How To Build A Business You Love | My Story

I spent the first 7 years of my “career” as a jazz pianist. I spent the next 7 years as an English teacher, traveling the world. After that, I spent 7 years building a $10M online education business. And today… I’m going to tell you the story of all this malarkey, what it taught me, […]


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How Much Should You Invest Into Growth? (A Practical Framework)

This post is about the uncomfortable truth that your business will not survive. At least not in its current form. To survive, you have to evolve. My business, StoryLearning, is coming up on 10 years old this summer… And the truth is… We’ve reinvented ourselves more times than Madonna! The more you study great businesses, the […]


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The Alignment Dashboard – How To Stay Sane As You Scale

Let’s be honest for a moment –Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. And I gotta say… Business often feels a lot like getting served up one knuckle sandwich after the other. It’s one thing to have a plan to scale your business… It’s quite another thing to muster the grit […]


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Growth Memo – Pep Talk To Myself (Vol 1)

Today’s newsletter is a pep talk to myself. A self-therapy session, if you like. And I really need it… See, I’ve got a bad case of the “6 Month Slump”. In other words… I started a new project, got it out the door, but then…. The novelty wears off, growth is slow, and I start […]


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The “Flywheel” Strategy to Making Millions

From: Olly Richards10th March 2023Hobbitshire (10 yards down from a flock of sheep) One of the little secrets of business is this: The longer you’re in business, the easier it gets. Right now, I’m sitting in my conservatory, looking out over my garden that’s just about to erupt into bloom, contemplating whether to go flying this afternoon […]


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My Writing Process – How I Write Words That Make Millions

From: Olly Richards 10th March 2023 Hobbitshire (Probably about to get rained on)​ I built a $10m company by writing words on a screen. One word at a time. Week after week. And while writing isn’t all I did… I sure as heck couldn’t have done it without them words on them screens. Learning to write is, […]


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49 Business Lessons I’d Teach My Daughter

My daughter is 7 years old, and I’ve been building online businesses for longer than she was alive. I think about this sometimes.She doesn’t know it, but her extremely privileged life is only possible thanks to what Daddy has learnt about doing business on the internet.Now, I don’t imagine for a minute that she’ll want […]


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Financial Zen & How To Get There

In this post: How to create a “financial operating system” for your business and personal money. We want you to feel completely in control of finances, with zero anxiety in sight. If you ever feel an underlying anxiety about money, this will help. Now, without any futher ado… Necessary disclaimer: Entertainment purposes only. Not financial […]


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