The James Smith Show

James Smith
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I chat to people smarter than me, hopefully, you'll enjoy listening.

  1. 2h ago

    Unfortunately, Growing On YouTube Just Changed FOREVER (Olly Staniland)

    Olly Staniland joins James Smith to break down what actually makes a YouTube video work. Olly works on James's YouTube channel and, like James, studied under Ed Lawrence. They go through real thumbnails and analytics from James's channel, why one video with 80,000 views made nothing while another with 60,000 made thousands, how Matt Armstrong and Carwow built huge channels by repeating one format, and the status games that drive what people click and buy. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Olly Staniland's YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@ollystaniland Olly Staniland On Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/olly_staniland/ He explains: ◼️ Why you should package the title and thumbnail before you film ◼️ How to steal winning title formats from other niches ◼️ Why more views doesn't always mean more revenue ◼️ The split-testing rules that stop your metrics misleading you ◼️ Why long-form viewers trust you more than short-form followers Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:32 What Makes a Good YouTube Video? 02:46 Package First, Then Film 06:01 The Big Mistake Creators Make on YouTube 07:34 Stealing Titles From Other Niches 11:53 What Is YouTube Actually For? 15:38 Why You Can't Pivot a Big Channel 16:05 Views vs Revenue on the Business Channel 21:11 Split Testing and Misleading Metrics 24:11 Long Form vs Short Form Trust 26:07 Ed Lawrence and the $1,000 Phone Call 31:32 Who Actually Watches YouTube 33:48 Why End Screens Matter 35:39 How YouTube Made James a Better Business Owner 37:35 Scripting vs Riffing 40:31 AI Slop and Copied Scripts 42:00 Dial-Up, The Pirate Bay and LimeWire 44:56 Why Nobody Writes Their Own Emails 46:23 Should You Pay Someone to Run Your Channel? 47:15 Building an Offer for the Boys 54:16 Launch It Before You Build It 55:18 Why Transformation Videos Work 58:13 Matt Armstrong's Car-Build Empire 01:02:35 Raffling the Cars 01:06:48 The AdSense Maths 01:08:37 Carwow's Same-Video-Forever Format 01:11:08 The Status Games We All Play 01:15:47 What Status Has to Do With What We Buy 01:19:51 From Top Lad at Uni to the Real World 01:23:30 Status and Health 01:24:36 Tough Love for Starting a Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Oct 6

    Ross Edgley: How To Become DANGEROUSLY Self-Motivated

    Ross Edgley joins James Smith for a reunion years in the making. Ross is the ultramarathon sea swimmer who swam around Great Britain and then the whole coast of Iceland. Ahead of his new book How To Hero, he opens up about losing his dad, waking up in hospital after failed swims, and being told doctors had never seen blood work like his on a living person. He also explains the brain science of why some people keep going when everything hurts and others tap out. 🎬 Edits Course: https://jamessmith.business/ig-edits 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business Ross Edgley's YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@RossEdgley Ross Edgley On Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/rossedgley/ He explains: ◼️ The part of your brain that decides whether you grit it out or quit ◼️ Why purpose has to outweigh pain if you want to finish hard things ◼️ How your reward system crashes when results don't show up ◼️ Why running on anger and self-talk burns out over long efforts ◼️ What Viking berserkers and Icelandic sagas teach us about heroism Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:41 Reunion and Ross's Biggest Night Out 02:24 How Becoming a Dad Changes Everything 06:50 Why People Aren't Having Kids Anymore 09:29 Does Family Switch Off Your Stress Response? 11:17 Loch Ness, Lake Trasimeno and Waking Up in Hospital 14:15 Swimming Through 12 Hours of Darkness 14:45 Why Iceland Produces So Many Physical Freaks 17:32 CrossFit Champions, Vikings and Eddie Hall 19:46 Water Polo: One of the Hardest Sports on Earth 23:57 Getting Crushed by Roger Gracie 27:41 The Brain Region Behind Grit or Quit 29:53 Everyone Is Scared Before They Compete 32:52 Arousal, Warm-Ups and Competing Your Own Way 33:43 Berserkers and the Viking Battle Frenzy 36:37 Nasal Breathing and Building CO2 Tolerance 39:21 When Training Past Your Body's Alarms Goes Wrong 42:23 James Freezing His Sperm Before Tour 43:03 Losing His Dad and the Myth of Sisyphus 48:03 Khabib, Grief and Finding a Reason to Get Up 50:37 How Jiu-Jitsu Gave James's Training Purpose 52:40 Swimming on the Spot for Four Hours in Iceland 55:43 Why Feedback Keeps People Going 58:39 Everyone Needs a Cheerleader 01:00:20 Why Ross Would Never Step Into a Cage 01:02:39 Goggins, Gratitude and Ross's Shadow Self 01:05:55 James Trains to Ruin Other People's Days 01:07:39 Are All High Achievers Psychopaths? 01:08:43 Thor, Odin and Why Heroes Aren't Pretty 01:10:43 Building Your Ego, Then Destroying It 01:12:05 A Million Followers and Feeling Nothing 01:13:42 The $50,000 Vegas Trip 01:15:48 Ross's Ayahuasca Experience in the Amazon 01:23:07 James's First Time on Ketamine 01:29:06 Hating Therapy and Low Testosterone 01:29:45 How Amazon Tribes Worked Out Ayahuasca 01:31:02 Icelandic Folklore and Living With Nature 01:32:19 James's Mushroom Trip and Duty to the Flame 01:39:29 How Psychedelics Led James to Fatherhood 01:42:58 When Psychedelics Go Wrong 01:45:43 Modafinil, Clenbuterol and Two Weeks in Barcelona 01:47:39 Fuelling the World's Longest Non-Stop River Swim 01:49:38 GLP-1s, Digestion and Losing Muscle at Sea 01:52:59 Getting Destroyed by a Competitive Eater 01:55:25 James's Boring Meal Prep Strategy 01:57:47 Hernias, Snapped MCLs and Getting Older 02:01:40 Stem Cells and Extending Your Career 02:05:18 Do Peptides Actually Work? 02:08:03 Should England Rugby Use Hype Videos? 02:12:49 Mike Tyson's Stare 02:14:03 Training With Volkanovsky and Tom Aspinall 02:17:05 How To Hero Release Date Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Sep 29

    $1b Founder: The Truth About Building A 10 Figure Business (Alan Barratt)

    Alan Barratt on entrepreneurship, business ownership, and the reality of building a brand from the ground up. Everyone wants the freedom of being an entrepreneur, but few are ready for the weight of total responsibility. Alan Barrett, the founder of Grenade, joins me to discuss what it actually takes to succeed in the protein bar market. He shares the unfiltered truth about being unemployable, taking full ownership of your outcomes, and navigating the friction that comes when you start disrupting major industry players. 🎬 Edits Course: https://jamessmith.business/ig-edits 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🤼‍♂️ Wear Adapt BJJ: https://adaptjj.com/ 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business Try Grenade: https://www.grenade.com/ Grenade on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@teamgrenade Allan Barratt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/al_barratt/ Chapters: 0:00 Trailer 1:20 How Alan and James actually met 3:23 Richard Branson: "I don't know where there is" 5:24 Starting Grenade on a 500 pound loan 9:27 Selling supplements gym to gym 11:29 The first protein flapjack 15:36 When the supplement industry was the Wild West 17:38 Positioning against the chocolate bar 21:40 Making a bar people could actually afford 25:46 Why most people should not be entrepreneurs 27:48 Selling the first business 31:50 Doing right by people pays you back 35:52 Fitness plus military: where the name came from 37:42 The fat burner that started it all 41:46 The fight for the Grenade trademark in America 45:02 The bottle, the shape and a copycat industry 49:10 Borrowing a 17-tonne gun to steal the show 53:11 Demand outstripping supply 57:18 Beating Twix into the UK top 20 59:20 Mars complains to Nielsen 1:01:13 No disruption in chocolate for 40 years 1:01:40 The phone call from Giovanni Ferrero 1:03:23 Ferrero or Cadbury: a two-horse race 1:07:26 Choosing Mondelez, and going full circle to Birmingham 1:11:34 The lawyer who got it badly wrong 1:15:36 Cashing half, rolling half back in 1:19:37 What Grenade is worth now 1:23:41 What America teaches you about packaging 1:25:43 When one can bursts across 50 pallets 1:29:51 Fifty countries that supposedly share a language 1:33:55 Where Grenade goes next 1:35:59 The Cadbury Creme Egg protein bar 1:40:05 Those companies are gone. Grenade is still here 1:44:10 Hitching the caravan to the Ferrari Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 22

    The Truth About GLP-1s, Menopause, And Female Founders (Rebecca Oliver-Mooney)

    Rebecca Oliver-Mooney joins James Smith for a conversation that starts with a left-handed can and ends up somewhere far more uncomfortable. Founder of the Raising The Glass network and a drinks industry buyer who has sat on the other side of the table from hundreds of challenger brands, Rebecca explains why most founders put half their message where the shelf will hide it, why GLP-1s are about to reshape what food and drink gets made, and why menopause is the category nobody has been willing to build for yet. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋️‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Rebecca Oliver-Mooney On LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-oliver-mooney-65730614/ She explains: ◼️ Why retailers cover the bottom half of your packaging, and what belongs up top ◼️ What GLP-1s actually do to appetite, and why the shame is the bigger problem ◼️ Why menopause is the next outcome-led category in food and drink Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:26 The Left-Handed Can 03:07 Why Retailers Hide Half Your Packaging 03:42 Ingredients vs Benefits On Pack 04:43 The Conversation About Hiding The Eye 06:19 What Raising The Glass Actually Is 07:55 Was I Being Hypersensitive? 08:44 The Free Mentoring Platform 10:16 Do Men Really Interrupt More? 11:53 Two Women Founders Getting On Shelf 14:18 Toy Trucks And Gendered Play 17:29 Changing Your Political Stance 18:16 Algorithms And Echo Chambers 19:50 Women Coming Into Neutonic 21:26 Electrolytes And The Salt Brands 23:50 GLP-1s: The Real Conversation 24:38 Do You Still Eat On GLP-1s? 28:07 The Shame Around The Medication 30:36 Never Being Hungry Again 32:13 Two Extreme Views On Telling People 36:08 GLP-1s Compared To Insulin 39:20 When Only One Of You Can Afford It 40:53 Wealth, Connections And Starting Again 46:25 Are Men More Driven To Seek Status? 47:59 The Iceberg Model 48:48 Imposter Syndrome 51:11 Raising Investment 53:33 This Candidate Is Probably Going To Be A Man 55:58 Equality vs Equity 58:25 The Employee Who Was Caring For His Mum 59:08 HRT And Dr Louise Newson 01:01:30 Menopause Behind Closed Doors 01:03:32 Anabolic Steroids And Crashed Estrogen 01:04:43 Nothing Is Explained At School 01:06:21 Menopause As The Next Category 01:10:20 Calm, Energy And What Sells 01:15:08 How Buyers Actually Pick Products 01:18:18 The Category Diamond 01:19:06 Smoke And Mirrors For Challenger Brands 01:21:29 Find Your Tribe 01:23:01 You Deserve To Be In The Room 01:25:13 Fake It Till You Make It: The Power Pose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 17

    The Truth About Balding, Booze, And Being A Dad At 50 (Jason Fox)

    Jason 'Foxy' Fox joins James Smith, on his wife's birthday no less, for an unfiltered and very funny conversation that swaps the usual topics for a proper sit-down with the boys. A former UK Special Forces operator and the longest-serving member of the SAS: Who Dares Wins directing staff, Foxy opens up about becoming a dad again at 50 after seven years of IVF, missing his son's birth over a WhatsApp video call, and why newborn sleep deprivation hits harder than anything the military threw at him. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Jason Fox On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jason_carl_fox/ Jason Fox On X - https://x.com/jason_carl_fox Ultra 4 Charity - https://ultra4charity.com He explains: ◼️ Why newborn sleep deprivation is worse than military exercises ◼️ What it's really like to be away working when your child is born ◼️ How Ultra 4 Charity makes ultra marathons accessible for everyone Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:30 Baldness, Hair Transplants and Finasteride 07:05 How Fatherhood Feels Different Second Time Around 08:08 James's Son Blocked From Entering the UK 09:22 Missing His Son's Birth Over WhatsApp 12:22 Older Parents and Seven Years of IVF 14:59 James's Adoption and the Stolen Cheque 17:22 Ibiza Chaos and Writing a Will 19:31 The Pregnancy Complication That Forced an Early Birth 21:37 James's Emergency C-Section Story 24:20 Special Forces vs Newborn Sleep Deprivation 25:10 The Sleep Coach That Actually Worked 28:11 Being Away Filming SAS: Who Dares Wins 30:10 Sam Burgess: Headlocks and Falling Off the Wagon 35:44 Is London Still Worth It? 39:08 Ultra 4 Charity: Running for Veterans 41:42 How Jiu-Jitsu Gives Veterans Purpose 42:27 Foxy's Muay Thai and BJJ Journey 45:08 Snapping His Leg on a 300ft Tower 48:25 Getting Caught by a 'White Belt' 50:14 Rolling With a GB Judo Black Belt 53:57 Why Strikers Scare James 55:43 The Shoplifter Who Sang for the Queen 58:00 Teaching Young Leaders About Mental Health 59:10 James Nearly Joined the Army 01:00:29 Has Britain's Attitude to the Military Changed? 01:02:15 Veteran Support and Military Respect 01:03:07 The ThruDark Story 01:07:37 The Blocked Urethra That Led to Sepsis 01:13:36 In Praise of NHS Emergency Care 01:14:54 A Bali Moped Crash and NHS Hallways 01:18:11 Foxy's Only Real Goal in Life 01:20:41 Adult Circumcision and Other Injuries Down There 01:22:11 The Schoolyard Punch and Gaps in Body Armour 01:23:57 MrBallen's Grenade Story 01:26:41 From an IED Blast to a UK High Street in 16 Hours 01:28:45 Calm in Chaos, Chaos in the Calm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Aug 11

    What Actually Happens To Your Taxes? : Frank Greeff

    Frank Greeff joins James Smith fresh off a $180 million exit for a raw conversation about tax, talent and why the game never really ends. Frank breaks down the $6.2M tax bill from selling his last business, the proposed Australian capital gains changes that would have doubled it, and why, hand on heart, he isn't sure he'd have started his last company if those rules had existed first. Check out Kinso on YouTube : @KinsoAI Follow Frank Greeff on intagram : https://www.instagram.com/frankgreeff_/ Try Kinso: https://www.kinso.ai/ 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Chapters: 00:00 The $6.2M Tax Bill 03:05 Australia's Proposed Capital Gains Changes 04:19 How Indexation Doubles the Tax to $12M 05:31 "Show Me the Incentive, I'll Show You the Outcome" 06:53 Capital Gains Isn't Income Tax 07:39 The Trickle-Down Effect of Building Businesses 08:55 Gaming the System & the "Nurses and Teachers" Trap 11:13 Killing the Entrepreneurial Spirit 12:44 Why the Rich Leave: Dubai & $1.5M a Year 14:46 The UK £100k Tax Trap 15:50 Becoming a Reddit Hit Piece 16:43 Three of His Network Have Already Left 18:51 New Zealand: No Capital Gains Tax 20:05 Why Australia Is an Entrepreneur's Dream 20:56 Hostels, Sleepwalking Lies & the Woolworths Confession 22:44 How Hard It Is for Brits to Stay in Australia 24:31 Locked Out in the Pandemic 25:50 The "Plane That Couldn't Land" 28:38 Dinner With Tony Abbott & Chris Williamson 31:06 Payroll Tax: The "Temporary" 1950s Tax 31:57 Daniel Priestley & the Lifestyle Business 32:44 The Dinner Bill Analogy: When the Rich Leave 34:31 What Kinso Actually Does 36:29 Filtering Spam & Rebuilding Context 38:39 Fundraising Stories: The Dubai Deck 40:05 Why WhatsApp Is King 41:05 Inside Kinso's Beta & Manual Onboarding 42:53 The Netflix Content Strategy (11.9M Views) 44:48 Thinking Like a Media Company 45:53 The Character Arbitrage 47:56 15 Reels a Day & Trial Reels 49:41 Instagram Edits & the Sauna Guy 50:36 The Nicotine Pouch Trick Shot Ad 51:59 Trying Neutonic on Camera 53:56 TikTok Shop: 45,000 UK Sales 55:56 The Fake "Caught Cheating" Reels Model 57:24 Retail Blows His Mind 58:12 Rate of Sale & the Language of Retail 01:00:43 Business as a Coping Mechanism 01:02:16 Money as a Byproduct of the Game 01:03:35 Relief, Not Happiness, When You Hit Goals 01:04:44 The Pregnancy Analogy & a Live Negotiation 01:07:30 Do You Ever Get Bored? 01:08:20 The Post-Sale Support Group Dinner 01:10:49 Buying the RS6 & Feeling Nothing 01:11:49 What Necker Island Was Really Like 01:13:22 Losing the Ability to Enjoy Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Jul 30

    Traitors Star Andrew Jenkins: The Problem With Mental Health

    Andrew Jenkins, the Traitors star, joins James Smith for a raw conversation about resilience, identity, and rebuilding a life after everything is taken away. At 21, Andrew was pronounced dead at the scene of a catastrophic car accident, lost half his skull and over half his blood, and was told he'd never walk, talk, or recognise anyone again. He walked out of that hospital and then spent 15 years suffering in silence behind a good body, a nice house, and a successful banking career. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Andrew Jenkins On Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/andrewjenkinsofficial/ Andrew Jenkins On YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@andrewjenkinsofficial Andrew Jenkins's Website – https://www.andrew-jenkins.co.uk/ He explains: ◼️ Why failure is how you learn and why cotton-wool parenting is failing kids ◼️ How he attached his identity and his father's love to a rugby ball ◼️ Why the people with the biggest smiles are often struggling the most ◼️ How to get to the root cause instead of papering over the cracks ◼️ Why talking doesn't make you weak it makes you stronger Chapters: 00:00 The Hidden Cost of Success 01:13 First Impressions from The Traitors 01:50 The Real Problem With Resilience 02:37 Why Business Owners Are Terrified to Fail 03:22 No More First, Second or Third at School 04:29 The Coach Who Told Him the Brutal Truth 06:43 The Dream of Playing Rugby for Wales 06:54 Attaching His Dad's Love to Rugby 08:08 James's Rugby Days and Welsh "Supplements" 09:14 The Catastrophic Car Accident 11:02 Told He'd Never Walk Again 11:56 "I Guarantee I'll Walk Out of Here" 12:40 Brain Injury, CTE and Rugby 13:37 The Other Four People in the Car 14:38 Living With the Trauma 15:52 Great on the Outside, Hating Himself Inside 16:25 Losing His Identity and His Dad 18:39 How One Concussion Can Change a Person 19:30 His Son's Concussions and a Parent's Fear 20:45 Finding Another Outlet for Competition 23:12 Sport, Business and Meritocracy 24:11 Climbing the Wrong Ladder 25:36 Does More Money Make It Worse? 28:01 Why One Bad Day Can Wreck the Privileged 29:26 Growing Up in the Graveyard of Ambition 30:43 James Being Locked Out of Australia 32:35 Happiness Is an Internal Job 35:57 Happiness vs Pleasure and the Hedonic Treadmill 37:31 Why Every Goal Feels Empty 38:59 Talking Yourself Through Your Emotions 40:08 Root Cause Analysis for Mental Health 42:02 The Chimp Paradox and Self-Awareness 42:58 Environment vs Brain Chemistry 43:54 Menopause, Women and Suicide 44:26 TRT, Testosterone and Low T 47:24 Crashing Your Estrogen — The Male Menopause 48:38 James's Own Low Testosterone Story 49:58 Talking to His Son About Drugs 52:36 The Four Ways He Measured Masculinity 53:35 Telling His Parents the Truth 55:08 Being the Responsible One 55:55 Why We Should Educate Kids Honestly About Drugs 57:39 The Truth About Ketamine 58:26 Alcohol vs Everything Else 1:01:54 Psychedelics as Mental Health Treatment 1:03:23 Amsterdam After His Mother Passed 1:04:52 LSD in the Park and a Friend's Breakthrough 1:05:42 Acid at a Wedding 1:07:35 Closing Advice: Believe in Yourself 1:09:03 Creating a Second Path 1:10:14 Surround Yourself With the Right People 1:11:00 Breaking Stigmas — Talking Makes You Stronger 1:12:36 Meeting the Man Who Saved His Life 1:13:07 Where to Find Andrew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Jun 30

    Why The Aussie Economy is F*cked

    Tom Hawley joins James Smith to expose the deliberate machinery behind a cost-of-living crisis most people don't even know is happening to them. The co-founder of Azura Financial, one of Australia's top 10 brokerages and a three-time Residential Broker of the Year, Hawley argues that inflation isn't a natural force but a policy choice, a quiet tax on your purchasing power that hits lower and middle-income earners hardest precisely because they can't see it. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Tom Hawley on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tom_hawley_/ Azura Financial – https://www.azurafinancial.com.au Chapters: 00:00 The Hidden Tax Nobody Voted For 01:13 What Is Inflation Really? 04:11 Why Governments Want Your Money to Lose Value 06:44 Capital Gains: How the Goalposts Just Moved 08:01 Why High-Growth Investment Gets Punished Most 09:08 James's Plan to Dodge the Tax Man 10:30 Is the Stock Market Even Worth the Risk Now? 13:35 Are Australia's Politicians Thick or Deceptive? 15:35 Did Labor Politicians Just Commit Insider Trading? 16:50 Pulling the Ladder Up on Negative Gearing 19:42 Australia Is in Economic Trouble 22:43 The Immigration Trap: Six Years Locked Out 27:59 The 457 Visa That Vanished Overnight 31:18 What GDP Growth Actually Hides 32:37 The Festival Trick That Explains the Economy 35:24 Printing Money Is Just Diluting You 38:03 Government Waste and the $70,000 Plaque 41:14 Three Tiers: Government, Employment, Self-Employed 45:09 The Curse of Never Switching Off 47:59 Chasing a Billion-Dollar Exit for Neutonic 50:02 Why the Journey Beats the Payday 53:03 A Petrolhead's Defence of Buying the Car 57:31 Why Ripping It for Ten Kids Is Worth It 01:00:00 Smiles Per Mile vs Saving It All 01:02:25 The Revolver Logic of Retirement 01:04:20 Should You Buy a House or a GT3? 01:08:02 Why Buy When the Market Feels Worst 01:11:48 The Leverage Play Explained 01:13:18 Will Gen Z Just Inherit It All Anyway? 01:15:00 Are We Heading For a Death Tax? 01:17:08 The Welfare Trap: Better Off Not Working 01:21:33 You Get Less of What You Tax 01:23:49 Will Australia Lose Its Entrepreneurs? 01:24:54 Tall Poppy Syndrome vs the American Way 01:27:38 Closing Advice for the Everyday Punter 01:28:51 What the Government Must Do to Save the Australian Dream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  • Creator
    James Smith
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
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