The Biz Book Broadcast

As a keen reader - teetering on the obsessive actually, I read upwards of 600 books a year - I've had to get very good at choosing which books to focus on. I want to lock-on to the right ones fast + ditch the wrong ones for me faster.

AI has changed how I do that. In this solo show I share exactly how I use it to get better recommendations, decide whether to abandon a book + extract the good bits from a dull one without suffering through 19 hours of dry-as-dust prose with no pay-off. Ask me how I know that last one...

Plus, how to use it when there are topics you just can't face right now. More useful than it sounds in these turbulent times

Look for more solo shows where I share ideas you can use immediately.

Books discussed in this episode:

Becky Chambers' entire oeuvre

Most of Alan Hollinghurst's books

Books - Brett Easton Ellis

Midnight and Blue - Ian Rankin

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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.

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

Is the sky actually falling in? Or are marketers just very good at making you think it is?

Forrest Linden - strategic advisor to knowledge entrepreneurs - joins me to take the Chicken Little story apart as a business tale. Because the panic merchants of the internet have a lot to answer for.

We dig into what's genuinely changing in online business right now, what's just fear-mongering + why email is the cockroach of the internet and will outlive us all.

Look for more Classics episodes - where we happily answer the business questions nobody's asking.

Forrest 's Website: claritylab.co

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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.

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

When did you last read a novel from a Kiwi author? If it's been a while, we’ve got some cracking books for your list. 

Kathryn McGarvey - marketing expert + founder of Nosy HQ - is back for a special New Zealand edition of our Fiction Pop-Up. 

NZ literature is brilliant, yet sadly, criminally underrepresented in most people's libraries. Including, ahem, mine.

We cover dystopian dread, a detective series set in Auckland + a prolific golden age crime writer you may well have never heard of. Intrigued?

Look for more Fiction Pop-Ups - roughly every other month.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Book of Guilt - Catherine Chidje

Remote Sympathy - Catherine Chidje

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Mr Pip - Lloyd Jones

Zone of Interest - Martin Amis

Fagin the Thief - Alison Epstein

Better the Blood - Michael Bennett

A Surfeit of Lampreys (also known as Death of a Peer in the US) - Niall Marsh

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Kathryn’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kathryn-mcgarvey

Kathryn’s Website: nosyhq.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.

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

Publishing scams are everywhere right now. And the truly frightening thing? They're catching out really smart people - judges, lawyers, high-powered business owners. People who should know better.

Emily Hitchcock - CEO of Columbus Publishing Lab + hybrid publisher Boyle & Dalton - is back to walk us through exactly what to look for. From dodgy website tells to the cold call that sounds too good to be true.

Plus, what you should expect to actually pay to self-publish your book - because if the price feels wrong in either direction, it probably is.

Look for more in the Red Flags strand - and do check out Emily's earlier shows on publishing scams + why smart people fall for long cons.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Confidence Game - Maria Konnikova

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Emily's Websites: ColumbusPublishingLab.com +  BoyleAndDalton.com 

Emily's Website + Secret Page - Made Just for Us:: columbuspublishinglab.com/liz

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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.

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

What makes a story actually land? Oddly, it’s not the big dramatic moments - it’s the really small ones.

Marsha Shandur, of Yes Yes Marsha - our expert on persuasive storytelling - is back to discuss what a picture-book about a little girl missing her mum gets oh so right.

We dig into why action scenes beat narrative every time + why business storytellers skip the thing that makes people actually care. Plus why story short cuts deep connection + why that's so powerful.

Look for more Classics episodes - where we use kids books to answer the business questions nobody's asking.

Books discussed in this episode:

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle - Nina Lacour (our featured book)

Mommy, Mama, and Me - Lesléa Newman (not our focus for today)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

Little Gorilla - Ruth Bornstein

The Memoir Project - Marion Roach Smith

How to Lose Everything - Krista Couture

Marsha’s Instagram: @yesyesmarsha

Marsha’s Website + Secret Page - Made Just for Us: yesyesmarsha.com/BizBookBroadcast

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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.

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