No Bollocks with Matt Haycox

He bought an apartment listed at 20 million for 7, and he doesn't think he's a great negotiator. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@NoBollockswithMattHaycox Repurposed from a podcast Matt recorded in Bali, where apparently a gym session is two and a half hours of talking and thirty minutes of lifting. His take: raising capital is just high-ticket sales in a different suit. The richest b...

Coco Development Group founder Rasmus Holst is fine with Bali having almost no mortgages, while Matt thinks it will stunt growth. Rasmus Holst joins Matt Haycox to explain how a Danish kid who made his first million kroner at 12 reselling second-hand luxury goods, ended up founding Coco Development Group in Bali. He arrived three and a half years ago, flipped a rented villa, then built his first c...

Gael Breton spent 15 years building a business on SEO. Then one Google update wiped out his sites, and he shut the whole thing down overnight. In this episode, Matt sits down with Gael Breton, co-founder of Authority Hacker, about what he did next, going all-in on AI two years before most marketers did, and building a training business now over 1,000 members strong. Gael is blunt about the hype: h...

Everyone borrows. Almost nobody borrows from eighty different people Repurposed from Jigar Sagar's podcast The Hidden Code, this one is about money - how you get it, how you keep it, and what happens when the people lending it to you all want it back at once. Matt takes it from a kid asking his mum whether the doctor was a millionaire, to running the biggest strip club group in the UK by 28,...

In these ‘Mic Drops,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of No Bollocks with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again. Will Brown built and sold a £16.4 million online education business, then built a second one doing over a million pounds a month teaching others how to do the same. The same w...

In these ‘Mic Drops,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of No Bollocks with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again. Matt Haycox is an entrepreneur who went bankrupt at 27 - with a wife, a one-year-old, and the safety net he'd quietly assumed was underneath him already gone. Now 45 with...

In these ‘Mic Drops,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of No Bollocks with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again. Most people are building a personal brand the wrong way, and they don't even know it. In this Mic Drop, personal branding expert Alex Shaw breaks down the five mistakes t...

In these ‘Mic Drops,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of No Bollocks with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again. Ryan Herrington went sober, lost all his friends overnight, and found himself alone in Bali with no one to call except a stranger from a podcast he'd listened to two year...

Lousin Mehrabi has spent two decades in high stakes negotiations and says the best negotiators are all calm, composed introverts. Lousin Mehrabi joins Matt Haycox to strip the aggression myth out of negotiation. She started in finance on the trading floors, handling M&A, IPOs and lobbying, until a year of corporate training in 2013 under professional negotiators, one from the French special fo...

Most people think buying a franchise means buying a business. It doesn't - and the gap between those two things is where most franchisees lose money. Cliff Nonnenmacher has spent 25 years and owned 12 different franchise brands, and in this episode he pulls back the curtain on how the industry actually operates - from why you can never truly own a Chick-fil-A, to why food franchises carry som...

Jesper Nielsen co-founded one of the biggest jewellery brands on the planet. Then the Danish state froze every account he had - overnight. In this episode, Matt sits down with Jesper Nielsen, the Danish entrepreneur who took Pandora from a €500,000-a-year business to a global giant and the biggest IPO in Danish history. But the real story is what came after: a routine tax inspection that spiralled...

Most business owners know they're the bottleneck. The problem is, knowing it and actually getting out of the way are very different things. In this episode, Matt sits down with George Rivera — a multi eight and nine figure entrepreneur who scaled a supplements brand past $200 million — to talk about the moment his business started suffocating him, and what he did about it. George breaks down...

Most fitness businesses fail because the owner can't separate the business from themselves. Scott Capelin built one that runs without him. In this episode, Matt sits down with Scott Capelin, founder of In Life Wellness, an Australian-based Pilates franchise now operating across 60-plus locations in Australia and the USA. Scott's story isn't a straight line — he sold five franchise l...

This week Matt is in the hot seat. Repurposed from Dan Banks Nachmias' podcast Parenting Without the Manual, this one goes deeper than business. It's about where hunger comes from, what money actually does to kids, and how to raise children who can stand on their own two feet, without quietly doing it for them. Matt gets into growing up with money without growing up entitled, the invisib...

Most business owners are creating content constantly and still getting ignored. The problem isn't effort, it's that nobody knows who you are. In this episode, Matt Haycox sits down with personal branding expert Alex Shaw to break down why most people are invisible to the very audience they're trying to reach. Alex covers the difference between a personal brand that pulls people in a...

Most men don’t lack ambition. They lack a place to offload the pressure without turning to alcohol, isolation, or silence. In this episode, Matt Haycox sits down with Ryan Herrington, co-founder of BrotherhoodXBusiness, a global brotherhood and private members club for founders and entrepreneurs who are done doing business and life alone. Ryan shares his rock-bottom moment: stepping on the scales...

Will Brown went from DJ to trader, to selling a basic $50 “Word doc” to building an online education business that hit £16.4M and sold to private equity, then he scaled his advisory firm BG&E (Build, Grow & Exit) to £1.3M/month while working with 741+ clients. In this episode, Will breaks down the real mechanics behind scaling an online business: hiring, paid ads, why most “info businesses...

The fitness coaching space is saturated — which means you either niche down or you disappear. In this episode, Matt Haycox sits down with Chris Wright, an online transformation coach best known for helping men over 30 lose the dad bod, get a six-pack, and stay lean without living like a monk. Chris breaks down the real business behind the results: how getting fired pushed him online, why mentors a...

In this short No Bollocks business lesson, Matt Haycox breaks down the 3 core strategies that have driven everything he’s built, and why most entrepreneurs fail because they ignore them. This is a practical blueprint for founders who want to build a bigger network, raise finance, and stop hiding behind “work smarter” when they haven’t even done the hard work first. What you’ll learn:  Why networki...

Most people think building a business means starting from scratch.  Dee Ludlow’s view: it’s often smarter to buy momentum. In this episode, Matt Haycox sits down with Dee Ludlow to unpack how business acquisitions work at the small-to-mid market level: why “buy don’t build” has exploded, what sellers actually care about (hint: it’s not only money), and how the best buyers win deals through relatio...

Networking isn’t about being loud. It’s about being useful, visible, and around the right people. In this short No Bollocks business lesson, Matt gives you 8 ways to grow your network that anyone can start today, regardless of business, confidence, or budget. You’ll learn how to attract opportunities through content, build goodwill by helping people already in your circle, and expand outside your...

This episode isn't about social media followers. It's about why millions of business owners are already being left behind, and most of them don't even know it yet. In this conversation, Matt Haycox sits down with John Lee, entrepreneur, investor, and one of the world's leading voices on AI and digital growth, to unpack the strategies, systems, and tools that are quietly separat...

Most people focus on making money. The wealthy focus on keeping it. In this episode, Matt Haycox sits down with Richard McWhorter, managing partner at SRM Private Wealth in Beverly Hills, to break down what high net worth clients actually care about: wealth preservation, trust, tax strategy, estate planning, and the real-world psychology behind financial decisions. Richard manages $2.1B for 36 fam...

Most people fear bankruptcy so much they stop taking the chances they need to build the business, and the life, they want.  In this short No Bollocks lesson, Matt breaks down the uncomfortable truth: bankruptcy isn’t something to chase or glamorise, but it’s often less terminal than people think. If you’re already drowning in bills, creditor letters, stress and sleepless nights, bankruptcy can som...

Most podcast guests talk for an hour, and walk away with nothing. In this 17-minute lesson, Matt shows you the exact storytelling framework that turns listeners into leads, calls, and clients, without sounding salesy.  In this No Bollocks business lesson, Matt breaks down the podcast storytelling framework that turns a cold listener into a warm buyer, without doing a cringe pitch. You’ll learn the...