HeyJaredThe Ownership Journey
The Ownership Journey is a podcast about what really happens before, during, and after business ownership.Hosted by Entrepreneur James Lamb, the channel explores buying, building, fixing, and exiting real businesses — particularly in operator-led SMEs.This isn’t theory or…
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Daniel Priestley’s CFO & Dealmaker on What Happens Behind the Scenes | David Horne (opens the original)
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This Daniel Priestley focused episode with dealmaker David Horne reveals what happens behind the scenes when owners fund acquire consolidate and exit real businesses in the £2M to £20M sweet spot. Host James Lamb explores buying a business business exit strategy and mergers and acquisitions through £60M raised and 7 acquisitions that scaled turnover from £1.1M to £27.7M. You will learn why fractional CFO discipline business valuation and fundraising rigor protect price legacy and family wealth f
How He Sold His Business for 8x Profit | Leigh Wells (opens the original)
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Leigh Wells sold his business for 8x profit after building Comma Group from a bootstrapped start in 2016 to 80 headcount and a trade sale to Amplify in March 2021. This episode of The Ownership Journey with host James Lamb breaks down how to sell your business with real numbers on business exit strategy, business valuation and deal structure. If you want to buy, sell, scale or exit, you will hear exactly what worked, what went backwards in year three and what made due diligence fast and clean. Y
From £10k Order to Million-Pound Contracts: Scaling BMS Services | Viv Sullivan (opens the original)
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Scaling BMS Services from a £10k Order to Million-Pound Contracts is the blueprint Viv Sullivan reveals in this episode of The Ownership Journey. Founder of BMS Services, Viv built a specialist busbar installation and construction business from a single £10,000 hotel order to signing Million-Pound Contracts with hyperscale clients like Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Vantage Data Centres. If you are scaling a business in construction, this business growth strategy deep dive shows how
How High Performers Get Trapped by Their Own Success | Tayabba Jordan (opens the original)
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High performers often look unstoppable from the outside yet many high performers feel trapped by their own success inside. In this powerful episode of The Ownership Journey , executive coaching expert Tayabba Jordan reveals why business success can quietly create misalignment between ambition, identity and wellbeing and how that misalignment fuels founder burnout, drains company culture and blocks sustainable high performance. Drawing on her Alignment Method and real world stories from boards an
91 Properties, £3M Raised & The Price of Success | Louis Jackson (opens the original)
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How to buy a business with no money sounds impossible, but Louis Jackson did exactly that while living in a hostel. In this episode of The Ownership Journey , Louis shares how he went from homelessness and addiction to buying a debt recovery business for £100,000 with no capital, no business experience, and no safety net. He reveals the exact conversation that convinced the owner to lend him the money, and how he repaid every single penny. Louis's story does not start in a boardroom. Raised arou
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