Built In The Margins

This week the same lesson kept showing up across everything I had going on — stop guessing and look at the actual data. I talk through a cashflow situation that felt like a problem but turned out to be something else entirely once I actually reviewed the numbers. I get into how my weekly business review is changing the way I make decisions, why I was feeling like the business had taken a step back...

This week I'm sharing the story of a sourcing mistake that turned into a multi-day roadtrip around Boots stores across the North East, all because I missed a subtle difference on a product box. What started as a simple retail arbitrage purchase became a lesson in recovery, problem-solving, and what happens when you're building a business with very little spare time. I talk about the reality of han...

Episode one of Built in the Margins. I'm Russ Britton - firefighter, husband, dad, and someone building real businesses alongside a real life. This first episode is an introduction to who I am, where I've come from, and why I'm doing this. I talk through my 20 years in the fire service, how I built a dog walking business from scratch to a team of seven, and why my daughter arriving four years ago...