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Darya Simanovich arrived in London 20 years ago with £300, no contacts, and barely any English. Today she runs two businesses, holds a full-time role supporting small business owners across London, mentors 400 founders a year, and has just published her first book.

In this episode, Daria breaks down what 15 businesses across completely different industries actually taught her about failure, timing, and the kind of resilience nobody calls resilience to your face. She also shares the frameworks she gives every founder she meets, including one with a 72-hour deadline that she says determines whether anything actually gets done.

If you have ever wondered whether the entrepreneurship path is for you, or you are already on it and wondering what separates the ones who make it, this is the conversation.

Darya's book: https://amzn.eu/d/0j0KvWsr

Links to other recommended resources:

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Atomic Habits

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

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Ian has spent 45 years in the music industry, managing Simply Red, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, and Suede. He started at 17 with a boot full of vinyl and a two-litre Cortina, driving 1,200 miles a week as a sales rep.

He went on to oversee the biggest self-released album in history - Simply Red's Home, which outsold most Taylor Swift records and still holds the record today!

But Ian's story isn't just about music.

It's about what happens when a founder tries to exit a business built entirely on relationships, trust, and instinct. After a bruising experience selling 50% to Live Nation and rejecting a buyout offer before his plane left the runway at Heathrow, Ian found a route almost nobody in his world had heard of - and it changed everything.

This is a conversation about sliding doors moments, creative courage, knowing when enough is enough, and an exit strategy that let him cash out, stay involved, and reward every person who helped him build it.

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Neil Osmond never set out to be an entrepreneur. He was a pharma executive with a steady job, a young family, and no savings when a friend showed him something on a computer that he couldn't stop thinking about.

What followed was a 15-year journey - mapping the London Olympics, pivoting into healthcare, nearly running a glorified lifestyle business, and eventually selling Earthware to a global medical communications group after more than ten first-stage offers.

In this episode, Neil walks through all of it: the brutal feedback that changed his direction, how he used Vivid Vision, EOS, and 8 Agencynomics benchmarks to transform the business, why knowing your number before you sell is non-negotiable - and what true wealth looks like when the chapter is finally closed.

Books mentioned:

Maverick – Ricardo Semler | Business Model Generation – Osterwalder & Pigneur | Agencynomics – Spencer Gallagher & Peter Hoole

Connect with Neil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilmeosmond/

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Follow Alan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alancapital/

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