Welcome to the Business Growth Secrets podcast, hosted by entrepreneur, CEO, international speaker, and wealth and business coach Adam Stott. In this podcast, you'll find content that will inspire and motivate you on your business journey, Adam has coached and trained thousands of business owners internationally and will share with you, proven techniques and strategies on how you can achieve unlimited business growth while showing you how to manage the challenges that occur for every business owner, not matter if your business is big or small.
This podcast's content is truly diverse with one goal in mind help you to grow and achieve more success in business. With up-to-date info on real-life lessons Adam has learned, interviews with some of the world's most successful people, such as Floyd Mayweather, Anthony Joshua, Al Pacino, Randi Zuckerberg, and many more. It also includes thought leaders, interviews with successful unique business owners and content directly from Adam on business growth.
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The Businesses Using AI Right Now Are Pulling Away - Here's How to Catch Up: Piers Linney
Thursday, September 10, 2026 • Duration 48:51
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What happens to businesses that wait too long to adopt AI? Piers Linney explains why the gap between businesses using AI and those ignoring it is growing fast, how to automate the work eating up your time, and why being late to this shift could make it almost impossible to catch up.
Piers Linney is a former Dragon on Dragons' Den, serial entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Implement AI. He has built, invested in and sold businesses across technology, telecoms and cloud infrastructure, and previously served on the board of the British Business Bank.
He explains:
Why you should stop thinking about AI and start thinking about automation
How businesses can replace hours of admin, prospecting and customer service with AI
Why small businesses now have the tools to compete with much larger companies
Why businesses that delay adopting AI risk falling further and further behind
How AI can transform customer engagement, sales and personalised marketing
Chapters
• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:11 Piers Linney's Journey Into Business
• 00:03:03 The First Business He Started At 13
• 00:06:05 Why Every Entrepreneur Needs To Learn Sales
• 00:08:06 From Lawyer And Banker To Entrepreneur
• 00:11:13 The Reality Of Building Your First Business
• 00:13:01 Learning Through Failure
• 00:14:24 Why You Should Play To Your Strengths
• 00:16:37 Building And Losing Millions In Tech
• 00:18:37 How Piers Ended Up On Dragons' Den
• 00:23:18 Why Successful People Should Give Back
• 00:26:12 Ads
• 00:27:19 What Dragons' Den Is Really Like
• 00:29:00 Piers' Best Dragons' Den Investment
• 00:30:23 How To Use Your Personal Brand Properly
• 00:31:18 Inside The British Business Bank During Covid
• 00:33:40 Why Piers Is Going All In On AI
• 00:34:02 The Jobs AI Is Already Changing
• 00:36:34 How Implement AI Helps Businesses Automate
• 00:36:53 Stop Thinking AI. Think Automation.
• 00:38:01 The ROI Of Replacing Manual Work With AI
• 00:38:44 The AI Tools Every Business Owner Should Start Using
• 00:40:55 Why Fear Of AI Could Be Fatal For Businesses
• 00:42:04 Why Businesses That Wait May Never Catch Up
• 00:43:05 Understanding Exponential Change
• 00:43:42 How To Stay On Top Of AI
• 00:44:31 Creating AI Avatars In Different Languages
• 00:45:50 Why AI Gives Small Businesses A Huge Opportunity
• 00:46:12 Why Big Companies Are Investing Millions Into AI
• 00:47:02 The Future Of Hyper-Personalised Marketing
• 00:47:50 Outro
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Answer This One Question to Know If Your Business Will Scale: Sarah Willingham
Thursday, September 3, 2026 • Duration 55:30
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What would you do if I gave you £1 million to invest in your business? Sarah Willingham explains why your answer to that one question tells her whether your business can scale, why making yourself redundant is the real goal, and how she built a £40m business the hard way before learning the smart way!
Sarah Willingham is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has built, bought and scaled consumer businesses for over two decades. She grew Bombay Bicycle Club into the UK's largest chain of Indian restaurants, having earlier opened sites internationally for Planet Hollywood and run international development at Pizza Express. She was an investor on BBC's Dragons' Den across two series, and co-founded the bar group Nightcap - home to brands including The London Cocktail Club and Dirty Martini — with her husband and business partner Michael Toxvaerd. She's also a personal business mentor to Adam.
She explains:
Why the answer to "what would you do with £1 million?" exposes whether your model is actually replicable
Why making yourself redundant, not working harder, is the real definition of success
Why you probably don't need investment - you need to go and sell something
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:33 Sarah's Unlikely Route Into Business
00:04:02 The Paris Pub Job That Changed Everything
00:06:20 Learning The Business Of Hospitality
00:07:15 The Year That Taught Her Everything
00:09:22 "Sarah The Small From Stoke"
00:10:10 Building The UK's Largest Indian Restaurant Chain
00:11:12 The Hardest Part Of Business And Family
00:12:26 Why Doing Both At Once Makes You Mediocre
00:14:10 Diarising Your Downtime
00:16:40 Life Path Over Career Path
00:18:13 Why Holidays Are Business Critical
The Real Reason You're Not Doing the Thing You Know You Should: Dr Julie Smith
Thursday, August 27, 2026 • Duration 01:07:52
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Why do you know exactly what you should be doing, and still not do it? Dr Julie Smith breaks down the psychology of procrastination, fear and self-sabotage, and reveals how she went from an NHS psychologist to building a mental health platform with millions of followers and a Sunday Times #1 bestseller.
Dr Julie Smith is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who spent a decade in the NHS before building one of the world's largest mental health education platforms, reaching an audience of over 10 million people across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. She is the Sunday Times #1 bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, which has sold nearly 2 million copies and was the UK's top-selling nonfiction book of 2022.
She explains:
Why the fear you feel before doing something new is just your brain's stress response, and how to work with it instead of against it
Why she's never once used a call to action, and how giving everything away for free built a following of millions
The real psychological reason behind procrastination, and the simple weekly framework she uses to beat it
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:06 Leaving The NHS To Build A Private Practice
00:05:07 The First Viral TikTok Video
00:06:34 Fear Of What Colleagues Would Think
00:09:29 Overcoming Fear Of Being On Camera
00:11:25 Understanding The Stress Response
00:12:38 Building A Healthy Relationship With Failure
00:14:22 How Lockdown Accelerated Her Content Growth
00:16:27 Getting A Book Deal
00:18:29 Becoming The UK's Top-Selling Nonfiction Author Of 2022
00:21:52 Handling Fame And Millions Of Followers
00:24:11 Her Content Creation Process With Husband Matt
00:29:04 When A Video Goes Viral For The Wrong Reasons
00:31:19 You Don't Have To Go Viral To Build A Business
How to Run a Retail Empire: Touker Suleyman
Thursday, August 20, 2026 • Duration 50:56
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Can you imagine buying a failing business for £1 and turning it into a £70 million retail brand? Well, that's exactly what Touker Suleyman did, not once but several times, and on this episode he shares the deals, the disasters and the hard-won lessons behind building a genuine retail empire!
Touker Suleyman is a British retail entrepreneur and investor on BBC's Dragon's Den, and the chairman of retail brands including Hawes & Curtis, Ghost and Finery. Starting out as a trainee accountant before moving into fashion manufacturing, he went on to employ thousands of people across factories in Turkey, Bulgaria and Georgia, and has spent over 50 years building, buying and turning around businesses.
He explains:
Why he lost everything to fraud in his twenties, and the due diligence lesson that saved his career
Why basket value is the single biggest thing that makes or breaks a retail business
Why you should never give a bank a personal guarantee
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:25 Touker's Immigrant Background And Early Life
00:02:52 Starting In Fashion By Accident
00:03:19 First Job As An Article Clerk
00:04:22 Getting Involved In Public Companies
00:05:04 The Fraud That Cost Him Everything
00:06:22 The Power Of Due Diligence
00:07:14 Bouncing Back From Losing Everything
00:09:32 Moving Into Turkish Manufacturing
00:10:36 Employing Thousands Across Three Countries
00:11:07 The Ralph Lauren Opportunity
00:11:50 Buying Hawes & Curtis For £1
00:12:50 Scaling From One Store To A Retail Empire
00:14:23 Building Ghost, Finery And Other Brands
00:15:09 The Turkish Billionaire Who Changed His Career
00:19:47 Bringing Jobs And Dignity To Bulgaria And Georgia
Your Business Can't Outperform Your Health: Alex Neilan
Thursday, August 13, 2026 • Duration 51:08
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What happens when your business is growing, but your health is going backwards? Alex Neilan explains why your business can't outperform your health, how to build more energy without going all-or-nothing, what successful entrepreneurs get wrong about looking after themselves, and why you either make time for your health or eventually make time for illness.
Alex Neilan is a weight loss expert and entrepreneur who has built one of Europe's biggest sustainable weight loss community, with more than 100,000 members, and has helped over 4,500 women lose weight and keep it off. After starting his own weight loss journey at 15 stone, he went on to study the subject to master's level before building a hugely successful online coaching business.
They explain:
Why being "too busy" to look after your health is one of the biggest mistakes successful entrepreneurs make
Why all-or-nothing thinking destroys consistency with your health, diet and training
Why better health, sleep and energy can directly improve your leadership, productivity and business performance
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:56 Alex Neilan's 15-Stone Weight Loss Journey
00:03:45 Building A Business From Rejection
00:05:24 £36,000 In Debt And His Lowest Point
00:07:13 Taking His Personal Training Business Online
00:08:52 Why Alex Was Charging Too Little
00:09:35 Why You Need To Charge Your Worth
00:09:57 Why Conversations Grow Businesses
00:11:10 Taking Conversations Online
00:12:20 Hire People Who Know More Than You
00:13:24 Building A 100,000+ Person Community
00:15:36 Why People Struggle To Lose Weight
00:16:15 The All-Or-Nothing Trap
00:17:33 Stop Eating For Weight Loss And Start Eating For Performance
00:18:33 How Health Impacts Your Energy And Business
Your Business Won't Scale While It Still Depends on You: Andrew Hulbert
Thursday, August 6, 2026 • Duration 59:22
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What does it really take to build a company that no longer needs you? Andrew Hulbert reveals how he went from starting in his bedroom to £50 million in turnover, more than 500 employees and an £100 million exit, and why the hardest part was learning to stop being the centre of everything!
Andrew Hulbert is an entrepreneur who built and exited a property services business over ten years. After growing the company through major contracts with brands including Bulgari Hotel, Yahoo!, Twitter, Candy Crush and London Zoo, he invested £1 million into a new leadership team, stepped away from the day-to-day operation and sold the business in November 2023.
He explains:
Why working harder eventually becomes the very thing stopping your business from scaling
How one trusted relationship helped him win his first major contract and create unstoppable momentum
Why he invested £1 million into leadership, temporarily flattened profit and built a company that could run without him
Chapters 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:26 Who Is Andrew Hulbert? 00:01:26 The Superpower Behind His Success 00:03:48 Where His Determination Came From 00:07:06 From Intern To Operations Director 00:08:18 How To Become Indispensable At Work 00:10:45 His Advice For Young People Starting Their Careers 00:12:19 Why Networking Still Beats Selling 00:13:51 Build The Room You Want To Be In 00:15:15 The Moment He Decided To Start His Own Business 00:18:05 How He Reached A £1.5M Run Rate In Year One 00:19:12 The Truth About "Starting With Nothing" 00:20:06 Finding The First Customer Who Changes Everything 00:21:58 How One Contract Created Momentum 00:22:36 The Deal That Grew The Business 300% In One Day 00:24:25 The Biggest Challenges In The Early Years 00:25:37 What To Do When Clients Say You're Too Small 00:27:47 How To Make Rejection Irrelevant 00:28:55 Why Every Business Needs A Memorable Hook 00:30:11 How Donuts Helped Win Major Clients 00:32:06 Why Sales Is About Thoughtfulness 00:34:26 Ads 00:35:12 When Andrew Started Planning His Exit 00:36:12 Building A Leadership Team That Could Replace Him 00:36:47 Why He Accepted Flat EBITDA To Scale 00:38:12 The Moment The Business Stopped Depending On Him 00:39:16 Selling The Business In Four Weeks 00:39:54 How His Team Shared £15M From The Exit 00:41:48 Why None Of His Senior Leaders Left 00:44:29 The Reality Of Working 100-Hour Weeks 00:46:49 The Personal Cost Of Building The Business 00:47:38 How Much Is Enough? 00:48:14 How Founders Can Start Replacing Themselves 00:49:46 The Warning Signs Of Burnout 00:50:44 Andrew's Three Rules For Entrepreneurs 00:53:28 Quick Fire: Strategy, Brand, Marketing, Sales And Operations 00:54:29 How To Build Authority Through The Media 00:55:10 Find Your Donuts 00:55:47 Treat People How They Want To Be Treated 00:57:19 Build Processes Before You Need Them 00:58:36 Where To Find Andrew
The CEO Mindset Every Business Owner Needs: Jeannette Linfoot
Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 58:39
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What actually makes a great CEO, and does it change when you go from leading 10,000 people to leading five? Jeannette Linfoot spent 25 years climbing from graduate trainee to CEO of Saga's travel division and Managing Director of Emerging Markets at TUI, before leaving the boardroom to found Brave Bold Brilliant and host the Rise Up Academy podcast. She breaks down the leadership lessons, hard calls and mindset shifts from both sides of the desk.
She explains:
- Why she spent years telling herself "I'm not entrepreneurial" - and why that inner voice was rubbish
- Why a leader needs to be like a helicopter: hovering above the business, knowing exactly when to land
- Why letting go of the tasks you hate is the easiest way to start delegating
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
0:00:48 Who Is Jeannette Linfoot?
00:01:39 Growing Up In Manchester And Studying Economics
00:02:33 Graduating Into A Recession And Getting Rejected By Everyone
00:03:08 Landing A Graduate Role At Thomson Holidays
00:03:56 Becoming CEO Of Saga's Travel Division
00:05:03 Working Her Way Up To The Top
00:06:07 Why Travel Is A Brutally Low-Margin Industry
00:08:25 The Turning Point To Leave Corporate Life
00:10:28 Proving She Could Succeed Outside The Boardroom
00:11:11 What Makes A Great CEO
00:13:02 Leading From Having Started At The Bottom
00:14:04 "Mowing The Lawn": Making The Hard Cost-Cutting Calls
What Getting Knocked Down Teaches You About Getting Back Up in Business - Frank Bruno
Thursday, July 16, 2026 • Duration 30:45
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Why does it take getting knocked down to really learn how to get back up? Frank Bruno shares the resilience, discipline, and mindset that carried him from a troubled childhood to becoming Britain's WBC Heavyweight Champion, and how he fought his way back from the toughest setback of his life: his very public battle with mental health.
Frank Bruno is a former professional boxer, WBC World Heavyweight Champion, and one of Britain's most celebrated sporting icons. Famous for his fights against Mike Tyson and Tim Witherspoon, his instantly recognisable laugh, and his openness about being sectioned multiple times, Frank now runs the Frank Bruno Foundation, supporting others through mental health struggles.
He shares:
Why his toughest defeats taught him more than his wins ever could
Why discipline, hunger and self-belief mattered more than natural talent
Why he had to hit rock bottom before he could rebuild himself, and how gratitude and routine keep him grounded today
Chapters
· 00:00:00 Intro
· 00:01:44 Frank's Troubled Childhood And Finding Boxing
· 00:04:56 His First Professional Fight At The Royal Albert Hall
· 00:09:12 The Fighters He Idolised: Ali, Frazier And Foreman
· 00:10:10 The Tim Witherspoon Fight And Learning From A Setback
· 00:12:15 Stepping Into The Ring With Mike Tyson
· 00:13:46 The Hardest Punchers He Ever Faced
· 00:15:02 Ads
· 00:15:47 Winning The WBC World Title
· 00:17:43 Opening Up About His Mental Health Struggles
The Simple, Repeatable Business Model That Scales to Any Size - Sara Davies
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 • Duration 01:31:45
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Sara Davies built a multi-million-pound business selling handmade envelopes, survived six years of imposter syndrome in the Dragon's Den chair, and still says the biggest bottleneck to growth was never cash, it was her own bandwidth. In this episode she breaks down the simple, repeatable model that took Crafter's Companion from a university side hustle to a £30 million turnover business.
Sara Davies is an award-winning entrepreneur, Dragon's Den investor, and founder of Crafter's Companion, the crafting brand she launched from her student bedroom and grew into a multi-million-pound company. She's spent over 20 years selling live on shopping television, backed some of the Den's biggest hits, and competed on Strictly Come Dancing.
She explains:
Why the real limit on growth is never cash, it's how much of you there is to go around
The three traits, passion, vision and drive, that decide whether she invests in thirty seconds
Why hiring someone smarter than you is the single hire that changes everything
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:10 Sara's 20 Years In Business
00:02:37 Growing Up In A Family Shop
00:04:22 Starting Crafter's Companion At University
00:05:12 Spotting The Gap Nobody Else Saw
00:07:18 Pitching QVC And Selling Live On TV
00:11:05 The Buyer Who Doubted Her
00:13:04 Selling Out And Scaling Production
00:16:08 Learning To Sell In The Family Shop
00:17:22 The Body Language Rule That Changed Her Pitching
00:19:14 Why Setting The Tone Matters
00:22:04 Taking The Leap At 21
00:23:36 The Limits Of Hiring Friends And Family
00:24:56 The Hire That Changed Everything
00:28:47 Managing Ego As A Leader
00:30:11 Doubling Down On Your Strengths
00:31:23 The Website Lesson: Delegate, Don't DIY
The Leadership Skill That Works on Gangs, Soldiers, and Your Team - Ross Kemp
Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 48:26
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What's the one skill that works on gangs, soldiers, hostage situations - and your team back at the office? Ross Kemp breaks down the debrief technique he picked up in Afghanistan, why "two ears, one mouth" is the real secret to great leadership, and the negotiation advice from a billionaire mentor that changed how he does business.
Ross Kemp is a BAFTA-winning actor, journalist and documentary maker, best known for playing Grant Mitchell in EastEnders and for his hard-hitting series Ross Kemp on Gangs, Ross Kemp: Extreme World and Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. Over three decades he's reported from gang-controlled streets in Compton, cartel territory in Colombia and the frontline in Afghanistan, building teams and making high-stakes calls in some of the most hostile environments on earth.
He explains: ◼ Why "TRIM" - the debrief ritual he learned from Royal Marines Commandos - stops resentment building in any team ◼ How reading body language and behaviour keeps you safe when the stakes are life or death ◼ Why the best negotiators aim for the middle ground, not to "take someone to the cleaners"
Chapters
· 00:00:00 Intro
· 00:01:04 Growing Up in Essex & Getting Into Acting
· 00:03:05 Landing the Role of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders
· 00:04:13 Leaving EastEnders for a Career in Documentaries
· 00:05:16 Meeting a Gang Member Shot 23 Times
· 00:09:08 Filming Ross Kemp on Gangs
· 00:10:49 The Most Dangerous Moments in Afghanistan
· 00:13:36 Reading Body Language to Stay Alive
· 00:14:52 What Is TRIM (Trauma Risk Management)?
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00:20:00 Adam's First Debrief With Sarah
00:21:12 Breaking The Addiction To Your Business
00:22:09 The Pie Chart Exercise
00:24:48 Everything Has A Relative Value
00:26:03 Adam's Biggest Constraint Was Himself
00:27:31 How To Replicate Yourself
00:28:36 Why Great Teams Aren't An Accident
00:30:06 Why Grit Isn't The Answer, Models Are
00:30:55 Making Yourself Redundant Is The Goal
00:32:10 Building £40M A Year The Hard Way
00:33:02 Ads
00:33:23 Do You Have A Supportive Partner?
00:34:29 Working With Michael: Staying In Your Lanes
00:36:43 The Decisions He Talked Her Out Of
00:37:27 Dragons' Den Vs A Year Travelling
00:39:08 Why You Have To Do Two Series
00:40:10 Walking Away To Keep A Promise
00:41:38 The Fork In The Road: Fame Or Family
00:43:51 Why Nothing Changes Without Action
00:44:34 How To Assess Your Downside
00:45:18 Why Fear Is Something To Relish
00:46:56 Decision Paralysis And The Investment Trap
00:48:30 You Can't Scale On Your Own
00:49:32 The Problem With Hustle Culture
00:50:12 Learning What You Don't Know
00:51:08 The £1 Million Question
00:52:24 Defining Your Business Model
00:53:53 Draw Your Model On Paper
00:54:18 Outro
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