The Melting Pot with Dominic Monkhouse Podcast
1) Think Big, Get Big: The Goal-Setting Strategy That Changes Everything | E362
Work-life balance is a complete myth for founders and CEOs. The experience myth keeps people pigeonholed. Goals should force your identity change, not the other way around. Eric Partaker—McKinsey cons...Show More
2) Why Hiring for Skills Is Dead (Look for This Instead) | Alex Cooper | E361
Formal education is becoming irrelevant. The UK is a great place to build a business. These aren't platitudes—they're battle-tested beliefs from someone who spent 20 years in the military, led the UK'...Show More
3) Founder Bottlenecks, Leadership Lessons, & Scaling Without Chaos | E360
Market research used to take four weeks and cost $20,000. Steve Phillips built Zappi to turn that into four hours and $2,000—and he started 12 years ago, long before generative AI made this vision sou...Show More
4) E359 | Why Leadership Teams Fail To Change (And How To Fix It)
Companies claim they're too busy for AI, and leadership teams are bloated and ineffective. The UK's productivity crisis won't be solved by working harder. These aren't controversial opinions, they're ...Show More
5) E358 | You’re Not Behind: My System For Leveraging AI In 2026
Most people think AI is overhyped. Nick Holzherr thinks it's drastically undervalued. After selling Whisk to Samsung and scaling it from zero to 120 people across eight time zones, he's now building G...Show More
6) E357 | If You're A Founder, You Can't Ignore This Shift In 2026
From global finance to eco-cleaning, regenerative farming, and rethinking entire systems — Mark Jankovich doesn’t do incremental change.He believes we’re living through a full-scale reset — and entrep...Show More
7) E356 | $100M Exit at 37: What They Don't Tell You About Selling Your Business
From a council estate in Oxford to a £100 million exit by age 37. Andrew Hulbert's journey isn't a polished Silicon Valley success story—it's raw, real, and packed with hard-won lessons about what act...Show More
8) E355 | From 75% to World's Best: The Legacy System Behind 125 Years of Dominance
As 2025 draws to a close, we're replaying some of the show's standout conversations from this year. This episode with James Kerr remains one of the most thought-provoking discussions. Whether you're h...Show More
E355 | From 75% to World's Best: The Legacy System Behind 125 Years of Dominance
58:15 | Dec 24th, 2025
9) E354 | Stop Wasting Time: My 3-Step Framework To Master AI In 2026
Most service businesses drown in the chaos between what customers ask for and what they actually need. Kit Cox has spent over a decade building Enate to solve exactly that, an orchestration platform t...Show More
10) E353 | Scaling a startup when every customer is high-risk | Shelley Copsey
Some industries are easy to disrupt. Infrastructure isn’t one of them. But by focusing on adoption over features, clarity over complexity, and tempo over comfort, Shelley Copsey has built FYLD into a ...Show More
E353 | Scaling a startup when every customer is high-risk | Shelley Copsey
43:37 | Nov 27th, 2025