Nigel set me a quiz about three big brands, and it turned into a chat about how easy you are to buy from.
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Episode 184: Speaking, Training and Feeling Understood
Nigel takes apart train the trainer, and I finish on why people only listen once they feel you understand them.
Episode 183: Need to Grab Attention
Put your second-best story first, plus what selling blenders on the home shopping channel taught me about holding people’s attention.
Episode 182: Weird and Open to Feedback
Nigel came back with something he called weird, crypto, and a bigger point about writing things off just because we don’t understand them.
Episode 181: How Can You Moan Sitting in Business Class?
Nigel moaned about his business class meal, and we ended up talking about why no feedback is just as bad as bad feedback.
Episode 180: The Power Is In The Pause
Nigel had a brilliant day in Norfolk and a hard one in London, and I came out with a line that became the title.
Episode 179: Be The Verb
Nigel had lost his voice, so I took his voice note about motivating the motivator and ran with it. Be the noun, do the verb.
Episode 178: Nigel is Speechless
Nigel lost his voice, so I did this one on my own and got thinking about who’s in your corner when plans fall over.
Episode 177: Live In The Solution
A friend’s nudge reminded me how much the podcast reaches people. Why you should let your mess age before it becomes your message, and why ringing someone worse off helps on a bad day.
Episode 176: The Courage To Quit
Sometimes giving up is the right call, and I learned it being dragged face-first behind a boat in St Lucia.
Episode 175: Where Are You? (and the when did you last pick up the phone?)
Nigel got offered a Calendly slot seven weeks away, so he just rang the bloke and sorted it in three minutes.
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Hi, I’m Neil
DJing since 1987, three decades in business, and the author of Done Beats Perfect. This is where I write it all down.