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Nick talks to Jean Moncrieff, CEO of the Small Giants Community and author of Finding Freedom, who shares his personal journey of building a company, almost losing it through an ill-advised exit, and eventually selling it successfully to his management team. The conversation explores how business owners can build high-value, purpose-driven companies that offer genuine lifestyle freedom. Jean and Nick dive deep into the crucial role of alignment, the psychology of leadership, and how to successfully navigate different exit options—including employee ownership models—by cultivating a high-performing leadership team. KEY TAKEAWAYS To successfully scale a business, founders must shift their mindset from needing to be the smartest person in the room to intentionally surrounding themselves with leaders who are highly capable of running things independently. When building a leadership team, alignment with the company's core values and unique culture is just as critical as a candidate's tactical skills and job capabilities. As an unprecedented wave of baby boomer business owners look to retire, a severe shortage of capable incoming leaders is creating a significant leadership vacuum. True financial and lifestyle freedom is achieved by systematically executing three distinct phases in order: exiting daily operational chaos, exiting the business's management operations, and finally, executing the financial exit of the business itself. BEST MOMENTS "Feed me, John, feed me... I was chasing output, I was chasing revenue... and I thought that's what this was all about." "You don't want to control your business, you want to be able to curate above it; you want to be in charge, but control is bad because you're stuck in everything." "I think it's almost like sticking a light bulb into the socket, and if the wiring's done right, the thing lights up." "The quickest way that I advise the founders that I work with to get to where they want to get to is bring the person who's done it. Bring the person in... and then get out of the way." VALUABLE RESOURCES Want to grow and scale your business? Check out Nick's Boardroom Program: https://gamma.app/docs/BOARDROOM-2026-FINAL-h2vknz5qne7vvwm To get your copy of Nick's book, Exit for Millions, go to http://bit.ly/4ngC2hO Nick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realnickbradley Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/
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Declan Buckley, Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases of creepy twins who committed crimes.
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases of creepy twins who committed crimes.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories…
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Declan Buckley, Édaein O'Connell and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases where people disappeared, but later came back.
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases where people disappeared, but later came back.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories…
The 2026 wedding season is here for some, and approaching for others. So, what do you need to know so things don't go pear-shaped?For this week's ‘Moncrieff's Wedding Survival Guide', Sean is joined by Laura Jordan, Image and Brand Consultant and owner of Style Savvy to discuss how you should dress when going to a wedding!
The 2026 wedding season is here for some, and approaching for others. So, what do you need to know so things don't go pear-shaped?For this week's ‘Moncrieff's Wedding Survival Guide', Sean is joined by Laura Jordan, Image and Brand Consultant and owner of Style Savvy to discuss how you should dress when going to a wedding!
Declan Buckley, Édaein O'Connell and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases of con artists in Ireland!
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases of con artists in Ireland!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories…
The 2026 wedding season is approaching. So what do you need to know so things don't go pear-shaped?For this week's ‘Moncrieff's Wedding Survival Guide', Sean is joined by Gina London, former CNN White House Correspondent and Sunday Independent Columnist, to discuss what you need to be aware of if you're giving a speech!
Declan Buckley, Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss crimes where the perpetrator was caught in unexpected ways!Image: HBO
"Tell them that you love them."Charlie McKean, a father, sailor, State Solicitor, and brother of Newstalk's Henry McKean, died suddenly of a heart attack last month, at the age of 46.Henry speaks with Moncrieff, surrounding National Brother's Day, about the heartbreak of losing a sibling...
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Liz does a deep-dive into regional spatial planning, which is a new mandated requirement in the Planning Bill.
Declan Buckley, Édaein O'Connell and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss interesting crimes involving words!
The 2026 wedding season is approaching. So, whether you're simply a guest or the bride-to-be, what do you need to know so things don't go pear-shaped?For this week's ‘Moncrieff's Wedding Survival Guide', Sean is joined by Wedding Expert, Sara Kennedy, to discuss what to do when things go wrong…
Declan Buckley, Emma Nolan and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss interesting cases which have remained unsolved to this day…
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Barbara Scully, Shane Beatty and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Declan Buckley, Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Cassie Delaney joins to discuss cases where the person involved may not have been the one to commit the crime…
Declan Buckley, and Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
The Blur frontman Damon Albarn revealed this week that he takes his daughter on family holiday's to North Korea....but how possible is it actually to visit the secretive state as a tourist? Seán Moncrieff was joined on the show by Shane Horan, an Irish tour operator and photographer, who has visited many times...
The sewage tunnel heist that has European banks panicking. By the time police arrived at the scene in Naples, the robbers had vanished beneath the city. Nick Squires, Italy Correspondent with the Daily Telegraph joined Seán Moncrieff on the show to discuss.
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Seán will be joined by someone to hear unusual stories on heinous crimes…This week, Aoife Grace Moore joins to discuss cases where people faked their own deaths.
Liz looks at the Planning Bill, which is part of the legislative reform of the RMA, and what it means.
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Every Wednesday, Podcaster Cassie Delaney will join Seán to share some unusual stories on heinous crimes.This week, Cassie joins to discuss things that escalated in weird and unexpected ways!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
OA1242 - Ever heard of the “major questions doctrine”? Most lawyers sure hadn't until a few years ago. So how did it get that important-sounding name? Where did it come from? What even is it? How can we call something a “doctrine” or a rule if we don't have a clear rule statement to cite to? (Hint: You can't). If you've been feeling like maybe this is all made up and the points don't matter, you can get your vindication here as we trace back the history of this ever-changing heavily-politicized increasingly-disputed amorphous blob. Jenessa read way too many cases and law review articles to tolerate this nonsense today. Timeline, each citing the one below it: 1. “Major questions doctrine” first appearance in any court case: West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. 697 (2022) 2. “Major question doctrine” [not plural] in an EPA statement on deregulations: Repeal of the Clean Power Plan, 84 Fed. Reg. 32520, 32529 (proposed Jul. 8, 2019) (to be codified at 40 C.F.R. pt. 60). 3. “Major rules doctrine”: U.S. Telecom Association v. F.C.C., 855 F.3d 381, 422-423 (D.C. Cir 2017), Kavanaugh dissent. (Note: There are many decisions by this name, including one from the D.C. Circuit in 2016, all of which are more prevalent online. Only this exact citation, minus the “422-23” pincite, will get you to the right case. Unfortunately I cannot find it outside the paywall to provide a link). 4. “Economic and political significance” allegedly the first unnamed use of the concept: F.D.A. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. 529 U.S. 120 (2000) 5. “Major questions” first appears in any legal scholarship… well those words appear in that order, at least: Stephen Breyer, Judicial Review of Questions of Law and Policy, 38 Admin. L. Rev. 363 (1986). Meanwhile, in another timeline: Cass R. Sunstein, There are two “Major Questions” Doctrines, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 475, (2021). First ever use of “major questions rule/exception” in a positive light in legal scholarship. Would become more mainstream around 2013-2016: Abigail Moncrieff, Reincarnating the "Major Questions" Exception to Chevron Deference as a Doctrine of Non-Interference as a Doctrine of Non-Interference (Or Why Massachusetts v. EPA Got It Wrong), 60 Admin L. Rev. 593 (2008). Moncrieff, above, cites this as the original coining of “major questions”, not Breyer's 1986 paper: Cass R. Sunstein, Chevron Step Zero, 92 VA. L. Rev. 187 (2006). Other definitions from legal scholarship: Allison Orr Larsen, Becoming a Doctrine, 76 Fla. L. Rev. 1 (2024). Austin Piatt & Damonta D. Morgan, The Three Major Questions Doctrines, Forward Wis. L. Rev. 19 (2024). Thomas B. Griffith & Haley N. Proctor, Deference, Delegation, and Divination: Justice Breyer and the Future of the Major Questions Doctrine, 132 Yale L.J. F. 693 (2022). Chad Squitieri, Who Determines Majorness?, 44 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 463 (2021). Kevin O. Leske, Major Questions about the “Major Questions” Doctrine, 5 Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law 479 (2016). Jonas J. Monast, Major Questions About the Major Questions Doctrine, 68 Admin. L. Rev. 445 (2016). Other relevant cases: Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, 607 U.S --- (2026) Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U.S. 477 (2023) King v. Burwell, 576 U.S. 473 (2015) Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, 573 U.S. 302 (2014) Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do!