The Biz Book Broadcast

Most meetings are a waste of time. We know this. There's a million memes ramming the point home. But - here's a revolutionary idea - what if they were actually... useful?

Communications expert Chris Fenning is back, this time with his new book Effective Meetings - short enough to read in an hour, useful enough you'll want to read it twice.

Chris explains how to tell which meetings shouldn't happen at all + why an agenda won't fix a thing. Plus, I share my trauma over three days of residential training on how to run a meeting. Horrific. Though admittedly quite funny if you didn't have to actually be there.

Look for other episodes in the Author Interview strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

The First Minute - Chris Fenning

Effective Meetings - Chris Fenning

Chris's Website: chrisfenning.com

Chris on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/chris-fenning

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list

If a client says they'll peruse your proposal, will they read every word or only skim? Sadly, it’s hard to tell these days.

Copywriter Rachel Allen of Bolt from the Blue Copywriting is back for part two of our pedants' special, this time on words caught mid-change - dictionary meaning on one side, internet meaning on the other.

We discuss the word that broke Rachel's heart, the therapy terms everyone's borrowing for authority (inaccurately - obv) + the scheduling word that should never appear on a sales page.

Look for more in the Book Huddle strand.

RobWords Episode Mentioned – on YouTube Words we've ruined

Rachel’s Website:  boltfromthebluecopywriting.com

Rachel’s Instagram: instagram.com/boltfromthebluecopywriting

Rachel's Substack: boltfromtheblue.substack.com

Rachel’s email : hello at boltfromthebluecopywriting.com

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

When are you planning to be happy? After the launch, after the next hire, once the business can run without you? Thought so.

Nataly Kogan is a former tech CEO + author of Happier Now. Written as an antidote to the work-till-you-drop culture that flattened her.

We discuss how burnout has become a badge of belonging in some industries, how an immigrant childhood can create a perfect storm for overwork + the one thing Nataly would change about the book eight years on.

And Nataly gives us two small practices to start today - one of which she initially thought was ridiculous.

Look for more in the Author Interview strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

Happier Now - Nataly Kogan

Nataly’s Website: www.natalykogan.com

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Bookkeeper, accountant, chief financial officer - if you secretly couldn't say where one ends + the next begins, you're in good company. Mine.

Karen Gordon is a CFO - the sort that Fortune 100 companies fight over - and she's here answering all the dumb money questions I've been saving up. I ask them in your name, lovely listener - but we both know, I'm asking for myself. 

We sort out which direction money people are looking backwards or forwards + the moment you'll know you're finally ready for one. Also: Aussie millionaire plumbers get a mention. 

No book this week - it's a Financial episode, so we're all business.

Karen’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/karengordongowmm

Karen’s Website: gordon-organization.com

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Poison is when you bite it. Venom is when it bites you.

Why do you need to know this? Accuracy. Also - pedantry.

Copywriter Rachel Allen of Bolt from the Blue Copywriting is back in the studio for a two-parter on that very topic.

We're considering Eli Burnstein's Dictionary of Fine Distinctions, a pedant's dream about the tiny gaps between words that at first glance appear identical.

We look at the pedantry in architecture, menus + how to turn furious pedants into helpful ones.

Look for more in the Book Huddle strand.

Book discussed in this episode:

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions - Ellie Bernstein

Rachel’s Website:  boltfromthebluecopywriting.com

Rachel’s Instagram: instagram.com/boltfromthebluecopywriting

Rachel's Substack: boltfromtheblue.substack.com

Rachel’s email : hello at boltfromthebluecopywriting.com

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

====

And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list