The World of Work has transformed tremendously over the past decades, and more so for the rest of us since 2020. From being based in the office, to remote and now hybrid, we are all doing our best to make things work. We will be inviting guests and experts from across the workplace industry to join us in our episodes as we discuss all things work related, and how we can make it better. Join us every fortnight at A Better World of Work podcast and follow us on Veldhoen + Company LinkedIn page ...
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To be an entrepreneur you have to be a little bit of a Rebel. You have to do things differently, you have to take risks other people aren't willing to take and you need to be brave enough to take action. For years Alan Donegan has battled against the traditional plan that the world has for us: When Alan went for help from the British Government to start a business. They told him to write a business plan; get a load of debt and did more to put him off starting than they did to help. Alan spen ...
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Episode Summary This is the magic goal setting process to help you come up with ideas, start to take action and brings your dreams into reality. The extraordinary Belongs to those that create it! Katie and Alan emphasize the importance of setting goals while still being happy with one's current life. They encourage finding joy in the journey and no…
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How to Crush Your Goals in 2024, or get back on track if you have already quit!
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52:31By mid-January most people have already quit their new years resolutions and stopped making progress. Is that you? Or do you want to work to make 2024 your best year yet? In this episode, Alan Donegan talks to Laura Romero, a member of the Rebel Business School Colombia team, about how to set and achieve your goals for 2024. Alan shares his insight…
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From Zero to Business Idea: Coaching Toni's Entrepreneurial Journey
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17:22Updated Episode: New release. First time the audio failed and you could only hear Alan. SORRY! Now updated and working with all audio! Enjoy! In this episode of the Rebel Entrepreneur Podcast (possibly the shortest I have ever recorded), join host Alan Donegan as he embarks on a coaching session with listener Toni, who's ready to dive into the worl…
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Lessons Learned from the First Year of Running an Online Accountancy Firm with Stephen Peyton, Mmosis
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1:12:36In this episode of The Rebel Entrepreneur podcast, you will learn from Stephen Peyton, the founder of Mmosis, an online accountancy firm that helps entrepreneurs with their finances. Stephen shares his journey of starting his business from scratch, overcoming challenges, finding clients, and scaling up. He also gives valuable tips and advice on how…
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Workstyle: How to Fit Work Around Your Life
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47:01In this episode of Rebel Entrepreneur, we talk to Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst, the authors of Workstyle, a book that shows how to create a digital-age system that combines work with the life you want to live. We discuss the benefits of workstyle, the challenges of breaking free from the 9-5 system, and the practical steps to achieve workstyle. What…
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Unlock Your Presentation Potential: Mastering Impactful Communication with Alan Donegan
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59:54Prepare for a special episode of the Rebel Entrepreneur as Alan Donegan dives deep into the art of powerful presentations. But here's the kicker – we've got a colossal offer waiting for you at the end of the episode! Join Alan Donegan in this special episode where he'll unravel the secrets to crafting compelling messages, structuring your content f…
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Mini Experiments and Selling Before You Create
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54:52The Rebel Entrepreneur Podcast: How to Run Mini Experiments and Sell Before You Create Are you a creative who wants to make money from your work? Do you struggle with finding your audience, validating your ideas, and launching your products? In this episode, Alan talks to Sarah, an American writer who lives in Tokyo. Sarah shares how she used mini …
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Getting unstuck - Stu Massengill, Tony Robbins, Unleash the Power Within
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59:38Join host Alan Donegan on a riveting episode of the Rebel Entrepreneur podcast as he sits down with the remarkable Stu Massengill, a renowned expert in unleashing potential and breaking through barriers. Are you feeling stuck, unable to reach your true potential? This episode is your key to transformation. Stu Massengill, known for his powerful ins…
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What's the best way to predict the future?
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1:11:00What's the best way to predict the future? Create it! Alan's favourite expression is "the extraordinary belongs to those that create it!" If you want extraordinary you have to build it and to do that you need to start to think how you want the future to be. What is your mission? What are you creating? If I was to wave a magic wand and give you ever…
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Take control of your finances with Rebel Finance School
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47:02Join our host, Alan Donegan and our special guests KatieDonegan and Simon Paine as they discuss the first steps to taking control of your money. As founders of the Rebel Finance School, The Donegans are grilled by Simon as they help us all to get better at a game we all have to play: the game of money. It all comes down to the size of your gap. For…
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Millionaire VS Teenager : From Rags to Riches
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43:56Welcome to "The Rebel Podcast," where Alan Donegan and Harry Paine bring you bold and unconventional advice to help you achieve financial independence and live life on your own terms. In this special episode, titled "From Rags to Riches: Becoming a Millionaire and Mastering the Art of Investing," Alan and Harry take on a unique twist as they embrac…
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Do you ever feel like you are just going through the motions? You work hard, you pull everything together but it isn't rewarding? Join Alan as we meet William Wadsworth from Exam Study Expert home - how to study like never beforeand talk about the reality of business, your passion and dealing with the tough parts of business life. We all go through…
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Customer Experience - how to keep them coming back!
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48:09Link to Rebel Plus: Rebel+ – Creating your own path to success (therebelschool.com) Have you ever thought about your customer's experience? From the very start when they firstlearn about you online or from a flyer. All the way to after they have purchased, when they are using yourproduct and what they do with it when they are done? Join Halima from…
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We all know it is possible to build and monestize a blog but how? You have to build the blog, create the content, build and gain an audience and that is before you have even monetised. Blog's don't really lend themselves to the normal Rebel methodology of sell first, create second as if you don't have a blog how can you get people to read it or buy…
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Rebel Origins - learn from our mistakes
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1:09:30Explicit Content Warning: Henry swears 3 times in this episode much to Alan's annoyance. Alan is joined by his co-founder Simon Paine and first employee Henry Nicholson on this special episode of the Rebel Entrepreneur. Henry pulls out the lessons, ideas and principles from the launch of Rebel Business School. The idea behind this episode is to hel…
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S4 E2: This is a coaching episode of The Rebel Entrepreneur. Meet Jame and Steph who run Two Crow Collective (Two Crow Collective - Chronic Illness Inspired Clothing) Jame emailed Alan for help with his business that had hit a plateau after a succesful start. Jame was wondering where do I go next? How do I grow my audience with paid marketing and n…
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Where did Alan go? It has been 5 months since the last episode of the Rebel Entrepreneur! What ever happened to that show? Well after changing hosts, changing networks (again!) we are back with a quick welcome back episode. The key message from the episode is about getting unstuck. We all get stuck on projects sometimes. Things get trapped and stuc…
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In this final episode of A Better World of Work Season 1 podcast, hosts Hardeep Matharu and Eoin Higgins take the hot seat with show producer Ng Lay Peng, and share with us their key takeaways from the series so far. Find out more about what's next for the future of work, how you can make hybrid work, work, and what leadership practices are expecte…
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What were the biggest challenges that faced Kim throughout this process of creating and publishing her podcast, and what has she learnt overcoming them? Find out what Kim learnt, how it all happened and what she is focusing on now. Also, Kim asks Alan how he works with the podcast, how he focuses, and why he does what he does! Kim's podcast, The Fe…
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How did Rebel Business School start? Simon, Alan and the Rebel Business School are celebrating their 10-year anniversary right now and we wanted to do a special episode sharing with you the ups and downs from starting the business, Simon going to get a job, selling the first workshop and then a dodgy buffet in Milton Keynes and Simon's decision to …
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You have created something, and it is now time to launch and put it out there. You have got to tell your existing customers/audience and then you have got to find new customers/audience. But how do you do it? There are so many different ways! It all feels a little overwhelming! Join Alan as he walks Kim through creating a promotion strategy for the…
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Born in a refugee camp, growing up in the Netherlands, reading Rich Dad Poor Dad at age 12 in the library, and turning that into a business? One of the most fascinating entrepeneurial journeys I have come across! This episode is packed full of tips, ideas, and practical ways of thinking that can help you in your business. Start-up stories are the o…
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Everywhere you go, there are courses teaching you to scale, university and business schools screaming about your need to scale and business coaches ultra-focused on scaling. But is scalling really the right option for you? What type of business are you building? A life-style business? A mega-corporation? Something else? Maybe we should put the driv…
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Do your clients walk all over you? Do they cancel at the last minute? Do they challenge your pricing? Do you feel like you are a business doormat? Sometimes in our effort to win business, we can be too nice. Join Orla as she tries to work out the best pricing model for dog-walking business and how to deal with her customers. This episode is CRITICA…
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Can you be paid to speak? Can you make money out of your story and voice? This is what Alan has done for the last 15 years, so when Kim asked for advice on making money by speaking, Alan got super excited. Join us as we share six different ways you can get paid to speak and build your business. This episode is jam-packed with ideas that will help y…
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Start-up stories are the oxygen that keep us going. If it is possible for others to build a business and make money then maybe I can, too? This particular entrepreneurial journey starts with selling off a Playstation to get going and journeys through finding customers on Facebook, Google Maps, and to building a team. Millward May have been the acco…
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There is no point creating a podcast, building a website, or launching a product if you don't promote it. People aren't going to just stumble across it. It always shocks me how many entrepreneurs think that just by launching their business they are guaranteed success. Once you launch, the hard work of building an audience or finding customers reall…
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The difference that makes the difference is your productivity, your ability to get things done, your relentless drive to build your business. Join Alan as he meets one of his most chilled out guests ever: Thanh Pham from Asian Efficiency. We talk about how to make things happen, focus, and improve both your energy and your drive. If you want to get…
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Kim tells us how recording episode 1 went, and we work out what she is going to do for episode 2. "If you build it they will come" is one of Alan's most hated expressions, so the team started to think about how to promote the episode and get it out into the world. Alan sets Kim homework to help her create her own podcast marketing strategy…
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I'm 40, is financial independence even possible for me?
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44:52So many people say to Alan: "I'm (insert age, 35, 40, 50). Is it too late for me to get to financial independence?" In this episode, Jaymie Dylan from coaching season 2 comes back to talk about the possibility of her getting to FI. She feels behind because she found out about FI after she was 40 years old and is wondering if it is even possible for…
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You've decided to create a podcast, and you want to create your first episode. But where do you start? What are you going to say? How are you going to structure it? Join Alan, Patrick, and Kim as they work out the flow of episode 1, the style, and how Kim is going to promote what she is doing.By Alan Donegan
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Financial Independence and Entrepreneurship Collide
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42:53How do financial independence and entrepreneurship fit together? What is the goal of financial independence? What is the goal of entrepreneurship? Why are we all doing this? In this episode of the Rebel Entrepreneur Tim Desmond takes over the show and we get deep about the only logical pursuit in life and why we are all doing. We explore traditiona…
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Leadership in Hybrid with Marie-Laure Caille, Founder of The Human Factor
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39:00With the world of work changing rapidly, what is needed for leaders in today's environment? What is the paradox of good leadership and what are some of the best practices for organisations that are staring a change management process? Get the answers to these and more on our podcast chat with global people development expert Marie-Laure Caille, Fou…
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Have you ever thought about launching a podcast? Creating a content business? Sometimes it can be daunting when starting a new project. In the new Rebel Coaching Series Alan meets Kim who has an existing business and wants to launch a podcast but just doesn't know where to start. Patrick the podcast manager and Alan work with Kim to help her figure…
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Is entrepreneurship a route to Financial Independence?
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59:40Is entrepreneurship a viable tool to get to financial independence? Many people in the financial independence community complain of starting small businesses and not earning very much money or making too little progress on their route to financial independence. For a completely different view of entrepreneurship and how it works with FI, I invited …
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Do you remember Keith Hunt of Red Headed Tacos? In Season 4 of the Rebel Entrepreneur, we went on a mad scramble as Keith got a food truck, tried to get the health certificates, and launched. Join Keith and I as we find out what happened to the food truck, where Keith is heading next and learn from that mad dash at the beginning of Keith's journey.…
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Rebel principles aren't just for business. This episode was inspired by a listener e-mail, which said: "I didn't fill out the feedback form because I don't have a business." Alan wanted to find out what this listener had been doing with the Rebel Principles. Join Alan as he meets Melissa and finds out how she uses the skills she's learned from our …
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Understanding the intricacies of the Japan workplace culture and change with Miho Sakai, Marketing at Itoki Corporation
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25:26For decades, Japan has been known for having hardworking employees with a strong sense of company loyalty and strict work ethics. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic offered them a rare opportunity to work remotely, and a glimpse of what alternative ways of working, and life, could look like. Has the experience triggered a rethinking about how they work…
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The Results Are In, Time To Re-Focus
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1:01:49Time-travelling 6 months from the last episode, what has happened to Adam and Craft Box Club? How is the business going? Is he thriving? In this episode we get an update from Adam, and Alan helps guide him through the process to re-focus his business and continue to make progress every day. Alan shares his post-it note process for coming up with id…
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Does work/life balance even exist? In this episode Lucy Branch of Antique Bronze takes over the show and grills Alan about work/life balance, getting things done, and what Alan actually does with his days. Find out more about how Alan got started in FI, what propelled him on his journey to FI, and how he ended up running events at the Mr Money Must…
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We recorded this episode in mid-December of last year. How did the sales go? Has the work that Adam has been doing for the past six months to get ready for Christmas paid off? Are these results enough to help him build the business of his dreams and get to the split of financial independence and entrepreneurship that will allow him the freedom to l…
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Does what you believe about money affect your financial future? Have you ever taken the time to consider what you believe about money - to create a personal money philosophy? In this episode, Craig Davenport takes over the Rebel Entrepreneur to grill Alan about money beliefs, his personal money philosophy, and how to actually build a philosophy fro…
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Building employee experience through internal communications with Natasha Wahap, former Head of Employee Engagement and DEI at Grab
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44:09Companies around the globe are placing increasing importance on shaping a strong and positive employee experience to strengthen organisational culture and team connections. How does internal communications contribute to becoming a key player in employee experience, and what are the nuances to observe in order to adopt a human-centric approach to co…
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In the run-up to the Christmas sales, Adam is working hard on his website. He is driving traffic through social media, Google Adwords and e-mail campaigns. But the website isn't turning that traffic into sales. In this very special episode of The Rebel Entrepeneur Coaching Series, Henry from Rebel takes over the podcast and works with Adam to get h…
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Should you start a side hustle? Is it time to start making some extra money? Join Alan and Simon as they work through a conversation to help you decide if you should start a side hustle, if so what type of side hustle should you start, and their best tips on how to get going quickly. The final section of the podcast covers why you shouldn't start a…
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Twenty percent of ALL retails sales happen in the six weeks leading to Christmas with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Christmas push. Adam from Craft Box Club is gearing up for Christmas, setting up the website, creating the marketing materials, and wondering if the Christmas sales will come or not. Join Alan and Adam as they discuss the frustr…
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After finding out the loan Peter started his business with was interest only, and realizing he still has a huge debt after the income is long gone, we work to understand how we got here, come up with a plan to get out of debt, and put to bed the past issues. This episode is all about debt and how to dig your way out of it. Join Alan as he talks abo…
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Exploring technology's role in enhancing a flexible work environment with Adam Chicktong, General Manager of APAC at Asana
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43:48Technology and the myriad of digital work tools available has provided the global workforce to embrace flexible work without the loss of connection nor productivity. However, technology can be a double-edged sword. How can organisations strive for effectiveness towards their choice of tools used in the organisation? What should organisations be thi…
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Alan received a disturbing message from Adam on Whatsapp saying "I am wondering if this is still a business?" Join Alan as he finds out what is going on, works with Adam to think about the business and positives and whether it's worth pushing through with this business and seeing if Christmas will bring the presents that Adam really wants.…
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You started your business with a business plan and a loan. You took out debt to build your business! But what if it doesn't work out? What if it goes wrong? Join Alan as he works with Peter from the Rebel Business School Charleston event and helps him tackle the aftermath of a failed business. This is a crucial episode to listen to and share with a…
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