For founders · The Executive Nomad Podcast
You built the business and grew it. That’s a story worth telling.
The Executive Nomad Podcast is a show for founder stories: the wins, the losses and the lessons. One hour with Jamie Sylvian, about you and how you built it. Brokers across the industry hear it straight from you.
- About an hour, recorded online
- You pick the date
- No pitch, no promo
- No cost, now or later
You’re heading to executivenomad.fm. It’s our dedicated podcast website, where you pick your date and book your time. Choose the free guest seat.
Ask a question first
Booking opens executivenomad.fm, the podcast’s own website. You’re invited, so choose the free guest seat. Your full media pack is included.
Stories of people who built their own business. Nothing for sale.
The Executive Nomad Podcast is built around people who made something of their own. Founders who started a business and grew it. People building the next one after they sold. People who left a corporate, government or military career and turned what they know into a business they own.
Every episode is the guest’s story, told their way. Nobody pitches, nobody promotes, and there’s nothing at the end to buy.
The founders
How a firm, a network or a franchise got built, from the first deal to the name people know.
After the sale
What people do once the business is sold and they’re not ready to stop.
After the institution
Life after a corporate, government or military career, when the title goes and the know-how stays.
It’s a home for people weighing up a late-career change. They want to become Executive Nomads and build a borderless business they can run from anywhere, home included. They come to hear how someone else actually did it. Yours is exactly that kind of story.
It’s about you and how you built it
- It’s your story. How it started, what nearly didn’t work, the calls you got right and the ones you’d make differently now.
- It’s a conversation, not a script. You don’t need notes. Jamie asks, you talk, and the two of you follow whatever turns out to be interesting.
- One founder per episode. Just you and Jamie. Nobody else competing for the airtime.
The wins, the losses and the lessons
You bring the story. These are the places it usually goes.
The start
Why you did it at all
What you walked away from, the first deal, and the moment you knew it might actually work.
The growth
How one firm became a name
The hires, the offices, the brokers or franchisees who joined, and what changed when it stopped being just you.
The losses
What went wrong
The deals that fell over, the bad calls and the year it nearly didn’t hold together. Every founder has one.
The lessons
What you know now
What you’d tell someone starting a brokerage, network or franchise today, and what you’d never do again.
How it works
Four steps, and only one of them takes more than a few minutes.
Pick your date
Book on executivenomad.fm and choose the free guest seat.
A short form
About five minutes, so Jamie knows the outline of your story before you start.
Record online
About an hour, wherever you are. You get the joining link, a set-up checklist and reminders.
Share it
You receive the finished episode and every short, ready for you and your network to use.
What you keep
- The full episode. The finished video of your conversation with Jamie, yours to keep.
- Every short. All the short clips cut from your episode, ready for LinkedIn and your other channels.
- Full rights. Use it on your website, in newsletters, at events and across your network. No restrictions from us.
- No cost. Not now and not later. Your time is the only thing we ask for.
Who you’ll be talking to
Jamie Sylvian is the founder of Executive Nomad, author of The Executive Nomad Operating System and host of The Executive Nomad Podcast. He co-founded SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com, which sold for £210 million in 2006, and he has worked for himself since 1991.
So when he asks how you built yours, he’s asking as someone who’s built one himself.
The questions founders ask first
- What does it cost? Nothing. You’re invited, so you take the free guest seat, and the full media pack comes with it.
- Is this a sales pitch? No. You won’t be selling, and nobody will be selling to you. The hour is about how you built the business.
- Do I need to prepare? Only the short form when you book. You know the story better than anyone, so there’s nothing to rehearse.
- Can my team arrange it? Yes. Monicah, our Operations Manager, runs the show’s diary. Have whoever looks after yours email Monicah and she’ll sort the date with them.
Interested in telling yours?
Pick a date that suits you on executivenomad.fm and choose the free guest seat. Or reply to Jamie’s email or InMail and we’ll take it from there.
You’re heading to executivenomad.fm. It’s our dedicated podcast website, where you pick your date and book your time. Choose the free guest seat.
Email podcasts@executivenomad.com
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