Our Head Coach, Selina Barker, is about to set off on her own big adventure. She’s packing up her life, reducing all her possessions, and putting everything that remains into a campervan named Beryl. Then she sets off for a 6 month road trip around the UK and Europe, meeting people, having fun, and running [...]
Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Neil Mullarkey of the Comedy Store Players on dealing with fear
Posted by John on November 8th, 2010
Every week for the last 25 years, Neil Mullarkey has taken the stage at the most famous comedy club in the UK, The Comedy Store, and started a 2 hour show with no script whatsoever. As you can imagine, he is no stranger to fear. He’s also made brave choices with his career, constantly changing [...]
How to stand out from the crowd
Posted by John on July 30th, 2010
Once you escape the world of the job and start working for yourself, your challenge quickly becomes how to win enough work. And to do that you need to be willing to shake off the anonymity of the crowd and stand up and stand out for something. For some quick tips on how to do [...]
How to be idle (and still be a success) – a video interview with Tom Hodgkinson
Posted by John on May 19th, 2010
Your vision of the rich life might not be about huge amounts of money. It might be having lots of free time that’s more important to you – just as Tom Hodgkinson discovered. Tom is editor of bi-annual magazine The Idler and author of several excellent books including How To Be Idle, How To Be [...]
Meet the man who travels the world and gets paid doing it – the Chris Guillebeau interview
Posted by John on May 17th, 2010
Chris Guillebeau makes a full-time living from his blog The Art of Non Conformity while travelling the world on his mission to visit every country on Earth. Last year he very kindly agreed to be interviewed for my book Screw Work, Let’s Play and share a little of what’s made his lifestyle possible. Chris, how do [...]
How I created the 50 million selling game Jenga – by Leslie Scott
Posted by John on May 13th, 2010
Leslie Scott created one the world’s favourite games, Jenga, so I was delighted when she agreed to be interviewed for my book Screw Work, Let’s Play. Here, she explains how she turned her baby brother’s playing bricks into the world’s second biggest selling game (topped only by Monopoly). She also explains how she kept going through [...]
Tim Smit – creator of the Eden Project and rock ‘n’ roll entrepreneur
Posted by John on April 23rd, 2010
Tim Smit led the creation of the £130 million Eden Project. What was once a disused clay pit went on to become one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK despite its relatively remote location in the hills behind St Austell in Cornwall. Tim is, in my terms, very much a player. He [...]
CD Baby – the $22 million business Derek Sivers built for fun
Posted by John on April 15th, 2010
Two years ago Derek Sivers sold his business CD Baby for $22 million (most of which he gave to a charitable trust to support music education). How did he start it all? With a grand mission and comprehensive business plan? Nope. He started with the simple aim of solving a problem he had himself – finding [...]
How 3 entrepreneurs turned their passions into successful businesses & had fun doing it
Posted by John on April 2nd, 2010
This recording of three very playful entrepreneurs is utterly brilliant. It will show you how you can find the confidence to follow your dreams, how to start a business without knowing where you’re heading (or how you’re going to get there), how to enlist the help of some of the most important people in the [...]
