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Progress in Practice Podcast

Progress in Practice Podcast

著者： Charlie Reading
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The Progress in Practice Podcast brings together successful service-based business owners for honest, high-impact conversations about growth, purpose, and the lessons learned along the way. Each episode is just 20 minutes of real wisdom from people who've built something worth talking about, brought to you by The Trusted Team. Listen in, and take something useful away every time.

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  • Season1: Free Management, Five-Year Guarantees, and Getting Out of Your Own Way with Felix Mead

    Season1: Free Management, Five-Year Guarantees, and Getting Out of Your Own Way with Felix Mead
    2026/06/24
    In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Felix Mead, founder of Sliq Homes- a London-based property management business built on a model that still raises eyebrows: free management, free maintenance, free refurbishment, and a guaranteed rent for five years.The model works because Sliq Homes converts three and four-bed family homes into high-quality HMOs for working professionals, creating the margin that makes the free service possible. But the business behind the model is just as interesting as the model itself. Felix spent his twenties as a scuba diving instructor in Koh Tao and the Great Barrier Reef, then as a DJ and fire dancer, before a single moment at a restaurant with his brother- an £800 bill paid mid-conversation without a second thought- made him stop, go to the bathroom to shake it off, and decide everything needed to change.He came to London, experienced the letting industry first-hand, was unimpressed by what he found, and built something better. The conversation covers the mechanics of the Sliq Homes model, the importance of authenticity in business and life, the challenge of removing yourself as the bottleneck in your own operation, and a Jim Rohn quote that Felix couldn't fully appreciate until business had forced him to grow into it.There's also a quietly remarkable moment when it becomes clear that Felix and Charlie both learned to scuba dive at the same dive school on the same island in Thailand- years apart. Key Talking Points• What Sliq Homes does: free property management, maintenance, and refurbishment for landlords, funded by converting family homes into quality HMOs.• SLIQ stands for Shared Living in Quality and why the quality of the experience for tenants is central to the model working.• How landlords receive market rent plus inflation-linked increases, guaranteed over a five-year term.• Why the ideal client for Sliq Homes is defined by the property rather than the landlord, and why Felix asks for a floor plan and postcode rather than a property description.• Target properties: close to tube stations, desirable areas for working professionals aged 20 to 35, with floor space that can be intelligently maximised.• Felix's founding moment: watching his brother pay an £800 restaurant bill mid-conversation while Felix had £100 in the bank and the realisation that the travelling life was over.• Why Sliq Homes was born from experiencing the letting industry at its worst: no service, no integrity, agents paid upfront with no incentive to deliver.• The shared Koh Tao connection: Felix was a scuba diving instructor at Ban's Diving in Koh Tao; Charlie learned to dive there in 1999.• What Felix would tell his younger self: discover who you truly are, honour it by being authentic, and trust that authenticity attracts the right people, opportunities, and situations.• How travel, personal development, and the courage to take risks have been Felix's primary tools for self-discovery.• Wisdom to pass on to the next generation: don't take life too seriously; resilience depends on it, and business is allowed to be fun.• The biggest obstacle in Felix's business right now: transitioning from startup operations to a systemised foundation and removing himself as the bottleneck.• Charlie's Outstanding Operations session, offered to Felix in the episode: https://youtu.be/ZP52h_EJ6DA • Charlie's 3-months-off principle: Felix wrote it down when he first heard it, and building the operations to make it possible is part of the current focus.• The room of 500 business owners: how many would still have a business if they disappeared for a month? For six months? And why the answer matters.• Book recommendation: Think and Grow Rich and Jim Rohn's insight that the real value of building a business is who it forces you to become.• The epiphany of delegation: realising that the admin someone else hates doing is something a brilliant hire will genuinely love and that one person's weakness is another's strength. About the GuestFelix Mead is the founder of Sliq Homes (Shared Living in Quality), a London-based property management business offering landlords free management, free maintenance, and free refurbishment in exchange for a five-year guaranteed rent agreement. Sliq Homes specialises in converting three and four-bed family homes into high-quality HMOs for working professionals, creating the margin that funds the free model. Before founding Sliq Homes, Felix spent his twenties as a scuba diving instructor in Koh Tao and the Great Barrier Reef, and as a DJ and fire dancer — before a pivotal moment brought him back to ...
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    22 分
  • Season 1: Promoted Because You Were Good: Eradicating Bad Management with Mark Stanton

    Season 1: Promoted Because You Were Good: Eradicating Bad Management with Mark Stanton
    2026/06/17
    In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Mark Stanton, co-founder of Develop People- a leadership and personal development practice working with manufacturers, engineers, regulated industries, and professional services firms to help technically excellent people become genuinely effective leaders.Mark spent nearly three decades in policing, retiring at a senior level having led teams of up to 600 people, before joining the business his wife Emma had founded 14 years ago. Emma's dual motivation was deeply personal: years of experiencing the damage caused by poor management, and a late diagnosis of dyslexia at 29 that helped her recognise the coping strategies she'd quietly built were skills others didn't know they had. Together, they help organisations surface those hidden capabilities and develop leaders who can lead themselves first.Mark and Charlie dig into DISC profiling, emotional intelligence, and the above and below the line framework that underpins Develop People's approach. They also have a genuinely interesting conversation about AI- not as a threat to leadership development, but as a tool that's only as useful as the prompts you give it, and as a future lens for real-time feedback in meetings and culture.This is a practical, honest, and thought-provoking episode about what it really takes to build high-performing teams, and why the blocker is usually closer to home than most leaders want to admit.Key Talking Points• Who Develop People serves: technical specialists and high-performers who've been promoted into leadership without ever being taught how to lead.• The sectors they work in: manufacturing, engineering, pharmaceuticals, regulated industries, accountancy, and legal firms.• Emma's founding story: leaving a series of jobs because of damaging management, and discovering her dyslexia at 29 and the hidden skill set that came with it.• Mark's policing career: nearly 30 years, retiring at senior level, leading teams of up to 600 people and the moment he asked himself what he could offer the outside world.• Why being brilliant at your job does not make you a brilliant leader, and why that gap is never explained to the people being promoted.• How Develop People use DISC profiling to help clients understand their communication style, their strengths, and where they create friction.• Emotional intelligence: self-awareness, awareness of others, and the difference between knowing how you are and taking responsibility for it.• The above and below the line framework: ownership, accountability, and responsibility above; blame, excuses, and denial below.• AI in leadership development: the echo chamber risk of self-coaching with AI, why prompts determine the quality of challenge, and the future potential of AI to give real-time feedback in meetings and on culture.• The blocker in Develop People's business: reaching people who don't yet know they have a problem, and why self-awareness has to come before development can begin.• Why Develop People no longer try to convince reluctant clients and how they focus on people who already know they need to change.• The challenge of selling leadership development when the person who benefits from it isn't always the one signing the contract.• Why high-performing teams produce better bottom-line results and how to make that case to a sceptical founder.• What Mark would tell his younger self: be less concerned with the opinions of others, stay true to your original purpose, and establish your values from day one.• Wisdom to pass on: be humble enough to remember where you've come from, and courageous enough to take the steps to where you want to go.• Book recommendations: The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters, Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet, and Start with Why by Simon Sinek.• The above and below the line framework as a daily leadership tool and why it works precisely because of its simplicity.About the GuestMark Stanton is co-founder of Develop People, a leadership and personal development practice helping organisations in manufacturing, engineering, regulated industries, and professional services develop effective leaders from the inside out. Mark spent nearly three decades in policing, retiring at a senior level having led teams of up to 600 people, before joining the business his wife Emma founded 14 years ago. Develop People works with clients through DISC behavioural profiling, emotional intelligence development, and the above and below the line framework, delivered through facilitated workshops, one-to-one coaching, and small group sessions, with a focus on long-term ...
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    26 分
  • Season 1: The One Minute Healer: Making Wellness Work for Busy People with Lakhmi Bhambra

    Season 1: The One Minute Healer: Making Wellness Work for Busy People with Lakhmi Bhambra
    2026/06/10
    In this episode of Progress in Practice, Charlie Reading is joined by Lakhmi Bhambra- also known as The One Minute Healer- founder of the 111 Approach, a wellness practice built around a simple but powerful premise: one thing at a time, one minute to do it properly, one day at a time.Lakhmi's path to wellness is anything but conventional. With a science degree and a background in the medical field, she spent years dismissing energy healing as woo, right up until a Reiki session with her aunt in New Zealand stopped her in her tracks. She describes the extraordinary moment grey smoke visibly left her chest, the lightness she felt afterwards, and how she returned to England determined to disprove it. She couldn't. What followed was a deep dive into intuitive energy healing, training in eight different modalities, and the creation of a practice that helps clients, from busy parents to multi-million pound business owners, get real results in around ten minutes.This is a warm, thought-provoking, and genuinely unusual conversation about intuition, energy, the power of gratitude, and what it means to be weird in the best possible way.Key Talking Points• Who Lakhmi serves: busy professionals and parents who know they need to invest in their wellbeing but feel they simply don't have the time.• The 111 Approach: one thing at a time, one minute to do it properly, one day at a time and why tackling wellness one step at a time prevents overwhelm.• Why most people fail at wellness goals and how trying to change everything at once is the real culprit.• Lakhmi's science background and years of deliberate scepticism; why she shut down her intuitive gifts as a child and what that led her towards.• The Reiki session in New Zealand that changed everything: a visible cloud of grey smoke, a lighter chest, and a breath she didn't know she'd been holding.• The science behind the woo- why energy healing is entirely compatible with a scientific understanding of the body.• Intuitive Reiki vs. traditional Reiki: how Lakhmi achieves similar results in around 10 minutes.• How energy healing works even for people who aren't naturally intuitive or emotionally connected.• The link between clearing energy blocks and unexpected business results and why some clients report major contracts arriving without doing anything differently.• What Lakhmi would tell her younger self: stay true to who you are; your weirdness is what draws people to you.• Advice for the next generation: "Be your weirdest self".• The biggest obstacle in Lakhmi's business: marketing something that has to be felt rather than described.• Why asking for testimonials matters and Lakhmi's word of 2026: determination.• Book recommendation: The Magic by Rhonda Byrne- a 28-day gratitude practice Lakhmi returns to every year.• The difference between saying you're grateful and truly feeling it and how that shift shows up in business and life.• New programmes coming: Warrior of Your World and Heal Your World. About the GuestLakhmi Bhambra, also known as The One Minute Healer, is the founder of the 111 Approach- a wellness practice helping busy professionals and parents build sustainable wellbeing habits in minutes a day. With a science degree and a background in the medical field, Lakhmi spent years as a self-professed sceptic before training in Reiki and seven other modalities of energy healing. She is a Reiki teacher and practitioner who specialises in intuitive energy healing, achieving results in around 10 minutes that traditional sessions take an hour to reach. Her 111 Approach- one thing, one minute, one day at a time- has helped clients from all walks of life, including multi-million pound business owners, reconnect with their energy, clear limiting beliefs, and create lasting change without overhauling their lives. Find Out MoreTo learn more about Lakhmi and the 111 Approach visit: https://www.the111approach.com/To connect with Lakhmi visit: linkedin.com/in/the111approachFollow Lakhmi on Instagram for daily free one-minute meditations: @111approach Resources & Links Mentioned• The Magic by Rhonda Byrne- Lakhmi's annual gratitude practice and book recommendation• The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown- recommended by Charlie in conversation• The Story Playbook- Charlie's framework for building powerful client stories; mentioned as a resource for Lakhmi and available via The Trusted Team• Tony Robbins / Unleash the Power Within - referenced in the gratitude discussion About the PodcastProgress in Practice is brought to you by The Trusted Team- helping ...
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    28 分
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