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TOPICS THIS WEEK: When Big Corporates Chicken Out While Small People Dream Big and Achieve Greatness, Four Birds Aboating, Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, AJ and Melissa Leon One way to be attractive in business is to help others achieve their goals. The bigger and crazier the ambition, the more appealing you can become by helping to achieve it. Or do you? While everyone wants to be associated with success, what are the pitfalls of associating yourself with an endeavour that fails? Is that good for a business? Does that make it genuinely attractive or the opposite? We explore these questions in this episode of Business Jazz. The video Here is the video of the Google+ hangout recorded during the recording of this week's podcast episode: Links to people and things we mention Four Birds Aboating Misfits/AJ & Melissa Leon Long Way Round (Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor) Podio Go To Meeting New rallying point You are a big part of the story of this podcast. We'd like you to be...

TOPICS THIS WEEK: Fear, Firewalking, The Flinch by Julien Smith, SOBCon, Social Media Camp Fear is a powerful hurdle we all have to overcome in life. Often, the fear wins out and we don't negotiate the hurdle. Our lives end up poorer for it. We don't progress. So what can we do to overcome this fear? We discuss solutions ranging from fire walking to smashing plates. Fear is also a great ingredient in the story of our business. Admitting the fears we have and the hurdles we have to overcome, along with our doubts, makes us human. It makes it easy for others to connect with what we want to achieve. They start rooting for us and following our story. Brian Moore of Peak Potential at one of his firewalking events. By the way, that's concentration on his face, rather than pain © 2012 Roger Overall Links to people and things we mention Chris Brogan Social Media Camp SOBCon Brian Moore, Peak Potential The Flinch/Julien Smith New rallying point You are a big part of the story of thi...