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Scaling your business does not have to be hard.

This is according to business growth & scaling expert Bill Gallagher.

For some small, medium or even large organisations, scaling and achieving year on year growth is super difficult.

The question is why, and more importantly, what can you do if you find yourself in a business where your role is to help the organisation grow.

Today’s conversation is about unfolding the steps you can take with your team to direct your business forward.  Bill Gallagher has helping leaders of scale-ups in a wide variety of industries for nearly 20 years to set themselves free and achieve their highest potential as leaders.

Bill’s playful, funny and irreverent style and creative approach makes him an ideal coach for leaders who are looking for new ways to break through their own resistance and achieve the mindset that will allow them to achieve growth of 10x or more—while still having fun!

With more than 36 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience and 18 years coaching and training leaders who want to improve their leadership and performance, he now works with leaders and teams in over 28 cities and 13 countries.

He has led four companies as CEO/owner and was a partner/executive in two others as they grew from startup to more than $500 million in annual revenue. A former DJ and radio executive, Bill hosts the Scaling Up Podcast. In his free time, he is an avid surfer, sailor, skateboarder, pilot, scuba enthusiast and recovering triathlete.

Happily married for more than 20 years, he and his wife Lori live in the Oakland Hills and are parents to two grown children. Whether you are in a new business or one that has been in the market for a while and may be a bit stale on the growth side, this is a conversation that you are going to want to check out!

What to expect in this episode:
(04:36) - Leading a large business while neglecting health
(09:08) - What to do if my company is stagnant
(23:44) - How to get the most out of your team
(29:09) - What it’s like coaching inmates in maximum security

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Website - https://scalingcoach.com/ 
X - https://twitter.com/billgall 

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Imagine living life with Schizophrenia but having no idea. Today's conversation is with a special guest, my childhood friend Dr. Apollo Ellis. He is known as one of Silicon Valley's top programmers in the tech industry, but the road to get there was incredibly difficult.

The connection between schizophrenia and drug abuse From addiction, depression and ultimately a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, his story is no short of a miracle, and certainly the outcome of a deep desire to be more in life. Apollo and I had shared in the madness of addiction and the streets as teenagers, we were truly lost in the wilderness.

 We were amongst the worst within our circle of friends. Through the Valley: Streets, Schizophrenia, and Success in Tech Apollo Ellis's journey from the streets of the 1990s San Francisco Bay Area to the heights of Silicon Valley is a tale of extraordinary resilience. Growing up in a world dominated by hip-hop and street culture, he faced daunting circumstances. Narrow escapes from the drug game and gang violence left their marks in the form of PTSD and addiction.

Homelessness and Schizophrenia Homeless at the age of twenty, Apollo made the pivotal decision to return to school. Choosing education as his lifeline, he began to reconstruct himself. When a diagnosis of acute paranoid schizophrenia threatened his story again, he stayed his course and went on to graduate from UC Berkeley.

Today, Dr. Apollo Ellis is a renowned expert in computer science and technology. He has earned a Master’s degree and a PhD from the best institutions in the world and worked at many Fortune 500 tech giants like Intel, Apple, Sony PlayStation, and Facebook. 

In Through the Valley, we accompany him on this journey from the precarious streets, through schizophrenia, to Silicon Valley's pinnacle. It is truly a testament to the power of determination and of an unyielding pursuit of the right to chase one’s dreams.

What to expect in this episode:
(00:04:24) - Becoming a meth baller from early teens.
(00:47:04) - Navigating learning while having Schizophrenia
(01:21:26) - Insights on how to publicly share your mental health journey.

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Book - Through the Valley: Streets, Schizophrenia, and Success in Tech
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How to develop the habit of reading

It seems that the act of reading a book is a dying practice for the mainstream.With the development of video, podcasts and short form content we are all about convenience and speed of consumption.But what do we lose when we start to close the books? What's the true cost of losing our interest in actually reading a book?

Benefits of becoming a consistent reader
If you want to learn more, you're going to want to check out this next episode with Nicholas Hutchinson. We dive into the benefits of reading, some obvious, and some not,more importantly we discuss the actions you can take to develop better reading habits.

Tips for building better reading habits
Nicholas Hutchison stands as the visionary force behind Book Thinkers, a growing 7-figure marketing agency that seamlessly bridges the worlds of authors and readers.In just over 7 years, he has organically built a platform that reaches over 1,000,000 people each month. Nick’s podcast, BookThinkers: Life-Changing Books, is a global top 2% show that features captivating interviews with world-class authors such as Grant Cardone, Lewis Howes, and Alex Hormozi.

Cultivating reading habits
Through the use of his platform, Nick has helped hundreds of authors expand their reach to hundreds of millions of readers and drive significant revenue growth as part of their book campaigns. His services include short-form video production, podcast booking and social media book reviews.

Building better habits
Nick has now dedicated his life to helping millions of readers take action on the information they learn and rise to their potential through his books, speaking, and personal brand as a whole. This was the inspiration for his new book, Rise of the Reader, where he dives into the strategies for mastering your reading habits and applying what you learn.

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Notable Highlights
(02:46) - Falling in love with reading
(06:04) - How to Implement what you’ve read and learned
(12:30) - Read as much as possible
(28:28) - Writing a book and scaling


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Website (personal) - https://nickhutch.com/
Website (company) - https://bookthinkers.com/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bookthinkers/
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Instagram (company) - https://www.instagram.com/bookthinkers/


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Should exercise be the first course of action for people with mental health issues?

According to recent research by Dr. Ben Singh and his team at The University of South Australia, physical exercise is 1.5 times more effective than medication or counseling.

So for many this is obvious, the problem is that the people that generally need to be moving their body to affect their mental health aren't the ones doing it.

There is a benefit in counseling, and at certain times medication is needed. But the question needs to be asked as to how we can get those with mental health issues to implement a consistent exercise regime in their lives.

The exercise solution to our mental health issues are always available, and the consistent benefits can have a profound effect on our lives.

Dr. Ben Singh obtained a Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology, Master’s Degree in research, and PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane.

Dr. Singh is currently a fellow at the University of South Australia (UniSA’s), Allied Health & Performance.

UniSA’s Allied Health & Performance deliver high-impact research in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of health issues. We partner with industry to address global health challenges and work collaboratively to solve them. Areas of research strength include pain sciences, rehabilitation, and high performance in sport.

UniSA’s community clinics provide affordable services to members of the public while giving students valuable opportunities for practical learning. Our clinics include physiotherapy, podiatry, dietetics, and exercise physiology.

Their graduates are tomorrow’s health workforce: resourceful, engaged, and ready to create positive change in health and wellbeing, both locally and globally.

UniSA’s mission is to solve critical health challenges, build strong relationships, and produce outstanding health professionals.

Notable moments in this episode:
(04:41) - Mental health and Exercise
(06:57) - Medication vs. Exercise
(09:19) - Benefits of exercise
(10:10) - Getting active with exercise: start small
(11:10) - People who exercise are less likely to get depression

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How are your new year’s plans and resolutions going?

Many people struggle to realise their new year's resolutions. The reason is because the same person with the same bad habits is making them.

So, what can we do about it?

Amantha Imber has the answers.

Her recent book The Health Habit is a big part of our conversation today, the takeaways will help you navigate towards better habits in your office and home life.

Dr Amantha Imber is a psychologist and founder of Inventium, a behaviour change consultancy. She has helped over 100,000 people at organisations such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Deloitte, Atlassian, Visa, and others improve their productivity, performance, and wellbeing worldwide.

After struggling for years to make positive health changes stick, Dr Imber leveraged her expertise in psychology to successfully overcome her own challenges with fitness, nutrition and sleep. She now equips people around the world with the tactics and motivation to transform their health habits.

In 2019, Amantha was named as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. In 2021, she won the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the ‘Oscars for Management Thinking’).

Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 5 million downloads. Amantha’s thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fast Company and her last book Time Wise was an international bestseller.

Make sure to check this episode out, live on all podcast platforms and Youtube today.


Notable moments in this episode:
(03:29) - What is Inventium?
(18:21) - Productivity in an organisation
(22:47) - Can you measure productivity?
(22:10) - Working from home vs. In the office: which one makes you more productive?
(30:15) - The Health Habit


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Books - https://www.amantha.com/books/
Website (personal) - https://www.amantha.com/
Website (company) - https://inventium.com.au/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanthaimber


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What happens when you mix a poet, political thinker and a special forces soldier all in one?

You get Robin Horsfall.

Most of us know the man from his remarkably insightful commentary on complex political situations and global injustices. His writing is insightful, thoughtful and incredibly poetic.

A lifelong soldier, literally before he was old enough to drink, Robin takes us into his early days of soldering into the life as British SAS and ultimately to his love of the pen.

Robin is a man of principles, service to family and country, with the view to always seek truth and justice no matter what the sacrifice.

Born in Farnham, Surrey, UK. Following a divorce from his birth father, his mother Hazel married his step-father, who adopted him and gave him the name Horsfall. A broken family life adversely affected his education, so he left school in 1972 at the age of fifteen and joined the army as a boy soldier.

Despite a long period of isolation and bullying by his peers, he became a full member of the Parachute Regiment in 1974 and served three tours of Northern Ireland. In 1978 he volunteered for SAS selection and passed on his second attempt in March 1979. He went on to qualify as a Paramedic and Sniper.

He was a member of the SAS counter terrorist team that assaulted the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980, helping to rescue the nineteen hostages who had been held for six days.

Robin has had an extraordinary life and has been speaking about it at events both small and large for over 10 years.

Make sure to tune into the show to hear this man’s incredible journey.

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Notable moments in this episode:

(04:55) - Words are the most powerful thing we have
(08:06) - What is ‘Fighting Scared’?
(20:42) - Most difficult process of becoming an SAS
(35:22) - Life lessons Robin learned from martial arts


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Books - https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/books/
Website - https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/


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