The Next 100 Days Podcast
The UK’s longest-running independently produced weekly business interview podcast
hosted continuously by its original presenters - Kevin Appleby & Graham Arrowsmith
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#549 Daniel Roth – Coaching
Coaching: Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution Daniel Roth, founder and president of Pangea Effect and author of The E3 Effect, has spent 27 years running operations, from the Ritz Carlton to call centres for Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. He explains execution...
#548 Misbah Gulzar – DEI
DEI Misbah Gulzar of Equitas Consultancy Services explains what diversity, equity and inclusion really mean, why so much corporate DEI is performative, and why she would never want to be hired to tick a box. Graham pushes back hard, Kevin brings a London 2012 case...
#547 – David Hori – Scaling Businesses
Scaling Businesses David's story includes scaling businesses for 4 different founders (3 have exited in the past 5 years). These days, he's in the business of buying businesses and coaches a select group of business owners. Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Podcast...
#546 – Robin Waite – Fearless Pricing
Fearless Pricing Fearless Pricing author Robin Waite provides business coaching that improves the efficiency, profitability and potential of ambitious businesses throughout Gloucestershire, the UK and worldwide. He joins us for Episode 546 of The Next 100 Days...
#545 Michael Diegelmann – Warren Wise
Warren Wise Warren Wise is Michael Diegelmann's "agentic finance" tool for CFOs. It helps them pre-empt investor reactions to financial reports by simulating analysis from value investors (e.g., Warren Buffett). Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Warren Wise AI: A...
#544 Peter Wardle – Intelligent Assessments
Intelligent Assessments Intelligent Assessments is Peter Wardle's company. He digitises intellectual property to provide actionable insights. Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Intelligent Assessments digitises IP by converting manual frameworks (often in...
#543 – Kevin Appleby – Adopt AI in The Next 100 Days
Adopt AI in The Next 100 Days Kevin Appleby discusses his plans to adopt AI in the Next 100 Days. Summary of the Podcast Overview Episode 2 of a mini-series within The Next 100 Days Podcast where Kevin Appleby and Graham Arrowsmith discuss how AI is influencing their...
#542 – Graham Arrowsmith – Lead Conversion AI
Lead Conversion AI Kevin Appleby interviews Graham Arrowsmith about AI applications, such as the lead conversion AI he offers through MicroYES. We also discuss personal productivity. Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Agent Delivery Systems (ADS) drive conversion by...
#541 – Stephen Somers – Selling on Whatnot
Selling on Whatnot You'll remember that Selling on Whatnot guest Stephen joined The Next 100 Days a while back to talk about building an Amazon business from scratch. Since then, things have moved on quite a bit. Stephen's been deep into a newer side of the business,...
#540 – Guy Bartlett – Buying Businesses
Buying Businesses Guy Bartlett is ex military, but now helps others when they are buying businesses. He is the author of Business Magic. In his 30 years he's closed more than 200 deals, sitting on both sides of the table. He will buy, operate and grow UK businesses...
#539 – Francis Rodino – Lead Conversion
Lead Conversion Lead Conversion expert Francis Rodino claims 15+ years working in sales and marketing, but as we'll find out, you can probably double that number. First in corporate, then building and scaling his own businesses. He's worked with 300+ clients across...
#538 – Andrew Sparks – Business Exit
Business Exit Today's guest is Andrew Sparks from Sydney Australia, who discusses business exit strategies for founders for them to build a business that can run without them. Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Build a Saleable Asset: A founder-dependent business is...
#537 – Alexis Sikorsky – Business Scaling & Exit
Business Scaling & Exit Business Scaling & Exit Expert Alexis Sikorsky has launched, built, and grown businesses. He knows it can be incredibly lonely doing this. Founders can feel swamped, overwhelmed, isolated, and unable to make the right decision for what...
#536 – Nicola Anderson – Capacity to Grow
Capacity to Grow This podcast is all about founders having the capacity to grow. Nicola Anderson is a Business Growth expert and she shares her DASH framework to help founders push on from the £1-5m turnover level. Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Founder...
#535 – Dr Amanda Gummer – FUNdamentally Children
FUNdamentally Children Dr Amanda Gummer, founder of FUNdamentally Children, is a renowned child development expert, and often features in media discussing the role of play in learning. Through FUNdamentally Children and the Good Play Guide, she offers valuable...
#534 – Abel Prieto – inCruises
inCruises Abel Prieto joins The Next 100 Days podcast to discuss InCruises as a side gig opportunity and its business model. Summary of the Podcast Key Takeaways Unique Membership Model: InCruises doubles members' monthly contributions (e.g., $100 → $200) into "Reward...
#533 Shalece Daniels – Rest Tech
Rest Tech Rest Tech innovator Shalece Daniels previously built and operated a seven-figure real estate investment and property management firm, coached multiple seven-figure businesses on scaling, then stepped fully into her zone of genius as an executive rest coach....
#532 Mark Sherwood Edwards – Sales Side Lawyer
Sales Side Lawyer Mark Sherwood Edwards is the Sales Side Lawyer. This podcast is all about having a sales-centric approach to legal contracting. Summary of Podcast Key Takeaways Problem: ~50% of deals die in contracting, often due to lawyers acting as a "Department...
#531 – Lisa Jane Watson Heath – Kidzplay
Kidzplay Kidzplay is a national soft play membership network that Lisa built from scratch — a wholesale model where we buy fixed table capacity from partner venues and resell it through membership. Lisa is an accountant! Kevin will be in heaven. PwC-trained ACA. 18...
#530 Dr Anton Janse van Rensburg – Burnout
Burnout Burnout expert Dr Anton Janse van Rensburg is a practising medical doctor from Pretoria, South Africa, with 27 years of experience as an Integrative Practitioner. Besides his MBChB degree, he has a Master’s degree in Applied Human Nutrition from the University...
