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Founding Courage

Insights

The podcast, the writing and the practical prompts

Conversations with people who start things, and short pieces on the decisions leaders delay. Placeholder items below, to be replaced with live feeds.

Podcast

Conversations before the evidence arrives

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  • 01

    The decision you have been delaying

    With a founder who spent a year deciding, and a fortnight executing

    42 min
  • 02

    Why the strategy deck is not the problem

    With a group strategy director inside a global consumer business

    38 min
  • 03

    Permission, and who is really withholding it

    With a transformation lead on the politics of moving first

    45 min
  • 04

    The crossing

    With an operator who left a corporate career to build

    51 min

Writing

Short pieces from the Substack

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Placeholder, July 2026

The delusion gap

Every team carries a belief it has stopped testing. Naming it is the cheapest thing you will do this quarter.

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A powerful no

Focus is not a value statement. It is a list of things you have agreed to stop.

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Before the evidence arrives

In the AI era the tools are shared. The willingness to move first is not.

Newsletter

One idea, once a fortnight

Ideas, stories and practical prompts for people who start things.