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Sara Davies built the business that changed her life.
Then she had to fight to save it.
In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Sara tells the story of what happened when Crafter’s Companion, the company she founded from her bedroom, ran into serious trouble and ultimately entered administration.
She talks candidly about buying the business back, the brutal 18 months that followed, and what it feels like when the company that has defined so much of your life suddenly becomes the source of enormous pressure.
This is not simply a story about business recovery.
We talk about the decisions and warning signs that founders can miss when a company is growing, including the uncomfortable reality of doing around £20 million in revenue while struggling for cash.
Sara also opens up about stepping away from Dragons’ Den, the pressure of trying to be a founder, investor, television personality and mother at the same time, and reaching the point where she knew something had to change.
We explore ADHD, hyperfocus, motherhood, guilt, resilience, investing and the psychology that has allowed Sara to keep moving forward through some of the most difficult periods of her career.
In this conversation:
• What really happened inside Crafter’s Companion
• How a business can generate huge revenue and still run into cash problems
• Why Sara decided to buy her company back
• The toughest 18 months of her business career
• The founder mistakes she can now see more clearly
• Why she stepped back from Dragons’ Den
• The pressure of combining ambition, business and family
• Sara’s experience of ADHD and hyperfocus
• How she evaluates entrepreneurs and investments
• What difficult periods have taught her about resilience
This is a very different side of Sara Davies.
It is a conversation about what happens when success becomes complicated, when the business you built needs saving, and how you rebuild both the company and the founder behind it.
The Entrepreneur Experiment is about one central idea:
Build a better founder, not just a better business.
James Haskell: The Hard Truth About Success, Reinvention & Life After Rugby
Saison 31 · Épisode 523
jeudi 17 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:14:35
James Haskell has spent most of his life performing under pressure.
He won 77 caps for England, toured with the British & Irish Lions, played professional rugby around the world and then had to figure out who he was when the game stopped.
Today, James is an entrepreneur, broadcaster, author, DJ and co-host of The Good, The Bad & The Rugby. He’s also building Blackeye Spirits alongside Mike Tindall and Alex Payne.
But this isn’t really an episode about rugby.
It’s about building a better founder, not just a better business.
We talk about why self-awareness may be the ultimate competitive advantage, how elite sport teaches you to handle brutal feedback, why ambitious people struggle to recognise when enough is enough, and how James rebuilt his identity after rugby.
We also get into focus, saying no, buying back your time, therapy, accountability, personal branding, choosing business opportunities, the creator economy, why information is becoming free and why implementation is becoming more valuable.
James is candid, funny and completely unfiltered throughout.
If you’re ambitious, stretched across too many things, or trying to work out what success actually means to you, there’s a lot in this one.
In This Episode
We cover:
What professional sport teaches you about business
Why “you can lie to everyone else, but you can’t lie to yourself”
How to receive feedback without letting your ego get in the way
The four things James believes you can actually control
Why achievement can leave high performers permanently unfulfilled
The difference between chasing outcomes and mastering process
What Eddie Jones taught him about excellence
Reinventing yourself when your first career ends
Why James started preparing for life after rugby at 20
Learning to say no to opportunities
How he decides which businesses and projects deserve his time
Why he refuses most equity-only deals
Authenticity, personal branding and protecting audience trust
Why information is becoming free but implementation will remain valuable
Therapy, mental performance and changing your emotional state
His approach to focus, batching and avoiding distraction
Why even a former professional athlete pays someone to keep him accountable
Buying back your time
Defining how much money is actually “enough”
Turning The Good, The Bad & The Rugby from a podcast into a media business
Why modern podcasts need to think beyond audio
Building Blackeye Spirits and the mission behind the Blackeye Rugby Fund
Links & Resources
James Haskell: official site covering his rugby, books, music and other projects. James Haskell official website (https://jameshaskell.com/)
The Good, The Bad & The Rugby: James hosts alongside Mike Tindall and Alex Payne; the show describes itself as the world’s biggest rugby podcast. The Good, The Bad & The Rugby (https://goodbadrugby.com/)
Blackeye Spirits: James, Mike Tindall and Alex Payne’s spirits business. The brand says its Rugby Fund aims to eventually invest £1 million annually supporting injured players, research, risk reduction and recovery.
Blackeye Spirits (https://blackeyespirits.com/
James’s books: What A Flanker, Ruck Me and Approach (With)out Caution are all featured on his official site.
Her Last Words Changed His Life. Then He Built a Business Helping Thousands | Danny Buckley
Saison 31 · Épisode 522
jeudi 10 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:19:26
This is one of the most personal founder stories we’ve recorded on The Entrepreneur Experiment.
Danny Buckley is the co-founder of ADHD Now and a 2026 EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
But the company exists because of a far more personal story.
Danny spent much of his life struggling with distraction, emotional dysregulation, anxiety and a lack of structure without understanding why.
His wife Simone believed he had ADHD. Danny dismissed it.
Then life changed completely.
After years of serious health challenges, Simone became critically ill. The day before she died, she told Danny that life was short, that he needed to stop inflicting suffering on himself, get help for his ADHD, understand who he was and back himself.
Danny eventually followed her advice.
His diagnosis at 32 gave him a new understanding of himself, but getting there exposed another problem: accessing ADHD assessment and support was extraordinarily difficult.
Danny saw an opportunity to change that.
Together with his co-founders, he built ADHD Now around a simple idea: people should be able to get answers in weeks rather than wait years.
We unpack how they found clinical capacity, built the technology and processes, generated demand, scaled the team and created a service that expects to see 13,000 patients in 2026.
But this conversation goes far beyond business.
Danny speaks openly about grief, becoming emotionally available for his son, sobriety, faith, asking for help and learning to live with structure and discipline.
We also explore why ADHD appears so frequently among entrepreneurs, how hyperfocus can become both an advantage and a liability, and why Danny eventually had to recognise that not every exciting business opportunity deserved his attention.
His personal framework is beautifully simple: desire, hard work and help.
And each morning, he returns to his Three Cs:
Connection. Compassion. Contribution.
This is a story about what happens when you finally understand yourself, accept what you cannot control and put your energy into what you can.
As Danny puts it:
“Life is short. Enjoy the life you’ve left.”
IN THIS EPISODE
Danny’s experience of living with undiagnosed ADHD
The final conversation with his wife Simone that changed the direction of his life
Why he travelled to the UK to receive his ADHD diagnosis
How diagnosis brought structure, discipline and emotional awareness into his life
Why getting a diagnosis is only the beginning
Turning his own experience into the idea for ADHD Now
The stranger Danny met outside the hospital who would later back the business
How ADHD Now went from idea to launch in a matter of months
Recruiting clinicians when the healthcare system was already at capacity
Using technology and systems to reduce friction for patients
Why private providers may form part of the solution to healthcare waiting lists
The relationship between ADHD, hyperfocus and entrepreneurship
Why Danny bought two bakeries while scaling a healthcare company
Learning when ADHD-driven curiosity becomes distraction
Danny’s formula of desire, hard work and help
His Three Cs: Connection, Compassion and Contribution
The moment at EY Entrepreneur of the Year when Danny finally felt proud of himself
Why he rejects the idea that founders have to be miserable to succeed
Faith, fatherhood and redefining what success means
Why “action removes anxiety”
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Building a trusted brand rarely comes from one viral moment. It comes from showing up consistently, solving real problems and earning people’s attention over time.
In this Mentor Moment, Laura Dowling shares how she built credibility by making complex health information easier to understand and creating content that genuinely helped her audience.
It’s a valuable lesson for any founder or creator trying to grow a brand: trust compounds, consistency matters and meaningful impact will always outlast a temporary spike in views.
🎧 Listen back to Laura’s full conversation in Episode 466 of The Entrepreneur Experiment for more on her journey from pharmacist to educator, entrepreneur and trusted voice in women’s health.
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EE520: Thomas Carty - From 300 Boxes to Nationwide Retail | How He Built Thirst
Saison 31 · Épisode 1
jeudi 3 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:38:53
In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Gary Fox sits down with professional heavyweight boxer and Thirst co-founder Thomas Carty to unpack how he built one of Ireland’s fastest-growing hydration brands while pursuing a career in professional boxing.
The idea began with Thomas’s own search for a convenient electrolyte product to support his training. When the brand he relied on stopped shipping to Ireland, he decided to create his own. Within just ten weeks, Thomas and his business partner had developed and self-funded their first 300 boxes—but producing the product was only the beginning.
After pharmacies, health shops and supplement stores refused to stock them, Thomas loaded the boxes into his car and began selling them one at a time to coffee shops and saunas across Dublin. Today, Thirst works with more than 20 distributors and is stocked across Ireland in hundreds of cafés, vending machines, gyms, forecourts and major retail groups.
Thomas shares the reality behind that growth: the uncomfortable early sales, the importance of moving quickly, how founder-led content helped build trust and why the right business partner allowed him to balance building Thirst with training up to 11 times a week.
If you have an idea you’ve been waiting to launch, this episode is a practical masterclass in product development, distribution, founder-led marketing and getting started before everything is perfect.
🎧 Show Notes:
In this episode, we cover:
🥊 How Thomas’s Olympic ambitions led him into professional boxing
💡 The sauna conversation that sparked the idea for Thirst
🤝 Finding a business partner with complementary skills
⚡ Developing and self-funding the first product in just ten weeks
📦 Starting with 300 boxes across three flavours
🚪 What happened when pharmacies and supplement stores refused to stock the brand
☕ Creating a new route to market through coffee shops and saunas
🚗 Driving across Dublin to sell one box at a time
📱 Using social proof and founder-led content to build trust
🎙️ The podcast appearance that created a major spike in sales
📈 Growing from one distributor to more than 20
🛒 Designing packaging specifically for convenience and retail
🏪 Expanding into hundreds of cafés and vending machines across Ireland
⏱️ Why speed has become one of Thirst’s greatest advantages
🧠 Balancing a growing company with 11 boxing and training sessions each week
📓 The physical diary Thomas relies on to manage his life and workload
🌍 Why export—not launching a canned drink—is the next priority
📣 Why social media remains the most powerful free tool available to founders
🚀 What Thomas would do differently if he were launching Thirst again
🔥 Why blind faith and hard work form his personal formula for success
💬 “The secret sauce is graft. There’s no secret.” – Thomas Carty
🔗 Links & Resources:
Thirst: https://thirstlife.com
Thirst on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thirst.life
Thomas Carty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_thomascarty
Thomas Carty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-carty-775516162
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EE519: Mentor Moment: Mark Breen - Opportunities Rarely Arrive Planned
dimanche 9 août 2026 • Durée 06:38
The biggest opportunities in your career rarely arrive with a perfect plan.
In this Mentor Moment, Mark Breen, founder of Safe Events Global, shares how saying yes, staying open to unexpected opportunities and being willing to follow where the work led helped shape his career.
It’s a powerful reminder that progress is not always linear. Sometimes, the next step only becomes clear after you take it.
🎧 Listen back to Mark’s full conversation in Episode 463 of The Entrepreneur Experiment for more on his journey, the growth of Safe Events Global and the lessons he has learned along the way.
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EE518 - Jeff Dodds: The Formula for Scaling a Global Sport to 400m+ Fans
Saison 30
vendredi 7 août 2026 • Durée 56:35
In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Gary Fox sits down with Jeff Dodds, CEO of Formula E, the electric motorsport championship that has grown from no established fan base to more than 400 million fans worldwide.
Jeff takes us inside the rapidly expanding business of global sport and explains how Formula E is combining close-combat racing, world-famous manufacturers, sustainability, social media and entertainment to build the next generation of motorsport.
He shares the unconventional story of how he moved from leading Virgin Media O2 into Formula E, what he discovered during his first month as CEO, and why he keeps a game of Snakes and Ladders behind his desk as a reminder of the realities of running a scale-up.
Jeff also reveals the leadership principles that shape Formula E’s culture, including the three qualities he looks for in every team member: energy, optimism and accountability. He explains how obsessive behaviour can become a competitive advantage, why leaders must focus on what they can control, and how Formula E uses immediate post-race debriefs to turn lessons into action.
From managing his energy while travelling for six months of the year to balancing competition, training and recovery, this is a fascinating conversation about leadership, performance and building a global sports platform.
For founders, CEOs and anyone trying to scale an ambitious organisation, this episode is packed with practical insights.
Show Notes
In this episode, we cover:
🏎️ How Formula E grew to more than 400 million fans worldwide
💰 How the business of global sport actually makes money
📱 The role of creators, social media and entertainment in growing a sport
🔥 Why obsessiveness can become a competitive advantage
🪜 Jeff’s “Snakes and Ladders” approach to leading a scale-up
⚡ The three traits behind high-performing teams: energy, optimism and accountability
📝 Formula E’s “I like, I wonder” post-race debrief system
🔋 How Jeff manages energy, travel and recovery as a global CEO
🚀 Why first-mover advantage still matters in business
Links and Resources
Connect with Jeff and Formula E
Formula E official website (https://www.fiaformulae.com/)
Formula E on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/formula-e/)
Jeff Dodds on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedodds/)
Formula E on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiaformulae/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/@FIAFormulaE
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EE517 - Mentor Moment: Ryan Casey - Build the Brand Before You Build the Business
dimanche 2 août 2026 • Durée 08:15
ou don’t need a huge budget to prove that an idea can work. You need creativity, resourcefulness and the willingness to start.
In this Mentor Moment, Ryan Casey, founder of C11 Recovery, shares how he began building the brand with limited resources by creating recovery boxes, tapping into his network and finding smart ways to test demand before scaling.
It’s a practical lesson in building momentum without waiting for perfect conditions, using partnerships to create opportunities and proving the concept before making bigger investments.
🎧 Listen back to Ryan’s full conversation in Episode 462 of The Entrepreneur Experiment for more on the story behind C11 Recovery and the lessons he has learned building the business.
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EE516 - From €237 in the Bank to Building a Global Accessibility Company | Stephen Cluskey
Saison 30
jeudi 30 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:17:19
In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Gary Fox sits down with Stephen Cluskey, CEO and co-founder of Mobility Mojo.
At 18, Stephen broke his neck in a freak accident and was paralysed from the neck down. After years focused on rehabilitation, a six-hour wait for an accessible taxi inspired his first business and ultimately led to the creation of Mobility Mojo.
Stephen shares how the company survived with just €237 left in the bank, adapted when Covid shut down the hospitality industry and evolved into a global workplace accessibility platform used by major organisations.
This is a powerful conversation about resilience, purpose, product-market fit and why the people who survive are often those most willing to adapt.
🎧 Show Notes
In this episode, we cover:
🔥 The accident that changed Stephen’s life at 18
🎯 Using small goals to navigate recovery
🚕 The inaccessible taxi experience that sparked his first business
💶 Reaching just €237 in the company bank account
🌍 The conversation that transformed Mobility Mojo’s business model
🦠 Pivoting when Covid shut down the hospitality industry
🏢 Building a global workplace accessibility platform
📈 Raising investment and winning major enterprise clients
♿ Why accessibility goes far beyond ramps and bathrooms
⚖️ Combining social impact with a profitable business model
👥 The importance of team, perseverance and adaptability
💬 “It’s not the strongest that survive; it’s those that adapt.” – Stephen Cluskey
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EE515 - Mentor Moment: Dan Lawrence: Recovery Is the Performance Multiplier
Saison 30
dimanche 26 juillet 2026 • Durée 06:52
What if the key to performing at your best isn't working harder—but recovering better?
In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Gary Fox sits down with performance coach Dan Lawrence to explore the science behind sustainable high performance. Drawing on years of experience working with elite athletes, founders and executives, Dan explains why recovery isn't a reward for hard work—it's what makes peak performance possible.
They discuss the hidden cost of chronic stress, the importance of sleep, nutrition and movement, and why the world's highest performers treat recovery as seriously as training. Dan also shares practical strategies to improve focus, resilience and long-term performance without burning out.
Whether you're building a business, leading a team or simply trying to perform better in your everyday life, this conversation is packed with actionable insights you can start applying immediately.
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