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  • EVERGREEN That LEVERAGE Model

    EVERGREEN That LEVERAGE Model
    Feb 20 2026
    EVERGREEN That LEVERAGE Model In this episode of Join Up Dots, we answer a powerful listener question about how to build leverage through evergreen work and side hustles without creating another exhausting job. If wealth is costing you your time, energy and peace of mind, something's wrong. This episode explores how to move from hustle to assets, from selling hours to packaging value, and from daily effort to repeatable systems that keep working long after you've stepped away. It's about building income that supports your life instead of consuming it. If you're ready to design smarter and escape the grind, this one's for you. Share it with someone who needs to hear this. #FinancialFreedom #SideHustle #PassiveIncome #EntrepreneurMindset #BuildAssets Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode!
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    16 Min.
  • 80 / 20 Principle

    80 / 20 Principle
    Feb 18 2026
    Mark Sieverkropp is todays guest joining us on the show, and is someone who now falls into a very select band of guests. This is the third time that he has appeared, after first back in 2014 with his business partner Scott Barlow on episode 37. If you go back and listen to episode 37, he spoke with passion and more than a touch of humour as to how they got the "Happen To Your Career" online business going. This was why he was still working in the corporate world in a job he hated whilst starting to make inroads into his new life. Well he did that, and when he appeared next he had another leg into the entrepreneurial world and was sharing with us all, the steps we can take, and skills we need to explode our network of friends, colleagues and clients sky-high and build our own business. As the saying goes "No Man is an island" and with the worldwide web literally falling over with potential prospects, money making opportunities and chances to strike up a conversation are needed more than ever, which is where his talent lie. Now with his new book "Find Your 20" focusing in on the 80/20 principle and how we can all find time, enjoyment and even more income in our business by being strategic and streamlined as he finally found where he really wants to be? Is this where he looks and thinks "wow, without all the other dots there is no way that i could have brought this to the world? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Mark Sieverkropp.
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    57 Min.
  • Key To LIFE FREEDOM Is Leverage

    Key To LIFE FREEDOM Is Leverage
    Feb 16 2026
    Key To LIFE FREEDOM Is Leverage On this episode of Join Up Dots, we tackle the modern freedom trap — building a side hustle to create more family time, only to realise the hustle itself is stealing the time you already have. If your income only grows when your hours grow, you're not building freedom… you're building another job. This episode explores how to break the cycle through leverage, focused 90-day sprints, skill upgrades, and protecting what truly matters while you build. Share this with someone stuck in the grind. #SideHustle #TimeFreedom #WorkLifeBalance #EntrepreneurMindset #JoinUpDots Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode!
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    18 Min.
  • Escape Rooms

    Escape Rooms
    Feb 13 2026
    Introducing Greg Koberger Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a lady who for many years worked in the corporate environment. He hails from the lovely town of Schaghticoke (pronounced scat-a-coke) in upstate New York. After attending RIT he made the move to San Francisco where he's worked for Mozilla, and freelanced for a bunch of startups. In fact when Greg interviewed at Mozilla, he was asked where he wanted to be in five years. His answer? Well most of the time you would expect a response in the line of "I want to firmly providing daily value to your customers and stakeholders" or other such waffle. Our guest today instead answered "Running my own startup." Four years and 363 days later, after several starts and stops, years of freelancing, and a failed Y Combinator application, he achieved his goal just ahead of deadline. It proves that the glamorous world of startups are just as prone to failure as they are global success. Interestingly, early on, Greg discovered a unique team-building exercise in escape rooms. He values the game so much, in fact, that he decided to build his own: Startup Escape. and to date hundreds of companies have gone through this immersive experience in San Francisco, earning it quite the reputation among startups. So why does he feel driven to put himself under so much strain and workload, when remaining as an employee would quite often be so much easier? And what are the big lessons that he carries with him everyday. as he looks back and joins up his dots to where he is today? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, the one and only Greg Koberger. Show Highlights During the show we discussed such dreamy subjects with Greg Koberger such as: Greg shares how the inspiration for starting his own escape room and why he thinks these are amazing ventures for his creativity. We discuss "The Dip" that all businesses suffer with when starting their own business. Greg reveals how it took him five years to get any sense of success in his business, but that is totally fine as he learnt so much and lastly...... We talk about what energises us in our businesses (and more often than not its what we do away from it all that makes the biggest difference)
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    49 Min.
  • You Don't Need MORE You Just Need To Be BETTER

    You Don't Need MORE You Just Need To Be BETTER
    Feb 11 2026
    You Don't Need MORE You Just Need To Be BETTER On this episode of Join Up Dots, we tackle the belief that "I just need more customers" is the answer to everything. But what if chasing more is actually the thing holding your business back? Instead of obsessing over followers, traffic and bigger numbers, we explore why refining what you already have — your offer, your systems, and your customer experience — creates calmer, stronger and more profitable growth. Sometimes the smartest move isn't scaling fast, but tightening what's already working. #JoinUpDots #BusinessGrowth #EntrepreneurMindset #SmallBusiness #FocusOnWhatMatters #WorkSmarter Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode!
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    17 Min.
  • The Introvert Life

    The Introvert Life
    Feb 9 2026
    Introducing Aren Deu Aren Deu is today's guest on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast. He is a man who is on a mission, whilst still working a full-time job as a property investor for wealth & cash-flow. He says "My goal is to empower people by helping them find their voice & improve their overall health. I am on the journey of achieving this through either mentally via my Podcast: Find Your Voice, & physically through my health & fitness knowledge through tips, tricks, blogs, diet & fitness plans! Helping people has been a part of my life ever since I can recall. How The Dots Joined Up For Aren Deu From personal training, to support work, to being part of a family who foster children, to then going on to become a social worker. I have always found happiness & fulfilment via serving others. Realising the larger impact I can have on the world by giving up the corporate world and pursuing my own entrepreneurial journey and starting my own self-help Podcast I have started to finally Find My Voice. So now he is hustling to appear on podcasts, grow his fitness business and do everything else that an online entrepreneur needs to do everyday. So how does he maintain the motivation to keep on working on his dream after a busy week working the 9 to 5? And with so many elements to his business, where does he see his key offering? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. Aren Deu Show Highlights During the show we discussed such weighty subjects with Aren Deu such as: Why its so important to find the space in your business to really enjoy the majority of what needs to be done, whilst accepting the crap as part of the game. Aren remembers working in a job that although amazing money wasn't good enough for him, and reveals the steps he took to truly find his thing. Aren shares how he always starts his day with journalling which allows him to focus his thoughts and his energies on what needs to be tackled head on. And lastly……… Why its so important to share the honest and sometimes dark moments in your business with everyone. Don't hold back from the truth...we can handle it!
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    55 Min.
  • Developing Personal Strengths

    Developing Personal Strengths
    Feb 7 2026
    Developing Personal Strengths My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a lady from Melbourne Australia who has one belief in life. That all of us are capable of being a bigger, brighter version of ourselves than we give ourselves the opportunity to be. Her official bio states that she is "is a best-selling author, workplace well being teacher and playful change activator" which is of course true but is not something that occurs by magic. Back in 1994, she was working for PR Works as a general manager where she built a profitable IT portfolio, as well as creating a media training service for CEOS. Which I find fascinating, as someone who is now firmly entrenched in the people development world, this wasn't an area of her life that just burst into being after several decades. It was there right at the beginning, which grew larger in her next job as a PR Manager for Sausage Software. But it seems to me that things moved up a gear when performing the position at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, as their international leadership coach, where she worked across the world to implement the companies brand strategy using Positive Psychology theories across their culture. And then there comes the time where our guest could have continued to rise up the ranks in corporate land, gaining the salary and working tirelessly to build someone else dream. But our guest had other ideas, and left to create her own company and her own dream, after completing her Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) at the University of Pennsylvania And with a career history scattered with roles lasting a couple of years or so, it appears that she has truly found her thing, as she has stayed where she is ever since. Developing her company, bringing in bigger clients and well......loving it. As she says "I'm passionate about bringing out the best in people, particularly at work. Fusing Neuroscience and Positive Psychology into tested, practical actions, I create happier, more rewarding and more profitable workplaces for employees, their bosses and their organisations." And who wouldn't love to do something that you are passionate about everyday. That is the dream after all. So when did she get the inkling that building her business was awaiting for her? And was it scary time or "Hell yeah, lets get going?" And is there a similar theme that stops most companies, and the employees of those companies operate at the highest level? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Michelle McQuaid.
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    56 Min.
  • Reclaiming Your Life - Listener Struggles

    Reclaiming Your Life - Listener Struggles
    Feb 4 2026
    Reclaiming Your Life - Listener Struggles In this episode of Join Up Dots, David reads two deeply honest listener letters from people who are doing everything "right" on the outside but quietly struggling on the inside. One is weighed down by constant financial pressure and the fear of falling behind, the other by a slow loss of identity after years of putting everyone else first. Through calm, grounded reflections, the episode explores why overwhelm isn't failure, why clarity matters more than ambition, and how regaining control often starts with small, unglamorous steps rather than dramatic change. It's a gentle reminder that joining up the dots isn't about rushing forward, but understanding where you are and giving yourself permission to breathe again. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode! #JoinUpDots #LifeClarity #FinancialCalm #QuietProgress #MidlifeReset #MentalLoad #ControlYourLife #PersonalGrowth
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    19 Min.