Ron Tester is back for a History Pop-Up. And it turns out we both spent the month reading about people dying of things nobody understood at the time.

Ron's been looking at the physician who worked out cholera came from the water, while the authorities determinedly ignored his findings. I've got an ancient language we can only trace from shared words we still use today.

Plus, we look at the history of paper + the shock of the Great Influenza.

Better still, the teeth of the ancient people who spoke it tell us how they moved + to an amazing degree how they spent their time.

Look for more History Pop-Ups roughly every month.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Ghost Map - Steven Johnson

Pale Rider - Laura Spinney

Proto - Laura Spinney

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper - Roland Allen

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World - Irene Vallejo

The Great Influenza - John M. Barry

Ron's Website: rontestercoaching.com

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This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely

Tim Ferriss has just published his recent royalty figures - that's since AI arrived - they're grim.

Ally Machate of The Writer's Ally is back to work out the knock-on effects for the rest of us. She reckons one whole category of book is dead. Not dying. Dead.

But it's not all doom + gloom - business books have a future. I put both my own books on the table + ask her straight whether they'll survive. One does. The other - hmm, needs a tweak. Listen to see if your book plans need to change too.

Look for more in the Your Biz Needs a Book strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Body - Tim Ferriss

Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss

Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss

Ally’s Website: www.thewritersally.com

Ally’s Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/allysonemachate

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This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list

A scientist sails to the Arctic hunting a legendary giant jellyfish. She finds nothing but the reader can see it on every page - right next to her ship.

Show regular Ron Tester is back to discuss Chloe Savage's delightful The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, which for our purposes turns out to be a book about blind spots.

We discuss why your customers see your business more clearly than you ever will + the silent clients who watch you for years without ever saying hello. Rude?

This is a Classics episode, where we treat a book that is absolutely not a business book as though it were.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish - Chloe Savage

What Magic Lies Beneath - Chloe Savage

Ron's Website: rontestercoaching.com

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

We can now all spot AI slop miles off - the em dash, the bullet points, the "it's not this, it's that".

Yet AI is still super handy for speeding day-to-day tasks - so how do you use AI for business writing without sounding like a bot?

Communications expert Chris Fenning is back to discuss the whole thing. He explains the two jobs AI does brilliantly + the two you should never hand over. And a strange moment I had with the word 'ok'.

Look for more episodes in this mini series with Chris.

Books discussed in this episode:

The First Minute - Chris Fenning

Effective Meetings - Chris Fenning

Chris's website: chrisfenning.com/

Chris's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chris-fenning

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

When the fair shuts and the humans go home, the woodland animals let themselves in. Nobody's in charge. Yet it works perfectly.

Community expert Gill Tiney is back to discuss The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer. It's a wordless picture book, which makes it a very quiet business text indeed.

We discuss who guides when nobody leads, how your members can pay you without using actual money + the one thing these animals do on their way out that humans almost never manage.

This is a Classics episode, where we treat a book that is absolutely not a business book as though it were.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Midnight Fair - Gideon Sterer

Together We Can Do Something Wonderful - Gill Tiney

Gill's Website: collaborationglobal.org

Gill's Eventbrite: ventbrite.co.uk/o/collaboration-global-28760629935

Gill's YouTube: youtube.com/@collaborationglobal5801

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Publishers spend all day up to their eyeballs in books. Which begs the question - what do they read when nobody's paying them to?

Publisher Emily Hitchcock is back - for what may be a new series - finding out what the professionals read for pleasure.

We compare notes on bookseller picks, judging books by their covers - we both do it, is it a bad habit? + which section of the bookshop you'll find Emily in. Plus - shockingly - she confesses a book habit I consider a crime. Outrageous!

Look out for more from this brand new Reading strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee

Cocktails with George and Martha - Philip Gefter

Emily's website: columbuspublishinglab.com/li

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

You've written a book. AI is going to change how people find it - and yes, it's going to read it too + probably tell people what's in it. Let's discuss the good and the bad.

Marketing strategist Forest Linden is back for part three of our AI mini series.

Forest explains where AI actually looks when it decides who to recommend - it's not your website - and how to get your name attached to your idea so when AI borrows your thinking, you still get the credit.

We also talk honestly about books being scraped. Every published book gets absorbed. It's happening to everyone + pretending otherwise helps nobody.

Look for more in the Your Biz Needs a Book strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Art of Money - Bari Tessler

Forest's website: claritylab.co

Forest's Threads: threads.com/@forestlinden

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

You're explaining your work to someone important. You're being clear - you're being interesting. Obv. Yet they've quite visibly glazed over. What went wrong?

Communications expert Chris Fenning is back to set us straight.

Turns out the problem isn't necessarily your explanation - it's where you're starting from - and it's the reason why so many tedious business letters go straight in the recycling. Naturally, he also gives us the fix.

Plus, the question I'm training myself to ask instead of ‘does that make sense?’ - you'll likely find it useful too.

Look for more episodes in this Communication strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

The First Minute - Chris Fenning

Effective Meetings - Chris Fenning

Chris's website: chrisfenning.com/

Chris's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chris-fenning

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely