by Taz Thornton | Sep 19, 2026 | Blog, The Business
We’re at the point in the year when day and night sit almost exactly level, right before the balance tips toward the dark – traditionally when the harvest gets brought in, whatever’s grown over the last several months, gathered in and looked at before...
by Taz Thornton | Sep 12, 2026 | Blog, The Business
I hear the same opening line constantly, in pitches, in bios, in the first thirty seconds of a networking conversation: “I’ve been doing this for [x] years.” Nobody’s ever leant in because of a number. Most people, when they introduce...
by Taz Thornton | May 9, 2026 | Blog, The Business
I want to suggest something that might rub a few people up the wrong way, and I’m going to suggest it anyway because that’s generally a sign it’s worth saying. Failure doesn’t exist. Before you click away or fire off an email telling me...
by Taz Thornton | May 2, 2026 | Blog, The Business
Someone said that to me once, on a public Facebook thread. I’d posted something upbeat – one of those graphics with a positive message about possibility and change – and this chap, who’d been following me for a while, hit the comments with those four words… It’s...
by Taz Thornton | Mar 28, 2026 | Blog, The Business
Twice in the past week I’ve been told I should be charging more for my speaker training programme. Also, coincidentally, twice in the past few weeks, I’ve had conversations with people who paid way, way more (additional digits more!) for their speaker training, only...
