The Biz Book Broadcast

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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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

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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

A rabbit. A tree. No words. Yet somehow a superb illustration of community + belonging.

Tonya Kubo - online community expert + host of Find Your Freaks - joins me to dissect Balint Zarko's gorgeous wordless picture book Bunny and Tree.

We dig into what makes two wildly different beings become a thriving community + why belonging isn't something you can design - it has to be earned. And the moment where rabbit poop becomes genuinely moving. Odd but true.

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

Books discussed in this episode:

The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

Bunny and Tree - Balint Zarko

Tonya's Facebook Community: The Secret to Thriving Online Communities

Tonya's Podcast: Find Your Freaks 

Tonya on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tonyakubo

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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.

Ron Tester is back for another History Pop-Up.

This month as well as Ron's usual book on the great men of history (if you know, you know) we cover the author who created the entire true crime genre + visit ancient Athens.

We also cover a short book that manages to squeeze in 500 years of art history + be funny as it does so. Which nicely balances out an enraging book about London. Ron kindly lets me vent. Such an annoying book, such a kind Ron. 

Look for more History Pop-Ups - roughly every month

Books discussed in this episode:

Jefferson, the Art of Power - Jon Meacham

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for a Good Life - Bettany Hughes

Venus and Aphrodite - Bettany Hughes

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, A Family's Search for Truth - Peter Raiden Keith

Empire of Pain - Peter Raiden Keith

Say Nothing - Peter Raiden Keith

Ron's Website: rontestercoaching.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.