indie business club

40 Lucky Man: lessons in luck with John Lyons

We get quite personal in this episode, so skip through from about 11minutes to about 13minutes in if you’d prefer not to hear the part where we talk about mental health,

39 Video Games: using video to market your business, with Jonny Rose

LinkedIn has reintroduced its video feed tab. Unfortunately, it all seems to be Stephen Bartlett, “shark tank”, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. Bleugh. And more recently, lots o

38 Seaside: LIVE at Creator Day 2026 with Dave Harland and Lea Turner

This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience at You Are The Media’s Creator Day 2026. Huge thanks to FOUNDRY for hosting us - check out their coworking sp

37 Fame Monster: being famous with Lea Turner

This episode is about the pros and cons of being (in my case, very mildly) famous in your industry I’m joined by LinkedIn legend, founder of The HoLT, and all-round wond

36 Delivery: newsletters with Molly Scanlan

How to use a newsletter to grow your business💌 This time, I’m joined by Molly Scanlan to discuss how to grow your business using the ancient (okay, at least decades-old)

b-side: how I'm going to grow this podcast

I blagged a mini strategy session from the wonderful Charelle Griffith 👌 In episode 34, Charelle talked us through how to do our annual plan. I then asked her for a litt

35 Hysteria: promoting yourself with Gus Bhandal

Make 2026 the year you promote the absolute heck out of yourself 👌 This time, I’m joined by Gus Bhandal to talk about ways you can build up some good old fashioned hyste

34 Running/Planning: plan your business year with Charelle Griffith

Create a plan to make 2026 your best year in business yet 👌 Producer Ant says this might be his favourite episode so far. But is he just hyping me up since it’s my first

b-side: training and CPD

This is the last episode I recorded with Ben before he left the podcast. If you didn’t want to do your CPD homework you just had to say so, Ben 😏 This will be the last i

b-side: awards, revisited

When we covered the topic before (in episode 14 Handbags and Gladrags), we set ourselves the goal of becoming an award-winning podcast. And if you want to be award-winni

33 Freelancing - indie business club x TMM

Ben and I are on our way to Manchester today for CopyCon 🤩 I spoke at the event last year and the year before that, our Copy Or Die pal Dave Harland spoke. Dave’s meeting

32 All These Things That I've Done: portfolios

This episode is called All These Things That I’ve Done and it’s all about how to put together a portfolio to show off what you can do. We look at… creative ways to give

31 Moving Pictures: using video in your marketing

This episode is called Moving Pictures and it’s all about using video to market yourself and your business. We look at… why some people would rather poo in their hands a

30 Where Is My Mind: marketing psychology with Phill Agnew from Nudge podcast

Want to trick people into buying from you? Then read on!Jokes, that’s deeply unethical, please don’t do that. Today’s pod episode is a bit special. Firstly, it’s episode

29 We Want The Airwaves: starting a podcast

This episode is brought to you by Copy Or Die, the copywriting agency we work at, which Ben co-founded with Dave Harland. If you say you listen to the podcast we’ll proba

28 Roll With It: starting something new

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Nikki Pilkington - SEO expert, copywriter, legend, and friend of the show. You can get 20% off Nikki’s full SEO course

27 Music Sounds Better With You: audio branding

Hi, Mel here, Today’s episode is all about audio branding. And so, we’ve brought in the expert! Of course, it’s sound guy (and sound guy) our producer and theme composer

26 You Get What You Give: outsourcing

Today’s episode is all about outsourcing. Are you an outsourcer? Or an outsourceee? Or both? Did I just make up those words? At least one of them. Either way, to keep it

25 Frankly, Mr Shankly: testimonials

Today’s episode is all about testimonials. But just before we get into it… we’re incredibly excited about this 👇 We’re doing a Marketing Meetup webinar with Michelle L P

24 Let's Go Surfing: LIVE Q&A episode at Creator Day 2025

This earlier-than-expected episode is called Let’s Go Surfing* and it’s a LIVE Q&A episode recorded at FOUNDRY Poole as part of Creator Day 2025. Extra special thanks to