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Hosted by James Johnson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 217 episodes
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Best way to scale? Your peers have the answers. This is the podcast for scaleup founders looking for insightful, actionable wisdom from some of the best operators around. Each week we’ll explore one secret that other founders and experts are using right now and how to implement it. It’s practical wisdom to build the company AND life you want. Hosted by renowned founder coach and advisor James Johnson. You’ve survived to £1m, now let’s scale to £10m+.
James Johnson hosts Peer Effect, a business show with 217 episodes published.
Elena's question this week: "I feel like I can't go on holiday." James and Freddie don't treat it as a work-life balance question. They treat it as a test most founders are avoiding. They get into what a real week away a
Three patterns kept showing up across every founder, operator, and investor James spoke to this season. The ones that quietly cost the most, because the person inside them couldn't see them. This episode names all three,
James Johnson and Freddie Birley take on a listener question this week: what to do when you're wasting energy being frustrated with your team. They land on a distinction between two types of underperformer that most foun
Cat Agostinho built Imagen Insights on a bet that most brands get wrong: real, unedited feedback from real people beats any dashboard, survey, or assumption a company makes about its own audience. Tomorrow Group agreed e
Every founder hits this point eventually, and almost nobody says it out loud. A listener wrote in with a question a lot of Series A founders are quietly asking themselves: what do you do when you've built something that
A founder writes in feeling off track and wants to know if the problem is his plan or his execution. James Johnson and Freddie Birley don't let him off with "it's both." They walk through how to tell which one is actuall
Three exits in, Alex Fenton knows exactly what buyers look for, and it's not what most founders think. James and Alex talk through keeping every door open, why a three year plan beats a five year one, and the blunt piece
Antoine Pouppez co-founded neuroClues six years ago. Today it's raised over £25M and employs 40+ people across Belgium and France, building MedTech that treats neurological disorders through eye tracking. His approach fr
A founder writes in asking why their team won't move faster. James Johnson and Freddie Birley take the question apart, and the real answer has almost nothing to do with the team. They get into what actually causes execut
Ryan Saridar runs Elryan.com, one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces in Iraq, and he's built a rule that changes how his entire management team handles bad news. Nobody on his team gets to sit on a problem and hope i
James Johnson and Freddie Birley answer a listener question on how to actually get value from coaching, not the version you perform for LinkedIn, the version where you say the thing you have been avoiding saying out loud
Clare coaches the role nobody talks about: the COO or CFO sat next to a founder CEO, expected to challenge the person who built the company and signs their pay cheque. Most coaches work with the founder. Clare works almo
James and Freddie tackle a question most founders won't admit they're sitting with: when the business is in flux and you're in performance mode around the clock, how do you stay connected to who you actually are? This is
Bethany Ayers, CEO of Metomic, has scaled businesses from the inside - as COO, CRO, and now CEO - and she has a very clear view of what founders get wrong when they think they need to hand the keys over. The insight she
Ben asked how you hold a team together when you can't give them certainty. James and Freddie get into why that framing is already part of the problem - and what good leadership actually looks like when everything is shif
Will Gadsby Peet has been a fractional CMO across hundreds of business models. The pattern he keeps coming back to has nothing to do with channels, budgets, or agencies. Most founders lose touch with the one thing that m
Beth asked what most founders are thinking but haven't said aloud: how do you make decisions about the future of your company when AI is making everything feel uncertain? James and Freddie get into what's really sitting
19 founders. Rockets, guinea pigs, co-CEO structures, a community of 200,000 built in two years. Every conversation different. Three patterns kept coming back. James breaks down what's actually moving across Season 6 — w
Anna's question sounds straightforward. It isn't. James and Freddie break down why founders only start asking this question when they already know something is off - and what to actually do about it. One question. Three
What changes when you stop investing in startups and start building one yourself? James Johnson is joined by Anders Hammerbäck, Co-Founder and CEO of RedpineAI, to discuss his journey from venture capitalist to founder.
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Ryan Saridar
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Anders Hammerbäck
RedpineAI
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Mariane Bekker
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Jasper Deprez
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Dr. Serge Santos
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