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You might have heard about Ronsley Vaz, but do you know his story? Ronsley has had a long and strange journey to where he is now as CEO of Amplify, host of Should I Start a Podcast & Bond Appetit podcasts as well as founder of the We Are Podcast conference. A trained software engineer by trade, he did not …
If you don’t know already, I have another podcast I run in addition to Bond Appetit. It’s about starting your own podcast and is called, appropriately enough, “Should I Start a Podcast?” The answer to that question, you’re probably not surprised to hear, is a resounding yes. I recently had the pleasure of serving on a podcast-centred panel run by …
How do we manage our emotions? How do we keep them from boiling over and paralysing us? Lisa Ma, an event coordinator at Networx Brisbane and Iceberg Events, spent much of her formative years being controlled by extreme anxiety. On the latest episode of Bond Appetit, we had a candid talk about her years in university and how anxiety, depression …
Working in a menial job, or a minimum wage job or any other kind of employment you do just to get some income rolling in, can be a drag. You’re not passionate or compelled by the work and focusing just on the little income you get can get you down. You only take the job because you need it to …
When Carl Taylor was just a teenager, he learned an important fundamental truth about business. Success, he was taught, should be defined by how much of your business could work without you. What exactly does that mean? Most of us might have a more traditional view of work. We get a degree, we get a job, we work and …
LinkedIn. Nearly everybody uses it, but not very many people use it well. On the latest episode of the Bond Appetit Podcast, social media strategist and consultant Adam Houlahan stopped by to explain why so few people are using LinkedIn in a way that will net them long-term, sustainable results. Shockingly, Adam told me that among the 550 million people …
James Cridland is an award-winning writer, speaker, business consultant, and radio futurologist, as well as the founder of the weekly online newsletter “PodNews”. On the latest episode of “Should I Start a Podcast”, James and I spoke about how businesses can prepare themselves, simply by asking questions, and starting conversations. In the process, we explored his history in the industry …
Storytelling is one of those things that people pay a lot of lip service to. It’s also something that not everyone is good at. Everyone’s been in that situation where they’re stuck listening to someone drone on with seemingly no respect for their listener’s time. Everyone’s also probably had the experience of listening to a master storyteller spin a yarn …
Where the hell would I find time to make a podcast? It’s a common refrain I hear from people. And if you’re juggling a busy business and/or work schedule, not to mention family and other commitments, believe me, I get it. Speaking to Angela Henderson on a recent episode of Should I Start A Podcast, proved that there really …
In the West, over the last few generations, there has been a definite trend toward risk aversion. There are many reasons for this, but primary among them was that getting born into one of the countries known as the West (America, UK, Australia etc.) is already a big privilege so to a degree this thinking came out of a desire …
