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Founder stories at the point of action.
Screw It Just DO It is an entrepreneur interview show built around the moment people stop waiting and act. Its conversations favor founder scars over polish, moving from debt, career cages, and failed assumptions into brand-building, community, and resilience.
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Screw It Just DO It is an entrepreneur interview show built around decisive moments. It studies the point where hesitation gives way to movement. The recent episodes are full of founders and builders talking about risk in concrete terms: money running out, a comfortable salary becoming a constraint, a business sale reshaping identity, or an illness forcing a different view of time. The show is not interested in tidy origin myths. It keeps circling back to the practical and psychological friction of starting. Guests talk about small first budgets, minimum viable products, recruitment companies, content-led food brands, personal brands, niche communities, and the discipline required to keep going. The pacing is direct. A typical conversation moves quickly from a bold life event into a business lesson, then into the habits and decisions behind it. Financial literacy appears as a recurring concern, especially when young people face crypto, investing, saving, and social media pressure without much formal education. Social media is treated as both a growth channel and a trap. Several episodes challenge the fantasy of easy status, quick wealth, and public success without substance. The show also spends time on distribution. Founders are pushed to think about audience, topic of influence, community fit, and the pain point their work actually serves. Food industry listeners will find the BOSH! conversation especially relevant, with its focus on building an audience before shaping a commercial food brand. But the show’s range is broader than one vertical. It moves from legal careers communities to YouTube education, from rebuilding a fortress to running marathons for a cause. The connective tissue is action under uncertainty. Its better conversations make ambition feel less abstract and more operational. The tone is energetic without becoming purely celebratory. Failure, fear, and exhaustion are allowed into the room. For founders who want stories that admit the pressure while still pushing toward execution, Screw It Just DO It has a clear lane.
Made for: For entrepreneurs, side-project builders, and operators who want candid business conversations about starting, positioning, money, audience, and resilience. It especially suits listeners weighing a leap from comfort into ownership.
What sets it apart: The show anchors founder advice in visible pressure points rather than abstract motivation. Recent episodes connect personal stakes, brand strategy, distribution, and financial habits in conversations that stay close to lived business decisions.
Screw It Just DO It is the podcast for entrepreneurs, founders and business builders who are ready to stop waiting and start building.Hosted by Alex Chisnall, the show features honest conversations with people who’ve faced uncertainty, taken risks and built businesses that matter — from kitchen-table side projects to global brands and billion-pound companies.Real stories. Real decisions. Real progress.New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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A founder story built on stubbornness, sales grit, and a refusal to plot an exit.
Nishant Sharma's story lands as a hard-edged founder account built on grit rather than polish: loading a Jeep with bottles of gin, bringing back 90 odd cases unsold, and still pressing on.
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.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Iain Ward, diagnosed with brain cancer at 31, shares how he turned a one-to-five-year prognosis into a catalyst for action.
Nishant Sharma shares his journey from quitting a corporate job at BlackRock to founding Rutland Square Spirits with £500.
Nell Daly of Revenge Capital discusses her journey from social work to raising a $70 million fund to back overlooked and underestimated founders in venture capital.
Coach G, who won a World Cup and three Super Rugby titles, describes quitting his scrum-coach role at La Rochelle after his daughter asked why she could not see him daily.
Sammy describes hiding £24,000 of debt until a 3 a.m.
This episode explores how founders overcome fear and build resilience by committing to long-term business ventures, using personal stories of starting a recruitment company.
Alex Chisnall's guest explains that her sale of the Institute, an experience-gift company, required her to hand over her Instagram, and the buyer refused to sell it back after leaving it dormant for four months.
This episode features Iain Ward discussing how a cancer diagnosis with a 5-year prognosis motivated him to build a movement and raise money through marathons, while also touching on business challenges for founders.
Jason Graystone tells Alex Chisnall how becoming a father at 22 led him to move 26 miles to Leatherhead and start an electrical engineering company from a shed.
Alex Chisnall interviews Robert Hanna about leaving a successful recruitment career around his 30th birthday because he did not want “the wage be my cage.” Hanna explains how partnering with an established legal recruiter helped him enter legal recruitment despite having no sector contacts or proof of concept.
The founders of BOSH!
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Juliet Barratt shares the emotional and practical journey of building Grenade from a kitchen table startup to a £200 million global health and fitness brand, discussing entrepreneurship, brand success, and personal growth.
Rowena Bird shares insights on scaling LUSH while maintaining its values, emphasizing step-by-step growth, charitable giving, and learning from challenges like expanding to larger stores.