James Sinclair
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The Business Broadcast is the weekly podcast from the award-winning entrepreneur James Sinclair. James operates 17 family-based brands which welcome over one million customers through the doors of their every year. His insights are all based on the experience,, mistakes and successes that have led to his current businesses employing 1000 people, turning over £40 million annually. Each week James will speak with different business owners who have multiple challenges. Listen in as James attempts to help these guests overcome their challenges and grow their business.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Real business cases become practical lessons in growth, leadership, financing and the assumptions that can send owners toward the wrong solution.
James Sinclair turns business owners' growth problems into candid working sessions, with James Burt helping frame the challenge and keep the conversation moving.
A cleaner with 380 staff asks about ownership; your hiring plan starts looking suspiciously thin.
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A foot-clinic scale question that turns cash flow into a franchise conversation.
The discussion centers on a five-shop podiatry business and the harder question behind the growth story: whether the founder is ready to scale or still operating like a cautious local owner.
A soldier-founder fashion story where ambition outruns cash, with practical advice throughout.
A full-time soldier trying to turn outdoor fashion into a business gives the episode its center, and the numbers arrive fast: first-year revenue, stock pressure, credit cards, overdrafts, and a 138,000 cash need.
A cleaning-business scale-up with real numbers, real staffing pressure, and a sharp question about ownership.
An HR-to-cleaning pivot becomes a plainspoken scale-up story. The founder started cleaning while still in HR, built the business to about PS240k a month, and now has 380 staff across Dorset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire.
A blunt, practical look at growth, control, and why more money is not always the answer.
James Sinclair and James Burt keep the focus on a familiar growth dilemma: whether outside money buys speed or gives away control. Their back-and-forth keeps pressure on the assumptions behind international expansion, franchise models, and the shift from founder to CEO, so the…
A blunt owner-operator check-up for a landscaping business with real scale and too much founder drag.
Gavin Gray's landscaping and ground care business in Scotland has spent 10 years building real scale, with 55 grand a month and 19 people on the team.
A grounded founder-led growth conversation centered on early marketing and student retention.
James Sinclair's Business Broadcast follows Lindsay as she tries to turn West End Musical Theatre, a 20-year-old theatre-training business doing about 20,000 a month, into something that can run without her over time.
A sharp lead-gen diagnosis for a strong business with too little pipeline.
A video production company with real creative chops gets a blunt reminder that the problem is not ambition, it is lead flow. The strongest part of the discussion is how it turns vague scaling anxiety into something concrete: 50 dream clients, eight to 10 good projects a year,…
A blunt, useful push to treat online sales as a real growth channel, not a side project.
James Sinclair's Business Broadcast makes a simple business point and keeps coming back to it: Tony's bespoke menswear shop still gets about half a million a year in sales, but 95% of the money comes from the premises and only 5% from online.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
James Sinclair interviews a 3D printing entrepreneur who left his job to scale his niche business.
James Sinclair interviews two young entrepreneurs who built a successful Amazon FBA business, discussing their challenges and strategies.
James Sinclair interviews Joseph Newton, co-founder of Condry App, discussing commercial strategy, telehealth, and funding options for a health anxiety app startup.
James Sinclair interviews an upholstery business owner about scaling from £600k to £2M revenue, focusing on marketing and property strategy.
£6 million of turf.
Five foot-health shops, one weird brake.
James Sinclair interviews Jacob, a full-time soldier who launched Lockwood Premium British Smocks, generating £820,000 in revenue in his first year.
James Sinclair interviews Rainer, founder of Bloom Cleaning, a £240k/month business with 380 staff.
James Sinclair interviews Richard Few, founder of SalesGeek, a £4M/year sales consultancy.
James Sinclair interviews Gavin Gray, who runs a £55k/month landscaping business in Scotland but is stuck doing low-value tasks.
James Sinclair interviews Lindsay Wise, founder of West End Musical Theatre, a £20k/month theatre training business struggling with student retention due to travel costs.
James Sinclair interviews Sarah Abel, who runs TMB Skills Training, a £100k/month apprenticeship business in hair and beauty.
James Sinclair interviews Nicole Rickson, founder of Bridget Productions, a video production company turning over £40k/month.
James Sinclair and James Burt interview Tony, founder of Suave Owl, a bespoke menswear shop in Bath doing £30-60k monthly with only 5% online sales.
James Sinclair interviews Neil, an accountant who built a £1M business and aims to double it, exploring his motivations and challenges like scaling, restructuring, and technology.
James Sinclair hosts an emergency episode with Dawn, an IT consultancy owner who lost a £400,000 client, causing a severe cash flow crisis.
James Sinclair interviews a fish entrepreneur doing £100k/month, discussing challenges in staffing, margins, and expansion.
James Sinclair interviews Ryan, CEO of Sustainable Compliance, discussing his business metrics, challenges, and goals for growth and acquisition.
James Sinclair interviews Josh Mills about scaling his vehicle leasing business and overcoming stagnation.
James Sinclair interviews a young entrepreneur who has reached £4 million in annual revenue and discusses strategies for managing growth and building a team.
James Sinclair interviews a pet food supplier who generates £36,000 monthly with no staff through trade shows and customer retention.
James Sinclair interviews a quantity surveyor who helps wealthy clients build or refurbish homes, discussing how to attract the right clients and grow a service-based business.