Best Alex Generous Podcasts (2025)

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The Spartan Way: How to Commit and Conquer with Matt Brooke 10:14

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I’ve always believed success comes down to commitment. Talking about goals is easy. Doing something about them is harder. Matt Brooke, Senior Vice President at Spartan and Tough Mudder, joined me to talk about a mindset that changes how people approach growth and challenge—the Pick a Date mentality. It’s simple. Set a date. Put it in the calendar. …

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From Single Mother to Billion Dollar Founder with Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland 59:07

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Growing a business is never about luck. It is about execution, distribution and the ability to stay focused through every challenge. This week, I speak with Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland, a finance founder who built a billion dollar empire, scaled a nationwide lending operation, invested in commercial property, and then bought and rebuilt a 1000 year ol…

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86 - Dr. Akl Fahed - Digital Health, Genetics, & GLP-1s 59:48

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In this episode of the PennHealthX Podcast, Habib sits down with Dr. Akl Fahed to discuss his career as an interventional cardiologist, physician–scientist, and digital health entrepreneur working at the frontiers of genomic medicine and chronic disease care. Dr. Fahed serves at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute, where he leads…

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The Military Mindset Every Founder Needs to Succeed with Anthony Stazicker 9:17

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This week, I sit down with Anthony “Staz” Stazicker, former Royal Marine and Special Forces operator turned entrepreneur and co-founder of ThruDark, one of the UK’s fastest-growing technical outerwear brands. After more than a decade in the military, Staz left behind the structure, purpose, and intensity of Special Forces life to start from scratch…

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The Explosive Growth of Grenade: From Garage to Global with Juliet Barratt 29:12

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In this episode of Screw It Just DO It, my friend Jeannette Linfoot sat down with Juliet Barratt, co-founder of Grenade, in a fireside chat recorded live at the Festival of Entrepreneurs. Juliet shares how she went from being a teacher who hated structure to building one of the UK’s fastest-growing performance nutrition brands and selling it to Mon…

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The Nike Story That Changed Everything for Andy Mooney 12:26

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When Andy Mooney joined Nike at just 25, he was meant to stay behind the numbers. But within months, he realised real business success came from understanding people, not spreadsheets. In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, Andy shares how a risky decision early in his career changed everything. He stepped outside his comfort zone, bet on …

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Religious people and atheists should team up to help animals - David Clough - Sentientism 239 1:32:33

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David Clough is Professor and Chair in Theology and AppliedSciences at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church. David is also co-president of the charity CreatureKind and he founded the DefaultVeg project, now part of the work of the Better Food Foundation. From 2018 to 2021 hewas Principal Investigator on the Chr…

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What It Takes to Build and Sell a Business Before 40 with Andrew Hulbert 6:52

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My guest this week is Andrew Hulbert, founder of Pareto FM, who started his business from his bedroom at 27 with no name, network, or funding and grew it to a £42 million turnover before exiting less than a decade later. Andrew’s story is one of calculated risk, relentless focus, and smart scaling. From landing his first £200,000 contract with the …

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How Tom Gozney Ended Up Installing a Pizza Oven for Richard Branson 11:48

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Sometimes the right opportunity doesn’t come knocking, you have to send the email. In this Bite-sized episode, I speak with Tom Gozney, founder of Gozney, about the moment that took his business from a small British startup to global recognition. After entering Virgin’s Pitch to Rich competition, Tom didn’t win but he did get something far more val…

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85 - Dr. Alex Beschloss - Insights, Policy, and Practice 49:09

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Today, we’re taking with Dr. Beschloss. Dr. Beschloss is a resident physician in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School, where he earned his MD/MBA. A Williams College alum, his work sits at the intersection of clinical care, health polic…

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Scaling a Business Without Compromising Values with LUSH's Rowena Bird 41:51

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What does it take to build one of the world’s most loved ethical brands without losing your principles? In this episode, I sit down with Rowena Bird, co-founder of Lush, to talk about the 30-year journey of growing from a small shop in Poole to a global retail brand with over 900 stores worldwide. Rowena shares how Lush has managed to scale without…

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How Dan Murray-Serter Turned Burnout Into a £Multi-Million Health Brand 12:06

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What happens when success leaves you feeling empty? In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, I revisit my conversation with Dan Murray-Serter, co-founder of Heights and host of Secret Leaders. Dan shares the exact moment he realised his business, Gravel, was winning awards but draining his purpose. Rather than chase growth for the sake of it…

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How DIRTEA Went Viral: Community, Content and Culture with Andrew Salter 48:54

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When the world shut down in 2020, most entrepreneurs hit pause. Andrew Salter hit “go.” In this episode, I speak with Andrew, Co-founder and CMO of DIRTEA, the UK-based functional mushroom brand that’s grown into a global wellness movement. What started as a pivot during the pandemic has become one of the fastest-growing lifestyle brands in health …

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MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds - Sci-fi author Joan Slonczewski - Sentientism 238 1:34:50

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Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: "A Door into Ocean" and "The Highest Frontier". Their latest novel is "Minds in Transit". With John W. Foster and Erik Zinser, th…

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How Bulk Built a £100m Business with No Investment 11:14

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In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, I sit down with Adam Rossiter and Elliot Dawes, co-founders of Bulk, one of the UK’s biggest sports and active nutrition brands. What started as two university friends buying supplements from the US turned into a £100 million company built without a single penny of outside investment. Adam and Elliot …

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84 - Dr. Kevin Volpp - Behavior, Incentives, & Systems 30:14

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In this episode of the PennHealthX Podcast, Habib sits down with Dr. Kevin Volpp to discuss his career as a physician–economist and his pioneering work at the intersection of medicine, economics, and behavioral science. Dr. Volpp is the Mark Pauly President’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments at the …

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How Simon Woodroffe Built Yo! Sushi and Changed UK Dining Forever 43:04

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What drives someone to launch a sushi restaurant with robots, conveyor belts, and a million-pound setup when they’ve never worked in hospitality? In this episode of Screw It Just DO It, I sit down with Simon Woodroffe OBE, the visionary founder behind Yo! Sushi and YOTEL, to talk about risk, creativity, and why going bigger can sometimes be safer. …

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Teaching Compassion - Heather Marshall & Michelle St John of VinE - Sentientism 237 1:31:24

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Michelle St. John is the founder and director of VinE (Veganism in Education). VinE aims, through education, to encourage the development of empathy, critical thinking and ethical decision making, She has background in law, having worked as a Crown Prosecutor, a Magistrate and as guest lecturer on English Law at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.…

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Starting Epidemic Sound During the 2008 Crash with Oscar Höglund 14:35

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What does it take to start a billion-dollar company during a financial crisis? In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, I sit down with Oscar Höglund, co-founder and CEO of Epidemic Sound, to hear how he turned a broken music licensing industry into a global platform used by millions of creators. Oscar shares how he and his co-founders launc…

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Darcy Laceby: From Student to Co-Founder of Absolute Collagen 53:37

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How to Stay Indistractable in Business and Life with Nir Eyal 14:14

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On this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It, I sit down with Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Indistractable, to unpack the real reason entrepreneurs get stuck. Nir shares how distraction doesn’t come from phones, emails, or social media, but from within. He explains how boredom, stress, and loneliness drive us towards procrastination and how learning to…

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83 - Dr. Rachel Kelz - Surgery, Equity, & Innovation 48:56

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In this episode of the PennHealthX Podcast, hosts Ziad Hassan and Habib Akouri sit down with Dr. Rachel Kelz to discuss her path into surgery and the wide-ranging impact of her career. Dr. Kelz is the William Maul Measey Professor of Surgery and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She also directs Pe…

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How ANNA Money Built a £30m ARR Business for Small Businesses 49:25

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On this episode of Screw It Just DO It I sit down with Boris Diakonov and Eduard Panteleev, the co-founders of ANNA Money, the UK-based business account built to make life easier for small business owners. ANNA combines finance, admin and tax tools in one AI-powered platform, complete with its trademark humour and cat logo. In this conversation we …

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How Lewis Howes Turned Setbacks into The School of Greatness 16:52

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There are moments in life when everything falls apart. For Lewis Howes, it was a combination of his father’s serious accident, a career-ending sports injury, and the global financial crash. He found himself broke, directionless, and living on his sister’s couch. In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, Lewis shares how those challenges force…

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Pip & Nut Founder Pip Murray on Growing a Challenger Brand 50:51

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This week on Screw It Just DO It I sit down with Pip Murray, the founder of Pip & Nut, the UK’s fastest-growing natural nut butter brand. Pip’s story starts with a marathon training run that sparked an idea for a better product, free from palm oil. That idea turned into Pip & Nut, now stocked in over 8,000 stores and recently crowned the number one…

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Giving $500 to 1000 people to do something Drop Dead Generous - Tom Cledwyn - Sentientism 236 1:29:42

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Tom Cledwyn describes himself as the "chief emailer" at Drop Dead Generous (he's actually the co-founder). Inspired by Chris Anderson's (of TED) book, "Infectious Generosity", Tom and his co-founder John Sweeney set up DDG as an experiment in sparking creative, fun, hopefully infectious generosity. They're giving away half a million dollars in $500…

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Mike McDerment on Bootstrapping FreshBooks from Zero to $1B 12:47

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When I sat down with Mike McDerment, founder of FreshBooks, his story reminded me why narrowing focus is often the smartest path to growth. In this Bite-sized episode, you’ll hear how Mike turned a small design problem into a billion-dollar company by obsessing over one specific customer segment. Mike shares how he resisted the temptation to serve …

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The UK’s Biggest Gathering of Founders Is Back 7:32

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This October we’re bringing together the UK’s most ambitious founders, investors, and business leaders for two days of no-fluff insights, practical workshops, and high-value networking at the Festival of Entrepreneurs 2025. In this episode, I’ll walk you through what the festival is, who it’s for, and what you can expect when you join us at the NEC…

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Backing Overlooked Founders with Nell Daly of Revenge Capital 50:14

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In this episode of Screw It Just DO It, I sit down with Nell Daly, founder and managing partner of Revenge Capital. Nell went from a career in clinical psychology to raising a $70 million fund designed to back overlooked and underestimated founders. She explains how her experiences working with people struggling financially shaped her mission to he…

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How Innocent Drinks Became a $500M Brand with Richard Reed 11:52

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In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, I revisit my conversation with Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent Drinks, who sold the smoothie brand to Coca-Cola for over $500 million. Richard shares how Innocent started as three friends selling smoothies at festivals and grew into Europe’s leading healthy drinks company without a master plan or…

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The Truth About Hiring for Scale-Ups with Jo Dalton 53:50

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I’m joined by Jo Dalton, a serial founder, investor, and champion of female entrepreneurs — to talk about what it really takes to build leadership teams, back founders, and scale businesses without losing your edge. Jo founded JD & CO after years in corporate, determined to create a recruitment firm that actually supports entrepreneurs instead of c…

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We're Reaching a Critical Mass - Consumer Behaviour Expert Jack Waverley - Sentientism 235 1:24:03

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Jack Waverley is a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Manchester. He uses marketing and consumer research to protect and promote the interests of all animals, including humans. Jack teaches on a range of BSc and MSc courses in the Fashion, Business, and Technology (FBT) group. He also supervises a number of PhD and dissertation stude…

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Lord Bilimoria: How Cobra Beer Scaled Against All Odds 13:49

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In this Bite-sized Screw It Just DO It episode, I revisit my conversation with Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer, as he shares the story of how he built one of the world’s most recognisable beer brands from scratch. He launched during a recession, with no credibility, no resources, and fierce competition from global giants. What he did ha…

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Launching a Business at 50 with Absolute Collagen's Maxine Laceby 57:17

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In this episode of Screw It Just DO It, I speak with Maxine Laceby, founder of Absolute Collagen. Maxine launched the business at 50 from her kitchen table after raising her two daughters, turning a simple idea for bone broth into one of the UK’s fastest-growing beauty supplement brands now valued at over £50 million. She shares how her journey was…

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82 - Dr. Daniel Hashimoto - Surgery, Innovation, & AI 45:46

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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Daniel Hashimoto, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Hashimoto shares his journey at the intersection of surgery and artificial intelligence, exploring how computer vision and machine learning are resha…

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The Best Global Beauty Expansion Strategy with Rodial's Maria Hatzistefanis 13:57

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When the world shut down, Maria Hatzistefanis doubled down. In this episode, I sat down with the founder of Rodial and Nip+Fab, who shared exactly how she pivoted during the pandemic, scaled her beauty empire to 35 countries, and leveraged both old-school trade shows and new-school DTC strategies to build a global brand. Maria gets honest about the…

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Episode 01: The Norwegian and Immigrant (1880-1910) 26:25

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Rockne: The Norwegian and Immigrant (1880-1910) This episode explores the early years of young Knute from Voss, Norway, to his days as a young man in Chicago, until the fateful day some friends tell him of a small Catholic college in Indiana called Notre Dame. Hosted by Alex Painter, a Notre Dame fan and historian. You can listen to Alex’s Notre Da…

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Episode 02: The Student-Athlete (1910-1914) 39:54

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Rockne: The Student-Athlete (1910-1914) In this episode, we’ll dive into Knute Rockne’s college years at Notre Dame, exploring how he balanced his academics in chemistry, his budding athletic career, as well as other on-campus activities. On the football field, his pivotal role in the 1913 Army game and his work on perfecting the forward pass at Ce…

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Episode 03: Life after Graduation (1914-1918) 35:21

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Rockne: Life after Graduation (1914-1918) In this episode, we’ll explore Knute Rockne’s journey after his 1914 graduation from the University of Notre Dame, including his development as an assistant coach under Jesse Harper, his brief career in semiprofessional and early professional football, and his marriage to Bonnie Skiles. As college athletics…

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Episode 04: Head Coach, Part One (1918-1920) 43:04

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Rockne: The Head Coach, Part One (1918-1920) In this episode, we’re diving headfirst into the exhilarating, unpredictable early years of Knute Rockne’s tenure as head coach of the Notre Dame football team. Rockne, a man of boundless energy and relentless ambition, wasted no time in making his mark—but his path to glory was anything but smooth. As w…