The Matt J Hanham Show

You used to ask Google a question and get ten links. Now you ask AI one question, and behind the curtain it asks itself twenty. It looks each one up, grades what it finds, and decides who to recommend. You never see any...

I've written three versions of the same novel. The first draft went out in 2021. The second took four years. The third took less than twelve months. Same book, same bloke, and I was working on it the whole time. So the...

Three weeks ago on this show I said I was sitting at 95% on something, and that the last 5% had taken three times the work of the first 95. Today it went to my editor. It's a book I've been carrying for five years. This...

Leads are down. So you're looking at the ads, or the website, or whether it's time to find a new agency. Before you spend a cent on any of that, check three things, because nine times out of ten what people call a...

There's a thing on your desk that's 95% done. Has been for weeks. The website that needs one more page. The proposal that needs a number in it. The offer you've nearly finished writing. And you've been telling yourself...

In April 2019 I recorded an episode called How To Start A Podcast. In the description I wrote: "90% of podcasts only have 7 episodes. Why is this?" I diagnosed the exact problem, publicly, confidently, on the record...

You've been getting clarity on this for months. The thinking is done, the notebook is full, you've had the conversations. And the thing hasn't moved an inch. This episode is about clarity, decision making and focus for...

A bad meeting, a couple of setbacks, and suddenly you've decided the whole thing is failing. Before you spiral, check which scoreboard you're reading. This one is about business numbers, KPIs, financial reporting and...

Here's an uncomfortable admission. The best marketing I could ever do is dead simple. Just live my own advice, out loud, consistently. And I've done it, on and off. A year straight, then it slides. Start again, slide...

AI means anyone can build anything now. An app, a business, a brand, in an afternoon. The cost of building has fallen off a cliff. So here's the question that should worry you: if everyone can build, what's left to...

I was the favourite to win my school cross country. I'd beaten the kid beside me dozens of times, always by running my own race. Then the gun went, he shot out too hard, I got scared, and I chased him. Burned out early...

You get judged on what you do next. Not the mistake. Not the slip-up. Not the imperfect launch. In this episode, I share a story from my first customer in business — a job that went wrong, a difficult conversation, and...

The real risk in business isn't failure. It's drift. In this bite-sized Inside Out episode, I explore why most founders don't stall because they try and fail — they stall because they stay safe. Planning feels...

A cold call on my personal mobile this week turned into a useful reminder. The call wasn't malicious. The pitch wasn't terrible. But within a minute it became clear we were in the same line of work. In this short Inside...

In this Inside Out episode, I read a short parable often referred to as The Mexican Fisherman and the Banker and share a few reflections it brings up for me. It's a simple story about ambition, success, and the idea of...