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Brendan McGurgan
ScaleX™ Insider Podcast
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  • Derek Coburn: “Let’s Retire Retirement”: Work Longer, Live Better
    Is your career path really serving you — or is it time to rethink what “success” looks like? In this episode of the ScaleX Insider Podcast, Derek Coburn — entrepreneur, financial advisor, co-founder of CADRE, and bestselling author of Networking Is Not Working — shares his insights on building authentic professional connections, creating lasting value beyond the traditional networking playbook, and redefining what retirement really means. From challenging outdated models of career progression to showing leaders how to prioritise meaning, impact, and relationships, Derek helps entrepreneurs and CEOs unlock more freedom and fulfillment — now, not “someday.” We explore: ✅ Why most networking doesn’t work — and what to do instead ✅ The power of “un-networking” to create meaningful connections ✅ Why retiring retirement opens up new possibilities for living fully ✅ Balancing professional ambition with personal fulfillment ✅ Practical ways to connect, contribute, and thrive in business and life 📌 Connect with Derek Coburn 🌐 Website: https://www.derekcoburn.com/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekcoburn/ 📖 Books: Networking Is Not Working (2014), Let’s Retire Retirement (2025) 🧭 About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast: ScaleX™ helps SME leaders scale with purpose using the proven ScaleX™ Framework. Hosted by Brendan McGurgan, the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast shares insights from top entrepreneurs and business thinkers. If you’re an SME leader looking for a proven plan to scale, here are two ways to work with us: 👉 Join the Northern Ireland ScaleX Accelerator Programme (2026) For CEOs, founders & MDs of SMEs (£2m–30m revenue) ready to scale leadership, teams, and value. Join the waitlist: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/ 👉 Join ScaleX Elevate (for £750k–2m businesses) A digital learning community with weekly training, support, and expert sessions — designed to give you a roadmap to 2x your revenue and talent within 2 years. Register your interest: https://scalexinsights.simplescaling.com/ 🌐 Website: https://www.simplescaling.com 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-scaling 🎧 Listen to More ScaleX™ Insider Episodes 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleScaling 🎙 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kxPOgS4YArDZtP3VhXlJY 🎙 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scalex-insider-podcast/id1556396323
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  • Sarah Rozenthuler: The Simple Way To Lead With Purpose
    Is your leadership and team performance stuck… or is it a purpose problem? In this episode of the ScaleX Insider Podcast, Sarah Rozenthuler — Chartered Psychologist, leadership coach, dialogue consultant, and author of Powered by Purpose — shares her insights on how connecting with purpose can energise people, transform teams, and scale your organisation with impact. From fostering authentic conversations to embedding purpose at every level of your business, Sarah shows SME leaders how to unlock motivation, alignment, and ambition by focusing on meaningful work before chasing metrics and processes. We explore: ✅ How purpose drives engagement, performance, and wellbeing ✅ Creating authentic conversations that connect teams and stakeholders ✅ The four capacities for leading with purpose ✅ Using stories — not slogans — to make purpose real ✅ Practical steps to embed purpose in day-to-day work 📌 Connect with Sarah Rozenthuler 🌐 Website:  https://sarahrozenthuler.com/ 🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-rozenthuler 📖 Book: Powered by Purpose (2020) 🧭 About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast: ScaleX™ helps SME leaders scale with purpose using the proven ScaleX™ Framework. Hosted by Brendan McGurgan, the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast shares insights from top entrepreneurs and business thinkers. If you’re an SME leader looking for a proven plan to scale, here are two ways to work with us: 👉 Join the Northern Ireland ScaleX Accelerator Programme (2026) For CEOs, founders & MDs of SMEs (£2m–30m revenue) ready to scale leadership, teams, and value. Join the waitlist: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/ 👉 Join ScaleX Elevate (for £750k–2m businesses) A digital learning community with weekly training, support, and expert sessions — designed to give you a roadmap to 2x your revenue and talent within 2 years. Register your interest: https://scalexinsights.simplescaling.com/ 🌐 Website: https://www.simplescaling.com 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-scaling 🎧 Listen to More ScaleX™ Insider Episodes 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleScaling 🎙 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kxPOgS4YArDZtP3VhXlJY 🎙 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scalex-insider-podcast/id1556396323
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  • Billy Broas - Scaling with Belief & Simple Marketing
    Is your marketing a traffic problem… or a belief problem? In this episode of the ScaleX Insider Podcast, Billy Broas — author of Simple Marketing for Smart People — shares his Five Light Bulbs Framework for crafting marketing messages that build belief, cut through the noise, and scale your business. From shifting your mindset to creating a unique approach that differentiates you in crowded markets, Billy shows SME leaders how to win more customers, more predictably, by focusing on the right message before chasing channels and tactics. We explore: ✅ Why belief — not traffic — drives sustainable scaling ✅ The Five Light Bulbs Framework for core marketing messaging ✅ How to position your unique approach in competitive markets ✅ Turning empathy and proof into powerful customer arguments ✅ Using AI as a “debate partner” to strengthen your messaging 📌 Connect with Billy Broas 🌐 Website: https://www.billybroas.com 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billybroas 📖 Book: https://www.simplemarketingbook.com 🧭 About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast: ScaleX™ helps SME leaders scale with purpose using the proven ScaleX™ Framework. Hosted by Brendan McGurgan, the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast shares insights from top entrepreneurs and business thinkers. If you’re an SME leader looking for a proven plan to scale, here are two ways to work with us: 👉 Join the Northern Ireland ScaleX Accelerator Programme (2026) For CEOs, founders & MDs of SMEs (£2m–30m revenue) ready to scale leadership, teams, and value. Join the waitlist: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/ 👉 Join ScaleX Elevate (for £750k–2m businesses) A digital learning community with weekly training, support, and expert sessions — designed to give you a roadmap to 2x your revenue and talent within 2 years. Register your interest: https://scalexinsights.simplescaling.com/ 🌐 Website: https://www.simplescaling.com 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-scaling 🎧 Listen to More ScaleX™ Insider Episodes 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleScaling 🎙 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kxPOgS4YArDZtP3VhXlJY 🎙 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scalex-insider-podcast/id1556396323
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  • Natasha Hawker: Mastering Hiring, Managing & Exiting for SME Growth
    In this episode, Natasha Hawker — leading people strategist, workplace culture expert, and author of From Hire to Fire & Everything in Between — joins Brendan McGurgan on ScaleX Insider to explore how purpose-driven leadership, people-first practices, and courageous conversations drive sustainable business growth. With over 25 years of HR experience and as founder of Employee Matters, Natasha brings a wealth of knowledge on building compliant, high-performing teams. She shares hard-won insights on how entrepreneurs can scale with purpose while balancing the demands of business and family. From modelling leadership at home and in the workplace, to understanding the hidden costs of poor people practices, Natasha unpacks the real-world strategies that enable business owners to lead with impact, integrity, and intention. You’ll hear how Natasha navigated entrepreneurship while raising a young family, why giving back to your team and clients is essential, and how to stop being “unconsciously incompetent” when it comes to people management. 💡 Key topics: Scaling with purpose Modelling leadership in business and life Building strong people practices Balancing entrepreneurship and family Courageous conversations in the workplace Compliance and culture as growth tools Can Small Businesses Win with AI? 🔎 About Natasha Hawker: Natasha Hawker is a leading expert in people management, workplace culture, and HR strategy. With over 25 years of experience in senior HR roles across global firms and as the founder of Employee Matters, she helps businesses unlock their potential through better people practices. Her bestselling book, From Hire to Fire & Everything in Between, is a practical guide for business owners and managers on how to hire, manage, and exit staff legally and effectively. Natasha’s approach is grounded in deep expertise, commercial insight, and a passion for changing workplaces for the better. Website: https://www.natashahawker.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natashahawker Book: From Hire to Fire & Everything In Between 📈 About Simple Scaling: Simple Scaling helps SME leaders achieve exponential growth through expert coaching, masterclasses, and peer communities. Website: https://simplescaling.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-scaling Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_scaling Email: mailto:[email protected] About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast 🧭 About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast: ScaleX™ helps SME leaders scale with purpose using the proven ScaleX™ Framework. Hosted by Brendan McGurgan, the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast shares insights from top entrepreneurs and business thinkers. If you’re an SME leader looking for a proven plan to scale, here are two ways to work with us: 👉 Join the Northern Ireland ScaleX Accelerator Programme (2026) For CEOs, founders & MDs of SMEs (£2m–30m revenue) ready to scale leadership, teams, and value. Join the waitlist: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/ 👉 Join ScaleX Elevate (£750k–2m businesses) A digital learning community with weekly training, support, and expert sessions — designed to give you a roadmap to 2x your revenue and talent within 2 years. Register your interest: https://scalexinsights.simplescaling.com/elevate #LeadershipImpact #MultipliersMindset #ScaleUpSuccess #SimpleScaling #SMEGrowth #ExecutiveLeadership  
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  • Chad Jenkins: Collaboration Is The New Currency
    In this episode, Chad Jenkins — collaboration strategist, entrepreneur, and author of Friction Fuel and Just Add Zero — joins Brendan McGurgan to explore how visionary leaders unlock growth through purpose-driven collaboration. Chad shares the powerful frameworks behind SEEDSPARK CoLAB, including his signature models like Collaboration Currency, the IC3 formula, and Vision + Capability × Reach. With insights from guiding 300+ collaborations, Chad reveals how to think bigger, scale with purpose, and build a high-impact network of vision partners. You’ll discover how to apply “just add zero” thinking, the daily GRACE routine for mindset, and the vital role of a collab architect in designing scalable partnerships — all grounded in Chad’s deep experience helping entrepreneurs move beyond friction and into exponential success. 💡 Key topics: Collaboration currency, exponential growth, visionary leadership, scaling with purpose, partnership design, mindset routines, entrepreneur breakthroughs, the power of thinking bigger.   🔎 About Chad Jenkins: Chad is a growth strategist and the creator of SEEDSPARK CoLAB. Through his groundbreaking frameworks like ICM and icVCR, and a portfolio of 300+ high-impact collaborations, Chad helps entrepreneurs transform how they solve challenges and seize opportunities. Website: https://seedspark.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadtjenkins/  Books: Friction Fuel and Just Add Zero 📈 About Simple Scaling: Simple Scaling helps SME leaders achieve exponential growth through expert coaching, masterclasses, and peer communities. Website: https://simplescaling.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-scaling Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_scaling Email: mailto:[email protected] About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast 🧭 About Simple Scaling & ScaleX™ Insider Podcast: ScaleX™ helps SME leaders scale with purpose using the proven ScaleX™ Framework. Hosted by Brendan McGurgan, the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast shares insights from top entrepreneurs and business thinkers. If you’re an SME leader looking for a proven plan to scale, here are two ways to work with us: 👉 Join the Northern Ireland ScaleX Accelerator Programme (2026) For CEOs, founders & MDs of SMEs (£2m–30m revenue) ready to scale leadership, teams, and value. Join the waitlist: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/ 👉 Join ScaleX Elevate (£750k–2m businesses) A digital learning community with weekly training, support, and expert sessions — designed to give you a roadmap to 2x your revenue and talent within 2 years. Register your interest: https://scalexinsights.simplescaling.com/elevate #LeadershipImpact #MultipliersMindset #ScaleUpSuccess #SimpleScaling #SMEGrowth #ExecutiveLeadership  
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About ScaleX™ Insider Podcast

My name is Brendan McGurgan and I am immersed in the world of scaleup businesses. In 2020, myself and business partner Claire Colvin co-founded Simple Scaling with the sole purpose of inspiring and enabling millions of ambitious leaders to scale with purpose. Over the past two years we have researched and examined our success and the success of those who have 'been there and done it' to create the 10 Principles of Scaling which is enshrined in our ScaleX™ Framework. As an extension of this we have created the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast. Every week I will be having fascinating conversations with authors, change makers and business leaders on one or more of the ScaleX™ Principles to support you on your journey to success. I believe passionately in business scaleup and most importantly the wellbeing of you - the aspirational scaleup leader. New episodes on Wednesdays. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, and please rate, review and share the podcast if you enjoy it. For more information go to: www.simplescaling.com.
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