is a family man who says that he still struggles with work/life balance. In this episode, you will hear: 💬 Austin's POWERFUL story about a childhood family holiday - and how it impacts his parenting style to this day. 💬 What it's like to take …
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Austin Newberry is the owner and CEO of Logspan - a timber building manufacturer based in Scotland. Austin is a family man who says that he still struggles with work/life balance. In this episode, you will hear: 💬 Austin's POWERFUL story about a childhood family holiday - and how it impacts his parenting style to this day. 💬 What it's like to take …
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Our big annual pre-Oscars dive into our favorite movies of the year and the Oscar nominees is back! Jeffrey Overstreet returns and brings with him new VCW guest Dr Mary McCampbell, an author, professor, and speaker who focuses on the theological significance of popular music, film, and literature. Subscribe to Mary's Substack The Empathetic Imagina…
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crreeeaaaaaak! What's that noise? Oh, it's just the sound of me, opening the doors for the March 2024 intake of my One Percent Club. Why the creaking? Well, the doors have been closed since the 1st of October last year - and they need a bit of WD/40. What's the One Percent Club? It's a community of like-minded, ambitious lifestyle business owners, …
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crreeeaaaaaak! What's that noise? Oh, it's just the sound of me, opening the doors for the March 2024 intake of my One Percent Club. Why the creaking? Well, the doors have been closed since the 1st of October last year - and they need a bit of WD/40. What's the One Percent Club? It's a community of like-minded, ambitious lifestyle business owners, …
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Warren Throckmorton returns to the VCW hall to talk about his new podcast Telling Jefferson Lies, a companion to the recently released updated version of his 2012 book with Michael Coulter, Getting Jefferson Right. We talk about the conservative pseudo-historian David Barton, and how he distorts history to uphold and further a White Christian Natio…
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Dave reveals that he has moved from "still an evangelical" to "committed Christian", and Mason Mennenga joins the show to talk about process theology, being funny online, heavy Christian music, purity culture, and of course, Veggie Tales. Follow Mason Mennenga and get into his work including podcasts, YouTube videos and more by going to his website…
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Dr Leah Payne joins the show to talk about the her brand new book God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music. Also, Zach reveals the results of his research into exactly when and where in Disneyland Carman became a Christian. Buy Leah's book: https://www.amazon.com/God-Gave-Rock-Roll-You/dp/0197555241 Support the show …
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Husband and wife duo, Jon and Miriam run Mod A Mini, a BMW Mini performance parts ecommerce store and Torque Monkey, a physical garage in Chelmsford specialising in performance vehicles. In this episode, you will hear: 💬 Why HATING cars was an ADVANTAGE when starting a car business 💬 How DIFFICULT the first few years were - and how much HARD WORK w…
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Husband and wife duo, Jon and Miriam run Mod A Mini, a BMW Mini performance parts ecommerce store and Torque Monkey, a physical garage in Chelmsford specialising in performance vehicles. In this episode, you will hear: 💬 Why HATING cars was an ADVANTAGE when starting a car business 💬 How DIFFICULT the first few years were - and how much HARD WORK w…
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Ambitious, lifestyle business owners can learn valuable lessons from Charlie Munger, the renowned investor and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Here are some key lessons: Value of Continuous Learning: Munger is a strong advocate of lifelong learning. He believes in expanding one's knowledge across various disciplines, not just in your field of …
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Ambitious, lifestyle business owners can learn valuable lessons from Charlie Munger, the renowned investor and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Here are some key lessons: Value of Continuous Learning: Munger is a strong advocate of lifelong learning. He believes in expanding one's knowledge across various disciplines, not just in your field of …
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Niche Christmas music enthusiasts Scott Leopold of the Japanese Christmas music podcast "Holly Jolly X'masu" and Jim Goodwin of the contemporary indie rock Christmas music blog "Christmas Underground" help spread some Christmas cheer around the VCW hall by podcasting loud for all to hear. Scott shares a couple of his favorite songs he's covered on …
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It's Chriiiiistmaaaaasss! We start this Christmas special episode by wishing Noddy Holder's Evergreen Asset (Merry Xmas Everybody) a happy 50th birthday. We also dissect the rise of AI in 2023 (No, it's not coming for your job - but it IS going to change your job completely!), celebrate the return of in-person events, and explain how to listen to J…
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It's Chriiiiistmaaaaasss! We start this Christmas special episode by wishing Noddy Holder's Evergreen Asset (Merry Xmas Everybody) a happy 50th birthday. We also dissect the rise of AI in 2023 (No, it's not coming for your job - but it IS going to change your job completely!), celebrate the return of in-person events, and explain how to listen to J…
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Dr. Marlene Winell is the author of the highly influential book Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion, and originated the term "Religious Trauma Syndrome", which she defined as "the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the…
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Dave White, co-host of the movie podcast Linoleum Knife, visits the VCW to talk about his background with Evangelical Christianity and coming out. We discuss some of his favoritie movies of the year (so far) and also Christmas. Listen to the Linoleum Knife podcast right here: https://podcasts.apple.com/id/podcast/linoleum-knife/id403079737 Linoleum…
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Advocates for education, Chris and Mendi Tackett join the VCW hall to talk about current attempts to weaken and dismantle the public school system. We discuss "school choice" (moving toward privatizing education) and the ramifications if that type of policy was more widely adopted. David Barton also comes up as we dialogue about his many ways to in…
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Podcast performer and producer Virginia Spotts (The Sheridan Tapes) stops by the VCW hall to talk about her Evangelical story, including her time at Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church, and Acts 29 church after that. She talks about realizing she was suffering from religious trauma as well as deep grief and loss (due to extremely painful life experien…
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Rula Khoury, who is Palestinian-American-Christian, stops by the VCW hall to speak boldly about what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank with the current war. She talks about her family's history and we also talk about Christian Zionism (often fueled by forms of dispensational theology in America) which make it far more difficult for people to f…
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Nicky Thomas is the founder of The Growth Community, a networking group that promises “Real Community Business Networking”, with relaxed, purposeful networking, and no membership sales pitches. Nicky joined the One Percent Club 18 months ago, and as a result, grew her business by 75% in her first 12 months of membership. That huge level of growth d…
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Nicky Thomas is the founder of The Growth Community, a networking group that promises “Real Community Business Networking”, with relaxed, purposeful networking, and no membership sales pitches. Nicky joined the One Percent Club 18 months ago, and as a result, grew her business by 75% in her first 12 months of membership. That huge level of growth d…
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Dr. Andrew Whitehead stops by the VCW hall to chat about his new book "American Idolatry" chronicling the current manifestations of Christian Nationalism in our country. He talks about the main pillars of Christian Nationalism: power, fear and violence. He also discusses how Christians can think about the Great Commission minus a colonial mindset o…
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