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The Extraordinary Business Book Club

The Extraordinary Business Book Club

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Alison Jones, publisher and book coach, explores business books from both a writer's and a reader's perspective. Interviews with authors, publishers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, tech wizards, social media strategists, PR and marketing experts and others involved in helping businesses tell their story effectively.(c) Alison Jones Arte Economía Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Episode 459 - Beyond Belief with Mike Porteous
    Jun 30 2025

    'I see confidence as something that's rooted in how we feel before any words, something which touches on sensations.'

    What do you think of when you think of sports coaching? Elite lean performance machines preparing to break records?

    Mike Porteous has competed and coached at elite level as a triathlete, but he believes that coaxing new swimmers from the shallow end is just as important an act of coaching as taking an elite to a new world Ironman time.

    His vision of coaching is centred on confidence - and all the messy, emotional reality that surrounds human ambition, at whatever scale. To allow people to go beyond what they believed themselves capable of - in sport and in life - the coach needs to build confidence in three directions: the athlete's confidence in their own ability, the athlete's confidence in the coach, and, crucially, the coach's confidence in themselves.

    There's an obvious parallel to the book-writing process, and the slow-burn confidence demanded of authors to grapple the uncertainty and believe that their message is worthwhile. If you're involved in coaching, in whatever capacity, and particularly if you're writing about it, this is for you.

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    32 m
  • Episode 458 - Healing-Centred book launch with Kerry Tottingham
    Jun 23 2025

     "How do you want your book to make people feel? Start with the feeling and then work your way backwards."

    When you're all about creativity, social justice and empowering individuals to transform pain into positive action, how do you design a book launch that reflects that?

    Kerry Tottingham rejected the warm white wine option for a radically different book launch event to celebrate the launch of her new book 'Healing-Centred Transformation: Mend, tend and change the future'. This week's podcast is a behind-the-scenes look at how she did it, with insights and advice for anyone planning a book launch of their own.

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    30 m
  • Episode 457 - The Work We Need with Hilary Cottam
    Jun 16 2025

    What does a good working life look like in the 21st century?

    Dr Hilary Cottam, OBE has spent the last five years exploring this question through collaborative workshops she calls 'imagininings', involving all sectors of the post-industrial workforce from gravediggers to consultants.

    The same resonant themes kept emerging: the need for work that pays the basics, offers meaning, allows space for caring and play, is tied to place, and demands collective, not just individual, change.

    She discovered that the challenges we face - technological disruption, ecological crisis and a lack of social justice - together provide the springboard for this change. And in the process of putting it all together into her new book, The Work We Need, she also discovered that writing, like change-making, is a slow, humbling process best done in community.

    Profound, challenging, generous, inspiring - and very much worth your listen.

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    32 m
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