Ambitious Lifestyle Business podcast

Ian's been working in the Corporate world for Lloyds Bank 21 years ago. Yes he started there when he was 11! Buying his first investment property in 2014 his Corporate job was flipped upside in 2016 and the penny clicked that he should create a lifestyle around property rather than a life around his job. Ian now has interests in property investment, property management and property education. In b...

ALB84 – The Christmas Special 2021 It's the most wonderful time of the year Christmas just would not be the same without the annual tradition of John and Jason rounding their year up in true ALB style. Have you played Whamageddon? If you don't know what that is, you will know and you will want to play. Is Die Hard a Christmas film? This is a jam or cream first type scenario isn't it? When John met...

Evergreen Assets is OUT NOW! Get a FREE sample chapter at https://bigidea.co.uk/evergreen-assets   In this bonus episode of the ALB podcast, John reads the opening chapter of the book LIVE (including a rather "interesting" attempt at singing a Christmas song), as well as a bonus chapter that isn't in the print version of the book.

ALB83 – The man with the BEST podcast voice This month's guest is fellow One Percenter Jonathan Rees. Jonathan delivers soft-skills workshops, strategic facilitation, keynote talks and 1:1 coaching, building on experience from corporate life including 14 years at Hewlett Packard, where he led a virtual team spread across the globe. Jonathan helps build and improve the performance and resilience of...

#ALB82 – John Warrillow This month's episode is slightly different, as you know we normally chat with a client, but today we are taking to bestselling author John Warrillow, who is the author of best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and just so happens to be John Lamerton's...

#ALB81 – Alun missed the memo regards 1% weekly gains Alun is a registered psychotherapist who works on a 1-2-1 basis with his clients but also teaches and shares his expertise with other psychotherapists through his website fresh therapists . He uses this platform to educate therapists and counsellors on how to achieve transformational change with their clients.  Alun translates the breakthroughs...

For the 5th year running, we have the ALB Summer Special edition with John and Jason. So, what have they been up to this year? Well, there is another book for John on its way "Evergreen Assets" which is currently at the editing stage. 106,000 words was then down to 94,000 then back up to 104,000 he was then totally ruthless and was sitting at 102,000 words and at the time of recording lost another...

#ALB79 – Why Sarah Lamerton closed the doors after just 18 months 18 months ago Sarah quit her job and started her new business. In that time using the techniques she shares in this podcast she has gained a decade of experience, is currently completely full and has closed her books in order to embrace the lifestyle business she wanted to achieve. School Days Sarah had worked as a teacher for almos...

#ALB78 – A ticket to Italy please School Days Today's guest is Andy Keveren, Andy attended 11 different schools and left with no GCSE'S due to his family's service upbringing. He then went back to college to obtain his GCSE English and Maths, he also studied Business Studies but by his own admission doesn't remember a thing about that but it is clear that this didn't stop him creating a successful...

This month's guest is Dan Harrison who is the Director and lead developer at WPdoctors Dans whirlwind romance with WordPress  Dan accidentally slipped into the world of WordPress back in 2005, when it was only a couple of years old. It has since become a very significant platform for websites. Over time his aspirations started to grow, and he wanted more and more, but this resulted in him working...

Lee Penton spent years building a small graphic design agency, only to find that his business was running him, not the other way around. He was burning out, and needed to find another way. One "lightbulb moment" later, Lee now pays as much attention to designing his business and lifestyle, as he does to designing websites and logos - and he's now teaching others how to build a freelance business t...

The One Percent Club March intake closes at 9pm on Wednesday March 31st. Click here to join, or find out more . In this episode, John answers some of the questions you asked in a recent "Ask Me ANYTHING..."

Emma Walton was a teacher, with two (very!) young children at home when she started her Tuition business - and through a process of constant, never-ending improvement, Emma's business has grown alongside her kids. She now employs 45 tutors, and helps 350 children a week, as she's designed her business as an ambitious, lifestyle business - to deliver the lifestyle that she TRULY wants. For links to...

Whether you call them 1% gains, Winner Stays On, Marginal Gains, optimisation, or Constant And Never-ending Improvement - doesn't matter. What matters is that you strive to be better tomorrow than you were today. The One Percent Club is NOT about growing your business. A bigger business often means more stress, more problems and more responsibilities.  More isn't better. Better is better. The One...

Nine years ago, James Marks sat, head in hands at his kitchen table, wondering how he was going to pay the bills. Today, James owns a number of businesses, employs 34 people, and has systemised his entire operation - leaving him free to write romance novels. Yes, really.  In this episode, James tells us exactly how he became an "overnight success" in those nine years. In this episode, you'll disco...

#ALB73 – The man who keeps people connected….. Tony Smith This month's guest is Tony Smith, Tony served 30 years with Lincolnshire police before enjoying some well-deserved rest in retirement. But it wasn't long before he started getting restless, and when his son took redundancy and started up his own business a discussion took place. Tony joined his son and together they grew the business that i...

So, the end of 2020 is in sight and I am sure that it will be a welcomed goodbye for a lot of us. But firstly we have the upbeat and uplifting #ALB Christmas Special podcast with John and Jason, which has become a bit of a Christmas tradition, so grab yourself a festive beverage to sip on, sit back and enjoy an hour of John and Jason as they reflect upon 2020, the ups and downs, and their plans fo...

In this months episode, we have our One Percent Club resident Facebook ads expert Danny Harris. If Facebook ads are what you need advice on Danny is the man to go to, when he started working in this industry, he was purely managing Facebook pages for people. There was no advertising involved, times have moved on and now he works much more on the advertising side of things because Facebook pages ha...

This months guest is Steve West owner of The Pudding Compartment , (John's perfect client). Steve makes delicious handcrafted cakes, biscuits, flapjacks, Brownies, sticky, toffee, puddings cookies, scones, you name it, all white labelled for businesses such as Virgin trains and 2016 apprentice winner Alana Spencer. Steve joined the One Percent Club 6 months ago with 3 clear goals, there have been...

#ALB69 – Meet The One Percenters   It is September, which means the doors to the One Percent Club are officially open!   The One Percent Club is a community of like-minded business owners, looking to grow their business, get more free time, and make more money – without just working harder.    One Percenters want to be held accountable, they want focus, and they want structure.   They understand t...

#ALB68 – The Ghost of Business Past This summer special episode is going to take you all on a little trip down memory lane and look at not only what John has done over the last 20 years, but also and maybe most importantly what he has learned. Some of the mistakes that have been made and some of the key takeaways that you can benefit from. 20 Years ago, John was working as a civil servant, he had...

This episode's guest is Rupert Bassadone, Rupert spent his early years in the circus, living in trucks and caravans, he missed a lot of school but the circus lifestyle came to an end when it went off to America and never came back, Rupert then moved into the city lifestyle, joined school and settled into a different lifestyle. He is grateful for his early years upbringing as with this backround it...

Join us with our guest, John Risby, this Thursday for the latest episode of the ALB Podcast. John has worked for himself most of his life, originally a programmer, and later a web developer. He eventually discovered affiliate marketing. Where, like many of us, he made hay whilst the sun, shone, in the early days of ad-words, including a very nice profit from the incredibly annoying, crazy frog rin...

In this episode we welcome Karlie Somerville aka the queen of green, at the moment she is helping more than 4000 business owners deal with the crisis that coronavirus has brought. Karlie is a two-time former One Percenter and made a guest appearance in John's last book, "Routine Machine." 3 years ago, Karlie said she was going to get a commercial business premises, a few people told her she wouldn...