Category: Strategy

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 […]

From: Olly Richards21st April 2023Hobbitshire (feeling the jet lag) Late last year, I was in Marrakesh (Morocco) with a group of entrepreneur friends. The villa was gorgeous… The pool was Instagram-worthy… The masterminding was epic… But it wasn’t all rosy: The city tour we arranged for Wednesday morning took an unfortunate turn, spiralling into one […]

Some time in 2020, I felt a shift brewing inside me. Perhaps it was pandemic-induced cabin fever. Maybe it was an early mid-life crisis. There I was, plugging away inside StoryLearning (my language learning business), when a thought struck me like a lightning strike on a clear day: I spend far more time thinking about […]

From: Olly Richards12th May 2023Hobbitshire (Isn’t it supposed to be Spring already?) When you’re scaling a business… The order in which you do things matters. A lot. A few weeks back, I received an email from a reader who was struggling to shift away from 1-to-1 client work, and into group coaching. Unfortunately, it hadn’t […]

Do you know what this blog is? It’s therapy to myself. Much of the time, when I choose to write about a given topic, it’s because it’s been on my mind, and I want to organise my thoughts. It may seem like I have it all worked out. I don’t. By the time the topic […]