Secret Leaders

Dan Murray-Serter and Chris Donnelly are two serial entrepreneurs who've built, sold, scaled & failed companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In Secret Leaders we get inside the greatest minds and greatest moments in business, because we believe the best way to learn about business is to hear from the people who make it happen.

Sponsored by Wise Business and Vanta.

Contact: hello@secretleaders.com

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My Favourite Failure: The side business which c...
Why it can be dangerous to spread yourself too thin as a founder.
14 min
152
My Favourite Failure: Startup lessons from sev...
Entrepreneurs need to reframe failure as the norm, says unicorn founder Aidan Corbett.
12 min
153
Admiral: How to be a better boss from Co-Founde...
Henry Engelhardt has always been very open about Admiral’s innovations - he just can’t understand why none of their competitors ever try to copy them.
44 min
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My Favourite Failure: We built cool stuff but i...
There are so many factors you need to get right in a startup.
11 min
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COOK: Nearly bust to £100m a year revenue - wit...
44 min
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My Favourite Failure: On the cusp of losing my ...
On the outside, it looked like success but on the inside it was disintegrating.
16 min
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Just acquired Blinkist Founder on life-changing...
Blinkist announced being bought the day before this was recorded - here's how they did it.
47 min
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My Favourite Failure: Bombing on stage at a sta...
What does it feel like when your company’s future rests on you delivering the perfect pitch?
14 min
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Elon Musk’s favourite blogger Tim Urban on how ...
Plus, learn how society needs to fix itself from the legendary wrier behind the Wait But Why blog
44 min
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My Favourite Failure: How House of Holland was ...
Henry Holland is the man behind fashion brand ‘House of Holland. At the start of the pandemic, he called in the administrators and left the world of fashion to go into ceramics. What happened?
14 min
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Will AI save us or destroy us, and when? | Mo G...
The future is up for grabs right now.
56 min
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Sweetgreen: How to make a $1b farm-to-table res...
It's a new model for healthy restaurants.
45 min
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The tricky first year being public - Dan Murray...
How do you go from having a product to having a customer base?
43 min
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How I Failed: I closed my business because my h...
Jess took her business to the point it was about to take off - and then walked away
12 min
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Waze Founder - why you should teach your childr...
The way we teach children leaves them ill equipped to succeed in the real world
44 min
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How I Failed: nearly dying, quitting singing ca...
This is why you should embrace failure.
16 min
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Why you shouldn't be an entrepreneur - Vorboss ...
The truth about being an entrepreneur
48 min
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How to become wealthy - Secret Leaders X Making...
Our new podcast explaining how to build wealth
48 min
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How I Failed: I became an arrogant, egotistical...
Dave Foreman used to be a knobhead - how did he turn himself, and his life, around?
17 min
170
Linktree Founder - spinning side project into o...
How do you turn a small product made at your marketing agency into one of the sexiest startups in the world?
42 min
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How I Failed: Losing my temper, my marriage and...
Lisa Collinson lost nearly everything in the space of a few months
18 min
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Extending human life, with Humanity Co-Founder ...
Until now, the thought of slowing or even reversing the ageing process has been pure science fiction. Can Humanity really turn the clock back on our bodies?
55 min
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How I Failed: I walked into a room and fired 30...
Adam Robinson made a huge mistake which cost most of the people in his company their jobs
13 min
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The secret to hiring the best - and getting hir...
Learn how to become better at hiring (or getting hired) with tips from Sam Franklin,the Co-Founder and CEO of Otta, a tech job search platform.
44 min
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How I Failed: Multi-gold winning Paralympian Na...
Dressage rider Natasha Baker thought she was invincible until she literally fell off the horse
12 min